nobility
4 stories where nobility appears.
A Lineage of Prophets: The Descent of Bahá'u'lláh
When Bahá'u'lláh was born in Tihrán in 1817, He entered the world through a family line that reached back, in Shoghi Effendi's account, to Abraham, to Zoroaster, and to the royal house of ancient Persia. The Holy Day of His birth is also the remembrance of the long preparation, across millennia, for His coming.
A Pearl Among Women: The Bride of the House of Núr
In the late 1830s, the young Bahá'u'lláh married Ásíyih Khánum, a noblewoman of rare beauty and gentleness whom He would name Navváb. The Chosen Highway preserves her daughter's loving portrait of her, and the story of how the open-handed generosity of the young couple was already known to the poor of Tihrán long before the days of exile.
A Dawn in Shíráz: The Lineage and Birth of the Báb
On the first day of Muḥarram in the year 1235 of the Muslim calendar — the twentieth of October 1819 — a Son was born in a modest house in Shíráz to a family of merchants who traced their descent from the Prophet Muḥammad. The child was named Siyyid 'Alí-Muḥammad. The world would come to know Him as the Báb, the Gate of a new Day of God.
The Gift of the Flock: 'Abdu'l-Bahá as a Child
When 'Abdu'l-Bahá was still a small boy, He was taken to His father's country estate in Mázindarán, where the shepherds of a great flock came to honour Him. Told that a landlord's son should leave the shepherds a gift, and having nothing of His own to give, the child gave them the sheep themselves — every one. Bahá'u'lláh, hearing of it, laughed and said a guardian would have to be appointed to protect the boy from his own generosity.