Dear Baha'i friends,
In order to stimulate the teaching work in every land and
encourage the friends during this last year of the Nine Year Plan we have
decided that as soon as the number of adult believers in any locality reaches
or exceeds nine they are permitted to form their Local Spiritual Assembly
immediately, rather than wait until 21 April 1973.
We hope moreover that, especially in the areas where the
people are entering the Cause in troops, the implementation of this decision
will increase the number of those communities which will, without the need for
outside assistance, re-elect their Assemblies on the first day of Ridvan in
1973 and in succeeding years.
It is our prayer at the Sacred Threshold that during the
months ahead the steadily mounting number of these divine institutions will
tremendously reinforce the labours of the valiant servants of the Blessed
Beauty in every clime.
With loving Baha'i greetings,
The Universal House of Justice
(‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice, 1963-1986’)
