The Báb Heals a Child at Milán
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In the “Taríkh-i-Jadíd,” Muhammad Big, the leader of the mounted escort that accompanied the Báb from Isfahán to Tabríz, is reported to have related the following account to Hájí Mírzá Jání:
“So we mounted and rode on till we came to a brick caravanserai distant two parsangs from the city. Thence we proceeded to Milán, where many of the inhabitants came to see His Holiness, and were filled with wonder at the majesty and dignity of that Lord of mankind. In the morning, as we were setting out from Milán, an old woman brought a scald-headed child, whose head was so covered with scabs that it was white down to the neck, and entreated His Holiness to heal him. The guards would have forbidden her but His Holiness prevented them, and called the child to Him. Then He drew a handkerchief over its head and repeated certain words; which He had no sooner done than the child was healed. And in that place about two hundred persons believed and underwent a true and sincere conversion.”
Source: Nabíl, The Dawn-Breakers, translated and edited by Shoghi Effendi, ch. XII, p. 236, note 22 (Shoghi Effendi's footnote quoting the Taríkh-i-Jadíd); via the Baha'i Stories Blog (https://bahaistories.blogspot.com/2024/06/muhammad-big-leader-of-mounted-escort.html).
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