Bahaikipedia:Today's featured individual/June 13

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Aqa Buzurg was given the title Badi` (wondrous, new) by Bahá'u'lláh, and was the bearer of Bahá'u'lláh's tablet to Nasiru'd-Din Shah. Aqa Buzurg was the son of Haji `Abdu'l-Majid Nishapuri, a Bábí who had survived Shaykh Tabarsi, but in his early years, Badi` showed no interest in his father's religion. Badi` became a fervent believer after a meeting with Nabil-A`zam, and convinced his father to allow him to go with Shaykh Ahmad Fani, who was setting off to visit Bahá'u'lláh in Edirne. Badi` spent some time as a water-carrier for Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdad and was able to use this to gain access to Bahá'u'lláh in Akka. Following several meetings Bahá'u'lláh commissioned Badi` to deliver a tablet to the Nasiru'd-Din Shah personally. Badi` was arrested and tortured after delivering the tablet and was killed on the orders of the Shah in July 1869. Read more