Amín-i-Amín
| Amín-i-Amín | |
|---|---|
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| Born | Ghulam Riday-i-Isfahani 1878 |
| Died | December 22, 1939 |
| NSA member | Iran 1934 - 1939 |
| Title(s) | Trustee of Huqúqu'lláh 1928 - 1939 |
Ghulam Riday-i-Isfahani entitled Amín-i-Amín (1878 - December 22, 1939) was a Persian Bahá'í who served as the third trustee of the Huqúqu'lláh from 1928 to 1939. He was also a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran in the 1930's.
Biography[edit]
Amín was born into a wealthy family in Tihran in 1878 and his father was named Haji Muhammad Muhsin Amin ud-Darb. In his professional career he was a successful merchant and owned properties.[1] He studied comparative religion in his youth and met with people of many religions due to an interest in spirituality but became disillusioned.[2]
In the early 1900's Amín was introduced to the Bahá’í Faith by his secretary and he began studying the Bahá’í Writings declaring in 1903.[1] In 1910 he retired from his professional career in order to devote all his time to serving the Faith and he became the assistant of the Trustee of Huqúqu'lláh Hájí Amín and received a Tablet from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá instructing him to emulate Hájí Amín and granting him the title Amín-i-Amín, meaning Trustee of the Trustee.[3]
When Hájí Amín passed away in 1928 Shoghi Effendi appointed Amín as the Trustee of Huqúqu'lláh,[1] and in 1934 when the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran was formally established Amín was elected to the new body.[4] During his tenure as Trustee he began efforts to have Bahá’í properties and endowments in Iran officially registered to assist in their protection and preservation.[3]
Amín served as Trustee and as a member of the National Assembly of Iran until passing due to an illness in 1939.[5]
After his passing a large crowd escorted his body to the Bahá'í cemetery in Tehran for burial and memorials were held throughout Iran, including one in his home. Shoghi Effendi sent the following telegram following his passing:
"Hearts are grieving for loss of the emblem of firmness, the upright man, the strong pillar of the community of Bahá, and its servant and trusted one and the keeper of its state and the upholder of its flag, whom God has raised to a station which the hearts of the pure do vehemently yearn for, in the Abhá paradise. May God inspire his relatives and helpers and lovers in that glorious land with seemly patience, and assist them to follow in his footsteps and walk in his way. I truly join you in their grief and beg for the departed one every good in every world of God's worlds."[6]
Family[edit]
In his personal life Amín was married to Masoud Khanum. Their children were Furughiyyih, Mahdi, Lutfu'llah, 'Izzatu'llah, and Qudsiyyih.[7] Qudsiyyih's son Suhayl ‘Alá'í served as a Continental Counsellor for Australasia.[8]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Moojan Momen, The Baha'i Communities of Iran, 1851-1921 - Volume 1: The North of Iran, George Ronald: Oxford, 2015, p 98
- ↑ Universal House of Justice, Six-Year Plan, 1986, p 28, published online at Bahai-Library.com
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Universal House of Justice, Six-Year Plan, 1986, p 29, published online at Bahai-Library.com
- ↑ Baha'i News (1934). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 86, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1942). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. Wilmette, Ill. Volume 8 (1938-1940), Pg(s) 182. View as PDF.
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1942). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. Wilmette, Ill. Volume 8 (1938-1940), Pg(s) 182. View as PDF.
- ↑ Moojan Momen, The Baha'i Communities of Iran, 1851-1921 - Volume 1: The North of Iran, George Ronald: Oxford, 2015, p 99
- ↑ https://bahai.works/In_Memoriam_1992-1997/Suhayl_Ahmad_%E2%80%98Al%C3%A1%E2%80%99%C3%AD
