HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT STATEMENTS

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HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT STATEMENTS MADE BY SHOGHI EFFENDI DURING THE PILGRIMAGE
OF THIS WRITER:

One evening as we sat around the dinner table with Shoghi Effendi during my
pilgrimage (28 November-7 December, 1952), in the presence of Rúhíyyih
Khánum, Mason Remey and five other members of the International Bahá'í
Council, Shoghi Effendi discussed the future development of the
International Bahá'í Council as he had outlined it in his proclamatory
message of 9 January, 1951. When he spoke of the second stage of its
development as the International Bahá'í Court the following pertinent
statement is recorded in my notes: "THE PRESENT PRESIDENT OF THE
INTERNATIONAL BAHÁ'Í COUNCIL WILL THEN BECOME THE JUDGE (The Guardian in an
aside to Mason and with a smile asked 'Mason are you ready to become a
Judge?')" thus confirming the fact that having been appointed the embryonic
head of this embryonic body he would remain irremovable in the process of
its evolution through its several stages so long as he should live. On the
same evening, as if to confirm more directly the dreadful implication to be
found in the above quoted statement, but which all of us had failed to
perceive, he alluded so clearly to the fact that his passing was not far off
that his wife, Rúhíyyih Khánum, jumped up from the table and in tears rushed
out of the dining room returning only some time later when she had composed
herself. As startling as the allusion that Shoghi Effendi had made to his
passing in the near future had been, stating as a reason that his work-load
had now become more than he could cope with and, then, drawing a parallel
with the increasingly heavy work-load which had so overburdened 'Abdu'l-Bahá
prior to His ascension, the comments that he had made afterwards, which
although unrecorded, evidently allayed our fears to the extent that we must
have considered Shoghi Effendi's words, especially at the age of 56, more of
a complaint of overwork than an actual allusion to his early passing and,
therefore, his remarks were soon dismissed from our minds and never brought
up again in any of our future conversations.

The significance and momentous implications to be drawn from Shoghi
Effendi's statements and the question that he had specifically addressed to
Mason Remey concerning his impending judgeship were to remain unperceived at
the time by all of us seated at the table that evening, including Mason
Remey, himself. If we had discerned their significance we would have
certainly found it impossible to accept the fact that Shoghi Effendi in both
a direct statement and an allusion had confirmed what we had also failed to
discern from his messages to the Bahá'í world that the following events of
the greatest import to the Faith were soon to take place:

*    That Mason Remey ­ the embryonic head of the embryonic Universal House
of Justice ­ would continue as the irremovable head of the Council when it
became the International Bahá'í Court.


*    That, when this second stage in the development of the Council was
attained, no one less than the Guardian of the Faith could perform the role
of Chief Judge of the International Bahá'í Court.


*    That, as one of the goals set by Shoghi Effendi for the Ten Year Global
Crusade (1953-1963) involved the transformation of the International Bahá'í
Council into the International Bahá'í Court, no later than 1963, this
presaged the passing of Shoghi Effendi prior to that date, as discussed
above.



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