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During the 1920s, Egypt's religious Tribunal recognized the Baha'i Faith as a new religion, independent from Islam, due to the nature of the 'laws, principles and beliefs' of the Baha'is. [citation needed] Baháʼí institutions and community activities have been illegal under Egyptian law since 1960.
In Baha'i belief, although human cultures and religions differ on their conceptions of God and his nature, the different references to God nevertheless refer to one and the same Being. The differences, rather than being regarded as irreconcilable constructs of mutually exclusive cultures, are seen as purposefully reflective of the varying needs ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Baháʼí Faith.. Baháʼí Faith – relatively new religion teaching the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people, established by Baháʼu'lláh in the 19th-century Middle East and now estimated to have a worldwide following of 5–8 million adherents, known as Baháʼís.
The Baháʼí conception of God is of an "unknowable essence" who is the source of all existence and known through the perception of human virtues. The Baháʼí Faith follows the tradition of monotheism and dispensationalism, believing that God has no physical form, but periodically provides divine messengers in human form that are the sources of spiritual education.
Association for Baha'i Studies of New Zealand: 401–404. ISSN 1177-8547. and Baháʼu'lláh; provisional translation by Mehran Ghassempour (2007). "Baháʼu'lláh's Lawh-i Haqqu'n-Nas: Tablet of the Right of the People". Online Journal of Baháʼí Studies. 1. Association for Baha'i Studies of New Zealand: 405–409. ISSN 1177-8547.
[173] Bahá’ís believe Bahá’u’lláh's Covenant is the distinguishing feature of his Faith that preserves its unity and protects it from breaking into sects, [181] [182] [183] [t] as happened in older world religions after the deaths of their founders. To this day the Bahá’í Faith remains undivided.
The greater covenant refers to the covenant all messengers from God make with their followers regarding the next messenger God will send for them. [1] According to Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, God promises to always send divine teachers to instruct humankind in a process known as progressive revelation. [2]
The Baháʼí belief in the oneness of the Manifestations of God does not mean, however, that the same individual soul is born again at different times and in different physical bodies. In the Baháʼí view, the various Manifestations of God were all different personalities and had separate individual realities.