Unity of humanity
Unity of humanity
One world ©
The central theme of Bahá'u'lláh's teachings is that humanity is a single race which should now be united in one global society.
He taught that as humanity evolved physically and adapted socially, so world unity is the final stage in the evolution of humanity.
Human beings originally lived in isolated family groups, then became tribal, moving into city states and then nations.
Bahá'ís believe that humanity must now move forward to global maturity, recreating itself as a single human family:
The reality is that there is only the one human race.
We are a single people, inhabiting the planet Earth, one human family bound together in a common destiny, a single entity created from one same substance, obligated to 'be even as one soul'.
Official Bahá'í statement, August 2001
Bahá'u'lláh stated this key Bahá'í principle very simply over 100 years ago:
The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.Bahá'u'lláh