When Baha'u'llah was a child, His father had a dream about
Him. He saw Baha'u'llah swimming in a huge
ocean. Baha'u'llah's face was so full of
light that it glowed. The whole ocean glowed with the light from Baha'u'llah's
face.
His hair was long and dark, and it flowed out in the water
around Him as He swam. Suddenly many fishes
appeared and each fish took one strand of Baha'u'llah's hair in its mouth and followed Baha'u'llah as He kept
swimming.
The fish did not hurt Him, or
slow Him down. When Bahil'u'llah turned one way, so did every fish. When He turned the other way, the fish followed that
way.
The fishes were following Baha'u'llah's light - the light of
God in His heart.
Baha'u'llah's father asked a wise man what his dream meant,
and the wise man said that the ocean was like the world, and the fishes were
the people. All the people would be attracted to the light of God in Baha'u'llah
and would follow Him. They would attach their hearts to Him like the fishes in
the dream attached themselves to His hair. The people would follow Baha'u'llah
wherever He led them.
Now we know that this wise man was talking about the
Baha'is. We are the people who follow Baha'u'llah. Every day more people in the
world find Baha'u'llah and follow Him.
We can be like the fishes
by following Baha'u'llah. If we do what Baha'u'llah teaches
us, we will be full of God's light which He
reflected on us.
(by Cindy Pacileo, ‘The Brilliant Star', 1991)
