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Immediately after the completion of his forty days’
retirement, Mullá Husayn, together with his two companions, departed for Najaf.
He left Karbilá by night, visited on his way the shrine of Najaf, and proceeded
directly to Búshihr, on the Persian Gulf. There he started on his holy quest
after the Beloved of his heart’s desire. There, for the first time, he inhaled
the fragrance of Him who, for years, had led in that city the life of a
merchant and humble citizen. There he perceived the sweet savours of holiness
with which that Beloved’s countless invocations had so richly impregnated the
atmosphere of that city.
(Chapter 3, ‘The Dawn-Breakers’)
