Accelerated, twenty years later, by another trumpet-blast,
announcing the formulation of the laws of yet another Dispensation, this
process of disintegration, associated with the declining fortunes of a
superannuated, though divinely revealed Law, gathered further momentum,
precipitated, in a later age, the annulment of the Sharí‘aḥ canonical Law in
Turkey, led to the virtual abandonment of that Law in Shí‘ah Persia, has, more
recently, been responsible for the dissociation of the System envisaged in the
Kitáb-i-Aqdas from the Sunní ecclesiastical Law in Egypt, has paved the way for
the recognition of that System in the Holy Land itself, and is destined to
culminate in the secularization of the Muslim states, and in the universal
recognition of the Law of Bahá’u’lláh by all the nations, and its enthronement
in the hearts of all the peoples, of the Muslim world. - Shoghi Effendi (Chapter
2, ‘God Passes By’)
