Ahmad Sohrab

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In Port Said, Sohrab worked selling merchandise, for Ahmad Yasdi who kept a store there.  While living here, he studied the Bible with "...a Scottish lady who ran a missionary school." ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP060.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 60])  It was here that he met "...another Baha'i teacher, the greatest of them all.  Mirza Abul Fazl of the College of Tehran..." who invited him to come to America with him.([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP062.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 62]  However Sohrab had first to train a replacement for the shop and he did not leave until nine months later, bound for Washington, D.C. but stopping first in New York City where he addressed a small group of Baha'i.</td><td>http://freepages.religions.rootsweb.com/~wjhonson/Sohrab.JPG Original context of this picture is [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP059.gif here]</td></tr></table>
 
In Port Said, Sohrab worked selling merchandise, for Ahmad Yasdi who kept a store there.  While living here, he studied the Bible with "...a Scottish lady who ran a missionary school." ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP060.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 60])  It was here that he met "...another Baha'i teacher, the greatest of them all.  Mirza Abul Fazl of the College of Tehran..." who invited him to come to America with him.([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP062.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 62]  However Sohrab had first to train a replacement for the shop and he did not leave until nine months later, bound for Washington, D.C. but stopping first in New York City where he addressed a small group of Baha'i.</td><td>http://freepages.religions.rootsweb.com/~wjhonson/Sohrab.JPG Original context of this picture is [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP059.gif here]</td></tr></table>
  
===American Sojourn===
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===Abdul Fazl===
 
<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])
  

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