Mírzá Mihdí, youngest child of Bahá’u’lláh, given the title Ghusn-i-Athar (Purest Branch),died on June 23, 1870 at the age of twenty-two. Arrested and imprisoned on account of his faith with the rest of the Holy Family, he was, one twilight evening, pacing the rooftop of the prison barracks, wrapped in prayer,chanting the Ode of the Dove (a prayer revealed by his Father during the period in Kurdistan), when he fell through a skylight, and a wooden crate pierced his ribs and injured his lungs. A physician was summoned, but it was too late. His mother was especially hurt and poignantly caressed her blood-soaked son shortly before his death. Bahá’u’lláh was heard lamenting “Mihdí! O Mihdí!” as His son was dying. His companions surrounding him on his death-bed remember his courtesy despite his pain, even apologizing at the fact he was laying before their presence. His dying wish was that the believers would attain the presence of Bahá’u’lláh, a wish which Bahá’u’lláh accepted, and came true. '...At this very moment My son is being washed before My face, after Our having sacrificed him in the Most Great Prison. Thereat have the dwellers of the Abha Tabernacle wept with a great weeping, and such as have suffered imprisonment with this Youth in the path of God, the Lord of the promised Day, lamented. Under such conditions My Pen hath not been prevented from remembering its Lord, the Lord of all nations. It summoneth the people unto God, the Almighty, the All-Bountiful. This is the day whereon he that was created by the light of Baha has suffered martyrdom, at a time when he lay imprisoned at the hands of his enemies. Upon thee, O Branch of God! be the remembrance of God and His praise, and the praise of all that dwell in the Realm of Immortality, and of all the denizens of the Kingdom of Names. Happy art thou in that thou hast been faithful to the Covenant of God and His Testament, until Thou didst sacrifice thyself before the face of thy Lord, the Almighty, the Unconstrained. Thou, in truth, hast been wronged, and to this testifieth the Beauty of Him, the Self-Subsisting. Thou didst, in the first days of thy life, bear that which hath caused all things to groan; and made every pillar to tremble. Happy is the one that remembereth thee, and draweth nigh, through thee, unto God, the Creator of the Morn.'- Bahá’u’lláh
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