Ásíyih Khánum

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Ásíyih Khánum (c. 1820-1886) (Arabic: آسیه خانم), later and more widely known by her title Navváb, is Bahá'u'lláh's first and most well known wife. She is the daughter of Mirza Isma'il-i-Vazir, a nobleman. Among Bahá'ís she is viewed as a paragon of a perfect woman, similar to Mary, mother of Jesus in Christianity, or Khadijah in Islám. Contemporaries describe her as a great beauty. Her daughter Bahá'íyyih Khánum describes her in "The Chosen Highway vividly;

"I first remember her, tall, slender, graceful, eyes of dark blue - a pearl, a flower amongst women"

She and Bahá'u'lláh married some time between September 24 and October 22, 1835, in Tehran. She had seven of his children, of whom only three lived 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 his "perpetual consort in all the worlds of God." When the family rented and then acquired the Mansion of Bahjí, 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 Mírzá Mihdí in the gardens below the Arc on Mount Carmel in Haifa.