| Wife of Bahá'u'lláh, Ásíyih K̲h̲ánum, entitled by Him the 'Most Exalted Leaf'. Navváb shared Bahá'u'lláh's exile for nearly forty years and was the mother of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, the Greatest Holy Leaf and the Purest Branch. She evinced a 'fortitude, a piety, a devotion and a nobility of soul which earned her from the pen of her Lord the posthumous and unrivalled tribute of having been made His "perpetual consort in all the worlds of God"'.6 She passed away in 1886. Shoghi Effendi transferred the remains of Navváb from the cemetery in 'Akká to the Monument Gardens of Haifa in 1939. |
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| Navváb: Highness; nabob. |
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| The Navváb: Saintly
wife of Bahá'u'lláh, whose children included the Master, the Most
Exalted Leaf and the Purest Branch. She was entitled by Him the "Most
Exalted Leaf" and His "perpetual consort in all the worlds of God." (GPB
108). |
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| Ásíyih K̲h̲ánum (Persian: آسیه خانم 1820 - 1886) was the wife of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. She is viewed by Bahá'ís as the paragon of a devoted mother and wife. She is also known by her titles of Navváb, the Most Exalted Leaf, Búyúk K̲h̲ánum or Hadrat-i-K̲h̲ánum. K̲h̲ánum is a title usually given to a Persian lady and is equivalent to madam.[1] Bahá'u'lláh and Ásíyih K̲h̲ánum were known as the Father of the Poor and the Mother of Consolation for their extraordinary generosity and regard for the impoverished. Bahá'u'lláh, along with Ásíyih K̲h̲ánum and her children, are regarded as the Bahá'í holy family. |
| `Abdu'l-Bahá wrote about his mother: |
And truly the humiliation and reproach which she suffered in the path of God is a fact which no one can refute. For the calamities and afflictions mentioned in the whole chapter are such afflictions which she suffered in the path of God, all of which she endured with patience and thanked God therefor and praised Him, because He had enabled her to endure afflictions for the sake of Bahá. During all this time, the men and women (Covenant-breakers) persecuted her in an incomparable manner, while she was patient, God-fearing, calm, humble and contented through the favor of her Lord and by the bounty of her Creator. |
| [Wikipedia - Ásíyih K̲h̲ánum] |
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| The graves of ásíyih K̲h̲ánum and Mirzá Mihdí within the Monument Gardens. |
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[  ] [ Photo - Arash Hashemi© ] [Wikipedia - Monument Gardens] |
