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History of the Cause |
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With reference to the need, so often expressed, for an authentic
and comprehensive history of the Cause, I am glad to inform you
of the action contemplated by the National Spiritual Assembly of
Persia in instructing and urging the local Assemblies throughout
the country to take immediate steps for the formation in every
locality of a special committee which will seek the assistance and the
testimony of the remnants of the earliest believers and pioneers of
the Cause in Persia in collecting most carefully all available evidence
and data for the compilation of a comprehensive, reliable and representative
history of the Movement from its earliest dawn to the
present day. I have communicated with the National Assembly of
Persia, regarding this urgent and vital necessity, and I feel the time
is not far distant when a free rendering into English of this stirring
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narrative as well as an abridged form of it will be made available
for both the Bahá’ís and the general public in the West.
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The efforts recently displayed by the Publishing Committee so
clearly reflected in the minutes of their meeting of November 2,
1924, a copy of which I have read with the closest attention, indicate
the efficiency, the zeal and the determination with which they are
conducting this vital branch of Bahá’í activity. The scope of their
effective work is expanding rapidly, and I wish to assure them one
and all of my prayers for the fruition of their labors and the further
development and consolidation of their work.
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There have been of late no fresh developments in the situation
of the House of Baghdád. The case, which is now before the court
of First Instance, has been postponed for some time and we still
await anxiously the decision of the court. Any hope of an immediate
and final solution of this intricate problem seems for the present
remote. In the event of our success the case may still be referred
by our powerful opponents to the Court of Appeal—the highest in
the land—and should its decision be in our favor the government
may at any time—as it does not seem unlikely—decide, by retaining
the keys in its custody, to postpone indefinitely the execution of such
a verdict in order to allay the fierce hostility of the clerical element
as well as the Shi’ite population of ‘Iráq.
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