Bahá'í vjera

Ančić, Branko.2008. \"Bahá'í Religion as a New Religious Movement?" wrote:Bahá'í’s believe that Bahá'u'lláh is fulfilled expectance of God’s annunciation for all religions in the world – that Bahá'u'lláh is fifth incarnation of Buddha, reincarnation of Krishna, Messiah for Jews, and returned Christ for Christians.

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These belief emanates three fundamental principles which encompasses believing and ideology of Bahá'í movement: unity of God, unity of faith and unity of mankind.
Theological principle of unity of God refers to transcendent God as the only God and as a creator and keeper of life in total. From this principle arises central ideological concept of progressive revelation.

Prosecutions continued on north and south of Iran and culminated in 1850 when Iranian Prime Minister ordered execution of imprisoned Báb to stop the spreading of Bahá'í. After Báb’s death movement fragmented. One group followed Mirza Yahya Nuri known as Sobh-e Azal (“Morning of Eternity”). This fragmentation caused returning of one part of Bábis into mainstream Shi’ism. Followers of Sobh-e Azal formed a religious group known as Azalis. It is estimated that this group is dying out (Berry, 2004).
1866 Mirza Husayn Ali Nuri, older half brother of Sobh-e Azal, had proclaimed himself for Man-yuzhiruhu’llah – “He whom God shall make manifest”, the successor of Báb. According to Báb’s teaching his successor will be Bahá'u'lláh (Glory of God). Bahá'u'lláh was pursued and exilexiled several times from Teheran to Baghdad, from Baghdad to Istanbul and finally stopped on north of Haifa (nowadays Izrael) where Otoman governor abolished Bahá'u'lláh’s imprisonment. During his prison time Bahá'u'lláh wrote over 15 thousand texts among which is Kítab-i-Agdas (The Most Holy Book).

In the early 1950s it is estimated that there was around 200,000 Bahá'í believers in the world. By the end of the 1960s there was around 1 million, and at end of 1980s - 4.5 million believers. It is estimated today that there are 7 million Bahá'í believers in the world. In the beginning of the 1950s, 90% of all Bahá'í believers were Iranians, while today they consist less then 6% of Bahá'í population. On the West (Europe, North America, Australia and New Zeeland) Bahá'í were present since the time of Abdu´l-Baha’ (1844-1921). We can say that Bahá'í religion celebrates its 110 birthday in Europe, since the first community was established in 1898 in Paris.