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itself, in the solitude of a self-imposed exile (many of them, alas lost to posterity) are, with the Tablet of Kullu't-Ta'am and the poem entitled Ra_sh_h-i-'Ama, revealed in Tihran, the first fruits of His Divine Pen. They are the forerunners of those immortal works--the Kitab-i-Iqan, the Hidden Words and the Seven Valleys--which in the years preceding His Declaration in Ba_gh_dad, were to enrich so vastly the steadily swelling volume of His writings, and which paved the way for a further flowering of His prophetic genius in His epoch-making Proclamation to the world, couched in the form of mighty Epistles to the kings and rulers of mankind, and finally for the last fruition of His Mission in the Laws and Ordinances of His Dispensation formulated during His confinement in the Most Great Prison of Akka. Baha'u'llah was still pursuing His solitary existence on that mountain when a certain _Sh_ay_kh_, a resident of Sulaymaniyyih, who owned a property in that neighborhood, sought Him out, as directed in a dream he had of the Prophet Muhammad. Shortly after this contact was established, _Sh_ay_kh_ Isma'il, the leader of the _Kh_alidiyyih Order, who lived in Sulaymaniyyih, visited Him, and succeeded, after repeated requests, in obtaining His consent to transfer His residence to that town. Meantime His friends in Ba_gh_dad had discovered His whereabouts, and had dispatched _Sh_ay_kh_ Sultan, the father-in-law of Aqay-i-Kalim, to beg Him to return; and it was now while He was living in Sulaymaniyyih, in a room belonging to the Takyiy-i-Mawlana _Kh_alid (theological seminary) that their messenger arrived. "I found," this same _Sh_ay_kh_ Sultan, recounting his experiences to Nabil, has stated, "all those who lived with Him in that place, from their Master down to the humblest neophyte, so enamoured of, and carried away by their love for Baha'u'llah, and so unprepared to contemplate the possibility of His departure that I felt certain that were I to inform them of the purpose of my visit, they would not have hesitated to put an end to my life." Not long after Baha'u'llah's arrival in Kurdistan, _Sh_ay_kh_ Sultan has related, He was able, through His personal contacts with _Sh_ay_kh_ U_th_man, _Sh_ay_kh_ 'Abdu'r-Rahman, and _Sh_ay_kh_ Isma'il, the honored and undisputed leaders of the Naq_sh_bandiyyih, the Qadiriyyih and the _Kh_alidiyyih Orders respectively, to win their hearts completely and establish His ascendancy over them.
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