Sequential excerpts from the book ‘God Passes By’, written in 1944 by Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha’i Faith

February 13, 2026

Mírzá Yahyá “had…insistently and in writing, besought” Bahá’u’lláh to return

Mírzá Yahyá, realizing full well to what a pass his unrestrained leadership of the Faith had brought him, had, moreover, insistently and in writing, besought Him to return. 

- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’, chapter 7)