MIRZA AHMAD SOHRAB

                            BIOGRAPHY      Mirza Ahmad Sohrab was born "about 1894" ( My Baha'i Pilgrimage , page 21), to a family who were already, or very shortly became Baha'i. Sohrab was born near Esphahan in the village of Isfahan Province, Persia (now Iran). Sohrab's father Abdu'l-Baghi was a descendent of Muhammad. Abdu'l-Baghi was a farmer "possessed of broad lands" and also chief dyer of the town. Both sides of Sohrab's family, his mother and his father, claimed descent from the Imam Husayn, grandson of Muhammad. His mother died when Sohrab was a few months old, while she herself was still a teenager, and he was taken to live with his maternal grandmother in Isfahan. ( My Baha'i Pilgrimage , page 25) Mirza Ahmad Sohrab hailed from Isfahan, in Iran. He emigrated to Acre at the age of 12. After a short stay there he was sent by Sir Abbas Effendi to Port Sa...

Shoghi created a history by excommunicating all the members from the progeny of Bahaullah.  Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, the secretary of Abdul Baha writes in his book "Grandson of Abdul Baha": -                                 "The law of excommunication puts an absolute ban on those who are expelled from the Faith. The families of these persons and their fellow- believers must leave the ostracized individuals alone.They must neither communicate nor associate with them. They must break all ties of friend­ship and of humanity even; for, if they deviate one hair’s breath from this law, they themselves fall into the same ditch. Thus as time goes on, the number of the excommunicated increases;for a few are generally to be found, here and there, who are willing to risk ease and safety in order to follow their generous impulses. Such evidently was the case in the instance of Touba Khanum; it probably is ...