Sequential excerpts from the “Introduction” section of ‘The Dawn-Breakers’ - by Shoghi Effendi

Insights concerning: 

• Nabil, his chronicle, and his close association with Baha’u’llah; 
• Persia’s condition of church and state in the 19th Century; 
• Persia’s state of decadence in the middle of the 19th Century; 
• Features of government administration and judicial procedure, 
• Qajar kings; 
• Prophetic expectations of the Shi’ah and Sunni sects of Islam; 
• The cause of the rejection and persecution of the Báb; similar to what happened to Christ; 
• The only European who met the Báb; 
• Baha’u’llah’s Tribute to the Báb and His Chief Disciples; 
• and many more…