Stranger still that he [1] whom posterity will recognize to
have been the founder of that Faith in the Western Hemisphere, whom the Center
of the Covenant, in recognition of so signal a service, had acclaimed as
“Bahá’s Peter” and “the Second Columbus”, should have, in his vanity and
ambition, deserted the Fold he had labored to gather, should have allied
himself with the Arch-Breaker of the Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh, and remained
until the end of his life, a sworn and bitter enemy of the One Who had
entrusted him with such a holy and historic errand, and conferred upon him such
glowing tributes.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated June 15, 1946; ‘Messages
to America’)
[1] Ibrahim
Khayru'llah
