No lesser tribute can be paid the memory of the glorious
Báb, the immortal Quddus, the lion-hearted Mulla Husayn, the erudite Vahid, the
audacious Hujjat, the illustrious seven martyrs of Tihran and a host of
unnumbered heroes whose lifeblood flowed so copiously in the course of the
opening decade of the first Bahá'í century, by the privileged champion-builders
of the World Order of Bahá'u'lláh during the present critical stage in the
unfoldment of the Formative Age of His Dispensation, than a parallel outpouring
of their substance by the builders of the most holy House of Worship laboring
in the corresponding decade of the succeeding century.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a
letter dated March 16, 1949; ‘Citadel of Faith’)
