"THE REVELATION PROCLAIMED by Baha'u'llah, His followers believe, is divine in origin,
all-embracing in scope, broad in its outlook, scientific in its method, humanitarian
in its principles and dynamic in the influence it exerts on the hearts and minds of men.
The mission of the Founder of their Faith, they conceive it to be to proclaim that religious
truth is not absolute but relative, that Divine Revelation is continuous and progressive,
that the Founders of all past religions, though different in the non-essential aspects of
their teachings, "abide in the same Tabernacle, soar in the same heaven, are seated upon
the same throne, utter the same speech and proclaim the same Faith."
His Cause, they have already demonstrated, stands identified with, and revolves around, the principle of the organic unity of mankind as representing the consummation of the whole process of human evolution. This final stage in this stupendous evolution, they assert, is not only necessary but inevitable, that it is gradually approaching, and that nothing short of the celestial potency with which a divinely ordained Message can claim to be endowed can succeed in establishing it.
THE BAHA'I FAITH recognizes the unity of God and of His Prophets, upholds the principle of an unfettered search after truth, condemns all forms of superstition and prejudice, teaches that the fundamental purpose of religion is to promote concord and harmony, that it must go hand-in-hand with science, and that it constitutes the sole and ultimate basis of a peaceful, an ordered and progressive society.
It inculcates
the principle of equal opportunity, rights and privileges for both sexes, advocates
compulsory education, abolishes extremes of poverty and wealth, exalts work performed
in the spirit of service to the rank of worship, recommends the adoption of an auxiliary
international language, and provides the necessary agencies for the establishment of
safeguarding of a permanent and universal peace.
. . . ORGANIZED BAHA'I COMMUNITIES are to be found in every continent of the globe. . . . Christians of various denominations, Muslims of both the Súnní and Shí'ah sects of Islám, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Zoroastrians and Buddhists, have eagerly embraced its truth, have recognized the divine origin and fundamental unity underlying the teachings of all the Founders of past religions, and have unreservedly identified themselves with both the spirit and form of its evolving institutions. All these center function as the component parts of a single organism, of an entity the spiritual and administrative center of which lies enshrined in the twin cities of 'Akká and Haifa."
- Shoghi Effendi
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