Membership of Women in the Universal House of Justice by E.S. Yazdani, Fifth Baha'i Guardian
O THOU GLORY OF THE MOST GLORIOUS Office of Fifth Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith To the Believers in Baha’u’llah in the East and the West all to note: The present Guardian of the Bahá’i Faith announces that the elective members of the Universal House of Justice are not limited to persons having male sex organs. The alteration made by the erring ex-Hands of the Faith in the evolution of the embryo of Universal House of Justice, formed by the First Guardian, in early January, 1951 was one of the blunders the group of the then ex-Hands of the Faith committed, following the death of Shoghi Effendi, in early November, 1957. Subsequent to the death of Shoghi Effendi, First Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith, the management of the worldwide Bahá’í community was taken by unauthorized members of the Institution of the Hands of the Cause after November 4, 1957, in Haifa, Israel, the Holy Land. The Hands of the Cause repudiated the Will and T...