While still a child, the Blessed Beauty watched as a
government tax-collector, on three separate occasions, accosted His father and
demanded, in a cruel and unjust manner, the payment of taxes. Unable to bear
the injustice of it all, He, though in early childhood, mounted His horse and
rode for two days until He arrived in Tihran. There, He sought the dismissal of
this unjust and tyrannical tax-collector. He succeeded in obtaining the
necessary papers ordering the dismissal, and returned to His parents.
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (Words of 'Abdu'l-Baha recorded by Dr. Diya Baghdadidi, unpublished Memoirs; in 'Stories of Baha’u’llah', compiled by Ali-Akbar
Furutan)