Re: Scope of the House of Justice

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 05:03:05 -0800

In a message dated 1/31/2005 2:57:41 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

The House of Justice in this verse may as well mean houses of justice, as
the word in Arabic is bilaad which means lands or cities which has been
translated "its authority in the world". So it may mean that the local
spiritual assembly who has authority over that city control awqaaf of that
city when beneficiaries ceased to exist.
 
Dear Firouz,
 
That strikes me as as big a leap as reading the Guardianship into that passage. My point is not so much that the verse points to a Guardian as that it establishes that the Universal House of Justice can exist without one.
 
warmest, Susan
 
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