A Bahá'í who has studied the Teachings of Bahá'u'lláh, who
has accepted His claim to be the Manifestation of God for this Age, and who has
seen His Teachings at work in his daily life, knows as the result of rational
investigation, confirmed by actual experience, that true religion, far from
being the product solely of human striving after truth, is the fruit of the
creative Word of God which, with divine power, transforms human thought and action.
(Memorandum from the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice on
Baha’i Scholarship, accompanied by a letter written on behalf of the Universal
House of Justice dated 3 January 1979; ‘Messages from the Universal House of
Justice 1963-1986’)
