{"id":3184,"date":"2021-11-21T17:10:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T13:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2022-03-07T17:10:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T13:40:36","slug":"bahaullahs-family-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=3184&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Baha\u2019u\u2019llah\u2019s Family Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is the Detail of the Family Members of Baha\u2019u\u2019llah. Interesting to note that many members of Bahaullah\u2019s family were Ex-Communicated by Abdul-Baha and Shoghi Effendi.<\/p>\n

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Mirza Husayn Ali Commonly called \u201cBaha\u201d or \u201cBaha\u2019u\u2019llah\u201d was the founder and prophet of the Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed Faith. He was born in 1817 to Khad\u00edjih Kh\u00e1num and M\u00edrz\u00e1Buzurg of Nur (in the province of Mazandaran), a Persian man, and went on to be a follower of Islam than follower in the B\u00e1b\u00ed movement\/Faith, and then established the Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed Faith in 1863.<\/p>\n

He married:<\/p>\n

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  1. Asiya<\/li>\n
  2. BiBi Fatima<\/li>\n
  3. Gawhar<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    1. Asiya surnamed Nawwaba (Highness)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Asiya is stated to have been surnamed the mother of the Universe. This is denied by the followers of Mirza Muhammad Ali and dismissed as devoid of historical foundation.<\/p>\n

      To his first wife (Asiya) he gave the title Nawwaba, because she was the daughter of Nawwab of Tehran (Avareh, Al\u2010Kawakib\u2010al\u2010Durriyya by Awara, vol. 2, p. 4, Materials,p. 62).<\/p>\n

      \u00c1s\u00edyih was \u201cBah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1 h\u201d\u2019s first and best\u2010known wife. She was a daughter of a nobleman, Mirza Isma\u2019il\u2010i\u2010Vazir. Her date of birth is not known. They married sometime between 24 September and 22 October, 1835 in Tehran and she had seven of \u201cBah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h\u201d\u2019s children, of whom only three made to adulthood. She was given the title Navv\u00e1b by which she is best known within Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed circles. She died in 1886 in `Akk\u00e1.<\/p>\n

      She bore him:<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Abbas<\/li>\n
      2. Bahiyya or Sultan<\/li>\n
      3. M\u00edrz\u00e1 Mihd\u00ed<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Navv\u00e1b bore at least three other children, but due to their early deaths little is known about them<\/p>\n

          \n
        • S\u00e1diq who died aged 3\u2010\u06f4<\/li>\n
        • Al\u00ed Muhammad who died in M\u00e1zandar\u00e1n at the age of 7<\/li>\n
        • Al\u00ed Muhammad who was born and died in Baghdad at the age of 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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          1. Abbas<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Born in 1844 and died 1921 He was the oldest child of \u00c1s\u00edyih and Bah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll \u00e1 h. He was variously referred to by Bah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h as \u201cMystery of God\u201d, \u201cThe Master\u201d, \u201cPerfect Exemplar\u201d and \u201cthe Greatest Branch\u201d. \u201cAbdu\u2019l\u2010Bah\u00e1\u201d went on to be the Centre of the Covenant of the Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed Faith after the death of His father.<\/p>\n

            During this time, he bore attacks from his half\u2010brother Muhammad `Al\u00ed, who was not given a leadership role or authority by \u201cBah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h\u201d. Muhammad `Al\u00ed claimed that \u201cAbdu\u2019l\u2010Bah\u00e1\u201d was taking on too much authority; Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00eds refute this claim by citing \u201cBah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h\u201d\u2019s Lawh\u2010i\u2010Ghusn (Tablet of the Branch) (National Spiritual Assembly of the Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00eds of the United States (ed.) (1943-1976). Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed World Faith: Selected Wri tings of B\u00e1ha\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h and Abdu\u2019l\u2010Bah\u00e1, pp. 204\u2010\u06f2\u06f0\u06f7), Kit\u00e1b\u2010i\u2010Ahd (The Book of the Covenant) (Bah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h [1873\u2010\u06f9\u06f2] (\u06f1\u06f9\u06f9\u06f4). Tablets of Bah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h Revealed After the Kit\u00e1b\u2010i\u2010Aqdas, pp. 219\u2010\u06f2\u06f2\u06f3), and the Kit\u00e1b\u2010i\u2010Aqdas (The Most Holy Book) (Bah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h [1873] (1992). The Kit\u00e1b\u2010i\u2010Aqdas: The Most Holy Book, para. 121) as clear appointments of \u201cAbdu\u2019l\u2010Bah\u00e1\u201d as his sole successor and interpreter of his writings. The struggle led to increasingly deteriorating prison conditions until \u201cAbdu\u2019l\u2010Bah\u00e1\u201d was released after the Turkish Revolution.<\/p>\n

            During Bah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h\u2019s lifetime, he referred to his eldest son, Abb\u00e1s, by terms such as \u201cSirru\u2019ll\u00e1h\u201d (Mystery of God), or \u201cSark\u00e1r\u2010i\u2010\u00c1q\u00e1\u201d (the Master). After the passing of \u201cBah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h\u201d, he chose the title \u201cAbdu\u2019l\u2010Bah\u00e1\u201d (Servant of Bah\u00e1).<\/p>\n

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            1. Bahiyya or Sultan surnamed the Supreme Leaf (Waraqa\u2010i\u2010Ulya)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              She died a spinster.<\/p>\n

              Born in 1846 she was called Bah\u00edyyih Kh\u00e1num and entitled the Greatest holy Leaf. She was particularly dear to her father and is seen within the Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed Faith as one of the greatest women to have lived:<\/p>\n

              \u201cVerily, we have elevated thee to the rank of one of the most distinguished among thy sex, and granted thee, in My court, a station such as none other woman hath surpassed.\u201d (Baha\u2019u\u2019llah, quoted in The Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed World, vol. 4, p.171)<\/p>\n

              She stood by and remained faithful to the Centers of the Covenant over years of infighting within the \u201cBah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h\u201d\u2019s family that led to the expelling of many of them. Shoghi Effendi in particular felt her support during difficult times such as the passing of \u201cAbdu\u2019l\u2010Bah\u00e1\u201d, and in the years afterwards when she was entrusted with the Faith when he was absent from the Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed World Center in Haifa.<\/p>\n

              She died on 15 July 1932 was buried in the Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed gardens below the Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed Arc on Mount Carmel not far from her two brothers and mother. The shock to the administration meant that religious festivals were suspended for nine months.<\/p>\n

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              1. M\u00edrz\u00e1 Mihd\u00ed<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                M\u00edrz\u00e1 Mihd\u00ed in 1868<\/p>\n

                Born in 1848 and entitled the Purest Branch, M\u00edrz\u00e1 Mihd\u00ed died on 23 June 1870. He was chanting Qasidiy\u2010i\u2010Varqa\u2019iyyih (a poem written by \u201cBah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h\u201d in Kurdistan) (Bah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h [1873] (1992). The Kit\u00e1b\u2010i\u2010Aqdas: The Most Holy Book, para. 121) when he fell through a skylight in the prison city of `Akk\u00e1 while pacing back and forth in prayer and meditation. He was 22 at the time.<\/p>\n

                The death is significant as Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00eds believe that \u201cBah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h\u201d offered him the chance of being cured, however he chose to use his life as a sacrifice so that the prison gates would open and the pilgrims would be able to visit \u201cBah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h\u201d in prison. It reflected one of the toughest times for them, but restrictions on them did lift in the years to come with them eventually being allowed to live a short distance outside the prison city.<\/p>\n

                M\u00edrz\u00e1 Mihd\u00ed was eventually buried alongside his mother in the gardens below the Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed Arc on Mount Carmel in Haifa near his brother and sister.<\/p>\n

                 <\/p>\n

                  \n
                1. BiBi Fatima surnamed the Supreme Cradle (Mahd\u2010i\u2010Ulya)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  Fatima surnamed the Supreme Cradle (Mahd\u2010i\u2010Ulya) born in 1828 and generally known as Mahd\u2010i\u2010\u2019Ulya, Fatimih was one of \u201cBah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h\u201d\u2019s first cousins, and later become his second wife. They married in 1849 in Tehran and she had six of Bah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h\u2019s children, of whom only four survived to adulthood. She was said to have harbored great enmity towards \u201cAbdu\u2019l\u2010Bah\u00e1\u201d. She died in 1904, BiBi Fatima and her four children were excommunicated by \u201cAbbas Effendi\u201d. To his second wife (BiBi Fatima) he gave the title \u2018The Supreme Cradle\u2019 [a title reserved for the Queen\u2010Mother in Iran, T.A p. 361] (al\u2010Kawakib, ibid, p.8; Materials, p.63)<\/p>\n

                  She bore him:<\/p>\n

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                  1. Muhammad Ali<\/li>\n
                  2. Samadiyya<\/li>\n
                  3. Ziyaullah<\/li>\n
                  4. Badiullah<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                    BiBi Fatima (Mahd\u2010i\u2010\u2019Ulya) bore at least two other children:<\/p>\n