Burials in London - Shoghi Effendi, Elizabeth Barton (Paperback)

Chapters: Shoghi Effendi, Elizabeth Barton. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Shoghi Effendi Rabbani (March 1, 1897 November 4, 1957), better known as Shoghi Effendi, was the Guardian and appointed head of the Baha'i Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957. After the death of Abdu'l-Baha in 1921, the leadership of the Baha'i community entered a new phase, evolving from that of a single individual to an administrative order with executive and legislative branches, the head of each being the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice. Shoghi Effendi was referred to as the Guardian, and held the explicit authority to interpret the writings of the three central figures of the religion and define the sphere of legislative authority. His writings are effectively limited to commentaries on the works of the central figures, and broad directives for the future. Future hereditary Guardians were permitted in the Baha'i scripture by appointment from one to the next, but a prerequisite that appointees be male descendants of Baha'u'llah left no suitable living candidates, and Shoghi Effendi died without making an appointment. The Universal House of Justice, the only institution authorized to adjudicate on situations not covered in scripture, later announced that it could not legislate to make possible the appointment of a successor to Shoghi Effendi. To Baha'is he is the first and last Guardian. Shoghi Effendi as a young boy holding the Greatest Name.Born in Akka in March 1897, Shoghi Effendi was related to the Bab through his father, Mirza Hadi Shirazi, and to Baha'u'llah through his mother, iya'iyyih Khanum, the eldest daughter of Abdu'l-Baha. From the early years of his life, Shoghi Effendi was greatly influenced by Abdu'l-Baha, who provided much o...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=29366