tag name Universal House of Justice (UHJ general) type: Administration; Universal House of Justice web link bahai-library.com/tags/-_Universal_House_of_Justice_(UHJ_general) related tags – Bahá'í World Centre; Covenant; House of Justice; Rulers and learned referring tags Ark; Bahá'u'lláh, Guidance of; Center of the Covenant (concept); Guidance; Jurisprudence; Umumi (universal); Universal House of Justice; Universal House of Justice, Membership on; Universal House of Justice, Research Department Inventory subject House of Justice notes "The Universal House of Justice is the international governing council of the Bahá’í Faith. Bahá’u’lláh ordained the creation of this institution in His book of laws, the Kitáb-i-Aqdas.
The Universal House of Justice is a nine-member body, elected every five years by the entire membership of all national Bahá’í assemblies..."
– From the introduction "The Universal House of Justice" on bahai.org."Supreme administrative body of the Bahá'í Faith, ordained by Bahá'u'lláh in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. Its membership is confined to men, at present fixed at nine. The Universal House of Justice is elected every five years by the members of the National Spiritual Assemblies who gather at an International Convention for the purpose... In His Will and Testament 'Abdu'l-Bahá states that the Universal House of Justice, with the Guardian, is "under the care and protection of the Abhá Beauty [Bahá'u'lláh], under the shelter and unerring guidance of His Holiness, the Exalted One [the Báb]... Everything which is not expressly recorded in the Writings "must be referred to the Universal House of Justice. The Universal House of Justice has "power to enact laws that are not expressly recorded in the Book" and "power to repeal the same...The House of Justice is both the Initiator and the Abrogator of its own laws." The Universal House of Justice was elected for the first time in 1963... Its constitution was adopted in 1973 and it assumed its permanent Seat on Mount Carmel in 1982."
– from A Basic Bahá'í Dictionary (1989)
See also:
– Official website of the Universal House of Justice
– Bahá'í Sacred Writings, chapter 9, section "The Universal House of Justice" (Bahá'u'lláh), chapter 19, section Turn to the Universal House of Justice" ('Abdu'l-Bahá)
– Compilation "The Universal House of Justice" (2021)
– The Constitution of the Universal House of Justice
– Ruhi Book 8: The Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh, Part 3.
– Covenant Library Unified Index
selected quotations
(authoritative sources)These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts:
"... We exhort the men of the House of Justice and command them to ensure the protection and safeguarding of men, women and children. It is incumbent upon them to have the utmost regard for the interests of the people at all times and under all conditions..."
– Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 69-70; Kalimát-i-Firdawsíyyih (Words of Paradise, ninth leaf), ¶34 (BH00111)
"... those matters of major importance which constitute the foundation of the Law of God are explicitly recorded in the Text, but subsidiary laws are left to the House of Justice. The wisdom of this is that the times never remain the same, for change is a necessary quality and an essential attribute of this world, and of time and place..."
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'í Sacred Writings, chapter 19, ¶20.2 (see also Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Introduction, pp. 4-5; AB00151)
"... To direct and canalize the forces released by His Revelation He [Bahá’u’lláh] instituted His Covenant, whose power has preserved the integrity of His Faith, maintained its unity and stimulated its world-wide expansion throughout the successive ministries of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi. It continues to fulfil its life-giving purpose through the agency of the Universal House of Justice whose fundamental object, as one of the twin successors of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, is to ensure the continuity of that divinely-appointed authority which flows from the Source of the Faith, to safeguard the unity of its followers, and to maintain the integrity and flexibility of its teachings...."
– Universal House of Justice, The Constitution of the Universal House of Justice (1972), pp. 3-4
bahaidata.org Q202 · Links to Bahá'í wikis (bahai9, bahaipedia, etc.) references en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_House_of_Justice; bahaiquotes.com/subject/universal-house-of-justice; bahaiquotes.com/subject/universal-house-of-justice-authority-of; bahaiquotes.com/subject/universal-house-of-justice-writing-to; bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/the-universal-house-of-justice
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