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Káshán – The Four Brothers of Káshán
- Hájí Mírzá Jáníy-i-Káshání was surnamed Par-Pá. He was a well-to-do merchant in Káshán and was usually called Hájí Mírzá Jáníy-i-Buzurg. After the Báb’s Declaration, when the Letters of the Living disperse from Shíráz, Mullá Husayn’s goes to Isfahán and then to Káshán. Here Mullá Husayn teaches Hájí Mírzá Jání about the Manifestation of the Báb. Soon after, Hájí Mírzá Jání happens to be Mecca on hajj (pilgrimage) at the same time as the Báb and Quddús are on hajj. That face-to-face meeting in Mecca with the Báb confirms Jání’s faith. Later when the Báb is being sent as a prisoner from Isfahán to Tihrán, He stays at Jání’s home in Káshán for three days. During this visit, the Báb reveals a tablet in Jání’s honour in which the Báb supplicates that Jání’s heart receive the light of Divine knowledge and his tongue be unloosed to proclaim His Cause. Jání becomes a great teacher of the Cause and so eloquent (even though he doesn’t have much schooling) that even the learned clergy around him cannot beat him in debate. He is eventually martyred in the wake of the attempt on the life of the Sháh in 1852. [Dawn-Breakers p104, p217-222, and p637; Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh vol 2, p137]. For details see article Bahaipedia: Hájí Mírzá Jání .
Hájí Mírzá Jání’s nephew, Áqá Muhammad Javád-i-Káshání, met the Báb at his uncle’s house, when the Báb stayed there, and became a believer. Javad and his son, Áqá Husayn-i-Áshchí, both also recognized station of Bahá’u’lláh and in the 1850s went to Baghdád. For details see articles Bahaipedia: Áqá Muhammad Javád-i-Káshání; Bahaipedia: Áqá Husayn-i-Áshchí; and Bahai Chronicles: Áqá Husayn-i-Áshchí.
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