The Fate of the Point’s Writings

10. Shoghi Effendi’s Conclusion
In his Epilogue to the Dawn-Breakers, Nabil's Narrative, American Edition, P.655, we are told by Shoghi Effendi that "the body of the BAB's voluminous writings, for the most part, a fate no less humiliating than that which had befallen his disciples, many of his copious works were utterly obliterated others were torn and reduced to ashes, a few were corrupted, much was seized by the enemy and the rest lay a mass of disorganised and undeciphered manuscripts, precariously hidden and widely scattered among the survivors of his companions, and with this rhotic Shoghi Effendi recited the Fatima [i.e. held a requiem service] for the BAB's writings which were brought to the most holy seat, Acre, which according to Baha related to his earlier manifestation in the shoes of the BAB, and which were to be kept intact and undisturbed, and sanctified from the corruption of corruptors, to be handed-down to posterity.”