Bahai Teachings - Baha'is of North Dumfries

Founded in 1863, the Bahá'í Faith today is among the fastest growing of all the world's religions. Already the second-most widespread faith in the world, it is also considered to be the most diverse organized body of people on the planet.

Core Teachings

• There is one God, regardless of what different people and religions may have named Him over the ages.
  

• Truth is eternal and progressively revealed to humanity through a succession Messengers; Baha'u'llah is the most recent of these Messengers.
  

• The principle of the oneness of mankind is the pivot round which all the teachings of Baha'u'llah revolve.
  

• Baha'u'llah taught that humanity, after a long and turbulent adolescence, is at long last reaching its stage of maturity, when its organic unity in a global and just society can finally be established.
  

• To this end, the Baha'i Faith prescribes laws of personal morality and behavior, as well as social laws and principles to establish the oneness of humanity.
  

Baha'is Believe:

• The purpose of life is to know and worship God, to acquire virtues, to promote the oneness of mankind and to carry forward an ever-advancing civilization.
  

• We are innately noble beings created in the image and likeness of our Creator.
  

• Work performed in the spirit of service is a form of worship.
  

• The soul, created at the moment of conception, is destined by God to continue to progress through eternity.
  

Baha'is Practice:

• Daily prayer and communion with God.
  

• High moral principles including trustworthiness, chastity and honesty.
  

• Independent investigation of truth.
  

• A life dedicated to the service of humanity.
  

• Fellowship with the followers of all religions.
  

Social Principles Include:

• Full equality between women and men at every level of society.
  

• Harmony between science and religion as two complementary systems of knowledge that must work together to advance the well-being and progress of humanity.
  

• The elimination of all forms of prejudice.
  

• The establishment of a world commonwealth of nations.
  

• Recognition of the common origin and fundamental unity of purpose of all religions.
  

• Spiritual solutions to economic problems and the removal of economic barriers and restrictions.
  

• The abolition of extremes of wealth and poverty.
  

• The adoption of a world auxiliary language, a world script, a uniform and universal system of currency and of weights and measures.