Vida Missaghian, the cousin of Amin’s father sent the following request and letter from Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Shidfar and Farzaneh aziz,
Thank you so much for your most touching and nice reply. Your strength and faith in spite of the great loss of your most beloved son Amin is admiring and you are teaching me a great lesson.
Tomorrow people in Spain celebrate the day of those who have passed away and take flowers to their graves and pray for them. It is an annual celebration. I don`t know if you have this in the States.
Since I was not fortunate enough to be present in Amin`s funeral and cannot either be there to present my respects and love to him, I was wondering if you could do something for me. I want to write him a letter. Wherever he is, surely in the Abha Kingdom, somehow I am sure he will know what I will write to him, and if you can put it in an envelope and place it in his grave together with a small bunch of flowers, I will appreciate it very much.
Here is the letter to Amin jan.
My dear Amin,
Wherever you are right now, surely in the Abhá Kingdom, I hope that somehow by means of God`s will and understanding why I want to write a letter to you when you are not physically here anymore – will help you be able to read what I want to express to you. I didn’t have the privilege of knowing you too well. We just met a couple of days when my husband and I were in your parents house about 7 years ago for our 25th wedding anniversary. However, in spite of having met you just for such short time both my husband and I found you an extremely friendly, polite, nice, loving and caring person. You radiated with your wonderful smile a sense of calmness and love and care which I will not forget. Unfortunately after that, I didn’t have the chance to meet you again and get to know you better, although occasionally when I used to speak with your dad on the phone I would always ask for you, Vafa and Leila and your father was always so happy, so proud of all of you. I remember your mother addressing herself to you with words such as: “ghobarnet beram”, “elahi fadayat besham”, “azizam”.
You were privileged to be born from such parents, both really good human beings, faithfully dedicated Baha’is, always looking for the best for their children and giving all they had, time, energy, love, care, attention and material things to make your life and those of Vafa and Leila a beautiful happy life. This is indeed a blessing not many people have in this world, and you, although your earthly life has been very short compared to others, were blessed by God with very very nice parents. I am sure you always appreciated the way they were and being in the Abhá Kingdom you do appreciate more all they did to help you become such a unique, wonderful human being.
Unfortunately I was not able to come to the States and be near your parents both for your funeral and memorial in as much as I would have liked to. But I was looking at the web site they had prepared concerning you, letters people wrote about you, photographs about you, and all the preparations they were going through to make a magnificent funeral and memorial in your honor. I wish I had been there. But my heart and soul was with your dad and mum and you of course.
It is astonishing and I say this to you from the bottom of my heart the amount of letters people who met you in one way or another sent. But what is more astonishing to me is the marvels and most wonderful things they expressed about you, your character, your personality, your love and care for others, your sincerity and honesty, your dedication to the Baha’i Faith, your eagerness to be perfect and excellent in every way and at all times. Do you know that you are the first person in my 62 years of earthly life from whom I have heard such marvelous things? Yes you are and that was something which not only surprised me in a nice way but taught me a lesson which is the main purpose of this letter to you. Through my life, I have seen people behave in not a very nasty way to others, I have seen people who call themselves human but behave in the most disgusting ways not to mention all the terrible things that have happened or are happening in the world, cruelty, injustice, unfairness, greed, poverty just to mention some. And I was beginning to lose hope for the future of mankind and was thinking that humans have no remedy, and that no matter their religious beliefs, they will continue in their completely mistaken path.
But you have, with your manners, personality, love and care you have shown to each and every human being you have encountered in your life, shown that it is possible for a human being to behave as God tells us to. You must have certainly also met not very nice people in your short 30 years of earthly life, but somehow you seem not to have paid attention to all these bad traits and have always tried to be nice, kind and loving to others, and this is, believe me, something which not every mortal can do. Surely when you were born God gave you a special gift which together with the wonderful way your parents brought you up have made you became the marvelous unique person you were. One of this people who are called “indigo children” and here I ask your father to check what are “indigo children”. They are special, with different traits, seeing beyond normal things and behaving in a different way and leaving such a legacy as you have left.
You have given me hope for the future of us as human beings. I hope that each and every person who has met you while you were amongst us will learn to put into practice what you – without noticing it – wanted to teach and that is how to be a really good human being in every sense of the word.
You surely know that your parents above all and the rest of us as well grieve and are sorry and sad for your leaving us soon. But the legacy you have left is so great, so unique that you will be remembered for ever and I ask you to help mum and dad to learn to live without your presence with strength, faith and dignity for surely they will miss you every minute of their lives.
I hope to have the privilege of meeting you and getting to know you better when my time comes to leave this earthly life and that we will able see and talk with each other.
With my eternal admiration and love for you. May you be happy and joyous in the Abhá Kingdom and may you be able to help this world to become a better place because right now without you, the world is much darker and grey. You were like a shining star which has physically disappeared and I feel that when people like you leave this world, we live in a darker place. Please keep sending your shining rays to all of us, specially to dad and mum.
Your sister in heart and soul now and forever
Vida