The experience of Divine Revelation, touched on only at
secondhand in surviving accounts of the lives of the Buddha, Moses, Jesus
Christ, and Muhammad, is described graphically in Bahá’u’lláh’s own words:
“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, ‘Epistle to the Son of
the Wolf’)
(From ‘Baha’u’llah’; A statement prepared by the Bahá'í International
Community Office of Public Information, at the request of the Universal House
of Justice and published in 1992)
