> Didn't our beloved Guardian approve the publication of the Dawn Breakers?
> I thought I read a long time ago somewhere that the Dawnbeakers was more or
> less a work of Shoghi Effendi using Nabil's notes. True, not true?
Strictly speaking, this is not true. Shoghi Effendi "edited" Nabil's narrative, but all evidence so far suggests by editing he simply left out parts and moved some things around, but did not alter the content. (As a translator/editor, he was ethically bound to leave the content alone, even if he wanted to change things. But he did augment some incorrect/incomplete info by Nabil with lots of footnotes that he thought would help the readers.)
I emphasize again that the virtue that the Dawn-breakers was translated/edited by Shoghi Effendi does not by itself confer upon it any special significance. It's simply a Baha'i myth to think otherwise. Nabil's narrative, either in original or in Shoghi Effendi's translation, with stand or fall on its own merits. And we already have proven many things in it to be simply incorrect (e.g. various dates, references, etc) or suspect very strongly to be a product of Nabil's imaginative mind (eg. prayer of the Bab for His son Ahmad, or His farewell address to the Letters, etc)
Regards,
ahang.
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