The Dawn-Breakers/Frontispiece

From Bahaiworks

“I stand, life in hand, ready; that perchance, through God’s loving-kindness and grace, this revealed and manifest Letter may lay down his life as a sacrifice in the path of the Primal Point, the Most Exalted Word.”—Bahá’u’lláh.

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL PERSIAN AND EDITED BY SHOGHI EFFENDI

BAHÁ’Í PUBLISHING TRUST

WILMETTE, ILLINOIS

1970 iv

COPYRIGHT, 1932, BY THE NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY OF THE BAHÁ’ÍS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Library of Congress Catalog No. 32–8946 v

To

The Greatest Holy Leaf
The Last Survivor of a Glorious and Heroic Age
I Dedicate This Work
in Token of a

Great Debt of Gratitude and Love