My Facebook Friend asked my opinion:

Well, Omid, to be quite honest with an answer which you perhaps do not expect but which is the only one I can honestly give: I have devoted 20 years of my life to a comparative study of world religions. The Bahá'u'lláh amazes me to the same degree as Rumi, Tulsidas, Guru Nanak and many others.. precisely because they were faced with a majority religion that was rigid and unbending, and they responded with a teaching that is compassionate and universal. I could not be what and who I am and embrace any religion in particular. But I am somewhat Platonic in my notion that there is a universal Eidos or Form of religion and each particular religion is a shadow of that universal form. If God has become man either as avatar or guru, it is because man is "becoming" to God, becoming in the sense of Kosmos as "adornment."