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Baha'u'llah's influence over society is not restricted to the behaviour of the individual believer. He has also laid down the foundations of a new order in which all peoples, united by their common belief in God and His revelation, will live together in peace an justice. Baha'u'llah has come to establish the promised kingdom of God on earth. This kingdom is neither a supernatural, supra terrestrial place nor a metaphor for the abode of the deceased, but it is a kingdom on this planet. It is none other than the realization of the unity of mankind and of world peace, the creation of an all-embracing and just order, in which every human being can live in security and fulfil himself in conformity with God's law, a kingdom in which God Himself rules His people.
(27:1)
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