I, Aghdas Towfiq (Fakhri Toosky ), was born in 1934 ( 1313 in the Persian calendar ) in Tehran, into a Bahá'i family. My father, the late Enayatollah Khan Fakhri Toosky, was the son of Abolqasem Khan Yazdi; and my mother, Nimtaj Khanom, was the daughter of Hossein Khan and the maternal granddaughter of Shahbaz Khan Malayeri. Both my parents were steadfast believers during the time of Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá. Because of their support for the believers of their region and their services in the Cause, each was honored with receiving Tablets from the Sacred Presence.
Our family, in obedience to the command of the beloved Guardian of the Cause of God regarding migration (as part of the Forty-Five Month Plan for Pioneering), moved to an area near Malayer.
In that rural place, there were no facilities for education. With full knowledge and in accordance with the Bahá'i teachings on literacy and learning, my father encouraged the villagers to become educated. Through his efforts, a place was selected to serve as a schoolroom, and an educated person was found to teach all the village children to read and write. I began my own education at the age of eight. After completing primary school and the first year of high school, I was married to Norollah Towfiq.
The fruit of our marriage was five children — three sons and two daughters—twelve grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. As of this date, my children and their families, all with higher education, are engaged in serving the Cause of the Blessed Beauty and their local communities in various parts of the world.
