July 28. On this date in 1936, Shoghi Effendi wrote an inidividual "here is a Tablet from Abdul-Bahá in which He definitely states that the membership of the Universal House is confined to men, and that the wisdom of it will be fully revealed and appreciated in the future."

 

July 28. On this date in 1936, Shoghi Effendi wrote an inidividual "here is a Tablet from Abdul-Bahá in which He definitely states that the membership of the Universal House is confined to men, and that the wisdom of it will be fully revealed and appreciated in the future."

As regards your question concerning the membership of the Universal House of Justice: there is a Tablet from Abdul-Bahá in which He definitely states that the membership of the Universal House is confined to men, and that the wisdom of it will be fully revealed and appreciated in the future. In the local as well as the national Houses of Justice, however, women have the full right of membership. It is, therefore, only to the International House that they cannot be elected. The Bahá'ís should accept this statement of the Master in a spirit of deep faith, confident that there is a divine guidance and wisdom behind it which will be gradually unfolded to the eyes of the world.

28 July 1936 to an individual believer