At the age of five or six the Blessed Beauty [Bahá'u'lláh] had a dream
which He described to His father. In the dream He found Himself in a garden.
Huge birds were attacking Him from every side, but were unable to inflict any
harm. He then went to the sea and, as He was swimming, the birds of the air and
the fish of the sea attacked Him, but He was not harmed. His father summoned a
famous seer to interpret the dream. 'This dream-indicates', replied the seer,
'that the Child shall be the founder of a great Cause, and that all the leaders
and learned men throughout the world will attack Him, but, like the birds and
the fish, they shall do no harm. He will be victorious over all.’
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Quoted by Ishraq-Khavari in ‘Risaliy-i-Ayyam-i-Tis’ih’; in ‘Stories of
Baha’u’llah’, compiled by Ali-Akbar Furutan)
