2.4  Baha And The Daughter of Baha’s Gardener
A pretty young girl named Jamaliya, the daughter of Baha’s gardener, served Baha as the handmaiden of the Presence and waiting-maid at court. She died soon after Baha. Speculation is rife as to the cause of her death.

According to Kashf-al-Hiyal, Vol. I, 6th impression, p. 104, Jamaliya was the niece, namely, “the daughter of the brother of Muhammad Hasan the servant.”

According to Abd al Husayn Ayati surnamed Awara, Kashf al-Hiyal, Vol. I., 6th impression, PP. 104-15: “Jamaliya Khanum is to be considered as the fourth wife of Baha on the ground of service to him. She was the daughter of Muhammad Hasan, the servant. When she came of age Baha knew (تصرف کرده) her. At the time she was a girl of fifteen years of age, while Baha was a septuagenarian. It is reported that this is one affair, which acquired notoriety. There were other girls involved, whose affairs were hushed up.”

In his Payam-i-Padar, P. 107, Subhi Fadlullah Muhtadi, one time Sir Abbas Effendi’s Persian secretary and Bahai missionary, states that “apart from these three wives [i.e. Asiya, Mahd-i-Ulya and Gawhar Khanum] there was a handsome girl by the name of Jamaliya, who was آمد درگاه (handmaiden of the presence) and کنیز پیشگاه [waiting-maid at court].”

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