Corinne True recorded what she observed on an early pilgrimage: ‘Arising early

Corinne True recorded what she observed on an early pilgrimage: ‘Arising early I went into the living room where the Master meets with His family every morning between six and seven o’clock. The widow of one of the martyrs sits on the floor in the Persian style and makes and serves the tea every morning. Her husband was one of three brothers who were imprisoned for this Cause. For days they had no news about them. One day they heard a great noise in the street and looking out they saw three heads placed on long poles and being carried through the streets, and when in front of their home they tossed these heads into their mother’s room. She wiped them off with water and then threw them back, saying, “What I have given to God I will not take back.”

Source: Honnold, Annamarie, Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 93

Collected from bahaistories.com (Subject: grief).

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