November 3. On this date in 1950, Shoghi Effendi wrote "Badí’u’lláh, brother and chief lieutenant of archbreaker of divine Covenant, has miserably perished after sixty years’ ceaseless, fruitless efforts to undermine the divinely-appointed Order, having witnessed within the last five months the deaths of his nephews Shoa and Musa, notorious standard-bearers of the rebellion associated with the name of their perfidious father."

 

November 3. On this date in 1950, Shoghi Effendi wrote "Badí’u’lláh, brother and chief lieutenant of archbreaker of divine Covenant, has miserably perished after sixty years’ ceaseless, fruitless efforts to undermine the divinely-appointed Order, having witnessed within the last five months the deaths of his nephews Shoa and Musa, notorious standard-bearers of the rebellion associated with the name of their perfidious father."

November 3, 1950

Badí’u’lláh Has Miserably Perished

Badí’u’lláh, brother and chief lieutenant of archbreaker of divine Covenant, has miserably perished after sixty years’ ceaseless, fruitless efforts to undermine the divinely-appointed Order, having witnessed within the last five months the deaths of his nephews Shoa and Musa, notorious standard-bearers of the rebellion associated with the name of their perfidious father.

One of the sons of Bahá'u'lláh, Mirza Badi'u'llah Effendí was born in Edirne in 1867 to his father's second wife, Fatimih Khanum.

Mirza Badi'u'llah Effendí received the title from his father of Ghusn-i-Anwar (“The Most Luminous Branch”). In the dispute between 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Mírzá Muhammad 'Alí, Badi'u'llah sided with the latter for which the former declared him a Covenant-breaker.

Married to Alia Khanum, Badi'u'llah had five children. His daughter Sadhij was one of the most important militant leaders of women's movement in Palestine, and in 1927 she married the Palestinian journalist Najib Nassar. In 1939, Shoghi Effendi, accused Sadhij of terrorism.

Mirza Badi'u'llah died on November 1, 1950.

Shua'u'llah Behai was born in Qasr al-Mazra'a, ("Palace of Mazra'a”) in the Acre District of Palestine in 1878. Shua'u’llah Behai was the eldest grandson of Bahá'u'lláh and the eldest son of Mírzá Muhammad `Alí, whom Bahá'u'lláh named Ghusn-i-Akbar, meaning "Greater Branch."

Shua Ullah Behai immigrated to the United States in 1904 where he led the Unitarian Baha'i denomination, and in 1914 he became a United States citizen in Los Angeles, becoming the first known descendant of the Baha’i prophet to have become an American citizen.

Behai compiled an introduction to the Baha'i faith in the 1940s, the documents of which were preserved by his niece Nigar Bahai Amsalem and published in A Lost History of the Baha'i Faith: The Progressive Tradition of Baha'u'llah's Forgotten Family.

From 1934 to 1937, Behai published Behai Quarterly, a Unitarian Bahá'í magazine written in English and featuring the writings of Ghusn-i-Akbar and various other Unitarian Bahais.

Shua Ullah Behai died on July 3, 1950.

Musa Bahá'í, was a son of Mirza Muhammad 'Ali. He was married to his cousin Kamar Bahai who was the sister of 'Ismat, who was the wife of Jalal Azal, the son of 'Abdu'l-'Ali and grandson of Mirza Yahya.