The Historical Background
A Bahá'í father and his young son who were arrested and
executed for their belief, 19th century Iran.
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For Bahá'ís, evolutionary process is an
essential feature of all the phenomena of life including the
revelations of God. The series of stages through which their own
Faith gradually made its appearance and established itself
throughout the world is itself an expression of this principle.
The rise of the Bahá'í Faith has also been marked by a second
feature that it shares in common with the formative period in the
history of each of the earlier world religions. The implications of
a new stage in the unfoldment of God's will are unwelcome to
influential segments of existing society. The result has frequently
been bitter persecution of followers of the new faith. During its
first century and a half of life the Bahá'í Faith has passed through
several periods of such oppression.
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Historical Context of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths