A Tablet revealed by Bahá'u'lláh on the fifth day after Naw-Rúz 1863, not long before leaving Bag̲h̲dád for Constantinople. In it Bahá'u'lláh prophesied ‘the severe afflictions' that were to befall Him.25 Its ‘gloomy prognostications . . . aroused the grave apprehensions of His Companions . . .‘: ‘Oceans of sorrow surged in the hearts of the listeners when the Tablet of the Holy Mariner was read aloud to them.'26