July 3. On this date in 1950, Shua'u'llah Behai died. The eldest grandson of Bahá'u'lláh, Shua Ullah compiled an introduction to the Baha'i faith in the 1940s, the documents of which are published in A Lost History of the Baha'i Faith: The Progressive Tradition of Baha'u'llah's Forgotten Family.

 

July 3. On this date in 1950, Shua'u'llah Behai died. The eldest grandson of Bahá'u'lláh, Shua Ullah compiled an introduction to the Baha'i faith in the 1940s, the documents of which are published in A Lost History of the Baha'i Faith: The Progressive Tradition of Baha'u'llah's Forgotten Family.

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.