
Pictured above is the Vakil Mosque in Shiraz, Iran, where Mulla Husayn preached and taught theology classes during his time in Shiraz. [Photo: Faruk Kaymak]
You are destined to exhibit such courage, such skill and heroism as shall eclipse the mightiest deeds of the heroes of old. Your daring exploits will win the praise and admiration of the dwellers in the eternal Kingdom. – The Bab to Mulla Husayn in Mahku before His transference to Chihriq
He was frail of form and slender with a fragile frame.
He appeared before the great clerics and the learned of his time “an insignificant and negligible figure.”
His hand trembled and shook as he wrote.
His childhood friend declared him as one not in possession of strength or bodily endurance.
Contemporary reports indicate he had been sickly as a child and suffered from epilepsy and heart palpitations.
And yet. Continue reading