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eventually take a position in the court of the Sháh – but Bahá’u’lláh was not interested in this path.
In October 1835, when Bahá’u’lláh was eighteen years old, He was married to Ásíyih Khánum , who came from Yálrúd , a village close to Tákur. About three years earlier, Ásíyih’s brother had married Bahá’u’lláh’s elder sister, Sárih. Bahá’u’lláh and Ásíyih Khánum set up their residence in Tihrán with the rest of the family.
Mid-northern Iran. Map mainly shows the province of Mázindarán [top]. Parts of provinces of Tihrán [bottom left] and Simnán [right side] are also shown. The Alburz mountain range which stretches across all of northern Iran is marked as striped area. Indicated are places associated with early events in the Bábí Dispensation. 74ACT3
In Yálrúd lived a famous mujtahid, Shaykh Muhammad-Taqí, who had over a thousand student scholars of divinity that he taught. He was distantly related to Ásíyih Khánum’s family. Whenever Bahá’u’lláh returned to His home in Tákur, He would visit this mujtahid. It was on one such visit, when this Shaykh asked his
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