O my beloved companions! How great, how very great, is the
Cause! How exalted the station to which I summon you! How great the mission for
which I have trained and prepared you! Gird up the loins of endeavour, and fix
your gaze upon His promise. I pray to God graciously to assist you to weather
the storms of tests and trials which must needs beset you, to enable you to
emerge, unscathed and triumphant, from their midst, and to lead you to your
high destiny.
-Siyyid Kázim (Quoted by
Nabil, chapter 2 of ‘The Dawn-Breakers’)
