The present social and economic problems that are facing
the… people are surely occupying their whole attention, but they should also
operate as a reminder and draw them closer to spiritual matters. The people
have to be made conscious of the fact that without a complete change in our
outlook and a total reform of the guiding principles of our life, such as the
Cause advocates, our social and economic problems cannot be solved nor our
conditions ameliorated. Nothing short of the full message of Bahá’u’lláh can
end the sufferings that are befalling humanity.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter
dated 7 November 1931, written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi; printed in ‘The
Unfolding Destiny of the British Baha'i Community’)
