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211: UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE, MEMBERSHIP |
“As regards your question concerning the membership of
the Universal House of Justice, there is a Tablet from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
in which He definitely states that the membership of the
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Universal House is confined to men and that the wisdom of it
will be fully revealed in the future. In the local, as well as the
National Houses of Justice, however, women have the full right
of membership. It is therefore, only to the International
House that they cannot be elected. The Bahá’ís should accept
this statement of the Master in a spirit of deep faith, confident
that there is a divine guidance and wisdom behind it, which
will be gradually unfolded to the eyes of the world.”
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