The Dream of Many Fishes
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When in Bahá'í history
When Bahá'u'lláh was a child, His father had a dream about Him. He saw Bahá'u'lláh swimming in a huge ocean. Bahá'u'lláh's face was so full of light that it glowed. The whole ocean glowed with the light from Bahá'u'lláh's face.
His hair was long and dark, and it flowed out in the water around Him as He swam. Suddenly many fishes appeared and each fish took one strand of Bahá'u'lláh's hair in its mouth and followed Bahá'u'lláh as He kept swimming.
The fish did not hurt Him, or slow Him down. When Bahá'u'lláh turned one way, so did every fish. When He turned the other way, the fish followed that way.
The fishes were following Bahá'u'lláh's light - the light of God in His heart.
Bahá'u'lláh's father asked a wise man what his dream meant, and the wise man said that the ocean was like the world, and the fishes were the people. All the people would be attracted to the light of God in Bahá'u'lláh and would follow Him. They would attach their hearts to Him like the fishes in the dream attached themselves to His hair. The people would follow Bahá'u'lláh wherever He led them.
Now we know that this wise man was talking about the Bahá'ís. We are the people who follow Bahá'u'lláh. Every day more people in the world find Bahá'u'lláh and follow Him.
We can be like the fishes by following Bahá'u'lláh. If we do what Bahá'u'lláh teaches us, we will be full of God's light which He reflected on us.
(by Cindy Pacileo, ‘The Brilliant Star', 1991)
Source: The Dawn-Breakers (Nabíl's Narrative), pp. 119–20; retold by Cindy Pacileo, Brilliant Star, 1991, via Baha'i Stories for Children (https://bahaistoriesforchildren.blogspot.com/2014/11/dream-of-many-fishes.html).
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