Baháʼí Faith and the unity of religion

[1] The principle states that the teachings of the major religions are part of a single plan directed from the same God.

[3] The Baháʼí teachings state that there is but one religion which is progressively revealed by God, through prophets/messengers, as humanity matures and its capacity to understand also grows.

This process of revelation, according to the Baháʼí writings, is also never ceasing,[7] The general theme of the successive and continuous religions founded by Manifestations of God is that there is an evolutionary tendency, and that each Manifestation of God brings a larger measure of revelation (or religion) to humankind than the previous one.

[8] The differences in the revelation brought by the Manifestations of God is stated to be not inherent in the characteristics of the Manifestation of God, but instead attributed to the various worldly, societal and human factors;[8] these differences are in accordance with the "conditions" of the time the messenger came and the "spiritual capacity" of humanity.

[10] Baháʼí teachings hold that the motive force in all human development is due to the coming of the Manifestations of God.

[13] Thus religious history is interpreted as a series of periods or "dispensations", where each Manifestation brings a somewhat broader and more advanced revelation, suited for the time and place in which it was expressed.

The Baháʼí writings contain assurances that after 1,000 years, another Manifestation of God could appear to advance human civilization.

[17] Moojan Momen, in his translation of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's commentary on the Islamic tradition "I was a Hidden Treasure", states that the differences between dualist and monist views are reconciled by the teaching that these opposing viewpoints are caused by differences in the observers themselves, not in that what is observed.

[17][19] Ian Kluge holds a different view than Momen, which he calls 'relationalism' (associated with the process philosophy as described by A.N.

[22] Keven Brown concludes that the "realities of things are manifestations of the first thing to emanate from God, the Primal Will", but they are "not manifestations of the unknowable and inaccessible Godhead", and that according to the Baháʼí teachings the "true meaning of union (or knowing) in the mystic quest is not union with (or knowing) the Essence of God (which is impossible to attain), but recognition of the Manifestation of God for the day in which one lives".

[23] Nader Saiedi describes the Báb's explanations about the dual stations of the "Point", another term for the Primal Will of God.

[25] Baháʼís follow Baháʼu'lláh, a prophet whom they consider a successor to Zoroaster, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, Krishna and Buddha.

They regard beliefs held in common as evidence of truth, progressively revealed by God throughout human history, and culminating in (at present) the Baháʼí revelation.