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It was this same reception room which, in spite of its rude simplicity, had so charmed the Shuja'u'd- Dawlih that he had expressed to his fellow- princes his intention of building a duplicate of it in his home in Kazimayn. "He may well succeed," Baha'u'llah is reported to have smilingly remarked when apprized of this intention, "in reproducing outwardly the exact counterpart of this low- roofed room made of mud and straw with its diminutive garden. What of his ability to open onto it the spiritual doors leading to the hidden worlds of God?" "I know not how to explain it," another prince, Zaynu'l- Abidin Khan, the Fakhru'd- Dawlih, describing the atmosphere which pervaded that reception- room, had affirmed, "were all the sorrows of the world to be crowded into my heart they would, I feel, all vanish, when in the presence of Baha'u'llah. It is as if I had entered Paradise itself."
(134:3)
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