Bahá’u’lláh (the “Glory of God”) was “the nineteenth-century prophetic figure whose growing influence is the most remarkable development of contemporary religious history.
“Born in Persia, November 12, 1817, Bahá’u’lláh began at age 27 an undertaking that has gradually captured the imagination and loyalty of several million people from virtually every race, culture, class, and nation on earth. The phenomenon is one that has no reference points in the contemporary world, but is associated rather with climactic changes of direction in the collective past of the human race.
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“For Bahá’u’lláh claimed to be no less than the Messenger of God to the age of human maturity, the Bearer of a Divine Revelation that fulfills the promises made in earlier religions, and that will generate the spiritual nerves and sinews for the unification of the peoples of the world.”
– Excerpted from Bahá’u’lláh, a statement prepared by the Bahá’í International Community Office of Public Information, New York in 1992. You can read the full statement in an online or PDF version.
Note: the source for all quotations of Bahá’u’lláh and any other Bahá’í writings on this website can be found at the online Bahá’í Reference Library.