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start, numbered well over four hundred, that their names are all inscribed upon the “Guarded Tablet” of God’, and that:
… such was their faith, that most of them renounced their substance and kindred, and cleaved to the good-pleasure of the All-Glorious. They laid down their lives for their Well-Beloved, and surrendered their all in His path. Their breasts were made targets for the darts of the enemy, and their heads adorned the spears of the infidel. No land remained which did not drink the blood of these embodiments of detachment, and no sword that did not bruise their necks. Their deeds, alone, testify to the truth of their words. 112ACT4
And then Bahá’u’lláh asks:
Doth not the testimony of these holy souls, who have so gloriously risen to offer up their lives for their Beloved that the whole world marvelled at the manner of their sacrifice, suffice the people of this day? Is it not sufficient witness against … those who … bartered away immortality for that which perisheth, who … have busied themselves with the vanities of the world, and have strayed far from Him Who is the Lord, the Most High. 113ACT4
In the stories that we will now tell, we will see this statement of Bahá’u’lláh played out. We will see the nobility and sacrifices of this heroic band of Dawn-Breakers, as well as the ignorance, malice and greed of the ones who try to put out their light.
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