…contributions to the local and national Funds are of a
purely voluntary character; that no coercion or solicitation of funds is to be
tolerated in the Cause; that general appeals addressed to the communities as a
body should be the only form in which the financial requirements of the Faith
are to be met…(Shoghi Effendi, excerpt from a letter dated February 27, 1929,
‘The World Order of Baha’u’llah’)
