The questions you ask in your letter about individual
guidance have two aspects, one might say. It is good that people should turn to
God and beseech His aid in solving their problems and guiding their acts,
indeed every day of their lives, if they feel the desire to do so. But they
cannot possibly impose what they feel to be their guidance on anyone else, let
alone on Assemblies or Committees, as Bahá'u'lláh has expressly laid down the
law of consultation and never indicated that anything else superseded it.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi
Effendi, 25 January 1943 to an individual believer; The Compilation of
Compilations, vol. I, Consultation)
