Who Is Who of the Bahaism

Mirza Muhammad Ali

Abbas Effendi’s Treatment of Mirza Muhammad Ali

Payam-i Pedar PP. 102-183 and 114 : “On another occasion “Abdul Baha’s son-in-law Mirza Jalal” and others on their way to Baha’s tomb ran into Muhammad Ali. “they made gratuitous remarks against him and took liberties with him.” Such incidents were not infrequent.

PP. 104-105: In his meetings attended by his followers exclusively, Abdul Baha Abbas would dilate on the “bad conduct” of his brother Muhammad Ali and his adherents to the “delectation” of his audience and would “work up feelings of his followers against them. Apprehensive of the dissemination of Muhammad Ali’s utterances among Bahais, Abdul Baha Abbas, would sound the alarm that such utterances “were infected with poison which would work into one’s system” and affect if not afflict, any person however strong and robust one may be. He would say “he had seen Muhammad Ali flirting with a girl”.

There is a small site set aside for Iranians in the Moslem quarter called Abu Ataba situated in the vicinity of the Bahja mansion. Mirza Muhammad Ali, his sons, his wife, Mirza Badiullah and other members of Baha’s family are buried there. This does not however mean that Mirza Muhammad Ali in ignominiously buried, as alleged. Mirza Muhammad Ali eschewed ostentation. He led a frugal life.

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