Memorials of the Faithful
Mashhadí Husayn and Mashhadí Muhammad-i-Adhirbayjani
Mashhadí Husayn and
Mashhadí Muhammad
were both from the province of Ádhirbayján. They were
pure souls who took the great step in their own country:
they freed themselves from friend and stranger alike, escaped from the superstitions that had blinded them before, strengthened their resolve, and bowed themselves down
before the grace of God, the Lord of Life. They were
blessed souls, loyal, unsullied in faith; evanescent, submissive,
poor, content with the will of God, in love with His
guiding Light, rejoicing over the great message. They left
their province and traveled to Adrianople. Here beside the
holy city they lived for quite a time in the village of Qumrúq-Kilísá.
By day, they supplicated God and communed
with Him; by night, they wept, bemoaning the plight of
Him Whom the world hath wronged.
When the exile to Akká was under way, they were not
present in the city and thus were not arrested. Heavy of
heart, they continued on in that area, shedding their tears.
Once they had obtained a definite report from Akká, they
left Rumelia and came here: two excellent souls, loyal
bondsmen of the Blessed Beauty. It is impossible to tell
how translucent they were of heart, how firm in faith.
They lived outside Akká in Bágh-i-Firdaws, worked as
farmers, and spent their days returning thanks to God because
once again they had won their way to the neighborhood
of grace and love. But they were natives of Ádhirbayján,
accustomed to the cold, and they could not endure
the local heat. Furthermore, this was during our early days
in Akká, when the air was noxious, and the water unwholesome
in the extreme. They both fell ill of a chronic,
high fever. They bore it cheerfully, with amazing patience.
During their days of illness, despite the assault of the fever,
the violence of their ailment, the raging thirst, the restlessness,
they remained inwardly at peace, rejoicing at the Divine
glad tidings. And at a time when they were offering
thanks with all their heart, they hurried away from this
world and entered the other; they escaped from this cage
and were released into the garden of immortality. Upon
them be the mercy of God, and may He be well pleased with them. Unto them be salutations and praise. May God bring them into the Realm that abides forever, to delight
in reunion with Him, to bask in the Kingdom of Splendors.
Their two luminous tombs are in Akká.
Memorials of the Faithful
pages 62-64
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