Baha’is believe that the source of Revelation is God, and that His Will is revealed to us through His Manifestaion for this Day, Baha’u’llah.
Bahá’u’lláh states that in this Dispensation the verses of God have been revealed in nine different styles or categories. A well known Bahá’í scholar, Jináb-i-Fádil-i-Mázindarání, after careful study of the Writings, has enumerated these styles as follows:
- Tablets with the tone of command and authority.
- Those with the tone of servitude, meekness and supplication.
- Writings dealing with interpretation of the old Scriptures, religious beliefs and doctrines of the past.
- Writings in which laws and ordinances have been enjoined for this age and laws of the past abrogated.
- Mystical Writings.
- Tablets concerning matters of government and world order, and those addressed to the kings.
- Tablets dealing with subjects of learning and knowledge, divine philosophy, mysteries of creation, medicine, alchemy, etc.
- Tablets exhorting men to education, goodly character and divine virtues.
- Tablets dealing with social teachings.
The Writings of Bahá’u’lláh are extensive in their range and are revealed in various forms and styles, dealing with every aspect of human needs, both physical and spiritual, and opening before one’s eyes great vistas of knowledge and wisdom. Yet His Writings are simple to understand, provided that the heart is pure and sanctified. The understanding of the Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh need not depend upon academic knowledge; the unsophisticated and the illiterate can recognize its divine origin and understand its teachings. --The Revelation of Baha’u’llah, Vol 1, pp 42-43