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The next Fourteen Letters of the Living
The next day, in the evening hour, as the Báb, followed by Mullá Husayn, was returning to His home, there appeared a disheveled and travel-stained youth. He approached Mullá Husayn, embraced him, and asked him whether he had attained his goal. Mullá Husayn knew him as one of the young followers of Siyyid Kázim from Bárfurúsh.Nabíl recounts what happened next:
Mullá Husayn tried at first to calm the young man’s agitation and advised him to rest for the moment, promising that he would subsequently enlighten him. That youth, however, refused to heed his advice. Fixing his gaze upon the Báb Who was walking ahead of them, he said to Mullá Husayn: “Why seek you to hide Him from me? I can recognise Him by His gait 54ACT2
. I confidently testify that none besides Him, whether in the East or in the West, can claim to be the Truth. None other can manifest the power and majesty that radiate from His holy person.”55ACT2
Mullá Husayn marveled at his words. He pleaded to be excused, however, and induced him to restrain his feelings until such time as he would be able to acquaint him with the truth. Leaving him, he hastened to join the Báb, and informed Him of his conversation with that youth. “Marvel not,” observed the Báb, “at his strange behaviour. We have in the world of the spirit been communing with that youth. We know him already. We indeed awaited his coming. Go to him and summon him forthwith to Our presence.” Mullá Husayn was instantly reminded by these words of the Báb of the following traditional utterance: ‘On the last Day, the Men of the Unseen shall, on the wings of the spirit, traverse the immensity of the earth, shall attain the presence of the promised Qa’im, …’56ACT2
And so it was that the last of the Letters of the Living, who will be entitled Quddús, found his Lord.
The Letters of the Living
“Eighteen souls must, in the beginning, spontaneously and of their own accord, accept Me and recognise the truth of My Revelation. Unwarned and uninvited, each of these must seek independently to find Me.”
47 Dawn-Breakers Chapter 3, p70
48 Dawn-Breakers Chapter 3, p70
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