Service of Women in Bahá'í Institutions مقالة

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<H1>Women's Service in Baha'i Institutions</H1> *Authors Written by Anthony Leigh, Peggy Caton, Richarda Lingler, Marjan Niroo Nader Saidi, Shahin Karigan, Jackson Armstrong Ingram and Joan Cole *Translation: Hamid Farnagh Baha'i religion, Universal House of Justice, Bahiyya Khanum ( الورقة العليا ), role of women, Baha'i teachings, equality of rights between men and women, prohibition of women's membership in the Universal House of Justice, Local Spiritual Assembly, Mirza Asadullah Isfahani, Chicago Assembly, Women's Teaching Assembly, 'Abdu'l-Baha Keywords: Note: The article "Women's Service in Baha'i Institutions" is interesting and significant from three aspects: * The lack of explicit text and legitimacy for the Universal House of Justice. It is necessary to note this point before studying the article: because the authors of this article believed in the Baha'i religion at the time of its writing, they do not consider the absence of women in local assemblies in the early years and their absence from the Universal House of Justice in the present day as a major contradiction to the teaching of equality of rights between men and women. However, as stated later in the article, the possibility of correspondence and inquiry with 'Abdu'l-Baha existed, and the basis for preventing the entry of women into the local spiritual assembly, in addition to the writings of Baha'u'llah in the Kitab-i-Aqdas, is the personal letters of 'Abdu'l-Baha to the Baha'is of America; although Mirza Asadullah may have also played an important role in consolidating this wish of 'Abdu'l-Baha.