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133. It is forbidden you to wed your fathers’ wives. # 107 |
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‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi confirmed that,
while stepmothers are the only category of relatives
mentioned in the text, this does not mean that all other
unions within a family are permissible. Bahá’u’lláh states
that it devolves upon the House of Justice to legislate
“concerning the legitimacy or otherwise of marrying one’s
relatives” (Q and A 50). ‘Abdu’l-Bahá has written that the
more distant the blood-relationship between the couple the
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better, since such marriages provide the basis for the
physical well-being of humanity and are conducive to
fellowship among mankind.
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