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For further, detailed and authentic information we recommend you to the
official Bahá'í site at <http://www.bahai.org>
About Bahá'í Faith
The Bahá'í Faith is the youngest of the
world's independent religions. Its founder, Bahá'u'lláh (1817-1892), is
regarded by Bahá'ís as the most recent in the line of Messengers of God that
stretches back beyond recorded time and that includes Abraham, Moses, Buddha,
Zoroaster, Christ and Muhammad.
The central theme of Bahá'u'lláh's message is that humanity is one single race
and that the day has come for its unification in one global society. God, Bahá'u'lláh
said, has set in motion historical forces that are breaking down traditional
barriers of race, class, creed, and nation and that will, in time, give birth to
a universal civilization. The principal challenge facing the peoples of the
earth is to accept the fact of their oneness and to assist the processes of
unification.
One of the purposes of the Bahá'í Faith is to help make this possible. A
worldwide community of some five million Bahá'ís, representative of most of
the nations, races and cultures on earth, is working to give Bahá'u'lláh's
teachings practical effect. Their experience will be a source of encouragement
to all who share their vision of humanity as one global family and the earth as
one homeland.
Basic Teachings of Bahá'u'lláh
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Bahá'u'lláh taught that there is one God
whose successive revelations of His will to humanity have been the chief
civilizing force in history. The agents of this process have been the Divine
Messengers whom people have seen chiefly as the founders of separate religious
systems but whose common purpose has been to bring the human race to spiritual
and moral maturity.
Humanity is now coming of age. It is this that makes possible the unification of
the human family and the building of a peaceful, global society. Among the
principles which the Bahá'í Faith promotes as vital to the achievement of this
goal are:
 | The abandonment of all forms of
prejudice |
 | Assurance to women of full
equality of opportunity with men |
 | Recognition of the unity and
relativity of religious truth |
 | The elimination of extremes of
poverty and wealth |
 | The realization of universal
education |
 | The responsibility of each person
to independently search for truth |
 | The establishment of a world
federation |
 | Recognition that true religion is
in harmony with reason and the pursuit of scientific knowledge |
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