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Trailblazer: Táhirih

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

"Beauty Sleeps "  a poem I wrote about Táhirih is in "The History of the Divine Feminine"  [18+].

The "Blogging Circle of Friends "  prompt for DAY 1567
March is Women's History Month. Write a tribute to a woman you consider a "trailblazer". Tell us why you consider this woman to be a trailblazer.

Táhirih, which means "The Pure One", was born sometime in the early to mid 1800s in Persia, what is now Iran. I consider Táhirih a trailblazer because she defied her family and the religious leaders of her country in her search for faith. In 1844, she accepted `Ali Muhammad of Shiraz, also know as The Bab, as the promised Mahdi. As a results she became the seventh "Letter of the Living" and the only woman among the Bab's disciples. In 1848, at the Conference of Badasht, she removed her veil, which caused quite a stir. In 1852, she was executed and her body thrown into a well. Her final words were ""You can kill me as soon as you like, but you cannot stop the emancipation of women."1

Footnotes
1  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1hirih