From: Baha’i Stories
There are some accounts left for
posterity concerning the time that the Bab attended school in Shiraz, Persia.
Such accounts are priceless because they help us understand how each
Manifestation of God exhibits very special God given qualities even in their
childhood.
First Account:
A fellow student who was then twelve years old related the following account
many years later concerning the Bab’s first day at school.
“The Báb had taken a seat, with great courtesy, in between this boy and another
pupil who was also much older than Himself. His head was bowed over the primer
put in front of Him, the first lines of which He had been taught to repeat. But
He would not utter a word. When asked why He did not read aloud as other boys
were doing He made no reply. Just then two boys, sitting near them, were heard
to recite a couplet from Hafiz (a well known Persian poet), which runs thus:
From the pinnacles of Heaven they call out unto thee;
I know not what hath thee here entrapped.
'That is your answer,' said the Báb, turning to …” the older boy who recalled
this incident. (The Báb – The Herald of the
Day of Days, by Hand of the Cause Balyuzi)
