Bahá’u’lláh provides for the possibility that the line of
Aghsán would terminate prior to the establishment of the Universal House of
Justice. He designated that in such a situation “endowments shall revert to the
people of Bahá”. The term “people of Bahá” is used with a number of different
meanings in the Bahá’í Writings. In this instance, they are described as those
“who speak not except by His leave and judge not save in accordance with what
God hath decreed in this Tablet”. Following the passing of Shoghi Effendi in
1957, the Hands of the Cause of God directed the affairs of the Cause until the
election of the Universal House of Justice in 1963.
- The
Universal House of Justice (The 'Notes' section of the 'Kitab-i-Aqdas')
