Shoghi Effendi's divine and indefeasible right to assume the
helm of the Cause of God had been fully vindicated through thirty-six years of
unremitting, heartbreaking toil. It would be hard indeed to find a comparable figure
in history who, in a little over a third of a century, set so many different
operations in motion, who found the time to devote his attention to minute
details on one hand and on the other to cover the range of an entire planet
with his plans, his instructions, his guidance and his leadership. He had laid
the foundations of that future society Bahá'u'lláh had fathered upon the mind
of the Master, and which He in turn had gestated to a point of perfection,
passing it upon His death into the safe hands of His successor.
- Ruhiyyih Khanum (‘The Guardian of the Baha'i
Faith’)
