40. the teachers
In a Tablet, Abdu'l-Baha compares teachers who are involved with the spiritual education of the child to the "spiritual father" who "endoweth his child with everlasting life". He explains that this is the reason that "teachers are listed among the heirs" in the "Law of God". (185:1)

Baha'u'llah specifies the conditions under which the teacher inherits and the share he or she receives (Q and A 33). (185:2)

41. When We heard the clamour of the children as yet unborn, We doubled their share and decreased those of the rest.
In the Bab's laws of inheritance the children of the deceased were allotted nine parts consisting of 540 shares. This allocation constituted less than a quarter of the whole estate. Baha'u'llah doubled their portion to 1,080 shares and reduced those allotted to the other six categories of heirs. He also outlines the precise intention of this verse and its implications for the distribution of the inheritance (Q and A 5). (185:3)

42. the House of Justice
In referring to the House of Justice in the Kitab-i-Aqdas, Baha'u'llah does not always explicitly distinguish between the Universal House of Justice and the Local House of Justice, both of which institutions are ordained in that Book. He usually refers simply to "the House of Justice", leaving open for later clarification the level or levels of the whole institution to which each law would apply. (185:4)

In a Tablet enumerating the revenues of the local treasury, Abdu'l-Baha includes those inheritances for which there are no heirs, thus indicating that the House of Justice referred to in these passages of the Aqdas relating to inheritance is the local one. (185:5)

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