The Nameless One Among the Sufis
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Sulaymáníyyih (today: Sulaymaniyah, Iraq)
During the two years that Bahá'u'lláh lived as a dervish in the mountains of Kurdistan, far from His family in Baghdad, people of the Sulaymáníyyih district spoke of a marvellous one living among them as a dervish, whom they called “The Nameless One.” The Chosen Highway tells of one evening He spent with the Sufis there.
One evening the Sufis of that country-side, assembled together, were discussing a mystical poem, when a dervish arose in their midst and gave so wonderful an interpretation of its meaning that awe fell upon the gathering. All His hearers were silent for awhile, and then they came together close round Him and entreated Him to come again to teach them. But His time was not yet. When one said sorrowfully, "Oh Master! Shall we then see thee no more?" "In a time to come, but not yet, go to the city of Baghdad, ask for the house of Mirza Musa Irani. There shalt thou hear tidings of Me." the "Nameless One" replied. He went out from their midst and again retreated into the desolate places.
Source: Lady Blomfield, The Chosen Highway, Part II, on Bahá'u'lláh's sojourn in Kurdistan
Collected from bahaistories.com (Subject: bahaullah-sulaymaniyyih).
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“In a time to come, but not yet, go to the city of Baghdad, ask for the house of Mirza Musa Irani. There shalt thou hear tidings of me.”
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