…we were trying desperately to fix his beloved countenance
for all time in our memories, and not to lose one single shading of his
expression, always impersonal, sudden and varied and surprising...Alas, Shoghi
Effendi's 'radiant nature' has all too often been clouded over and saddened by
the unwisdom of the friends, or their flagrant disobedience, or disregard of
his instructions. Frantically one wonders who has not failed him in one way or
another!"
(Recorded by a pilgrim in 1956; quoted by Ruhiyyih Khanum in ‘The
Priceless Pearl’)
