In referring to the House of Justice in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas,
Bahá’u’lláh does not always explicitly distinguish between the Universal House
of Justice and the Local House of Justice, both of which institutions are
ordained in that Book. He usually refers simply to “the House of Justice”, leaving
open for later clarification the level or levels of the whole institution to
which each law would apply.
In a Tablet enumerating the revenues of the local treasury,
‘Abdu’l-Bahá includes those inheritances for which there are no heirs, thus
indicating that the House of Justice referred to in these passages of the Aqdas
relating to inheritance is the local one.
- The Universal House of Justice (The
‘Notes’ section of the Kitab-i-Aqdas)
