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Adapted from Star of the West Vol. 14 No. 10
Bahá'u'iiéh was born in 1817, in Tehran, the capitai of Iran. There were other children in the family, but the parents had a very special iove for this 1itt1e boy, feeling, even when He was a chiid, the radiance of His remarkabie power. Bahá'u'iiéh's father piaced a verse which showed an intuition of his son's future over the door to his house:
"When thou enterest the sacred abode of the Beloved Say, 'I am at Thy command.’
This is the home of Love. Enter with reverence. This is holy ground, Remove thy shoes when thou
enterest here."
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Pretty and Petty Poinsettia $6
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by Betty Conow .J
Once upon a winter—time, in the green back yard of a white '1r"'
stucco house, there grew a little flower garden. It wasn't _J‘
very big because on one side were some big orange and grapefruit trees and on the other side a wide, thick bougainvillea .,A!'
was growing up over the pink concrete wall. Since it was -fl‘
winter—time there weren't many flowers growing in the garden,
because most flowers like to sleep and rest in the winter,
even in California. But there was one flower that was growing.
That was the poinsettia. There was a big clump of poinsettias ”:31 1 [:
growing in the farthest part of the yard. Each year it had been' . -———f
growing taller and larger and finally this year it was as tall .— II as the little girl who lived in the house, and she was already ' ' I six years old, so she was quite big.
In the poinsettia clump there were only two flowers this year and at first the two poinsettias were quite happy to be ' the very first flowers to appear. But soon the poinsettia named_ Petty wasn't happy anymore. ‘
”Do you realize," he said to the other poinsettia who was named Pretty, "That we are the only two poinsettias in the garden? In fact, we may be the only two flowers in the entire back yard." He mulled this over and a little later he Stated,"We could very well be the only two flowers in the whole world." ~' .
Pretty Poinsettia was a little bit shocked. "How can I:f‘.::)L—-'V ' you say such a thing?" he demanded.
"I've been thinking about it," said Petty. "You don't -'
see any other flowers do you? L? "No," answered Pretty. :::} &
"You don't smell any other flowers, do you?" "No," answered Pretty again, sniffing the air. "Well, there you are," explained Petty. "It's all plain.
If you can't see or smell it, it just isn't there!"
"I never looked at it in quite that way," admitted Pretty. "But how about over that wall? Maybe on the other side there is another flower garden with poinsettias just like us.
"Well, then, if there are, right now, I demand that they show themselves. Hey! Flowers! Over there! Answer me!"
There was no answer.
"If there are any poinsettias anywhere in the whole world," /// Petty shouted, "show yourselves at once!" ‘
No poinsettias showed themselves.
"You see! Petty was quite excited at how clever he was, "There are no flowers in the entire world but us!"
Pretty didn't quite know what to say. He was certain Petty was wrong but he couldn't argue very well, so he just remained silent.
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Petty thought Pretty was silent because he agreed :0 E\
with him. And soon Petty became a very changed poinsettia. 15:::1 He began to feel so important that he decided he was King Flower
of the World. He began to demand things. He demanded that
it rain; he demanded that it not get too hot; he demanded
that Pretty not crowd him; he demanded just about eVerything
he could think of. After he ran out of things to demand he
began to make up some.
He decided, one bright day, that he was tired of having the sun in the sky. All day long, except when it rained, there was that big, orange ball up in the sky. That would have to stop. "Go away, Sun!" he shouted. The sun continued to shine. "I said. GO AWAY!" Petty yelled angrily. Then a cloud passed Over the Sun's face. "There, that's better," said Petty, a little bit satisfied. But the cloud moved on and the sun shone as brightly as ever. Petty became quite angry. "If you don't go away," he shouted, "I won't look at you, and that will take care of you!" -Well, the sun didn't seem.to care whether Petty looked __::::::3“——at him or not. Petty brooded about that all night. The next morning he made up his mind that if he huddled close to the wall he wouldn't see the sun, and if he couldn't see the sun, then “‘—:::::===: it just didn't exist! After all, he was King of the Flowers " M of the Universe; he could do anything he wanted! So every day after that he just huddled farther and farther back in the dark and the shade. Several times Pretty asked
him what he was doing there and Petty just snapped at him, "I'm the King of the Flowers and I refuse to turn my face to the sun. If the sun wants to see me he'll have to do what I tell him to do!" Pretty shook his head and tried to talk to Petty, but he only seemed to say the wrong things and finally Petty re- ::I:>\\\‘ fused to talk to him at all. ! 3
One afternoon the little girl came out in the yard to ' look at the poinsettias. She sniffed and smelled Pretty and that made him giggle because her nose tickled. Soon she went indoors and came back with her mother.
"See, Mother,” she said, "here is a beautiful poinsettia."
She pointed at Pretty. "It is beautiful," agreed her mother, "but I thought we \{
had two poinsettias. Where is the other one?" She looked
high_afid then she looked low and then she spread the clump
apart with her hands.
"Look!" the little girl said. "There it is! There's '
the other one!" ' '\\::;
They both looked at Petty, hidden away in the dark. Petty, although he wasn't feeling too well lately, pulled himself up
to his full regal height and looked as proud and as beautiful as he could.
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A STORY ABOUT ’ABDU’L-BAHA:
from Abdu’l-Bahá. the Contvr Of the Covenant by Juliet Thompson
Not only ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, but a great number of His fbllowers had been imprisoned and persecuted by the Shah of Persia and his brother. When the Shah lost his throne and his power, and was exiled, his brother zillah—Sultan fled to Geneva with his two sons. At the same time, 'Abdu'l—Baha was set free,
and He was beginning His journey through Europe. His first Visit was to Thonon-les—Bains on the Lake of Geneva.
”In the suite of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was a distinguished European who had visited Persia and there met Zillah-Su1tan. One day when the European was standing on the balustraded terrace of the hote] in Thonon, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was pacing t0 and fro at a 11tt1e distance, Zillah-Su1tan approached the terrace. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was wearing, as a1ways, the turban, the long white belted robe and long 'aba of Persia. His hair, according to the ancient custom of the Persian nobi1ity, flowed to His shou1ders. Zillah-Su1tén, after greeting the European, immediate1y asked:
"Who is that Persian nobleman?”
“'Abdu'l—Baha."
“Take me to Him."
In describing the scene later, the European said:
”If you cou1d have heard the wretch mumbling his miserable excuses!" I
But ‘Abdu’l-Bahá took the prince in His arms.
continued on page 23
Baha 911611 in Kurdistan from the Choqen Highway by Lady Blomflcld"
'A.b:du.'1-Baha always. .6beyed tfhe whble 6f the Tablet given 'by His Father, Bahá’u’lláh, which starts Gut in these 66rds: "be ”geniemus in PIGSPELity, and '-'tbank_ful in adversity" '
Ihe f6H-6W'ing' story will show y;6u that Bahké' u '1la-h also I i lived by this Tablet. We wi11 take; another—11-ne of the Tablet“
and tell you the story of a small boy who met; B-aha' u '11-a'h and
.fgun'd that He_ was " . an answerer 6f the cry 6f the needy. . 3
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A Stnanger, dresged Tike a dervhsh (a hé1y man) found him there ahd‘stopped to eemfort him. ‘when He saw the s1ate on which the boy's $ch001 work was set dawn fer him ta do, He took it and very loving1y started t9 he1p him to understand hfg prob! Tems1 The s1ate wag sbon‘cbvéhea with beautifu1 1etters afid symhoTS, The most intEreSting and wenderfUI thing was that the boy understpod perfECt1y what the Stranger had written dowh and was able to expiain 1t ali. 'The Stranger tgld him'to 99 back to;school and show the taacher what he had 1earned.
The teacher'waSZamaZEdJ 1H9 had heVé? seen sudh beautiful and perfect work, He @159 reg1ized that the bay was th just copying. He rea11y undersfood. 'The teacher dacided that he would keep the bay in his 61a55 and'thy to be more fiatienf'with him.
At hqme, the mother and father could not believe what had happéhed. “Sudden1y, we have 3 50h 10 be phbud ofh—no 10hg. war is it hurry, hurry,to him "
The Stnanger knew how to taafih, how to make a 1itt1e boy fee] sure of‘himseTf. He knew'how to Tdve. A dréam is fine, but hard wark is impertant ta make it'COme truE; From then on the Tad was Qfl his way and the news abeut the wand2r$u1 teaCher spread amnng the mountain peofiTe. Even though He dragged IikE-a poor derv-i-sh2 Everyone knew that He was véry great. He helfiéd them to Understand things that had pUZZIéd Even the Wigast -among them. He loved them and they adered Him, but.He be1on96d to the people Of the.who]e WGde. He ceuidn t stay With them: only, ahd-after two yéars He=heturned to Baghdad-where His famiTy was waiting. It was in‘3aghdad, short1y after, that He announced to the woffd that He, =Bzah5'u'11=:éh, had ‘0de t6. bring them the Message from God that-wou1d same day change the wurld intfl a
most anderfu1_p1ace of peaCe and justige.
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O my God! O my God! Adorn the heads of thy chosen ones
with the crown of iove and their tempies with the robes of
virtue.
from Words of Wisdom of Bahá'u'iiéh
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There was another 1itt1e child who saw ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. She
1ived in America, and her story is rather strange, for she knew
about Him before she actua11y saw Him. He was far across the ocean when she said to her mother one day, "Mummy, if Jesus were here what wou1d you do?”
Her mother answered, "I wou1d go to Him as fast as I cou1d!"
”Ne11, Mummy, He is here in the world somewhere,” she told her mother.
”Now Precious, what do you mean? How do you know?“
Her 11tt1e girl then said," He to1d me so Himse1f, so He must be here."
The mother was puzz1ed because her daughter was so sure, and the mother prayed that she wou1d know what it a1] meant.
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The next day, the chiid asked her mother why she had not gone to see Lord Jesus "He's toid me two times that He is here," she insisted.
But her mother couid 0n1y say,“Mummy doesn't know where He is-—how can I find Him?"
The little gir] was not discouraged. That afternoon whiie the two of them were out walking she saw something that made her stop and Cry out. "There He is! There He is!" She was trembling with excitement, for in the window of a magazine store there was a picture of lAbdu'i—Bahá!
Her mother hurried into the store and bought the paper with the picture and there she found out where He was. He was in Paris, far away across the ocean.
And do you know, she did just what she told her 1itt1e gir] she wouid do—-she made the journey to Paris as fast as she couid. And she took the child with her!
Then they both saw the One Whose iove was so great for everyone that it couid reach peopie a1] around the world!
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’ABDU'L -BAH A
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"A11 that is of the past," He answered, "Never think ' ' of it again. Send your two sons to see me. I want to meet your sons.” They came, one at a time. Each spent a day with the Master.* The first, though an immature boy, nevertheTess showed Him great deference. The second, oner and more sensitive, left the room of 'Abdu'T-Baha, where he had been received alone, weeping uncontroilabTy.
"If onTy I coqu be born again," he said, "into any other famiTy than mine."
For not only had many Bahá’ís been martyred during his uncle's reign (upwards of a hundred by his father's instigation,) and the Tife of 'Abdu'T-Baha threatened again and again, but his grandfather, Nasir'd-Din §héh, had ordered the execution of the Báb, as weTT as the torture and death of thousands of Bábis. **
The young prince was "born again”——a Bahá’í.
- Abdu'T-Bahá was caTTed "Master."
- The Babis were foTTowers of the Báb, the precursor of
Bahá'u'TTéh. We'll soon have some stories about Him.
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'Abdu'I-Baha saiIed away from America on December 5th, 1912. Among His last words to the American beIievers, spoken whiIe they visited Him on board ship, were these: "You have no excuse to bring before God if you faiI to live according to His command, for you are informed of . . . the goodpIeasure of God. You must therefore be kind to aII men."
(Prom. II, end)
As the CeItic was crossing the AtIantic Ocean, 'Abdu'I Bahá said: "I wish the weather wouId change; I wouId not mind seeing a storm; it wouId be worth seeing. . . I have waIked 4,600 paces (on deck); this is the distance from
'Akka to the Hon Tomb of Bahá'u'IIéh. I want to practise walking so that perhaps I shaII be able to go on foot to the Hon Tbmb Toward the end, in the Hon Land, I had become
so weak that I was deprived of this bounty. I couId not make
my pilgrimage on foot.
(Mahmud's Diary, II, 13, informal 24 translation by Marzieh GaiI)
(to be continued)
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