was able in a few words to answer my questions and to resolve my perplexities. I felt so abased before Him that I hurriedly begged leave to retire.” âAzĂm reminded him of his counsel, and begged him not to forget this time the advice he had given him. 95ACT4
VahĂdâs Second Meeting with the BĂĄb
In the course of his second interview, Siyyid YahyĂĄ, to his amazement, discovered that all the questions which he had intended to submit to the BĂĄb had vanished from his memory. He contented himself with matters that seemed irrelevant to the object of his enquiry. He soon found, to his still greater surprise, that the BĂĄb was answering, with the same lucidity and conciseness that had characterised His previous replies, those same questions which he had momentarily forgotten. “I seemed to have fallen fast asleep,” he later observed. “His words, His answers to questions which I had forgotten to ask, reawakened me. A voice still kept whispering in my ear: âMight not this, after all, have been an accidental coincidence?â I was too agitated to collect my thoughts. I again begged leave to retire.
âAzĂm, whom I subsequently met, received me with cold indifference, and sternly remarked: âWould that schools had been utterly abolished, and that neither of us had entered one! Through our little-mindedness and conceit, we are withholding from ourselves the redeeming grace of God, and are causing pain to Him who is the Fountain thereof. Will you not this time beseech God to grant that you may be enabled to attain His presence with becoming humility and detachment, that perchance He may graciously relieve you from the oppression of uncertainty and doubt?â 96ACT4
VahĂdâs Third Meeting with the BĂĄb: Commentary on the SĂșrih of Kawthar
I resolved that in my third interview with the BĂĄb I would in my inmost heart request Him to reveal for me a commentary on the
SĂșrih 97ACT4
of
Kawthar
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