It is believed that the youngest religion in the world is Islam, whose birth dates back to 610. It was in this year that the angel Jabrail appeared in a dream to the forty-year-old prophet Muhammad and dictated the first five verses of the Qur'an. But recently it became clear that there is a religion that is much younger - it is no more than 150 years old and its name is Bahai.
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The history of the birth of the Bahá'í religion is one of the most peaceful - in comparison with the birth of Judaism, Christianity or Islam. Just as Christianity was once cast out of Judaism, the branch of the Bahá'í split off from Islam. The name of the new religion is translated into Russian as the religion of Light, since the word "Baha" in Arabic means light, radiance or glory.
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The symbol of Bahai is a nine-pointed star. Baha'i adherents greet each other with "Alla u Abha, " which means "God is Glorified." At the initial stage of the formation of religion, the greeting sounded in a more Muslim interpretation, as "Alla u Akbar."
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In the 60s of the XIX century, in Iraq, on the basis of one of the Islamic movements, the founder of which was a young Iranian merchant Seyyed Ali Muhammad Shirazi, a new teaching and belief was born, which eventually grew and gained, attracting more and more supporters. One such supporter was the Iranian nobleman Mirza Hussein Ali, who is better known by the name of Bahá'u'lláh. It was thanks to his enlightening efforts that religion began to spread in the world.
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At the age of 27 years, in 1844, Bahá'u'lláh refused the inheritance of his family and began to practice an ascetic lifestyle, since the main idea of the Bahá'í teachings is to protect the poor and disadvantaged from corruption and arbitrary rule of law. Subsequently, the heirs of Bahá'u'lláh became the leaders of the new religious cult.
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It was one of the last heirs of the Bahá'í founder, namely his grandson Shoghi Effendi, who became the vehicle of Bahá'í in the Western European world, since it was he who translated many of the Bahá'í writings and covenants from Arabic into English.
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There are currently more than 5 million Bahá'í adherents worldwide. Perhaps, at present, there is not a single country where followers of the new faith would not live. This belief positions itself as a unifying world religion, based on several unshakable postulates.
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First: humanity is one family and the time has come for its unification into a peaceful global society.
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Second: economic problems are related to spiritual problems. Economic justice and prosperity will come only when the fundamental connection between the spiritual and practical aspects of life is recognized.
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Third: the truth is comprehensible. A person is obliged to research it and acquire new knowledge.
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Fourth: God is one. The whole universe is created by one Creator. God revealed Himself through the Messengers who founded all the world's religions in order to guide the world and teachings to teach humanity.
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Fifth: humanity is a single family. A single family cannot be divided into races, nations, ethnic or cultural groups.
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Sixth: women and men are equal - this is a mandatory postulate of the development of mankind and the transformation of society.
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In 1963, adherents of Baha'ism created the Universal House of Justice, which currently conducts all matters of the Bahá'í religion in the international community and coordinates the activities of all spiritual communities.
