TO: THOSE DIRECTING AFFAIRS AT THE BAHÁ'Í WORLD CENTER
WHAT POSSIBLE ANSWER CAN YOU GIVE
TO FUTURE BAHÁ'Í GENERATIONS?
How can any faithful and devoted believer professing
fidelity to the mighty, indestructible and resistless Covenant
of Bahá’u’lláh maintain the belief that the most important
provisions of the Will and Testament of
‘Abdu’l-Bahá have now become null and void?
For has not Shoghi Effendi equated this Document in its sacredness with
Bahá’u’lláh’s Most Holy Book –
the Kitáb-i-Aqdas – in stating that these two
Documents "are inseparable parts of one complete unit" –
the Explicit Holy Text – whose
laws and provisions have been promised to endure and remain inviolate for no
less than a full thousand years? Does not such a belief, therefore, constitute
a flagrant repudiation, in effect, of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s
divinely-conceived Testament which has been extolled by Shoghi Effendi as
the very "Child of the Covenant – the Heir of both the Originator
and the Interpreter of the Law of God" and thus, "Their
Will"and, moreover the "
Charter of the New World Order which is at once the glory and promise of
this most great Dispensation" ? How then can any faithful believer continue to hold the untenable,
incredulous, and fallacious belief that Shoghi Effendi would have permitted
this divinely conceived and glorious
"new born child" so
glowingly eulogized by him to die, as it were, prematurely in its
infancy and the God-given
"Charter of the New World
Order"
to become a dead letter? Moreover, how can any faithful believer shamelessly ignore and
discount all that flowed from the matchless pen of Shoghi Effendi
in such monumental works as
"The Dispensation of
Bahá’u’lláh" in which he has
repeatedly stressed the continuing essentiality of the Guardianship
to the World Order of Bahá'u’lláh and the indispensable
and irreplaceable role of the
"Guardian of the Administrative
Order" in an
" Order which the master-hand
of its perfect Architect has fashioned" ? How can you be convinced that future Bahá’i generations
will accept your deluded belief that a man-made, corrupted and imperfect,
sans-Guardian organization erected by you as a disfigured substitute for
the divinely-conceived Order bequeathed to us by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
is able to replace an Order alluded to by Bahá’u’lláh
as "this
unique, this wondrous System – the like of which mortal eyes have never
witnessed" and an Order that Shoghi Effendi stated has been founded
on the bedrock of "
God’s immutable Purpose for
mankind in this day" ?
Third Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith