The Kitáb-i-Aqdas is a central book of the Bahá ' í Faith written by Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the religion.

The work was written in Arabic under the Arabic title (), but it is commonly referred to by its Persian title, Kitáb-i-Aqdas (), which was given to the work by Bahá ' u ' lláh himself.

The Kitáb-i-Aqdas is referred to as " the Mother-Book " of the Bahá ' í teachings, and the " Charter of the future world civilization ".

The Kitáb-i-Aqdas is supplemented by the

The other Bahá ’ í laws of inheritance in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas apply only in case of intestacy, that is, when the individual dies without leaving a will.

Bahá ' u ' lláh, who claims to be and is widely recognized as being that figure, in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas confirms the Báb's statement and further ordains his final resting-place as the Qiblih.

Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Bahá ' í Faith, stated that specifically Bahá ' u ' lláh's book of laws, the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, is the new Jerusalem.

* March 21, the Kitáb-i-Aqdas is released in English with commentary.

While the resulting institution is local, in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas Bahá ' u ' lláh also spoke about the responsibilities of the supreme or Universal House of Justice.

In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Bahá ' u ' lláh prescribed the Bahá ' í law of a daily obligatory prayer which is to be said individually ( though not necessarily in private ); he wrote that the specific obligatory prayer was recorded in a separate tablet or writing.

Bahá ' u ' lláh also forbids slavery in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas written around 1873 considered by Bahá ' ís to be the holiest book revealed by Bahá ' u ' lláh in which he states, " It is forbidden you to trade in slaves, be they men or women ".

The main source of Bahá ' í law is the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, but it is supplemented by some supplementary texts written by Bahá ' u ' lláh, as well as further interpretations by ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, and Shoghi Effendi, heads of the religion after Bahá ' u ' lláh's death, as well as legislation by the Universal House of Justice, the international governing body of the Bahá ' ís.

The system of inheritance in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas is based on the provisions written by the Báb and provides for distribution of the deceased's estate among seven categories of heirs.

In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Bahá ' u ' lláh wrote that all Bahá ' ís must write a will where they have complete freedom in determining how to dispose of their property.

Bahá ' u ' lláh had manuscript copies sent to Bahá ' ís in Iran some years after the revelation of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, and in 1890 – 91 ( 1308 AH, 47 BE ) he arranged for the publication of the original Arabic text of the book in Bombay, India.

The Kitáb-i-Aqdas also discusses the establishment of Bahá ' í administrative institutions, Bahá ' í religious practices, laws of personal status, criminal law, ethical exhortations, social principles, miscellaneous laws and abrogations, and prophecies.

Some laws and teachings of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas are, according to Bahá ' í teaching, not meant to be applied at the present time ; their application depends on decisions by the Universal House of Justice.

The writing of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and Bahá ' í teachings on gender equality and monogamy post-date Bahá ' u ' lláh's marriages and are understood to be evolutionary in nature, slowly leading Bahá ' ís away from what had been a deeply rooted cultural practice.

Bahá ' u ' lláh decreed pilgrimage to two places in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas: the House of Bahá ' u ' lláh in Baghdad, Iraq, and the House of the Báb in Shiraz, Iran.

Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith, in his Most Holy Book ( the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, also known as his book of laws ), first ordains the institution of the House of Justice and defines its functions.

In 1992 they published the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Bahá ' u ' lláh's book of laws in English, and further translations have since been published.

A few examples of laws and basic religious observances of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas which are considered obligatory for Bahá ' ís include:

Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith, prescribed the ablutions in his book of laws, the Kitáb-i-Aqdas.

: A model of Persian prose, of a style at once original, chaste and vigorous, and remarkably lucid, both cogent in argument and matchless in its irresistible eloquence, this Book, setting forth in outline the Grand Redemptive Scheme of God, occupies a position unequalled by any work in the entire range of Bahá ' í literature, except the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Bahá ' u ' lláh's Most Holy Book.

100 Years after Bahá ' u ' lláh's death, the Bahá ' ís celebrated a " holy year ", during which the fully authorized translation of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas ( Most Holy Book ) was published.

In 1899 the Bahá ' ís of Chicago elected a local council based on their awareness of the provisions of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas ( which was circulated in provisional English translation as a typescript as early as 1900 ).

Instead, sometime before the writing of the supplement to the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Questions and Answers, Bahá ' u ' lláh wrote a set of three obligatory prayers which are the ones used by Bahá ' ís today.

*" Further Application of the Laws of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas " — December 28, 1999, letter from the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá ' ís of the World

The text of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas consists of several hundred verses, which have been grouped in 189 numbered paragraphs in the English translation most of which are just a few sentences.

The Kitáb-i-Aqdas was written in 1873.

In 1973, on the occasion of the centenary of the revelation of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Universal House of Justice released a Synopsis and Codification of the text, which was supplemented by 21 passages of the Aqdas that had already been translated by Shoghi Effendi.

Baha ' u ' llah's statements about marriage in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas are brief.

The Kitáb-i-Aqdas allows a man to marry two wives under the condition that they be treated equally.

" Severed from the no less essential institution of the Universal House of Justice this same System of the Will of ' Abdu ' l-Bahá would be paralyzed in its action and would be powerless to fill in those gaps which the Author of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas has deliberately left in the body of His legislative and administrative ordinances.

The obligation of daily obligatory prayer was prescribed by Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith, in his book of laws, the Kitáb-i-Aqdas.

Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).

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It is indeed true, as stated in the famous novel of our day, `` For Whom The Bell Tolls '', that `` no man is an island, entirely of itself ; ;

A recent study on radiation exposure by the AEC's division of biology and medicine stated: `` The question of the biological effect of ( radiation ) doses is not considered '' herein.

As I have repeatedly stated, this provision is much more restrictive than the general law, popularly known as the Buy American Act.

Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.

At the recent horse show convention in New York it was stated that this Intermediate Judging Class is meeting with great success and will be a great help to future judges in the horse world.

Ordinary politeness may have militated against this opinion being stated so badly but anyone with a wide acquaintance in both groups and who has sat through the many round tables, workshops or panel discussions -- whatever they are called -- on this subject will recognize that the final, boiled down crux of the matter is education.

It is often stated that the largest snakes require five years to attain maturity, but this apparently is an overestimation.

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If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

This is stated to emphasize the necessity for an over-all concept of submarine defense, one which would provide positions of relative importance to ASW elements based on projected potentialities.

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Similarly, the American Cancer Society ( ACS ), the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, and the BBB have each stated lately that medical quackery is at a new high.

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