The Mujtahid's Dream in Yálrúd

‘Abdu’l-Bahá has described how His own grandmother, who lived in Yálrúd (a village near Tákur), went one day at dawn to the house of a famous mujtahid to pray. This mujtahid (a doctor of Islamic law) was Shaykh Muhammad-Taqí, a distant relative of the family. After the morning prayer he told ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s grandmother that he had some excellent news for her.

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He had had a dream in which he had found himself outside a house which no one was allowed to enter, because, said the door-keeper, within it the Qá’im of the House of Muhammad (the Promised One of Shí‘ih Muslims) was closeted with Mírzá Husayn-‘Alí of Núr [Bahá’u’lláh]. At first the mujtahid had expressed his surprise that the son of a vizier should be so privileged; but on remembering their distant kinship, he had ascribed the privilege to this fact.

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(Adapted from ‘Bahá’u’lláh, The King of Glory’, by H.M. Balyuzi)

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