2.18.3 Shoghi Effendi’s Health
Shoghi Effendi suffered from High Blood pressure and heart trouble. Shoghi Effendi (also) suffered from Trachoma or conjunctivitis (which was an) impediment to (his) visit (of) U.S.A.

He proceeded to London for medical treatment. Then he contracted Influenza to which he succumbed. He is buried in London. I do not know the location. On dit, his remains will be removed for reburial in the shrine on Mt. Carmel in Haifa. The proposed operation conflicts with Baha’s injunction in the Aqdas to the effect that “It is unlawful for you to carry the dead body further than the distance of an hour from the city. Bury him with joy and sweetness in a nearly place (Elder’s Translation, P. 58)

In a letter, penned in his own handwriting, addressed to Subhi facsimile of which is reproduced in part, in Subhi’s Payam-i Pedar, P. 253), Baha’s son Mirza Muhammad Ali’s surviving son Mirza Aminullah evaluates Shoghi Effendi as a nervous wreck and a tyro, “afflicted with venereal disease, conveyed to him through his father,” pitchforked into a responsible position through no fault of his own.

 

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