# Memorials of the Faithful

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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
> 
> Sh
> ay
> kh
> 
> 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
> 
> Darví
> sh
> 
> Sidq
> -'Ali
> 
> Áqá
> 
> Mirzá
> 
> Mahmúd
> and
> Áqá
> 
> Ridá
> 
> Pidar-Ján
> of
> Qazvín
> 
> Sh
> ay
> kh
> 
> Sádiq
> -i-Yazdi
> 
> Sh
> áh
> -Muhammad-Amin
> 
> Ma
> sh
> hadí
> 
> Fattah
> 
> Nabíl
> of
> Qá'in
> 
> Siyyid
> Muhammad
> -Taqi
> Man
> sh
> adí
> 
> Muhammad
> -'Ali
> Sabbáq
> of Yazd
> 
> `Abdu
> 'l-Ghaffar of
> Isfahán
> 
> `Alí
> 
> Najaf-Ábádí
> 
> Ma
> sh
> hadí
> 
> Husayn
> and
> Ma
> sh
> hadí
> 
> Muhammad
> -i-Adhirbayjani
> 
> Hájí
> 
> `Abdu
> 'r-Rahim-i-Yazdi
> 
> Hájí
> 
> `Abdu
> 'llah
> Najaf-Ábádí
> 
> Muhammad
> -Hadiy-i-Sahhaf
> 
> Mirzá
> 
> Muhammad
> -Quli
> 
> Ustád
> 
> Báqir
> and
> Ustád
> 
> Ahmad
> 
> Muhammad
> 
> Haná-Sab
> 
> Hájí
> 
> Faraju'lláh
> 
> Tafrí
> sh
> í
> 
> Áqá
> 
> Ibráhím
> -i-Isfahani and His Brothers
> 
> Áqá
> 
> Muhammad
> -Ibrahim
> 
> Zaynu'l-Ábidín
> 
> Yazdí
> 
> Hájí
> 
> Mullá
> 
> Mihdíy-i-Yazdí
> 
> His Eminence
> Kalím
> (
> Mirzá
> 
> Músá
> )
> 
> Hájí
> 
> Muhammad
> 
> Kh
> án
> 
> Áqá
> 
> Muhammad
> -Ibrahim
> Amír
> 
> Mirzá
> 
> Mihdíy-i-Ká
> sh
> ání
> 
> Mi
> sh
> kín-Qalam
> 
> Ustád
> 
> `Alí
> -Akbar-i-Najjar
> 
> Mirzá
> 
> Muhammad
> , the Servant at the  Travelers' Hospice
> 
> Mirzá
> 
> Muhammad
> -i-Vakil
> 
> Hájí
> 
> Muhammad
> -Riday-i-Shirazi
> 
> Husayn
> Effendi
> Tabrízí
> 
> Jam
> sh
> íd
> -i-Gurji
> 
> Hájí
> 
> Ja'far
> -i-Tabrizi and His Brothers
> 
> Hájí
> 
> Mirzá
> 
> Muhammad
> -Taqi, the
> Afnán
> 
> `Abdu
> 'llah
> Ba
> gh
> dádí
> 
> Muhammad
> -Mustafa
> Ba
> gh
> dádí
> 
> Sulaymán
> 
> Kh
> án
> -i-Tunukabani
> 
> `Abdu
> 'r-Rahman, the Coppersmith
> 
> Muhammad
> -Ibrahim-i-Tabrizi
> 
> Muhammad
> -'Aliy-i-Ardikani
> 
> Hájí
> 
> Aqáy-i-Tabrízí
> 
> Qulám-`Alíy-i-Najjár
> 
> Jináb
> -i-Munib, upon him be the Glory of the  All-Glorious
> 
> Mirzá
> 
> Mustafá
> 
> Naráqí
> 
> Zaynu'l-Muqarrabín
> 
> Azím
> -i-Tafrishi
> 
> Mirzá
> 
> Ja'far
> -i-Yazdi
> 
> Husayn
> -Aqay-i-Tabrizi
> 
> Hájí
> 
> `Alí
> -'Askar-i-Tabrizi
> 
> Áqá
> 
> Alíy-i-Qazvíní
> 
> 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
> 
> Sh
> amsu'd-Duhá
> 
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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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