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Shoghi Effendi

Messages to the Bahá'í World

Hand of Cause Appointment

Inform Hands and National Assemblies that Varqá’s son, ‘Alí Muḥammad has been appointed to succeed his father now gathered into the concourse on high in the Abhá Kingdom, as Trustee of Ḥuqúq and elevated to rank of Hand of the Cause.

—Shoghi

[Cablegram, November 15, 1955]

Shoghi EffendiMessages to the Bahá'í World