A Bahá'í Glossary - Zarathustra

[Persian] Also, Zoroaster [Greek]. Founder of the Zoroastrian religion and accepted by Bahá'ís as a Manifestation of God. Zoroaster was born around 600 BC in Persia and died around 583 BC. According to Shoghi Effendi, Zoroaster's prophecy of the coming of a World-Savior, Sháh-Bahrám, who would triumph over evil and usher in an era of blessedness and peace, refers to the coming of Bahá'u'lláh.1 Bahá'u'lláh was a descendant of Zoroaster.

[BD 245]

Prophet of ancient Iran and ancestor of Bahá'u'lláh. Probably died B.C. 583. 'Abdu'l-Bahá states that Zoroaster [Zarathustra] was one of the Prophets who arose after Moses (persian Tablets, II, 76); that the "men of Rass" in Qur'án 25:40 and 50:12 refers to the men of the Araxas River, and that many Prophets of high rank were among these, including Mah-ábád and Zoroaster.

[BG 56]

Zoroaster appears in the Bahá'í Faith as a "Manifestation of God", one of a line of prophets who have progressively revealed the Word of God to a gradually maturing humanity. Zoroaster thus shares an exalted station with Abraham, Moses, Krishna, Jesus, Muḥammad, the Báb, and the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, Bahá'u'lláh.¹ Shoghi Effendi, the head of the Bahá'í Faith in the first half of the 20th century, saw Bahá'u'lláh as the fulfillment of a post-Sassanid Zoroastrian prophecy that saw a return of Sassanid emperor Bahram:² Shoghi Effendi also stated that Zoroaster lived roughly 1000 years before Jesus.³

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	1.	Taherzadeh 1976, p. 3. Taherzadeh, Adib (1976), The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, Volume 1: Baghdad 1853-63, Oxford: George Ronald, ISBN 0-85398-270-8
	2.	Buck 1998. Buck, Christopher (1998), "Bahá'u'lláh as Zoroastrian saviour" (PDF), Bahá'í Studies Review, 8, archived from the original (PDF) on May 24, 2013
	3.	From a letter of the Universal House of Justice, Department of the Secretariat, May 13, 1979 to Mrs. Gayle Woolson published in Hornby, Helen, ed. (1983), Lights of Guidance: A Bahá'í Reference File, New Delhi: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, ISBN 81-85091-46-3 . p. 501.