The Kitáb-i-Aqdas is unusual among scriptures for being largely institutional: alongside laws on prayer, fasting, marriage, and inheritance, it establishes the offices and bodies that would govern the Faith after its author's death, including the Universal House of Justice. That foresight is why the Bahá'í Faith has had no significant schism — the line of authority was written down in advance by the founder and confirmed in his will, which closed off the ambiguity that fractures most new religions.