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be led out. Suddenly they brought the Blessed Perfection [Bahá’u’lláh] out of the dungeon. He was chained to several others. What a chain! It was very heavy. The prisoners could only move it along with great difficulty. Sad and heart-rending it was. 31_ACT16
And in another account of the physical condition of Bahá’u’lláh at that time, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá noted: “Bahá’u’lláh was terribly altered, so ill He could hardly walk, His hair and beard unkempt, His neck galled and swollen from the pressure of a heavy steel collar, His body bent by the weight of His chains …” 32_ACT16
It was while Bahá’u’lláh was physically in these dire conditions in the Síyáh-Chál that He received the Divine Summons fulfilling the prophecy of the “year nine”. The time for “Him Whom God shall manifest” to arise had come.
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