He [Mulla Husayn] afterwards summoned a group of his most
distinguished and trusted fellow-disciples and enquired about the expressed
wishes and the last exhortations of their departed leader. They told him that,
repeatedly and emphatically, Siyyid Kázim had bidden them quit their homes,
scatter far and wide, purge their hearts from every idle desire, and dedicate
themselves to the quest of Him to whose advent he had so often alluded. “He
told us,” they said, “that the Object of our quest was now revealed. The veils
that intervened between you and Him are such as only you can remove by your
devoted search. Nothing short of prayerful endeavour, of purity of motive, of
singleness of mind, will enable you to tear them asunder.
(Chapter 3, ‘The
Dawn-Breakers’)
