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Ḥuqúqu’lláh—The Right of God

  • Author:

  • Various

  • Source:
  • Compiled by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, Bahá’í World Centre, April 2007
  • Pages:
  • 37
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52. “You will find references to the Ḥuqúq in the book of…”
You will find references to the Ḥuqúq in the book of Aqdas…. All matters not specifically provided by Bahá’u’lláh are to be referred to the Universal House of Justice.
(Postscript in the handwriting of Shoghi Effendi, appended to a letter dated 16 December 1927 written on his behalf to an individual believer)
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