Just as often as I get asked about homeschooling, I also get asked, "What is the Bahá'í Faith?"  Today I came across the most concise and all-encompassing quote I've seen in answer to that question.  Even after being a member of the Bahá'í Faith now for over 11 years, this is the first time I've seen this explanation.  This just goes to show how vast the Bahá'í Writings are.  People often ask what the Faith's main Holy Book is and since Baha'u'llah, the Prophet Founder of the Bahá'í Faith, wrote and revealed volumes, there isn't just one book.  In addition, His Forerunner, The Bab, His son, Abdu'l Baha,
and His grandson, Shoghi Effendi, have written volumes too.  I don't think it's possible to read them all in one's lifetime!

The explanation below is by Shoghi Effendi and I think it just about sums it all up.

"The Bahá'í Faith upholds the unity of God, recognizes the unity of His Prophets, and inculcates the principle of the oneness and wholeness of the entire human race.  It proclaims the necessity and the inevitability of the unification of mankind, asserts that it is gradually approaching, and claims that nothing short of the transmuting spirit of God, working through His chosen Mouthpiece in this day, can ultimately succeed in bringing it about.  It, moreover, enjoins upon its followers the primary duty of an unfettered search after truth, condemns all manner of prejudice and superstition, declares the purpose of religion to be the promotion of amity and concord, proclaims its essential harmony with science, and recognizes it as the foremost agency for the pacification and the orderly progress of human society.  It unequivocally maintains the principle of equal rights, opportunities and privileges for men and women, insists on compulsory education, eliminates extremes of poverty and wealth, abolishes the institution of priesthood, prohibits slavery, asceticism, mendicancy and monasticism, prescribes monogamy, discourages divorce, emphasizes the necessity of strict obedience to one's government, exalts any work performed in the spirit of service to the level of worship, urges either the creation or selection of an auxiliary international language, and delineates the outlines of those institutions that must establish and perpetuate the general peace of mankind."

~Shoghi Effendi, Summary Statement - 1947