Those matters of major importance which constitute the
foundation of the Law of God are explicitly recorded in the Text, but
subsidiary laws are left to the House of Justice. The wisdom of this is that
the times never remain the same, for change is a necessary quality and an
essential attribute of this world, and of time and place. Therefore the House
of Justice will take action accordingly...
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet, cited
by the Universal House of Justice, 1992, ‘Introduction to the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
