The Bahá'í Faith emerged in nineteenth-century Persia and teaches the progressive revelation of one God through a succession of divine messengers — Zoroaster, Abraham, Moses, Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, the Báb, and Bahá'u'lláh — each bringing a teaching appropriate to the age. Its central commitments are the oneness of humanity, the equality of men and women, the harmony of science and religion, and the need for a new global civilization built on justice. As one of the youngest of the world's major traditions, the Bahá'í community offers a vision of universality that is not syncretism but a coherent theological claim: that the light has always been the same, and only the lamps have differed.
Rumi