rise unitedly to achieve their immediate goal.

Your true and grateful brother,
Shoghi.

LETTER OF JULY 31ST, 1946

Haifa, July 31st, 1946

Dear Baha'i Brother:

Your letter--with check enclosed--dated 15th of July was received and our
beloved Guardian has instructed me to answer it on his behalf.

He is very sorry that from here he is unable owing to existing
regulations, to forward this loving contribution made by both the
believers and the N.S.A. to Persia for the Relief Fund. He suggests you
try to send it direct to Tehran to the treasurer of this Fund, Mr. Varga.
If you are able to do so, and will arrange to send the money to Mr. Daoud
Toeq, he will see it reaches Mr. Varga in Tehran.

Please assure the members of the N.S.A., and all the friends, of his deep
appreciation of this gift to their sorely tried brethren in other lands.

You may be sure he often prays for the success of your work and that of
all the N.S.A. members.

With loving greetings,
R. Rabbani.

[From the Guardian:]

Assuring you of my loving prayers for the success of your efforts in the
service of our beloved Faith and of its divinely appointed insitutions,

Your true brother,
Shoghi.

LETTER OF MARCH 14TH, 1947

March 14th, 1947.

Dear Baha'i Sister:

Our beloved Guardian has instructed me to answer your letters dated Sep.
2nd and 16th, and Oct. 22nd and 25th, 1946, and to acknowledge receipt of
enclosures sent in some of them, and also material forwarded under
separate cover. He regrets very much the delay in replying to these N.S.A.
communications, but he has been very preoccupied with various pressing
matters the last few months, and his mail has consequently had to wait.

In regard to the various points you raised in your letters: There is no
objection to individual Baha'is sending Naw-Ruz cards if they want to;
also the N.S.A. can send them out occassionally, but it should not become
a fixed custom.

He has already cabled you that he approves of increasing the delegates to
the Annual Convention to 19.

He feels that Committees should be left free to elect their own officers.

Prayers translated by other people may be used and memorized by the
friends; they need not be confined to his translations.

He considers that the N.S.A. has every right to examine the ballots if
there is some doubt as to the election having been properly conducted. By
"preservation" of the ballots is meant that they are