OVER THE WALL
PART 1
CHAPTER ONE
Once upon a
time not so long ago a group of people went against
Shoghi Effendi in a very offensive way. This was for
their own aggrandizement and empowerment. To go against
Shoghi Effendi is strictly forbidden by God as written by
çbdu'l-Baha in the Will and Testament of çbdu'l-Baha
on page 11. To disobey him [Shoghi Effendi] is to
disobey God:
Whoso rebelleth against him [Shoghi Effendi] hath rebelled against God; whoso opposeth him [Shoghi Effendi] hath opposed God; whoso disputeth with him [Shoghi Effendi] hath disputed with God; whoso denieth him [Shoghi Effendi] hath denied God; whoso disbelieveth in him [Shoghi Effendi] hath disbelieved in God; whoso deviateth, separateth himself and turneth aside from him hath in truth deviated separated himself and turned aside from God. May the wrath, the fierce indignation, the vengeance of God rest upon him! The mighty stronghold shall remain impregnable and safe through obedience to him [Shoghi Effendi] who is the guardian of the Cause of God. It is incumbent upon the members of the House of Justice, upon all the Aghsan, the Afnan, the Hands of the Cause of God to show their obedience, submissiveness and subordination unto the guardian of the Cause of God [Shoghi Effendi], to turn unto him [Shoghi Effendi] and be lowly before him [Shoghi Effendi]. He that opposeth him [Shoghi Effendi] hath opposed the True One, will make a breach [a division or split] in the Cause of God, will subvert His word and will become a manifestation of the Center of Sedition....
Shoghi Effendi, not
having a biological son to succeed him, set up a
successorship in a council in embryonic form that
everyone was to turn to upon his passing. This council
was an embryonic Universal House of Justice, and was
called the first International Baha'i Council. It
consisted of two parts, the executive head and the
legislative body. In conformity with çbdu'l-Baha's
Will and Testament , which is the charter (1) for the World
Order of Bah‡'u'll‡h. Anything else would not be
Bah‡'u'll‡h's Universal House of Justice. He placed
çbdu'l-Baha's adopted son to be its president, setting
up the executive branch. All of its nine members were
also appointed by Shoghi Effendi, forming the body. This
council was to go through four stages to become the
Universal House of Justice. It was, with the membership
appointed by him, to become a world court on Mt. Carmel
in 1963. Later its body (not the head) was to be elected
to form the International Tribunal, that was to bring
peace to the world, then it would effloresce into the
Universal House of Justice.
Shoghi Effendi knew that
he could not set up a Universal House of Justice during
his lifetime, as it was to be elected by the believers of
all nations. çbdu'l-Baha, during his lifetime,
contemplated setting up the Universal House of Justice,
as it was becoming possible then, as in Russia there was
a large Baha'i community, in fact the first Baha'i temple
was built in Iscabad, Russia. But after the passing of
çbdu'l- Baha in 1921, Russia became communist and
atheistic. All religions were banned. The Baha'i temple
was confiscated and taken over by the government. It was
then secularized by being turned into a library or museum
and then it was finally destroyed. It was thus impossible
for Shoghi Effendi to set up a Universal House of Justice
in accordance with the provisions of the Will and
Testament, which is the charter for the Universal
House of Justice as there were no longer any active
Baha'is, or Baha'i administration in Russia. Therefore no
one could set up a Universal House of Justice according
to the provisions of çbdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament
prior to the fall of communism in Russia.
And now, concerning the House of Justice which God hath ordained as the source of all good and freed from all error, it must be elected by universal suffrage, that is, by the believers. Its members must be manifestations of the fear of God and daysprings of knowledge and understanding, must be steadfast in God's faith and the well-wishers of all mankind. By this House is meant the Universal House of Justice, that is, in all countries a secondary House of Justice must be instituted, and these secondary Houses of Justice must elect the members of the Universal one (Will and Testament, p. 14 ).
No place in Baha'i
scriptures or in any of Shoghi Effendi's writings or
discourses are the "Hands" designated to be
Shoghi Effendi's successor or to take over after his
passing. In fact the "Hands" ceased to be Hands
with the last breath of Shoghi Effendi. They are to
function only under the direction of a living guardian,
that is, under the direction of Shoghi Effendi. They
claimed the authority, that it was them who were to carry
out Shoghi Effendi's plan. Then the defunct
"Hands" went against Shoghi Effendi. They took
over and prevented the Baha'is from turning to Shoghi
Effendi's successor, the first International Baha'i
Council, and set up an administration of their own that
is strange to the Baha'i faith, going against each and
every one of Shoghi Effendi's writings for the
establishment of the Universal House of Justice. There
was not one thing that was spared-a complete violation of
everything that Shoghi Effendi stood for.
The first thing they did
was bypass the first International Baha'i Council, the
successor to Shoghi Effendi, and scrap the executive
branch which is an integral part of the Universal House
of Justice. There are two parts to the Universal House of
Justice-the executive head and the legislative body.
The legislative body must reinforce the executive, the executive must aid and assist the legislative, so that through the close union and harmony of these two forces, the foundation of fairness and justice may become firm and strong, that all the regions of the world may become even as Paradise itself (Will and Testament, p. 15).(2)
The executive is the sacred head and the distinguished member for life of that body (Will and Testament, p. 14).
Now the members of the House of Justice have not, individually, essential sinlessness [infallibility]; but the body [which the head is part] of the House of Justice is under the protection of God: this is called conferred infallibility (Some Answered Questionsby çbdu'l-Baha, p. 199 ).
Without these two parts
there could be no infallibility, and without
infallibility there could be no justice, and without
justice there could be no Baha'i Universal House of
Justice. The first International Baha'i Council, which
was the successor to Shoghi Effendi and was appointed by
him, consisted of these two parts: the appointed
hereditary head and the other appointed members of the
body.
Two years later in 1959
when the Hands were firmly established in their violation
they dismantled the International Baha'i Council
altogether, thus doing away completely with everything
Shoghi Effendi had set up for the establishment of the
Universal House of Justice. Not only did they go against
Shoghi Effendi and God, they were in strict violation of
the provisions of the Will and Testament of
çbdu'l-Baha, which is part of the Covenant of
Bah‡'u'll‡h, making them Covenant-breakers of the worst
kind.
They did away with Shoghi
Effendi's plan entirely, that he laid out in his Ten Year
World Crusade, a plan which included this first
International Baha'i Council that he set up by appointing
both the executive head, which is hereditary, and the
legislative body which was to become elected sometime
after it was to become a world court on Mt. Carmel in
Ridvan 1963. Instead, they set up some weird monster, a
counterfeit body without a head. The whole Baha'i world
should have recognized that this violation was going
against Shoghi Effendi, which was going against God, and
also it was going against the Will and Testament of
çbdu'l-Baha which was Covenant-breaking.
1 The World Order of Bah‡'u'll‡h, p.144
2 The Will and Testament is an intergal part of the Covenant of Bah‡'u'll‡h
