To emperors, kings, princes and potentates, to rulers,
governments, clergy and peoples, whether of the East or of the West, whether
Christian, Jew, Muslim, or Zoroastrian, He addressed, for well-nigh fifty
years, and in the most tragic circumstances, these priceless pearls of
knowledge and wisdom that lay hid within the ocean of His matchless utterance.
Forsaking fame and fortune, accepting imprisonment and exile, careless of
ostracism and obloquy, submitting to physical indignities and cruel
deprivations, He, the Vicegerent of God on earth, suffered Himself to be
banished from place to place and from country to country, till at length He, in
the Most Great Prison, offered up His martyred son as a ransom for the
redemption and unification of all mankind.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated
28 March 1941; published as ‘The Promised Day Is Come’)
