On one occasion ‘Abdu’l-Bahá told about a happy day in Iraq: ‘Once
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Baghdád (today: Baghdad, Iraq)
On one occasion ‘Abdu’l-Bahá told about a happy day in Iraq: ‘Once, when I lived in Baghdad, I was invited to the house of a poor thorn-picker. In Baghdad the heat is greater even than in Syria; and it was a very hot day. But I walked twelve miles to the thorn-picker’s hut. Then his wife made a little cake out of some meal for Me and burnt it in cooking it, so it was a black, hard lump. Still that was the best reception I ever attended.
Source: Honnold, Annamarie, Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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