2.9  Mirza Riyadh
Shoghi Effendi’s brother Mirza Riyadh Rabbani visited Jalal Azal and his wife in October 1968 on his way from London to the Palestine to attend to his private business.

According to Jalal, He Xeroxed the Point’s Testamentary Disposition as well as Baha’s writings of the early period contained in a collection transcribed by Mirza Abdullah Bahhaj during Baha’s life time.

"Riyadh Rabbani was a child when I visited Sir Abbas Effendi in 1921 to study Bahaism at its source. He is now a man over fifty, apparently a confirmed bachelor. He is in globe-trotter and his hobby is to buy and collect old BÁBi and Moslem manuscripts with his headquarters in London" says Jalal Azal. According to Mirza Riyadh, he assisted his brother Shoghi Effendi in his work for years" says Jala Azal.

When Shoghi Effendi excommunicated his own parents, he called upon Riyadh to make a choice between him and his parents. Riyadh sided with his parents and parted with Shoghi Effendi. Riyadh traces the family troubles to Mrs Shoghi Rabbani, to whom he refers as the mischievous one.

Following his excommunication he sought to befriend the Unitarians. He is after the original of Baha’s letter to his wife and children, in which Lady Munira is described as the tick of Edirne. To cover up Baha’s very poor opinion of Lady Munira, Riyadh plays down the letter and says that it was written by Baha in a humorous vein as Baha’s daughter Samadiyya Khanum was a peculiar temperament, and fond of Lady Munira who knew how to ingratiate herself with her.

 

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