Let every believer, desirous to witness the swift and
healthy progress of the Cause of God, realize the twofold nature of his task.
Let him first turn his eyes inwardly and search his own heart and satisfy
himself that in his relations with his fellow-believers, irrespective of color
and class, he is proving himself increasingly loyal to the spirit of his
beloved Faith. Assured and content that he is exerting his utmost in a
conscious effort to approach nearer every day the lofty station to which his
gracious Master summons him, let him turn to his second task, and, with
befitting confidence and vigor, assail the devastating power of those forces
which in his own heart he has already succeeded in subduing. Fully alive to the
unfailing efficacy of the power of Bahá’u’lláh, and armed with the essential
weapons of wise restraint and inflexible resolve, let him wage a constant fight
against the inherited tendencies, the corruptive instincts, the fluctuating
fashions, the false pretences of the society in which he lives and moves.
(Shoghi Effendi, from a letter date 12 April, 1927; ‘Baha’i Administration’)
(Shoghi Effendi, from a letter date 12 April, 1927; ‘Baha’i Administration’)
