Grave of Mirza Muhammad-Quli, Baha’u'llah’s half-brother, in the Golan

Grave of Mirza Muhammad-Quli, Baha’u'llah’s half-brother, in the Golan

Originally uploaded by John Barnabas.

It was a treat during my Haifa trip to visit the remote and bare Baha’i cemetery on the steep lower slopes of the Golan Heights, above Kibbutz Ein Gev, which is on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee.

The grave is of Baha’u'llah’s faithful half-brother, Mirza Muhammad-Quli, who lived in this area when there were Baha’i farmers around the Galilee who grew the grain that ‘Abdu’l-Baha was eventually able to release to prevent famine during and after the First World War.

Other graves in the cemetery are of Mirza Muhammad-Quli’s family.

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