The Bahá’í Funds

“There should be a continual flow of funds to the National treasury of the National Spiritual Assembly, if that body wishes to properly administer the manifold and ever-increasing activities of the Faith. Every Bahá’í no matter how poor, must realize what a grave responsibility he has to shoulder in this connection, and should have confidence that his spiritual progress as a believer in the World Order of Bahá’u’lláh will largely depend upon the measure in which he proves, in deeds, his readiness to support materially the divine institutions of His Faith.”

Shoghi Effendi, 17 July 1937, to a National Spiritual Assembly, published in Dawn of a New Day, pp. 67–68