... [absolute chastity] is mainly and directly concerned
with the Bahá'í youth, who can contribute so decisively to the virility, the
purity, and the driving force of the life of the Bahá'í community, and upon
whom must depend the future orientation of its destiny, and the complete
unfoldment of the potentialities with which God has endowed it....
- Shoghi
Effendi (‘The Advent of Divine Justice’; The Compilation of Compilations, vol.
I, A Chase and Holy Life)
