Bahá'u'lláh

Introductory works[edit]

See https://www.bahai.org/bahaullah for an introductory article or https://bahai-library.com/bic_statement_bahaullah for a more extensive authoritative book about His Life and teachings.

For the publicly editable wiki article, see Wikipedia:Bahá'u'lláh

Talks regarding[edit]

Some Answered Questions, Chapter 9

Map of His travels[edit]

Whether He met the Báb[edit]

https://bahai-library.com/uhj_meeting_bab_bahaullah

Holy Days concerning[edit]

From Lights of Guidance (to categorize)[edit]

Bahá'u'lláh as Inaugurator of the Bahá'í Cycle[edit]

See Bahá'í Cycle

No Prophet in Same Category as Bahá'u'lláh[edit]

"There are no Prophets, so far, in the same category as Bahá'u'lláh, as He culminates a great cycle begun with Adam."

(From a letter written on behalf of the Guardian to the National Spiritual Assembly of Australia and New Zealand, December 26, 1941: Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand, p. 41, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1550)

Bahá'u'lláh Has Appeared in God's Greatest Name[edit]

"...By 'Greatest Name' is meant that Bahá'u'lláh has appeared in God's Greatest Name, in other words, that He is the Supreme Manifestation of God."

(Ibid., p. 41, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1551)

Bahá'u'lláh Conversed with Moses in the Burning Bush[edit]

"Bahá'u'lláh is not the Intermediary between other Manifestations and God. Each has His own relation to the Primal Source. But in the sense that Bahá'u'lláh is the greatest Manifestation to yet appear, the One Who consummates the Revelation of Moses; He was the One Moses conversed with in the Burning Bush. In other words Bahá'u'lláh identifies the glory of the Godhead on that occasion with Himself. No distinction can be made amongst the Prophets in the sense that They all proceed from One Source, and are of One Essence. But Their stations and functions in this world are different."

(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, October 19, 1947, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1552)

Bahá'u'lláh is Not God--But Through Him We Can Know God[edit]

"As regards your question: Bahá'u'lláh is, of course, not God and not the Creator; but through Him we can know God, and because of this position of Divine Intermediary, in a sense, He (or the other Prophets) is all we can ever know of that Infinite Essence which is God."

(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, June 4, 1951, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1553)

Appearance of Bahá'u'lláh in "other worlds" not defined and we could not visualize them in our present state; cannot say whether He meant other planets or not[edit]

"What Bahá'u'lláh means by His appearance in 'other worlds' He has not defined, as we could not visualize them in our present state, hence He was indefinite, and we cannot say whether He meant other planets or not...."

(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, December 24, 1941, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1555)