Born in Persia, November 12, 1817, Bahá’u’lláh began at age
27 an undertaking that has gradually captured the imagination and loyalty of
several million people from virtually every race, culture, class, and nation on
earth. The phenomenon is one that has no reference points in the contemporary
world, but is associated rather with climactic changes of direction in the
collective past of the human race. For Bahá’u’lláh claimed to be no less than
the Messenger of God to the age of human maturity, the Bearer of a Divine
Revelation that fulfills the promises made in earlier religions, and that will
generate the spiritual nerves and sinews for the unification of the peoples of
the world.
(From “Baha’u’llah”, a document commissioned by and prepared under
the supervision of the Universal House of Justice)
