Subh-i Azal’s Family Chart

Subh-i-Azal married six times and had no more than wives at any given time:
I) Fatima, daughter of Subh-i-Azal’s uncle Mirza Muhammad who bore him:
1) Muhammad Hadi
2) Muhammad Mahdi

Subh-i-Azal married Fatima in Iran. When government troops captured his ancestral home in the village of Takur, she was taken to Teheran as a captive. Her child Muhammad Mahdi (I/2) died en route, later she was set at liberty. Subh-i-Azal did not see her again, after his flight to Baghdad. Muhammad Hadi (I/1) has issues resident in Iran.


II) Narjis, who bore him:
3) a son

Baghdad

Subh-i-Azal married Narjis in Iran. She met the same fate as in (I) above. Her son (II/3) died en route. Subh-i-Azal did not see her again after his flight to Baghdad.


III) Maryam known as Qanita, who bore him:
4) Nur

Subh-i-Azal married Maryam in Iran. He did not see her after his flight to Baghdad. (II/4) Nur has many issues resident in Iran. He married many times.


IV) Mulk-i-Jjihan, who bore him:
5) Ahmad Bahaj
6) Abd al-Ali
7) Ridvan Ali
8) Muhammad Bayan ullah

Subh-i-Azal married Mulk-i-Jihan in Iran accompanied him to Baghdad, Edirne and Famagusta where she died a four years after her arrival in 1868.

IV/5 Ahmad Bahaj married Ulwiya who bore him:
a. Adila
b. Alaiyya (Grace)

The whole family resided in Istanbul. The wife and the two daughters adopted the Protestant faith. The wife died in Istanbul. Adila immigrated to France. She conducted nursery work in Algeria. She died in Switzerland. She has no issues. Grace married a German. She has one son and daughter. They live in Federal Germany. Ahmad Bahaj following the attempt on the Shah’s life in August 1852
Returned to the Island after the first world war. Sir Abbas Effendi invited him to visit him in Hifa. He accepted the invitation and proceeded to Haifa. He was the playmate of Sir Abbas Effendi during the Baghdad period of the Bâbî exiles. He died in Haifa.
During Shoghi Effendi’s tenure of office and at his instance, Mirza Abd-al-Husayn Ayati surnamed Awara approached him several times to write a refutation of his father. Ahmad Bahaj rejected the suggestion and fell into disesteem. Shoghi Effendi’s statement in God Passes by, P.233 that he “expressed repentance, asked for forgiveness, was graciously accepted by him [i.e. Sir Abbas Effendi] and remained till the hour of his death, a loyal follower of the faith”, is devoid of historical foundation.

IV (6) Abdul Ali married Ismat, daughter of Sayyid Muhammad Barutkub of Isfahan who bore him:
1) W?hida, spinster
2) Naira, spinster
3) Jalal, married Ismat daughter of Badiullah son of Mirza Husayn Ali Baha.
4) Alima, married a Turk, has issues
5) Tali’a married, died without issue.

(IV/7) Ridvan Ali died without issue. He paid a visit to Sir Abbas Effendi in Acre.

(IV/8) Muhammad Bayanullah. He married an Iranian woman. He died without issue. He visited Sir Abbas Effendi in Acre.

V) Ruqiyya known as Hajiya, daughter of Subh-i-Azal’s uncle Mirza Muhammad, who bore him:
9) Maryam
10) Ra’fat
11) Abd al-Wahid
12) Fuad
13) Taqi-al Din

Ruqiyya known died in Cyprus.

Maryam married her cousin in Iran. She has issues. All live in Iran.

R’afat, she died spinster.

Abd al W?hid married Itamida daughter of Mirza Mustafa known as Mirza Ismail Sabagh-i-Sadahi. He died without issue several years after marriage and the widow returned to Tehran accompanied by her father and remarried.

Fuad, died unmarried.

Taqi al Din died unmarried.


VI) Badri Jihan, who bore him:
14) Safiyya
15) Tal’at

Subh-i-Azal married Badr-i-Jihan in Baghdad during the rift between Subh-i-Azal and Baha in Edirne. Her brothers Nasrullah and Rida Quli of Tafrish sided with Baha. Badr-i-Jihan followed suit. Nasrullah was poisoned by Baha’s men in Edirne in the eve of the B?Bis exiles’ banishment. She and her brother Rida Quli accompanied Baha to Acre. When her brother was butchered to death by Baha’s men in Acre in 1872, Badr-i-Jihan read the writing on the wall; and fled to Istanbul. She addressed herself in writing to Subh-i-Azal and prayed for forgiveness, pardoned, she was brought back to Cyprus, where she died. She survived Subh-i-Azal.

Kerman

Safiyya married Mirza Aqa Khan of Kerman, died without issue.

Tal’at married Mirza Shaykh Ahmad Ruhi of Kerman and bore him:
a) Aliya, she married; is a widow with one issue in Cyprus.
b) Fadila died unmarried.

Extradited by the Ottoman authorities from Istanbul, both Mirza Aqa Khan of Kerman and Shaykh Ahmad Ruhi of Kerman were put to death in Tabriz in Iran.
Tal’at remarried Mirza Mahdi of Isfahan. She died in childbirth. Mirza Mahdi returned to Iran.


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