Bahá’u’lláh was still pursuing His solitary existence on that mountain when a certain _Sh_ay_kh_, a resident of Sulaymáníyyih, who owned a property in that neighborhood, sought Him out, as directed in a dream he had of the Prophet Muḥammad. Shortly after this contact was established, _Sh_ay_kh_ Ismá’íl, the leader of the _Kh_alídíyyih Order, who lived in Sulaymáníyyih, visited Him, and succeeded, after repeated requests, in obtaining His consent to transfer His residence to that town. Meantime His friends in Ba_gh_dád had discovered His whereabouts, and had dispatched _Sh_ay_kh_ Sulṭán, the father-in-law of Áqáy-i-Kalím, to beg Him to return; and it was now while He was living in Sulaymáníyyih, in a room belonging to the Takyíy-i-Mawlaná _Kh_álid (theological seminary) that their messenger arrived. “I found,” this same _Sh_ay_kh_ Sulṭán, recounting his experiences to Nabíl, has stated, “all those who lived with Him in that place, from their Master down to the humblest neophyte, so enamoured of, and carried away by their love for Bahá’u’lláh, and so unprepared to contemplate the possibility of His departure that I felt certain that were I to inform them of the purpose of my visit, they would not have hesitated to put an end to my life.” Not long after Baha’u’llah’s arrival in Kurdistán, _Sh_ay_kh_ Sulṭán has related, He was able, through His personal contacts with _Sh_ay_kh_ U_th_mán, _Sh_ay_kh_ ‘Abdu’r-Rahmán, and _Sh_ay_kh_ Ismá’íl, the honored and undisputed leaders of the Naq_sh_bandíyyih, the Qádiríyyih and the _Kh_alídíyyih Orders respectively, to win their hearts completely and establish His ascendancy over them. The first of these, _Sh_ay_kh_ U_th_mán, included no less a person than the Sulṭán himself and his entourage among his adherents. The second, in reply to whose query the “Four Valleys” was later revealed, commanded the unwavering allegiance of at least a hundred thousand devout followers, while the third was held in such veneration by his supporters that they regarded him as co-equal with _Kh_álid himself, the founder of the Order.