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“Behold, all these signs are manifest in Me!”
It was about an hour after sunset when my youthful Host began to converse with me.
“Whom, after Siyyid Kázim,” He asked me, “do you regard as his successor and your leader?”
“At the hour of his death,” I replied, “our departed teacher insistently exhorted us to forsake our homes, to scatter far and wide, in quest of the promised Beloved. I have, accordingly, journeyed to Persia, have arisen to accomplish his will, and am still engaged in my quest.”
“Has your teacher,” He further enquired, “given you any detailed indications as to the distinguishing features of the promised One?”
Mullá Husayn’s doubts
He then considered each of the above-mentioned signs separately, and conclusively demonstrated that each and all were applicable to His person. I was greatly surprised, and politely observed: ‘ He whose advent we await is a Man of unsurpassed holiness, and the Cause He is to reveal, a Cause of tremendous power. Many and diverse are the requirements which He who claims to be its visible embodiment must needs fulfil. How often has Siyyid Kázim referred to the vastness of the knowledge of the promised One! How often did he say: “My own knowledge is but a drop compared with that with which He has been endowed. All my attainments are but a speck of dust in the face of the immensity of His knowledge. Nay, immeasurable is the difference!” ‘
17 i.e. He will be a Siyyid [a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad]
18 Dawn-Breakers Chapter 3, p57