August 24

Concerning your question whether a Bahá’í Burial Service can be conducted for non-Bahá’ís if requested by them: if non-Bahá’ís desire that the believers should conduct such a service there is no objection at all. 
- Shoghi Effendi  (From a letter dated 19 April, 1941, written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi; ‘Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand’)