One day the Báb asked that some honey be purchased for Him.
The price at which it had been bought seemed to Him exorbitant. He refused it
and said: "Honey of a superior quality could no doubt have been purchased
at a lower price. I who am your example have been a merchant by profession. It
behoves you in all your transactions to follow in My way. You must neither
defraud your neighbour nor allow him to defraud you. Such was the way of your
Master. The shrewdest and ablest of men were unable to deceive Him, nor did He
on His part choose to act ungenerously towards the meanest and most helpless of
creatures." He insisted that the attendant who had made that purchase
should return and bring back to Him a honey superior in quality and cheaper in
price. (Cited in "The Dawn-Breakers: Nabil's Narrative of the Early Days
of the Bahá'í Revelation", trans. and ed. Shoghi Effendi; The Compilation
of Compilations, Vol. II, Trustworthiness)
