During the days I lay in the prison of Tihrán, though the
galling weight of the chains and the stench-filled air allowed Me but little
sleep, still in those infrequent moments of slumber I felt as if something
flowed from the crown of My head over My breast, even as a mighty torrent that
precipitateth itself upon the earth from the summit of a lofty mountain. Every
limb of My body would, as a result, be set afire. At such moments My tongue
recited what no man could bear to hear.
(Baha’u’llah, quoted by Shoghi Effendi
in a letter dated June 15, 1946; ‘Messages to America’)
