With regard to your wish for reorganizing your business
along Bahá'í lines, Shoghi Effendi deeply appreciates the spirit that has
prompted you to make such a suggestion. But he feels, nevertheless, that the
time has not yet come for any believer to bring about such a fundamental change
in the economic structure of our society, however restricted may be the field
for such an experiment. The economic teachings of the Cause, though well known
in their main outline, have not yet been sufficiently elaborated and
systematized to allow anyone to make an exact and thorough application of them,
even on a restricted scale.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 22 May 1935 written on behalf
of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer; The Compilation of Compilations,
vol. III, Economics, Agriculture, and Related Subjects)
