Editing Moses (section)

=== Baháʼí Faith ===
Moses is one of the most important of God's messengers in the [[Baháʼí Faith]], being designated a [[Manifestation of God (Baháʼí Faith)|Manifestation of God]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bahai.org/beliefs/god-his-creation |title=God and His Creation |publisher=Baháʼí International Community}}</ref> An epithet of Moses in Baháʼí scriptures is the "One Who Conversed with God".<ref>{{Cite book |title=Epistle to the Son of the Wolf |author=Bahá'u'lláh |publisher=Baháʼí Publishing Trust |year=1988 |isbn=978-0-87743-048-3 |location=Wilmette, Illinois |page=104 |url=https://www.bahai.org/r/952445237}}</ref>

According to the Baháʼí Faith, [[Bahá'u'lláh]], the founder of the faith, is the one who spoke to Moses from the [[burning bush]].<ref>{{cite letter |author=Universal House of Justice: Department of the Secretariat |recipient=[An Individual] |subject=Issues raised within letter |language=en |date=15 October 1992 |url=https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/the-universal-house-of-justice/messages/19921015_001/1#202319491 |access-date=10 June 2019}}</ref>

[[ʻAbdu'l-Bahá]] has highlighted the fact that Moses, like [[Abraham]], had none of the makings of a [[Great Man theory|great man of history]], but through God's assistance he was able to achieve many great things. He is described as having been "for a long time a shepherd in the wilderness", of having had a [[stammer]], and of being "much hated and detested" by Pharaoh and the ancient Egyptians of his time. He is said to have been raised in an oppressive household, and to have been known, in Egypt, as a man who had committed murder – though he had done so in order to prevent an act of cruelty.<ref name="ʻAbdu'l-Bahá1908">{{Cite book |title=Some Answered Questions |author=ʻAbdu'l-Bahá |author-link=ʻAbdu'l-Bahá |translator-last=Barney |translator-first=Laura Clifford |publisher=Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. |year=1908 |location=London |pages=17–18 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.21877/page/n35/mode/2up}}</ref>

Nevertheless, like Abraham, through the assistance of God, he achieved great things and gained renown even beyond the [[Levant]]. Chief among these achievements was the freeing of his people, the Hebrews, from bondage in Egypt and leading "them to the Holy Land". He is viewed as the one who bestowed on Israel "the religious and the civil law" which gave them "honour among all nations",<!--"By virtue of that which He established, they so progressed as to be singled outamong [sic]  all  nations" which is essentially what the direct quote is saying but not exactly, so consider rewording.--> and which spread their fame to different parts of the world.<ref name="ʻAbdu'l-Bahá1908" />

Furthermore, through the law, Moses is believed to have led the Hebrews "to the highest possible degree of [[civilization]] at that period".<!-- This is in the source.--> 'Abdul'l-Bahá asserts that the ancient Greek philosophers regarded "the illustrious men of Israel as models of perfection". Chief among these philosophers, he says, was [[Socrates]] who "visited Syria, and took from the children of Israel the teachings of the Unity of God and of the immortality of the soul".<ref name="ʻAbdu'l-Bahá1908" />

Moses is further seen as paving the way for [[Bahá'u'lláh]] and his ultimate revelation, and as a teacher of truth, whose teachings were in line with the customs of his time.<ref>{{Citation |title=The Baháʼí: The Religious Construction of a Global Identity |page=246 |first=Michael |last=McMullen |year=2000}}</ref>