December 4. On this date in 1964, the Universal House of Justice wrote an NSA that "the law requiring consent of parents before marriage...is a law of great importance affecting the very foundation of human society...in the Bahá'í Faith the spiritual and administrative aspects are complementary and that the social laws of the Faith are as binding as the purely spiritual ones."

December 4. On this date in 1964, the Universal House of Justice wrote an NSA that "the law requiring consent of parents before marriage...is a law of great importance affecting the very foundation of human society...in the Bahá'í Faith the spiritual and administrative aspects are complementary and that the social laws of the Faith are as binding as the purely spiritual ones."

We gain the impression from Mr. .....'s letter that he looks upon the law requiring consent of parents before marriage as a mere administrative regulation, and does not realize that this is a law of great importance affecting the very foundation of human society. Moreover, he seems not to appreciate that in the Bahá'í Faith the spiritual and administrative aspects are complementary and that the social laws of the Faith are as binding as the purely spiritual ones.
4 December 1963 to a National Spiritual Assembly.