The House of Justice regards the need to educate and guide
women in their primary responsibility as mothers as an excellent opportunity
for organizing women's activities. Your efforts should focus on helping them in
their function as educators of the rising generation. Women should also be
encouraged to attract their husbands and male members of their families to the
Faith so that the Bahá'í community will be representative of the society of
which it forms a part. Gradually the spirit of unity and fellowship, as set
forth in our teachings, will be reflected in the life of Bahá'í families.
- The Universal House of Justice (From
a letter dated 29 February 1984 written on behalf of the Universal House of
Justice to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Mariana Islands; The
Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Women)
