Raḥmatu'lláh Muhájir (; 4 April 19231979) was a prominent fourth-generation
Baháʼí, born in ʻAbdu'l-'Azím,
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
.
In 1953, 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.
Biography
A native of Sabzivár in what was, at the time, Iran's Khur ...
and together they
pioneered to the
Mentawai Islands
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* Mentawai Islands, Indonesia
** Mentawai Strait
** Mentawai people, ethnic group of Indonesia
** Mentawai language, their Austronesian language
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of
Indonesia
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. For their service in responding to the calls of the
Ten Year Crusade, they were both named as
Knights of Baháʼu'lláh
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The concept of a knighthood ...
by
Shoghi Effendi
Shoghí Effendi (; ;1896 or 1897 – 4 November 1957) was Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith from 1922 until his death in 1957. As the grandson and successor of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, he was charged with guiding the development of the Baháʼí Faith, in ...
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
Baháʼí school
A Baháʼí school at its simplest would be a school run officially by the Baháʼí institutions in its jurisdiction and may be a local class or set of classes, normally run weekly where children get together to study about Baháʼí teachings, ...
s, 33 local
Spiritual Assemblies and around 4,000 believers on
Siberut Island.
Muhájir was elected as a member of the Regional
Spiritual Assembly
Spiritual Assembly is a term given by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to refer to elected councils that govern the Baháʼí Faith. Because the Baháʼí Faith has no clergy, they carry out the affairs of the community. In addition to existing at the local level ...
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 o ...
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
Ecuador
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in 1979.
References
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External links
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.
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1979 deaths
20th-century Bahá'ís
1923 births
Knights of Bahá'u'lláh
Iranian expatriates in Indonesia