A Compilation on Women
Author: Various
Source: Compiled by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, Bahá’í World Centre, January 1986
Pages: 45
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Extracts From Letters Written by the Universal House of Justice:

29: It is apparent from the Guardian’s writings that where Bahá’u’lláh…

It is apparent from the Guardian’s writings that where Bahá’u’lláh has expressed a law as between a man and a woman it applies, mutatis mutandis, between a woman and a man unless the context should make this impossible. For example, the text of the “Kitáb-i-Aqdas” forbids a man to marry his father’s wife (i.e. his step-mother), and the Guardian has indicated that likewise a woman is forbidden to marry her step-father….
(28 April 1974 to an individual believer) [29]
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