It is…not permitted that any one of the honored members [of
Spiritual Assembly] object to or censure, whether in or out of the meeting, any
decision arrived at previously though that decision be not right, for such
criticism would prevent any decision from being enforced.
- ‘Abdu'l-Bahá (Cited
in a letter dated 5 March 1922 written by Shoghi Effendi to the Bahá'ís of the
United States and Canada, published in ‘Bahá'í Administration: Selected
Messages 1922-1932’; The Compilation of Compilations, Vol. I, Consultation)
