Baha'u'llah provides for the possibility that the line of Ag{~COMBINING MACRON BELOW~}h{~COMBINING MACRON BELOW~}san would
terminate prior to the establishment of the Universal House of Justice. He
designated that in such a situation "endowments shall revert to the people
of Baha". The term "people of Baha" is used with a number of different
meanings in the Baha'i Writings. In this instance, they are described as
those "who speak not except by His leave and judge not save in accordance
with what God hath decreed in this Tablet". Following the passing of
Shoghi Effendi in 1957, the Hands of the Cause of God directed the affairs
of the Cause until the election of the Universal House of Justice in 1963
(see note 183).