Mírzá Ibrahim Nahrí

Mírzá Ibrahim Nahrí

Mírzá Ibrahim Nahrí was a Persian Bahá’í from Isfahan. His eldest sons were both martyred and became known as the Núrayn-i-Nayyirayn.

Biography

Ibrahim was the son of Sayyid Mahdi who was a prominent merchant and earnt the title Nahrí after constructing a water canal in Najaf. His mother was related to the wife of the most powerful cleric in Isfahan. He had two brothers, Mírzá Hadi and Mírzá Muhammad `Alí, who became Bábí's in the 1840's but Ibrahim remained a Muslim and began working for the Imam-Jum‘ih of Isfahan, a prominent Islamic cleric in the city, serving as a commercial agent. Although he was not a Bábí he hosted the Báb in his home at the request of the Imam-Jum‘ih while the Báb was in Isfahan during which his children and brothers met Him.

Ibrahim had three sons and a daughter. His eldest sons, Mírzá Muhammad Husayn and Mírzá Muhammad-Hasan, became Bábí's through his brother `Alí and met with Bahá’u’lláh in Baghdad in 1856. After the passing of his first wife he married Khurshid Bagum Shams ud-Duha who was the widow of his brother Hadi and he became a Bahá’í through her after their marriage. In 1879 his eldest sons were Martyred and the entitled the Núrayn-i-Nayyirayn with Mírzá Muhammad-Hasan later being named an Apostle of Bahá’u’lláh by Shoghi Effendi.