ABSTRACT
Bahá’í Faith The Bahá’í Faith is the youngest of the world’s major religions. Founded by Bahá’u’lláh in 1844, the Bahá’í Faith teaches that religious truth is not absolute but relative, that divine revelation is progressive, and that all the great prophets have revealed the same truth in progressively unfolding ways. Shoghi Effendi, guardian of the Bahá’í Faith from 1921 to his death in 1957, professed that the aims and purposes of the divine messengers, or manifestations of God, are “one and the same, that their teachings are but facets of one truth, that their functions are complementary, that they differ only in the nonessential aspects of their doctrines, and that their missions represent successive stages in the spiritual evolution of human society.”
