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During Baha’u’llah's imprisonment in the Síyáh-Chál Yahya went into hiding, [57] but after Bahá’u’lláh's exile to Iraq Yahya left Iran in disguise and made his way to Baghdad. [ 58 ] For a time, Yahya served as Bahá’u’lláh's secretary in Baghdad, but envy for the growing admiration Bábís showed Bahá’u’lláh led Yahya ...
[94] [95] In 2013, two scholars of demography wrote that, "The Baha'i Faith is the only religion to have grown faster in every United Nations region over the past 100 years than the general population; Bahaʼi [sic] was thus the fastest-growing religion between 1910 and 2010, growing at least twice as fast as the population of almost every UN ...
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]
While it is sometimes assumed that there is an opposition between heart and mind or faith and reason, for Baha'is, faith is not an irrational blindness to fact. Shoghi Effendi asserts that Baháʼu'lláh "does not ask us to follow Him blindly" and encourages Baháʼís to "Read His [Baha'u'llah's] words, consider His teachings, and measure ...
The Babi and Baha'i Religions: From Messianic Shi'ism to a World Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521301282. Warburg, Margit (2006). Citizens of the world: a history and sociology of the Bahaʹis from a globalisation perspective. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-474-0746-1. OCLC 234309958
Baha'is in Exile: An Account of followers of Baha'u'llah outside the mainstream Baha'i religion. Pittsburgh, PA: RoseDog Books. ISBN 978-1-6453-0574-3. Kennedy, Sharon H.; Kennedy, Andrew (1988). "Bahá'í Youth and Sexuality A Personal/Professional View" (PDF). The Journal of Bahá'í Studies. 1 (1). Matthews, Carol (2005). New Religions ...
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 Life of Baha'u'llah – A Photographic Narrative; Official website of the Bicentenary of the Birth of Baháʼu'lláh; The birth of Baháʼu'lláh: a bicentenary celebration of the Baháʼí Faith's founder . Exposition on Baháʼu'lláh's writings at the British Museum, London (2017-2018).