Ásiyih Khánum, Navváb

Ásiyih Khánum, later and more widely known by her title Navváb, was Bahá'u'lláh's first and most well known about wife. She was a daughter of a nobleman, Mirza Isma'il-i-Vazir. Her date of birth is not known, however it is likely to be sometime in 1820.

She and Bahá'u'lláh married some time between 24 September and 22 October 1835 in Tehran and she had seven of his children, of whom only three made to adulthood.

She was given the title Navváb by Bahá'u'lláh. Bahá'u'lláh also named her the Most Exalted Leaf and declared her to be his "perpetual consort in all the worlds of God". When the family rented, then acquired the Mansion of Bahji , she stayed in the House of 'Abbúd , possibly to ensure separation between Bahá'u'lláh's two wives. She died in 1886 in Akká. Her remains were moved to a new grave by Shoghi Effendi in December 1939 alongside her youngest son Mirzá Mihdí in the gardens below the Arc on Mount Carmel in Haifa in an area now called the Monument Gardens .

References

• Cameron, Glenn with Momen, Wendi (1996). A Basic Bahá'í Chronology. George Ronald, Publisher, 46 High Street, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 2DN. ISBN 0-85398-402-2.