Editing Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder42

The religious endowments (al-awqaf) [[Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder42/Note2|[note 2]]] given especially for charity have been returned to God, the Appearing-place of Verses (mazhar al-ayat). No one may spend them except after permission of the Rising-place of Revelation. After him the command goes back to the Branches, [[Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder42/Note3|[note 3]]] and after them to the House of Justice. If His Cause is established throughout the lands, let them spend the endowments in the high places of this Cause and for what they were commanded by the Powerful, the Mighty One.

Otherwise let them (the endowments) return to the people of al-Baha' who only speak after permission is given by Him, and only command that which God has commanded in this Tablet. Those are the Guardians of Victory between the heavens and the earths.

Let them spend them in the way defined in the Book by a Generous, Mighty One.