On 12 November 1817, a child named Mirzá Husayn-'Ali was born in Tihrán,
the capital of Persia. His father was a nobleman and a favored minister of
Fath-'Ali Sháh; his mother was Khadijih Khánum. His family's ancestral home was
in the village of Tákur in the district of Núr (Light) in the northern province
of Mázindarán, which lies along the shore of the Caspian Sea. Though Mirzá
Husayn-'Ali received little formal education, He showed signs in childhood of
innate knowledge and unusual nobility of character -- signs that foreshadowed
the divinely ordained role He would later assume as Bahá'u’lláh, the Glory of
God. His revelation would shake Persia to its depths, revolutionize the
fortunes of the world, and usher in a new and glorious age in human history.
- Geoffry Marks (‘Call to
Remembrance’)
