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An Introduction To The
The True Events of the Takur of Nur

 

The true events of the Takur[1] of Nur is written by Badieh Nuri in response to some of the statements made by M. Khosrawi (a Bahai) in his History of the Nur Regions.

 

Badieh Nuri was the daughter of Fazl’ullah Owrangi the son of Mirza Muhammad-Hassan, the son of Mirza Abas of Nur the father of Subh-i Azal and his half brother Husayn-Ali (Baha).

 

Ms. Nuri questions Khosrawi’s motives wondering whether the mistakes in his book emanates from his ignorance or from his fanaticism and his hatred (of the Bayanis).

 

Ms. Nuri finds it her duty to write what is narrated to her by her close relatives in other words her maternal grand-father lady Zahra and her maternal aunt lady Fakhrieh have heard from Her Holiness Ezieh (Subh-i Azal and Bahas’s sister).

 

We will attempt to include the translation of some of the excerpts of this book in this page in the near future; however one of many Bahai stories that have been told and re-told in some of the Baha’i book such as Shoghi Effendi’s God Passes By is Khosrawi’s charges against Subh-i Azal concerning his wives:

 

Bahai Attempts to Discredit Subh-i Azal

In their bid to discredit and disparage Subh-i-Azal, the Bahai hierarchy and Bahai historians have swollen the number of his wives. In his Kitab-i-Iqlim-i-Nur, PP. 202-203, Muhammad Ali Malik Khosravi of Nur alleges that Subh-i-Azal had married fourteen women including the Point’s widow Fatima Khanum daughter of Mulla Hasan preacher of Isfahan who was the Point’s second wife.

 

Contradicting Khosravi, in his god passes by P. 125, “Shoghi Effendi alleges that his [i.e. Subh-i-Azal’s] shamelessness and effrontery had waxed so great as to lead him to perpetrate himself and permit Sayyid Muhammad [of Isfahan] who he brands as “the black-hearted scoundrel” (ibid, P. 112), “the antichrist of the Bahai Revelation” (ibid, P.164), and who was murdered by Baha’s men in Acre in 1892] to repeat after him an act, so seditious that Baha characterized it as “most grievous betrayal” indicating dishonour upon the Primal Point”.

 

Contradicting both Khosravi and Shoghi Effendi, Sir Abbas Effendi in an epistle to his followers says “As an instance the mother of the believers, the sister of Mulla Rajab Ali Qahir [i.e. Fatima Khanum] was one of the wives of perfect purity of His Holiness the supreme [i.e. the Point], and union with her is strictly unlawful under the express provision of the Bayan. This notwithstanding, he [i.e. Subh-i-Azal] was familiar with her and, after a number of days he made a present of her to Sayyid Muhammad [of Isfahan] the notorious, and that virtuous woman was under bond of marriage contract with Sayyid Muhamad till the end of her life”.

 

Contradicting all and “speaking by the tongue of god Al-Ali-Al-Abha [i.e. Baha] posing as Sayyid Ali Muhammad the Point, Baha says that the term “the Best of woman” is first applied to “the mother of the Primal Point” and then to “the Point’s wife, who passed without from the sanctuary of immaculation, and whom the hands of the perfidious touched not, and she who [i.e. the Point’s second wife Fatima] who betrayed herself has in fact defected from the Point” and has severed her connection with god”. Risala-i-Badi’ by Aqa Muhammad Ali of Isfahan, a Bahai historian, P. 356.

 

Fatima Khanum’s brothers were Aqa Ali Muhammad of Isfahan and Mulla Rajab Ali Qahir both of whom wrote refutations in rebuttal of Baha’s pretensions (see Bayanic library). Soon after they were assassinated by Baha’s men, Aqa Ali Muhammad in Baghdad, and Mulla Rajab Ali Qahir in Karbala. The Bahai hierarchy who sheds crocodile tears over Fatima Khanum had no compunction in disposing of her two brothers by foul play.

 

Fatima Khanum’s own Account

On the strength of Fatima Khanum’s written and sealed statement which appears in old Bâbî manuscripts[2], the Imam Jum’a [i.e. leading Imam] of Isfahan pestered her with suitors. Acting on the advice of Subh-i-Azal and Baha’s half sister, [Izziyya Khanum, the authoress of the Tanbih-al-Naimin] she fled from Isfahan to Iraq, accompanied by members of her family, her younger brother Aqa Ali Muhammad and Sayyid Muhammad of Isfahan, to join her elder brother Mulla Rajab Ali Qahir, who had taken up his residence in Karbala. In Kazamayn, the party was met by Baha’s full brother Mirza Musa who had come from Baghdad.

 

Fatima Khanum and her brother, Aqa Ali Muhammad “proceeded to Baghdad accompanied by Sayyid Muhammad to pay their respects to Subh-i-Azal.

 

Subh-i-Azal “gave me the marriage to Sayyid Muhammad”, accompanied by him and her younger brother, she proceeded to Karbala; “at this time, Mirza Husayn Ali Baha wanted to marry me.”

“The murder of Sayyid Muhammad’s maternal uncle Mirza Muhammad Rida, of her younger brother Aqa Ali Muhammad, of her elder brother Mulla Rajab Ali Qahir, and her husband Sayyid Muhammad” are attributed by Fatima Khanum to Baha’s enmity “ stemming from the day of her marriage to Sayyid Muhammad of Isfahan.

 

Aqa Ali Muhammad’s Account

In his Risala-i-Raddiyya (in refutation of Bahai claim) of 1867, PP. 63-64, Fatima Khanum’s brother Aqa Ali Muhammad of Isfahan states that “Sayyid Muhammad of Isfahan rendered the extreme of service to her [i.e. Fatima Khanum], he failed for a moment in honouring her, and he accepted his master’s bounty for the love of god”.

In his epistles, Subh-i-Azal rejects the allegation preferred against him as false and devoid of foundation.

 

Bayan’s Verdict

On the strength of the Arabic Bayan, Wahid (Unity) X, B?B (Chapter) 10, “a surviving husband or wife may remarry within ninety or ninety five days from the death of his wife or her husband respectively”. Sir Abbas Effendi’s falsehood is unfortunate.

 

Baha’s Role in the Affair

It appears that Baha himself was out to marry the Point’s widow Fatima Khanum, whereby to consolidate his position in his forthcoming pretensions. Failed in his attempt, he nursed his grievance and bided his time. As soon as he was in the saddle safe and secure, he put about these false and tendentious statements to discredit Subh-i-Azal and Sayyid Muhammad of Isfahan.

Sayyid Muhammad of Isfahan’s murder and scurrilous language used against him are to be traced to chez-chez la femme.

 

Tanbih-al-Naimin’s Account Reflecting on the Character of Baha

It is indeed strange and unfortunate that Baha who has preferred such a groundless allegation against Subh-i-Azal should himself offer his own daughter as a “Kaniz”[3] to Subh-i-Azal or to his son Ahmad Bahaj during the Baghdad period of the Bâbî exile, an offer which Subh-i-Azal turned down. The text sums as follows:

The Tanbih-al-Naimin (Awakening of the Sleepers), PP. 19-20:

« برای بردن نوشتجات حضرت نقطه آمده بود حکایت کرد که روزی جناب بهاء (یعنی اَبّ بزرکوار آن نورچشم (یعنی عباس افندی) امر کردند که سلطان خانم (ملقب به بهیه) همشیره آن نور چشم را لباس خانمی پوشانیدم و آرایش دادم فرمودند ببر خدمت حضرت ثمره (صبح ازل) و از زبان من عرض کن که این کنیزی است سالها در دامن خود پرورده ام و بدست خویش تربیت کرده ام اکنون برای خدمتکاری آن حضرت فرستاده ام که منت بر جان من گذاشته و او را به کنیزی قبول فرمائید. من هم او را برداشته خدمت حضرت بردم و ایشان مشغول به نوشتن بودند»

« پس از چندی سر بر آوردند و نگاهی به جانب ما فرمودند. من عرض کردم به آنچه مأمور بودم. در جواب فرمودند که سلطان خانم فرزند من است و البته او را برگردانید زیرا که الی کنون چنین حکمی جاری نشده. ما مراجعت کردیم. من فرمایشات حضرت را به ایشان رسانیدم. بعد از قدری مکث فرمودند باز بروید و از زبان من عرض کنید که او را برای کنیزی آقا میرزا احمد فرستادم استدعا دارم دست رد بر سینه من نگدارید.  باز خدمت حضرت رسیدم و گفتار ایشان را به عرض رسانیدم فرمودند که او و میرزا احمد برای من یکسانند هردو فرزند من هستند، خدا راضی نیست که شما در این باب اینقدر مبالغه و اضرار نمائید. باز مراجعت کردم و فرمایشات حضرت را رسانیدم چیزی نفرموده سکون کردند.»

 

 

 

Subh-i Azal’s Family Chart

Subh-i-Azal married six times and had no more than wives at any given time:

I) Fatima, daughter of Subh-i-Azal’s uncle Mirza Muhammad who bore him:

1)      Muhammad Hadi

2)      Muhammad Mahdi

 

Subh-i-Azal married Fatima in Iran. When government troops captured his ancestral home in the village of Takur, she was taken to Teheran as a captive. Her child Muhammad Mahdi (I/2) died en route, later she was set at liberty. Subh-i-Azal did not see her again, after his flight to Baghdad. Muhammad Hadi (I/1) has issues resident in Iran.

 

 

II) Narjis, who bore him:

3)      a son

 

Subh-i-Azal married Narjis in Iran. She met the same fate as in (I) above. Her son (II/3) died en route. Subh-i-Azal did not see her again after his flight to Baghdad.

 

 

III) Maryam known as Qanita, who bore him:

4)      Nur

 

Subh-i-Azal married Maryam in Iran. He did not see her after his flight to Baghdad. (II/4) Nur has many issues resident in Iran. He married many times.

 

 

IV) Mulk-i-Jjihan, who bore him:

5)      Ahmad Bahaj

6)      Abd al-Ali

7)      Ridvan Ali

8)      Muhammad Bayan ullah

 

Subh-i-Azal married Mulk-i-Jihan in Iran accompanied him to Baghdad, Edirne and Famagusta where she died a four years after her arrival in 1868.

 

IV/5 Ahmad Bahaj married Ulwiya who bore him:

a.       Adila

b.      Alaiyya (Grace)

 

The whole family resided in Istanbul. The wife and the two daughters adopted the Protestant faith. The wife died in Istanbul. Adila immigrated to France. She conducted nursery work in Algeria. She died in Switzerland. She has no issues. Grace married a German. She has one son and daughter. They live in Federal Germany. Ahmad Bahaj following the attempt on the Shah’s life in August 1852

 

Returned to the Island after the first world war. Sir Abbas Effendi invited him to visit him in Hifa. He accepted the invitation and proceeded to Haifa. He was the playmate of Sir Abbas Effendi during the Baghdad period of the Bâbî exiles. He died in Haifa.

During Shoghi Effendi’s tenure of office and at his instance, Mirza Abd-al-Husayn Ayati surnamed Awara approached him several times to write a refutation of his father. Ahmad Bahaj rejected the suggestion and fell into disesteem. Shoghi Effendi’s statement in God Passes by, P.233 that he “expressed repentance, asked for forgiveness, was graciously accepted by him [i.e. Sir Abbas Effendi] and remained till the hour of his death, a loyal follower of the faith”, is devoid of historical foundation.

 

IV (6) Abdul Ali married Ismat, daughter of Sayyid Muhammad Barutkub of Isfahan who bore him:

1)      W?hida, spinster

2)      Naira, spinster

3)      Jalal, married Ismat daughter of Badiullah son of Mirza Husayn Ali Baha.

4)      Alima, married a Turk, has issues

5)      Tali’a married, died without issue.

 

(IV/7) Ridvan Ali died without issue. He paid a visit to Sir Abbas Effendi in Acre.

 

(IV/8) Muhammad Bayanullah. He married an Iranian woman. He died without issue. He visited Sir Abbas Effendi in Acre.

 

V) Ruqiyya known as Hajiya, daughter of Subh-i-Azal’s uncle Mirza Muhammad, who bore him:

9)      Maryam

10)  Ra’fat

11)  Abd al-Wahid

12)  Fuad

13)  Taqi-al Din

 

Ruqiyya known died in Cyprus. 

 

Maryam married her cousin in Iran. She has issues. All live in Iran.

 

R’afat, she died spinster.

 

Abd al W?hid married Itamida daughter of Mirza Mustafa known as Mirza Ismail Sabagh-i-Sadahi. He died without issue several years after marriage and the widow returned to Tehran accompanied by her father and remarried.

 

Fuad, died unmarried.

 

Taqi al Din died unmarried.

 

 

VI) Badri Jihan, who bore him:

14)  Safiyya

15)  Tal’at

 

Subh-i-Azal married Badr-i-Jihan in Baghdad during the rift between Subh-i-Azal and Baha in Edirne. Her brothers Nasrullah and Rida Quli of Tafrish sided with Baha. Badr-i-Jihan followed suit. Nasrullah was poisoned by Baha’s men in Edirne in the eve of the B?Bis exiles’ banishment. She and her brother Rida Quli accompanied Baha to Acre. When her brother was butchered to death by Baha’s men in Acre in 1872, Badr-i-Jihan read the writing on the wall; and fled to Istanbul. She addressed herself in writing to Subh-i-Azal and prayed for forgiveness, pardoned, she was brought back to Cyprus, where she died. She survived Subh-i-Azal.

 

Safiyya married Mirza Aqa Khan of Kerman, died without issue.

 

Tal’at married Mirza Shaykh Ahmad Ruhi of Kerman and bore him:

a)      Aliya, she married; is a widow with one issue in Cyprus.

b)      Fadila died unmarried.

 

Extradited by the Ottoman authorities from Istanbul, both Mirza Aqa Khan of Kerman and Shaykh Ahmad Ruhi of Kerman were put to death in Tabriz in Iran.

Tal’at remarried Mirza Mahdi of Isfahan. She died in childbirth. Mirza Mahdi returned to Iran.