The Bahá’í Faith upholds the unity of God, recognizes the
unity of His Prophets, and inculcates the principle of the oneness and
wholeness of the entire human race. It proclaims the necessity and the
inevitability of the unification of mankind, asserts that it is gradually
approaching, and claims that nothing short of the transmuting spirit of God,
working through His chosen Mouthpiece in this day, can ultimately succeed in bringing it about. It, moreover, enjoins upon its followers
the primary duty of an unfettered search after truth, condemns all manner of prejudice
and superstition, declares the purpose of religion to be the promotion of amity
and concord, proclaims its essential harmony with science, and recognizes it as
the foremost agency for the pacification and the orderly progress of human
society.... (Shoghi Effendi, preface to ‘The Promised Day Is Come’)
