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One of the chains placed around
Baha'u'llah's neck in the
Siyah-Chal
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O Shaykh!
That which hath touched this Wronged One is beyond compare or equal. We have
borne it all with the utmost willingness and resignation, so that the souls of
men may be edified, and the Word of God be exalted. While confined in the
prison of the Land of Mím (Mázindarán) We were one day delivered into the hands
of the divines. Thou canst well imagine what befell Us. Shouldst thou at some
time happen to visit the dungeon of His Majesty the Sháh, ask the
director and chief jailer to show thee those two chains, one of which is known
as Qará-Guhar, and the other as Salásil. I swear by the Daystar of Justice that
for four months this Wronged One was tormented and chained by one or the other
of them. “My grief exceedeth all the woes to which Jacob gave vent, and all the
afflictions of Job are but a part of My sorrows!”
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
