When the people made the deformed figures in the images of devils on the path of the Mim, Satan would enter them and speak from them, increasing their deformity.

When this became prolonged upon the Mim, may His Might be exalted, He became Absent from the Dome. And Allah, Majestic is His Name, knew His anger against the people for their disbelief in Allah and their denial and rejection of His Prophet and His Gate (Bab). So Allah, Mighty and Majestic, commanded the sky to withhold its rain, and the plains and rugged terrain of the earth became barren.

They remained for three years suffering harm and enduring hardship until the matter exhausted them. A group of them said: 'This is the punishment for our denying the Prophet of Allah and our rejection of the Oneness of Allah.' But a group of them persisted in their disbelief.

The second group went out to their deserts with their children and their livestock, supplicating to Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and spreading ashes on their heads in humility to Allah the Almighty, asking Him to remove from them what they were in. And that was the first Request for Rain (Istisqa') that occurred in the world.

When it was after three days, the Mim—I mean Muhammad—appeared to them, and before Him was a great fire, and He was in its