THE BAHA'IYYAT FAITH

The Baha'iyyat Faith is a monotheistic religion which emphasizes the spiritual unity of all human kind.
The doctrine was founded by Baha'u'llah(12 November 1817-29 May 1892) in 19th century Persia. He was born in Tehran, the capital of Persia, present-day Iran.
He was married 3 times. He married his married his first wife, the daughter of a nobleman, in Tehran in 1835, when he was 18 and she was 15, and declared her his perpetual consort in all the worlds of God, and her son as his vicar. His second marriage was to his widowed cousin, also in Tehran when she was 21 and he was 32. His 3rd marriage ocurred in Baghdad sometime before 1863. All together he had 14 children (4 daughters and 10 sons, 5 of whom he outlived).
He claimed to be the prophetic fulfillment of Babism, a 19th-century outgrowth of Shi'ism, but in a broader sense claimed to be  a messenger from God referring to the fulfillment of the final events of history, or the ultimate destiny of humanity, in other words, "the end of times." His claim resulted in persecution and imprisonment by the Persian and Ottoman authorities, and his eventual 24-year confinement in the prison city of 'Akka, Palestine (present day Israel), where he died. He wrote many religious works.
Babism was a new religious movement that flourished in Persia from 1844 to 1852, then lingered on in exile in the Ottoman Empire, especially Cyprus, an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, off the coats of Syria and Turkey, the 3rd largest and the 3rd most populous island.
Siyyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi (October 20, 1819-July 9, 1850) was the founder and one of the 3 central figures of the Baha'iyyat Faith. He was a merchant from Shiraz, Persia who, at the age of 24 (on the evening of May 22, 1844), claimed to be an inspired interpreter of the Qur'an within the Shaykhi school of Twelver Shi'ism. He made bolder claims as time passed, and in 1847, during a trial in Tabriz, asserted a claim to be the Shi'i 'promised one'. After his declaration he took the title of Bab meaning "Gate" or "Door." He composed numerous letters and books in which he stated his messianic claims and defined his teachings, which constituted a new religious law. His movement acquired thousands of supporters, and was opposed by Iran's Shi'i clergy, and was suppressed by the Iranian government, leading to the persecution and killing of between 2000 and 3000 of his followers, called Babis. In 1850, at the age of 30, the Bab was shot by a firing squad in Tabriz.
Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'iyyat Faith, was a follower of the Bab and claimed to be a fulfillment of his promise that God would send another messenger.
Baha'u'llah stated that he was the messenger of God, and he used the term Manifestation of God to define the concept of intermediary between humanity and God. In his writings, the manifestations of God are a series of interrelated personages who speak with a divine voice and who reflect the attributes of the divine into the human world for the progress and advancement of human morals and civilization.
He declared himself as "The Promised One" of all religions, fulfilling the messianic prophecies found in world religions. He stated that his claims to being several messiahs converging in one person were symbolic, rather than literal.
While Baha'u'llah did not himself directly claim to be either the Hindu or Buddhist messiah, he did so in principle of his writings.
After he died on 29 May 1892, his sons entered in conflict  that was not long lived. In 1937, the movement just had a handful of followers.