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One event that affected ` Abdu ' l-Bahá greatly during his childhood was the imprisonment of his father when ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was eight years old ; the imprisonment led to his family being reduced to poverty and being attacked in the streets by other children.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá accompanied his mother to visit Bahá ' u ' lláh who was then imprisoned in the infamous subterranean dungeon the Síyáh-Chál.

He described how " I saw a dark, steep place.

We entered a small, narrow doorway, and went down two steps, but beyond those one could see nothing.

In the middle of the stairway, all of a sudden we heard His … voice: ' Do not bring him in here ', and so they took me back ".