Hands of the cause

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The hands of the cause or hands of the cause of God were Baha'i , who were appointed for life by Bahāʾullāh , ʿAbdul -Baha ' and Shoghi Effendi respectively , and whose main task was to spread and protect the Baha'i faith. In total there were fifty hands of the cause, four of which were appointed by Bahāʾullāh, four by ʿAbdul-Baha ', and 42 by Shoghi Effendi. When Shoghi Effendi died, 27 of the hands of the cause were still alive. Today the title is no longer awarded and with Ali Muhammad Varqa the last hand of the matter died. The House of Justice is currently taking over the leadership of the worldwide Baha'i community.

The hands of the cause

Appointed by Bahāʾullāh

  • Haji Mulla Ali-Akbar (1842-1910)
  • Haji Mirza Muhammad-Taqi (? –1917)
  • Mirza Muhammad-Hasan (1848-1919)
  • Mirza Ali-Muhammad (? –1928)

Appointed by ʿAbdul-Baha '

  • Aqa Muhammad-i-Qa'ini (1829-1892)
  • Mirza Ali-Muhammad Varqa (? –1896)
  • Mulla Sadiq-i-Muqaddas
  • Shaykh Muhammad-Riday-i-Yazdi

Appointed posthumously by Shoghi Effendi

  • John Ebenezer Esslemont (1874-1925)
  • Haji Amin (1831-1928)
  • Keith Ransom-Kehler (1876-1933)
  • Martha Root (1872-1939)
  • John Henry Hyde Dunn (1855-1941)
  • Siyyid Mustafa Rumi (? –1942)
  • Abdu'l-Jalil Bey Sa'd (? –1942)
  • Muhammed Taqiy-i-Isfahani (? –1946)
  • Roy C. Wilhelm (1875–1951)
  • Louis George Gregory (1874-1951)

The First Hands of the Cause Appointed by Shoghi Effendi (December 24, 1951)

The Second Hands of the Cause Appointed by Shoghi Effendi (May 29, 1952)

Appointed by Shoghi Effendi (year of appointment)

  • Ruhiyyih Khanum (1910-2000) (1952)
  • Jalal Khadih (1897–1990) (1953)
  • Paul Edmond Haney (1909-1982) (1954)
  • Ali-Muhammad Varqa (1911-2007) (1955)
  • Agnes Baldwin Alexander (1875–1971) (1957)

The last hands of the cause appointed by Shoghi Effendi

See also

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Arabic أيادي أمر الله, DMG ayādin amr Allāh , lit. "the hands of the cause (command, instruction) of God"

literature

  • Baha'u'llah: Kitab-i-Aqdas - The Most Holy Book . Bahai Verlag, Hofheim-Langenhain 2000, ISBN 3-87037-339-3 ( online ).
  • Baha'u'llah: Tablets of Bahá'u'llah Revealed After the Kitáb-i-Aqdas . Bahá'í Publishing Trust, Wilmette, Illinois, USA 1994, ISBN 0-87743-174-4 ( online ).
  • Shoghi Effendi: Bahá'í Administration . Bahá'í Publishing Trust, Wilmette, Illinois, USA 1974, ISBN 0-87743-166-3 ( online ).
  • Shoghi Effendi: Principles of Bahá'í Administration . Bahá'í Publishing Trust, London, UK 1976, ISBN 0-900125-13-6 .
  • Barron Harper: Lights of Fortitude . Ed .: George Ronald. Oxford, UK 1997, ISBN 0-85398-413-1 .
  • Helen Hornby: Lights of Guidance: A Bahá'í Reference File . Bahá'í Publishing Trust, New Delhi, India 1983, ISBN 81-85091-46-3 ( online ).
  • Ruhiyyih Khanum: The Ministry of the Custodians 1957-1963 . Bahá'í World Center, 1992, ISBN 0-85398-350-X ( online ).

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