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The Finest and Most Enduring Tribute

“The finest and most enduring tribute which can be paid to her memory lies within the grasp, and constitutes the supreme opportunity, of the American believers.”

Shoghi Effendi · Bahíyyih Khánum: The Greatest Holy Leaf

Formative Age / Shoghi Effendi (1921–1957) · 1 min

I wish to express to your distinguished assembly my gratitude for the action they have taken in reproducing in facsimile my humble tribute to the Greatest Holy Leaf. The hundred copies you sent me have been received and are splendid reproductions of the original. The finest and most enduring tribute which can be paid to her memory lies within the grasp, and constitutes the supreme opportunity, of the American believers.

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Her earthly life, as it drew to a close, was much brightened by the brilliant accomplishments of her devoted lovers in the American continent. May her pure angelic soul in the realms beyond derive added satisfaction from the uninterrupted progress and the eventual completion of an enterprise on which she had centered the one remaining joy of her life.

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*From a letter of Shoghi Effendi dated 27 October 1932, to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada.*

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