Do not the peoples of the earth testify that the fundamental
purpose of their creation is the knowledge and adoration of God? It behoves
them to arise, as earnestly and spontaneously as you [Mulla Husayn] have
arisen, and to seek with determination and constancy their promised Beloved.
- The Báb (Quoted by Mulla Husayn in Nabil’s narrative ‘The Dawn-Breakers’,
translated and edited by Shoghi Effendi)