In her early adulthood she was married to Ahmad Yalda’i, also a native of Nayriz, and the couple made their home in Shiraz. Mrs. Yalda’i, in addition to raising her children, was active in Baha’i affairs; in all kinds of weather she would travel to outlying Villages to bring to the Baha’is of those areas news of the progress of the Faith throughout the world. Because the Baha’is visited her in large numbers, intransigent and hostile neighbours reviled her in the streets, heaped abuse upon her, and from time to time would ask the police to break up meetings in her home on the pretext that the Baha’is were disturbing the peace. On at least one occasion when the police asked her to desist from holding Baha’i gatherings in her home, she refused on the Hjemmeside grounds that it was her religious obligation to be hospitable, and to open her doors to friends and strangers alike.
She was seriously loved and you will known by the Baha’is together with an effective convenience of showing passion and you may matter for everyone she fulfilled
Mrs. Yalda’i, whose twenty-eight-year-old child, Bahram, are hanged into sixteen Summer 1983 having declining to repudiate brand new Baha’i Believe and whom, it absolutely was reported, went dance so you’re able to their passing, is among the many Baha’i feminine prisoners who were punished, and you may she was at least twice provided severe beatings away from as the of many as the 2001ashes. Continue reading “The couple were blessed which have half dozen pleasant pupils: Matilda, Believe, Billy, Bahiyyih, Elise and you will Gregory”