# Badi' Khurasani

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> Badí` Khurasani
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> Moojan Momen
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> 1995
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> Badi` Khurasani Aqa Buzurg (c. 1852-1869), who
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> was given the title Badi` (wondrous, new) by Bahá'u'lláh, was the bearer
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> of Bahá'u'lláh's tablet to Nasiru'd-Din Shah and was killed on the orders
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> of the Shah in 1869.
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> Aqa Buzurg was the son of Haji `Abdu'l-Majid Nishapuri,
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> a Babi who had survived Shaykh Tabarsi (q.v.). In his early years, Badi`
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> showed no interest in his father's religion and even some antagonism, to
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> the extent that the other Babis of Nishapur were worried that Aqa Buzurg
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> might denounce them.
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> Nabil-A`zam (q.v.), who was visiting Nishapur, managed
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> one day to engage Badi` in conversation and win him over to the new religion.
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> Badi` now became so fervent in his new belief that he managed to persuade
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> his father to allow him to go with Shaykh Ahmad Fani, who was setting off
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> to visit Bahá'u'lláh in Edirne.
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> Shaykh Ahmad stopped in Yazd for a time and Badi`, impatient
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> to proceed, set off on foot towards Baghdad. Shortly after Badi` reached
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> Baghdad, there occurred in about April-May 1868, the martyrdom of Aqa `Abdu'r-Rasul
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> Qumi, who had been the water-carrier for the House of Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdad.
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> As there was no one to perform this task, Badi` stayed for a time and carried
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> water from the Tigris river to the House of Bahá'u'lláh and to the Bahá'ís
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> of Baghdad. It was a dangerous occupation, as the enemies of the Bahá'ís
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> were constantly taunting him, and he was attacked on several occasions
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> and stabbed. When the Bahá'í community of Baghdad was exiled to Mosul in
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> August 1868, Badi` also went there and for a time continued to act as water-carrier.
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> Eventually, hearing of Bahá'u'lláh's transfer to Akka,
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> Badi` set off for there. He arrived outside the city walls of Akka in 1869.
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> Because he wore the humble clothes appropriate to a water-carrier, he was
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> able to slip inside the city past the guards who rigorously excluded Bahá'í
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> pilgrims.
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> Badi` wandered around Akka and eventually found the Bahá'í
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> prisoners when they came to the mosque for prayers. He was able to get
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> inside the citadel and had two interviews with Bahá'u'lláh.
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> The tablet to Nasiru'd-Din Shah had been revealed some
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> years before in Edirne and Bahá'u'lláh now commissioned Badi` to deliver
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> this personally to the Shah. Bahá'u'lláh arranged for the tablet to be
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> delivered to Badi` in Haifa and Badi` immediately set off on the journey
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> back to Iran.
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> On his arrival in Tehran, Badi` sought out the Shah's
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> summer camp, approached the Shah, and delivered Bahá'u'lláh's tablet. Badi`
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> was arrested and tortured to reveal the names of his Bahá'í companions;
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> but he maintained, as was indeed the case, that he had had no companions
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> and was merely following the orders of Bahá'u'lláh. In the end he was killed
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> in July 1869. An account of his heroism in the face of torture has been
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> left by Muhammad-Vali Sipahdar-i-A`zam, who heard it from Kazim Khan, the
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> executioner (BKG 300-309).
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> Bibliography. BKG 293-310. ZH 6:30-32.
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> BBR 254-55.
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