The Promised Day is Come is a letter by Shoghi Effendi written during the second World War. Its immediate beneficiaries were the Bahá’ís of the West in 1941 but its ultimate intended audience was all of humanity living through humanity’s transition from childhood to adulthood.

It tells the story of the most recent of God’s messengers speaking to humanity and being heard by only a few. It shows the consequences of such recalcitrance: the downfall of the old order and the obscure birth of the new. It shows the depth of present-day darkness and predicts a new dawn to a humanity which would respond to the Divine Call. But above all, it forcefully reminds human beings that they are not alone in the universe, that existence is not meaningless, that human destiny is significant, and that the way to God is once again open.