The sourced Wikipedia account of Baha'i aniconism, quoting Shoghi Effendi's instruction that believers may view Baha'u'llah's picture only with the utmost reverence and must never expose it openly to the public, the reasoning behind that reticence, and the limited, mostly-pilgrimage viewing of the surviving photographs and paintings.
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Tier three: a collaboratively edited reference article, used here only to attest and cite the display-restriction norm that governs how this file handles Baha'u'llah's image, quoting Shoghi Effendi's own written instruction as its primary evidence. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_the_Baha%27i_Faith
Source Typeencyclopedia
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