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Note
Shoghi
Effendi :
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By
the end of Abdu'l-Baha's ministry, the Baha'i Faith had attracted a great
number of followers from background as different as jewish,
christian,
Muslim,
Hindu,
Buddhist,
Zoroastrian,
and atheist. They came from various nations, races, and cultures of the
world. As baha'is, they
now
had to learn work together as one people.
,
In
the lifetime of Abdu'l-Baha,
they had turned to Him for guidance at every step, and He had taught them
and watched over them like a loving father. Under His patient care, they
had begun to lay down the foundations of their administrative
institutions, the plan for which had been
given
by Baha'u'llah
Himself. Through these institutions, to
be established throughout the
entire
world, the followers of Baha'u'llah, wherever they lived, would be
linked together
and
able to work as one body for the promotion of
the spiritual and social principles
of
their Faith. But the Baha'is had just begun to get a glimpse of this
unique,
World-wide
Administrative Order, which was so different from anything
they
had known before and which was to
coordinate their
activities
and preserve their unity, when Abdu'l-Baha
passed
away. Many wondered how the members
of
this infant Faith, coming from such diverse
back-grounds,
could continue to remain
united
after the magnetic personality
of
Abdu'l-Baha was removed
from
their midst.
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