A certain man confided to His [the Báb’s] care a trust,
requesting Him to dispose of it at a fixed price. When the Báb sent him the
value of that article, the man found that the sum which he had been offered
considerably exceeded the limit which he had fixed. He immediately wrote to the
Báb, requesting Him to explain the reason. The Báb replied: ‘What I have sent
you is entirely your due. There is not a single farthing in excess of what is
your right. There was a time when the trust you had delivered to Me had
attained this value. Failing to sell it at that price, I now feel it My duty to
offer you the whole of that sum.’ However much the Báb’s client entreated Him
to receive back the sum in excess, the Báb persisted in refusing.
- Hájí Siyyid Javád-i-Karbilá’í (Quoted by Nabil, ‘The
Dawn-Breakers’, translated and edited by Shoghi Effendi)
