Happy Birth of Bahá’u’lláh and the Bab to all my Bahai Friends.
For my friends of other faiths, here are a few facts for your edification that Bahá’u’lláh brought to advance humanity. Many of these teachings are part of our consciousness now, but when proclaimed in the mid 1800s, they were revolutionary and the cause of his imprisonment, banishment, and 40 years of exile.
1. Bahá’u’lláh taught that hearts must receive the Bounty of the Holy Spirit, so that Spiritual civilization may be established. For material civilization is not adequate for the needs of mankind and cannot be the cause of its happiness. Material civilization is like the body and spiritual civilization is like the soul. Body without soul cannot live.
2. The unity of mankind. All are the servants of One God and members of one human family. There is only one human race.
3. Religion must be the source of fellowship, the cause of unity and the nearness of God to man.
4. All Prejudices, whether religious, racial, patriotic or political are destructive to the foundations of human development.
5. Equality of men and women. Man and woman both should be educated equally and equally regarded.
6. One Universal language.
7. One unfolding religion. The Reality of the divine Religions is one, because the Reality is one and cannot be two. All the prophets are united in their message, and unshaken. They are like the sun; in different seasons they ascend from different rising points on the horizon.
8. Religion and Science are inter-twined with each other and cannot be separated. Every religion which does not concern itself with Science is mere tradition, and that is not the essential.
9. Elimination of extremes of wealth and poverty. The arrangements of the circumstances of the people must be such that poverty shall disappear, and that every one as far as possible, according to his position and rank, shall be comfortable.
10. Individual investigation of reality. Man must seek the reality himself, forsaking imitations and adherence to mere hereditary forms.
Thank you Barbara Talley