04-09-2005, 08:03 PM
I have a friend who is a Baha'i, and we have had a few discussions on religion. From what I understand, they believe that Baha'ullah (their founder) was a Rasool of God (who they don't call by the name Allah). They say that Prophet Muhammad (saw) was a seal of the "Nabi", but not a seal of the "Rasool". They say that they believe in the Taurat, Injil and the Qur'an. They say that for each groups of people, there was a different religion... i.e. during the time of Prophet Musa, Judaism was the religion, which was then changed to Christianity, and then later to Islam. Now, they believe that Baha'i is the "next" religion in the series. Although they say that they believe in the Qur'an, they hardly follow ANY of the teachings as far as I have seen. There was one book written by a Muslim who had converted to Baha'i, in which he had taken a few Ayahs from the Qur'an and interpreted them in his own way to justify "Baha'i-ism". Inshallah I'll try to get details of this book and post the info here as soon as I can...
They also have their official website at http://www.bahai.org with a lot more information