Career
As a young man engaged in religious studies in Mashhad, he encountered the Bahá'í Faith and soon became an ardent believer. He was stripped of his clothes, severely beaten and fortunate to escape with his life. He had to return to Tihrán, but later reached India and stayed there for a year and a half.
He then traveled to Haifa. There 'Abdu'l-Bahá sent him to Ishqábád to take care of the education of children there. Apart from journeys he made for the service of the faith, he stayed in Ishqábád for the rest of his life.
After the death of Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl-i-Gulpáygání, Shaykh Muhammad Alí was called to Haifa to complete, with the help of others, the unfinished writings of Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl, leaving for Ishqábád shortly before 'Abdu'l-Bahá's death. Shaykh Muhammad Alí died in 1924 after a prolonged illness.
