It should…be the aim of every local and national community
to become not only self-supporting, but to expend its funds with such wisdom
and economy as to be able to contribute substantially to the Baha'i
International Fund, thus enabling the House of Justice to aid the work in
fruitful but impoverished areas, to assist new National Assemblies to start
their work, to contribute to major international undertakings… and to carry
forward the work of beautifying the land surrounding the Holy Shrines at the
World Centre of the Faith.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated
18 December 1963; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’)
