…amongst many instances, one day four learned and
accomplished scholars of the divines of Núr [in northern Persia] were present
in His [Baha’u’llah’s] company, and in such wise did He expound that all four
were involuntarily constrained to entreat Him to accept them for His service.
For by dint of His eloquence, which was like “evident sorcery,” He satisfied
these eminent doctors that they were in reality children engaged in the
rudiments of study and the merest tyros, and that therefore they must read the
alphabet from the beginning. Several protracted conferences were passed in
expounding and elucidating the Point and the Alif of the Absolute, wherein the
doctors present were astounded, and filled with amazement and astonishment at
the seething and roaring of the ocean of His utterance. The report of this
occurrence reached the hearing of far and near, and deep despondency fell on
the adversaries. The regions of Núr were filled with excitement and commotion
at these events…
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, ‘A Traveler’s Narrative’)
