The people
among whom He [the Báb] appeared were the most decadent race in the civilized
world, grossly ignorant, savage, cruel, steeped in prejudice, servile in their
submission to an almost deified hierarchy, recalling in their abjectness the
Israelites of Egypt in the days of Moses, in their fanaticism the Jews in the
days of Jesus, and in their perversity the idolators of Arabia in the days of
Muhammad.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
