The Passing of Little Rúḥ-Angíz

Túbá Khánum, a daughter of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, recalled her little sister:

When my little sister, Rúḥ-Angíz, arrived, there was some disappointment that she was not a boy. Bahá’u’lláh said “I will love her more than all the rest; you must not wish that she had been a boy.” Little Rúḥ-Angíz loved Bahá’u’lláh very fervently. When He had passed from earth she was full of sadness: “I want to go through that same door to Heaven; didn’t He go through it?” “No thank you,” she would say, “I do not wish for anything. I would like best of all to go to Him.” So often she spoke of the other world, that she seemed to grow nearer and nearer to it. The next year she passed from earth to the Heaven where she wished to be.

The Master hardly saw the dear child in her illness. His time was so constantly taken up by the needs of the poor, that only His tired moments were spared to His own family from His incessant work for all in trouble. Indeed, my mother and sisters tried to conceal their difficulties and trials, not wishing to add to the heavy burden of others' griefs, which were so constantly borne by Him.

Source: Lady Blomfield, The Chosen Highway, Part II, “The Spoken Chronicle of Túbá Khánum”, chapter III.

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