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=== Shoghi Effendi ===
{{Main|Shoghi Effendi}}

Baháʼu'lláh's ''[[Kitáb-i-Aqdas]]'' and ''The [[Will and Testament of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá]]'' are foundational documents of the Baháʼí administrative order. Baháʼu'lláh established the elected [[Universal House of Justice]], and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá established the appointed hereditary Guardianship and clarified the relationship between the two institutions.{{sfn|Smith|2008|pp=55–57}} In his Will, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá appointed Shoghi Effendi, his eldest grandson, as the first Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith. Shoghi Effendi served for 36 years as the head of the religion until his death in 1957.{{sfn|Smith|2008|p=55}}

Throughout his lifetime, Shoghi Effendi translated [[Baháʼí texts]]; developed global plans for the expansion of the Baháʼí community; developed the [[Baháʼí World Centre]]; carried on a voluminous correspondence with communities and individuals around the world; and built the administrative structure of the religion, preparing the community for the election of the Universal House of Justice.{{sfn|Hutter|2005|pp=737–740}} 

In 1937, Shoghi Effendi launched a [[Baháʼí teaching plans#1st Seven Year Plan (1937–1944)|seven-year plan]] for the Baháʼís of North America, followed by another in 1946. In 1953, he launched the first international plan, the [[Ten Year Crusade|Ten Year World Crusade]]. This plan included extremely ambitious goals for the expansion of Baháʼí communities and institutions, the translation of Baháʼí texts into several new languages, and the sending of [[Baháʼí teaching plans#Pioneering|Baháʼí pioneers]] into previously unreached nations.{{sfn|Smith|2008|p=64}} He announced in letters during the Ten Year Crusade that it would be followed by other plans under the direction of the Universal House of Justice, which was elected in 1963 at the culmination of the Ten Year Crusade.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stockman |first=Robert H. |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429027772 |title=The World of the Bahá'í Faith |date=2021-11-26 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-02777-2 |edition=1 |location=London |language=en |doi=10.4324/9780429027772}}</ref> 

Shoghi Effendi died unexpectedly after a brief illness on 4 November 1957 in London, England, under conditions that did not allow for a successor to be appointed.{{sfn|Smith|2008|pp=58–69}}{{sfn|Smith|2022a}} He is buried in [[New Southgate Cemetery]] in Barnet, London.