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

1/16/26

circa 1854-56: “twenty-five persons…declare themselves to be the Promised One foretold by the Báb”

Such was the audacity and effrontery of these demoralized and misguided Bábís that no less than twenty-five persons, according to ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá’s testimony, had the presumption to declare themselves to be the Promised One foretold by the Báb! 

- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’, chapter 7)