The believers must be encouraged to teach individually in
their own homes. Baha’u’llah has enjoined upon the Baha'is the sacred
obligation of teaching. We have no priests, therefore the service once rendered
by priests to their religion is the service every single Baha'i is expected to
render individually to his religion. He must be the one who enlightens new
souls, confirms them, heals the wounded and the weary upon the road of life,
and gives them to quaff from the chalice of everlasting life -- the knowledge
of the Manifestation of God in His Day.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter written on behalf of
Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Benelux Countries,
July 5, 1957; compilation: ‘The Individual and Teaching’)
