Sequential excerpts (including footnotes) from ‘The Dawn-Breakers’ by Nabil-i-‘Azam, translated and edited by Shoghi Effendi

October 17, 2019

It appears that it took 40 days until all 18 Letters of the Living found the Báb

“Understand in the same way the beginning of the manifestation of the Bayán during forty days no one but the letter Síná believed in B. It was only, little by little, that the Bismi’lláhu’l-Amná’u’l-Aqdas clothed themselves with the garment of faith until finally the Primal Unity was completed. Witness then how it has increased until our day.” (“Le Bayán Persan,” vol. 4, p. 119.) 
- The Báb  (Quoted by A. L. M. Nicolas  in his translation of Persian Bayán to French; footnotes to chapter 3 provided by Shoghi Effendi)