Passages from the Writings explored with the friends at various gatherings…

July 23, 2017

Baha'u'llah's Life - Marriage, Family, & New Religion

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  • Bahá’u’lláh’s marriage with Asíyih Khánum
    • Families of Bahá'u'lláh and Ásiyih Khanum possessed great wealth – their daughter recalls
    • Bahiyyih Khanum recalls many years later about her mother, Ásiyih Khanum
    • Became known as "The Father of the Poor" and "The Mother of Consolation"
    • Children
    •  ‘Abdu’l-Baha confirms His mother's name
    • Asíyih Khánum's station: The ‘Most Exalted Leaf
    • Asíyih Khánum's station: 54th chapter of Isaiah
  • Marriage Certificate of Baha’u’llah
  • Bahá'u'lláh’s father experienced extreme difficulties towards the concluding years of his life
  • 1839: Bahá'u'lláh’s father passed away when He was twenty-two years old
  • Bahá’u’lláh recounts the life of His father
  • Bahá'u'lláh took responsibility over His father’s large family
  • Baha’u’llah sought neither government position nor prominence and gave abundantly to the poor
  • The Prime Minister of Persia schemed ways to possess a village that belonged to the family of Baha’u’llah
  • 1844: A New Manifestation of God in Persia
  • The First Letter of the Living is given the assignment to bring the Message of the Báb to Bahá'u'lláh
  • The Báb’s messenger finds Bahá'u'lláh in Tihran and delivers the Message
  • Bahá'u'lláh instantly accepts the Báb’s spiritual authority
    • Bahá'u'lláh acknowledges that the Báb “hath been sent down by the Will of the one true God”
    • Impact on the family in Tehran
    • Prayer by Bahá'u'lláh about the Báb