‘Abdu’l-Baha passed
away in Haifa on 28 November, 1921, shortly after 1:00 AM.
In the land that we
know as the Holy Land, in all its turbulent history of the last two thousand
years, there had never been an event which could unite all its inhabitants of
diverse faiths and origins and purposes, in a single expression of thought and
feeling, as did the passing of 'Abdu'l-Bahá. Jews and Christians and Muslims
and Druzes, of all persuasions and denominations; Arabs and Turks and Kurds and
Armenians and other ethnic groups were united in mourning His passing, in being
aware of a great loss they had suffered.
- H.M. Balyuzi ('Abdu'l-Baha - The
Centre of the Covenant')
Please visit
the Baha’i Stories site
for the following two accounts:
1. Less
than five months before His ascension, ‘Abdu’l-Baha had beseeched God for
release from this world
2. ‘Abdu’l-Baha
Knew the Time of His Passing