Dressed in the garb of a dervish, those Sufis who wander from town to town, Bahá’u’lláh took the name Darvish Muhammad and assumed the life of a hermit, living in a cave in the mountains of Kurdistan.
Bahá’u’lláh’s daughter remembered what he had described of His life in these mountains:
‘The food was easy to describe - coarse bread, a little cheese was the usual diet; sometimes, but very rarely, a cup of milk; into this would be put some rice, and a tiny bit of sugar. When boiled together, these scanty rations provided the great treat of a sort of rice pudding.' (Bahiyyih Khanum, quoted by Lady Blomfield in “Chosen Highway”)
Bahá’u’lláh’s attendant, Aqa Abu’l-Qasim Hamadani lived in the town of Sulaymaniyyih and obtained provisions for Baha'u'llah, who would occasionally visit the town to go to the public baths.
(Adapted from ‘Bahá’u’lláh, A Short Biography’, by Moojan Momen)
