His qualities were so rare in their nobility and beauty, His
personality so gentle and yet so forceful, and His natural charm was combined
with so much tact and judgment, that after His Declaration He quickly became in
Persia a widely popular figure. He would win over almost all with whom He was
brought into personal contact, often converting His gaolers to His Faith and
turning the ill-disposed into admiring friends.
To silence such a man without incurring some degree of
public odium was not very easy even in the Persia of the middle of last
century. But with the Báb’s followers it was another matter.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘Introduction to ‘The Dawn-Breakers’)
