Author:Shoghi Effendi
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Shoghi Effendi was the Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith from 1921 til his death in 1957. He focused on the development of the Administrative Order of the Bahá’í Faith in order to prepare the Bahá’í world for the election of the Universal House of Justice. |

Publications
- The Advent of Divine Justice
- Bahá’í Administration
- God Passes By
- Principles of Bahá’í Administration
- Promised Day Is Come
- The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh
Compilations
- Arohanui: Letters from Shoghi Effendi to New Zealand
- Citadel of Faith: Messages to America, 1947-1957
- Dawn of a New Day: Messages to the Indian Subcontinent, 1923-1957
- Directives from the Guardian
- High Endeavours: Messages to Alaska
- Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand
- Messages to Canada
- Messages to the Antipodes
- Messages to the Bahá’í World, 1950-1957
- This Decisive Hour
- Unfolding Destiny: Messages to the British Isles
Translations by Shoghi Effendi
- The Dawn-Breakers
- Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh
- Kitáb-i-Íqán
- The Hidden Words
- Synopsis and Codification of the Laws and Ordinances of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas
- Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh
- Note: this is an incomplete list
Other
- Bahá’í Faith 1844-1950, The - Information Statistical and Comparative
- Faith of Bahá’u’lláh, The - A World Religion
- Challenging Requirements of the Present Hour, The
- Religion, A Living Organism
- World Survey The Bahá’í Faith 1844-1944, A
Works appearing in World Order Magazine
- The Goal of World Order, Vol. 1, No. 1, pg(s) 3-9
- A Divine Economy, Vol. 1, No. 12, pg(s) 447-451
- The Unfoldment of World Civilization, Vol. 2, No. 4, pg(s) 134-138
- The Unfoldment of World Civilization: II, Vol. 2, No. 5, pg(s) 179-183
- The Unfoldment of World Civilization: III, Vol. 2, No. 6, pg(s) 210-215
- The Unfoldment of World Civilization: IV, Vol. 2, No. 7, pg(s) 255-258
- The Unfoldment of World Civilization: V, Vol. 2, No. 8, pg(s) 298-301
- The Unfoldment of World Civilization: VI, Vol. 2, No. 9, pg(s) 335-338
- The Unfoldment of World Civilization: VII, Vol. 2, No. 10, pg(s) 378-382
- The Unity of Christendom, Vol. 3, No. 5, pg(s) 196-197
- The Destiny of America, Vol. 5, No. 3, pg(s) 83-86
- Race Unity, Vol. 5, No. 6, pg(s) 203-207
- A New World Order, Vol. 5, No. 8, pg(s) 281-282
- Peace a Divine Creation: III., Vol. 5, No. 11, pg(s) 403-407
- Universal Fermentation, Vol. 6, No. 5, pg(s) 164
- The Highest Stage in Man's Collective Evolution (excerpt), Vol. 6, No. 9, pg(s) 324
- The Promised Day Is Come, Vol. 7, No. 3, pg(s) 87-95
- The Kings of Earth, Vol. 7, No. 5, pg(s) 169-176
- The Crumbling of Religious Orthodoxy, Vol. 7, No. 6, pg(s) 199-204
- The Basic Principle of Truth, Vol. 7, No. 7, pg(s) 240-247
- The Weakened Pillars of Religion, Vol. 7, No. 9, pg(s) 312-318
- Religion and the Evolution of World Unity, Vol. 7, No. 10, pg(s) 355-362
- This Judgment of God (excerpt), Vol. 7, No. 11, pg(s) 390
- The Spiritual Potencies of That Sacred Spot, Vol. 9, No. 2, pg(s) 51-59
- This New World Order, Vol. 9, No. 5, pg(s) 169-170
- The First Bahá’í Century, Vol. 9, No. 12, pg(s) 399-409
- The Birth of the Bábí Revelation, Vol. 10, No. 1, pg(s) 1-17
- The Báb’s Captivity in Ádhirbáyján, Vol. 10, No. 2, pg(s) 43-62
- God Passes By (excerpt), Vol. 10, No. 10, pg(s) 297-305
- The Birth of the Bahá’í Revelation (excerpt), Vol. 10, No. 12, pg(s) 361-372
- Assignment to America, Vol. 12, No. 5, pg(s) 156
- The Faith of Bahá’u’lláh, Vol. 13, No. 7, pg(s) 219-227