Towards the New World Order, A Bahá’í Perspective

If you read the Introduction to the Dawnbreakers, Nabil describes the wretchedness of the Persian state and society in the 19th century. It reads: “Persia as a feeble and backward nation divided against itself by corrupt practices and ferocious bigotries. Inefficiency and wretchedness, the fruits of moral decay, filled the land”.

It is not entirely inapposite to suggest that the state of Persia in the 19th century bears some resemblances to the state of the global society in the early 21st century. The global order has been described by Baha’u’llah as being “lamentably defective”, and from many points of view, it has deteriorated since He used those words. We find serious division, conflict, corruption, moral decay, and wretchedness in the world.