... it behoves, in this day, the people and nations of the both the East and the West to hasten to this threshold, and here seek to obtain the reviving grace of the Merciful. Whoso hesitates will indeed be in grievous loss. Do not the people of the earth testify that the fundamental purpose of their creation is the knowledge and adoration of God? It behoves them to arise, as earnestly and spontaneously as you have arisen, and to seek with determination and constancy their promised Beloved.
Nabil's Narrative: The Dawn-Breakers, p. 61Context: Addressing Mulla Husayn on the night of the Báb's initial declaration

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