Shaykh bahai biography examples
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Baha al-Din al-Amili
Iranian Shia Islamic scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet
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18th century copy of a miniature depicting Sheikh Baha'i, falsely attributed to Sadiqi Beg. This drawing is presumably a kopia of a lost original by Sadiqi Beg | |
| Born | 18 February 1547 Baalbek, Jabal Amil, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1 September 1621(1621-09-01) (aged 74) Isfahan, Safavid Iran |
| Title | Sheikh |
| Influences | Nimatullah Wali |
| Discipline | Shia Polymath, scholar, poet, philosopher, architect and mathematician |
| School or tradition | Isfahan School |
| Main interests | Mathematics, Architecture, Astronomy, Philosophy and Poetry |
| Notable works | Tashrīḥ Al-Aflāk, Al-Khashkūl, Nān wa ḥalwā |
| Influenced | Haydar Amuli, Mir Damad, Mulla Sadra, Mohsen Fayz Kashani |
Baha al-Din Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Amili (Persian: بهاءالدین محمد بن عزالدین حسین بن عبدالصمد بن شمس الدین محمد بن حسن بن عاملی جبعی (جباعی); 18 Fe
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KAŠKUL-E ŠAYḴ BAHĀʾI
KAŠKUL-E ŠAYḴ BAHĀʾI, the title of a large literary anthology compiled by Shaikh Bahāʾ-al-Din Moḥammad ʿĀmeli, commonly known as Shaikh Bahāʾi, the gifted polymath and leading jurist of the Safavid empire during most of the reign of Shah ʿAbbās I (r. 1587-1629).
Shaikh Bahāʾi, born in Baalbek in what is now northern Lebanon in 953/ 1547, was brought by his father, Ḥosayn b. ʿAbd-al-Ṣamad, to Iraq and then to Iran in 961/1554, when Bahāʾi was seven years old (Stewart, 2006). Ḥosayn was one of a number of scholars of the religious sciences from Jabal ʿĀmel, the predominantly Shiʿite area of southern Lebanon, who settled in Iran in the mid-sixteenth century and assumed religious functions such as those of prayer leaders, jurists, and teachers of the religious sciences under the patronage of the Safavid kings, particularly Shah Ṭahmāsb (r. 1524-76). Their native village of Jubaʿ, just inland from Sidon, had produced a number of notable scholars,
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An Illiterate Genius: The Early Baha’i Shaykh Salman
A story from the early days of the Baha’i Faith recounts a conversation between a wealthy, knowledgeable Muslim and a poor, nearly illiterate follower of Baha’u’llah and his forerunner, the Bab. The first man, seeking to bring the other back into orthodox Islam, reportedly asked:
How is it that with all my knowledge, I have failed to appreciate the validity of the message of the Bab while you, an almost illiterate person claimed to have recognized the truth of his mission? – quoted by Adib Taherzadeh in The Revelation of Baha’u’llah, Volume 2, pp. 33-34.
In reply, the Baha’i reportedly picked up a handful of sand and replied:
People like me have no merit in society. They are like the sand in the desert that has no value, yet, when the sun rises in the morning this sand is the first to be illumined by its rays. A learned man, however, is like a precious jewel. It is kept in a box and locked up in a room, and when the