Díyá'u'lláh
| Díyá'u'lláh | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
15 Augest 1864 Edirne (modern day Adrianople) |
| Died | 30 October 1898 (aged 34) |
Díyá'u'lláh (alternate spelling: Zíyá'u'lláh) (15 Augest 1864 - 30 October 1898) was one of the sons of Bahá'u'lláh. He was the second son of his father's second wife Fatimih (also known as Mahd-i-'Ulya) He was born in Edirne (modern day Adrianople).[1][2]Bahá'u'lláh gave the title Ghusn-i-Athar (meaning "Most Pure Branch" or "Purer Branch") to his son Mírzá Mihdí. After Mírzá Mihdí's death in 1870, Bahá'u'lláh gave the same title to his other son Díyá'u'lláh [3][4] He swayed between his two brothers, `Abdu'l-Bahá and Muhammad `Alí, in their argument. He married Thurayyá Samandarí, daughter of Shaykh Kázim-i-Samandar and sister of Taráz’u’lláh Samandarí, a Hand of the Cause of God. The marriage was childless. Díyá'u'lláh died on 30 October 1898 in Haifa Palestine, and was posthumously labeled a Covenant-breaker.[5][6]
After his death in 1898, Díyá'u'lláh was initially buried next to his father at the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh at the Mansion of Bahjí. However, having been declared a Covenant-breaker, Díyá'u'lláh's remains were disinterred in 1965 in process the Universal House of Justice described as a "purification...from past contamination."[7]
Notes
- ↑ Smith 2000, pp. 261–262
- ↑ Balyuzi 2001, pp. 222
- ↑ Behai, Shua Ullah (December 5, 2014). Stetson, Eric, ed. A Lost History of the Baha'i Faith: The Progressive Tradition of Baha'u'llah's Forgotten Family. Vox Humri Media. p. 261. ISBN 978-0692331354.
- ↑ Edward G.Browne, ed. (1891). A Traveller's Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb: Volume 2, Cambridge University Pg. 361 ISBN 9781107633049
- ↑ Taherzadeh 2000, p. 145
- ↑ Balyuzi 2001, p. 528
- ↑ Marks, Geoffry W., ed. (1996). Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-86: The Third Epoch of the Formative Age. Baha'i Publishing Trust. p. 66. ISBN 978-0877432395.
References
- Balyuzi, H.M. (2001). `Abdu'l-Bahá: The Centre of the Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh (Paperback ed.). Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0-85398-043-8.
- Marks, Geoffry W., ed. (1996). Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-86: The Third Epoch of the Formative Age. Baha'i Publishing Trust. p. 66. ISBN 978-0877432395.
- Smith, Peter (2000). A concise encyclopedia of the Bahá'í Faith. Oxford: Oneworld Publications. ISBN 1-85168-184-1.
- Taherzadeh, Adib (2000). The Child of the Covenant. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0-85398-439-5.