The term ' Covenant-breaker ' or, in Arabic ' naqid al-mithaq ' Naqidu ' l-mithaq, was first used by ` Abdu ' l-Bahá to describe the partisans of his brother Mírzá Muhammad ` Alí, who challenged his leadership.

The main examples of these are Mírzá Muhammad ` Alí and Charles Mason Remey.

From his early years, Shoghi Effendi was introduced to the suffering which accompanied the Bahá ' ís in Akká, including the attacks by Mírzá Muhammad ` Alí against ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

Bahá ' u ' lláh's own will mentions Mírzá Muhammad ` Alí as following ` Abdu ' l Bahá in leadership, but he was excommunicated as a covenant-breaker and shunned by Bahá ' ís.

The new comer, who took his seat modestly by the door in the lowest place, was none other than Mírzá ' Alí Muhammad, who, impelled by a pious desire to visit the Holy Shrines, had left his business at Bushire to come to Kerbelá.

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.

Mírzá Muhammad ` Alí sitting, presumably taken in Adrianople, 1868, at the age of 16.

pl: Mírzá Muhammad ` Alí

* Mírzá Muhammad ` Alí: < u > Gh </ u > us &# 803 ; n-i-Akbar, ( " The Greater Branch ").< ref >< u > Gh </ u > usn-i-A ‘ z &# 803 ; am and < u > Gh </ u > usn-i-Akbar can both be translated as " the great branch ", " the greater branch " or " the most great branch ".

* Mírzá Muhammad Ridá, the Father of the Báb, dies.

The shrine, after ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's death, was occupied by Mírzá Muhammad ` Alí and his supporters, who forcibly took the keys to the shrine in January 1922.

Mírzá Buzurg was the son of Mírzá Rid &# 803 ; á-Qulí Big, son of Mírzá ` Abbás, son of H &# 803 ; ájí Muh &# 803 ; ammad-Rid &# 803 ; á Big, son of Áqá Muhammad -` Ali, son of Áqá Fa < u > kh </ u > r, son of < u > Sh </ u > ahríyár-H &# 803 ; asan.

Mírzá Buzurg prospered in the service of the State, until the death of Fath Ali Shah, and the rise of Muhammad Sháh ( reigned 1834 – 48 ).

A document exists in the handwriting of Muhammad Shah himself, commending and praising the services rendered by Mírzá Buzurg in this capacity.

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.

The Center of Sedition, the Prime Mover of mischief, Mírzá Muhammad ` Alí, hath passed out from under the shadow of the Cause, hath broken the Covenant, hath falsified the Holy Text, hath inflicted a grievous loss upon the true Faith of God, hath scattered His people, hath with bitter rancor endeavored to hurt ` Abdu ' l-Bahá and hath assailed with the utmost enmity this servant of the Sacred Threshold.

After Bahá ' u ' lláh's death a strongbox holding the text of the original obligatory prayer was stolen by Mírzá Muhammad ` Alí.

According to the terms of his will, his eldest son ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was named the centre of authority ; Mírzá Muhammad ` Alí, the eldest son from Bahá ' u ' lláh's second wife was assigned a secondary position.

Mírzá Buzurg was later appointed governor of Burujird and Lorestan, a position that he was stripped of during a government purge when Muhammad Shah came to power.

Born with the given name of ` Abbás, he was named after his grandfather Mírzá ` Abbás Núrí, a prominent and powerful nobleman.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá ( right ) with his brother Mírzá Mihdí

Morale was further destroyed with the death of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá ’ s youngest brother Mírzá Mihdí at the age of 22.

Her father was Mírzá Muḥammad ` Alí Nahrí of Isfahan an eminent Bahá ’ í of the city and prominent aristocrat.

In the mean time, Fátimih lived in the home of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá ’ s uncle Mírzá Músá.

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.

There is disagreement over the amount of time Sayyid Mírzá ` Alí-Muhammad stayed in Karbila ' and the frequency of him attending Sayyid Káz &# 803 ; im's lectures ; Bahá ' í sources state that the Báb only occasionally attended the meetings, while sources more critical to the Bahá ' í Faith state that he stayed in Karbila for a year or two and learned the Shayki teachings.

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.

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.

In 1861 he traveled to Karbila, Iraq, to visit his brother, Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥasan -' Alí, and then went to Baghdad to meet Bahá ' u ' lláh.

* Mírzá Ḥusayn -` Alí Nuri: known as Baha ' u ' llah ; Founder of the Baha ' i Faith

Mírzá Buzurg was a nobleman from the Persian province of Núr, and worked for a time in the service of Fath &# 803 ;-` Alí < u > Sh </ u > áh.

The next was a son, Mírzá Mihdi, who died in his father's lifetime ; and Mírzá H &# 803 ; usayn -` Alí ( Bahá ' u ' lláh ) was the third-born.

Lastly came Mírzá Buzurg's marriage to a daughter of Fath &# 803 ;-` Alí < u > Sh </ u > áh.

Then, he began to disturb the relationship between Mírzá Buzurg and his last wife, Ziya us-Saltana, the daughter of Fath Alí Shah.

Badí ‘ () ‎( 1852 – 1869 ), was the title of Mírzá Áqá Buzurg-i-Nishapuri, also known by his title the Pride of Martyrs, was the son of ` Abdu ' l-Majid-i-Nishapuri, a follower of the Báb and Bahá ' u ' lláh.

Mírzá Mihdí (‎‎) ( 1848 – June 23, 1870 ), given the title < u > Gh </ u > usn-i-Athar ( the Purest Branch ).

Mírzá Ḥusayn-i-Isfahání ( 1826 – 1912 ) surnamed Mi < u > sh </ u > kín-Qalam (), ( meaning either musk-scented pen, or jet black pen ) was a prominent Bahá ' í and one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá ' u ' lláh, as well as a famous calligrapher of 19th century Persia.

The uncle of the Báb, Ḥájí Mírzá Siyyid Muḥammad, had been perplexed to hear that the promised one of the Islam was his own nephew.

He was born in 1817 to Khadíjih Khánum and Mírzá Buzurg of Nur ( in the province of Mazandaran ), a Persian nobleman, and went on to be a leader in the Bábí movement, and then established the Bahá ' í Faith in 1863.

Mírzá Mihdí was born in Tehran in 1848 and was entitled the Purest Branch.

Mírzá Mihdí was eventually buried alongside his mother in the gardens below the Bahá ' í Arc on Mount Carmel in Haifa near his brother and sister.

Mírzá Mihdí was born Mihdí Núrí in Tehran, and named after a deceased brother of his father.

Ásíyih Khánum was born Ásíyih Yalrúdí the only daughter of Mírzá Ismá ’ íl Yalrúdí, the vazír or minister.

Her father Mírzá Ismá ’ íl was a minister in the court of the King of Persia and highly influential and wealthy.

In 1832 her eldest brother, Mírzá Mahmúd, was wedded to an elder sister of Bahá ’ u ’ lláh ; Sarah.

Accompanying her was her was her 24-year-old son, her 21-year-old daughter, her twenty-year-old son Mírzá Mihdí and her husband.

The site was painful for the onlookers, who witnessed the dying Mírzá Mihdí, covered in blood, hold out his arms to his mother.

Her death was followed by several other deaths which hurt the family: a year later the death of Mírzá Músá, the brother of Bahá ’ u ’ lláh, followed by the passing of ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá ’ s son and Bahá ’ u ’ lláh grandson ( five-year-old Husayn ) only increased Bahá ’ u ’ lláh ’ s mourning.

She was originally buried in a Muslim cemetery with her son, Mírzá Mihdí, but in December 1939 her body was removed and reburied on in the gardens below the Arc on Mount Carmel in Haifa in an area now called the Monument Gardens.