My mother tied a two-qiran silver piece in the corner of a
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Tihrán (today: Tehran, Iran)
My mother tied a two-qiran silver piece in the corner of a handkerchief and asked me to go out and buy some food. As I was passing through the streets in the Karbila'i Abbas-'Ali marketplace of Tihran, one of the youngsters cried out: "This child is a Bábí!". Whereupon the children in the street rushed towards me to beat me. I was frightened and escaped. They chased me, until eventually I was able to hid in the entrance to a house belonging to the father of Sadru'l-Ulama (apparently the father of Sadru'l-`Ulama and Aqa Mirza Muhsin, the son-in-law of Siyyid ‘Abdu’l-lah Bihbahani, who was well-known at the beginning of the constitutional movement or perhaps their grandfather). I stayed in that dark entrance until the streets were deserted and returned home to find my mother perturbed over my fate.
Source: Hasan M. Balyuzi, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Centre of the Covenant, p. 40-41
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