Raḥmatu'lláh Muhájir ( ar, ‎; 4 April 19231979) was a prominent fourth-generation Baháʼí, born in ʻAbdu'l-'Azím,

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. In 1954, Muhájir married Írán Furútan, the daughter of

ʻAlí-Akbar Furútan ʻAlí-Akbar Furútan (29 April 1905 – 26 November 2003) was a prominent Iranian Baháʼí educator and author who was given the rank of Hand of the Cause in 1951. A native of Sabzivár in what was, at the time, Iran's Khurásán, ʻAl� ...

and together they pioneered to the

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. For their service in responding to the calls of the

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, they were both named as

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Shoghi Effendi Shoghí Effendi (; 1 March 1897 – 4 November 1957) was the grandson and successor of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, appointed to the role of Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957. He created a series of teaching plans that over ...

in March 1954. By the time he left the Mentawi Islands in 1958, Raḥmat Muhájir's teaching efforts in the Mentawi Islands had helped to establish 12

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s, 33 local

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and around 4,000 believers on

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. Muhájir was elected as a member of the Regional

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in 1957. In October that year, he was appointed a

Hand of the Cause of God Hand of the Cause was a title given to prominent early members of the Baháʼí Faith, appointed for life by the religion's founders. Of the fifty individuals given the title, the last living was ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá who died in 2007. Hands of ...

by Shoghi Effendi. In 1958, he and his family left Indonesia to travel all over the world, inspiring mass teaching campaigns in several countries. He died in

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in 1979.

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BWNS: Heroic life inspires conferenceRahmatu'llah Muhajir: Hand of the Cause of God - the Treasure of All Humanity
by Richard Francis (1998).
Raḥmatu'lláh Muhájir
photograph at the Baháʼí Media Bank. {{DEFAULTSORT:Muhajir, Rahmatullah Muhajir, Rahmatu'llah Muhajir, Rahmatu'llah 1979 deaths 20th-century Bahá'ís 1923 births Knights of Bahá'u'lláh Iranian expatriates in Indonesia