‘Atá’u’lláh Rawhání
‘Atá’u’lláh Rawhání (1940 - September 11, 1981) was a Persian Bahá’í who was martyred in Iran.
Biography[edit]
Rawhání was born into a Bahá’í family of farmers in Chikan in 1940. The family faced persecution due to their religion and in 1953 Rawhání was assaulted and his family home and farm were destroyed with their cattle being slaughtered. They remained in the town and Rawhání served on the Local Spiritual Assembly for three years then pioneered to Gholeh-Malek.[1]
In 1981 Rawhání and his wife's uncle Ahmad Ridvání were forced to leave Gholeh-Malek due to peresecution of the Bahá’í community following the Iranian Revolution and he moved to Isfahan. After forty days they received a letter from the council of Gholeh-Malek advising them that they could return to the town however upon returning they were arrested on August 17, 1981, and imprisoned in Daran. He was executed alongside Ridvání and three fellow Bahá’ís on September 11, 1981. His family was not informed of his execution or burial until after they had taken place.[1]
