May 27. On this date in 1928, Abu'l-Hasan-i-Ardikání (Hájí Amín) died in Tehran. An eminent follower of Bahá'u'lláh, he had served as the trustee of Huqúqu'lláh and was posthumously appointed a Hand of the Cause of God by Shoghi Effendi and identified as one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh.

May 27. On this date in 1928, Abu'l-Hasan-i-Ardikání (Hájí Amín) died in Tehran. An eminent follower of Bahá'u'lláh, he had served as the trustee of Huqúqu'lláh and was posthumously appointed a Hand of the Cause of God by Shoghi Effendi and identified as one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh.

Abu'l-Hasan-i-Ardikání was born around 1817 in the village of Ordlegan (also spelled Ardīgān, Ardīkān, Ordīkān, and Urdīgān) near Yazd. At seventeen he married into a family of Bábís.

He would later become a Bahá'í and traveled across Iran to teach the new message. Abu'l-Hasan-

i-Ardikání earned his living by trading and writing for the illiterate as he travelled. He was known to collect letters that people wished to forward to Bahá'u'lláh, and also distributed tablets of Bahá'u'lláh where people received them.

He made his way to 'Akká, and became the first Bahá'í from outside of the city to see Bahá'u'lláh, returning on several occasions. When Haji Shah-Muhammad Manshadi was killed in 1880, Amín became the trustee of the Huqúqu'lláh.

Hájí Amín, lived a long life and was Trustee of the Huqúqu'lláh during the ministries of Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá and during part of the Guardianship of Shoghi Effendi.

Abu'l-Hasan-i-Ardikání died on May 27, 1928, in Tehran.