`Abdu’l-Bahá’s Aunt Reveals

It is obviously clear that members of a family are more familiar with the events happening within the family. This article refers to the statements of Miss Ezzato-l-Hajieh a.k.a. ‘Izziyya Khanum (the grand sister of Mirzá Husayn-Ali Núri) in her book named Tanbih al-Na’imin (warning to the sleep).

Tanbih al-Na’imin

In this book which is a reply to the statement issued by `Abbas Effendi (son of Bahá’u’lláh) she reveals some of the features of Bahá’u’lláh and the riot he guided.

One of the most important features of all prophets is their illiteracy which is in part one of the proof of their prophecy. In this way Baha’ism also think that Mirzá Husayn-Ali Núri was illiterate.¹

She extremely denies this and says that he began learning Arabic and literature in childhood and also continued in adolescence, and he was coming and going with mystics and philosophers.²

Another fact she says is that in spite of believing the Báb and his book (Bayán) in which Subh-i-Azal had been chosen as his successor, Bahá’u’lláh, because of high love to power, began to act against his brother (Subh-i-Azal) in order to defeat him and in this way what a massive slaughter he arranged. She says nearly about eighty people were murdered.³

Then he began to collect the whole document referring to Báb wills as to introduce Subh-i-Azal as his successor⁴ and because of these huge crimes he involved, a lot of Bábi believers left it.

She believes that Bahá’u’lláh had collected the whole versions of Bayán firstly in order to imitate it in his writings and deceive the people, secondly to destroy the whole verses of Bayán in order not to be within their reach and thirdly to destroy Báb’s order about Subh-i-Azal⁵ and of course in this way he used the policy of dissension.

In fact he paid a great deal of respect to Subh-i-Azal, for instance he never sit without his brother’s permission or in another move he offered one of his daughters (`Abdu’l-Bahá’s sister) as a gift to Subh-i-Azal and insisted him to accept her as his servant but Subh-i-Azal refused.⁶

She then refers to a series of Báb’s letters about Subh-i-Azal and even a letter to Bahá’u’lláh⁷ asking him to obey Subh-i-Azal and she comes to a conclusion with three probabilities about Bahá’u’lláh:

• Bahá’u’lláh had never believed in Báb and he wanted to see the consequence of Báb’s motion in order to benefit it.
• First he accepted Báb but later because of high mania of sovereignty he apostatized.
• He absolutely denied all prophets and their missions, refused God and considered the whole signs of God as fiction.⁸

1- Browne, Edward G. and `Abdu’l-Bahá. A Traveler’s Narrative. Page: 87 and 116.

2-‘Izziyya Khanum. Tanbih al-Na’imin. Page: 4 – 5. To see the original page in Persian,

3-‘Izziyya Khanum. Tanbih al-Na’imin. Page: 6 – 7. To see the original page in Persian,

4-‘Izziyya Khanum. Tanbih al-Na’imin. Page: 16. To see the original page in Persian,

5-‘Izziyya Khanum. Tanbih al-Na’imin. Page: 17. To see the original page in Persian,

6-‘Izziyya Khanum. Tanbih al-Na’imin. Page 19 – 20. To see the original page in Persian,

7-‘Izziyya Khanum. Tanbih al-Na’imin. Page: 28 – 31. To see the original page in Persian,

8-Khanum. Tanbih al-Na’imin. Page: 20 – 21. To see the original page in Persian.

 

 

 

 

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