“What we Bahá’ís must face is the fact that society is
rapidly disintegrating—so rapidly that moral issues which were clear a half
century ago are now hopelessly confused, and what is more, thoroughly mixed up
with battling political interests. That is why the Bahá’ís must turn all their
forces into the channel of building up the Bahá’í Cause and its administration.
They can neither change nor help the world in any other way at present. If they
become involved in the issues the governments of the world are struggling over,
they will be lost. But if they build up the Bahá’í pattern they can offer it as
a remedy when all else has failed.” (Bahá’í News, No. 241, p. 14) “We must
build up our Bahá’í system, and leave the faulty systems of the world to go
their own way. We cannot change them through becoming involved in them; on the
contrary they will destroy us. (Bahá’í News, No. 215, p. 1) - Shoghi Effendi (From letters written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, quoted by the Universal House of Justice in a letter to
an individual believer dated December 8, 1967; Wellspring of
Guidance, Messages of the Universal House of Justice 1963-1968)
