He said after his father was openly expelled from the Bahá'í community he completely cut off from his father. He had not seen his father for quite a long time. He said one day I was passing on Sepah Avenue near Meydan-i-TupKhánih. Suddenly I noticed that an old beggar was sitting at the roadside asking for money from the passers by. I recognized that the beggar was my father. Muhibat said that his father also recognized him but they did not say anything to each other. Muhibat said that I could not believe my eyes that such an arrogant and highly distinguished figure had fallen from the climax of honor retrograded to such a pitiful perigee, the lowest point of dishonor.
A distant relative of our family was 'Amu Alí Asgar who is famous for being a highly effective and enthusiastic teacher of the Faith, repeatedly praised by 'Abdu'l-Bahá, although he was illiterate. His residence was close to the residence of Jamál-i-Burujerdi. Some Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá addressed to individual Bahá'ís were received. One of them was in honor of Jamál-i-Burujerdi. Amu Alí Asgar was asked to deliver that Tablet. He as other friends was considering Jamál to be an exemplary believer. He went to Jamál. Jamál was sitting on a mattress, when he received the Tablet form Amu Alí Asgar. Without even opening it he pushed it under the mattress on which he was sitting. Amu Alí Asgar immediately left that house went home and told his wife this man, Jamál, is a covenant breaker. His wife was astonished and asked why. Amu Alí Asgar said when we are honored by receiving a Tablet form Sarkar-i-Áqá (the Master) we receive it with full respect. We kiss it and we put it on our head, then we immediately open it to receive the bounty of its content but Jamál disregarded what I had brought to him and pushed it under his feet. Amu Alí Asgar was a simple-hearted but very brave and frank person. From then on he used to tell the friends that Jamál-i-Burujerdi is a covenant breaker do not approach him. This incident happened sometimes before 'Abdu'l-Bahá publicly announced that Jamál-i-Burujerdi was a covenant breaker.
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