[I]t will be an outright lie, a shameful deviation and a wicked sin for anybody to claim that the phrase: “His administration” refers to the administration of Rúhíyyih Khánum and the former Hands who abandoned `Abdu'l-Bahá’s Divinely-conceived administration and replaced it with their own man-made administration without the Guardian of the Cause of God—the “sign of God,” “the chosen branch,” “the expounder of the words of God,” “the sacred head,” “the distinguished member” of the Universal House of Justice, the one whom “Should he not attend in person its deliberations, he must appoint one to represent him,” the one whom, “Should any of the members commit a sin, injurious to the common weal, the Guardian of the Cause of God hath at his own discretion the right to expel him,” the one whom “The Lord, as a sign of His infinite bounties, hath graciously favored His servants by providing for a fixed money offering (Huqúq), to be dutifully presented unto Him.”
“His administration” is `Abdu'l-Bahá’s administration which is delineated in His sacred Will and Testament. “His administration” revolves around the Guardian who is the “Center of the Cause” about whom Rúhíyyih Khánum wrote the following, when she was faithful:
“The principle of successorship, endowed with the right of Divine interpretation, is the very hub of the Cause into which its Doctrines and Laws fit like the spokes of a wheel -- tear out the hub and you have to throw away the whole thing.”
(Rúhíyyih Khánum, Twenty Five Years of the Guardianship, p. 23)
Nosrat'u'llah Bahremand
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