1. the sweet-smelling savour of My garment # 4This is an allusion to the story of Joseph in the Qur'an and the Old Testament, in which Joseph's garment, brought by his brothers to Jacob, their father, enabled Jacob to identify his beloved long-lost son. The metaphor of the fragrant "garment" is frequently used in the Baha'i Writings to refer to the recognition of the Manifestation of God and His Revelation.
Baha'u'llah, in one of His Tablets, describes Himself as the "Divine Joseph" Who has been "bartered away" by the heedless "for the most paltry of prices". The Bab, in the Qayyumu'l-Asma', identifies Baha'u'llah as the "true Joseph" and forecasts the ordeals that He would endure at the hands of His treacherous brother (see note 190). Likewise, Shoghi Effendi draws a parallel between the intense jealousy which the preeminence of Abdu'l-Baha had aroused in His half-brother, Mirza Muhammad-'Ali, and the deadly envy "which the superior excellence of Joseph had kindled in the hearts of his brothers".