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Hasan Balyuzi was a Hand of the Cause of God and prominent Iranian Bahá’í. He was\don School of Economics. He worked for BBC in the Persian Section, part of his work involved translating English literature into Persian. To this day many of his translations remain the standard Persian versions. In 1941 he married Mary Brown with whom they had five sons. He remarked, "A girl has not been born into our family for two hundred years." Though Balyuzi was a cousin of Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith, he did not consider himself a Bahá’í until meeting the Guardian on his way to Beirut. At that moment he gave his allegiance to the Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh and promoted it whole heartedly the rest of his life. He is well known for authoring many books on the Bahá’í Faith.