In the 1870s, Bahá’u’lláh sent 
Sulaymán Khán-i-Tunukábuní, known as Jamál Effendi, to India,
where he helped establish the new Faith of God
in Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras.

Among those he taught
was a Muslim of 'Iráqi descent named Siyyid Mustafá Rúmí.
They teamed up to spread the Teachings of Bahá’u’lláh,
and traveled east of India.

In 1878, Jamál Effendi and Mustafá Rúmí arrived in Burma, now Myanmar,
the gateway to the spectacularly vast and varied region
called Southeast Asia.

Thus continued the story of the vitalizing breezes
that swept through the region . . .
and the expansive bridges that keep linking its diversities.

This is that story.