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He was nine years of age when His father, to Whom even then He was devotedly attached, was thrown into the dungeon in Tihran. A mob sacked their house, and the family were stripped of their possessions and left in destitution. 'Abdu'l-Baha tells how one day He was allowed to enter the prison yard to see His beloved father when He came out for His daily exercise. Baha'u'llah was terribly altered, so ill He could hardly walk, His hair and beard unkempt, His neck galled and swollen from the pressure of a heavy steel collar, His body bent by the weight of His chains, and the sight made a never- to- be- forgotten impression on the mind of the sensitive boy
(38:4)
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