Born in 1863, Shaykh Muhammad-Ibráhím was already, by his early twenties, aprofoundly erudite Islamic mystic. His thirst for spiritual knowledge and his deep longingto reach the sublime heights of the ineffable, launched him on an arduous quest whichled him, often by visions and dreams, to eventually embrace a Faith he once would havedenounced as heresy, and to join a community of people he would at one time haveconsidered "unclean". Numerous were the strange occurrences and unexpected eventswith which the path of his search lay strewn, including the mysterious arrival of a manwith a Book which, upon his reading of it, unraveled for Shaykh Muhammad-Ibráhímintricate and incomprehensible questions which had long baffled his mind. Arriving on foot in Akká, Palestine some years later he was rewarded for the purity ofhis longing and his earnest and steadfast search by attaining the presence of a personagehe had seen in one of his exalted dreams -- 'Abdu'l-Bahá, the beloved Master. It was then, during the first time Shaykh Muhammad-Ibráhím attained His presence, that the Masterbestowed upon him the title, "Fádil" (Learned) and it was during Fádil's subsequent fourmonth stay in Akká that he became the recipient of a knowledge that tranformed hissoul. His return to Írán on the instructions of 'Abdu'l-Bahá opened Fádil's life to experiencesreaders will find fascinating. Particularly engaging are some accounts of the manyencounters he had with Muslim clergy when he refuted their claims, defeated theirarguments and proved the truth of the Bahá'í teachings.