Baha’is regard the Bab and Baha’u’llah as twin manifestations of God, both prophets and founders of independent religions, whose Faiths ultimately came together as one.

From the beginning the Bab must have divined the reception which would be accorded by His countrymen to His teachings, and the fate which awaited Him at the hands of the mullahs. But He did not allow personal misgivings to affect the frank enunciation of His claims nor the open presentation of His Cause. The innovations which He proclaimed, though purely religious, were drastic; the announcement of His own identity startling and tremendous. He made Himself known as the Qa’im, he High Prophet or Messiah so long promised, so eagerly expected by the Muhammadan world. He added to this the declaration that he was also the Gate (that is the Bab) through whom a greater Manifestation than Himself was to enter the human realm. – Introduction to The Dawn-Breakers, p. xxix.