Bahá’u’lláh’s inscrutable purpose, we must ever bear in
mind, has been so thoroughly infused into the conduct of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, and
their motives have been so closely wedded together, that the mere attempt to
dissociate the teachings of the former from any system which the ideal Exemplar
of those same teachings has established would amount to a repudiation of one of
the most sacred and basic truths of the Faith.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a message
dated 8 February 1934, printed as ‘The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah’ in ‘The
World Order of Baha'u'llah’)
