Most of the following details were given to me in conversations with Khanum (Bahiyyih Khanum) the daughter of Bahá'u'lláh, sister of 'Abdu'l-Bahá called by the Persian Bahá'ís "Varaqiyih 'Ulya (the Greatest Holy Leaf)" I remember dimly very happy days with my beloved father and mother, and my brother aAbbas, who was two years my senior.
No need to ask in whose presence I stood, as I bowed myself before one who is the object of a devotion and love which kings might envy and emperors sigh for in vain!"īahiyyih Khanum, Daughter of Bahá'u'lláh, known to the Persian friends as Varaqiyih 'Ulya, the Greatest Holy Leaf of the Tree of Life. Those piercing eyes seemed to read one's very soul power and authority sat on that ample brow while the deep lines on the forehead and face implied an age which the jet-black hair and beard flowing down in indistinguishable luxuriance almost to the waist seemed to belie. "The face of him on whom I gazed I can never forget, though I cannot describe it.
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