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“All this lavish display and these elaborate devices,” he replied, “the king, the princes, and the ministers, their pomp and glory, their might and power, everything you saw, are now contained within this box.”69ACT3
Bahá’u’lláh then adds, referring to Himself as “this Youth”:
I swear by My Lord Who, through a single word of His Mouth, hath brought into being all created things! Ever since that day, all the trappings of the world have seemed in the eyes of this Youth akin to that same spectacle. They have never been, nor will they ever be, of any weight and consequence, be it to the extent of a grain of mustard seed. 70ACT3
Bahá’u’lláh’s Education
Bahá’u’lláh’s education was limited both in nature and extent. In those days, sons of noblemen were taught riding, calligraphy, use of sword and gun, acquaintance with classical poets of the land, good manners and a good reading knowledge of the Holy Book [Qur’án] – and hardly ever anything more. Bahá’u’lláh in a Tablet addressed many years later to Násiri’d-Dín Sháh testifies to this:
The learning current amongst men I studied not; their schools I entered not. Ask of the city wherein I dwelt, that thou mayest be well assured that I am not of them who speak falsely. 71ACT3
Bahá’u’lláh’s Youth and Marriage
Tákur in the district of Núr was the home of Mírzá Buzurg and his ancestors. There Mírzá Buzurg had built a palatial house, and Bahá’u’lláh always spent part of the year in Tákur, usually in the summer months. 72ACT3 As Bahá’u’lláh grew up, the fame of His keen intelligence, His alert mind, His upright character and benevolent nature spread. 73ACT3 He was being groomed to follow in the footsteps of His father and
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