# | BH00064 - Bahá'u'lláh - 5270 words - Arabic and Persian (mixed) |
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title | Hurufat-i-'Alin (=Kalimat-i-'Uliya; the Exalted Letters) |
original title | الحروفات العاليات / حروفات عالين |
time period | 3. Middle and late Baghdad (March 1856–April 1863) |
opening, original |
سبحانک اللهم یا الهی کیف یتحرک القلم و یجری المداد بعد ما انقطعت نسائم |
opening, English |
Pure and sanctified art Thou, O my God! How can the pen move and the ink flow after the breezes of loving-kindness have ceased |
abstract | A meditation on mortality, death, suffering, and theodicy, in remembrance of a cousin who had recently died. |
notes | ROB1.122, MMAH.216, GSH.025, LL#019, LL#272 |
in catalog | Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh's Four Tablets to Maryam; Suffering of the Exalted Letters |
in tags | Musíbat-i-Hurúf-i-‘Állín (Suffering of the Exalted Letters) |
manuscripts | INBA36:281, BLIB_Or15714.157, |
publications | BRL_DA#035, AHM.217, BSHN.054, MHT1a.002, MHT2b.007x, TSBT.242, ASAT3.087x, OOL.B010a, OOL.B010b |
translations | BRL_APBH#01x, BLO_PT#015x, BLO_PT#090, HURQ.BH18x, ADMS#163x, JHT_B#005 |
subjects | @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @consolation and comfort, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness |
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