It was during one of his visits to 'Akká that Haji Mirza
Haydar-'Ali was allowed to enter the presence of Bahá'u'lláh at the time of
revelation. He has left to posterity the following brief account of that
memorable occasion:
...When permission was granted and the curtain was
withdrawn, I entered the room where the King of kings and the Ruler of this
world and the next, nay rather the Ruler of all the worlds of God, was with
great authority seated on His couch. The verses of God were being revealed and
the words streamed forth as in a copious rain. Methought the door, the wall,
the carpet, the ceiling, the floor and the air were all perfumed and illumined.
They all had been transformed, each and every one, into ears and were filled
with a spirit of joy and ecstasy. Each object had become refreshed and was pulsating
with life... To which worlds I was transported and in what state I was, no one
who has not experienced such as this can ever know.
(Adib Taherzadeh, ‘The
Revelation of Baha'u'llah vol. 1)
