The household consists of the Master, the Greatest Holy
Leaf, the Holy Mother, two married daughters, their husbands and children,
Rooha and Monever Khanom (the Master’s two youngest daughters), besides some
little children who are orphans and have no one to take care of them, and women
who are widows, their husbands having suffered martyrdom in the Path of God.
These serve in some capacity in the household, and the sentiment of love and
equality in every member of this home is a living example for the world.
Everything is done in the spirit of love.
These women whose husbands have been martyred who are now
living under the Master’s roof, are very happy, as their beaming faces testify,
for all their sorrow is forgotten in the Presence of this Great One. Through
Him they are learning the reality of life.
- Mary Lucas (Observations during her
pilgrimage in 1905; ‘A Brief Account of My Visit to Acca’, by Mary Lucas)
