| The wife of the Báb. K̲h̲adíjih-Bagum and Siyyid ‘Alí-Muḥammad, the Báb, were neighbours and playmates as children in S̲h̲íráz. Before their betrothal K̲h̲adíjih-Bagum dreamed that Fáṭimih, daughter of Muḥammad, asked for her hand in marriage to her son, the Imám Ḥusayn. The Báb and K̲h̲adíjih-Bagum were married in the House of the Báb in S̲h̲íráz in August 1842. They had one child, a son Aḥmad, who died in infancy. |
| The Báb revealed to K̲h̲adíjih-Bagum His station as the Qá'im even before making His Declaration to Mullá Ḥusayn. Nabil writes: 'The wife of the Báb, unlike His mother, perceived at the earliest dawn of His Revelation the glory and uniqueness of His Mission and felt from the very beginning the intensity of its force. No one except Ṭáhirih, among the women of her generation, surpassed her in the spontaneous character of her devotion nor excelled the fervour of her faith. To her the Báb confided the secret of His future sufferings, and unfolded to her eyes the significance of the events that were to transpire in His Day.'4 The Báb revealed for her the prayer known as the 'Remover of Difficulties' and directed her to recite it before going to sleep, promising He Himself would appear to her to banish her anxiety. |
| When K̲h̲adíjih-Bagum learned Bahá'u'lláh had declared Himself to be the Promised One of the Bayán, Whose advent the Báb had foretold, she gave Him her allegiance instantly. She died in 1882. |
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