O Son of Spirit
Possess a kindly, pure and radiant heart that thine may be a sovereignty, ancient, imperishable and everlasting.
Baha'u'llah
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The Bahá'í Faith is the youngest of the world's independent religions. Its Founder, Bahá'u'lláh (1817-1892), is regarded by Bahá'ís as the most recent in a line of Manifestations of God that stretches back beyond recorded time that includes Krishna, Abraham, Moses, Zoroaster, Buddha, Christ and Muhammad.
In its comparatively short history of about 150 years the Bahá'í Faith has grown to embrace adherents from more than 2100 ethnic, racial and tribal groups. There are significant Bahá'í communities in more than 235 countries and dependent territories, prompting the 1992 Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year to tabulate the Bahá'í Faith as the most geographically widespread independent religion after Christianity.
The essential message of Bahá'u'lláh is that of unity. He taught that there is only one God, that humanity is a single people with a common destiny, and that all the world's religions have been successive stages in the revelation of God's will and purpose for humanity. Bahá'u'lláh said that as foretold in all the world's scriptures, the time has come for mankind to be united into a peaceful and integrated global society.
A Bahá'í simply means a follower of Baha'u'llah (meaning "Glory of God"), the Prophet founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
Representing a cross section of humanity, Bahá'ís come from virtually every nation, ethnic group, culture, profession and social or economic group. Any casual observer of our own local Bahá'í community here in Singapore cannot but notice its striking multi-racial, multi-national and multi-lingual composition.
Bahá'u'lláh proclaims that for such a global society to flourish, it must be based on certain fundamental principles. These are:
