what is the Bahai faith ?

Question

who was the Bahaollah ?

Answer 1

The Baha'i Faith is that faith based on the teachings of Baha'u'llah (the Glory of God), who appeared in Persian (now Iran) in the middle of the 19th century. He taught all religions come from the same God and that revelation is progressive. Baha'u'llah is the most recent of God's Messengers, but we (I am a Baha'i) expect another in about a thousand years. God has never left and will never leave man alone.

I know this isn't a direct answer to your question, but I would like to refute something that I keep seeing posted to other questions of this type: Baha'is do NOT believe in "mutaa" (temporary marriage) nor do they hold women in common. In response to those lies that keep getting posted, I would like to post a quote from Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha'i Faith:

"Such a chaste and holy life, with its implications of modesty, purity, temperance, decency, and clean-mindedness, involves no less than the exercise of moderation in all that pertains to dress, language, amusements, and all artistic and literary avocations. It demands daily vigilance in the control of one's carnal desires and corrupt inclinations. It calls for the abandonment of a frivolous conduct, with its excessive attachment to trivial and often misdirected pleasures. It requires total abstinence from all alcoholic drinks, from opium, and from similar habit-forming drugs. It condemns the prostitution of art and of literature, the practices of nudism and of companionate marriage, infidelity in marital relationships, and all manner of promiscuity, of easy familiarity, and of sexual vices. It can tolerate no compromise with the theories, the standards, the habits, and the excesses of a decadent age. Nay rather it seeks to demonstrate, through the dynamic force of its example, the pernicious character of such theories, the falsity of such standards, the hollowness of such claims, the perversity of such habits, and the sacrilegious character of such excesses."

(Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 30)

Answer 2

Since I've recently become quite curious about this faith, too, I'd like to add some comments.

You can already find out a lot about them if you study past postings in Q&A.

Thanks world gypsy for your kind answers.

Thanks Sinthyia for the valueable information. Among which is this very interesting link about Bahai history:

http://www.skepticflies.org/xhate/bahai.com

At this point I'd like to add that I'm not inclined to sreaming "cult" as soon as I see something that is different from mainstream religion. And that a group of people who follow the doctrines of their religion very strictly could rather be described as some who are "zealous for God"

"For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God...

BrotherMicheal (in his answer to "why not read the latest word from god") already outlined some of the main Bahai doctrines and compared them to the teachings of Christianinty:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqwqSzGN5hT2JjEe3Ko__EAjzKIX?qid=20060729204126AAETnbQ

... but not according to knowledge." (Romans 10:2)

I could add a lot more to Brother Michael's comments from what I found in my own studies, but enough has been said.

I apologise for any nasty questions!

Answer 3

The Bahá'í Faith is an emerging global religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh, a nineteenth-century Iranian exile. www.bahai.com/

Answer 4

I actually attende a meeting. The kids take character classes. They learn how to be moral and ethical and really learn this through volunteering. Even as toddlers they go out and volunteer often. The whole idea is to be a moral being. All religions are accepted and all profits are accepted. I was interested until they decided Muhammed was a great profit. Not interested.

Answer 5

I'm Iraninan & it's still accepted there but as far I'm aware with hardly anyone practices it there. Islam is forced down their throats.

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahai