Ruhiyyih Khanum wrote: "Too much stress cannot be laid on this point."

I agree with Ruhiyyih Khanum on that point.
I often use the example that the Roman Catholic Church leadership took
375 years to admit that it was wrong to condemn Galileo to life in
prison for discovering and teaching that the Earth turns on its axis
and moves around the sun, and during those centuries very few
Catholics stood up to expose their church's error.
Ruhiyyih Khanum wrote this about Shoghi Effendi, as recorded on page
173 of The Bahá'í World 1954-1963:

"His understanding of the weaknesses of others, however, produced in
him no compromise, no acceptance of wrong trends as evils to be
condoned because they were universal. Too much stress cannot be laid
on this point. We are prone to think that because a thing is general
it is the right thing; because our leaders and scholars hold a view,
it is the right view; because experts assure us that this , that or
the other thing is proper and enduring they speak with the voice of
authority. No such complacence afflicted Shoghi Effendi. He saw
everything in the world today--in the realm of politics, morality art
music literature, medicine, social science--against a framework of
Bahá’u’lláh's teachings. Did it fit into the guiding lines laid down
by Bahá’u’lláh? It was a sound trend. Did it not? It was on a wrong
and dangerous track."

In view of the fact that Shoghi Effendi identified the inspiration of
the Will and Testament of Testament of 'Abdu'l-Bahá as originating
with Bahá’u’lláh, and wrote that it was "their Will", anything which
does not "... fit into the guiding lines..."delineated and enshrined
within the pages of that sacred Document, is most assuredly "on a
wrong and dangerous track."

Specifically, then, the following views are "on a wrong and dangerous
track" although Heterodox Bahá'í 'leaders and scholars' hold those
views, because those views do not "...fit into the guiding lines
laid down by Bahá’u’lláh" recorded in the Master's immutable Will and
Testament:

1. A Bahá'í Universal House of Justice can be legitimate although
devoid of its "sacred head", a living Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith.

2. The Bahá'í Faith is legitimate although devoid of a living
Guardian.

3. The sacred Institution of the Hands of the Cause is dispensable,
that is, the Bahá'í Faith can be legitimate devoid of that sacred
Institution.

4. Various and sundry institutions, although not provided for in
Bahá'í Holy Writ or Holy text, and without the approval of a living
Guardian, can be incorporated into the Bahá'í Faith and exercise real
authority and control over Bahá'í women and men Earthwide.

5. God's Holy Words can be interpreted authoritatively and applied in
the Bahá'í Administration and in the Bahá'í brotherhood by individual/
s other than a living Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith.

6. The Holy Words of 'Abdu'l-Bahá in His sacred Will and Testament
which clearly and specifically identify/delineate a Guardian of the
Bahá'í Faith to be "...the expounder of the words of God" are no
longer valid.

The website of the living Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith:

http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com
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