When Shoghi Effendi passed away suddenly in 1957, the hands of the cause met in secret deliberations to decide what should be done in the faith, now that Shoghi Effendi had passed on allegedly without naming a successor. They decided that God had changed his mind about the guardianship. There would be no continuing living guardians. Only Shoghi Effendi would continue to be guardian through his various writings and his oversight from the Abha kingdom. The word they used to express the idea that God had changed his mind was an Arabic word, BADA (Change in the plan of God). The events after Shoghi Effendi’s death until election of the UH] were exceedingly strategic for the faith (1957-1963). This was a period when the faith had no infallible living spokesman nor infallible group or institution. The hands in the holy land spoke of it as “this dangerous time the Faith is passing through.” (Ministry of the Custodians, p. 68). Several facts should be kept in mind. ...