Host remained closeted alone with His guest, nor was
the sleeping city remotely aware of the import of the conversation they
held with each other. No record has passed to posterity of that unique
night save the fragmentary but highly illuminating account that fell from
the lips of Mulla Husayn.

"I sat spellbound by His utterance, oblivious of time and of those who
awaited me," he himself has testified, after describing the nature of the
questions he had put to his Host and the conclusive replies he had
received from Him, replies which had established beyond the shadow of a
doubt the validity of His claim to be the promised Qa'im. "Suddenly the
call of the Mu'a_dhdh_in, summoning the faithful to their morning prayer,
awakened me from the state of ecstasy into which I seemed to have fallen.
All the delights, all the ineffable glories, which the Almighty has
recounted in His Book as the priceless possessions of the people of
Paradise--these I seemed to be experiencing that night. Methinks I was in a
place of which it could be truly said: 'Therein no toil shall reach us,
and therein no weariness shall touch us;' 'no vain discourse shall they
hear therein, nor any falsehood, but only the cry, "Peace! Peace!"';
'their cry therein shall be, "Glory to Thee, O God!" and their salutation
therein, "Peace!", and the close of their cry, "Praise be to God, Lord of
all creatures!"' Sleep had departed from me that night. I was enthralled
by the music of that voice which rose and fell as He chanted; now swelling
forth as He revealed verses of the Qayyumu'l-Asma, again acquiring
ethereal, subtle harmonies as He uttered the prayers He was revealing. At
the end of each invocation, He would repeat this verse: 'Far from the
glory of thy Lord, the All-Glorious, be that which His creatures affirm of
Him! And peace be upon His Messengers! And praise be to God, the Lord of
all beings!'"

"This Revelation," Mulla Husayn has further testified, "so suddenly and
impetuously thrust upon me, came as a thunderbolt which, for a time,
seemed to have benumbed my faculties. I was blinded by its dazzling
splendor and overwhelmed by its crushing force. Excitement, joy, awe, and
wonder stirred the depths of my soul. Predominant among these emotions was
a sense of gladness and strength which seemed to have transfigured me. How
feeble and impotent, how dejected and timid, I had felt previously! Then I
could neither write nor walk, so tremulous were my hands a