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 (“last words of the Báb to the gazing multitude,
as the regiment prepared to fire its volley”, quoted by Shoghi Effendi in ‘God Passes
By’)
