Memorials of the Faithful
Mírzá Mihdíy-i-Káshání / Mishkín-Qalam
abounding grace; for he was enduring all this on the pathway of God, and seeking to win His good pleasure. His illness worsened; from day to day he failed; then at the last, under sheltering grace, he took his flight to the inexhaustible mercy of the Lord.
This noble personage had been honored among men, but for God’s love he lost both name and fame. He bore manifold misfortunes with never a complaint. He was content with God’s decrees, and walked the ways of resignation. The glance of
Bahá’u’lláh’s favor was upon him; he was close to the Divine Threshold. Thus, from the beginning of his life till the end, he remained in one and the same inner state: immersed in an ocean of submission and consent. “O my Lord, take me, take me!” he would cry, until at last he soared away to the world that no man sees.
May God cause him to inhale the sweet scent of holiness in the highest
Paradise, and refresh him with the crystalline wine cup, tempered at the camphor fountain.
1 Unto him be salutations and praise. His fragrant tomb is in
‘Akká.
Mishkín-Qalam
Among the exiles, neighbors, and prisoners there was also a second Mír Imád,2 the eminent calligrapher,
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