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Huqúqu’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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96. “The continuing responsibility for educating the believers in the law of…”

The continuing responsibility for educating the believers in the law of Huqúqu’lláh is shared by all the institutions of the Faith. But your deputies and their representatives, through the close relationships which they are forming with individual believers, will be able to advance their understanding of the spiritual and practical aspects of this law in an especially effective way. The primary need at this time, we believe, is … for the friends to be encouraged to understand and accept the responsibility which rests on every true-hearted follower of the Faith to apply the principles of the law to the specific details of his or her own condition. The members of your institution, through wise and tactful comments and explanations, can assist them to do this, while refraining from exerting, or appearing to exert, any form of pressure.
A major challenge now before those devoted friends who have been called to serve as your deputies and representatives is the organization of their own work to ensure a reliable system for the acceptance, receipting, custody and remittance of the funds of Huqúqu’lláh. It is love for Bahá’u’lláh which will be the primary motive for the friends in obeying this law, but they will carry out their duty with greater assurance and promptitude the greater their confidence in and respect for those on whom has been conferred the responsibility of receiving this Right of God on your behalf.
(13 November 1992, written by the Universal House of Justice to the Trustee of Huqúqu’lláh, the Hand of the Cause of God ‘Alí-Muhammad Varqá)
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