Bahaipedia:Today's featured individual/December 18

Ásíyih Khánum (c. 1820-1886) (Arabic: آسیه خانم), later and more widely known by her title Navváb, is Bahá’u’lláh's first and most well known wife. She is the daughter of Mirza Isma'il-i-Vazir, a nobleman. Among Bahá’ís she is viewed as a paragon of a perfect woman, similar to Mary, mother of Jesus in Christianity, or Khadijah in Islám. Contemporaries describe her as a great beauty. Her daughter Bahá’íyyih Khánum describes her in "The Chosen Highway" vividly; "I first remember her, tall, slender, graceful, eyes of dark blue - a pearl, a flower amongst women". Bahá’u’lláh also named her the Most Exalted Leaf and declared her his "perpetual consort in all the worlds of God."