Muhammad in the Bahá'í Faith

Bahá'ís venerate Muhammad as one of a number of prophets or "Manifestations of God", but consider his teachings (as with the teachings of Jesus and Moses) to have been superseded by those of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith.

Bahá'ís believe in Muhammad as a prophet of God, and in the Qur’an as the word of God. Baha'i teachings 'affirm that Islam is a true religion revealed by Allah'; accordingly, members of the faith can give full assent to the traditional words of the Shahadah. Muhammad is taken to be one of the most important messengers of God as an "independent" manifestation of God. Furthermore, Bahá'ís believe that the Báb, a central figure in the Bahá'í Faith, was a descendant of Muhammad through Imam Husayn, whose coming was foretold by Muhammad. `Abdu'l-Bahá, the son and successor of Bahá'u'lláh, wrote that 'His Holiness the Prophet Muhammad made a covenant concerning His Holiness the Báb and the Báb was the One promised by Muhammad, for Muhammad gave the tidings of His coming.’

In the Bahá'í writings Muhammad is known by the titles the "Apostle of God", the "Seal of the Prophets" and the "Day-Star of Truth". Writing of Muhammad, `Abdu'l-Bahá states that through God’s aid, he was able to unite the warring tribes of the Arabian Peninsula 'to such an extent that one thousand tribes were welded into one tribe'. This, he writes, despite the fact that he (Muhammad) was an illiterate man born into a cruel and barbarous culture. He was nevertheless responsible for producing 'a book in which, in a perfect and eloquent style, He explained the divine attributes and perfections, the prophethood of the Messengers of God, the divine laws, and some scientific facts.’ Abdu'l-Baha believed that one of the proofs that the Qur’an is a product of the divine are the facts about the workings of nature contained therein, facts which he believed were not known in Muhammad’s own time. He claimed, for example, that Sura 36 of the Qur’an depicts a heliocentric understanding of the solar system.

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