Contributing to the Fund is a service that every believer
can render, be he poor or wealthy; for this is a spiritual responsibility in
which the amount given is not important. It is the degree of the sacrifice of
the giver, the love with which he makes his gift, and the unity of all the
friends in this service which bring spiritual confirmations. As the beloved
Guardian wrote in August 1957: "All, no matter how modest their resources,
must participate. Upon the degree of
self-sacrifice involved in these individual contributions will directly depend
the efficacy and the spiritual influence which these nascent administrative
institutions, called into being through the power of Baha'u'llah, and by virtue
of the Design conceived by the Centre of His Covenant, will exert."
- The
Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 18 December 1963; ‘Messages
from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’)
