The Baha'i Faith

Yes, my grasshopper; but first you must cleave your screen name and become, at last, a person. :wink:

Never!

Actually aperson, it is a little bit more complicated than that.

The Baha'i faith comes out of Shi'ite Islam and like the Shi'ites it accepts the premise that there are hidden Imams (God-inspired teachers / leaders.)

Around 1844 a man by the name of Ali Muhammad Shirazi declared himself the Bab, which means 'Gate' and, by implication, carries the further meaning of the 'Gate to the Imam.' Shirazi had himself been a follower of Siyyid Kazim i Rashti who had been a followers of Shaykh Ahmad. (Ahmad, in the 1790s, began a religious movement within Shi'a Islam. His followers, who became known as Shaykhís, were expecting the imminent appearance of the Qá'im of the House of Muhammad, also called the Mahdi. )

Shirazi later declared himself to be the Qa'im. He spoke of the one who would follow him, (the Babi's say after a thousand years and the Baha'is say immediately after) whom he called "Him whom God shall make Manifest." Around about 1845 a young man named Mírzá Ḥusayn-`Alí became a disciple of the Bab and following the Bab's execution in 1850 and the imprisonment of Babi's for treason (following an attempt on the Shah's life) he received a revelation declaring him to be "Him whom God shall make Manifest."

Husayn-Ali took for himself the name Baha'u'llah which means "The Glory of God."

I suggest you look here: http://tinyurl.com/y3juo3 for more information.

Since this rather misinformitive post I have gain much knowledge, thanks and sorry.

AT LONG LAST ANOTHER KIWI!!!
I thought this day would never come!

Glad I could help. (At least I think that's what I should say...... )

Everyone around here is from bloody America. So far I've met ONE Aussie but until now, not a single New Zealander.

my godfather lives in NZ....does that count?

No.

Chai Tea, you are simpy never happy with your avatar or signiture. Change is good, but not too much.

Me?

Not happy?


I am the happiest of creathures aperson. Never doubt that.


my humor is........um.....different.



so why doesn't my godfather count?

not good enough for you, eh?

Now, now!

ChaiTea, I think your godparent counts!

BTW, your signature line... Whoever wrote "silence of the lambs" never had any as a kid, the bloody things never shut-up!

see aperson?

nyah nyah nyah

Humph! We're so far off and remote; it's like nobody knows anything about us. Just because we don't have nuclear weapons.

Not everyone. In fact, there are numerous rumours about a recent eurogentrification of A2K!

Now, do carry on!

We Don't???? Dang, who knew

there's quite a contingent of Australians, a whack of Canajuns, some Brits, a few folks from New Zealand and more Europeans than most Murricans can stand here.

New Mexico, the only foriegn nation that does not require a visa for US citizens. ( we do watch them closely) canajuns we welcome with open arms.

"Well, there are some Brits, but there are lots of Europeans, too...."

I checked out the Baha'i faith many years ago. As a Buddhist who I must say that the Baha'i faith has little in common with Buddhism. It is more closely connected with Unitarian or even Christian faiths.