Baha'u'llah, The Promised One: Warwick Leaflets
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Bahá'u'lláh, The Promised One:

Warwick Leaflets

Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop

1990

The
Messengers of God

Bahá’ís
believe that in every age God sends a Messenger to mankind. Those we know about
in the past have been the great religious Teachers such as Krishna, Moses,
Buddha, Christ and Muhammad. They manifest or show forth the qualities or attributes
of God and teach mankind how to live. Bahá’u’lláh said:

“Every one of them
is a mirror of God, reflecting naught else but His Self, His Beauty, His Might
and Glory, if ye will understand.”

Each
Messenger builds upon the Messages of Those gone before, leading us to new
spiritual heights and bringing social teachings designed for that particular
age:

“For every age
requireth a fresh measure of the light of God. Every Divine Revelation hath
been sent down in a manner that befitted the circumstances of the age in which
it hath appeared.”

The
Hindu scriptures describe it thus:

“Whenever there is
a decay of righteousness, then I Myself come forth… for the sake of firmly
establishing righteousness, I am born from age to age.”

All
the Messengers in the past have promised that a great World Teacher would
appear who would bring an age of peace to mankind. Sometimes they refer to this
as the return of their own spirit, sometimes it sounds like another person, as
in this from the Christian scriptures:

“I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit, when He the Spirit of truth is come, He will guide you unto all truth…”

The
Promised One

Bahá’ís
believe that, although the Messengers are all different individuals, it is the
same spirit, the spirit of God, which animates them all. Bahá’ís believe that Bahá’u’lláh
fulfilled all the promises and prophecies of the past when He arose in Iran in
the 19th century and announced His Message to mankind. Bahá’ís believe
that the same spirit which was in all the Messengers is in Bahá’u’lláh.

“The Revelation,
which from time immemorial, hath been acclaimed as the Purpose and Promise of
all the Prophets of God, and the most cherished Desire of His Messengers, hath
now, by virtue of the pervasive Will of the Almighty and at His irresistible
bidding, been revealed unto men. The advent of such a Revelation hath been
heralded in all the sacred Scriptures.”

The
Bahá’í Writings explain that Bahá’u’lláh was the Promised One of all religions:

“To Israel He was
neither more nor less than the incarnation of the ‘Everlasting Father’, the ‘Lord
of Hosts’…; to Christendom, Christ returned ‘in the glory of the Father’, to
Shi’ah Islam the return of the Imam Husayn; to Sunni Islam the descent of the ‘Spirit
of God’; to the Zoroastrians the promised Shah-Bahram; to the Hindus the
reincarnation of Krishna; to the Buddhists the fifth Buddha.”

The
name Bahá’u’lláh means ‘the Glory of God’ or ‘Glory of the Lord’. This title is
mentioned in many prophecies:

“To Him Isaiah, the greatest of the Jewish prophets, had alluded as the ‘Glory of the Lord’, the ‘Everlasting Father’, the ‘Prince of Peace’, the ‘Wonderful’, the ‘Counsellor’.”

The
Promised Day of God

This
is the day for which mankind has been hoping and waiting for thousands of
years:

“Verily I say,
this is the Day in which mankind can behold the Face, and hear the Voice, of
the Promised One… Great indeed is this Day! The allusions made to it in all
the sacred Scriptures as the Day of God attest its greatness. The soul of every
Prophet of God, of every Divine Messenger, hath thirsted for this wondrous Day.”

This
is the day when the will of God will be done upon all the earth:

“The time
foreordained unto the peoples and kindreds of the earth is now come. The
promises of God, as recorded in the holy Scriptures, have all been fulfilled.
Out of Zion hath gone forth the Law of God, and Jerusalem, and the hills and
land thereof, are filled with the glory of His Revelation.”

The
law of God did indeed go forth from the Holy Land – Bahá’u’lláh was exiled
there and wrote to the kings and rulers of the earth, proclaiming His Message. He
explained how they should govern their peoples and what they needed to do to
bring peace to the world.

This
is the promised Age of Peace:

“This is the Day in which God’s most excellent favours have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace hath been infused into all created things. It is incumbent upon all the peoples of the world to reconcile their differences, and with perfect unity and peace, abide beneath the shadow of the Tree of His care and loving-kindness.”

The Message for this Day

Bahá’u’lláh
re-emphasised and expanded the spiritual teachings found in all religions. He
also brought many teachings specifically for the age we live in today. Here are
some examples of these:

“It is not for him
to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the
whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.”

“…among the teachings… is the equality of
women and men. The world of humanity has two wings… Not until both wings are
equally developed can the bird fly.”

“It is important
to limit riches, as it is also of importance to limit poverty. Either extreme
is not good.”

“The day is
approaching when all the peoples of the world will have adopted one universal
language and one common script… These things are obligatory and absolutely
essential.”

“Should any king take up arms against another,
all should unitedly arise and prevent him.”

“Peace must first
be established among individuals, until it leadeth in the end to peace among
nations.”

“The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of religion. War shall cease between nations, and by the will of God the Most Great Peace shall come….”

The New Age

“…this is the
Day which the one true God… hath announced in all His Books unto His Prophets
and His Messengers.”

Bahá’ís
believe that the coming of Bahá’u’lláh brought
the prophetic cycle to an end. His coming marks the dawn of the maturity of
mankind. In this age we will achieve the unity of the peoples of the world. In
this age we will achieve peace. The Message of Bahá’u’lláh begins a new cycle in
the history of mankind: the future Messengers of this cycle will build on the
foundations of the laws of Bahá’u’lláh.

The
Bahá’í community is still at an early stage in its development but it is
inclusive of people from all faiths, countries and backgrounds. All are working
to build a new civilisation built on spirituality, love and justice.

Bahá’u’lláh
said that we should look at things with an open mind. No one else can decide
our response to His Message:

“O people! The
Day, promised unto you in all the Scriptures, is now come. Fear ye God, and
withhold not yourselves from recognising the One Who is the Object of your
creation.”

The text of all these leaflets remains the copyright of Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop. The Bookshop is happy for people to download individual copies for their own purposes. Printed copies can be purchased from the Warwick Bookshop. Individuals or communities wishing to translate or print these leaflets in other countries please contact the Bookshop for permission.

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