Another of his questions: “In the Mahábád and Zoroastrian
religions it is said: ’Our faith and religion is superior to every other. The
other Prophets and the religions they have instituted are true, but they occupy
different stations before God, even as, in the court of a king, there is a
gradation of ranks from the prime minister to the common soldier. Whosoever
wisheth, let him keep the precepts of his religion.’ Nor do they impose upon
any soul…”
Regarding their statement that “our faith and religion is
superior to every other”, by this is meant such Prophets as have appeared
before them. Viewed from one perspective these holy Souls are one: the first
among them is the same as the last, and the last is the same as the first. All
have proceeded from God, unto Him have they summoned all men, and unto Him have
they returned.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘The Tabernacle of Unity, Bahá’u’lláh’s Responses
to Mánikchí Sáhib and Other Writings’)
