Galvanized into action by the mandate conferred upon them,
[Letters of the Living] launched on their perilous and revolutionizing mission,
these lesser luminaries who, together with the Báb, constitute the First Vahíd
(Unity) of the Dispensation of the Bayán, scattered far and wide through the
provinces of their native land, where, with matchless heroism, they resisted
the savage and concerted onslaught of the forces arrayed against them, and
immortalized their Faith by their own exploits and those of their
co-religionists, raising thereby a tumult that convulsed their country and sent
its echoes reverberating as far as the capitals of Western Europe.
- Shoghi
Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
