Let it not be imagined that the House of Justice will take
any decision according to its own concepts and opinions. God forbid! The
Supreme House of Justice will take decisions and establish laws through the
inspiration and confirmation of the Holy Spirit, because it is in the
safekeeping and under the shelter and protection of the Ancient Beauty, and
obedience to its decisions is a bounden and essential duty and an absolute
obligation, and there is no escape for anyone.
Say, O people: Verily the Supreme House of Justice is under
the wings of your Lord, the Compassionate, the All-Merciful, that is, under His
protection, His care, and His shelter; for He has commanded the firm believers
to obey that blessed, sanctified and all-subduing body, whose sovereignty is
divinely ordained and of the Kingdom of Heaven and whose laws are inspired and
spiritual.
- 'Abdu'l-Bahá (From a Tablet ["Rahíq-i-Makhtúm" vol. I,
pp. 302-4]; "Bahá'í News, September 1966; cited in "Wellspring of Guidance";
The Compilation of Compilations, vol. I, Establishment of the Universal House
of Justice)
