Forsaking his home and kindred, on one of the islands of
Bahrayn, to the south of the Persian Gulf, he set out, as bidden by an almighty
Providence, to unravel the mysteries of those verses of Islamic Scriptures
which foreshadowed the advent of a new Manifestation. He was well aware of the
dangers and perils that beset his path; he fully realised the crushing
responsibility of his task. There burned in his soul the conviction that no
reform, however drastic, within the Faith of Islám, could achieve the
regeneration of this perverse people. He knew, and was destined by the Will of
God to demonstrate, that nothing short of a new and independent Revelation, as
attested and foreshadowed by the sacred Scriptures of Islám, could revive the
fortunes and restore the purity of that decadent Faith.
(‘The Dawn-Breakers’,
Chapter 1)
