When young, he joined the circle of the late Siyyid Kázim and became one of his disciples. He was known in Persia for his purity of life, winning fame as Mullá Ṣádiq the saintly.

He would arrive in a country, usually unannounced, and immediately notify the National Spiritual Assembly, not to ask permission to teach, but to tell that he was there and what he was planning to

In 1990 she was appointed as a counsellor for Australasia by the universal House of Justice.  In 1975 while attending the National convention of the Bahá'ís of the Northwest Pacific Ocean with its seat

In the 1930s she and Laura dreamed up the notion of the Six Nations Pageant, an annual showcase of Mohawk history and culture. McKenzie Creek ran through her property, and Emily incorporated it into

He took up a staff and wandered away; over the mountains he went, across the plains, seeking and finding the mystics, his friends.

After the ascension of Bahá’u’lláh, the Afnán, loyal and staunch in the Covenant, rendered even more services than he had before; this in spite of many obstacles, and an overwhelming load of work, and

Ḥájí Faraju’lláh, he lived on in that city, until the day when merciless oppressors banished Bahá’u’lláh to ‘Akká, and in His company the Ḥájí came here to the Most Great Prison.

He lived for a time in Ádhirbáyján, enamored of the Lord. When he became widely known thereabouts as one bearing the name of God, the people ruined his life.

Áqá Muḥammad had a fine poetic gift, and he would create verses like stringed pearls.

Her love for children and youth was legendary. In Ethiopia, she organized some of her friends and established an orphanage for about a dozen homeless children. At 19-Day Feasts she would take the children