THE ULTIMATE PARADOX

During the ministry of Shoghi Effendi all Bahá’ís knew that one of the essential conditions that had been prescribed by Shoghi Effendi for being accepted as an enrolled believer was faithful adherence to every clause of the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá—“the Center of the Covenant”—and believed that fidelity on the part of the believer to the Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh required nothing less than faithful, complete and steadfast adherence to every clause of this “Charter of the New World Order.”