Of the more than one hundred volumes comprising the sacred
Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, the Kitáb-i-Aqdas is of unique importance. "To
build anew the whole world" is the claim and challenge of His Message, and
the Kitáb-i-Aqdas is the Charter of the future world civilization that
Bahá'u'lláh has come to raise up. Its provisions rest squarely on the
foundation established by past religions, for, in the words of Bahá'u'lláh,
"This is the changeless Faith of God, eternal in the past, eternal in the
future." In this Revelation the concepts of the past are brought to a new
level of understanding, and the social laws, changed to suit the age now
dawning, are designed to carry humanity forward into a world civilization the
splendours of which can as yet be scarcely imagined.
- The Universal House of
Justice (Introduction to ‘The Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
