I
remember once in Tihrán when I was a child, I was sitting by Áqá Siyyid Yahyá
Vahíd when Mírzá ‘Alíy-i-Sayyáh came in wearing the táj and carrying the rod of
a dervish and with his bare feet covered with mud. Someone asked him where he
was coming from. He replied that he had come from the fortress of Máh-Kú, from
the august presence of the Báb. Vahíd arose immediately and threw himself at
the feet of Sayyáh, and with tears streaming down his face he rubbed his beard
on Sayyáh's feet saying, `He has come from the court of the Beloved.' Although
Vahíd was a renowned and illustrious person, still he was humble before the
servants of the Threshold of God.
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (Words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, September 30, 1912, Salt Lake City
en route to California, USA, recorded by Mahmud Zarqani; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)
