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| The heroes and martyrs of the earliest days of the Bábí-Bahá'í Dispensation, so-called because of their association with the beginning of a new age: ‘The call of the Báb was a call to awakening, a claim that a New Day had dawned.'2 Their story is told in The Dawn-Breakers: Nabíl's Narrative of the Early Days of the Bahá'í Revelation by Muḥammad-i-Zarandí (Nabíl-i-A'ẓam), translated from the Persian by Shoghi Effendi. |
| The Dawn-Breakers is the main account of the events of the period beginning with the missions of S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Aḥmad and Siyyid Káẓim, and including the Revelation of the Báb and His Martyrdom, the Conference of Badas̲h̲t and the deeds of many heroes and martyrs including Mullá Ḥusayn, Quddús, Ṭáhirih, Vaḥíd and Ḥujjat. The volume describes the role of Bahá'u'lláh during the Bábí Dispensation and ends with His banishment to Bag̲h̲dád. |
| Shoghi Effendi, in a letter written on his behalf, said about The Dawn-Breakers that ‘The life of those who figure in it is so stirring that every one who reads those accounts is bound to be affected and impelled to follow their footsteps of sacrifice in the path of the Faith. The Guardian believes, therefore, that it should be studied by the friends, especially the youth who need some inspiration to carry them through these troubled days.'3 |
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