We urge everyone who worked to bring about this success to hasten now and gather again to reflect and to consult, and to determine how best to apply, in each unique setting, all that your experience has taught you:
- how an expanding nucleus of friends can cultivate a growing pattern of activity;
- how children can advance to the next grade and junior youth to the succeeding text, further developing their moral and spiritual qualities;
- how institute courses can yield much-needed skills and capacities;
- how the path of service can widen to accommodate large numbers;
- how real hope for the betterment of society can be demonstrated in action;
- and how all of God’s peoples can be enabled to take inspiration from His new Revelation,
- and souls who are receptive can be invited to identify with the Cause of the Abhá Beauty.
In this continuing period of special potency, at an hour when the world seems powerless in the face of overwhelming peril and souls have succumbed to dismay and despair, Bahá’u’lláh has shown us another glimpse of what the community that bears His name can accomplish through courage—even heroism—in the discharge of its God-given mission. We will pray earnestly in the Holy Shrines for His unfailing confirmations to surround every child and every youth, every woman and every man, every family and every community that treasures His love in their hearts.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a
message dated 8 November 2019 to the Bahá’ís of the World; ‘Messages from the
Universal House of Justice 2001-2022)
