“If all the peoples of the world,” Bahá’u’lláh Himself
affirms, “be invested with the powers and attributes destined for the Letters
of the Living, the chosen disciples of the Báb, whose station is ten thousand
times more glorious than any which the apostles of old have attained, and if
they, one and all, should, swift as the twinkling of an eye, hesitate to
recognize the Light of my Revelation, their faith shall be of no avail, and
they shall be accounted among the infidels.”
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter
dated 21 March, 1932, printed in ‘The World Order of Baha’u’llah’)