Ahmad Sohrab
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<table><tr><td>When he first arrived in Washington, D.C. he was a cook and errand boy for Abdul Fazl, while Ali Kuli Khan served as interpreter. In the summer they went to Green Acre, Maine, where he met many of the initial pioneers of the Baha'i Faith in America ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP069.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 69]). He names some of these in his Autobiography on page 70 ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP070.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 70]). After three years in America, Abdul Fazl was requested to come back to Haifa by Abdul Baha, but Abdul Baha privately told Sohrab to stay in America if possible. ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP072.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 72]) He lived in New York City for three months, cleaning rooms in a boarding house, followed by a term of homelessness, and then a job as a busboy for about nine more months. It was at the end of this time, that he met the new Persian Minister to the U.S., Mam-Taz-Ol-Mulk, and was offered a position with him. ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP077.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 77]) | <table><tr><td>When he first arrived in Washington, D.C. he was a cook and errand boy for Abdul Fazl, while Ali Kuli Khan served as interpreter. In the summer they went to Green Acre, Maine, where he met many of the initial pioneers of the Baha'i Faith in America ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP069.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 69]). He names some of these in his Autobiography on page 70 ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP070.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 70]). After three years in America, Abdul Fazl was requested to come back to Haifa by Abdul Baha, but Abdul Baha privately told Sohrab to stay in America if possible. ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP072.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 72]) He lived in New York City for three months, cleaning rooms in a boarding house, followed by a term of homelessness, and then a job as a busboy for about nine more months. It was at the end of this time, that he met the new Persian Minister to the U.S., Mam-Taz-Ol-Mulk, and was offered a position with him. ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP077.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 77]) | ||
| − | During his time in Washington, D.C., he also became correspondent to "...two Persian magazines, the one published in Calcutta, the other in Cairo. These articles of mine, dispatched weekly, dealt with politics and education..." ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP082.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 82])</td><td>http://freepages.religions.rootsweb.com/~wjhonson/sohrab2.JPG</td></tr></table> | + | During his time in Washington, D.C., he also became correspondent to "...two Persian magazines, the one published in Calcutta, the other in Cairo. These articles of mine, dispatched weekly, dealt with politics and education...." It was also at this time, that Sohrab began receiving letters from Abdul Baha to translate, and he states that he would always keep a copy of these. He also says that "...American letters written to the Master were addressed to me, to be dispatched to Acca...." ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP082.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 82]) "During this period, hundreds upon hundreds of letters designated for the American Bahais came from the Master, and several decades later, these were bound in volumes and placed on the shelves of the Record Room in Caravan House." ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP082.gif ''My Bahai' Pilgrimage'', page 83])</td><td>http://freepages.religions.rootsweb.com/~wjhonson/sohrab2.JPG</td></tr></table> |
<table><tr><td>By 1911, he had founded an organization called the [[Persian-American Educational Society]]. Later that year he sailed to Europe "in the interests of his work". (''[[The Washington Post]]'', [[Nov 13]] [[1911]], p.4). Sohrab was secretary and interpreter to [[Abdu'l-Baha]] from 1912 to 1919. Abdul Baha went on a speaking tour of the United States, and it was while on this embassy, about 1912 or 1913, that Ahmad briefly met and began wooing Juanita Marie Storch, when she was brought by her father to meetings with Abdul Baha in Oakland and San Francisco in 1912.</td><td>http://freepages.religions.rootsweb.com/~wjhonson/Sohrab3.jpg</td></tr></table> | <table><tr><td>By 1911, he had founded an organization called the [[Persian-American Educational Society]]. Later that year he sailed to Europe "in the interests of his work". (''[[The Washington Post]]'', [[Nov 13]] [[1911]], p.4). Sohrab was secretary and interpreter to [[Abdu'l-Baha]] from 1912 to 1919. Abdul Baha went on a speaking tour of the United States, and it was while on this embassy, about 1912 or 1913, that Ahmad briefly met and began wooing Juanita Marie Storch, when she was brought by her father to meetings with Abdul Baha in Oakland and San Francisco in 1912.</td><td>http://freepages.religions.rootsweb.com/~wjhonson/Sohrab3.jpg</td></tr></table> | ||
