They that have forsaken their country in the path of God and
subsequently ascended unto His presence, such souls shall be blessed by the
Concourse on High and their names recorded by the Pen of Glory among such as
have laid down their lives as martyrs in the path of God, the Help in peril,
the Self- Subsistent.
(Baha’u’llah, quoted in a letter from the Universal House
of Justice dated 19 September 1972; ‘Messages from the Universal House of
Justice 1963-1986’)
