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Baháʼí laws are laws and ordinances used in the Baháʼí Faith and are a fundamental part of Baháʼí practice. [1] The laws are based on authenticated texts from Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, and also includes subsequent interpretations from ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi, and legislation by the Universal House of Justice. [2]
Burial should take place no more than an hour's travel from the place of death. The appropriate marker on the gravestone is a nine-pointed star and/or the word Baháʼí. Other inscriptions are allowed but not required. Baháʼí-run funerals for non-Baháʼís require none of these requirements. Infants who die are under the mercy and bounty ...
Certain possible sources of law are specifically abrogated: laws of the Bábí religion, notably in the Persian Bayán, oral traditions (linked with pilgrim notes, and natural law, (that is to say God's sovereign will through revelation is the independent authority.) [7] Divine revelation's law-making is both unconditioned in terms of the ...
In 1901 when the American Baha'i community numbered only roughly 2000 members, [49] they approached the US Ambassador to Persia Herbert W. Bowen in Paris concerning the situation of Baháʼís. [50] As an example of the persecution Baha'is faced (then and now) in Iran, even an American diplomat was murdered in 1924 by a mob on suspicion of ...
The word "Baháʼí" (بهائی) is used either as an adjective to refer to the Baháʼí Faith or as a term for a follower of Baháʼu'lláh.The proper name of the religion is the "Baháʼí Faith", not Baháʼí or Baháʼism (the latter, once common among academics, is regarded as derogatory by the Baháʼís).
'Abdu'l-Bahá also affirmed in his will that, in addition to the Guardian, the Universal House of Justice, established in Bahá'u'lláh's Book of Laws as the supreme legislative body of his Faith, [37] [39] was the other Bahá'í institution given global leadership and authority in the Faith. [32]
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Dorothy Wright Nelson - Senior Judge on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; former dean, University of Southern California Gould School of Law; Jacqueline Left Hand Bull [88] - Indian Health care policy administrator; Layli Miller-Muro [89] - Executive Director of the Tahirih Justice Center; Mahmud Jamal [90] - Judge on the Supreme Court ...