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.

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.

During questions one young lady asked ` Wing Commander Gibson, how many operations have you been on over Germany?

" I asked him why he didn't say that publicly ( and ) he said, ` I am the U. N. envoy to Iraq, how can I admit to failure?

He is a man from the tribe of Banu Zurayq who is an ally of the Jews, and a hypocrite .’ The first one asked, ` With what ( did he bewitch him )’ The other replied, ` With a comb and hair from the comb .’ The first one asked, ` Where ( is the comb )’ The other answered, ` In the dried bark of a male date palm under a rock in a well called Dharwan .’) ` A ’ ishah said, “ So he went to the well to remove it ( the comb with the hair ).

Skandagupta's name appear in the Javanese text ` Tantrikamandaka ', and Chinese writer, Wang-hiuen-tse refers that an ambassador was sent to his court by King Meghvarma of Sri Lanka, who had asked his permission to build a Buddhist monastery at Bodh Gaya for the monks traveling from Sri Lanka.

I released him, and in the morning Allah's Messenger asked me, ` What did your prisoner do yesterday, O Abu Hurayrah!

In the morning Allah's Messenger asked me, ` What did your prisoner do last night, O Abu Hurayrah!

I asked, ` What are they?

In the morning, Allah's Messenger asked, ` What did your prisoner do yesterday?

Allah's Messenger asked, ` What are they?

She wrote a letter to the United States Postmaster General and asked him, among other things, to prohibit the National Spiritual Assembly from " using the United States Mails to spread the falsehood that Shoghi Effendi is the successor of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá and the Guardian of the Cause.

Shoghi Effendi, who was named ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's successor, wrote a cable on May 1, 1936 to the Bahá ' í Annual Convention of the United States and Canada, and asked for the systematic implementation of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's vision to begin.

After his father's death he was raised in Yathrib with his mother and her family until about the age of eight, when his uncle Mutallib went to see him and asked his mother Salma bint ` Amr to entrust Shaiba in his care.

:" You have asked him Effendi for detailed information concerning the Bahá ' í educational programme: there is as yet no such thing as a Bahá ' í curriculum, and there are no Bahá ' í publications exclusively devoted to this subject, since the teachings of Bahá ' u ' lláh and ` Abdu ' l-Bahá do not present a definite and detailed educational system, but simply offer certain basic principles and set forth a number of teaching ideals that should guide future Bahá ' í educationalists in their efforts to formulate an adequate teaching curriculum which would be in full harmony with the spirit of the Bahá ' í Teachings, and would thus meet the requirements and needs of the modern age.

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.

Subh-i-Azal's son, Rizwán ` Ali, reported that he had appointed the son of Aqa Mirza Muhammad Hadi Daulatabadi as his successor ; while another, H. C. Lukach's, states that Mirza Yahya had said that whichever of his sons " resembled him the most " would be the successor.

He crossed the Tigris in a small boat accompanied by his sons ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, Mírzá Mihdí and Mírzá Muhammad ` Alí, his secretary Mirza Aqa Jan and some others.

After a year of difficulties Bahá ' u ' lláh absented himself rather than continue to face the conflict with Mirza Yahya and secretly secluded himself in the mountains of Sulaymaniyah in April 1854 a month before ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's tenth birthday.

While most Bahá ' ís followed ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, a handful followed Muhammad ` Alí including such leaders as Mirza Javad and Ibrahim Khayru ' llah, the famous Bahá ' í missionary to America.

Muhammad ` Alí and Mirza Javad began to openly accuse ` Abdu ' l-Bahá of taking on too much authority, suggesting that he believed himself to be a Manifestation of God, equal in status to Bahá ' u ' lláh.

The only ones publicly opposing him were Mirza Muhammad-Ali and his followers, who were declared Covenant-breakers by ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

* " Treacherous Ruhi Afnan, not content with previous disobedience, correspondence with Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, contact with old Covenant-breakers, sale, in conjunction with other members of family, of sacred property purchased by Founder of Faith, and allowing his sister to marry son of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's enemy, is now openly lecturing on Bahá ' í movement, claiming to be its exponent and is misrepresenting the teachings and deliberately causing confusion in minds of authorities and the local population.

Mirza Yahya was born in 1831 to Kuchak Khanum-i-Karmanshahi ( Ruhi, A Brief Biography ) and Mírzá Buzurg-i-Núrí, in the province of Mazandaran, and a younger-half-brother of Mírzá Husayn ` Ali, better known as Bahá ' u ' lláh.

:" A third Sahifa was put together by the author of Riyad al -' ulama ' Mirza ' Abd Allah ibn Mirza ` Isa Tabrizi ..."

According to ` Abd al-Qadir Bada ' uni, one of the few contemporary historians to mention its construction, the architect of the tomb was the Persian architect, Mirak Mirza Ghiyas ( also referred to as Mirak Ghiyathuddin ) who was brought from Herat ( northwest Afghanistan ), and had previously designed several buildings in Herat, Bukhara ( now Uzbekistan ), and others elsewhere in India.

A royal command was issued in July 1868 condemning the Bábís / Bahá ' ís to perpetual imprisonment and isolation in far-flung outposts of the Ottoman Empire — Famagusta, Cyprus for Mirza Yahya and his followers, and ` Akká, in Ottoman Palestine, for Bahá ' u ' lláh and his followers.

Early followers of the Báb were known as Bábís, however in the 1860s a split occurred after which the vast majority of Bábís followed Mirza Husayn ` Ali, known as Bahá ' u ' lláh, and became known as Bahá ' ís, while the minority who followed Subh-i-Azal came to be called Azalis .< ref >" But the upshot of the whole matter is, that out of every hundred Bábís probably not more than three or four are Ezelís < nowiki ></ nowiki >, all the rest accepting Behá ' u ' lláh < nowiki ></ nowiki > as the final and most perfect manifestation of the Truth.