The reason for the appearance of a Manifestation of God in a
given place is not to honor a particular people or nation. Shoghi Effendi
indicates a quite different reason in The Advent of Divine Justice and, more
concisely, in a letter to an individual written on his behalf on 23 January
1944:
The ever-recurring miracle in the establishment of every
religion is that such poor instruments accomplish the work of God. It is to
demonstrate the fact that God is the power that overcomes every obstacle, and
that Revelations are divine in origin, that leads Him to always choose the
worst people among whom to manifest His Messenger and the most obscure and
helpless of the population―relatively speaking―to establish the foundations of
His Faith. The Bahá’í Dispensation is no exception to this rule, as you
yourself have observed.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated
27 October 1986 written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an
individual believer; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1986-2001’)
