| The administrative and governing institution of a Bahá'í community. Local and national (or secondary) Houses of Justice are presently called spiritual assemblies, but Shoghi
Effendi has states that these will eventually evolve into and be named 'Houses
of Justice'.31 At the international level, however, the name of the supreme authority
in the Bahá'í world is the Universal
House of Justice. |
| The House of Justice was first ordained in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas of Bahá'u'lláh. Bahá'u'lláh calls for the formation of a House of Justice wherever 'shall gather counsellors to
the number of Bahá (9)'.32 'Abdu'l-Bahá laid
down that they should be elected bodies: the local
Houses of Justice to be elected by all the Bahá'ís in the area; the national body through indirect Election by delegates; and the Universal
House of Justice by the national
bodies. |
| Among the functions of the House of Justice are the following: to promulgate the Cause of God; to educate
the souls of men; to preserve the law; to make the land prosperous; to administer social
affairs; to educate the children; and to take care of the old, the weak and the ill
who have fallen into poverty. |
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