Lutfu'lláh Hakím

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Lutfu'lláh Hakím (born 1888 in Iran, died 1968 in Haifa, Israel) served as a member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Bahá'í Faith, between 1963 and 1968.

Dr. Hakím was born into a family of distinguished Jewish medical doctors in Iran in 1888. His grandfather, Hakim Masih, was the first Jew to embrace the Bahá'í Faith. In 1910 Lutfu'lláh Hakím went to London to study physiotherapy and was among the friends who met `Abdu'l-Bahá there. Soon after, `Abdu'l-Bahá called him to Haifa to serve at the World Centre of the Faith.

In 1920, `Abdu'l-Bahá asked Lutfu'lláh Hakím to accompany Shoghi Effendi to England. In 1924 he returned to Persia and in 1950 he moved again to England. Later he again moved to the World Centre and he was appointed to the first International Bahá'í Council as Eastern Assistant Secretary in 1951. He was later elected to the first Universal House of Justice in 1963.