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)
