Bahaism is a chameleon changing its colour to suit its environment.
(Jalal S.Azal)
The Babi-Baha'i movements underwent an odyssey from militancy in the 1840s to pacifist, liberal globalism under Baha'u'llah and thence in the twentieth century to two contending emphases: a liberal stream that maintains a universalist and tolerant outlook and a conservative one that dreams of theocratic domination and insistence on scriptural literalism. The movement thus defies any easy teleology of modernity, and in many ways parallels the major reformist intellectual currents of modern Iran Shi'ite majority.
(Cole, Juan R. I. 1999. The Genesis of the Baha’i in Middle Eastern Modernity. ISIM Newsletter. 2/99: 9)
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