Outline of the Baháʼí Faith explained
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Baháʼí Faith.
Baháʼí Faith - relatively new religion teaching the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people, established by Baháʼu'lláh in the 19th-century Middle East and now estimated to have a worldwide following of 5–8 million adherents, known as Baháʼís.
Beliefs and practices
Baháʼí teachings
Baháʼí teachings
Baháʼí social principles
Baháʼí laws
Baháʼí laws - practices that are religiously binding for Baháʼís
- Tasjil - the process by which someone is officially confirmed as a follower of the Baháʼí Faith, under the auspices of Baháʼí administration
- Prayer in the Baháʼí Faith - Baháʼí teachings on prayer, including both daily obligatory prayer and devotional prayer (general prayer)
- Nineteen Day Feasta gathering of a local Baháʼí community that occurs on the first day of each month of the Baháʼí calendar
- Huqúqu'lláh - the Baháʼí obligation to give to the Baháʼí funds, which support the activities of Baháʼí communities
- Nineteen Day Fast - a period of fasting that Baháʼís observe from sunrise to sunset for 19 days once each year
- Baháʼí marriage
- Baháʼí views on homosexuality
- Baháʼí pilgrimage
History
See also: Baháʼí timeline. History of the Baháʼí Faith - events from 1863 to the present that had their background in two earlier movements in the nineteenth century, Shaykhism and Bábism
Important figures
Central figures
- The Báb - the founder of the Bábism, seen by Baháʼís as the predecessor to their religion
- Baháʼu'lláh - the founder of the Baháʼí Faith
- ʻAbdu'l-Bahá - the appointed successor of Baháʼu'lláh
Other influential figures
Groups
- Afnán - the maternal relatives of the Báb
- Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh - nineteen eminent early followers of Baháʼu'lláh
- Baháʼu'lláh's family
- Hands of the Cause - a select group of Baháʼís, appointed for life, whose main function was to propagate and protect the Baháʼí Faith
- Knights of Baháʼu'lláh - a title given by Shoghi Effendi to Baháʼís who brought the Baháʼí Faith to new countries and territories
Notable individuals
See main article: List of Baháʼís.
See also: List of converts to the Baháʼí Faith and List of former Baháʼís.
- Shoghi Effendi - the appointed head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957, entitled the Guardian
- Badíʻ - the 17-year-old who delivered Baháʼu'lláh's tablet to the Shah and was subsequently killed
- Nabíl-i-Aʻzam - the author of the account of early Bábí and Baháʼí history called The Dawn-breakers
- Mishkín-Qalam - a calligrapher who lived during the lifetime of Baháʼu'lláh, and designer of the Greatest Name
- Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl - a Baháʼí scholar who travelled broadly and authored several books about the Baháʼí Faith
- Martha Root - a prominent travelling teacher of the Baháʼí Faith in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
- Rúhíyyih Khánum - the wife of Shoghi Effendi, who was appointed a Hand of the Cause
Texts and scriptures
By the Báb
By Baháʼu'lláh
List of writings of Baháʼu'lláh
By ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
- Paris Talks - a book transcribed from talks given by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá while in Paris
- The Secret of Divine Civilization - a book written in 1875 by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, addressed to the rulers and the people of Persia
- Some Answered Questions - contains questions posed by Laura Clifford Barney (between 1904 and 1906) and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's answers
- Tablets of the Divine Plan - 14 letters (tablets) written between September 1916 and March 1917 by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to Baháʼís in the United States and Canada
- Tablet to Dr. Forel - a letter of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, written in reply to questions asked by Auguste-Henri Forel, a Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist
- Tablet to The Hague - a letter which ʻAbdu'l-Bahá wrote to the Central Organisation for Durable Peace in The Hague, The Netherlands on 17 December 1919
- Will and Testament of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá - A seminal document, written in three stages by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
By Shoghi Effendi
- The Advent of Divine Justice - a letter to the Baháʼís of the United States and Canada, dated December 25, 1938
- God Passes By - an account of the first century of Baháʼí history (beginning with the declaration of the Báb in 1844)
- Promised Day is Come - a book-length letter written for Baháʼís in the Western world, dated 1941
By the Universal House of Justice
Organizations
Baháʼí administration
Baháʼí administration
Other Baháʼí organizations
Places
Calendar
Baháʼí calendar
Other topics
