The Administrative Order

Shoghi Effendi assures us that the administrative order of the Faith of Baháʼu'lláh “will, as its component parts, its organic institutions, begin to function with efficiency and vigour, assert its claim and demonstrate its capacity to be regarded not only as the nucleus but the very pattern of the New World Order destined to embrace in the fullness of time the whole of mankind “[1]. The Formative Age is that critical period in the Faith’s development in which the friends increasingly come to appreciate the mission with which Bahá’u’lláh has entrusted them, deepen their understanding of the meaning and implications of His revealed Word, and systematically cultivate capacity—their own and that of others—in order to put into practice His teachings for the betterment of the world”[2]. The objective of this course is to study through participative workshops some of the salient features of this order which empowers the Baháʼí  Community to “take on ever-greater challenges and release in ever-greater measures the Faith’s society-building power.”[3].   

1. Shoghi Effendi, Dispensation of Baháʼu'lláh.   
2. The Universal House of Justice, 28 November 2023     
3. The Universal House of Justice, 28 November 2023