From: Baha'i Stories
The principal of the school that the Báb attended when He
was almost five years old has left an account concerning the meeting that took place
between the father of the Báb, Aqa Mirza Muhammad Rida and His teacher, Shaykh
Anam, before the Bab started His first day at school.
“‘After forty years, the Exalted Lord has graced me with a Child who has caused
me to wonder over His behavior.’ The Shaykh asked him to explain further, but
he only replied. ‘It is hard to say.’ [The Shaykh] insisted, to which [the
father] offered:
O venerable Shaykh! Which of His amazing conditions should I recount? Such
peculiar characteristics are manifest in Him that the people are astonished.
Now, when He is five years old, He sometimes raises His hands to the threshold
of the One God, and recites prayers. He wakes in the middle of the night and
stands to offer His obligatory prayers, in the midst of which He weeps.
Sometimes He is sad, on other occasions He is happy, or immersed in rapture, or
preoccupied with the imaginary world. My astonishment and bewilderment prevents
me from describing further. Were I to recount all that I have observed from the
time of His birth until the present, it would make a thick book.
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