One night I dreamt that there was a fearsome male lion in the courtyard. My hands were around the neck of the lion. The beast dragged me around the courtyard two and a half times. I woke up, profoundly alarmed and trembling with fright.
His Holiness [the Báb] asked me the cause of my agitation, and I told him what I had dreamt. His comment was: "You awoke too soon, as [your dream portends that] our life together will not last more than two-and-a-half years.”
And what He said, transpired.
-Khadíjih-Bagum (Quoted by ‘Mirza Habibu’llah Afnan in
‘Tarikh Amr-i-Fars va Shiraz’, translated and annotated as ‘The Genesis of the
Bábi-Baha’i Faiths in Shiraz and Fars’, by Ahang Rabbani)