Regarding children: at fifteen a Bahá'í is of age as far as
keeping the laws of the Aqdas is concerned -- prayer, fasting, etc. But
children under fifteen should certainly observe the Bahá'í Holy Days, and not
go to school, if this can be arranged, on these nine days.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter
written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the American National Spiritual Assembly,
dated 25 October 1947; included in a letter from the Universal House of Justice
to National Spiritual Assemblies, dated 28 January 1966; ‘Messages from the
Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’)
