During the
thirty-six years of his Guardianship, Shoghi Effendi fixed the pattern and laid
the foundations of the Administrative Order of Baha'u'llah, set in motion the
implementation of the Divine Plan of 'Abdu'l-Baha for the spread of the Faith
throughout the world, and, as these twin processes of administrative
consolidation and widespread expansion progressed, started to apply and
enforce, gradually and according to the progress of the Cause, those laws of
the Kitab-i-Aqdas that in his estimation it was timely and practicable to apply
and which were not in direct conflict with the civil law. At his instance the
National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Egypt prepared a codification of
the Baha'i laws of personal status relative to marriage, divorce and
inheritance.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated April 1973)
