Which religion is the youngest
Which religion is the youngest
It is commonly believed that the youngest religion in the worldThis is Islam, whose birth dates back to 610. It was in this year that the forty-year-old Prophet Muhammad appeared in a dream by the angel Jabrayil and dictated the first five verses of the Koran. But recently it turned out that there is a religion that is much younger - it is not more than 150 years old and its name is Bahá'í.
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The history of the birth of the Bahá'í religion is one of the mostpeaceful - in comparison with the birth of Judaism, Christianity or Islam. Just as Christianity once erupted from Judaism, the Bahá'í branch broke from Islam. In Russian, the name of the new religion is translated as the religion of Light, because the word "baha" in Arabic means light, radiance or glory.
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The Bahá'í symbol is the nine-pointed star. Baha'i adherents greet each other "Allah-have Abha", which means "God is Glorious". At the initial stage of the formation of religion, the greeting sounded in a more Muslim interpretation, like "Allah-u Akbar."
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In the 60s of the XIX century in Iraq, on the basis of onefrom the Islamic currents, founded by the young Iranian merchant Seyyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi, a new teaching and belief was born, which eventually grew and got stronger, attracting more and more supporters. One such supporter was the Iranian nobleman Mirza Hussein Ali, who is better known as Bahá'u'lláh. It is thanks to his enlightenment efforts that religion began to spread in the world.
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At the age of 27, in 1844, Baha'u'llah refusedfrom the inheritance of his family and began to practice the ascetic way of life, because the main idea of the Bahá'í teachings is to protect the poor and disadvantaged from corruption and power abuse. Subsequently, the successors of Baha'u'llah became the leaders of the new religious cult.
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It is one of the last heirs of the founderThe Bahá'ís, namely his grandson Shoghi Effendi, became the conductor of the Bahá'í in the Western European world, because he translated many of the Baha'i writings and covenants from Arabic into English.
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Currently, there are around the worldmore than 5 million Bahá'í adepts. Perhaps, at the present time there is no country where the followers of the new faith did not live. This belief positions itself as a unifying world religion, based on several unshakable postulates.
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First: mankind is one family and it's time for its unification in a peaceful global society.
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Second: economic problems are related to spiritual problems. Economic justice and prosperity will come only when the fundamental relationship between the spiritual and practical aspects of life is recognized.
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Third: the truth is comprehensible. Man is obliged to investigate and acquire new knowledge.
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Fourth: God is one. The whole universe was created by one Creator. God manifested Himself through Messengers who founded all world religions in order to guide the world and teach mankind.
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Fifth: humanity is a single family. A single family can not be divided into races, nations, ethnic or cultural groups.
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Sixth: women and men are equal - this is a mandatory postulate of the development of mankind and the transformation of society.
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In 1963, the adherents of Bahaism created the Universal House of Justice, which currently conducts all the affairs of Bahá'í religion in the international community and coordinates the activities of all spiritual communities.
