It was some years before this, when ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was in Paris, that a group of…

It was some years before this, when ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was in Paris, that a group of men from Teheran came to Him deeply troubled, They had walked all the way from their homes in Persia - since traveling on foot was the only proper way to meet their Master - to make what they considered a most vital request. In a village, there was a Bahá’í who was causing a great deal of trouble because of the lies he told. He lied about everything with

the result that misunderstandings, distrust and confusion reigned. This dreadful situation, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá would, they begged, have to do something about. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá agreed; indeed it was a most dreadful situation and certainly He would do something about it. He would write the man a letter. And the salutation at, the heading of

this letter was, "0 thou great lover of Truth" (Sadly there is no record I have seen of the balance of this Epistle - which must have been priceless.)

Source: Reginald Grant Barrow, Mother's Stories: Stories of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Early Believers told by Muriel Ives Barrow Newhall to her son, p. 40

Collected from bahaistories.com (Subject: truthfulness).

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