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Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957

  • Author:

  • Shoghi Effendi

  • Source:
  • US Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1971 edition
  • Pages:
  • 175
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Page 91

Hand of Cause Appointment

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Inform Hands and National Assemblies that Varqá’s son, ‘Alí Muḥammad has been appointed to succeed his father now gathered into the concourse on high in the Abhá Kingdom, as Trustee of Ḥuqúq and elevated to rank of Hand of the Cause.
—Shoghi

[Cablegram, November 15, 1955]