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.

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.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá himself fell dangerously ill with dysentery, however a sympathetic soldier permitted a physician to help cure him.

Muhammad ` Alí became jealous of his half-brother and set out to establish authority for himself as an alternative leader with the support of his brothers Badi ' u ' llah and Diya ' u ' llah.

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.

During his studies, he dedicated himself to mastering English — adding this language to the Persian, Turkish, Arabic and French, languages in which he was already fluent-so that he could translate the letters of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá and serve as his secretary.

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Its precise location on Mount Carmel was designated by Bahá ' u ' lláh himself to his eldest son, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, in 1891.

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He then goes on to account the sufferings that the centre of the Bahá ' í Faith has suffered by people who were not faithful to the Covenant including Mírzá Yahyá with respect to Bahá ' u ' lláh, and Mírzá Muhammad ` Alí with respect to himself.

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The marriage of ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá to one woman and his choice to remain monogamous, from advice of his father and his own wish, legitimised the practice of monogamy to a people whom hitherto had regarded polygamy as a righteous way of life.

By the end of 1898, Western pilgrims started coming to Akka on pilgrimage to visit ` Abdu ' l-Bahá ; this group of pilgrims, including Phoebe Hearst, was the first time that Bahá ' ís raised up in the West had met ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

Bahá ' u ' lláh's son-in-law was, thus, a long-standing enemy of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá ( who had declared him a Covenant-breaker.

Being the eldest grandson of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, from his earliest childhood he had a special relationship with his grandfather.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá's Will and Testament is considered one of the three charters of the Bahá ' í administrative order, and in it ` Abdu ' l-Bahá laid down the authority of the Guardian and the Universal House of Justice, the elected governing body of the Bahá ' í Faith that had been written about by Bahá ' u ' lláh, and had not yet been established:

Other branches of Bahá ' u ' lláh's family had already been declared Covenant-breakers in ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's Will and Testament.

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