`Abdu'l-Bahá

`Abdu'l-Bahá

`Abdu'l-Bahá was a Persian man who was born on May 23, 1844 and died on November 28, 1921. His father was Bahá'u'lláh who founded the religion known as the Bahá'í Faith.

`Abdu'l-Bahá spent most of his adult life in prison or under arrest, because of his father's new religion. Bahá'u'lláh called him the "Expounder" of his word, meaning that only `Abdu'l-Bahá had the right to say what Bahá'u'lláh's writings mean. This was to prevent different people from splitting the religion up because they thought Bahá'u'lláh meant different things, the way many other religions have split up.

`Abdu'l-Bahá Media

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  ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (right) with his brother Mírzá Mihdí

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  Prison in ʻAkká where Baháʼu'lláh and his family were housed

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  Early Western Baháʼí pilgrims. Standing left to right: Charles Mason Remey, Sigurd Russell, Edward Getsinger and Laura Clifford Barney; Seated left to right: Ethel Jenner Rosenberg, Madam Jackson, Shoghi Effendi, Helen Ellis Cole, Lua Getsinger, Emogene Hoagg

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  ʻAbdu'l-Bahá on Mount Carmel with pilgrims in 1919

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  The elderly ʻAbdu'l-Bahá

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  ʻAbdu'l-Bahá at his investiture ceremony as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, April 1920

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  Funeral of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in Haifa, British Mandate-Palestine

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  `Abdu'l-Bahá as a young man