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without interacting with anyone else. Shaykh Hasan tried several times to approach Him, but every time he took a step forward towards the Youth, there seemed to be a force which prevented him from going further. And then after some days, the Youth was gone 55ACT1
Shaykh Hasan’s heart was aflame with an indescribable attraction to this Youth. The memory of the vision of Him praying haunted Hasan. He often remembered one line of an invocation the Youth repeated: “O God, my God, my Beloved, my heart’s Desire.” 56ACT1
Shaykh Hasan felt like his soul was somehow mysteriously bonded with this Youth. In the days that followed, Siyyid Kázim often said to Shaykh Hasan: “You have been privileged to attain the day of Shaykh Ahmad, you have been closely associated with me, and in the days to come, yours shall be the inestimable joy of beholding what eye hath not seen, ear heard not, nor any heart conceived.”57ACT1
Shaykh Hasan knew that Siyyid Kázim meant that he, Shaykh Hasan, would personally see the revelation of the Qá’im.
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