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‘Behold the garden of the Lord, The land divine,
All in Him to nothingness reach.’Â
This I say, and saying it, burn do I.
Suffice thus to end my word:
‘My soul alight has He set, My life in His path shall be shed.’Â
This I say, and saying it, burn do I.
After that, Siyyid IsmĂĄâĂl could be seen sweeping before sunrise the doorway of BahĂĄâuâllĂĄh âs house. One day, early in the morning, he was observed leaving Baghdad and going towards Kazimayn. There by the roadside he sat down and, facing the direction of the house of BahĂĄâuâllĂĄh and the holy shrines of the seventh and the ninth ImĂĄms, he cut his throat, and thus he died. By his act he became known as ‘DhabĂh’ – the Sacrifice. And the pen of BahĂĄâuâllĂĄh extolled him as the ‘Beloved and the Pride of the Martyrs’.
In another description of this same set of incidents, extracted from LaâAlĂ-yi-Derakhshan, by M.A. Faizi, pp. 195-99, it is noted:
BahĂĄâuâllĂĄh in KitĂĄb-i-BadĂâ has related the rest of Siyyid Ismailâs story. Briefly He gives the following account. One day he requested BahĂĄâuâllĂĄh to grace his residence by His presence. He offered fruits and sweets to his Beloved Master. He expressed extreme lowliness and servitude to the Blessed Beauty and begged BahĂĄâuâllĂĄh to grant him with spiritual food in order to put his soul in fire. BahĂĄâuâllĂĄh commanded him to come and seat in front of Him. Then the Blessed Beauty began to speak to him with such words that completely transformed him and filled him with such extreme love and devotion that he completely ignored his own being and everything in this contingent world. Then BahĂĄâuâllĂĄh adds that the whole world will not be able to describe what went on in that encounter. Being so in love with his Beloved he could not stand the unpleasant behavior of the enemies and those who outwardly claiming to be believers but were practically causing Him to be harmed. So one early morning after sweeping the area around BahĂĄâuâllĂĄhâs residence took the dust to the nearby river and went to meet with a few of his fellow believers. Then he went to the riverside near the House and in the ecstasy of his love for BahĂĄâuâllĂĄh and sorrow of what was being done to him committed suicide by cutting his own throat. This action impressed some of