…the valiant Táhirih… A scion of the highly reputed family…
whose members occupied an enviable position in the Persian ecclesiastical
hierarchy; the namesake of the illustrious Fátimih;
designated as Zarrín-Táj (Crown of Gold) and Zakíyyih (Virtuous) by her family
and kindred; born in the same year as Bahá’u’lláh; regarded from childhood, by
her fellow-townsmen, as a prodigy, alike in her intelligence and beauty; highly
esteemed even by some of the most haughty and learned ‘ulamás of her country,
prior to her conversion, for the brilliancy and novelty of the views she
propounded; acclaimed as Qurrat-i-‘Ayní (solace of my eyes) by her admiring
teacher, Siyyid Kázim; entitled Táhirih (the Pure One) by the “Tongue of Power
and Glory;” and the only woman enrolled by the Báb as one of the Letters of the
Living; she had, through a dream… established her first contact with a Faith
which she continued to propagate to her last breath, and in its hour of
greatest peril, with all the ardor of her unsubduable spirit.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
