baháʼís have used the term "baháʼízada" to refer to people of baháʼí background who are not baháʼís themselves or part of the baháʼí community; there is no muslim equivalent of the term. of the baháʼís who held positions near the shah, the best known is the shah's personal physician, abdol karim ayadi. while asadullah sanii, another baháʼí, was appointed minister of defence, the baháʼí community of iran revoked his administrative rights — as he had accepted a political position and baháʼís are prohibited from involvement in partisan politics — the public, however, still continued to associate him with his previous religion. parviz sabeti, a savak official, was raised in a baháʼí family, but had left the religion and was not a member of the community by the time he started working with the agency.