The Universal House of Justice has received your email letter dated 31 January 2002, inquiring if a company, owned only by a Bahá’í, may make contributions to the Fund and pay Huqúqu’lláh.

The obligation to pay Huqúqu’lláh rests on individual believers, not on corporate bodies, even if they are wholly owned by Bahá’ís. On the other hand, if the owners of a company, which is entirely Bahá’í-owned, wish their company to make a donation to Huqúqu’lláh, such a contribution is acceptable. It does not, of course reduce the obligation of the individual believers concerned to pay their own Huqúqu’lláh.

With regard to the Bahá’í Fund, it is entirely permissible for contributions to be made to the Fund from a business which is owned solely by Bahá’ís.