Dr. Muhájir had pioneered in Mentawai Island, located in the Indian Ocean on the west side of Indonesia. From Djakarta, the capital of Indonesia, it took about a week to get there. The people were very primitive and wore no clothes. The Indonesian government was Muslim and employed Iranian medical doctors to help keep their people healthy. As a doctor Dr. Muhájir was employed and sent to Mentawai Island where he remained for a number of years and was able to enroll thousands of Bahá’ís on the island. I heard him say that as he traveled by canoe among the islands he could hear people in another canoe on the other side of the river chanting, "Who is The Bab?" Someone would reply, "The Bab is the Forerunner." Another would ask, "Who is Bahá’u’lláh?" and the reply would be: "He is the Prophet for today." Of course this made Dr. Muhájir very happy.
(Servants of the Glory: A Chronicle of Forty Years of Pioneering, Morgan, Adrienne and Dempsey)
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