| The Pure One. Title given by the Báb to Fáṭimih Umm-Salamih, also known by the titles Qurratu'l-'Ayn (Solace of
the Eyes) and Zarrín-Táj (Crown of Gold). Ṭáhirih was the only woman Letter of the Living. At the Conference of Badas̲h̲t she cast aside her veil, proclaiming the new day. |
| Ṭáhirih was 'born in the same year as Bahá'u'lláh; regarded from her childhood . . . as a prodigy, alike in her intelligence and beauty; highly esteemed even by some of the most haughty and learned 'ulamá of her country, prior to her conversion, for the brilliancy and novelty of the views she propounded . . . she had, through a dream . . . established her first contact with a Faith which she continued to propagate to her last breath, and in its hour of greatest peril, with all the ardour of her unsubduable spirit.'4 She was martyred in the Ílk̲h̲ání Garden, strangled with here own silken kerchief which she had reserved for the purpose. 'Her body was lowered into a well, which was then filled with earth and stones, in a manner she herself had desired. Thus ended the life of this great Bábí heroine, the first woman suffrage martyr, who, at her death, turning to the one in whose custody she had been placed, had boldly declared: "You can kill me as soon as you like, but you cannot stop the emancipation of women."'5 |
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"The Pure One, " so named by the "Tongue
of Glory," noblest of her sex in, and outstanding heroine of, the Bábí Dispensation; only woman among the Letters
of the Living, and the first woman suffrage martyr. Born Qazvín, 1817-1818,
put to death Ṭihrán, August, 1852. (GBP 7, 33, 75; DB 628). |
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