Galvanized into action by the mandate conferred upon them,
launched on their perilous and revolutionizing mission, these lesser luminaries
who, together with the Báb, constitute the First Váhid (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 (Chapter 1, ‘God Passes By)