Just as in the past the Prophets have been persecuted and
their Mission was ridiculed, so has the message of Baha’u’llah been scoffed at
as a mere impractical idealism. From His earliest youth He was put in chains,
expatriated and persecuted. But what do we observe in this day? less than forty
years after His death, the principles He advocated are the only solution for
practical politics, the spiritual truths He voiced are the crying needs of man
and the very thing he requires for his moral and spiritual development.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a
letter dated February 26, 1933, written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an
individual believer; Baha’i News, no. 80, January 1934)
