Táhirih, that flaming emblem of His Cause who, alike by her
indomitable courage, her impetuous character, her dauntless faith, her fiery
ardour and vast knowledge, seemed for a time able to win the whole womanhood of
Persia to the Cause of her Beloved, fell, alas, at the very hour when victory
seemed near at hand, a victim to the wrath of a calumnious enemy. The influence
of her work, the course of which was so prematurely arrested, seemed to those
who stood near as they lowered her into the pit that served as her grave, to
have been completely extinguished. (Shoghi Effendi, from the Epilogue to
"The Dawn-Breakers: Nabil's Narrative of the Early Days of the Bahá'í
Revelation", translated. and edited by Shoghi Effendi)
