Answer: A satisfactory explanation has never, and can never be given. Surely God could have created some other scheme that would have allowed less evil. His motives, the way He works, are beyond us. It would cease to be a Revelation if Americans could resolve all these mysteries - it would be a product of the American mind.
- Shoghi Effendi (Comments by Shoghi Effendi, recorded by Mary Maxwell [Ruhiyyih Khanum] during pilgrimage with May Maxwell, 1937; “Haifa Notes”)