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Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``
His journeys to the West, and his " Tablets of the Divine Plan " spread the Bahá ' í message beyond its middle-eastern roots, and his Will and Testament laid the foundation for the current " Bahá ' í administrative order.
After Bahá ' u ' lláh died on 29 May 1892, the Will and Testament of Bahá ' u ' lláh named ` Abdu ' l-Bahá as Centre of the Covenant, successor and interpreter of Bahá ' u ' lláh's writings.
` Abdu ' l-Bahá left a Will and Testament that set up the framework of administration.
* Franklin's Last Will & Testament Transcription.
In ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's Will and Testament, He appointed Shoghi Effendi as the Guardian of the Bahá ' í Faith, called for the eventual election of the Universal House of Justice, and defined in the same manner opposition to these two institutions as Covenant-Breaking.
The Will and Testament of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá states that Guardians should be lineal descendants of Bahá ' u ' lláh, that each Guardian must select his successor during his lifetime, and that the nine Hands of the Cause of God permanently stationed in the holy land must approve the appointment by majority vote.
The defining event of the Stone wing of the movement was the publication of the Last Will and Testament of The Springfield Presbytery, at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, in 1804.
In his Last Will and Testament he wrote:
On the basis of the authority granted ` Abdu ' l-Bahá he extended forms of the authority vested in him to the Guardianship, who's sole member was Shoghi Effendi, and the Universal, or International, House of Justice through his Will and Testament.
The issue of successorship to ` Abdu ' l Bahá was in the minds of early Bahá ' ís, and although the Universal House of Justice was an institution mentioned by Bahá ' u ' lláh, the institution of the Guardianship was not introduced until the Will and Testament of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was publicly read after his death.
" After spending a couple of days with John Esslemont, and after some passport difficulties he sailed from England on December 16 and arrived in Haifa on 29 December, and a few days later opened ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's Will and Testament, which was addressed to Shoghi Effendi.
` Abdu ' l-Bahá's Will and Testament is considered one of the three charters of the Bahá ' í administrative order, and in it ` Abdu ' l-Bahá laid down the authority of the Guardian and the Universal House of Justice, the elected governing body of the Bahá ' í Faith that had been written about by Bahá ' u ' lláh, and had not yet been established:
Other branches of Bahá ' u ' lláh's family had already been declared Covenant-breakers in ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's Will and Testament.
According to the framework of the Will and Testament of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, it was not possible to appoint a successor, and the legislative body " possessing the exclusive right to legislate on matters not explicitly revealed " was not yet established in the world.
It determined that under the circumstances, given the criteria for succession described in the Will and Testament of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, there was no legitimate way for another Guardian to be appointed.
Therefore, although the Will and Testament of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá leaves provisions for a succession of Guardians, Shoghi Effendi remains the first and last occupant of this office.
Later, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, Bahá ' u ' lláh's son and successor, in his Will and Testament, elaborated on its functioning, its composition and outlined the method for its election.
* ( 2009 ) In The Last Will and Testament of Zephaniah Mann.
In one of the tablets, which is commonly referred to as the Will and Testament of the Báb, Subh-i-Azal is viewed to have been appointed as leader of the Bábis after the death of the movement's founder ; the tablet, in verse 27, also appears to order Subh-i-Azal "... to obey Him Whom God Shall Make Manifest.
Similarly, a Missouri state court presented with a Last Will and Testament signed in Florida, might apply Florida law rather than Missouri law to determine if the document was signed with the proper formalities.
His next book of poems First Will and Testament drew the attention of James Laughlin, then launching New Directions Publishing as a student at Harvard.
For instance, Patchen biographer Larry Smith notes that " initial reception to Patchen's First Will & Testament was positive and strong.
* First Will and Testament, 1939

Will and `
Then I (` A ’ ishah ) said, ` Will you not make this public ’ He replied,
At the time of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's death, Shoghi Effendi was appointed as the Guardian of the Faith by ` Abdu ' l-Bahá in his Will and Testament, while Muhammad ` Alí was reprimanded in the same document.
After Bahá ' u ' lláh died on 29 May 1892, the Will and Testament of Bahá ' u ' lláh named ` Abdu ' l-Bahá as Centre of the Covenant, successor and interpreter of Bahá ' u ' lláh's writings.
According to The Will and Testament of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, they are to be nominated and appointed by the Guardian of the Cause of God and are to be under his direction and obey his command and a quote of Bahá ' u ' lláh's is also used as a prayer for them.
* Will and Testament of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá

Will and Abdu
" 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.
" ( God Passes By ) These two institutions are described in ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's Will and Testament as having divine authority:
The Will and Testament of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá is sometimes seen as the culmination of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's role as the " Centre of the Covenant ".

Will and l-Bahá's
Upon assuming the Guardianship of the Bahá ' í Faith, Shoghi Effendi read ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's Will and Testament and made establishment of local spiritual assemblies an early priority.
National Spiritual Assemblies are first mentioned in ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's Will and Testament, but the fact that they would be established circulated for years before the contents of the Will became publicly available in early 1922.
These collective letters, along with Bahá ' u ' lláh ’ s Tablet of Carmel and ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's Will and Testament were described by Shoghi Effendi as three of the " Charters " of the Bahá ' í Faith.

Will and half-brother
Will then reveals himself to be Robin's younger illegitimate half-brother ; Will's mother was a peasant woman with whom Robin's father took comfort after his ( Robin's ) mother died.
Tammy has four half-siblings, a paternal half-sister Laura Layne ( Dinah's daughter with Rob ), a maternal half-brother R. J. Jessup, an adoptive maternal half-brother Will Winslow and Jonathan would have been her adoptive brother as well as her husband and her maternal half-cousin.
In Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Christian Slater plays Will Scarlet, whom the film depicts as the illegitimate half-brother of Robin Hood.

Will and Muhammad
* Wafer, Jim ( 1997 ) " Muhammad and Male Homosexuality " in " Islamic Homosexualities: culture, history, and literature " by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe ( eds.
Director Michael Mann tagged Voight for a small but crucial role in the 2001 biopic Ali, which starred Will Smith as the controversial former heavyweight champ, Muhammad Ali.
* Wafer, Jim ( 1997 ) " Muhammad and Male Homosexuality " in " Islamic Homosexualities: culture, history, and literature " by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe ( eds.
The film tells the story of boxing icon Muhammad Ali, played by Will Smith, from 1964 to 1974 featuring his capture of the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston ( Michael Bentt ), his conversion to Islam, criticism of the Vietnam War, banishment from boxing, his return to fight Joe Frazier ( James Toney ) in 1971, and, lastly, his reclaiming the title from George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle fight of 1974.
* Will Smith as Cassius Clay, Jr. / Cassius X / Muhammad Ali
*' The Will ' by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad with comments by Maulana Muhammad Ali
He is the author of several books, including The Difficult Journey and The Way Back ( 1994 ); The Next World Order ( 1994 ); the revised editions of Jesus, Prophet of Islam and Blood on the Cross ( in two volumes, For Christ's Sake and Islam in Andalus ) with Muhammad Ata Ur-Rahim ( 1996 ); the revised edition of Dajjal: the AntiChrist ( 1997 ); Making History ( 1997 ); The Last Prophet ( 2000 ) and Golden Days on the Open Road ( 2005 ) and is co-author of The Islamic Will with Hajj Abdalhaqq and Aisha Bewley ( 1995 ).

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