By Mehrdad Badiian Eghrari
Pioneering must be for the love of God and The Blessed Beauty of Abhá: Bahá'u'lláh. When this humble servant of His Servants was a young child, my beloved parents in obedience to the wishes of the beloved Guardian of the Bahá'i Faith and only for the love of Bahá'u'lláh, uprooted them selves and our family pioneered to Edirne, Turkey. In Tehran, Iran, we were living very comfortably. My father had a very lucrative business, a factory with many employees. Yet mom & dad left their loving families, old parents, siblings, and much more all behind, and bravely, trusting and only relying on the help, the guidance and the confirmations of the armies of angles of the Concourse on High, detached from all else but Him Whom God hath made Manifest took their young children and pioneered to a small desolate faraway town Edirne where they knew no one, did not speak the language, and had never been there before. That was a leap of faith and absolute courage. Edirne is very cold and snowy in winters, we had no proper heating or running hot water, there was not a hosítal let alone a supermarket there, life in general was not easy. in those days Turks did not like Iranians much. In a word: it took much courage, prayers and sacrifice to live there and put up with so many difficulties. The mission the Guardian had given my parents, the goals he had set for them, which they had accepted with all their heart were not easy. Yet they never backed down, they proceed with firm feet, adamantly, till absolute success and final victory. And so that is why in some of his letters to my dad, often hand delivered by some of the beloved Hands of the Cause, the beloved guardian would kindly mention say things as such to my father: "You are my true brother and coworker" .."Your services and sacrifices for This Most Great Cause of God shall only be rewarded in the Abhá Kingdom.." The merit of a true pioneer such as you, is no less than that of a martyr.."
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