As regards
your question whether it would be advisable and useful for you to marry
again: he feels unable to give you any
definite answer on that point, as this is essentially a private affair about
which you, and the friends around you or your Local Assembly, are in a much
better position to judge. Of course,
under normal circumstances, every person should consider it his moral duty to
marry. And this is what Baha'u'llah has encouraged the believers to do. But marriage is by no means an
obligation. In the last resort it is for
the individual to decide whether he wishes to lead a family life or live in a
state of celibacy.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 3 May 1936 written on behalf of Shoghi
Effendi to an individual believer, quoted by the Universal House of Justice in
a letter dated 6 February 1973 to all National Spiritual Assemblies; Messages
from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986)
