Sublime observations on the life of the most prominent woman of the Bahá'í Dispensation, Bahíyyih Khánum (also known as the Greatest Holy Leaf), daughter of the Blessed Beauty, Bahá'u'lláh.
"If she found you troubled she would not discuss your difficulties and try to solve your problems. You forgot them. Confusion and complexity were dissolved in her warm clarity."
"When we begged her to tell us of the scenes of tumult and outrage that crowded her childhood or of the long hardship in exile and imprisonment, she would not try to recreate in part that drama too great for any telling, or even to bring to the surface an episode out of the troubled past. She would simply allow to emerge from her still depths some living impression, some poignant detail, and so move you with this glimpse that you felt all the seasons of her grief and the full measure of her pain..."
(From A Tribute to Bahíyyih Khánum by Marjorie Morten)
Source: http://is.gd/h4PFT
PDF-version: http://www.claricomm.com/Bahiyyih_Khanum_Tribute.pdf
Hat tip to Brent Poirier at http://bahai-storytelling.blogspot.com/2010/10/magnificent-character-greatest-holy.html
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