... having attained sufficiently that individual
regeneration -- the essential requisite of teaching -- let us arise to teach
His Cause with righteousness, conviction, understanding and vigour. Let this be
the paramount and most urgent duty of every Bahá'í. ...
- Shoghi Effendi (From a
letter dated 24 November 1924 to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United
States and Canada, published in ‘Bahá'í Administration’)