The Promised One

Bahá'ís believe that in every age God sends a Messenger to mankind. Those we know of in the past have been the great religious teachers such as Krishna, Moses, Buddha, Christ and Muhammad. They manifest or show forth the attributes of God and teach mankind how to live:
"Every one of them is a mirror of God, reflecting naught else but His Self, His Beauty, His Might and Glory, if ye will understand."

Each Messenger builds upon the Messages of Those gone before, leading us to new spiritual heights and bringing social teachings designed for that particular age:

"For every age requireth a fresh measure of the light of God. Every Divine Revelation hath been sent down in a manner which befitted the circumstances of the age in which it hath appeared."

The Hindu scriptures describe it thus:

"Whenever there is a decay of righteousness, then I Myself come forth... for the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I am born from age to age."

All the Messengers in the past have promised that a great World Teacher would appear who would bring an age of peace to mankind. Sometimes they refer to this as the return of their own spirit, sometimes it sounds like another person, as in this from the Christian scriptures:

"I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit, when He the Spirit of truth is come, He will guide you unto all truth..."

Many smaller tribal religions also have prophecies of a great World Teacher.

Although the Messengers are all different individuals, it is the same spirit, the spirit of God, which animates them all. Bahá'ís believe that Bahá'u'lláh fulfilled all the promises and prophecies of the past when He arose in Persia in the last century and announced His Message to mankind. We believe that the same spirit which was in all the Messengers is in Bahá'u'lláh.

"The Revelation, which from time immemorial, hath been acclaimed as the Purpose and Promise of all the Prophets of God, and the most cherished desire of His Messengers, hath now, by virtue of the pervasive Will of the Almighty and at His irresistible bidding, been revealed unto men. The advent of such a Revelation hath been heralded in all the sacred Scriptures."

The Bahá'í writings explain the station of Bahá'u'lláh:

"To Israel He was neither more nor less than the incarnation of the 'Everlasting Father,' the 'Lord of Hosts'... to Christendom Christ returned 'in the glory of the Father', to Shi'ah Islam the return of the Imam Husayn; to Sunni Islam the descent of the "Spirit of God"; to the Zoroastrians the promised Shah-Bahram; to the Hindus the reincarnation of Krishna; to the Buddhists the fifth Buddha (Maitreya, the Buddha of universal fellowship)."

The name Bahá'u'lláh means 'the Glory of God' or 'Glory of the Lord'. This title is mentioned in many prophecies:

"To Him Isaiah, the greatest of the Jewish prophets, had alluded as the 'Glory of the Lord', the 'Everlasting Father', the 'Prince of Peace', the 'Wonderful', the 'Counsellor'."

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