# Memorials of the Faithful

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> Source: Bahá'í Library Online (bahai-library.com), curated by Jonah Winters. Used by permission of the curator. Original citation: Abdu'l-Bahá, Memorials of the Faithful, Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1971 [1915], bahai-library.com.
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> Memorials of the Faithful
> 
> Abdu'l-Bahá
> 
> Marzieh Gail, translator
> 
> Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1971 [1915]
> 
> Contents
> 
> Proem
> 
> Nabíl-i-Akbar
> 
> Ismu'lláhu'l-Asdaq
> 
> Mullá `Alí-Akbar
> 
> Shaykh Salmán
> 
> Mirzá Muhammad-'Ali, the Afnán
> 
> Hájí Mirzá Hasan, the Afnán
> 
> Muhammad-'Aliy-i-Isfahani
> 
> `Abdu's-Salih, the Gardener
> 
> Ustád Ismá'íl
> 
> Nabíl-i-Zarandi
> 
> Darvísh Sidq-'Ali
> 
> Áqá Mirzá Mahmúd and Áqá Ridá
> 
> Pidar-Ján of Qazvín
> 
> Shaykh Sádiq-i-Yazdi
> 
> Sháh-Muhammad-Amin
> 
> Mashhadí Fattah
> 
> Nabíl of Qá'in
> 
> Siyyid Muhammad-Taqi Manshadí
> 
> Muhammad-'Ali Sabbáq of Yazd
> 
> `Abdu'l-Ghaffar of Isfahán
> 
> `Alí Najaf-Ábádí
> 
> Mashhadí Husayn and Mashhadí Muhammad-i-Adhirbayjani
> 
> Hájí `Abdu'r-Rahim-i-Yazdi
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> Hájí `Abdu'llah Najaf-Ábádí
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> Muhammad-Hadiy-i-Sahhaf
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> Mirzá Muhammad-Quli
> 
> Ustád Báqir and Ustád Ahmad
> 
> Muhammad Haná-Sab
> 
> Hájí Faraju'lláh Tafríshí
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> Áqá Ibráhím-i-Isfahani and His Brothers
> 
> Áqá Muhammad-Ibrahim
> 
> Zaynu'l-Ábidín Yazdí
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> Hájí Mullá Mihdíy-i-Yazdí
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> His Eminence Kalím (Mirzá Músá)
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> Hájí Muhammad Khán
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> Áqá Muhammad-Ibrahim Amír
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> Mirzá Mihdíy-i-Káshání
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> Mishkín-Qalam
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> Ustád `Alí-Akbar-i-Najjar
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> Mirzá Muhammad, the Servant at the Travelers' Hospice
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> Mirzá Muhammad-i-Vakil
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> Hájí Muhammad-Riday-i-Shirazi
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> Husayn Effendi Tabrízí
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> Jamshíd-i-Gurji
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> Hájí Ja'far-i-Tabrizi and His Brothers
> 
> Hájí Mirzá Muhammad-Taqi, the Afnán
> 
> `Abdu'llah Baghdádí
> 
> Muhammad-Mustafa Baghdádí
> 
> Sulaymán Khán-i-Tunukabani
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> `Abdu'r-Rahman, the Coppersmith
> 
> Muhammad-Ibrahim-i-Tabrizi
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> Muhammad-'Aliy-i-Ardikani
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> Hájí Aqáy-i-Tabrízí
> 
> Qulám-`Alíy-i-Najjár
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> Jináb-i-Munib, upon him be the Glory of the All-Glorious
> 
> Mirzá Mustafá Naráqí
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> Zaynu'l-Muqarrabín
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> Azím-i-Tafrishi
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> Mirzá Ja'far-i-Yazdi
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> Husayn-Aqay-i-Tabrizi
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> Hájí `Alí-'Askar-i-Tabrizi
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> Áqá Alíy-i-Qazvíní
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> Áqá Muhammad-Baqir and Áqá Muhammad-Isma'il, the Tailor
> 
> Abu'l-Qásim of Sultán-Abad
> 
> Áqá Faraj
> 
> The Consort of the King of Martyrs
> 
> Shamsu'd-Duhá
> 
> Táhirih
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> 
> Proem
> 
> This is a book about people who were trying to get into prison
> rather than to escape from it, because they were prisoners of a
> great love. Their love was for Bahá’u’lláh, Whom the nineteenth
> century world bound with chains and tried to silence by shutting Him, ultimately, in the Crusaders’ stronghold at ‘Akká.
> Like the eye of the storm, He is the center of these accounts,
> but hardly appears in them—remaining, as the Guardian has
> described Him, “transcendental in His majesty, serene, awe-inspiring, unapproachably glorious.”
> 
> The reader will probably find himself in these pages, whether
> he is the jeweler from Baghdad, one of the dishwashers, or the
> professor who could not endure the arrogance of his compeers.
> Mystic, feminist, cleric, artisan, merchant prince are here. Even
> modern Western youth will be found here, for example in the
> chapter on dervishes. For this is more than the brief annals of
> early Bahá’í disciples; it is, somehow, a book of prototypes; and
> it is a kind of testament of values endorsed and willed to us by
> the Bahá’í Exemplar, values now derided, but—if the planet is
> to be made safe for humanity—indispensable. These are short
> and simple accounts, but they constitute a manual of how to
> live, and how to die.
> 
> The task of putting these biographies into English was given
> me by the Guardian many years ago, when I was on a pilgrimage to the Bahá’í world center in Haifa. Shortly afterward the
> Guardian sent me, to Ṭihrán, the text from which this translation was made. According to its Persian title page, this was the
> first Bahá’í book to be printed in Haifa under the Guardianship. A Persian introduction states that ‘Abdu’l-Bahá wrote the
> book in 1915, and granted permission to M. A. Kahrubá’í to
> have it published. The text, which is dated 1924, bears the seal
> of the Haifa Bahá’í Assembly. A second title page, in English,
> describes the work as “An account, from the pen of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, of the lives of some of the early Bahá’í believers who
> passed away during His lifetime,” although the work was actually recorded from His utterances.
> 
> Here, then, almost half a century after His passing, is a new
> book given to the world by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
> 
> We wonder how many of us, at the close of unbelievably
> painful and arduous years, would devote the waning time not
> to our own memories but to the lives of some seventy companions, many of them long dead, to save them from oblivion.
> ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was present at many of these scenes, yet time after
> time He effaces Himself to focus on some companion, often on
> one so humble that the passing years would surely have refused
> him a history. And if, to the cynical, these believers seem better
> than ordinary men, we should remember that the presence of
> the Manifestation made them so, and that they are being looked
> at through the eyes of the Master—Who said that the imperfect eye beholds imperfections, and that it is easier to please
> God than to please people.
> 
> Thus the book is still another token of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's partiality for the human race. The love He personified was not
> blind but observant, not impersonal but warm and tender; it
> was a continual attitude of unobtrusive care. Such love, from
> such a Being, does not end with one life span. He left the world
> half a century ago, and most of those who longed for Him so
> much that the hostile said they were not Bahá’ís, but `Abdu’l-Bahá’ís, are now vanished from our sight. But still, His love is
> here, for new millions to find.
> 
> The translator
> 
> Keene, New Hampshire, December 1969
> 
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