I don`t represent the Bahai Faith. Maitreya is, "the One Whom God Will Make Manifest", or as in other prophecies, the, "Alif of the Greatest Name"; I accept that claim. You can find much more detail by going to
www.maitreya.org and click on Bahai prophecies.
If you believe that Baha`u'llah is NOT "He Whom God Will Make Manifest" why do you accept Him at all? After all Baha`u'llah CLAIMS to be He Whom God Will Make Manifest.
"Meditate upon these sublime words. He saith: "I, verily, am a believer in Him, and in His Faith, and in His Book, and in His Testimonies, and in His Ways, and in all that proceedeth from Him concerning them. I glory in My kinship with Him, and pride Myself on My belief in Him." And likewise, He saith: "O congregation of the Bayan and all who are therein! Recognize ye the limits imposed upon you, for such a One as the Point of the Bayan Himself hath believed in Him Whom God shall make manifest, before all things were created. Therein, verily, do I glory before all who are in the kingdom of heaven and earth." By God! All the atoms of the universe groan and lament at the cruelty perpetrated by the froward among the people of the Bayan. Whither are gone they who are endued with insight and hearing? We beseech God -- blessed and glorified be He -- to summon them and exhort them unto that which will profit them, and withhold them from that which will harm them. He, in truth, is the Strong, the All-Subduing, the Almighty."
(Baha'u'llah, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 154)
"And likewise, He saith: "Suffer not yourselves to 155 be shut out as by a veil from God after He hath revealed Himself. For all that hath been exalted in the Bayan is but as a ring upon My hand, and I Myself am, verily, but a ring upon the hand of Him Whom God shall make manifest -- glorified be His mention! He turneth it as He pleaseth, for whatsoever He pleaseth, and through whatsoever He pleaseth."
(Baha'u'llah, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 154)
"O people of the Bayan! Fear ye the Most Merciful
and consider what He hath revealed in another passage.
He said: "The Qiblih is indeed He Whom God will
make manifest; whenever He moveth, it moveth, until
He shall come to rest." Thus was it set down by the
Supreme Ordainer when He desired to make mention
of this Most Great Beauty. Meditate on this, O people,
and be not of them that wander distraught in the
wilderness of error. If ye reject Him at the bidding of
your idle fancies, where then is the Qiblih to which ye
will turn, O assemblage of the heedless? Ponder ye this
verse, and judge equitably before God, that haply ye
may glean the pearls of mysteries from the ocean that
surgeth in My Name, the All-Glorious, the Most
High."
(Baha'u'llah, The Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 68)
"After the death of the Báb he was, with the principal Bábís, exiled to Baghdad, and later to Constantinople and Adrianople, under the surveillance of the Ottoman Government. It was vii in the latter city that he openly declared his mission. He was "He whom God would make manifest," whom the Báb had announced in his writings, the great Manifestation of God, promised for the last days; and in his letters to the principal Rulers of the States of Europe he invited them to join him in establishing religion and universal peace. From this time, the Bábís who acknowledged him became Bahais."
(Abdu'l-Baha, Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha v1, p. vi)
"He became well-known in regard to these qualities before the Báb appeared. Then Bahá'u'lláh declared the Báb's mission to be true and promulgated His teachings. The Báb announced that the greater Manifestation would take place after Him and called the Promised One "Him Whom God shall make manifest," saying that nine years later the reality of His own mission would become apparent. In His writings He stated that in the ninth year this expected One would be known; in the ninth year they would attain to all glory and felicity; in the ninth year they would advance rapidly. Between Bahá'u'lláh and the Báb there was communication privately. The Báb wrote a letter containing three hundred and sixty derivatives of the root Baha. The Báb was martyred in Tabriz; and Bahá'u'lláh, exiled into Iraq in 1852, announced Himself in Baghdad. For the Persian government had decided that as long as He remained in Persia the peace of the country would be disturbed; therefore, He was exiled in the expectation that Persia would become quiet. His banishment, however, produced the opposite effect. New tumult arose, and the mention of His greatness and influence spread everywhere throughout the country. The proclamation of His manifestation and mission was made in Baghdad. He called His friends together there and spoke to them of God."
(Abdu'l-Baha, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 26)
If your Maitreya is HWGWMM, then Baha`u'llah was either mistaken or lying. In neither case should you accept Him.
I sense hypocrisy.
Regards,
Scott