Sequential excerpts from the book ‘God Passes By’, written in 1944 by Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha’i Faith

11/28/22

Táhirih

Táhirih, though still alive, was courageously pursuing a course that was to lead her inevitably to her doom. 

- Shoghi Effendi  (Chapter 4, God Passes By)

11/21/22

The Letters of the Living – Half martyred before the Báb’s Martyrdom

No less than half of His chosen disciples, the Letters of the Living, had already preceded Him in the field of martyrdom. 

- Shoghi Effendi  (Chapter 4, God Passes By)

11/9/22

The Báb’s maternal uncle – The Báb’s “shield and support and the trusted guardian of both His mother and His wife”

The Báb’s maternal uncle, the only father He had known since His childhood, His shield and support and the trusted guardian of both His mother and His wife, had, moreover, been sundered from Him by the axe of the executioner in Tihrán. 

- Shoghi Effendi  (Chapter 4, God Passes By)