Bahai Provisions: A Rehash Of Bayan

7.     Who Is to Interpret Aqdas
After his death Baha’s followers are to refer what you did not understand in the Book to the Bough which branches from the Self-Subsistent Stock.” Aqdas P.70.

In the reply to “Waraqa” Baha states that “the reference to the Book is to the Kitab-i-Aqdas and to the Bough which branches [from the Self-Subsistent Stock] to the Branch.” Baha’s reply quoted in Mirza Muhammad Ali’s Will & Testament. It is noted that the reference is to the Aqdas to the entire exclusion of all tablets and verses of Baha. It is also noted that the reference is to the Branch with no mention of either of the Most Mighty, Abbas Effendi, or the Most Great, Mirza Muhammad Ali. Therefore both brothers had the right to interpret or expand the Aqdas.