This process received fresh impetus after the Lawh-i-Ra’ís was revealed on the morrow of its Author’s final banishment from Adrianople to Akká. Relentless, devastating, and with ever-increasing momentum, it ominously unfolded,
- damaging the prestige of the Empire,
- dismembering its territory,
- dethroning its sultáns,
- sweeping away their dynasty,
- degrading and deposing its Caliph,
- disestablishing its religion, and
- extinguishing its glory.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘The Promised Day Is Come’)