Allegiance to the Faith cannot be partial and half-hearted.
Either we should accept the Cause without any qualification whatever, or cease
calling ourselves Baha’is. The new believers should be made to realize that it
is not sufficient for them to accept some aspects of the teachings and reject
those which cannot suit their mentality in order to become fully recognized and
active followers of the Faith. In this way all sorts of misunderstandings will
vanish and the organic unity of the Cause will be preserved.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter
dated June 12, 1933, written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual
believer; Baha’i News, no. 80, January 1934)
