After becoming a Bahá'í in 1909, Martha Root traveled and taught the Faith tirelessly on every continent. Effendi called Martha Root "that archetype of Bahá'í teachers" and "the star-servant".
Marzieh Gail testifies to her devotion:
And so on and on she traveled--not young or strong, not beautiful, not rich, alone, and more than once in terrible danger--on and on, for twenty years. She had begun these journeys in response to 'Abdu'l-Bahá's mandate to America, issued in His Tablets of the Divine Plan. That was 1919. She was the first to arise, and she carried on with her work until, far from home, she stumbled and fell "in her tracks." Died September 29, 1939, in agony after months of physical torment.
That grave of hers, under a rainbow shower tree in Honolulu, is like so many Bahá'í graves that dot the planet--they are tenanted by exiles. I think of Canada's May Bolles Maxwell, far to the south in Buenos Aires; or of my father Ali-Kuli Khan, born in Káshán, buried in the capital city of the United States; or of Dr. Susan I. Moody, much-loved American, who lies in Tihrán among the people she served so long and well. The very geography of their graves expresses their devotion to Bahá'u'lláh.
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∼Martha Louise Root was the foremost Baha'i teacher of the Western world. She was designated a "Hand of the Cause of God" by the Head of the Baha'i Faith, Shoghi Effendi Rabbani. She published a book: "Tahirih The Pure" in 1938. A book about Ms. Root was published in 1983 under the title: "Martha Root: Lioness at the Threshold". She taught the Baha'i Faith to Queen Marie of Rumania, the first crowned head to embrace the Baha'i Teachings.
Marzieh Gail testifies to her devotion:
And so on and on she traveled--not young or strong, not beautiful, not rich, alone, and more than once in terrible danger--on and on, for twenty years. She had begun these journeys in response to 'Abdu'l-Bahá's mandate to America, issued in His Tablets of the Divine Plan. That was 1919. She was the first to arise, and she carried on with her work until, far from home, she stumbled and fell "in her tracks." Died September 29, 1939, in agony after months of physical torment.
That grave of hers, under a rainbow shower tree in Honolulu, is like so many Bahá'í graves that dot the planet--they are tenanted by exiles. I think of Canada's May Bolles Maxwell, far to the south in Buenos Aires; or of my father Ali-Kuli Khan, born in Káshán, buried in the capital city of the United States; or of Dr. Susan I. Moody, much-loved American, who lies in Tihrán among the people she served so long and well. The very geography of their graves expresses their devotion to Bahá'u'lláh.
(p3-4)
∼Martha Louise Root was the foremost Baha'i teacher of the Western world. She was designated a "Hand of the Cause of God" by the Head of the Baha'i Faith, Shoghi Effendi Rabbani. She published a book: "Tahirih The Pure" in 1938. A book about Ms. Root was published in 1983 under the title: "Martha Root: Lioness at the Threshold". She taught the Baha'i Faith to Queen Marie of Rumania, the first crowned head to embrace the Baha'i Teachings.
After becoming a Bahá'í in 1909, Martha Root traveled and taught the Faith tirelessly on every continent. Effendi called Martha Root "that archetype of Bahá'í teachers" and "the star-servant".
Marzieh Gail testifies to her devotion:
And so on and on she traveled--not young or strong, not beautiful, not rich, alone, and more than once in terrible danger--on and on, for twenty years. She had begun these journeys in response to 'Abdu'l-Bahá's mandate to America, issued in His Tablets of the Divine Plan. That was 1919. She was the first to arise, and she carried on with her work until, far from home, she stumbled and fell "in her tracks." Died September 29, 1939, in agony after months of physical torment.
That grave of hers, under a rainbow shower tree in Honolulu, is like so many Bahá'í graves that dot the planet--they are tenanted by exiles. I think of Canada's May Bolles Maxwell, far to the south in Buenos Aires; or of my father Ali-Kuli Khan, born in Káshán, buried in the capital city of the United States; or of Dr. Susan I. Moody, much-loved American, who lies in Tihrán among the people she served so long and well. The very geography of their graves expresses their devotion to Bahá'u'lláh.
(p3-4)
∼Martha Louise Root was the foremost Baha'i teacher of the Western world. She was designated a "Hand of the Cause of God" by the Head of the Baha'i Faith, Shoghi Effendi Rabbani. She published a book: "Tahirih The Pure" in 1938. A book about Ms. Root was published in 1983 under the title: "Martha Root: Lioness at the Threshold". She taught the Baha'i Faith to Queen Marie of Rumania, the first crowned head to embrace the Baha'i Teachings.
Marzieh Gail testifies to her devotion:
And so on and on she traveled--not young or strong, not beautiful, not rich, alone, and more than once in terrible danger--on and on, for twenty years. She had begun these journeys in response to 'Abdu'l-Bahá's mandate to America, issued in His Tablets of the Divine Plan. That was 1919. She was the first to arise, and she carried on with her work until, far from home, she stumbled and fell "in her tracks." Died September 29, 1939, in agony after months of physical torment.
That grave of hers, under a rainbow shower tree in Honolulu, is like so many Bahá'í graves that dot the planet--they are tenanted by exiles. I think of Canada's May Bolles Maxwell, far to the south in Buenos Aires; or of my father Ali-Kuli Khan, born in Káshán, buried in the capital city of the United States; or of Dr. Susan I. Moody, much-loved American, who lies in Tihrán among the people she served so long and well. The very geography of their graves expresses their devotion to Bahá'u'lláh.
(p3-4)
∼Martha Louise Root was the foremost Baha'i teacher of the Western world. She was designated a "Hand of the Cause of God" by the Head of the Baha'i Faith, Shoghi Effendi Rabbani. She published a book: "Tahirih The Pure" in 1938. A book about Ms. Root was published in 1983 under the title: "Martha Root: Lioness at the Threshold". She taught the Baha'i Faith to Queen Marie of Rumania, the first crowned head to embrace the Baha'i Teachings.
Inscription
Unloose your tongues and proclaim unceasingly His Cause.
Baha'u'llah
The foremost Hand which 'Abdu'l-Baha's will has raised up in the first Baha'i century.
Shoghi Effendi
Martha Louise Root
August 10, 1872
September 28, 1939
