|
..the Baha'is have never made any secret of the fact that their Faith, which has developed in the bright light of history, has gone through a series of the severest internal crises, "such as to exceed in gravity those from which the religions of the past have suffered." The plots to which Baha'u'llah was exposed by his step-brother, Mirza-Yahya, the succession disputes which shook the Faith, after the deaths of both Baha'u'llah and 'Abdul-Baha, are to be read in the standard work of the history of the Baha'i Faith, Shoghi Effendi's 'God Passes By'. These melancholy happenings are like illnesses, which shook and prostrated the young Faith and temporarily obscured its brightness; yet after they had been overcome, on each occasion it arose with new strength.
(58:2)
|