Tuba Khánum: When my little sister, Ruh-AngiAsiyih, arrived, there
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Tuba Khánum: When my little sister, Ruh-AngiAsiyih, 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 Ruh-Angiz 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.
Source: Lady Blomfield, The Chosen Highway
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