Alike in the claims unequivocally asserted by its author and
the general character of the growth of the Bahá'í community in every continent
of the globe, it can be regarded in no other light than a world religion,
destined to evolve in the course of time into a world-embracing commonwealth,
whose advent must signalize the Golden Age of mankind, the age in which the
unity of the human race will have been unassailably established, its maturity
attained, and its glorious destiny unfolded through the birth and efflorescence
of a world-encompassing civilization.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘The Faith of
Baha’u’llah: A World Religion’, a brief document prepared by Shoghi Effendi and
accompanied his Statement to the Special UN Commission on Palestine, 14 July
1947)
