Háji Mírzá Siyyid ‘Alí sternly rebuked the Báb. ‘Have You
forgotten my instructions?’ he said. ‘Have I not already admonished You to
follow the example of Your fellow-pupils, to observe silence, and to listen
attentively to every word spoken by Your teacher?’ Having obtained His promise
to abide faithfully by his instructions, he bade the Báb return to His school.
The soul of that child could not, however, be restrained by the stern
admonitions of His uncle. No discipline could repress the flow of His intuitive
knowledge. Day after day He continued to manifest such remarkable evidences of
superhuman wisdom as I am powerless to recount.”
- Shaykh Abid (The Báb’s childhood teacher, (quoted by Nabil,
chapter 3, ‘The Dawn-Breakers’)
