2.13 Abbas Effendi’s Family
Members of Sir Abbas Effendi’s family, particularly lady Munira and Mirza Hadi Afnan, took their excommunication lying and silently, ostensibly to comply with Sir Abbas Effendi’s command that “whoso obeys him [i.e Shoghi Effendi] not has not obeyed god, whoso opposes him has opposed god, whose contends with him, has contended with god ….. may the wrath, the fierce indignation, the vengeance of god rest upon him!” but actually to save appearance and avoid breach in the family statement wrongfully created by Sir Abbas Effendi and designated by him the institution of guardianship.

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