While still young [possibly early teens], the Blessed Beauty
[Bahá'u'lláh] watched as a government tax-collector, on three separate
occasions, accosted His father and demanded, in a cruel and unjust manner, the
payment of taxes. Unable to bear the injustice of it all, He, though still
young, mounted His horse and rode for two days until He arrived in Tihran.
There, He sought the dismissal of this unjust and tyrannical tax-collector. He
succeeded in obtaining the necessary papers ordering the dismissal, and returned
to His parents.
(Adapted from Memoirs of Dr. Diya Baghdadi, unpublished,
reporting words heard from 'Abdu'l-Baha in ‘Stories of Bahá'u'lláh’, compiled
by Hand of the Cause Ali-Akbar Furutan)
