Founded more than a century and a half ago, the Baha'i Faith has spread all around the globe. Today, members of the Baha'i community live in more than 100,000 localities and come from nearly every nation, ethnic group, culture, profession, and social or economic background. They are united by their common belief in Baha'u'llah and His teachings on the oneness of mankind.
Who are the Baha'is? What do they believe in? How was the Baha'i Faith born? What are its core principles? All Things Made New answers these questions and offers a comprehensive introduction to the first- time reader. A standard reference work, this book will not only respond to many factual questions about the Baha'i Faith but also put the readers directly in touch with the Baha'i Holy Writings by a rich use of quotations by its central figures. This new illustrated edition has been revised to include the most recent information on the worldwide Baha'i community.
John Ferraby, born in 1914 in Southsea, Hampshire, was educated at Malvern and King College, Cambridge. A scholar and administrator, he accepted the Baha'i Faith in 1941 and soon became a very active and devoted member of the community. He was appointed "Hand of the Cause" in 1957, following which he fulfilled many international responsibilities as a representative of the Baha'i Faith. until his death in 1973.
This book is an attempt to confine within one volume all the most important teachings of Baha'u'llah and the chief facts of Baha'i history. Since the task is an impossible one, no apology for failure is needed. Much that is important has been omitted; the arrangement of what has been included will not suit all tastes; abstruse matters have been oversimplified and simple matters made abstruse; in fact, the book has all the faults that any book of this kind is bound to have.
It has been written by a Baha'i, who has not pretended to be anything else; that is to say, he has not filled the book with 'might's' and 'maybe's' to convey a suspended judgment more suited to the reader than the writer of such a book. The author's mind is made up; he is a Baha'i; there would be nothing objective in presenting the Baha'i Teaching as though he were not one.
Should any non-Baha'i reader think some statement of the author's too dogmatic or too confident, he is invited to insert before it the words 'Baha'is believe'. The author has himself done so from time to time as a reminder that everything in the book is intended to express Baha'i belief, but constant repetition of the phrase would be tedious; for the most part it is to be understood.
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