'Abdu'l-Baha has described how His own grandmother, who
lived in Yalrud (a village near Takur) went one day at dawn to the house of a famous
mujtahid to pray. This mujtahid (a doctor of Islamic law) was Shayk Muhammad-Taqi,
a distant relative of the family. After the morning prayer he told ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s
grandmother that he had some excellent news for her. He had had a dream in
which he had found himself outside a house which no one was allowed to enter,
because, said the door-keeper, within it the Qa'im of the House of Muhammad
(the Promised One of Shi’ih Muslims) was closeted with Mirza Husayn-'Ali of Nur
[Bahá'u'lláh]. At first the mujtahid had expressed his surprise that the son of
a vizier should be so privileged; but on remembering their distant kinship, he
had ascribed the privilege to this fact.
(Adapted from ‘Bahá'u'lláh, The King
of Glory’, by H.M. Balyuzi)
