With regard to the question you have raised in connection with the sale of alcoholic liquors by the friends: he wishes me to inform you that dealings with such liquors, in any form, are highly discouraged in the Cause. The believers should, therefore, consider it their spiritual obligation to refrain from undertaking any business enterprise that would involve them in the traffic of alcoholic drinks. (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to a Local Spiritual Assembly dated 6 November 1935; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Prohibition on Drinking Alcohol)
