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O OPPRESSORS ON EARTH!
Withdraw your hands
from tyranny, for I have pledged Myself not to forgive any man's injustice.
This is My covenant which I have irrevocably decreed in the preserved
tablet and sealed it with My seal of glory.
(Bahá'u'lláh:
Persian Hidden Words, Page: 64)
Cover of the newly released Bahá'í International Community statement, "The Search for Values in an Age of Transition," issued for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. 
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When he was appointed Guardian, Shoghi Effendi was in his early twenties, studying at Balliol College, Oxford. The grief he felt upon the death of his dearly-loved Grandfather, added to the weight of the responsibility he had been given in `Abdu'l-Bahá's will, was initially crushing, since he had had no intimation that he was to be appointed to any such position.
To deal with his grief and to prepare himself to assume the burden of authority placed upon his shoulders, he left the Holy Land and entered a several-month period of seclusion. During this time, he left the affairs of the Faith under the leadership of his great aunt, Bahíyyih Khánum -- Bahá'u'lláh's daughter and `Abdu'l-Bahá's sister. Shoghi Effendi and his great aunt were very close; she, of all the members of his family, understood his crushing grief at the loss of his beloved Grandfather, and she was a wise and loyal support to him during the early years of the Guardianship until her passing in 1932.
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