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...distinctly Islamic cast: all male believers must undertake a dawn-to-dusk fast each year similar to the Moslem Ramadan, could marry no more than two wives. Baha'u'llah's leadership was handed on to his son, and then his great-grandson, Oxford-educated Shoghi Effendi, the late husband of Mrs. Rabbani (she later remarried). Since then, the faith has been guided by 22 leaders known as Hands of the Cause, who will be superseded by the Universal House of Justice. In most Moslem countries, Bahai is still regarded as a dangerous heresy-perhaps because oldtime...
Founder Baha'u'llah ("the manifestation of God") had appointed his son ("the perfect man") to succeed him, and the son in turn appointed Shoghi Effendi Rabbani ("a man under divine guidance"). When Asian flu carried off 61-year-old Shoghi Effendi in London last month. Bahais from Illinois to Iran speculated on whom he had appointed to carry on as Guardian. At Bahai world headquarters in Haifa last week 26 of the 27 "Hands of the Cause of God," chief stewards of the faith, gathered to find the answer in Shoghi Effendi's will. But where...
...Hands ransacked the headquarters at No. 7 Persian Street; they searched Shoghi Effendi's safe-deposit box without success. All week long they met in secret session, were tight-lipped about rumors of stormy rivalry between two candidates for Guardian-one of them said to be an American. At last they announced the solution: there would be no new Guardian at all, but a nine-man council of Hands at Haifa, titled "Hands of the Cause of God on Holy Land." The new body will have no power to interpret scripture...
...Everything would certainly have been much simpler if Shoghi Effendi had made a will," said a Hand from Paris when the meeting was over. But Bahais have hopes that they will not remain without scriptural interpretation too long. Founder Baha'u'llah decreed that when Bahaism was established in 57 countries, the world's Bahais were to elect a Universal House of Justice with power to make the faith's laws and interpret its teachings. The liberal, world-brotherhood Bahai religion is already rooted in 26 countries and, say its devotees, is spreading fast...
...loas (pronounced Iowaas), a retired Chicago railroad manager, who serves as secretary general of the international council at Haifa. "Christ never mentioned universal peace in his teachings." Peace-striving Bahais plug for internationalism (the U.N.) and against treaty arrangements "based on force" (NATO). The sect's current head, Shoghi Effendi Rabbani, is in his fifties, lives in Haifa with his Canadian-born wife, and presides over a spiritual constituency of some 200,000 Bahais in Europe and Britain, about 1,500,000 in Iran...