Under Baha’s will and testament Sir Abbas Effendi was his successor, after his death Mirza Muhammad Ali was to step in his steps, and after his death, Bahai affairs were to vest in Baha’s “House of Justice”, empowered to legislate on civil obligations as well as any matter for which there is no quotable text in Baha’s “Aqdas”. Rules relating to worship were to be governed by the Aqdas. Baha’s House of Justice is a legislative authority, and needs an executive authority, a government machinery, to enforce its law.

On the authority of Baha’s “Ishraqat”, what he had in mind was not Sir Abbas Effendi’s “International or Universal” House of Justice with Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian, and after him, his lineal descendents, an institution of guardianship which lapsed with Shoghi Effendi’s death without issue, but a Bahai state, having representative government, with Bahaism as the state religion to enable Baha’s House of Justice to function. Pending that, Baha’s provision for his House of Justice is dormant.

True to his father’s will and testament, Mirza Badiullah laid no claim in any sense to the leadership of the Unitarian party. The Unitarians are not organized.

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