Partial Inventory: #BH00053

inventory #	BH00053 - Bahá'u'lláh 5740 words
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title	لوح اشراقات​
title transliterated	Ishraqat
English title	Splendours / Illuminations
language	Arabic; Persian
opening, English	Praise be unto God, incomparable in majesty, power and beauty, peerless in glory, might and grandeur… I magnify Thy Name, O my God, and offer thanksgiving...
time period	Middle and late ‘Akká (1873–1892)
abstract	Explains the meaning of the ‘most great infallibility’ and the nature of the authority of the Manifestations of God, proclaims the fulfilment of prophetic expectations derived from various passages in the Qur’an, recalls a vision of the personified virtue of trustworthiness, and proclaims nine ‘splendours’: religion as source of order in the world; the promotion of the ‘Lesser Peace’ by the rulers of the world; the commandments of God as source of life to the world; the importance of praiseworthy deeds and upright character; the conferral of government positions based on merit; union and concord among all people, which can be achieved by establishing a universal language; the importance of parenthood and the education of children; entrusting administrative affairs to the trustees of the House of Justice; and religion as the most potent instrument for establishing unity in the world.
in catalog	Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Tablas de Baha'u'llah Reveladas despues del Kitab-i-Aqdas; Tablettes révélées après le Kitab-i-Aqdas
in tags	Lawh-i-Ishraqat (Tablet of Splendors)

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