The sad and sudden crisis that has arisen in connexion with
the ownership of Bahá’u’lláh’s sacred house in Baghdád has sent a thrill of
indignation and dismay throughout the whole of the Bahá’í world. Houses that
have been occupied by Bahá’u’lláh for well nigh the whole period of His exile
in ‘Iráq, ordained by Him as the chosen and sanctified object of Bahá’í
pilgrimage in future, magnified and extolled in countless Tablets and Epistles
as the sacred centre “round which shall circle all peoples and kindreds of the
earth”—lie now, due to fierce intrigue and ceaseless fanatical opposition, at
the mercy of the declared enemies of the Cause.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter
dated 6 November 1925; printed in ‘The Unfolding Destiny)
