A collection of excerpts containing chronologically issued answers to some of the questions submitted by individual believers and institutions

9/20/2016

The "so called" Marriage Tablet by ‘Abdu’l-Baha - January 18, 1971

With regard to your question concerning the so-called Marriage Tablet printed on page 47 of the supplement of the British Prayer Book, this is not a Tablet, but a talk ascribed to the Master by Mirza Ahmad Sohrab. It was given some time in December, 1918 about Sohrab's marriage. It cannot be regarded as Bahá'í scripture as 'nothing can be considered as scripture for which we do not have an original text', as the beloved Guardian pointed out. The friends may use this talk, but it is not to be considered as scripture. 
- The Universal House of Justice  (From a letter dated 18 January 1971 to the National Spiritual Assembly of South and west Africa, published in Bahá'í Journal of the United Kingdom, No. 218, August 1973; compilation: ‘Lights of Guidance’)