https://bahaiteachings.org/a-mighty-mystery-who-was-abdul-baha-to-those-who-met-him/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:41:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://bahaiteachings.org/a-mighty-mystery-who-was-abdul-baha-to-those-who-met-him/#comment-71094 Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:41:35 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=74273#comment-71094 When I joined the Faith in San Francisco in 1964, we had in our Community Lucy Marshall, in her 80s or 90s, who had met the Master in 1912. She always glowed whenever she came to Feast. I always felt her happiness whenever I looked into her face. What a bounty to have known her at all.

]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/a-mighty-mystery-who-was-abdul-baha-to-those-who-met-him/#comment-71092 Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:12:42 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=74273#comment-71092 Mr. Gus Sand met ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Chicago in 1912. It was in 1962 when I first went to a Bahá’í meeting in Muskegon, Michigan, and Mr. Sand was there. Dressed in black and walking with a cane, not even knowing who we were, he witnessed in the gathering the wide mixture of humankind as he tearfully greeted us as we walked into the room, saying in a tremulous voice filled with emotion, “I met ‘Abdu’l-Bahá!” He embraced us and wept and we could not restrain ourselves from weeping with him as we looked into eyes that had actually seen ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.

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