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ELI5: the Bahá'í Faith

An old friend of mine recently posted on Facebook that she went to a Bahá'í school for a retreat. After googling, I realize this is a religion. But the wikipedia page is... dense. Care to pare it down?
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IIRC, the Baha'i faith holds that there is one true God, and that every "prophet" or founder of major world religions was a messenger of God providing an incomplete message, but one that would be understood by the people of that time. Krishna, the Buddha, Abraham, Jesus, and Muhammad were all revealing the True word of God, but God intentionally left the message incomplete. Sayyid Ali-Muhammad claimed that he knew the Mahdi was coming, and that he would be able to identify the Mahdi. The Mahdi is a messianic figure in twelve Shi'ite Islam who will bring a new age in which the world will be in union with the law of God. Mírzá Husayn `Alí Núrí  was the one who the Bab "prophesied," he claimed to be the Mahdi. His teachings were written by his son, and Ali Nuri was proclaimed to be, all at once, the Mahdi (messianic figure of Islam), the Matreiya (messianic figure of Mahayana Buddhism), and the Messiah (or Second coming of Christ). Basically, because all "universal" religions claimed that a Divinely Inspired figure would appear sometime in the future to bring forth a New Age, the Baha'u'llah (Ali Nuri) and the Bab asserted that this was proof that all religions were in part correct, and furthermore claimed that Ali Nuri possessed all of the qualities of this figure. According to Baha'i, the teachings recorded by Ali Nuri's son encapsulate the complete teaching of the One True God. In other words, all of the other Holy Scriptures are incomplete revelations of the Word of God, while Ali Nuri's teaching fill in the blanks and provide the full and complete Word of God.