In The Promised Day Is Come, Shoghi Effendi states that the horrors of World War II could have been averted if humanity had accepted the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh. Today, in the midst of what the Universal House of Justice describes as “furious storms lashing humanity,” we turn to this dramatic letter to help us understand what is happening in the world around us now, and reflect on the role each of us must play in “leading humanity out of the valley of misery and shame to the loftiest summits of power and glory.”