The Woman who Hated Bahá'u''lláh

Mahd Ulya, the primary wife of Muhammad Shah (d.1848), was the personification of the murky moral darkness that the Dawn-breakers had to break through in 19th C. Persia. She was both shadow and foil to Tahirih "the Most Pure." Mahd Ulya's murderous machinations to get her son Nasiri'd-Din on the Peacock Throne was but one of her sinister schemes. As a mortal enemy of Bahá'u'lláh, "her cry for vengeance," as Nabil writes, "was doomed to remain unanswered. Despite her machinations, Baha’u’llah was saved from the fate she had so importunately striven to precipitate" (p. 635). http://www.yourcreativestage.com/ https://www.amazon.com/author/tomlysaght