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It was therefore Mírzá Áqá’s suggestion that eventually led to the Eldest Uncle meeting with Bahá’u’lláh in Baghdád (in 1862), and to the revelation of the Kitáb-i-Íqán (which was in response to the questions the Eldest Uncle posed to Bahá’u’lláh).
The meeting with Bahá’u’lláh and the Kitáb-i-Íqán transformed the Eldest Uncle and confirmed his faith in the Báb. Mírzá Áqá’ told his son about the Eldest Uncle’s response:
After attaining His [Bahá’u’lláh] presence, he thanked me most profoundly and told me: “Although considering age, you are as my own son, but in the realm of the Spirit you are as my father, because if it were not for your insistence, I would never have attained the measure of faith which is the utmost desideratum of those who seek nearness to God.”
First Tablet from Bahá’u’lláh
Shortly after the Eldest Uncle had returned, Mírzá Áqá’ and his father wrote to Bahá’u’lláh asking permission to visit Him. Bahá’u’lláh in those days had still not publicly declared His Mission and that He was the One promised by the Báb. This happened soon after (in 1863 in the Garden of Najíbíyyih) and with it Bahá’u’lláh’s banishment from ‘Iráq. As He was about to leave the Garden of Najíbíyyih, Bahá’u’lláh revealed a Tablet in His own handwriting addressed to Mírzá Áqá’:
He is the Glorious!
Hearken to what the departing Dove revealeth unto thee, as He prepareth to leave the realm of ‘Iráq – such are the methods of God decreed for His Messengers. Let this not cause thee sorrow. Put thy trust in thy Lord and the