In 1892, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was appointed in his father's will to be his successor and head of the Bahá ' í Faith.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was born in Tehran to an aristocratic family of the realm.

Along with his father, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was exiled to Baghdad where the family lived for nine years.

By the age of 64 after forty years imprisonment ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá was freed by the Young Turks and he and his family began to live in relative safety.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá's given name was ` Abbás, but he preferred the title of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá ( servant of the glory of God ).

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was born in Tehran, Iran on 23 May 1844 ( 5th of Jamadiyu ' l-Avval, 1260 AH ), the eldest son of Bahá ' u ' lláh and Navváb.

As a child, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was shaped by his father's position as a prominent Bábí.

` Abdu ’ l-Bahá had a happy and carefree childhood.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá enjoyed playing in the gardens with his younger sister whom he was very close to.

With his father's declination of the position as minister of the court ; during his young boyhood ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá witnessed his parents ' various charitable endeavours, which included converting part of the home to a hospital ward for women and children.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá received a haphazard education during his childhood.

Despite a brief spell at a traditional preparatory school at the age of seven for one year, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá received no formal education.

Years later in 1890 Edward Granville Browne described how ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was " one more eloquent of speech, more ready of argument, more apt of illustration, more intimately acquainted with the sacred books of the Jews, the Christians, and the Muhammadans ... scarcely be found even amongst the eloquent.

When ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was seven, he contracted tuberculosis and was expected to die.

One event that affected ` Abdu ' l-Bahá greatly during his childhood was the imprisonment of his father when ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was eight years old ; the imprisonment led to his family being reduced to poverty and being attacked in the streets by other children.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá accompanied his mother to visit Bahá ' u ' lláh who was then imprisoned in the infamous subterranean dungeon the Síyáh-Chál.

Bahá ' u ' lláh was eventually released from prison but ordered into exile, and ` Abdu ' l-Bahá then eight joined his father on the journey to Baghdad in the winter ( January to April ) of 1853.

During the journey ` Abdu ' l-Bahá suffered from frost-bite.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was particularly close to both, and his mother took active participation in his education and upbringing.

During the two year absence of his father ` Abdu ' l-Bahá took up the duty of managing the affairs of the family, before his age of maturity ( 14 in middle-eastern society ) and was known to be occupied with reading and, at a time of hand-copied scriptures being the primary means of publishing, was also engaged in copying the writings of the Báb.

The couple married in the room of Bahíyyih Khánum in the House of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá in Haifa.

The marriage resulted in seven children: Kázim, Sádiq, ` Abbás, ` Alí-Muhammad, Bahíyyih, Mihdí and ` Alí-Muhammad.

Born in ` Akká in March 1897, Shoghi Effendi was related to the Báb through his father, Mírzá Hádí Shírází, and to Bahá ' u ' lláh through his mother, Ḍíyá ' íyyih Khánum, the eldest daughter of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

* Munirih Khánum — ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's wife

* Munirih Khánum — wife of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, Mirzá Mihdí's elder brother

Ásíyih Khánum was very close to her children, and took active participation in their upbringing especially ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

* Munirih Khánum — daughter-in-law of by Ásíyih-wife of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, Ásíyih's eldest son

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was at this point noted for having black hair which flowed to his shoulders, large blue eyes, alabaster coloured skin and a slight Roman nose.

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While there are no dietary restrictions in the Bahá ' í Faith, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, the son of the religion's founder, noted that a vegetarian diet consisting of fruits and grains was desirable, except for people with a weak constitution or those that are sick.

Mary Williams noted that she was impressed with ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's generosity of spirit in bringing people of social standing to the Bowery as well as that he then gave money to the poor rather than accepting it.

A very early western account of Táhirih would have been on January 2, 1913 when ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, then head of the Bahá ' í Faith, spoke on women's suffrage to the Women's Freedom League-part of his address and print coverage of his talk noted mentions of Táhirih to the organization.

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From her mother ’ s first marriage Khadíjih had one half brother named Muhammad-Mihdí a noted poet and a half sister known as ` Ammih Ḥájí who when grown up married Hájí Mírzá Siyyid ` Alí the guardian of the Báb in his childhood.

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` Abdu ' l-Bahá noted both both poverty and extreme wealth disallowed for a compassionate society, as poverty demoralized people and extreme wealth overburdened people.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá further noted that wealth by itself was not evil, and could be used for good.

Fátimih was brought from Persia to Acre, Israel after both Bahá ’ u ’ lláh and his wife Navváb expressed an interest in her to marry ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá.

According to her later memoirs, Fátimih fell in love with ` Abdu ' l-Bahá on seeing him.

" ` Abdu ' l-Bahá also wrote that " her reality is ever shining from the horizon of Christ ," " her face is shining and beaming forth on the horizon of the universe forevermore " and that " her candle is, in the assemblage of the world, lighted till eternity.

" ` Abdu ' l-Bahá considered her to be the supreme example of how women are completely equal with men in the sight of God and can at times even exceed men in holiness and greatness.

According to the memoirs of Juliet Thompson, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá also compared Mary to Juliet, one of his most devoted followers, claiming that she even physically resembled her and that Mary Magdalene was Juliet Thompson's " correspondence in heaven.

According to Juliet Thompson's diary, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá suggested that she marry Remey, and in 1909 asked her how she felt about it, reportedly requesting of her: “ Give my greatest love to Mr. Remey and say: You are very dear to me.

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But those who defended him, like Sufyan ibn ` Uyaynah, stated that Ibn Ishaq told them that he did meet her.

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On the train home she wrote words and music of a song about her experience, calling the song ` The Floral Dance `, which has confused many people ever since.

" Men fall in love with a woman ` s faults rather than her qualities ," he mused.

It was in the home of her cousin that Táhirih first became acquainted with and started correspondence with leaders of the Shaykhi movement, including Siyyid Kazim, which flourished in the Shi ` ah shrine cities in Iraq.

After some of the Shi ` ah clergy complained, the government moved her to Baghdad, where she resided at the home of the mufti of Baghdad, Shaykh Mahmud Alusi, who was impressed by her devotion and intellect.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá recalls that when he was aged five Táhirih would chant her poetry to him in her beautiful voice.

During her journey back to Qazvin, Iran, she openly taught the Bábí faith, including on stops in Kirand and Kermanshah, where she debated with the leading clergy of the town, Aqa ` Abdu ' llah-i-Bihbihani.

Aqa ` Abdu ' llah-i-Bihbihani, at this point, wrote to Táhirih's father asking his relatives to remove her from Kermanshah.

She grew up on the sea as a daughter of a fisherman, and has developed an extremely powerful swing, dubbed ` Wave Motion Swing ` from her years of fishing.