Threatening Baha'is

One other example of Shoghi Effendi was when one of the Baháʼís died in America and left a will. And his wife wanted to contest the will. She considered it very unfair. And Shoghi Effendi told the National Assembly, "Tell her she will be put out of the Cause if she did contest the will." Because he had intervened, you see. He told her she must not contest the will, so if she'd have disobeyed the Guardian she would have been put out of the Cause. But he said the will of a Baháʼí is sacred. Bahá’u’lláh says make your will. And when a Baháʼí makes their will, which they are free to do, it is sacred and it must be obeyed and it must be upheld. These things were great illumination to me about the way this Faith protects and preserves the rights of individuals as well as the right of society, the right of the community.

Rúhíyyih Khánum speaking at the closing session of the Bahá’í World Congress in London, 1963

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