The revelation of the Qasídiy-i-Varqá’íyyih (Ode of the Dove) greatly increased the fascination and interest of those who had “congregated in the seminaries of Sulaymáníyyih and Karkúk”

This episode, by far the most outstanding among the events that transpired during the two years of Bahá’u’lláh’s absence from Baghdád, immensely stimulated the interest with which an increasing number of the ‘ulamás, the scholars, the shaykhs, the doctors, the holy men and princes who had congregated in the seminaries of Sulaymáníyyih and Karkúk, were now following His daily activities. 

- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’, chapter 7)