An Epistle of the Báb to His Grandmother and Mother

Abstract: This sacred Epistle, revealed by the Báb, is addressed to His beloved grandmother and mother, serving as a luminous testament to His tender care, intimate guidance, and spiritual insight for His family. In it, the Báb reassures them of His continued life and health, affirming that His sole desire is the good-pleasure of God, and invokes the hope of reunion, entrusting all to the Will of the Lord of the world. The text unfolds profound reflections on spiritual truths, including the exalted nature of divine knowledge, the acceptance of deeds in the sight of God, and the proper locus for the manifestation of God’s Proof, elevating the hearts of His family above transient sorrow. It addresses their anxieties regarding His return, emphasizing God’s grace and bounty, and prescribes careful arrangements for the transmission of supplications and sacred pages.

Internal evidence suggests that the Epistle was revealed toward the end of 1841, during the Báb’s sojourn in Karbalá, prior to His public declaration.

The provisional English rendering presented here is based on the Persian manuscript preserved in the Iran National Bahá’í Archives (INBA), vol. 58, pp. 160–162.