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MIRZA MIHDI

...And lastly, there should be mentioned, as a further evidence of the blessings flowing from the Divine Plan, the transfer, a few years later, to that same hallowed spot, after a separation in death of above half a century, and notwithstanding the protests voiced by the brother and lieutenant of the arch-breaker of Bahá'u'lláh's Covenant, of the remains of the Purest Branch, the martyred son of Bahá'u'lláh, "created of the light of Bahá," the "Trust of God" and His "Treasurer" in the Holy Land, and offered up by his Father as a "ransom" for the regeneration of the world and the unification of its peoples. (God Passes By, Page 347) 
 
The Purest Branch, the martyred son, the companion, and amanuensis of Bahá'u'lláh, that pious and holy youth, who in the darkest days of Bahá'u'lláh's incarceration in the barracks of 'Akká entreated, on his death-bed his Father to accept him as a ransom for those of His loved ones who yearned for, but were unable to attain, His presence, and the saintly mother of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, surnamed Navváb by Bahá'u'lláh, and the first recipient of the honored and familiar title of "the Most Exalted Leaf," separated in death above half a century, and forced to suffer the humiliation of an alien burial-ground, are now at long last reunited with the Greatest Holy Leaf with whom they had so abundantly shared the tribulations of one of the most distressing episodes of the Heroic Age of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh. 
Avenged, eternally safeguarded, befittingly glorified,
they repose embosomed in the heart of Carmel, 
hidden beneath its sacred soil, 
interred in one single spot, lying beneath the shadow of the twin holy Tombs, 
and facing across the bay, on an eminence of unequalled loveliness and beauty, 
the silver-city of 'Akká, the Point of adoration of the entire Bahá'í world, and the Door of Hope for all mankind. "

Haste thee, O Carmel!" thus proclaims the Pen of Bahá'u'lláh, "for lo, the light of the countenance of God, the Ruler of the Kingdom of Names and Fashioner of the heavens, hath been lifted upon thee." "Rejoice, for God hath in this day established upon thee His throne, hath made thee the dawning-place of His signs and the day-spring of the evidences of His Revelation." 
(Messages to America, Page 31) 
 

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