If the Bahai faith truly represents radical progress and
maturity then it should provide something which is missing
from the other religions. If there is nothing missing from
previous religions then they are perfectly sufficient for
today.
The Baha'i Faith ie the Revelation of Baha'u'llah, proclaims
this to be the Day of God and His Justice.
XII. Bestir yourselves, O people, in anticipation of the days
of Divine justice, for the promised hour is now come. Beware
lest ye fail to apprehend its import and be accounted among
the erring. (Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of
Baha'u'llah, p. 16)
XIII. Consider the past. How many, both high and low, have, at
all times, yearningly awaited the advent of the Manifestations
of God in the sanctified persons of His chosen Ones. How often
have they expected His coming, how frequently have they prayed
that the breeze of Divine mercy might blow, and the promised
Beauty step forth from behind the veil of concealment, and be
made manifest to all the world. And whensoever the portals of
grace did open, and the clouds of divine bounty did rain upon
mankind, and the light of the Unseen did shine above the
horizon of celestial might, they all denied Him, and turned
away from His face -- the face of God Himself
(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p.
17)
It is evident that the changes brought about in every
Dispensation constitute the dark clouds that intervene between
the eye of man's understanding and the Divine Luminary which
shineth forth from the day spring of the Divine Essence.
Consider how men for generations have been blindly imitating
their fathers, and have been trained according to such ways
and manners as have been laid down by the dictates of their
Faith. Were these men, therefore, to discover suddenly that a
Man, Who hath been living in their midst, Who, with respect to
every human limitation hath been their equal, had risen to
abolish every established principle imposed by their Faith --
principles by which for centuries they have been disciplined,
and every opposer and denier of which they have come to regard
as infidel, profligate and wicked, -- they would of a
certainty be veiled and hindered from acknowledging His truth.
Such things are as clouds that veil the eyes of those whose
inner being hath not tasted the Salsabil of detachment, nor
drunk from the Kawthar of the knowledge of God. Such men, when
acquainted with those circumstances, become so veiled that,
without the least question, they pronounce the Manifestation
of God as infidel, and sentence Him to death. You must have
heard of such things taking place all down the ages, and are
now observing them in these days. (Baha'u'llah, Gleanings
from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 26)
XVI. Say: O men! This is a matchless Day. Matchless must,
likewise, be the tongue that celebrateth the praise of the
Desire of all nations, and matchless the deed that aspireth to
be acceptable in His sight. The whole human race hath longed
for this Day, that perchance it may fulfil that which well
beseemeth its station, and is worthy of its destiny. Blessed
is the man whom the affairs of the world have failed to deter
from recognizing Him Who is the Lord of all things.
So blind hath become the human heart that neither the
disruption of the city, nor the reduction of the mountain in
dust, nor even the cleaving of the earth, can shake off its
torpor. The allusions made in the Scriptures have been
unfolded, and the signs recorded therein have been revealed,
and the prophetic cry is continually being raised. And yet
all, except such as God was pleased to guide, are bewildered
in the drunkenness of their heedlessness!
Witness how the world is being afflicted with a fresh calamity
every day. Its tribulation is continually deepening. From the
moment the Suriy-i-Ra'is (Tablet to Ra'is) was revealed until
the present day, neither hath the world been tranquillized,
nor have the hearts of its peoples been at rest. At one time
it hath been agitated by contentions and disputes, at another
it hath been convulsed by wars, and fallen a victim to
inveterate diseases. Its sickness is approaching the stage of
utter hopelessness, inasmuch as the true Physician is debarred
from administering the remedy, whilst unskilled practitioners
are regarded with favor, and are accorded full freedom to act.
...The dust of sedition hath clouded the hearts of men, and
blinded their eyes. Erelong, they will perceive the
consequences of what their hands have wrought in the Day of
God. Thus warneth you He Who is the All-Informed, as bidden by
One Who is the Most Powerful, the Almighty. (Baha'u'llah,
Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 39)
LXX. The world's equilibrium hath been upset through the
vibrating influence of this most great, this new World Order.
Mankind's ordered life hath been revolutionized through the
agency of this unique, this wondrous System -- the like of
which mortal eyes have never witnessed
