| There are two men named Mírzá Mihdí. The first is a son of Mírzá Buzurg and K̲h̲adijih K̲h̲ánum. This would make him a younger brother of Bahá'u'lláh. He died in the lifetime of Mírzá Buzurg, that is in or before 1839. The other Mírzá Mihdí, son of Bahá'u'lláh, is described below. |
| [ Wikipedia - Mírzá `Abbás Núrí ] [ K̲h̲adijih K̲h̲ánum ] [ABG] |
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| The son of Bahá'u'lláh, surnamed by Him 'the Purest Branch', born in 1848. He accompanied His Father into exile and served Him as an amanuensis. In 1870, in the Most Great Prison in 'Akká, Mírzá Mihdí was pacing the roof, wrapped in devotions, when he fell through a skylight. Mortally wounded, his dying wish to his Father was that his life might be a ransom for those who were prevented for attaining Bahá'u'lláh's presence. In a prayer revealed by Bahá'u'lláh in Mírzá Mihdí's memory, Bahá'u'lláh speaks of the sacrifice of His son: 'I have, O my Lord, offered up that which Thou hast given me, that Thy servants may be quickened, and all that dwell on earth be united.28 |
| In another Tablet Bahá'u'lláh reveals: 'Blessed are thou, and blessed he that turneth unto thee, and visiteth thy grave, and draweth nigh, through thee, unto God . . , Thou art, verily, the trust of God and and His treasure in this land. Erelong will God reveal through thee that which He hath desired . . . When thou wast laid to rest in the earth, the earth itself trembled in its longing to meet thee . . . Were we to recount the mysteries of thine ascension, they that are asleep would waken, and all beings would be set ablaze with the fire of the remembrance of My Name, the Mighty, the Loving.29 |
| Mírzá Mihdí was buried outside the city walls near a local shrine, but in 1939 Shoghi Effendi transferred his remains to the Monument Gardens on Mount Carmel near the Shrine of the Báb. |
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| The Purest Branch; twenty-two year old son of Bahá'u'lláh who died as a sacrifice in 'Akká,
June 23, 1870. Praying he fell from the roof of the Prison,
and supplicated Bahá'u'lláh to accept his life as a ransom for those who were prevented from attaining the presence
of their Beloved. (GPB 188). |
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| The graves of Navváb and Mirzá Mihdí within the Monument Gardens. |
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