The “last words of the Báb to the gazing multitude, as the regiment prepared to fire its volley”

An old photograph of the Barrack in Tabriz
where the Bab was martyred in 1850

O wayward generation! Had you believed in Me every one of you would have followed the example of this youth, who stood in rank above most of you, and would have willingly sacrificed himself in My path. The day will come when you will have recognized Me; that day I shall have ceased to be with you. 

- The Báb  (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, ‘God Passes By’)