The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
Questions and Answers
to the House of Justice, and the remaining two thirds pass to the deceased’s, and not the teacher’s, offspring.
29Question:Again inquiry hath been made about the
pilgrimage.
Answer:By pilgrimage to the sacred House, which is enjoined upon men, is intended both the Most Great House in
Baghdád and the House of the
Primal Point in
Shíráz; pilgrimage to either of these Houses sufficeth. They may thus make pilgrimage to whichever lieth nearer to the place where they reside.
30Question:Concerning the verse: “he who would take into his service a maid may do so with propriety.”
Answer:This is solely for service such as is performed by any other class of servants, be they young or old, in exchange for wages; such a maiden is free to choose a husband at whatever time she pleaseth, for it is forbidden either that women should be purchased, or that a man should have more wives than two.
31Question:Concerning the sacred verse: “The Lord hath prohibited ... the practice to which ye formerly had recourse when thrice ye had divorced a woman.”
Answer:The reference is to the law which previously made it necessary for another man to marry such a woman before she could again be wedded to her former husband; this practice hath been prohibited in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas.
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