…Mullá ‘Alíy-i-Bastamí, one of the Letters of the Living,
“the first to leave the House of God (Shíráz) and the first to suffer
for His sake…had audaciously asserted that from the pen of his new-found Master
within the space of forty-eight hours, verses had streamed that equalled in
number those of the Qur’án, which it took its Author twenty-three years to
reveal…
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)