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Who was Bahá'u'lláhBahá'u'lláh, whose name means "The Glory of God" was born on 12 November 1817 in Teheran. The son of a wealthy government minister Mirza Buzurg-i-Nuri, His given name was Husayn-Ali. Bahá'u'lláh led a princely life as a young man, but declined the ministerial career open to Him in government, and chose instead to devote His energies to a range of philanthropies which had, by the early 1840's earned Him widespread renown as "Father of the Poor".Imprisoned in the "Black Pit" because of His support for the "Bábí movement, it was there that He received His Mission from God. The year was 1852, and in ths grim setting, the rarest and most cherished of religious events was once again played out: mortal man, outwardly human in other respects, was summoned by God to bring to humanity a new religious revelation. |