Outline of the Baháʼí Faith

Short description: Overview of and topical guide to the Baháʼí Faith

The Baháʼí Faith is a relatively new religion teaching the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people, established by Baháʼu'lláh in the 19th-century Middle East and now estimated to have a worldwide following of 5–8 million adherents, known as Baháʼís.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and a topical guide to the Baháʼí Faith.

## Contents

* 1 Beliefs and practices
* 1.1 Baháʼí teachings
* 1.2 Baháʼí social principles
* 1.3 Baháʼí laws
* 2 History
* 3 Important figures
* 3.1 Central figures
* 3.2 Other influential figures
* 3.2.1 Groups
* 3.2.2 Notable individuals
* 4 Texts and scriptures
* 4.1 By the Báb
* 4.2 By Baháʼu'lláh
* 4.3 By ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
* 4.4 By Shoghi Effendi
* 4.5 By the Universal House of Justice
* 5 Organizations
* 5.1 Baháʼí administration
* 5.2 Other Baháʼí organizations
* 6 Places
* 7 Calendar
* 8 Other topics
* 9 External links

## Beliefs and practices

### Baháʼí teachings

Baháʼí teachings

* God in the Baháʼí Faith
* Baháʼí Faith and the unity of religion - the Baháʼí belief that many of the world's different religions were revealed by God as part of one gradually unfolding plan
* Progressive revelation (Baháʼí) - the Baháʼí belief that God progressively reveals the truth through successive Manifestations of God
* Baháʼí Faith and Zoroastrianism
* Baháʼí Faith and Hinduism
* Baháʼí Faith and Buddhism
* Muhammad in the Baháʼí Faith
* Manifestation of God (Baháʼí Faith) - individuals whom Baháʼís believe were sent by God to establish religious teachings appropriate for their time and place, such as the Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad
* Baháʼí Faith on life after death
* Baháʼí cosmology
* Faith in the Baháʼí Faith
* Baháʼí views on sin
* Martyrdom in the Baháʼí Faith
* Aniconism in the Baháʼí Faith - the Baháʼí prohibition on images of God or those seen as Manifestations of God
* Covenant of Baháʼu'lláh
* Covenant-breaker
* Baháʼí views on science

### Baháʼí social principles

* Baháʼí Faith and the unity of humanity - the Baháʼí teaching that humanity is fundamentally one and should achieve a state of unity in diversity
* Baháʼí Faith and Native Americans
* New world order (Baháʼí)
* Baháʼí perspective on international human rights
* Baháʼí Faith and gender equality
* Baháʼí Faith and education
* Baháʼí Faith and auxiliary language - the Baháʼí teaching that the world should adopt a worldwide auxiliary language in addition to people's various languages to facilitate the unity of humanity
* Socioeconomic development and the Baháʼí Faith

### Baháʼí laws

Baháʼí laws - practices that are religiously binding for Baháʼís

* Prayer in the Baháʼí Faith - Baháʼí teachings on prayer, including both daily obligatory prayer and devotional prayer (general prayer)
* Obligatory Baháʼí prayers
* Nineteen Day Feast - a gathering of a local Baháʼí community that occurs on the first day of each month of the Baháʼí calendar
* Huqúqu'lláh - the Baháʼí obligation to give to the Baháʼí funds, which support the activities of Baháʼí communities
* Nineteen Day Fast - a period of fasting that Baháʼís observe from sunrise to sunset for 19 days once each year
* Baháʼí marriage
* Baháʼí views on homosexuality
* Baháʼí pilgrimage

## History

History of the Baháʼí Faith - events from 1863 to the present that had their background in two earlier movements in the nineteenth century, Shaykhism and Bábism

* Shaykhism - a Shi'a Islamic religious movement founded by Shaykh Ahmad (1753–1826)
* Bábism - a religion founded by the Báb in 1844 that Baháʼís see as a predecessor to the Baháʼí Faith; see Outline of Bábism
* Baháʼí/Bábí split - the split of the followers of Bábism into Baháʼís, who accepted Baháʼu'lláh as a figure prophesied in the teachings of Bábism, and Azalis, who followed Subh-i-Azal
* Baháʼí prophecies
* Baháʼí divisions
* ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's journeys to the West
* World Unity Conference
* Baháʼí World Congress
* Baháʼí teaching plans
* Baháʼí radio
* Persecution of Baháʼís
* Seven Martyrs of Tehran
* 1903 Isfahan anti-Baháʼí riots
* Statements about the persecution of Baháʼís
* Baháʼí 7
* Egyptian identification card controversy
* Baháʼí Faith by country - estimated numbers of Baháʼís globally, by country, and by continent, with links to full articles on the Baháʼí Faith in individual countries and continents
* Baháʼí Faith in Africa
* Baháʼí Faith in Asia
* Baháʼí Faith in Europe
* Baháʼí Faith in North America
* Baháʼí Faith in Oceania
* Baháʼí Faith in South America

## Important figures

### Central figures

* The Báb - the founder of the Bábism, seen by Baháʼís as the predecessor to their religion
* Baháʼu'lláh - the founder of the Baháʼí Faith
* ʻAbdu'l-Bahá - the appointed successor of Baháʼu'lláh

### Other influential figures

#### Groups

* Afnán - the maternal relatives of the Báb
* Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh - nineteen eminent early followers of Baháʼu'lláh
* Baháʼu'lláh's family
* Disciples of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá - a designation given by Shoghi Effendi to nineteen Western Baháʼís
* Hands of the Cause - a select group of Baháʼís, appointed for life, whose main function was to propagate and protect the Baháʼí Faith
* Knights of Baháʼu'lláh - a title given by Shoghi Effendi to Baháʼís who brought the Baháʼí Faith to new countries and territories

#### Notable individuals

* Shoghi Effendi - the appointed head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957, entitled the Guardian
* Badíʻ - the 17-year-old who delivered Baháʼu'lláh's tablet to the Shah and was subsequently killed
* Nabíl-i-Aʻzam - the author of the account of early Bábí and Baháʼí history called The Dawn-breakers
* Mishkín-Qalam - a calligrapher who lived during the lifetime of Baháʼu'lláh, and designer of the Greatest Name
* Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl - a Baháʼí scholar who travelled as far as America and authored several books about the Baháʼí Faith
* Martha Root - a prominent travelling teacher of the Baháʼí Faith in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
* Rúhíyyih Khánum - the wife of Shoghi Effendi, who was appointed a Hand of the Cause

## Texts and scriptures

* Baháʼí literature

### By the Báb

* Persian Bayán - one of the principal scriptural writings of the Báb, the founder of Bábism, which is also revered in the Baháʼí Faith
* Arabic Bayán - one of the principal scriptural writings of the Báb, the founder of Bábism, which is also revered in the Baháʼí Faith
* Selections from the Writings of the Báb - a book of excerpts from notable works of the Báb, compiled by the Universal House of Justice, the highest authority in the Baháʼí Faith

### By Baháʼu'lláh

List of writings of Baháʼu'lláh

* Epistle to the Son of the Wolf - the last major work of Baháʼu'lláh, written soon before his death in 1892
* Four Valleys - a mystical treatise written in Persian
* Gems of Divine Mysteries - a long epistle in Arabic
* Gleanings from the Writings of Baháʼu'lláh - a compilation of Baháʼu'lláh's writings selected by Shoghi Effendi
* Kitáb-i-Aqdas - a central book of the Baháʼí Faith which lays out the Baháʼí laws
* Kitáb-i-Íqán - the primary theological work of the Baháʼí Faith
* Hidden Words - a collection of short poetic utterances, 71 in Arabic and 82 in Persian
* The Seven Valleys - a mystical treatise written in Persian
* Summons of the Lord of Hosts - a collection of Baháʼu'lláh's writings that were written to the kings and rulers of the world
* Tabernacle of Unity - a collection of several of Baháʼu'lláh's writings first published in July 2006
* Tablets of Baháʼu'lláh Revealed After the Kitáb-i-Aqdas - a collection of Baháʼu'lláh's writings from later in his life that have been published together since 1978

### By ʻAbdu'l-Bahá

* Paris Talks - a book transcribed from talks given by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá while in Paris.
* The Secret of Divine Civilization - a book written in 1875 by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, addressed to the rulers and the people of Persia.
* Some Answered Questions - contains questions asked to ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, son of the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, by Laura Clifford Barney, during several of her visits to Haifa between 1904 and 1906, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's answers to these questions.
* Tablets of the Divine Plan - 14 letters (tablets) written between September 1916 and March 1917 by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to Baháʼís in the United States and Canada.
* Tablet to Dr. Forel - a letter of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, written in reply to questions asked by Auguste-Henri Forel, a Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist.
* Tablet to The Hague - a letter which ʻAbdu'l-Bahá wrote to the Central Organisation for Durable Peace in The Hague, The Netherlands on 17 December 1919.
* Will and Testament of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá - A seminal document, written in three stages by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá.

### By Shoghi Effendi

* The Advent of Divine Justice - a letter to the Baháʼís of the United States and Canada, dated December 25, 1938
* God Passes By - an account of the first century of Baháʼí history (beginning with the declaration of the Báb in 1844)
* Promised Day is Come - a book-length letter written for Baháʼís in the Western world, dated 1941

### By the Universal House of Justice

* The Promise of World Peace

## Organizations

### Baháʼí administration

Baháʼí administration

* International Baháʼí Council - the precursor to the Universal House of Justice that existed from 1951–1963
* Universal House of Justice - the supreme governing institution of the Baháʼí Faith, first elected in 1963
* Spiritual Assemblies - a term given by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to refer to elected councils that govern the Baháʼí Faith.
* Institution of the Counsellors
* International Teaching Centre
* Baháʼí International Community

### Other Baháʼí organizations

* Baháʼí Esperanto League
* Baháʼí school
* Baháʼí Institute for Higher Education
* Banani International Secondary School
* Townshend International School
* School of the Nations (Macau)
* New Era High School
* Barli Development Institute for Rural Women
* FUNDAEC
* Ruhi Institute

## Places

* Síyáh-Chál
* Garden of Ridván, Baghdad
* Báb's house
* Baháʼí World Centre
* Baháʼí World Centre buildings
* Shrine of the Báb
* Shrine of Baháʼu'lláh
* Qiblih - the point towards which Baháʼís face during their daily obligatory prayers
* Shrine of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
* Terraces (Baháʼí)
* Baháʼí House of Worship - a place of worship of the Baháʼí Faith, also known as a Baháʼí temple
* List of Baháʼí Houses of Worship
* Lotus Temple
* Baháʼí House of Worship (Wilmette, Illinois)
* Sydney Baháʼí Temple
* Santiago Bahá'í Temple
* Haziratu'l-Quds - a Baháʼí administrative centre often used for Baháʼí gatherings, also known as a Baháʼí centre

## Calendar

Baháʼí calendar

* List of observances set by the Baháʼí calendar
* Baháʼí Holy Days
* Baháʼí Naw-Rúz
* Ridván
* Twin Holy Birthdays
* Birth of Baháʼu'lláh
* Day of the Covenant (Baháʼí)
* Ayyám-i-Há

## Other topics

* Alláh-u-Abhá
* Baháʼí Faith in fiction
* Baháʼí orthography
* Baháʼí studies
* Baháʼí review
* Bahá’í Studies Review
* Baháʼí symbols
* Criticism of the Baháʼí Faith
* Political objections to the Baháʼí Faith
* World Religion Day

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