A biographical essay of the wife of Bahá"u"lláh, the Founder of the Bahá"í Faith, and mother of "Abdu"l-Bahá, the Centre of Bahá"u"lláh"s Covenant. Her story, little known, is one of strength, patience, long-suffering and devotion to One who was her "husband, the Lord of Hosts", whom she accompanied through all the vicissitudes of exile and imprisonment.