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| AB00015 | Tafsir-i-Suriy-i-Qalam (Commentary on the Surih of the Pen) | 4670 | الحمد لله الذی جعل النقطه البارزه فی کتاب الابداع طراز جداول الاختراع و فصل | Praised be to God Who made the Point to be outstretched within the Book of Origination, an Ornament through which is the Genesis of Creativity | INBA56:023 | BMT.119 | HURQ.BH48 | Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||
| AB00207 | 800 | Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá; Tablet on the Inmost Heart | Tablet on the Inmost Heart | الحمد لله الذی اشرق علی الفواد بنور الرشاد و نور القلوب بسطوع ایات القدس بکل | All praise be to God Who hath shone forth upon the heart with the light of Divine guidance | INBA21:143b, INBA55:178, INBA59:075, INBA88:041, INBA90:143, UMich962.065-069, UMich991.038-043 | BRL_DAK#0578, MKT1.109, MNMK#014 p.083 | BLO_PT#213, BLO_sazedj#25, HURQ.AB01 | Four methods of acquiring knowledge; Inmost heart [fu'ad]; Intuition; inspiration; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity | - | - | |||||
| BB00001 | Bayan-i-Farsi (Persian Bayan) | 106000 | Persian Bayan, The; Persian Bayan, The; Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Persian Bayán; Persian Bayan, A Summary; Báb's Bayan, The; Selections from the Bahá'í Writings and from Shaykh Ahmad on the Seven Stages of Creation; Translation List; Le Béyan Persan; Persian Bayan ("Exposition"); Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá; Gate of the Heart; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]; کتاب مستطاب بیان فارسی | Bayan-i-Farsi (Persian Bayan) | تسبیح و تقدیس بساط قدس عز مجد سلطانی را لایق که لم یزل و لا یزال بوجود کینونیت ذات خود بوده | All praise and glory befitteth the sacred and glorious court of the sovereign Lord, Who from everlasting hath dwelt, and unto everlasting will continue to dwell within the mystery of His Own divine Essence… Thou knowest full well, O my God, that tribulations have showered... There is no paradise more wondrous for any soul | INBA62, INBA24, INBA96, INBA_1006C, INBA_4008C, INBA_6015C, INBA_6018C, INBA_6019C, INBA_6021C, CMB_F12, CMB_F13, CMB_Or.34(8), BLIB_Or2819, BLIB_Or5760, BLIB_Or1330, BN_suppl.1070, MKI4518, MKI4519, MKI4524.070, SOAS ms.24255, IOM.088-089, KB_bayan-per, HBH_bayanf, BYC_bayan-per, BYC_bayan-per2 | BAYN, SWBP#09 (p.052-081x), SWBP#71 (p.153-154x), OOL.A001 | SWB#09 (p.077-113x), SWB#71 (p.214-215x), BPRY.226-227x, GPB.029-030x, GPB.097-098x, WOB.062bx, WOB.100-101x, EGB.316-406, GOH.passim (see index), MNP.045-046x, MNP.226-228x, MESSIAH.659-704x, HURQ.BB55x, LOG#0668, LOG#0770, LOG#1480, LOG#1481, LOG#2161, LOG#2162, BLO_PT#049, BLO_PT#062x, BLO_PT#063x, BLO_PT#079.1.4x, BLO_sazedj#01, ADMS#041 | Smith & Dragoman, L. Slott (2:16), J. Heath [track 8], J. Heath | The Mother Book of the Bábí Dispensation. Comprising nine vahids (unities) of nineteen chapters or babs (gates)—with the exception of the last unity, which has only ten gates—the greater part of the work was written in the prison of Mákú, but, contrary to some prevalent assumptions, the last parts may have been written in Chihriq, after the Báb was interrogated by the clerics in Tabriz. The Persian Bayán abrogates Islamic laws and traditions and sets down new laws and teachings. However, the various laws are discussed as symbols referring to deep spiritual meanings and vehicles to prepare the people for the advent of Him Whom God shall make manifest. Both the form and content of the book affirm the underlying metaphysics of unity in which all things are manifestations of an inner reality which is the revelation of God within them. | Attaining good pleasure of God; Chastisement and requital; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; God's knowledge; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God; Inmost heart [fu'ad]; Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.; Knowledge; recognition of God; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Letters of the Living; Manifestation of God as mirror; Manifestation of God as sun; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Names and attributes of God; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Predictions and prophecies; Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Purpose; goal of creation; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Return of the Manifestations of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; The Bayan, its laws and their abrogation; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; The Imamate; the Caliphate; The Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud]; Word of God is its own standard; Word of God the cause of creation | * | - | NSS.045-049, BRHL.59, MSBR.204-205, AHDA.442.1, MMAH.007, SRC.083-084, SRC.181-184, SRC.280, GOH.035, GOH.281-298, GOH.308-338, GPB.025x | see also BB00020, Arabic Bayan |
| BB00002 | Qayyumu'l-Asma' (Commentary on the Surah of Joseph) | 112000 | Qayyum al-Asma' Sura 93: Chapter of the Bees (Qayyum al-Asma 93: Surat al-nahl); Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Qur'an Commentary of Sayyid 'Alí Muhammad, the Báb, The; Terms Remembrance (dhikr) and Gate (bab) in the Bab's Commentary on the Sura of Joseph, The; Gate of the Heart | Qayyumul-Asma (book) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی نزل الکتاب علی عبده بالحق لیکون للعالمین سراجا وهاجا ان هذا صراط علی | All praise be to God Who hath, through the power of Truth, sent down this Book unto His servant [the Bāb], that it may serve as a shining light for all mankind | INBA03, INBA_6020C, INBA_6016C, PR41.002-192, CMB_F23.150r14-153r11 (53)x, , CMB_F11, , BLIB_Or3539, BLIB_Or6681, BN_6435, BN_5780, MKI4496, , IOM.089-090, KB_qayyum, BYC_qayyum | ASH.055-370, RHQM1.019-021x, MBA.309-314x, SWBP#08 (p.026-050x), OOL.A003 | SWB#08 (p.041-074x), GPB.005-006x, GPB.023x, GPB.376x, WOB.101x, WOB.126x, GOH.passim (see index), MNP.001-027n, MNP.088x, MNP.110-114x, MNP.127-134x, HURQ.BB02x, LOIR06.047x, BLO_PT#074x | T. Ellis, unknown, friends in Jordan | Adam; Adam and Eve; Angels; Apocalyptic imagery; Belief and denial; Birth of Christ; purity; virginity of Mary; Call to action; Celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy; Chastisement and requital; Creation of the world; Crimson Ark; the Ark of God; Day of Resurrection; Judgement; Development of capacity and readiness; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Empty learning; false spirituality; Exhortations and counsels; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Fellowship with the wayward and ungodly; Fire and light; fire and water; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Goodly deeds; actions; Greatest Name; Law of repetition; recitation of the Greatest Name; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; High station of the true believer; Hypocrisy; Idolatry; Imagery in the Qur'an; Imam Husayn; Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; John the Baptist; Justice and wrath of God; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Knowledge; recognition of God; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Language and the structure of reality; Life and death; Living waters; water of life; Manifestation of God as mediator; Manifestation of God as sun; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Martyrs and martyrdom; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Mosaic imagery; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Mystical themes; Night of Power (Laylat al-Qadr); Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Outward and inward meanings; Piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa]; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Praise and encouragement; Predictions and prophecies; Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God; Proclamation of the Cause (general or uncategorized); Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Proofs for the existence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Quotation from or interpretation of the Bible; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Realms of being; three realms; five realms; Recompense; reward for belief; right action; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Satan; the Evil One; Scarcity of receptive souls; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Seven stages of creation; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Stories; anecdotes; Suffering and imprisonment; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; The Imamate; the Caliphate; The truth of past religions and sacred scriptures; The Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Twin duties of recognition and obedience; Unity; oneness of humanity; Visitation Tablets; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | - | FHR#01, NSS.023-024, DB.061x, DB.179x, BRHL.59, MSBR.202-203, AHDA.445.4, MMAH.009, SRC.055-057, SRC.195, GOH.030, GOH.111-159, KKD1.228.08x | ||
| BB00003 | Kitab-i-Asma' (Book of Names) | >500000 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Gate of the Heart; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | Kitáb-i-Asma (Book of Names); Tablet of the Báb to the Sherif of Mecca | الباب الاول من الواحد الاول ... بسم الله الاسمم الاسمم. لا اله الا هو الأرشد الأرشد قل الله ارشد فوق کل ذا ارشاد لن يقدر ان يمتنع عن مليک سلطان ارشاده | God, no God is there save Him., the Supremely Guided (al-arshad), the Supremely Guided (al-arshad). Say: God proffers a Guidance (arshad) beyond every possessor of Guidance (irshad)…. O Lord! Enable all the peoples of the earth to gain admittance | INBA60:156-166x, INBA64:025.10-030.01x, INBA82:060-066x, INBA_6002C, INBA29, PR02.069v01-069v20x, PR03.150v08-151v11x, PR24.069r-072vx, PR30.001-344, CMB_F16x, CMB_F18x, CMB_F23.171v04-174r04 (58)x, , CMB_F17x, CMB_F19x, BLIB_Or5278, BLIB_Or5481, BLIB_Or5869, BLIB_Or6255, BN_5806, BN_5807, BN_6141, BN_6142, BLIB_Or5487-5490, , MKI4491, MKI4492, MKI4493, IOL (12:1-18)x, IOM.091-092x, HBH_asma, BYC_asma | MANU.039-045x, TZH2.006x, SWBP#07 (p.018-024x), SWBP#11 (p.092-106x), SWBP#15 (p.109-110x), SWBP#28 (p.121-122x), SWBP#31 (p.124-125x), SWBP#32 (p.125-125(a)x), SWBP#33 (p.125-125(b)x), SWBP#47 (p.136-136x), OOL.A008 | SWB#07 (p.029-037x), SWB#11 (p.129-149x), SWB#15 (p.155-155x), SWB#29 (p.172-172x), SWB#32 (p.176(a)x), SWB#33 (p.176(b)x), SWB#34 (p.177(a)x), SWB#48 (p.191-191x), BPRY.081x, BPRY.234x, GOH.passim (see index), HURQ.BB58x | E. Mahony, A. Bryan, G.H. Miller, K. Key | Absolute freedom; independence of God; Business; financial; property matters; Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Courtesy; culture [adab]; Cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds; Divine attributes are within all things; every atom; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Essential distinction of Manifestation of God from others; Excellence; distinction; Exhortations and counsels; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; God's attributes require the existence of objects; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; God as immanent vs. transcendent reality; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God; Importance of reading the Sacred Writings; Justice and wrath of God; Knowledge; recognition of God; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Literature; drama; humanities; the arts; Manifestation of God as mediator; Manifestation of God as mirror; Martyrs and martyrdom; Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Oneness; unity of religion; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of prayer; Power of the Manifestation of God; Prayer for martyrs; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Predictions and prophecies; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings; Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God; Proclamation to Muslims; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Proofs for the existence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Recompense; reward for belief; right action; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Relativity of religious truth; Return of the Manifestations of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Thankfulness; gratitude; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud]; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God and human limitations; Words vs deeds | * | - | BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, AHDA.447.7, MMAH.065, SRC.091-092, SRC.188, GOH.036 and passim | Note that the Partial Inventory states that the word count is more than 500,000 words. | |
| BB00005 | Panj Sha'n (Book of the Five Modes) | 98000 | Kitáb-i-Panj Sha'n, Book of Five Qualification; Kitab-i-Panj Sha'n; Reflection on the Theory of Alchemy as Explained in the Bahá'í Writings, A; Gate of the Heart | Kitáb-i-Panj Shan (Book of Five Modes); Lawh-i-Hurufat (Tablet of the Letters) | بسم الله الائله الائله. اننی انا الله لا اله الا انا الائله الائله بسم الله الاله الاله بالله الله الاله الاله بسم الله الموله الموله | Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the Most High, the Most High. In the Name of God, the Divine One, the Divine One. By God, the Divine One, the Divine One. In the Name of God, the Lord Supreme [3.5s]... ...God has not created anything without creating a trace of the elixir within it | INBA01:001-088x, INBA64:085.02-094.05x, INBA82:002-016x, INBA82:066-078x, INBA_6007C.494-541x, PR02.053v07-060r04x, PR02.069r01-075r17x, PR02.154r01-159v28x, PR03.040v05-042v06x, PR03.089v26-136r16x, PR03.241v07-245r27, CMB_F23.002v04-076r03x, , CMB_F15, CMB_F25.3, BLIB_Or5612, BLIB_Or6680, BN_6143, BN_6518 p.002v, MKI4488.134r-315rx, , KB_panj, HBH_panjshan, HBH_panjshan2, BYC_collect3.045-062x, BYC_panj | PANJx, MAS7.114-18x, RBB.098-100x, RBB.109x, MBA.203-209x, MBA.276-293x, MBA.301x, MBA.314-326x, AHDA.467x?, OOL.A012, OOL.A019x | RBB.015-016x, GOH.174-178x, GOH.184-185x, GOH.393fn17x, GOH.191x, GOH.245x, GOH.292x, GOH.348-349x, GOH.368x, MNP.220-222x, HURQ.BB59x, BLO_PT#046x, BLO_alchemy | Absolute freedom; independence of God; Adam; Adam and Eve; Alchemy; the elixir; Belief and denial; Blind imitation [taqlid]; Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Creation of the world; Da'iras and haykals; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine attributes are within all things; every atom; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Essential vs. actional attributes of God; Exhortations and counsels; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Manifestation of God as mediator; Manifestation of God as mirror; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Names and attributes of God; Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Oneness; unity of religion; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Perfect Man [insan-i-kamil]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Predictions and prophecies; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Prophecy and fulfillment; Purpose of religion in the world (personal and social); Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Return of the Manifestations of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Symbolism of color and light; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Unity in diversity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God and human limitations | * | - | BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, AHDA.446.6, AHDA.459.01x, MMAH.038, MMAH.062, SRC.088-090, SRC.093-095, SRC.189, SRC.190, SRC.281, GOH.036 | Last part is known as the Lawh-i-Hurufat | ||
| BB00007 | Tafsir-i-Suratu'l-Kawthar (Commentary on the Surah of Kawthar) | 49500 | Gate of the Heart | Commentary on the Surih of Kawthar | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم و به نستعین. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الواح کتاب الفلق فی کل ما فتق و استفرق و استنطق طراز الازل | Praised be to God, who hath made the Ornament of the scriptural Tablets to be the Book of the Daybreak which is operative within everything such that it is cleft asunder and split apart | INBA53:181-383, INBA_5019C:001-083x, , CMB_F10, , BLIB_Or5080, , HBH_tafkawthar, BYC_kowthar | ASAT2.007-008x, AHDA.466x, OOL.A006 | GOH.069-075x, GOH.111-115x, GOH.177x, MNP.178x, HURQ.BB08x, KSHK#03x | Prophecy and fulfillment; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | NSS.025-029, DB.174x, BRHL.59, MSBR.202-203, AHDA.455.03, MMAH.013, SRC.071, SRC.201, GOH.033 | |||
| BB00008 | Tafsir-i-Suratu'l-Baqarah = Kitab al-Ahmadiyya (Commentary on the Surah of the Cow I) | 43700 | Qur'an Commentary of Sayyid 'Alí Muhammad, the Báb, The; Gate of the Heart | Tafsir surat al-baqara (Commentary on the Surah of the Cow) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الم ذلک الکتاب لا ریب فیه هدی للمتقین هذه الایة لاهل الحقیقة معرفة الله سبحانه | "Alif. Lám. Mím. This is the Book wherein there is no doubt, a guidance unto them that fear God." For the people of truth, this verse signifieth the knowledge of God, glory be unto Him [3.5s]... ...The Primal Adam is the Will, Who is the Primal Utterance, manifested in the primal realm of contingency | INBA69:157-377, INBA_6004C:002-178, , INBA_6014C:001-296, , INBA_6012C.060-257, , PR02.001v21-044v14, PR03.043r-043rx, PR40.003v-095v, CMB_F08, , BLIB_Or5277, , BN_5780, BN_5805, BN_6610, LEID.Or4371-8, , OXF.MS.Arab.e.59-60, IOM.090-091x, HBH_baqarah (=INBA 69) | ASAT2.064x | TAME, BLO_PT#216.019-020, GOH.119-121x, GOH.204x, GOH.251-252x, HURQ.BB01x | - | - | FHR#09, NSS.021-022, BRHL.59, MSBR.202-203, AHDA.455.05, MMAH.011, SRC.046-047, SRC.201, GOH.030, GOH.118 | ||||
| BB00009 | Kitab al-Ruh (Book of the Spirit) | 36000 | Gate of the Heart | Kitáb al-Ruh (Book of the Spirit) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد نزل الايات بالحق الي عبده لعل الناس بايات ربک يومنون ان اتبع ما اوحينا اليک | Praise be to God, Who hath revealed the verses in truth unto His servant, that perchance mankind might believe in the signs of their Lord. Follow that which We have revealed unto thee [3.5s]... ...This Book is a Dhikr (Remembrance) from God according to the Decree of a wondrous servant [the Bāb]. He is assuredly the True One within the heavens and the earth. | INBA78:069-076x, INBA_4011C.069-100, INBA_7005C, PR04.036r12-038r12x, MKI4507.001x, , IOM.091 | ASAT4.044-45x, AHDA.198x, OOL.A017 | HURQ.BB05x, HURQ.BB15x | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Justice and wrath of God; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God is its own standard | * | - | FHR#10, AHDA.446.5, MMAH.064, SRC.061, SRC.189, GOH.031, GOH.380fn3 | The "Suratu'l-Ridvan" is a part of this work | ||
| BB00010 | Tafsir-i-Surah wa'l-'Asr (Commentary on the Surah of the Afternoon) | 22000 | Gate of the Heart | Tafsir-i-Suriy-i-Va'l-'Asr (Commentary on the Surih of the Afternoon) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تجلی للممکنات بظهور آثار ابداعه فی ملکوت الامر والخلق لیتلالئن جوهریات حقائق الموجودات بتلئلأ آیات اللاهوت و یتلجلجن کینونیات مجردات آیات الجبروت بتلجلج ظهورات آیات الملکوت | Praised be to God Who divuged Himself before all realms of Existence through the tokens of His wondrous directives in the Kingdoms of Command and Creation. This to the end that He might illuminate the Essences | INBA14:105-208, INBA40:006-080, INBA69:021-119, INBA_6010C:095-198, , INBA_7009C:005-130, , CMB_F09.001=4005C, , BLIB_Or5112, , BN_6531, HBH_asr, BYC_asr | AADA.138-139x, AVK2.012.04x, MHA.142x, OOL.A007 | GOH.060-061x, MNP.049x, HURQ.BB10x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Imamate; the Caliphate; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | DB.201x, BRHL.59, MSBR.202-203, AHDA.455.04, MMAH.066, SRC.076, SRC.202, GOH.034, GOH.115 | |||
| BB00014 | Tafsir-i-Nubuvvat-i-Khassih (Treatise on Specific Prophethood) | 15400 | Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الواح کتاب الاذن طراز النقطة التی عینت بعد ما شیئت | Praise be to God who made the ornament of the Tablets the Book of Authorization which is the ornament of the Point singled out after such was willed and decreed [by God] | INBA14:321-384, INBA40:081-132, INBA_6010C:311-382, , INBA_4011C.001-060, INBA_4012C.013-076, PR02.115v05-130v22, CMB_F23.169v02-171v02 (57)x, , HBH_nubuwwah (=INBA14), BYC_nubuva, BYC_nubuva2, BYC_three.016-092 | ESCH.357, OOL.A020 | GOH.091x, HURQ.BB50x, GPB.014-015x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Impossibility of true worship of God; Innateness; early self-awareness of the Manifestations of God; Knowledge; recognition of God; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Muhammad; Islam; Power of the Manifestation of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Prophecy and fulfillment; Self-description of God; God's self-remembrance; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Imamate; the Caliphate; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | DB.202x, AHDA.448.9, MMAH.042, SRC.076, SRC.196, GOH.034, GOH.199 | ||||
| BB00015 | Dala'il-i-Sab'ih (The Seven Proofs - Persian) | 13900 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Seven Proofs, The; Gate of the Heart; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | Dala'il-i-Sab'ih (Seven Proofs - Persian) | بسم الله الافرد الافرد. الحمد لله الذی لا اله الا هو الافرد الافرد و انما البهاء من الله علی من یظهره الله ثم ادلائه لم یزل و لا یزال و بعد | Praise be to God, for there is none other God but He, the Only Unique, the Only Unique. All splendor comes from God, upon the 'Man Yuzhiruhu'llah' and upon His Apostles… Say: God sufficeth all things above all things | INBA_2007C:13b-64b, , PR02.104r21-115v02, CMB_F22.092b, CMB_F25.7, BLIB_Or5109, BLIB_Or5110, BN_6154, NLI.50, KB_seven, HBH_dalail=DLLS, BYC_saba-p | DLLS, AYT.043x, SWBP#10 (p.083-090x), OOL.A005b | SWB#10 (p.117-126x), BPRY.056x, GOH.078x, GOH.169x, GOH.171x, GOH.244-245x, GOH.267x, GOH.359x, GOH.361x, HURQ.BB53x, BLO_PT#085 | The Badasht Project, K. Key, B. Vahdat, C. Shoemaker, B. Groetzinger, Edelo & Emma, T. Francis, M. Leong-Granfar, Honiara Baha'i Youth, W. Heath, Soulrise Melodies, N. Hamilton, J. Cooper, Baha'i Youth in Jordan, Kiskadee, L. Dely & M. Congo [track 10], A. & M. Zemke [track 4], Zannetta [track 7], almunajat.com [item 1], S. Jaberi | Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Proofs for the existence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God | * | - | NSS.039-044, JRAS.447, BRHL.63, BRHL.65?, MSBR.204-205, AHDA.447.8, MMAH.066, SRC.085-087, SRC.185, GOH.035 | ||
| BB00017 | Sahifiy-i-'Adliyya = Risaliy-i-'Adliyyih (Epistle of Justice: Root Principles) | 13500 | Selections from the Bahá'í Writings and from Shaykh Ahmad on the Seven Stages of Creation; Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá; Gate of the Heart | Sahifiy-i-Adliyyih (Epistle of Justice: Root Principles) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. حمد و سپاس وصف جمال ذاتی است که لم یزل بوده یگانه فرد بدون وجود شیئ با او و لایزال بکینونیة خود | Praise and thanksgiving befit that Essential Beauty Who hath been from time immemorial single and alone, with naught existing alongside Him, and Who everlastingly endureth in His own Being [3.5s]... ...The supporters of the “oneness of existence” have joined partners with God through their testimony of existence… Since the Ancient of Days created mankind for the purpose of apprehending the power shining within themselves | INBA82:134-205, INBA_3006C:097-, , INBA_5010C:012-082, , INBA_6011C:001-077, , INBA_6012C.265-299x, , PR03.214v27-228r05, PR17.000v-044v, IOM.091, KB_adliyya, HBH_sahifadl, BYC_adliyya, AEWB.136-141x, | AYT.039x, AVK1.030.09x, AVK1.075.10x, AVK1.099-100x, AVK1.103-104x, AVK1.322.07x, AVK2.102.15x, AVK2.167.14x, AVK2.334.11x, HNMJ.093-096x, OOL.A014 | BAPT.017-018x, BAPT.026-039x, TAME, BLO_PT#216.021x, GOH.191-192x, GOH.196-197x, GOH.207x, GOH.218-219x, GOH.222x, GOH.225-232x, GOH.235x, GOH.252x, MNP.047x, MNP.057x, HURQ.BB52x, BLO_PT#079.1.1x, BLO_PT#079.1.3x, BLO_sazedj#02 | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Essential vs. actional attributes of God; God's love for His own Essence; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Impossibility of true worship of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | - | NSS.036-038, AHDA.453.5, MMAH.045?, MMAH.058, SRC.042, SRC.068-070, SRC.197, GOH.032-033, GOH.217-236 | |||
| BB00018 | Sahifiy-i-Makhdhumiyyih = Sahifiy-i-Makhzunih (Hidden Treasured Epistle) | 13200 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Gate of the Heart; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | Sahifiy-i-Makhzunih (Hidden Treasured Epistle) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی هو کائن قبل کل شیء و لا یکون شیء معه و کان موجوداً حین لا وجود لشیء لدیه الذی قد قصدت افئده العارفین عن معرفة ادنی وصفه | Praise be to God Who existed ere all things were brought into being, and with Whom nothing can be compared. He was manifest when there was none other to contemplate His reality. He is the One Whose essence the hearts of the knowing have longed to fathom, yet fail utterly to apprehend even the most infinitesimal glimpse of His attributes [4o]... …The glory of glories and the most resplendent light rest upon Thee, O my God. Thy majesty is so transcendent… O my God, my Lord and my Master! I have detached myself… I adjure Thee by Thy might, O my God!... O My God, O my Lord, O my Master! I beg Thee to forgive me | INBA_5006C:284-314, , INBA_6009C:001-171, , PR03.043r-043rx, PR04.058r06-100r11, PR25.001-043, CMB_Add.3704, , MKI4499.043x | SWBP#53 (p.138-139x), SWBP#54 (p.139-141x), SWBP#57 (p.142-144x), SWBP#58 (p.144-145x), SWBP#59 (p.145-146x), SWBP#60 (p.146-147x), SWBP#62 (p.149-149(a)x), SWBP#63 (p.149-149(b)x), SWBP#64 (p.149-150x), SWBP#73 (p.155-155x), OOL.A009 | SWB#54 (p.194-195x), SWB#55 (p.196-198x), SWB#58 (p.200-202x), SWB#59 (p.202-204x), SWB#60 (p.204-205x), SWB#61 (p.205-206x), SWB#63 (p.209-209x), SWB#64 (p.210(a)x), SWB#65 (p.210(b)x), SWB#73 (p.216x), BPRY.022x, BPRY.063x, BPRY.130x, BPRY.141x, BPRY.227x, HURQ.BB29x | The Humming Birds, S. Toloui-Wallace, Kiya & Parya, TaliaSafa, E. Mahony, E. Mahony, E. Mahony, E. Mahony, A. Wensbo, Louis & Eleonore, Z. Johnson, Nahal & Bakang, D. Khavari, Shadi, Hoda & Leif, C. Kinglit, O. Devine, N. Chiang, Soulrise Melodies, Soulrise Melodies, N. Hamilton, L. & L. Hosack, S. Ihsan, P. Held & C. Bahia [track 10], almunajat.com [item 4], E. Tarani, unknown | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God; Impossibility of true worship of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#02, AHDA.451.1, MMAH.059, SRC.059, SRC.198, GOH.030-031 | Prayer 1 is Du'a-yi sahifa. | |
| BB00019 | Sahifa Baynu'l-Haramayn (Epistle Revealed between the Twin Shrines) | 13100 | Gate of the Heart | Sahifiy-i-Bayna'l-Haramayn (Epistle between Twin Shrines) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. ان هذا کتاب قد نزلت علی الارض المقدسة بین الحرمین من لدن علی حمید | This Book was indeed sent down within the sacred land between the Two Shrines on the part of one Elevated, Praiseworthy. | INBA50:073-106x, INBA_4011C:179-252, , INBA_6007C.348-413, PR03.058r22-068v23, PR04.115v04-164r03, CMB_F07, CMB_Or943 ff.489-545, BLIB_Or0943, BLIB_Or5325, BN_5804, BN_6248, LEID.Or4371, LEID.UL2414, MKI4499.069-118x, MKI4488.001r-028v, MKI4511.029v-037v, KB_bayn, BYC_bayn, BYC_baynal, AEWB.061-071x, AEWB.116-135x | HBAB.727x, HNMJ.006-008x, HNMJ.009-011x, HNMJ.011-016x, HNMJ.016-018x, HNMJ.019-020x, OOL.A004 | RBB.093-096x, GOH.056x, HURQ.BB14x, KSHK#01x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Impossibility of true worship of God; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Law of fasting; Law of pilgrimage; Martyrs and martyrdom; Personal instructions; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for martyrs; Seven stages of creation; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Visitation Tablets; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God and human limitations | * | - | FHR#07, DB.137x, BRHL.59, MSBR.200-201, AHDA.450.6, MMAH.049, SRC.060, SRC.198, GOH.031 | |||
| BB00020 | Bayan-i-Arabi (Arabic Bayan) | 12400 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Báb's Bayan, The; Arabic Bayan, The; Gate of the Heart | Bayan-i-Arabi (Arabic Bayan) | بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. اننی انا الله لا اله الا انا و ان ما دونی خلقی قل ان یا خلقی ایای فاعبدون قد خلقتک و رزقتک و امتک و احببتک و بعثتک و جعلتک مظهر نفسی لتتلون من عندی ایاتی و لتدعون کل من خلقته الی دینی هذا صراط عز منیع و خلقت کل شیء | Verily I am God, no God is there but Me, and aught except Me is but My creation. Say, worship Me then, O ye, My creatures. | INBA43:001-068, INBA86:001-064, INBA_4002C, , BN_4669, MKI44872x, MKI4511.079v-147v, KB_bayan-ara, HBH_bayana, BYC_bayan-ara, BYC_three.097-107x | ASH.373-406, AHDA.465x, SWBP#20 (p.111-112x), OOL.A002 | SWB#20 (p.158-159x), BAPT.040-101, GOH.261x, GOH.284x, GOH.353x, HURQ.BB56x, BLO_PT#009, KSHK#12x | C. Serrano (8:10) | A condensed form of the Persian Bayán, written in the language of divine verses. While much shorter in length than the Persian Bayán, the Arabic Bayán contains eleven full unities, whereas the Persian Bayán ends with gate 10 of the ninth unity. The parts of the Arabic Bayán that are not matched by the Persian Bayán (from gate 11 of the ninth unity to the end of the eleventh unity) were written after the Persian Bayán was completed. This work is sometimes assumed to have been written before the Persian Bayán for the simple reason that it seems as if the latter is an elaboration of the former. In reality, however, like the Persian Bayán, most of the Arabic Bayán was written in Mákú, although the last sections may have been written in Chihriq. | Alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium; Begging; mendicancy; idleness and sloth; Contention and conflict; Law of burial and cremation; Law of Huququ'llah; Law of inheritance; Law of obligatory prayer; Law of pilgrimage; Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Laws of marriage and dowry; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | AHDA.443.2, MMAH.006, SRC.085, SRC.181, GOH.035, GOH.285, GOH.368 | see also BB00001 Persian Bayan |
| BB00022 | Tafsir (huruf) al-basmala | 10700 | Selections from the Bahá'í Writings and from Shaykh Ahmad on the Seven Stages of Creation; Gate of the Heart | بسم الله البدیع الذی لا اله الا هو. ان الله سبحانه قد جعل لظهوره لخلقه بخلقه اربع مقامات المشار الیها والرموز عنها | Verily God, glorified be He, hath ordained for His Manifestation unto His creation, through His creation, four stations which have been indicated and symbolized [3.5s]... ...The "E" (nún) in the stage of utterance is the same as the "B" (káf). It is the totality of the possible | INBA14:041.04-104, INBA53:001-045, INBA60:001-056, INBA64:033.16-081.14, INBA_6010C:041-094, , INBA_6013C:002-109, , INBA_6012C.300-393, | TZH3.139.10-139.15x | GOH.132x, GOH.135-136x, GOH.204x, GOH.215x, MNP.048x, HURQ.BB03x, BLO_PT#079.1.8x | Alchemy; the elixir; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Martyrs and martyrdom; Self-description of God; God's self-remembrance; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#08, AHDA.459.16, MMAH.012, SRC.063, SRC.200, GOH.031, GOH.079 | ||||
| BB00025 | Kitab-i-A'mal al-sana (sahifa) = Sahifa Fatimiyya (Epistle on the Devotional Deeds of the Year) | 7600 | Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی نزل الکتاب بالحق هدی و ذکری للخاشعین و انه لکتاب قد فصل فی حکم شهرالله فی القران هدی و رحمة من عندالله لقوم ساجدین | Praised be to God Who hath, in very truth sent down the Book, a guidance and a remembrance for such as fear God. It is indeed a Book which sets forth regulations pertaining to the month(s) of God in the Qur'an | INBA50:106-158x, INBA_5006C:262-278, , INBA_6007C.413-452, PR04.168v01-194v07, MKI4499.118-147, AEWB.001-060, | HNMJ.021-027x, HNMJ.027-030x, HNMJ.031-036x | HURQ.BB30x | Law of obligatory prayer; Martyrs and martyrdom; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#05, AHDA.452.2, AHDA.461.02?, SRC.048, SRC.064-065, SRC.197, GOH.031 | ||||
| BB00032 | Tafsir al-Hamd | 5900 | Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله المتقدس عن جوهر نعت الموجودات و المتعالی عن مجرد وصف الممکنات و المتکبر عن ذکر کافور اللکینونیات ... قد علمت قد ذکرت ما ذکرت فی ذکر ورقة الطاهرة و ما للناس والاخذ من تلک الثمرة الجنیه قد رکنها ربها لنفسها | Praise be to God, Who is sanctified above the essence of all created things' attributes, exalted beyond mere description by contingent beings, and magnified above mention of the camphor of existences... Indeed thou hast known and made mention of that which thou didst mention concerning the pure Leaf, and what have people to do with partaking of that hidden fruit which her Lord hath reserved for her [3.5s]... ...When it [the Point] appeared there was [also] manifest that which is Unseen, namely, the letter alif | INBA14:005-038, INBA69:120-155, INBA_5019C:084-129, , INBA_6010C:005-041, , Berlin3655.060r-075r, HBH_hamd (=INBA69) | ASAT1.205x, ASAT4.115-120, TZH2.176x | RBB.101-104, HURQ.BB04x | Da'iras and haykals; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Names and attributes of God; Prayer for tests and difficulties; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.64, AHDA.458.11?, MMAH.015, SRC.064, SRC.199, GOH.330 | ||||
| BB00035 | Lawh-i-Haykalu'd-Din | 5800 | Gate of the Heart | هو. شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو الملک ذو الملاکین قد قدر فی الباب الاول ذکر نفسه نفسه انه لا اله الی هو له الاسماء الملکی ... الابد مثل الابد قد قدر فی الباب الثانی | God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, the King, Possessor of the Kingdoms. In the First Gate He hath ordained mention of His Own Self, His Very Self - verily there is none other God but Him. His are the sovereign Names unto all eternity, like unto eternity. In the Second Gate He hath ordained [3.5s]... ...Ye shall assuredly find All Good in the numerical difference between Qá’im and Qayyúm, in nine years | BYC_haykal | GOH.353x, HURQ.BB60x | Cleanliness and refinement; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Grammar and orthography; Word of God and human limitations | - | - | SRC.186 | |||||
| BB00046 | Tafsir-i-Ayati'n-Nur (Commentary on the Verse of Light) | 4200 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم بسم الله المتعالی المنیع. الحمد لله الذی خلق کل شیء بامره و قدر مقادیر کل شیء بقوله اذ انه هو الحق به یخلق ما خلق و یبدع ما بدع لا راد و لا مره و لا مرد لتقدیره | Praised be to God Who created all things through His Command and decreed the measure of all things through His Utterance, `Wherefore is He, verily, is the Ultimate Reality (al-ḥaqq)' | PR02.063r12-063r19x, PR07.044r-049v, CMB_F21.155.17-171.08#27, | HURQ.BB12x | Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, AHDA.458.15, MMAH.005 | ||||||
| BB00047 | Tafsir-i-Vav-i-Va’s-Safat I | 3900 | Gate of the Heart | بسم الله العلی الاعلی الاعظم. سبحان الذی بیده ملکوت کل شیء لا اله الا هو الواحد المتکبر القائم القدوس الرفیع العزیز المنیع شهد الله لنفسه بالله لا اله الا هو الفرد الحی | Glorified be He in Whose Hands lie the kingdoms of all things. There is none other God but Him, the One, the Most Great, the Self-Subsisting, the Most Holy, the Most Exalted, the Almighty, the Impregnable. God hath testified unto His Own Self, by God, that there is none other God but Him, the Single, the Ever-Living [3.5s]... ...For verily God hath created, in the furthermost oceans of plurality, beyond the Alif, countless numerical letters according to His will | CMB_F21.044.16-060.17#06, | GOH.106-107x, GOH.356x, HURQ.BB06x | Angels; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Mystical themes; Names and attributes of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, AHDA.458.1, GOH.387fn63 | |||||
| BB00049 | Ziyarat Jami’atu'l-Kabira | 3600 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم [بسمه المکنون الرؤف]. الحمد لله رب العالمین و انما الصلوة علی محمد رسول الله و خاتم النبیین ... و اذا اردت زیارت حبیب الله او احد من ائمة الدین طهر ادلا جسمک | Praised be to God, the Lord of all the worlds. And may prayerful devotion [peace] be upon Muhammad, the Messenger of God, and the Seal of the Prophets. | INBA50:001-072, INBA_5019C:132-145, , INBA_6009C:173-219, , PR02.090r01-093v09, CMB_F22.019b, , MKI4499.049, AEWB.145-170, | ASAT3.074x | HURQ.BB34x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Visitation Tablets | - | - | JRAS.445, BRHL.63, MSBR.204-205, SRC.045, SRC.202 | |||||
| BB00054 | Letter to Mirza Hasan Vaqay’-Nigar | 3300 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع ما فی السموات و الارض بامره و اقام الکل بحکمه لیعرف کل الموجودات فی مقام عرفان طلعة الذات و آیات ظهورات الصفات | Praise be to God Who hath brought into being, through His command, whatsoever is in the heavens and on earth, and hath established all things through His wisdom, that every created thing might attain unto the station of recognition of the Countenance of His Essence and the signs of the manifestations of His attributes [3.5s] | INBA40:180-192, INBA53:385-398, INBA67:085-100, PR02.175r27-179r06, CMB_F28.7.06, | ASAT4.368x | BAPT.002x, HURQ.BB51x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Free will and predestination; fate; Names and attributes of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.68, MSBR.208-209, MMAH.032, SRC.079, SRC.194 | |||||
| BB00066 | Dala'il-i-Sab'ih (The Seven Proofs - Arabic) | 2700 | Gate of the Heart | Dala'il-i-Sab'ih (Seven Proofs - Arabic) | بسم الله الافرد الافرد. بسم الله الفرد الفرد بسم الله الفرد الفرد بسم الله الفرد الفراد بسم الله الفرد الفراد بسم الله الفارود الفارد بسم الله الفرد الفراد بسم الله الفرد الفرود | In the name of God, the One, the Peerless. In the Name of God, the One, the Peerless. In the Name of God, the Singular, the Matchless. In the Name of God, the Singular, the Matchless. In the Name of God, the Unique, the Supreme. In the Name of God, the Singular, the Matchless [4o] | INBA_2007C:01a-13b, , PR02.101v10-104r18x, CMB_F22.092b?, , HBH_dalail=DLLS, BYC_saba-a | DLLS, OOL.A005a | HURQ.BB54x | Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | JRAS.447, BRHL.63, BRHL.65, MSBR.204-205?, AHDA.447.8, MMAH.066, SRC.087-088, SRC.185, GOH.035 | |||
| BB00067 | Answer to Shaykh Nasiru'd-Din Karbila'i | 2700 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم بسمه العلی الاعلی الاعظم الاکبر الارفع الاظهر. حمداً لمن استوی علی عرش فردانیته و تقدس بقدس قدوس کبریائیته | Praise be unto Him Who is established upon the throne of His singleness, and Who hath sanctified Himself with the holiness of His exalted divinity [3.5s]... ...As for what thou did ask regarding the clarification of the issue of pre-existence and the origination of things. There is no doubt that the pre-existence of the eternal Divine Essence | PR02.060r08-063r10, CMB_F21.065.17-077.06#09, | HURQ.BB38x | Creation of the world; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Eternal archetypes [a'yan-i-thabitah]; Eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095 | ||||||
| BB00076 | Tasbih-i-Fatimih | 2500 | بسم الله العلی العظیم. اسبح سبحان الذی لا یعلم جوهو وجود کیف هو و لا مجرد موجود این | Glorified be He whose essential Reality none knoweth, and whose pure Being none can fathom [3.5s] | INBA98:176.16-186.10, CMB_F09.088=4005C, , BLIB_Or5112, , HBH_tasbih | HURQ.BB32x | Chastisement and requital; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Impossibility of true worship of God; Night of Power (Laylat al-Qadr); Transcendence; unknowability of God; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | BRHL.59, MSBR.202-203 | ||||||
| BB00078 | Letter to Mulla Baqir Tabrizi (Chihriq) Tafsir hadith "شمس التی تلک الشموس فی ظهوره" | 2500 | Tablet to Mullá Muhammad Báqir-i Tabrízí; Gate of the Heart | Tablet to Mulla Muhammad Baqir-i Tabrizi | بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. الحمد لله الذی لا اله الا هو العزیز المحبوب و انما البهاء من الله عز ذکره علی من یظهره الله جل امره و من یخلق بامره و لا یری فیه الا ماقد تجلی الله له بقوله علی انه لا اله الا هو المهیمن القیوم | Praised be to God, no god is there except Him, the Mighty, the Beloved One. The Splendour which cometh from God — exalted be His Remembrance — be upon Him Whom God shall make manifest | CMB_F21.035.18-044.13#05, , BYC_pray.099.01-105.02 | KSHG.439, AYT.169, TZH3.020.04-022.21x | GOH.241x, GOH.249x, GOH.290x, GOH.351-353x, GOH.372-374x, HURQ.BB57x, GPB.030x, BLO_PT#185x | He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Names and attributes of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095, GOH.036 | |||
| BB00084 | Khutbata’r-Raj’a (Khutba written in Jidda) | 2200 | Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد اقام العرش علی الماء والهواء علی وجه الماء و فرق بینهما علی کلمة اللاء ثم قد فتق الاجواء من عالم العماء | Praised be to God! Who raised up the Celestial Throne upon the watery expanse and the atmosphere above the surface of the watery expanse. | INBA91:060.12-073.08, INBA_5006C:330-335, | HNU.143-145x, AHDA.086x | MNP.090-091x, MNP.146-158, HURQ.BB19x, LOIR06.050ff | Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Mystical themes; Pilgrimage [Hajj] in Islam; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#06.05, SRC.063, SRC.187, GOH.032 | ||||
| BB00091 | Kitabu’l-‘Ulama I (Bushihr) | 2000 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی نزل الکتاب علی من یشاء من عباده و انه لا اله الا هو الغنی الجمیل و انه کتاب لا ریب فیه فصل فی حکم باطن القران | Praised be to God who sends down the Book upon whomsoever He willeth among His servants. He, verily, no God is there except Him. | INBA67:206-216, INBA91:082.02-094.10, INBA_4011C:318-328, , INBA_6007C.452-463, INBA_4012C.083-092, , PR03.063r10-065r26, PR04.106v02-115v02, PR07.049v-052v, CMB_F21.224.02-232.13#32, , BYC_collect5 | HNU.085x, HNU.134x, AHDA.107 | DB.148fn1, DB.129fn2, HURQ.BB22x, RR.121x | Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | FHR#03.03, GPB.024, BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, MMAH.034, SRC.074, SRC.098, SRC.189 | |||||
| BB00128 | Kitab al-Fihrist (Book of the index) | 1400 | Autobibliography in the Writings of the Báb; Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. المر ذلک الکتاب ذکر من الله فی حکم عبد بدیع و انه للکتاب قد نزلت من لدن بقیة الله امام حق قدیم | Alif. Lám. Mím. Rá. This is the Book, a Remembrance from God concerning a wondrous servant, and verily it is the Book sent down from the presence of the Remnant of God, the True Imam [3.5s]... ...And this is a Book which was sent down from God containing a directive from a wondrous servant. It is indeed a Book which hath come down from the Remnant of God | INBA_5019C:285-293, , INBA_6007C.339-348, INBA_4011C.062-069, , PR04.001r03-006v11, Berlin3655.001v-007r | ASAT4.527x | MNP.091-095x, HURQ.BB46x, LOIR06.051ff | Events in the life and ministry of the Bab; Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih] | - | - | FHR#04, AHDA.444.3, SRC.043, SRC.050-052, SRC.065, SRC.188, GOH.022, GOH.032 | ||||
| BB00134 | Ziyarat al-Zahra (Fatimah) | 1400 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. فاذا قمت بین یدی الله ظهر مرقد فاطمه صلوات الله علیها صل فی مقام الذی صلی رسول الله علیه و انه فی بیت فاطمه | If thou standest before God, and the resting-place of Fatimih—upon her be the blessings of God—is made manifest, pray thou in that station wherein the Apostle of God did pray, and it is in the house of Fatimih [3.5s]... ...And I testify that thy [Fatimah's] son [Imam] Hasan is the Hujjat-Allah (Proof of God) and His Wali (Legatee) for through him the Throne was raised up upon the Watery Expanse | INBA_5019C:148-159, , AEWB.180-189, | HURQ.BB31x | Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | SRC.099, SRC.203 | ||||||
| BB00137 | Sahifiy-i-Radaviyyih (Epistle of Rida') | 1300 | Autobibliography in the Writings of the Báb; Excerpts from the Risáliy-i-Dhahabiyyih; Gate of the Heart | Risaliy-i-Dhahabiyyih | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی خلق الماء بسر الانشا و اقام العرش علی الماء بشان الامضا و انزل الایات من عالم العما | Praise be to God Who hath created the water by the mystery of construction, hath established the throne upon the water by the modality of execution | CMB_F28.6.1-2, , BYC_radawiya | MHA.141-142x, TZH3.290x, AHDA.473-474x fn2, OOL.A013 | BAPT.003-005x, MNP.057-058x, MNP.097-100, HURQ.BB21x, LOIR06.059ff, BLO_PT#012x, BLO_PT#034x | Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Essential vs. actional attributes of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | BRHL.68, MSBR.208-209, AHDA.449.2, AHDA.452.3, MMAH.046, MMAH.048, SRC.053-055, SRC.207, GOH.023, GOH.032, GOH.131, GOH.379fn35 | Includes the Khutbiy-i-Dhikriyyih as chapter 1. | ||
| BB00151 | Tafsir-i-Hadith-i-Haqiqat (Commentary on the Tradition of Truth) | 1300 | Gate of the Heart | Tafsír-i-Hadith-i-Haqíqat (Commentary on the Tradition of Truth) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. و هو ان کمیل بن زیاد النخعی اردنه علی علیه السلام یوماً علی ناقته فقال کمیل یا مولای ما الحقیقة قال مالک | And it came to pass that Kumayl ibn Ziyad an-Nakha'i approached 'Alí - peace be upon him - one day as he rode upon his she-camel, and Kumayl asked: "O my master, what is Truth?" He said [3.5s]... ...thou must know that Kumayl’s response reflecteth his condition; for he was not attired with the vesture of utter servitude | INBA14:462-468, INBA53:063-068, INBA67:148-155, INBA_4011C:127-134, , INBA_6006C:074-077, , INBA_6010C:458-464, , PR07.064r-065v | AADA.014 | GOH.134x, GOH.165-168x, GOH.194x, GOH.251x, HURQ.BB44x | Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Knowledge; recognition of God; Presence of; reunion with God; Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | AHDA.459.18, MMAH.055, SRC.072, SRC.199, GOH.077, GOH.164 | |||
| BB00154 | Answer to Mulla Asadu’llah-i-Qazvini | 1200 | Epistle of the Báb to Mullá Asadu'lláh Qazvíní, The | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابتدع الابداع لا من ابداع قبله و اخترع الاختراع لا من اختراع بعده ثم جعل القدر | Praised be to God Who originated the Formative Genesis (ibtida` al-ibda`), not from any prior formative genesis | PR07.040v-042v, CMB_F21.115.18-120.16#18, | TZH3.013.02-016.11 | HURQ.BB27x | Creation of the world; Degrees of faith; certitude; Free will and predestination; fate; Knowledge; recognition of God; Meditation; Miracles and their interpretation; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095 | ||||
| BB00165 | Sharh-i-Du’a’-i-Sabah I | 1200 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع کل الذرات الموجودات بامره لا من شیء لتدلعن السن کل الممکنات | Praised be to God Who originated the essences of all the atoms of the realms of existence through His Logos-Command and not by means of anything other than Him | INBA14:400-409, INBA40:155-162, INBA53:411-419, INBA67:219-228, INBA_6010C:398-407, , PR02.179r08-181r20 | TZH3.027x | HURQ.BB39x | Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | MMAH.020, SRC.079, SRC.193 | |||||
| BB00166 | Ziyarat for Hadrat-i-Quddus | 1200 | Ziyarat-Namih-i-Mulla Muhammad `Ali-i-Barfurushi (Tablets of Visitation for Mulla Muhammad `Ali-i-Barfurushi (Quddus)) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. جوهر مجرد طرز کافور اطهر اطهر انور الذی طلع و اشرق ثم لمع و ابرق ... علیک یا نورالبهاء و ذکر الانشاء و سر القضاء | O pure Essence, ornament of most holy and radiant camphor, that hath risen and shone forth, then gleamed and flashed in brilliance... upon thee, O Light of Bahá, Remembrance of Creation, Mystery of Decree [3.5s] | CMB_F23.146r07-149r08 (51), , MKI4500.124r-126v | HURQ.BB35x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Mystical themes; Servitude; submission to God; repentance | - | - | For Shaykh Ahmad? | |||||
| BB00175 | Khutba on gematria and its sister (‘ilmi’l-Huruf va Ukhtiha) | 1100 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد عرف ذاته بایاته المتجلیه فی غرا لفواد بغیر تشبیه و لا تفریق لیشهد الکل فی مقعد الفضل | Praise be to God Who hath enabled the gnosis of His Essence to be realized through His verses which express theophanic self-disclosure within the grandeur of the inmost heart | INBA67:228-233, INBA91:030.07-036.06, INBA_5006C:315-317, , INBA_5019C:322-324, , INBA_6004C:209-213, | HURQ.BB20x | Alchemy; the elixir; Celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#06.09, SRC.063, SRC.187, SRC.191 | ||||||
| BB00210 | Testamentary disposition, addressed to Azal | 940 | Tablet of the Báb Lawh-i-Vasaya, "Will and Testament"; Titles of Mírzá Yahyá; Will and Testament; Epistle of the Báb to Azal | Lawh-i-Vasaya | بسم الله الازل الازل. اننی انا الله لا اله الا انا الوحاد الوحید اننی انا الله لا اله الا انا الاحاد الاحید اننی انا الله لا اله الا انا الصماد الصمید ... ان یا اسم الازل فاشهد علی الله لا اله الا انا العزیز المحبوب ثم اشهد | Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the One, the Unique. Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the Single, the Peerless. Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the All-Sufficing, the Everlasting... O Name of Eternity! Bear thou witness that there is no God but Me, the Mighty, the Best-Beloved [3.5s]... …O name of Azal, testify that there is no God but I, the dearest beloved. Then testify that there is no God but you, the victorious and permanent. Say, God created what He created from the time of beginning that has no beginning and | INBA64:095.01-102.09x, INBA_6007C.465-471, PR03.084r24-085v13, CMB_F23.174r06-176v02 (59)x, , HBH_vasayax, BYC_vesayatx | LOIR08.387, HURQ.BB61x, BLO_PT#211 | He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | MSBR.206-207x | ||||
| BB00219 | Bayan dar Jabr wa Tafwid (fi bayan-i-mas'alati'l-Qadar) | 920 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. قال الله تعالی الذی خلق فسوی والذی قدر فهدی و قال الصادق لا جبر و لا تفویض بل امر بین الامرین فاعلم ان هذه المسئله لما سد الله معرفته عن العقول والنفوس والارواح | God spoke forth Who created all that is other than Him and thus foreordained and proffered guidance. And [likewise] al-Ṣādiq said when God blocked the gnosis of this matter | INBA14:479-483, INBA53:053-056, INBA67:134-138, INBA_4011C:110-115, , INBA_5006C:375-377, , INBA_6004C:192-195, , INBA_6006C:067-069, , INBA_6010C:473-477, , PR07.059v-061r | ASAT4.473x | HURQ.BB41x | Free will and predestination; fate; Limits of the intellect; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; The Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im | - | - | MMAH.018, SRC.073, SRC.184 | |||||
| BB00222 | Letter to Mulla Sadiq Muqaddas Khurasani | 910 | Tablet of the Báb Revealed in Búshihr and Addressed to Mullá Ṣādiq-i-Khurásání | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الم ذکرالله للورقة الصفرآء عن یمین الطور لا اله الا هو قل ایای فاخرجون و لقد نزلنا الیک کتاباً من قبل | Alif. Lam. Mim. The Remembrance of God hath mentioned the yellow leaf nigh the right-hand side of the Mount [Sinai], [saying] `No God is there except Him' | PYK.003, ASAT4.236-238x, TZH3.149.06-150.13x, AHDA.101 | HURQ.BB25x | House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]; Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.; Rejection of Muhammad; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | FHR#03.15, MMAH.036 | |||||
| BB00224 | Epistle to Muhammad Shah 1 | 900 | Epistle of the Báb to Muḥammad Sháh Qájár Revealed in Búshihr, An | Tablets of the Báb to Muhammad Shah | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اقرء کتاب ذکر اسم ربک الذی لا اله الا هو العلی الکبیر و انه لکتاب لا ریب فیه قد نزل من لدن | Read the Book of the Remembrance of thy Lord, no God is there except Him, the Exalted, the Mighty. Such is indeed a Book about which there is no doubt | INBA_4011C:328-332, , INBA_5006C:367-369, , INBA_6012C.262-264x, , CMB_F28.7.03-04, | HNU.149-151x, AHDA.102, OOL.A023.1 | HURQ.BB28x | Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | MSBR.208-209, AHDA.460.08, MMAH.024, SRC.058, SRC.192 | |||
| BB00237 | Fi Tafsir-i-Kalimiy-i-Aqul (Commentary on a statement of Siyyid Kazim) | 860 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. قال مولانا علی علیه السلام فی خطبة الطتنجیه علی قائلها الاف الثناء والتحیة الحمد لله الذی فتق الاجواء ... بسم الله والحمد لله افتتح بالله فی شرح سر من الکلمة التی شرحها کلمة الحق روحی | Our Master [Imam] `Alī said (upon him be peace) in the Khuṭbat al-Tutunjiyya (“Sermon of the Gulf”) according to his statement expressive of a thousand degrees of praise | INBA67:125-129, INBA_4011C:171-176, , INBA_5006C:343-345, , INBA_6004C:204-207, , PR07.077r-078r | NSS.069-071 | HURQ.BB18x | Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Mystical themes; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | AHDA.458.09, SRC.073, SRC.198 | |||||
| BB00249 | Bayan 'illati Tahrimi'l-Maharim | 800 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اشهد الله کشهادته لنفسه ان لا اله الا هو و هو العزیز الحکیم و اشهد لمحمد و احبائه سلام الله علیهم کما شاءالله | I bear witness before God, even as He beareth witness unto His Own Self, that there is none other God but Him, and He is the Mighty, the All-Wise. And I bear witness unto Muhammad and His loved ones - the peace of God be upon them - as God hath willed [3.5s] | INBA14:499-502, INBA67:165-169, INBA_4011C:159-163, , INBA_5006C:352, , INBA_6006C:087?, , INBA_6010C:493-496, , PR07.072r-073r, AEWB.212-216, | HURQ.BB09x | Creation of the world; Islamic laws and jurisprudence; Law of divorce; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation | - | - | SRC.072, SRC.184 | ||||||
| BB00273 | Tawqi’i Qa’imiyyat | 720 | Epistle of Qāʾimiyyat, The | Tawqi’i Qa’imiyyat | هو الاعلی بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو له الخلق و الامر یحیی و یمیت ثم یمیت و یحیی و انه هو حی لا یموت فی قبضته ملکوت کلشیء یخلق ما یشآء بأمره انه کان علی کل شیء قدیراً ان یا علی قد اصطفیناک بامرنا و جعلناک ملکاً تنادی بین یدی القائم | God testifieth that there is none other God but Him. His is the creation and the command. He giveth life and causeth death, then causeth death and giveth life, and verily He is the Ever-Living Who dieth not. In His grasp is the dominion of all things; He createth whatsoever He willeth by His command, and verily, He hath power over all things. O Ali! We have chosen thee through Our command and made thee a king to proclaim before the Qa'im [3.5s] | CMB_F20.010v18-012r07, , BYC_tablets.062.17-065.09 | LDR.291x, TZH3.164.11-166.09, AHDA.472, QISM.014 | HURQ.BB26x | Day of Resurrection; Judgement; Muhammad; Islam; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; The Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | SRC.095, SRC.276 | |||
| BB00341 | Du'a Tawassul | 520 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ینزل ما یشاء بامره سبحانه و تعالی عما یصفون یا الهی کیف اثنی علیک بعد علمی بقطع الکل عن عرفانک و کیف لا ادعوک و ان فؤادی لم تستقر الا بذکرک | Praise be unto God Who sends down whatsoever He Willeth through a command on His part. Praise be He and Exalted be He above whatsoever they do assert | INBA64:013.12-017.10, PR02.053r01-053r29, PR03.128v21-129r23, BYC_jabar.168.07-169.13 | KHSH6.008 | HURQ.BB37 | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for assistance; intercession; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||
| BB00344 | Tafsir-i-Hadith-i-Nahnu Wajhu'llah | 520 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم ما تفسیر قوله علیه السلام نحن وجه الله. فاعلم ان عرباً من العرباء من اهل البادیه سئل عن علی ع عن وجه الله فی قوله | And know thou that an Arab among the Arabs of the Bedouin people asked [Imam] `Alī about the Wajh Allāh (the Face of God) as indicated in His statement: "So wherever you turn there is the Face of God!" | INBA14:489-491, INBA53:056-058, INBA67:138-140, INBA_4011C:115-118, , INBA_6004C:195-197, , INBA_6006C:069-070, , PR07.061r-061v | HURQ.BB40x | God as immanent vs. transcendent reality; Manifestation of God as mediator; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | AHDA.459.17, SRC.072, SRC.200 | ||||||
| BB00356 | Letter to Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani | 470 | Epistle of the Bab to Karim Khan Kirmani | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الم ذکر ربک للورقة الحمراء عن یمین بحر الابیض لا اله الا هو قل ایای فاخرجون اقرء کتاب ربک ثم اسجد لامره و انه لا اله الا هو قل ایای فاسمعون | Alif. Lam. Mim. [Revealed from] The Dhikr (Remembrance) of thy Lord unto the Crimson Leaf at the right-hand side of the snow-white Ocean. | HNU.181-182, NSS.182-183 | HURQ.BB24 | Imam Husayn; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | FHR#03.10, AHDA.460.04, MMAH.033 | |||||
| BB00364 | Fi Bayani Lawhi’l-Mahfuz (Letter on the Preserved Tablet) (part II) | 460 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. و قد سئلک السائل عن اللوح الحفیظ اعلمه بما قد علمک الله المحیط و ها انا ذا القیت الیک من رشحات تلک الالواح المستضیئه | The questioner hath assuredly asked thee about al-lawḥ al-maḥfūẓ ("The Preserved Tablet"). Inform him then according to what God, the All-Encompassing, hath taught thee [the Bāb] | INBA67:174-176, INBA_4011C:139-141, , INBA_6004C:202-204, , INBA_6006C:079-080, , PR07.067r-067v | HURQ.BB07x | Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Law of cause and effect; Seven stages of creation; The cross and the trinity | - | - | SRC.190, SRC.192x2 | ||||||
| BB00383 | Answer to the son of Mulla ‘Ali-i-Nuri (Kayfiyyata’l-Mi’raj) | 410 | Epistle of the Báb on the Mi'rāj of the Prophet Muhammad, Addressed to Mīrzá Ḥasan Nūrī | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تجلی للممکنات بظهور المشیة لها بها لیعرفن کل الممکنات | Praise be to God Who hath manifested Himself within and through existing realities by virtue of the theophany of His Divine Will | INBA14:390-392, INBA40:197-198, INBA53:402-404, INBA69:416-418, INBA_6010C:388-390, , CMB_F21.104.19-106.11#14, , Berlin3655.120v-121v | ESCH.397 | HURQ.BB13x | Limits of the intellect; Realms of being; three realms; five realms; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.080, SRC.194 | ||||
| BB00421 | Fi ‘ilmi’l-Huruf va’l-Iksir (Letter on gematria and alchemy) | 350 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. و اما السئوال عن علم الحروف فخذ من رأس کل عشرة حرف الاول و احسب علی الاول عنصر النار | As to thy question regarding the science of letters, know that from each set of ten letters, take the first, and reckon the first as representing the element of fire [4o]... ...And now as regards thy question about the Elixir: Know thou that God did not create anything except that He deposited within it a "letter" of the Elixir in accordance with its level of being | INBA67:203-204, INBA_6004C:213-215, , PR07.074r-074v, AEWB.234-236, | HURQ.BB17x | Alchemy; the elixir; Four elements; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision | - | - | SRC.190, SRC.192 | ||||||
| BB00433 | Kitab al-Vahid 17 (Tablet to the seventeenth Letter of the Living) | 330 | Translation List | بسم الله الاعلی الحمید. سبحان الذی تخضع له من فی السموات و الأرض قل کل الیه یبعثون هو الذی بیده من فی السموات | Glorified be He before Whom all the dwellers of earth and heaven humble themselves! Say: All shall find life in Him | DB.xxii.17, LABIB | HURQ.BB49, ADMS#036 | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||
| BB00439 | Letter to Mulla Hasan Gawhar | 320 | Epistle of the Báb to Mullá Ḥasan Gawhar | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. طه ما نزلنا الکتاب من قبل الا نذکرة لمن شاء ان یوحی بآیات ربک و کان من الساجدین اقرء کتاب ربک لا مبدل فی حکمی و استغفر لامتک لتکونن من المفلحین | Ta. Ha. We did not send down the Book aforetime except it was a memorial for Whomsoever He wills that he should believe in the verses of thy Lord | AHDA.089 | HURQ.BB23x | Chastisement and requital; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | FHR#03.04, AHDA.460.1 | |||||
| BB00445 | Fi Hukmi ‘Ilmi’l-Huruf (musajja'ih) | 300 | Tablet of the Letters (Ḥurūfāt) Revealed by the Báb, The | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تجلى على الآیات بانفسها و على الابواب بالالف القآئم فی مظاهرها و على السموات | Praise be to God Who hath revealed Himself through the signs in their very essence, and through the Gates by the upright Alif in their manifestations, and through the heavens [3.5s] | INBA67:204-206, PR07.073v-074r | HURQ.BB36 | Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria) | - | - | ||||||
| BB00447 | Kitab al-Vahid 01 (Tablet to the first Letter of the Living) | 300 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb | بسم الله العزیز المحبوب. سبحان الذی له ملک السموات و الأرض و ما بینهما قل کل الیه راجعون هو الذی یهدی من یشآء | Lauded and glorified is He Who is the sovereign Lord of the kingdoms of heaven and earth and whatever is between them. | DB.xxii.01, SWBP#03 (p.003-004), LABIB | SWB#03 (p.009-010), HURQ.BB47 | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Preexistence of the Manifestation of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God | - | - | AHDA.460.03 | |||||
| BB00472 | Kitab al-Vahid 02 (Tablet to the second Letter of the Living) | 270 | بسم الله الازل الازول. ان البهاء من عند الله علی اءزل اﻻ یزول و من لسان ذلک الأزل الی اءزل القیدوم | Now the Glory which cometh from God be upon the One Eternal, the One Eternally Active and from the tongue of that One Eternal unto the One Eternally Active, the Pre-Existent. Every affair returns unto I, Myself | DB.xxii.02, LABIB | HURQ.BB48 | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||
| BB00562 | Khasa'il-i Sab'ih (Treatise of the Seven Directives) | 140 | Gate of the Heart | Dhasail-i-Sabih (Seven Qualifications) | الامر الاول من الشعائر السبعة هو حمل الدائرة المنیعة المبارکة و الثانی منها ترک الغلیان | The first command of the seven religious practices is to carry the blessed, protective circle. The second of them is to abandon the water pipe. | HBAB.765, AHDA.099, OOL.A022 | GOH.300, HURQ.BB16x, KSHK#02, KSHK.BWB | Imam Husayn; Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc. | * | - | DB.143, MMAH.052, SRC.061-062, SRC.186, GOH.300 | ||||
| BB00650 | Ziyaratu’l-Jami’ati’s-Saghira | 1000 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريک له و اشهد ان محمد عبده و رسوله اللهم صل علي محمد | I bear witness that there is no God except God alone. There can be no doubt about this. And I testify that Muhammad is indeed His servant, and His Messenger | HURQ.BB33x | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00651 | Fi’l-Maut va’l-‘Ama’ | 3400 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحان الذی بیده ملکوت السموات و الارض لا اله الا هو الواحد المتکبر الاحد المقتدر ... اما معنی الحديث الآخر الذی سئل فی الکتاب ان الله کان فی عماء فوقه هواء و تحته هواء | Glorified be He in Whose Hands lie the kingdoms of the heavens and of the earth. There is no God but Him, the One, the All-Compelling, the Single, the All-Powerful... As to the meaning of that other tradition mentioned in the Book, that God was in a cloud with air above it and air beneath it [3.5s] | INBA_6007C.001-016 | ASAT4.391-393x | HURQ.BB42x | Absolute freedom; independence of God; The cloud ['ama]; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||
| BH00005 | Lawh-i-Ibn-i-Dhi'b (Epistle to the Son of the Wolf) | 28200 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Epistle to the Son of the Wolf; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | Lawh-i-Ibn-i-Dhib (Epistle to the Son of the Wolf) | الحمد لله الباقی بلا فناء و الدائم بلا زوال و القائم بلا انتقال المهیمن | Praise be to God, the Eternal that perisheth not, the Everlasting that declineth not, the Self-Subsisting that altereth not.... O God, my God! Attire mine head with the crown of justice... Thou seest me, O my Lord, with my face turned towards the heaven | BLIB_Or15708.001, , BLIB_Or15721.001, , BLIB_Or15726.082x, | BRL_ESWP, AQA6#237 p.136x, TZH4.114-115x, YMM.306x, OOL.B047 | ESW, BPRY.075x, ADJ.028ax2x, ADJ.077x, COF.101ax, TDH#158.20, GPB.071x, GPB.071-072x, GPB.097x3x, GPB.101x2x, GPB.102x2x, GPB.114x2x, GPB.124x, GPB.125x, GPB.133x, GPB.137x, GPB.184x9x, GPB.194x2x, GPB.217x2x, GPB.218x3x, PDC.015-016x, PDC.017x, PDC.082x, PDC.117-118x, PDC.118x2x, PDC.125-126x, PDC.141-142x, PDC.142x, PDC.142-143x, PDC.148x, PDC.162x, PDC.181x, PDC.184-185x, PDC.187x, WOB.186x, SW_v01#18 p.004-005x, SW_v05#15 p.226x, BSC.118 #048x, HURQ.BH74x | L. Thoresen [track 2], Charisse et al, Smith & Dragoman, E. Mahony, Baha'i Youth of Japan, Y. Mbazo & the Durban Baha'i Choir, A. Rae, Taraz, Nthabiseng & Page, MANA, S. Toloui-Wallace, S. Jaberi, Arman & Gloria, Steve & Atosa | His last major work and His third longest, calling on its recipient, a leading mujtahid, to repent of his role in the oppression and massacre of the Bahá’ís, quoting some of the most celebrated passages from His own writings, and adducing proofs establishing the validity of His cause. | Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Being a source of light; guidance; Chastity and purity; Collection; ordering of the Sacred Writings; Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Contention and conflict; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Dissimulation [taqiyyih]; concealment or denial of Faith; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; East and West; communication between East and West; Empty learning; false spirituality; Fanaticism and hatred; Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; High station of learning; Holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Idle fancies; lust and passion; Incarceration of Baha'u'llah in Siyah Chal; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Knowledge; recognition of God; Knowledge of self; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Manifestation of God does not act of own volition; Martyrs and martyrdom; Oneness; unity of religion; Piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for forgiveness; Prayer for praise and gratitude; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Rebellion and sedition; disobedience; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Shrines and Holy places; Spiritual warfare; struggle; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Status of kings; future of monarchy; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause; Teachings as spirit of the age; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Theft; seizing the properties of others; The golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Unity; oneness of humanity; Universal peace; world unity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; War and peace; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness | * | * | ROB4.368 et al, BKOG.382, GPB.219, GPB.238, EBTB.147, MMAH.122, MMAH.129, GSH.148, LL#124 | |
| BH00006 | Lawh-i-Sarraj | 26800 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Sarraj (Tablet to Sarraj) | نامه آنجناب بین یدی العرش حاضر و بر مقر انه لایعرف بما سواه واصل و ما فیه | Thy letter hath been made present before the Throne and hath reached the Seat of Him Who is known through naught else but Himself, and that which it contained [3.5s]... ...Shake off, O heedless ones, the slumber of negligence, that ye may behold the radiance which His glory hath spread through the world. | INBA35:190, INBA73:198, INBA33:081bx, INBA76:001, PR19.072b-110b, BN_suppl.1754.075-124 | BRL_DA#029, GWBP#050 p.073cx, GWBP#097 p.130ax, MAS4.046ax, MAS4.090bx, MAS4.100ax, MAS4.364ax, MAS4.350bx, MAS4.174bx, MAS7.004, ASAT4.271x, ASAT4.272x, ASAT4.487x, AKHA_122BE #04 p.?x, AKHA_137BE #08 p.ax, ANDA#05 p.06x, ANDA#69 p.05x, MSHR4.286x, YMM.468x, OOL.B201 | BRL_ATBH#67x, BRL_ATBH#72x, BRL_ATBH#76x, BRL_ATBH#77x, GWB#050x, GWB#097x, LOG#0327x, ADJ.080x, GPB.098x, GPB.102x, GPB.171x, PDC.019-020x, WOB.063x2x, WOB.104x2x, WOB.107x, WOB.108x2x, BLO_PT#075x, HURQ.BH51 | One of the longest works of Bahá’u’lláh, written in answer to questions regarding the enigma of the outwardly exalted station of Mírzá Yaḥyá and arguing, citing various statements of the Báb, that virtues become transmuted into vices when one turns away from the light of truth. | Collection; ordering of the Sacred Writings; Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The power of words; of speech; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ROB2.262 et al, MMAH.140, LL#242 | ||
| BH00020 | Tafsir-i-Hurufat-i-Muqatta'ih (Commentary on the Disconnected Letters) = Lawh-i-Ayat-i-Nur (Tablet of the Verse of Light) | 8280 | Tablet of the 'Light Verse', also known as Commentary on the Disconnected Letters; Tablet of the 'Light Verse' (Lawh-i-Áyiy-i-Núr), also known as Commentary on the Disconnected Letters; Lawh-i-Hikmat | Lawh-i-Ayat-i-Nur or Tafsir-i-Hurufat-i-Muqatta'ih (Tablet of the Verse of Light or Commentary on the Disconnected Letters) | الحمد لله الذی خلق الحروفات فی عوالم العما خلف سرادقات القدس فی رفارف الاسنی | Praise be to God who created the letters in the worlds of the divine Cloud beyond the pavilions of holiness… Know that the first tokens brought into existence by the pre-existent Cause in the worlds of creation are the four elements… Strive therefore to recognize amongst the primary substances those things which are in equilibrium | INBA08:587, INBA36:212, NLAI_BH2.141x, NLAI_BH3.003x, Berlin1237#19, PR19.002b-017b | MAS4.049, ASAT3.090x, ASAT4.068x, ANDA#19 p.32x, OOL.B029, OOL.B145 | BLO_failayn, HURQ.BH08x, BTO#04x, ADMS#199n84x | An extensive commentary on the famous ‘verse of light’ in the Qur’an (24:35) and on the origin and meaning of the enigmatic letters heading many of its surahs, which Bahá’u’lláh relates to different aspects of the person and revelation of the Báb, to the mystical science of letters and numbers, and to stages in the alchemical craft. | Alchemy; the elixir; Four elements; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria) | - | - | ROB1.125, MMAH.099, GSH.021, GSH.045, LL#337, LL#391, LL#405? | ||
| BH00033 | 7090 | Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | الحمد لله الذی توحه بالکلام و تفرد بالبیان الذی خضعت بحور المعانی عندما | Praise be unto Him Who hath adorned Himself with utterance and Who alone possesseth expression, He before Whom the oceans of inner meanings have bowed down whensoever [3.5s]... ...He it is Who in the Old Testament hath been named Jehovah, Who in the Gospel hath been designated as the Spirit of Truth… the task of executing the laws, the ordinances and statutes that have been sent down in the Book hath been delegated unto the men of the divine Houses of Justice [rijal-i-buyut-i-'adliyyih-yi-ilahiyyih]... It is beloved of God that all should speak in Arabic, which is the richest and vastest of all languages | INBA31:022 | BRL_DA#225, AQA7#393 p.114, AVK3.219.08x, AVK3.228.05x, AVK4.272x.01, AVK4.278x.07, DWNP_v1#05 p.001-003x, UAB.041bx, UAB.054bx, NFQ.005-008x, MAS4.175ax, GSH.210-213x, ASAT5.108x, AKHA_106BE #09 p.002x, AKHA_111BE #10-12 p.002x, AKHA_135BE #07 p.141x, NJB_v14#07 p.224x, YMM.305x, OOL.B177x, LFLN.012x | BRL_ATBH#37x, LTDT.052-053x, WOB.104x, SW_v14#07 p.224x, HURQ.BH70x, STYLE.032-033x, ADMS#331ax | Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; The Bayan, its laws and their abrogation; Universal language; Word of God and human limitations | - | - | ROB4.159, LL#273, LL#418 | |||||
| BH00034 | Suriy-i-Sabr (=Lawh-i-Ayyub) | 7050 | Tablet of Patience, or Tablet of Job (Súrih-i-Sabr or Lawh-i-Ayyúb); Tablet of Patience, or Tablet of Job (Súrih-i-Sabr or Lawh-i-Ayyúb) | Suriy-i-Sabr or Lawh-i-Ayyub (Tablet of Patience or Tablet of Job) | ذکر الله فی مدینه الصبر عبده ایوبا اذ آویناه فی ظل شجره القدس فی فواده و اشهدناه | This is the remembrance of God in the City of Patience regarding Job, Our servant, Whom We sheltered under the shade of that Holy Tree planted in His heart | INBA36:173, INBA73:082, Berlin1237#08 | BRL_DA#726, AYT.262, LMA1.379 (228), MAS4.282, ASAT5.246x, ASAT5.309x, ASAT5.247x, FBAH.160x, OOL.B138 | WOB.116x, BLO_PT#116, HURQ.BH23, NYR#144 | Major work, written on the first day of Riḍván as He was departing Baghdad, praising the Bábís of the Nayriz upheaval of 1850 and in particular their leader, Siyyid Yaḥyáy-i-Dárábí (Vaḥíd), recounting their sufferings and condemning their persecutors; describes the sufferings of the biblical Job, comparing them to those of the recipient of the tablet, who played a key role in supporting the defenders at Nayríz; commends fortitude and patience in the face of suffering; foretells the coming of ‘the birds of darkness’; and proclaims the continuity of divine revelation. | Consolation and comfort; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Stories; anecdotes; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | - | ROB1.263, BKOG.131, BKOG.195, MMAH.203, GSH.055, LL#327 | ||
| BH00047 | Haft Vadi (The Seven Valleys) | 6100 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Call of the Divine Beloved | Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys) | الحمد لله الذی اظهر الوجود من العدم و رقم علی لوح الانسان من اسرار القدم و | Praise be to God Who hath made being to come forth from nothingness; graven upon the tablet of man a measure of the mysteries of His eternity | INBA35:293, INBA33:101, BLIB_Or03116.067, , NLI.32p061r, PR19.024b-032b | BRL_Haft, AQA3#068 p.092, AVK1.320x, TZH4.151-153x, YMM.310x, OOL.B006 | CDB#2, BSC.159 #164-174, HURQ.BH12 | MJ Cyr (1), MJ Cyr (2), TaliaSafa & Friends, Rachel, Ethan & Ilia, E. Sabariego, G. Burriston & P. Kay, Ine, Ine, MANA, N. Hamilton, A.E. Rahbin, Gyenyame, E. Kelly, T. Ellis, M. Levine, P. Marin, J. Luckey [track 1], L. Dely & M. Congo, T. Francis | His most important mystical composition, patterned in part after Faríd’u’d-Dín ‘Aṭṭár’s Manṭiqu’l-Ṭayr (‘The Conference of the Birds’), describing seven stages in the path of the spiritual wayfarers—‘search’, ‘love’, ‘knowledge’, ‘unity’, ‘contentment’, ‘wonderment’, and ‘true poverty and absolute nothingness’—and revealing that the source of conflict upon earth can be traced to the wayfarers’ lack of awareness of the relative truths to be found within each of these stages. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Love as fire; Love of God; Microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar]; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud]; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | * | ROB1.096, BKOG.139, BKOG.159-161, GPB.140, MMAH.096, GSH.017, LL#016 | |
| BH00049 | Lawh-i-Nasir | 5960 | Tablet to Hájí Muhammad-Nasír-i-Qazvíní (Lawh-i-Hájí Muhammad-Nasír-i-Qazvíní); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Nasir or Lawh-i-Hájí Muhammad-Nasír-i-Qazvíní (Tablet to Hájí Muhammad-Nasir-i-Qazvini) | قلم اعلی لازال بر اسم احبای خود متحرک و جاری و آنی از فیوضات لابدایات خود | The Pen of the Most High hath never ceased to make mention of the names of His loved ones…. All praise be unto Thee, O Lord, in that Thou hast sent down from the heaven of Thy bounty that whereby the worlds are purified | INBA73:144, CMB_F22, , PR19.061b-069b, PR23.052b-060b, BN_suppl.1754.064-075 | BRL_DA#032, GWBP#053 p.076x, GWBP#075 p.097x, ADM2#106 p.191x, AVK1.019.01x, AVK1.150x, AVK2.016.15x, AVK2.075.20x, AVK2.116.03x, AVK3.313.15x, AVK3.407.08x, AVK4.141.02x, MJMM.166, RSBB.152, TZH4.121x, MAS4.160bx, DLS.506x, ASAT1.032x, ASAT1.123x, ASAT1.154x, ASAT2.058x, ASAT2.101x, ASAT2.191x, ASAT3.009x, ASAT3.093x, ASAT3.203x, ASAT3.217x, ASAT4.006x, ASAT4.008x, ASAT4.372x, ASAT5.224x, ADH1.083x, YMM.340x, OOL.B063 | BRL_ATBH#74x, GWB#053x, GWB#075x, COC#1651x, COC#1652x, ADJ.057x, GPB.171x, GPB.377x, WOB.106x, BLO_PT#176, HURQ.BH52, JHT_S#092x | Affirms the ceaselessness of divine grace and guidance, which brings forth fruit provided the seed is cast upon fertile soil; asserts the continuity of His mission with those of Jesus, Muhammad, and the Báb; clarifies the position of Mírzá Yaḥyá as nominal figurehead; exposes the latter’s attempt to take Bahá’u’lláh’s life; and affirms that ‘every man hath been, and will continue to be, able of himself to appreciate the Beauty of God’. | Chastisement and requital; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar]; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB2.245 et al, MMAH.193, GSH.173, LL#201 | ||
| BH00052 | Suriy-i-Qamis | 5750 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Súriy-i-Qamís (Surah of the Robe) | ان یا اهل البقا فی الملا الاعلی اسمعوا ندآء الله عن هذا النسیم المتحرک فی هذا الهواء | O ye dwellers in the immortal realm on high! Hearken unto the Call of God from this stirring Breeze that moveth in this atmosphere [3.5s]... ...By the righteousness of God! These are the days in which God hath proved the hearts of the entire company of His Messengers and Prophets | BLIB_Or15723.059, , NLAI_BH1.356 | BRL_DA#724, GWBP#008 p.015bx, AQA4#074 p.034, AQA4a.320, ASAT3.281x, OOL.B137 | GWB#008x, ADJ.057x, ADJ.079x, GPB.003x, GPB.099x, GPB.377x, PDC.015x, HURQ.BH34 | Proclamatory tablet taking in part the form of a conversation between the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh; announcing the return of the Báb in the person of Bahá’u’lláh; reproaching the Bábís for their denial; and directing one of the many named recipients to place the tablet, like the shirt of the biblical Joseph, upon his face. | Manifestation of God as sun; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | ROB2.397, BKOG.246?, MMAH.150, GSH.049, LL#325 | ||
| BH00058 | Suriy-i-Hajj I (Shiraz) | 5550 | Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of the Báb (Suriy-i-Hajj) | Suriy-i-Hajj (Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of the Báb) | تلک آیات الله قد نزلت حینئذ عن قطب البقاء مقام الذی یطوفن فی حوله اهل سرادق | These are the verses of God which have been sent down in this hour from the Focal Point of eternity, that Station round which circle the dwellers of the pavilion [3.5s]... ...O Muhammad, when the fragrances of holiness have drawn thee unto them and turned thee unto the land of the All-Merciful that thou mayest discover the breezes of divine praise | INBA73:005, INBA83:049, BLIB_Or15723.168, , BLIB_Or15737.006, | AQA4#078 p.075, AVK4.120, GHA.039x, GHA.069ax, TSBT.093x, RHQM2.0809-834 (222) (137-151), ASAT2.113x, ASAT4.426x, ASAT5.029x, OOL.B119 | RBB.154-162x, BLO_PT#118x, HURQ.BH53, GEN.371-380 | Prescribes the rite of pilgrimage to the House of the Báb in Shiraz, codified later in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas as a sacred duty. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | ROB2.240, BKOG.250, MMAH.152, GSH.082, LL#304 | ||
| BH00060 | Lawh-i-Abdu'r-Razzaq | 5390 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; River of Life, The; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh; Lawh-i-Abdu'r-Razzáq | Lawh-i-Abdu'r-Razzáq | مکتوب آنجناب بمنظر اکبر وارد و از قمیص کلماتش نفحات حب مالک اسما و صفات | Thy letter hath attained unto the Most Great Horizon, and from the garment of its words wafted the sweet-scented fragrance of love for the Lord of Names and Attributes [3.5s]... ...As to thy question concerning the origin of creation. Know assuredly that God’s creation hath existed from eternity, and will continue to exist forever… Thou hast asked Me whether man, as apart from the Prophets of God… | INBA38:144, BLIB_Or15698.044, , BLIB_Or15720.046, , BLIB_Or15740.038, , NLAI_BH3.047, BN_suppl.1754.021-030 | BRL_DA#030, GWBP#078 p.101bx, GWBP#080 p.103x, GWBP#087 p.114x, AVK1.113ax, AVK1.213.04x, AVK1.222.10x, AVK1.272x, AVK2.042.10x, AVK2.073.12x, IQT.044, RSBB.104, MAS4.174ax, ASAT1.013x, ASAT2.019x, ASAT2.103x, ASAT4.317x, ASAT4.296x, ASAT4.530x, ASAT5.270x, ASAT5.355x, OOL.B021 | BRL_ATBH#75x, GWB#078x, GWB#080x, GWB#087x, ROL.016-021x, BSC.228 #453-459x, HURQ.BH57x, HURQ.BH58x | Addresses some misconceptions of the Bábís and answers questions concerning the origin of creation, the soul after death, and the absence of historical records prior to Adam. | Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Creation of the world; Eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Soul; spirit after death; Universal language; Word of God and human limitations | * | - | LL#036, LL#411 | ||
| BH00064 | Hurufat-i-'Alin (=Kalimat-i-'Uliya; the Exalted Letters) | 5270 | Bahá'u'lláh's Four Tablets to Maryam; Suffering of the Exalted Letters; Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh; Translation List | Musíbat-i-Hurúf-i-‘Állín (Suffering of the Exalted Letters) | سبحانک اللهم یا الهی کیف یتحرک القلم و یجری المداد بعد ما انقطعت نسائم | 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 | INBA36:281, BLIB_Or15714.157, | BRL_DA#035, AHM.217, BSHN.054, MHT1a.002, MHT2b.007x, TSBT.242, ASAT3.087x, OOL.B010a, OOL.B010b | BRL_APBH#01x, BLO_PT#015x, BLO_PT#090, HURQ.BH18x, ADMS#163x, JHT_B#005 | A meditation on mortality, death, suffering, and theodicy, in remembrance of a cousin who had recently died. | Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB1.122, MMAH.216, GSH.025, LL#019, LL#272 | ||
| BH00066 | Lawh-i-Salman I | 5230 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Days of Remembrance; Commentary on a Verse of Rumi; Commentary on a Verse of Rumi | Lawh-i-Salman I (Tablet to Salman I) | ای سلمان از شهر جان بنسایم قدس رحمن بر اهل اکوان و امکان مرور نما | O Salman! Pass through the realm of being and existence with holy breezes from the City of the Spirit, wafting with the fragrances of the All-Merciful [3.5s]... ...O Salmán! Say: O people! Tread ye in the path of the one true God and ponder the ways and words of Him Who is the Manifestation | INBA35:276, INBA73:118, BLIB_Or15722.001, , NLAI_BH3.110, BN_suppl.1754.047-059 | BRL_DA#735, GWBP#021 p.040x, GWBP#148 p.204x, GWBP#154 p.212x, AVK1.026.05x, AVK2.078.12x, AVK3.303.06x, AVK3.418.16x, MJMM.128, ASAT4.100x, ASAT5.346x, YMM.322x, OOL.B076, AMB#37x | GWB#021x, GWB#148x, GWB#154x, DOR#37x, MNP.036-037x, ADJ.060x, ADJ.076-77x, ADJ.083x, ADJ.084x, GPB.169x, WOB.108x, WIND#128, HURQ.BH55 | Laments the opposition of Mírzá Yaḥyá; contrasts the stations of belief and disbelief; considers and rejects various theories of the mystics concerning the relationship between God and creation; asserts that, the Godhead itself being unknowable, the means of access to the knowledge of God is through the channel of His prophets; and interprets a line of Rumi’s Mathnaví to the effect that the light of truth is one but that, cast through the glass of different souls, it takes on different tints and colours, which is both the cause of the denial of the religion of God and the source of conflict upon earth. | Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Development of capacity and readiness; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB2.283, ROB3.089, BLO_PT#023, MMAH.187, GSH.179, LL#232, LL#234 | ||
| BH00071 | Suriy-i-Hajj II (Baghdad) | 5070 | Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of Bahá'u'lláh (Suriy-i-Hajj) | Suriy-i-Hajj (Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of Bahá'u'lláh) | فسبحان الذی نزل الایات بالحق و ینزل بامره کیف یشاء لا اله الا هو العزیز | Glorified be He Who hath sent down the verses in truth and doth send down through His command whatsoever He willeth. There is no God but Him, the Mighty [3.5s]... ...I beg Thy forgiveness, O Lord, with the entirety of my being—my tongue, my heart, my breath, my soul, my spirit, my body... It is incumbent on whomsoever desireth to turn to the most holy direction, to come into the presence of God, the Mighty, the Knowing, to hearken unto the call of God | INBA37:066, INBA66:012, BLIB_Or15723.194, , BLIB_Or15737.033, | BRL_DA#166, AQA4#084 p.192, ADM2#107 p.193x, AVK4.109, GHA.070x, DRD.009x, TSBT.077x, ASAT1.094x, ASAT2.109x, ASAT4.022x, ADH1.082x, OOL.B120 | RBB.163-168x, BLO_PT#117x, HURQ.BH54, JHT_S#193x | Prescribes the rite of pilgrimage to the House of Bahá’u’lláh in Baghdad, codified later in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas as a sacred duty. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]; Inability of the Manifestation; Prophet to comprehend God; Law of pilgrimage; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for forgiveness; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | * | - | ROB2.240, MMAH.152, GSH.083, LL#305 | ||
| BH00073 | Tafsir-i-Hu | 6500 | Creation | Tafsir-i-Hú (Commentary on the phrase He Is (God)) | الحمد لله الذی قد اشرق الشمس بقدرته و الاح النور بقوته… ان یا ذلک الهیکل قد خلقناک علی تلک الأسمآء الحسنی و جعلناک کل شیء فی اسمآء الذی یشیر الینا | Praise be to God who has caused the sun to shine through His power and light to gleam through His might [3.5s]... ...O this Temple! We created thee according to these Most Beautiful Names. And We made thee the Pleroma (kulli shay', "All Things") amongst the [Divine] Names which alluded unto Us by means of the mention of "Huwa" … In another station, the names are garments for the attributes... If thou art able to separate anything in heaven or on earth and marry all of it together again | Berlin1237#21-22, UMich962.159-182x, UMich968.001-040x, UMich968.053-084x | YMM.174x, OOL.B144x | BLO_createx, HURQ.BH14x, REVS.173x | An intricate commentary on the names and attributes of God, taking as point of departure a statement by the Báb which relates ‘His sacred mirror and eternal light’ to the name of God huwa (‘He’), which has an inner and outer aspect signifying both the unity of opposites and the alchemical fire and water attained of old by the prophet Moses. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | REVS.060-062, LL#336 | ||
| BH00076 | Suriy-i-Ashab (=Lawh-i-Habib) | 4960 | Surah of the Companions | Suriy-i-Ashab or Lawh-i Habib (Surah of the Companions or Tablet for the Beloved One) | ح ب اسمع ندآء الله عن جهه العرش بایات مهیمن مقدم عظیم لعل تقلب بکلک الی | H.B. Give ear unto the divine summons from the precincts of the Throne, as We recite to thee the verses of God | INBA83:027b, BLIB_Or15723.031b, | AQA4#072b p.001, AQA4a.205, TZH4.354-360, MAS4.355ax, ASAT3.071x, OOL.B039, OOL.B107 | WOB.108-109x, BLO_PT#094, HURQ.BH32 | Proclamatory work playing a major role in the conversion of the followers of the Báb to the cause of Bahá’u’lláh, declaring His prophetic station to a number of receptive individuals while attesting that if it were revealed to humanity to an extent smaller than a needle’s eye, it would cause every mountain to crumble into dust. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of faith; power of the spirit; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB2.065, MMAH.151, GSH.075, LL#095, LL#293 | ||
| BH00088 | Lawh-i-Kimiya 2 (Lawh-i-Mariyyih) | 4710 | Reflection on the Theory of Alchemy as Explained in the Bahá'í Writings, A | Lawh-i-Kímíya II or Lawh-i-Máríyyih (Tablet on Alchemy II or Tablet of Mary) | کتاب مرسله در ساحت احدیه وارد و ما فیه مشاهده شد لله الحمد که در این فجر... و اینکه سئوال از قول ماریه نمودید | The missive was received at the Court of Oneness and its contents perused. Unto God be praise that you were illumined… the treatment is specially designed so that this precious, life-giving substance, which has appeared from the divine mine, may be purified... The appearance of this hidden treasure amongst these people [arbab-i-ulum] is the sign of the coming of age of the world | INBA66:187, NLAI_BH2.164 | MAS1.026-045x, MAS4.024-025x, OOL.B197.2 | BLO_alchemy, HURQ.BH06 | A detailed explanation in symbolic language of an enigmatic statement on alchemy attributed to the legendary figure of Mary the Prophetess, describing the various stages in the creation of the elixir, and warning that the rediscovery of its knowledge by the scientists of the day will herald both the maturity of the world and the threat of a desolating affliction. | Alchemy; the elixir; Composition and decomposition; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Knowledge; recognition of God; Law of cause and effect; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | LL#391 | ||
| BH00108 | Mathnavi-yi-Mubarak | 4040 | Mathnaviyí-i Mubárak; Mathnaví-yi Mubárak; Mathnaví of the Blessed One | Mathnaviyi-i Mubarak | ای حیات العرش خورشید وداد که جهان و امکان چه تو نوری نزاد گر نبودی خلق محجوب | You! Life-force of God's throne, compassion's sun, Time's universe has birthed no light like Yours! From seeing God, creation's eyes are barred | INBA30:131, OSAI I.MMSx, , MKA.06 Mil Yz A 2791 p14, | BRL_DA#272, MSNV, AQA3#070 p.160, DWNP_v4#07 p.038-039x, DWNP_v5#04 p.003x, TZH4.139-141x, HHA.058x, ASAT1.119x, ASAT4.015x, AHB_124BE #01 p.002x, AHB_130BE #03-04 p.130x, OOL.B089 | GPB.099x, BLO_PT#055, BLO_PT#218, HURQ.BH28 | Ahdieh (1), Ahdieh (2), unknown | Ecstatic poem in rhyming couplets, written during the journey to Istanbul and announcing the Day of God and the divine springtime but warning that it can only be perceived by those possessing a spiritual eye. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | - | ROB2.029, MMAH.233, GSH.071, LL#270 | |
| BH00112 | Suriy-i-Asma' (=Lawh-i-Ibn?) | 3990 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; River of Life, The; Tablet of the Son (Jesus) | Suriy-i-Asma' (Surah of Names) | رایحه احزان جمال رحمن را احاطه نموده و ابواب فرح و بهجت از ظلم اهل طغیان من | The fragrance of sorrows hath encompassed the Beauty of the All-Merciful, and the gates of joy and delight have been shut fast through the tyranny of the people of rebellion [3.5s]... ...Know thou that when the Son of Man yielded up His breath to God, the whole creation wept with a great weeping. | INBA38:177, INBA18:468, INBA35:177b, BLIB_Or15698.078, , BLIB_Or15720.080, , BLIB_Or15740.064, , Majlis934.330-368, BN_suppl.1754.131-139 | BRL_DA#031, GWBP#036 p.062ax, AVK2.037.04x, AVK2.098.11x, AVK2.176.05x, IQT.078, NFQ.003x, MAS4.165bx, MAS7.130x, ASAT1.051x, ASAT1.127x, ASAT2.088x, ASAT2.129x, ASAT4.531x, ASAT5.293x, AHB_109BE #08 p.002x, OOL.B108 | GWB#036x, ROL.021-045x, ADJ.060x, ADJ.081x, PDC.004x2x, PDC.179-181x, WOB.185-186x, BLO_PT#139, HURQ.BH45 | Responds to objections to His claims raised by some Bábís, implores them not to be shut out from the truth by the veil of names, acknowledges the outward differences between sacred scriptures while asserting that this derives from the varying capacity of humanity, extols at length the revelation and the crucifixion of Jesus as having infused ‘a fresh capacity into all created things’, compares the Báb to John the Baptist and announces Himself to be the return of Christ, and declares that the purpose of His revelation, like Christ’s, is to bestow eternal life. | Exhortations and counsels; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | LL#294, LL#380 | ||
| BH00115 | Qasidiy-i-'Izz-i-Varqa'iyyih (Ode of the Dove) | 3950 | Ode of the Dove; Baha'u'llah's Notes to His "Ode of the Dove"; Bahá'u'lláh's "Ode of the Dove" | Qasidiyyih-Varqaiyyih (Ode of the Dove) | اجذبتنی بوارق انوار طلعه لفروغها کل الشموس تخفت کان بروق الشمس من نور حسنها | A face flashing with light drew me to her; all the suns dimmed before her radiance | INBA36:419, INBA66:175x | BRL_DA#803, AQA3#071 p.196, TZH4.148x, MAS4.197, MAS8.039ax, RHQM2.0878-887 (299) (184-191), OOL.B092 | GPB.118x, BLO_PT#017x, BLO_PT#059, JBS#29.3.43, HURQ.BH04 | A lengthy poem composed in the style of a poem by Ibn-i-Fáriḍ, glorifying the spirit that had visited Him in the form of the Maid of Heaven, expatiating on His sufferings and His loneliness and affirming His determination to face any future calamities that might befall Him in the path of God. | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | - | ROB1.062, ROB1.084, BKOG.118, BKOG.415, EBTB.098, MMAH.087, GSH.010, LL#274 | ||
| BH00134 | Madinatu't-Tawhid (the City of Unity) | 3720 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Madínatu't-Tawhíd (City of Unity) | تلک آیات الکتاب فصلت آیاته بدعیا غیر ذی عوج علی آیات الله و هدی و نوری | These are the verses of the Book, whose signs have been set forth with wondrous originality, free from all crookedness, dwelling upon the signs of God, and serving as guidance and light [3.5s]... ...Beware, O believers in the Unity of God, lest ye be tempted to make any distinction between any of the Manifestations of His Cause | INBA36:199, BLIB_Or07852.046, , NLAI_BH3.074, PR03.251b13-254a15, PR19.017a-025b | BRL_DA#283, GWBP#024 p.046x, TZH4.225-227, MAS4.313, ASAT5.286x, MMUH#13x, MSBH5.443-444x, OOL.B088 | GWB#024x, GPB.003x, PDC.011x, PDC.111x, HURQ.BH15, JHT_B#009 | A theological discussion of the concept of divine unity from various perspectives: the unity of the divine Essence, of the divine attributes, of the divine Manifestations, of action, and of worship. | Absolute freedom; independence of God; Essential vs. actional attributes of God; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB1.109, MMAH.180, GSH.022, LL#151 | ||
| BH00144 | Suriy-i-Bayan | 3580 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Suriy-i-Bayan (Tablet of Utterance) | ذکر اسم ربک عبده اذ دخل بقعه الفردوس مقر الذی استشرقت علیه انوار الوجه عن مشرق | The remembrance of the name of thy Lord by His servant, when he entered the Garden of Paradise, the seat whereupon shone forth the lights of the Face from the Dayspring [3.5s]... ...Say: Doth it beseem a man while claiming to be a follower of his Lord, the All-Merciful, he should yet in his heart do the very deeds of the Evil One? | INBA37:007, INBA83:203, BLIB_Or15702.254, , BLIB_Or15723.228, , BLIB_Or15737.069, , NLAI_BH2.280, Berlin1237#10, ALIB.folder18p001-018, Majlis934.115.09-125.01x | BRL_DA#736, GWBP#128 p.176x, GWBP#129 p.179x, GWBP#145 p.202ax, AQA4#080 p.108, AQA4a.392, AVK3.095.13x, AVK3.147.08x, AVK3.260.06x, GHA.428x, ASAT2.106x, PYK.032x, YFY.060x, OOL.B109 | GWB#128x, GWB#129x, GWB#145x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.034x, TDH#037.1x, GPB.170x, GPB.376-377x, GPB.404x, MBW.038x, BSTW#037x, HURQ.BH39 | D. E. Walker, MANA (1), MANA (2), C. Signori | Charges the recipient to teach the Cause of God in a state of detachment from the world and enkindlement with the love of God, summons the Maid of Heaven to come to the aid of whoever does so, and instructs him to carry the message to specific people and regions in Iran. | Assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Exhortations and counsels; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | * | - | ROB2.397, GSH.198, LL#295 | |
| BH00151 | Lawh-i-Qina' | 3480 | Translation List; Tablet of the Veil (Lawh-i-Qina') | Lawh-i-Qina (Tablet of the Veil) | یکی از احبای الهی مکتوبی بیکی از علمای معروف نوشته و در آن مکتوب سوالات چندی | One of the loved ones of God wrote a letter to Ḥájí Muḥammad Karím Khán, in which he posed a number of questions...For twelve years We tarried in Baghdád. Much as We desired that a large gathering of divines and fair-minded men be convened | INBA38:165, INBA35:007, INBA90:044, BLIB_Or15698.190, , BLIB_Or15720.188, , BLIB_Or15740.144, , NLAI_BH2.320, NLAI_BH3.167, Majlis934.199-229, BN_suppl.1754.124-131 | BRL_DA#719, AVK1.307.08x, AVK2.101.18x, AVK2.108.15x, AVK2.273.08x, AVK3.103.10x, AVK3.396.06x, IQT.190, MJMM.067, ASAT2.012x, ASAT3.279x, ASAT4.519x, ASAT4.520x, ASAT4.204x, ASAT5.174x, ASAT5.239x, TUM.050-051x, NSS.089-090x, NSS.190-199, OOL.B067 | BKOG.148x, PDC.139x, HURQ.BH63x, ADMS#199 | Sharply rebuts accusations, made by the leader of the Shaykhí school, of grammatical discrepancies in the writings of the Báb, asserting that divine revelation is not constrained by man-made rules, citing in support several examples from the Qur’an and challenging him with Bahá’u’lláh’s own prophetic claim. | Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Word of God is its own standard | * | - | ROB1.334, MMAH.137, GSH.176, LL#212 | ||
| BH00195 | Ridvanu'l-'Adl (the Garden of Justice) | 2910 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Baha'u'llah's Paradise of Justice; Translation List; Garden of Justice (Ridvan al-'adl); Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Ridvanul-Adl (Tablet of the Paradise of Justice) | هذا لوح فیه بعث الله اسمه العادل و نفخ منه روح العدل فی هیاکل الخلایق اجمعین | This is the Paradise of Justice, which hath appeared as a token of God’s grace and been adorned by Him with glorious and wondrous fruits | INBA47:022, INBA37:104, INBA92:207bx, BLIB_Or15723.241, , BLIB_Or15725.085, , BLIB_Or15737.083, | BRL_DA#717, GWBP#012 p.019x, GWBP#088 p.116ax, GWBP#134 p.186x, AQA4#088 p.245, AQA4a.299, AVK2.054.13x, SFI10.010, MAS4.160ax, RHQM2.0000 (138) (087-088x), AKHA_122BE #07-08 p.ax, OOL.B094 | BRL_ATBH#55x, GWB#012x, GWB#088x, GWB#134x, ADJ.028ax, PDC.006x, PDC.120x, BLO_PT#018, HURQ.BH26, ADMS#016 | M. Magagula, Sanele & Xolani | Extols the virtue of justice, assigning it a sacred origin and purpose in the world; calls upon the kings and rulers, the people of the world, and the Bábís to be its exponents; asserts that its essence is embodied in the laws of God; and prophesies the day when the ‘standard of oppression’ will be rolled up and the ‘banner of justice’ will be unfurled throughout the earth. | Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Prophecy and fulfillment; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | MMAH.104, GSH.207, LL#276 | |
| BH00212 | Lawh-i-Kimiya 6 | 2760 | Reflection on the Theory of Alchemy as Explained in the Bahá'í Writings, A | Lawḥ-i-Kímíya I (Tablet on Alchemy I) | پس اول باید دانست که این سر قویم و امر عظیم را قادر حکیم و سلطان علیم در چه | It ought first to be understood in what manner the Powerful Ruler and Wise Sovereign has established this firmly established Secret and mighty affair… Balinus, the sage, upheld the same view… [this is] one of nature's secrets and the essence of the knowledge of creation in the world of nature | INBA36:355, BLIB_Or15722.214, , NLAI_BH2.184 | MAS1.047-057, OOL.B197.6 | REVS.171x, BLO_alchemy, HURQ.BH05 | Alchemy; the elixir; Four elements; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah | - | - | ||||
| BH00227 | Ridvanu'l-Iqrar | 2630 | Ridvanu'l-Iqrar (Ridván of the Enthronement) | اقر الله بذاته لذاته بانه لا اله الا هو له الخلق و الامر و کل له خاضعون اقر | God taketh His seat [upon His celestial Throne] by virtue of His Essence which is operative through His Essence, for He, no God is there except Him… By God, O people! Mine eye weepeth, and the eye of Ali (the Bab) weepeth amongst the Concourse on high, and Mine heart crieth out | INBA47:050, INBA37:057, INBA83:092, BLIB_Or15723.146, | AQA4#083 p.180, AQA4a.042, MAS4.353x, OOL.B095 | GPB.243x, GPB.250x, HURQ.BH27x | Dwells on the state of those who have rejected the truth and contrasts it with the state of those who have recognized and believed. | Adam; Adam and Eve; Call to action; Creation of the world; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Rejection, opposition and persecution | * | - | ROB2.397, MMAH.175, GSH.115, LL#277 | Quoted by Abdu'l-Baha in MKT3.420 (AB00024). Merged with BH10413. | ||
| BH00248 | Suriy-i-'Ibad | 2520 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Suriy-i-Ibad (Tablet of the Servants) | شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و انا کل له عابدون شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و انا کل | God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, and verily all are His worshippers. God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, and verily all [3.5s]... ...Contemplate with thine inward eye the chain of successive Revelations that hath linked the Manifestation of Adam | INBA47:077x, BLIB_Or15723.050, , BLIB_Or15738.006, , NLAI_BH1.312 | BRL_DA#005x, GWBP#031 p.055bx, AQA4#073 p.023, AQA4a.244, ASAT4.307x, OOL.B124 | BRL_APBH#12x, GWB#031x, GPB.151x5x, HURQ.BH31 | S. Jaberi | Declares the continuity of Bahá’u’lláh’s prophetic claim with the ‘chain of successive Revelations that hath linked the Manifestation of Adam with that of the Báb’, relates the events of His banishment from Baghdad to Edirne, and delivers specific guidance to a number of followers named in the tablet. | Banishment to; life in Constantinople; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Exhortations and counsels; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB2.272, MMAH.154, GSH.112, LL#309 | |
| BH00267 | Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'am (the Tablet of All Food) | 2370 | Tablet of All Food (Lawh-i Kullu't-Ta'am) | Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'ám (Tablet of All Food) | الحمد لله مموج ابحر النور بالماء الناریه الالهیه و مهیج احرف الظهور بنقطه | Praise be to God Who hath caused Oceans of Light to surge in the Divine Fiery Water; excited the Letters of the Dispensation | INBA36:268, Berlin1237#20 | BRL_DA#393, TZH4.132-135x, MAS4.265, RHQM2.0979-989 (416) (256-262), OOL.B052 | GPB.118x2x, BLO_PT#108, HURQ.BH02 | A commentary offering several allegorical interpretations of the Qur’anic verse ‘All food was allowed to the children of Israel’ (Qur’an 3:93). | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Prayer for protection; Realms of being; three realms; five realms; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB1.050, BKOG.112, MMAH.127, GSH.008, LL#146 | Revealed "in the year nine", see BRL_TTT#11 | |
| BH00271 | Tafsir-i-Va'sh-Shams (Commentary on the Surih of the Sun) | 2340 | Commentary on the Surah of the Sun; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Tafsír-i-Suriy-i-Vash-Shams (Commentary on the Surih of the Sun) | الحمد لله الذی انطق ورقاء البیان علی افنان دوحه التبیان بفنون الالحان علی انه لا اله الا هو | Praise be to God, Who hath set the dove of eloquence, perched among the twigs of the tree of explanation, to weaving her divers melodies | INBA90:076, BLIB_Or15714.065, , NLAI_BH3.227, Berlin1237#01, MKI4524.278, | BRL_DA#710, GWBP#089 p.116bx, MJMM.001, DLS.107x, ASAT1.253x, ASAT2.171x, ASAT3.116x, ASAT4.205x, ASAT4.208x, ASAT4.366x, ASAT4.375x, ADH1.108x, OOL.B146 | GWB#089x, BLO_PT#025, HURQ.BH78, ADMS#199n02x | W. Heath | Gives a detailed interpretation of a short surah of the Qur’an, relates several symbolic meanings of the word ‘sun’, and tells of the inexhaustible meanings of the Word of God, which are disclosed according to the capacity of the hearers and which must be understood according to both their outward and inward meanings. | Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Limits of language; Names and attributes of God; Outward and inward meanings; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | ROB1.032, MMAH.102, GSH.209, LL#338 | |
| BH00287 | Lawh-i-Baha | 2190 | Lawh-i-Bahá (Tablet of Glory) | ان یا امه الله ا تصبرین علی مقعدک بعد الذی کان قمیص الغلام محمرا بدم البغضاء | O Maidservant of God! Be patient under all circumstances and mindful of the fact that the robe of this Youth was dyed crimson with the blood of enmity betwixt earth and heaven | INBA35:070x, NLAI_BH1.269x | BRL_DA#703, AQA7#394-395 p.154, ASAT5.348x, OOL.B030a, OOL.B030b | HURQ.BH38 | Identifies Himself and His sufferings with those of prophets past; compares Mírzá Yaḥyá to the biblical Balaam, who rejected Moses after having occupied an exalted station; and bids His own followers, the newly named ‘people of Bahá’, to enter the ‘ark of eternity’ upon the ‘crimson sea’. | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | ROB2.179, ROB2.171, MMAH.119, GSH.040, LL#071 | |||
| BH00295 | Madinatu'r-Rida (the City of Radiant Acquiescence) | 2180 | Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá; City of Radiant Acquiescence (Lawh-i-Madinatu'r-Rida); Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Madinatur-Rida (City of Radiant Acquiescence) | ذکر رحمه الله عبده بالحق لیفتخر بذلک فی ملا العالین و یشکر ربه فی کل حین | Remind his servant of God's clemency in truth, that he might be honored thereby among the concourse of the worlds, and might give thanks to his lord at all times, insofar as God's bounties to him | INBA73:186 | BRL_DA#282, AQA4a.135, AVK3.403.02x, ASAT4.015x, AKHA_124BE #11-12 p.bx, OOL.B087 | BRL_ATBH#41x, WIND#138, BLO_sazedj#07x, HURQ.BH16x | Expounds various stages and degrees of contentment: contentment with God and His decree; with one’s own self, which requires detachment from the world; with one’s fellow believers, which implies humility in their presence; and with the vicissitudes of the world. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Prayer for forgiveness; Prayer for protection; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Symbolism of color and light; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | * | - | ROB1.108, MMAH.191, GSH.036, LL#150 | ||
| BH00297 | Suriy-i-Dhikr | 2160 | Days of Remembrance | Suriy-i-Dhikr (Surih of Remembrance) | هذا کتاب نقطه الاولی الی الذینهم آمنوا بالله الواحد الفرد العزیز العلیم و فیه یخاطب | This is the Súrih of Remembrance, sent down as a token of grace, that perchance the people of the Bayán might renounce that which they possess | INBA47:001, INBA37:097, BLIB_Or15725.176, , NLAI_BH2.343 | BRL_DA#732, AQA4#087 p.236, AQA4a.108, ASAT3.279x, OOL.B114, AMB#38x | DOR#38x, GPB.137x, HURQ.BH24 | Speaking in the voice of the Báb, Bahá’u’lláh declares His mystical identity with the Báb (one of whose titles was ‘the Remembrance of God’) and the fulfilment of the Báb’s revelation in Him and laments the state of the Bábís in the extremity of their rejection of Bahá’u’lláh. | Chastisement and requital; Exhortations and counsels; Personal instructions; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | MMAH.160, GSH.059, LL#299 | ||
| BH00306 | Chihar Vadi (The Four Valleys) | 2100 | Call of the Divine Beloved | Chahar Vadi (Four Valleys) | ای ضیاء الحق حسام الدین راد که فلک و ارکان چه تو شاهی نزاد نمیدانم چرا | O light of truth and sword of faith And soul of generosity! No prince hath sky or earth begot | INBA36:334x, BLIB_Or15722.307, , NLI.32p092v | BRL_Chihar, AQA3#069 p.140, TZH4.153x, ASAT4.314x, MSHR2.109x, MSHR3.131x, OOL.B007 | CDB#7, HURQ.BH13 | M. Milne [track 7] | A mystical work elaborating four different but complementary paths of approach to the Divine: the way of ‘the self ’, ‘the intellect’, ‘love’, and ‘the throne of the inmost heart’. | Belief and denial; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Love of God; Mystical themes; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | * | ROB1.104, BKOG.159, BKOG.163, MMAH.197, GSH.018, LL#014 | |
| BH00316 | Lawh-i-Jawhar-i-Hamd I | 2040 | جوهر حمد و ساذج ثنا بساط قدس حضرت محبوبیرا لایق و سزاست که لمیزل مقدس از | The essence of praise and the pure essence of glorification beseemeth the holy court of the Beloved One, Who hath ever been sanctified from [3.5s] | INBA35:161b, BLIB_Or15730.007c, | AADA.033-034x, YMM.283x | HURQ.BH75x | Manifestation of God as mediator; Presence of; reunion with God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | SHHB.152, LL#132 | |||||
| BH00330 | 1990 | Lawḥ al-Raḥmat (Tablet of the Merciful One) | الحمد لله الذی کان باقیا ببقاء کینونیته و دائما بدوام ازلیته الذی خلق | Praised be to God hath ever been One Eternally Existent through the Eternality of His own Being, One Ever-Permanent through the Continuance of His Pre-Eternality | Berlin1237#07 | BRL_DA#565, SFI11.013 | HURQ.BH10x | Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Life and death; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Outward and inward meanings; The concourse on high; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||
| BH00334 | Suriy-i-Qalam | 1970 | Days of Remembrance | Suriy-i-Qalam (Surih of the Pen) | ان یا قلم الاعلی ان اشهد فی نفسک بانه هو الله لا اله الا انا المهیمن القیوم | O Pen of the Most High! Bear thou witness, in thine own self, that verily He is God and that there is none other God but Me | INBA37:115, BLIB_Or15692.012, , BLIB_Or15706.001, , BLIB_Or15714.049, , BLIB_Or15725.239, , NLAI_BH1.083, NLAI_BH2.204 | AQA4#089 p.258, SFI14.036-045n, TZH4.268-270, TSBT.124, ASAT1.111x, ASAT3.015x, ASAT3.136x, ASAT4.508x, OOL.B136, AMB#23 | DOR#23, BLO_PT#095, HURQ.BH47 | A celebration of the festival of Riḍván, taking the form of a series of apostrophes to His Pen, the denizens of earth and heaven, the concourse of monks, and the Maid of Heaven. | Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Monasticism; asceticism; Proclamation to Christians; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God the cause of creation | * | * | ROB2.397, SFI14.036-045, MMAH.159, GSH.192, LL#324 | ||
| BH00335 | Lawh-i-Khalil | 1970 | Lawh-i-Khalíl (Tablet to Khalil) | ملکوت جلال و جمال و جبروت عظمت و اجلال سلطان لاهوت و ملیک حی لایموت را | The Sovereign of the Divine Realm and King of Life Who dieth not hath so established and ornamented the Kingdom of Majesty and Beauty and the Spiritual Realm of Might | BLIB_Or15717.213, | BRL_DA#483, MAS4.038x, MSHR5.386x, OOL.B161 | HURQ.BH72 | Moses; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | MMAH.190, LL#420 | ||||
| BH00348 | Suriy-i-Qada | 1900 | ان یا علی اسمع ندآء الله ربک عن یمین العرش بانی انا الله لا اله الا انا المهیمن القیوم | O `Ali! Hearken ye unto the Call of God, thy Lord, from the right-hand side of the Divine Throne, proclaiming "I, verily, I am God, no God is there except I Myself | INBA83:184, BLIB_Or03114.015r, , BLIB_Or15702.218, , ALIB.folder18p088-096 | BRL_DA#555, FBAH.099x | HURQ.BH46x | Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||
| BH00358 | Suriy-i-Dam | 1850 | Tablet of Blood (Súriy-i-Damm); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Suriy-i-Damm (Tablet of Blood) | ان یا محمد اسمع ندآء ربک عن هذا المقام الذی لن یصل الله ایدی الممکنات و لا | O Muhammad! Hearken unto the call of thy Lord from this Station whereunto the hands of all created things cannot attain [3.5s]... ...Adorn thyself with My virtues, in such wise that should anyone stretch forth the hand of oppression against thee, thou wouldst neither take notice nor contend with him. | INBA83:066, BLIB_Or15723.156, | BRL_DA#157, GWBP#039 p.064x, AQA4#075 p.059, AQA4a.001, TZH4.360-366, ASAT4.167x, ASAT5.200x, ASAT5.226x, OOL.B111 | BRL_ATBH#61x, GWB#039x, WOB.118-119x, WOB.139x, BLO_PT#109, HURQ.BH42 | Proclamatory work declaring the oneness of the Prophets through a vision of the words of the dying Imám Ḥusayn, who identifies his sufferings with those of Abraham, Moses, Joseph, John the Baptist, Jesus, the Báb, and Bahá’u’lláh. | Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Prophecy and fulfillment; Return of the Manifestations of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | ROB2.236, MMAH.223, GSH.081, LL#296 | Sometimes spelled as Súriy-i-Damm. | |
| BH00376 | Suriy-i-Fath | 1790 | ان یا فتح الاعظم قد اخذت القلم لننزل علیک ما یسرک و یحدث فی قلبک ما یجذبک الی | O Fatḥ al-A`zam! I took firm hold of the Pen that there might be revealed for thee what will gladden thee and generate within thy heart | INBA18:249, BLIB_Or15694.355, , ALIB.folder18p075-081 | ANDA#79 p.45x, OOL.B116a | HURQ.BH35x | Addresses an intimate early follower, expressing His weariness at the inane questions and vain objections of the uninformed, the defection of former believers, and the opposition of Mírzá Yaḥyá and declaring that He would rather die a thousand deaths than endure the calumny that the latter was spreading. | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Events in the life and ministry of the Bab; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | LL#301 | ||||
| BH00395 | Lawh-i-Sayyah (=Suratu'l-Widad) | 1720 | Lawh-i-Sayyah (Tablet of the Traveller) | ان یا علی فاشهد بانی ظهور الله فی جبروت البقاء و بطونه فی غیب العماء و جمال | O Ali! Bear thou witness that verily I am the Manifestation of God in the Kingdom of eternity, His concealment in the mystic realm of the divine cloud, and the Beauty [3.5s]... ...Upon Our arrival We were welcomed with banners of light, whereupon the Voice of the Spirit cried out saying | INBA36:052, INBA71:211 | BRL_DA#396, RSBB.075, MUH3.258-262, OOL.B079 | GPB.184x2x, HURQ.BH49 | Declares Bahá’u’lláh’s messianic claim; urges the Bábís to embrace it; relates a mystical journey to different groups of people who, though outwardly pious, were veiled in various ways from recognizing the truth; and foretells His further exile to the ‘vale of Nabíl’, later interpreted as a reference to the city of ‘Akká. | Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | ROB2.210, ROB3.013, BKOG.220, BKOG.245, MMAH.220, GSH.079, LL#236 | |||
| BH00409 | Lawh-i-Basitatu'l-Haqiqah | 1700 | Tablet of the Uncompounded Reality; Tablet on the Simple Reality, The (Lawḥ-i-Basíṭu'l-Ḥaqíqih) | Lawh-i-Basítatu'l-Haqíqah (Tablet of the Uncompounded Reality) | و ما سئل السائل فی قول الحکماء بسیط الحقیقه کل الاشیاء قل فاعلم ان المقصود | As to the question the enquirer hath asked concerning the sage’s assertion, saying: the Element of Simple Reality is all things… words without deeds are as bees that yield no honey | INBA39:034, BLIB_Or11096#012, , BLIB_Or15698.105, , BLIB_Or15720.105, , BLIB_Or15740.083, , NLAI_BH3.213, LEID.Or4971-7, , Majlis934.291-307 | BRL_DA#714, AVK1.104.06x, IQT.105, SFI05.008, MAS7.140b, ASAT1.078x, ASAT5.176x, ASAT5.250x, TUM.061-064, OOL.B032, VUJUD.099x | LOIR11.203, BLO_PT#141, VUJUDE.133-134x, HURQ.BH65x, JHT_B#016 | Elucidates a statement by the philosopher Mullá Ṣadrá that ‘the uncompounded reality is all things’, offers a middle position between the doctrines of ‘the oneness of being’ and ‘the oneness of appearances’, observes that both positions can be upheld with reference to different sacred scriptures, and suggests that nothing is to be gained from disputation in such matters. | Greek philosophers; Greek civilization; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Uncompounded reality [basitu'l-haqiqah]; Unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud]; Words vs deeds | * | - | MMAH.121, GSH.185, LL#077 | ||
| BH00433 | Lawh-i-Abdu'l-Vahhab | 1630 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Abdu'l-Vahhab | حمد مقدس از ادراک و عقول بساط قدس حضرت قیومی را لایق و سزاست که بنفس خود من | Sanctified praise, transcending minds and understanding, befitteth the holy court of that Self-Subsisting Lord Who, through His own Self [3.5s]... ...O ‘Abdu’l Vaḥḥáb! May the glory of God, the Almighty, the Bountiful, rest upon thee. Incline thine ear | UMich962.156x, MKI4523.212, , BN_suppl.1753.059-063 | BRL_DA#702, GWBP#081 p.105x, AVK1.120.02x, AVK3.303.13x, AVk3.463.01x, AVK4.284.11x, ISH.212, MJMM.160, RRT.143x, ASAT2.027x, ADH1.009x, OOL.B020 | GWB#081x, LOG#0686x, SW_v06#19 p.165x, SW_v09#06 p.080x, SW_v14#02 p.038-039x, BSC.226 #446-452x, HURQ.BH71 | Addresses a question on the soul and its continuance after death, alludes to the state of the souls in the next world while declaring that it cannot be adequately described, and declares that the whole truth of the matter has remained concealed for the sake of the protection of the human race. | Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Power of the Manifestation of God; Proofs for the existence; immortality of the soul; Soul; spirit after death; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB4.041, MMAH.145, GSH.176, LL#034 | Shares with BH00070 a passage on the soul after death, beginning: "Know thou of a truth that the soul, after its separation from the body, will continue to progress until it attaineth the presence of God" | |
| BH00454 | Lawh-i-Huriyyih (Tablet of the Maiden) | 1580 | Tablet of the Maiden | Lawh-i-Huriyyih (Tablet of the Maiden) | سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اذکرک حینئذ حین الذی استشرقت شمس الوهیتک عن افق سماء | Praise be unto Thee, O Lord, My God! I mention Thee at this moment when the Sun of Thy divinity is shining from the horizon of the Heaven | INBA48:036, INBA66:004, INBA92:001, BLIB_Or15714.058, , BLIB_Or15739.080, | AQA4#102 p.342, AQA4a.379, SFI16.008-012, ASAT3.134x, ASAT4.049x, OOL.B045 | BLO_PT#133, HURQ.BH20 | Describes a visionary encounter with the Maid of Heaven, who looks deeply within His soul and expires in sorrow upon perceiving the extent of His suffering. | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Mystical themes; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB1.125, ROB3.223, BKOG.167, MMAH.211, GSH.020, LL#118 | ||
| BH00478 | Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Maryam | 1510 | Bahá'u'lláh's Four Tablets to Maryam | Ziyarat-Namih-i-Maryam (Tablet of Visitation for Maryam) | ان یا قلم الاعلی مااخذک السرور فی ایام ربک العلی الاعلی لتغن به علی افنان | O Pen of Glory! Thou hast never been seized with transports of joy during the days of Thy Lord, the Exalted, the Most High | INBA38:311, INBA48:052, INBA49:260, BLIB_Or15714.119, , BLIB_Or15739.108, , NLAI_BH2.336, Majlis210461.104-111 | BRL_DA#568, TAHR.336-339, ASAT4.080x, AKHT1.093-094x, AKHT1.366, HYK.334x, OOL.B153 | LTDT.298-299x, BLO_PT#015, HURQ.BH85 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for protection; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Visitation Tablets | * | - | ROB1.013, GSH.205, LL#348 | Stephen Lambden states that this Tablet of Visitation was "apparently primarily written by Baha'u'llah for Tahirih and utilized also for various other eminent female Bahá'ís, including Maryam". | ||
| BH00497 | 1480 | للّه الحمد بما ابتسم ثغر الاطمینان و ظهر لؤلؤ عرفان جمال الرّحمن عن صدف الایقان | Praise be unto God that the lips of certitude have smiled and from the shell of assurance hath appeared the pearl of the knowledge of the All-Merciful Beauty [3.5s]... ...The whole earth, is now in a state of pregnancy. The day is approaching when it will have yielded its noblest fruits, when from it will have sprung forth the loftiest trees | BLIB_Or11096#263x, , BLIB_Or15698.296, , BLIB_Or15720.291, , BLIB_Or15740.226, , NLAI_BH4.039.06-050.13, Majlis934.282-291 | BRL_DA#138, IQT.296, SFI03.157.07x, MAS8.041bx, ASAT5.074x | GPB.212x3x, GPB.217x2x, PDC.007x, PDC.074x2x, PDC.074-075x, PDC.191x, WOB.169x, HURQ.BH59x, HURQ.BH62x | Call to action; Contention and conflict; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | LL#390 | ||||||
| BH00503 | Suriy-i-Khitab | 1470 | ذکر الله علی هیئه النار فی هیکل النور من سدره الانسان باذن الرحمن قد کان فی قطب | The Remembrance of God in the form of Fire, in the Temple of Light, from the Lote-Tree of Man, hath, in very truth, been made manifest with the permission of the All-Merciful | INBA83:154, BLIB_Or15702.144, , BLIB_Or15737.137, | BRL_DA#108, OOL.B128 | HURQ.BH36 | Praises the recipient for recognizing Bahá’u’lláh after failing to do so in an earlier meeting prior to His declaration, calls the Bábís to recognize Bahá’u’lláh as the return of the Báb and their verses as the same in essence, and summons the recipient to teach the Cause of God through his utterance and through his pen, promising that through the power of this tablet, his words will have a penetrating influence. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | LL#314 | ||||
| BH00686 | Lawh-i-Zuhur (Tablet of the Manifestation) | 1120 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablet of the Manifestation (Lawh-i-Zuhur); Tablet of the Manifestation, The (Lawh-i-Zuhur) | Lawh-i-Zuhur (Tablet of the Manifestation) | ان یا ایها الناظر الی شطر الله و المتغمس فی بحر قربه و رضاه فاعلم بان الظهور | O thou who art gazing toward the direction of God and submerged in His Nearness and Good-pleasure! Know thou that, verily, the "Manifestation" is not composed of the four elements | BLIB_Or15725.136, , NLAI_BH3.136, Berlin1237#29 | LHKM1.056, MAS4.161x, VUJUD.117x | BLO_PT#134, BSC.204 #373-391, BSTW#124, VUJUDE.167-168x, HURQ.BH67, JHT_B#017 | Growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | Not to be confused with Súriy-i-Ẓuhúr (BH01761). | |||
| BH00845 | Suratu'llah | 970 | Surah of God | Súratu'lláh (Surah of God) | ان یا علی بعد نبیل اسمع ندآء ربک حین الذی یرید ان یخرج عن بینکم بما اکتسبت | O Muhammad-`Ali, hearken to this proclamation from thy Lord, at a time when He desireth to depart out from among ye by reason of what the hands of the oppressors have wrought | BLIB_Or15723.162, , BLIB_Or15737.001, | AQA4#076 p.068, AQA4a.016, ASAT2.111x, OOL.B102 | BLO_PT#091, HURQ.BH25 | Declares the divinity of His station, rebukes the followers of the Báb for plotting against Him, and announces His temporary retirement from the community. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | ROB1.245, MMAH.153, GSH.060, LL#316 | ||
| BH00915 | Lawh-i-Laylatu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Sacred Night - 'Akka) | 900 | Tablet of the Sacred Night (Lawh Laylat al-Quds) | Lawh-i-Laylatu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Sacred Night, 'Akká) | فسبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک باسمک الذی نجیت به الادم عن الشیطان و حفظت النوح | Praise be to Thee, O my God. I call upon Thee by Thy Name, whereby Thou didst save Adam from Satan, and didst deliver Noah from the deluge, Abraham from the flames | INBA92:298 | TSBT.174-181, RHQM2.0996x (435) (267x), OOL.B001a | BLO_PT#138, HURQ.BH43 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power of prayer; Prayer for evening; night; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayer for unity; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | MMAH.172, LL#148 | Not to be confused with Inventory #BH00970. | ||
| BH00922 | Suriy-i-Ma'ani | 890 | سبحان الذی یسبح له کل من فی السموات و الارض و انه کان علی کل شیء محیطا | Praised be He who offereth glory before Him; all, that is, whether they be in the heavens or upon the earth. He indeed hath ever been All-Encompassing of everything | INBA83:136, BLIB_Or03114.044r, , BLIB_Or15702.082, , BLIB_Or15737.126, , NLAI_BH2.118, ALIB.folder18p219 | OOL.B129 | HURQ.BH33 | Praises God and His Messengers, who receive divine inspiration in various ways; declares as a matter of principle that the transcendent Godhead is not the immediate cause of this inspiration; and extols the transformative power of the word of God at the time of its revelation. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | LL#317 | ||||
| BH00934 | Lawh-i-Tuqa | 880 | Lawhut-Tuqa (Tablet of Piety or the Fear of God) | فسبحان الذی نزل الایات بالحق من جبروت عز علیا و ینطق بالحق فی ملکوته الاعلی بلسانه | Glorified be He Who hath sent down the verses in truth from the heaven of transcendent might, and Who speaketh with truth in His most exalted Kingdom through His tongue [3.5s]... ...Among the people is he who opposes God publicly. If the verses of God are recited to him, his face grows dark and he returns to his people as one despised. | INBA83:100, BLIB_Or15702.001, , BLIB_Or15723.258, , BLIB_Or15737.102, , ALIB.folder18p204 | BRL_DA#723, AQA7#509 p.347, OOL.B083 | HURQ.BH50, KSHK#06x | Bids the people enter the ‘crimson Ark’, adorned with divine virtue; addresses the objections of those who reject the divine verses; and warns those who, like Mírzá Yaḥyá, denied the ‘Most Great Announcement’. | Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering; rejection of Christ; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | ROB2.397, GPB.171, LL#254 | |||
| BH00952 | Suratu'l-Kifaya | 860 | ان یا اهل الهاء استمعوا تغنی ورقه الحمراء فی جو العماء بانه هو النور هیکل | O people of Ha! Hearken unto the melody of the Crimson Leaf in the Paradise of the Divine Cloud, for He, verily, is the Light of the Radiant Temple | INBA36:277 | HURQ.BH03 | Essential vs. actional attributes of God; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The cloud ['ama]; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | LL#315 | ||||||
| BH00976 | 840 | الحمد لله الذی اظهر ما کان مکنونا فی ازل الازال و مستورا عن العیون و الابصار | Praised be unto God Who hath caused to be made manifest that which was hidden for an eternity of eternities and concealed from both outer and inner eyes | BLIB_Or15690.068, , BLIB_Or15724.116, | AVK1.268.07x, AYBY.123, BSHN.041, MHT2b.057bx, MAS8.095ax, TRZ1.089bx, LDR.245x | HURQ.BH86 | Praise and encouragement; Soul; spirit after death; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God | - | - | |||||||
| BH00994 | Suriy-i-Ism | 830 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá | Suriy-i-Ism (Surah of the Name) | ان یا اسمی اسمع ندآء الله عن مطلع کل اللسان بانی انا الله ربک و رب کل شیء و | O My Name! Hearken unto the Call of God from the Dawning-Place of every tongue: "Verily, I am God, thy Lord and the Lord of all things." [3.5s]... ...Say: Deliver your souls, O people, from the bondage of self, and purify them from all attachment to anything besides Me… Intone, O My servant, the verses of God | INBA83:124, BLIB_Or15702.051, , ALIB.folder18p214 | BRL_DA#721, GWBP#136 p.189x, AVK2.168.20x, MAS4.026ax, MAS4.045x, MAS8.120bx, ASAT1.242x, ASAT4.156x, PYK.018, OOL.B125 | GWB#136x, ADJ.025x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.032x, BLO_sazedj#12x, HURQ.BH37 | MJ Cyr, L. Slott, Seals & Crofts, MANA, Soulrise Melodies, Soulrise Melodies, L. Dely & M. Congo, K. Key, Sheyda Peyman, Ina Nes | Calls the recipient to cast all names and designations behind him and announce the joyful tidings; states that between God and the creatures there is a ladder with three steps: this world, the hereafter, and ‘the Kingdom of Names’; calls the people to deliver their souls from ‘the bondage of self ’; invites the recipient to ‘intone the verses of God’, promising that the sweetness of their melody will cause ‘the heart of every righteous man to throb’; and counsels the people to truthfulness, generosity, and purity of heart. | Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | LL#143, LL#310 | BLO note: See also loom.loomofreality.org (authorized translation of a passage) |
| BH01026 | Lawh-i-Mallahu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Holy Mariner - Arabic) | 810 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablet of the Holy Mariner; Tablet of the Holy Mariner; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | Lawh-i-Malláhu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Holy Mariner, Arabic) | یا ملاح القدس احضر سفینه البقاء فی الملا الاعلی فسبحان ربی الابهی ثم امسکها | O Holy Mariner! Bid thine ark of eternity appear before the Celestial Concourse, Glorified be my Lord, the All-Glorious! | BLIB_Or15692.001, , BLIB_Or15706.073, , BLIB_Or15714.039, , IOM.094, ROB1.000x | BRL_DA#079, AQA5#136 p.176, HDQI.043, MAS4.335, AKHA_117BE #09-10 p.ax, YMM.291x, OOL.B055a | BPRY.319, SW_v13#04 p.075, DWN_v3#05 p.031-034, BLO_PT#131, BLO_PT#132, BSC.251 #526, HURQ.BH21 | L. Thoresen [track 4] | Relates two different versions of a mystical narrative of the launching of the ‘Crimson Ark’ of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant upon the ocean of glory and foreshadows that some within that Ark will stray and be cast out for desiring ‘to ascend unto that state which the Lord hath ordained to be above their stations’. (Arabic portion) | Crimson Ark; the Ark of God; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Suffering and imprisonment | * | * | ROB1.228, BKOG.154, GPB.147, MMAH.109, GSH.019, LL#155 | |
| BH01034 | Lawh-i-Jamal-i-Burujirdi | 810 | Tablet to Jamal-i-Burujirdi (Lawh-i-Jamál-i-Burujirdí); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Jamal-i-Burujirdi (Tablets to Jamal-i-Burujirdi) | قوله تعالی بحر وحی که در قلم اعلی مستور است بصورت اینکلمات ترشح فرموده ای | The Ocean of Divine Revelation which is hidden within the Supreme Pen hath sprinkled forth in the form of these Words: O Jamal! Thou didst arrive in the Most Holy Presence and attain the Most Great Vision | INBA35:039, BLIB_Or15698.218, , BLIB_Or15720.214, , BLIB_Or15740.166, , Majlis210461.017-020 | BRL_DA#713, GWBP#005 p.013x, AVK2.031.11x, AVK3.141.08x, AVK3.181.08x, AVK3.243.06x, AVK3.465.14x, IQT.218, GHA.445.10x, MAS8.048ax, AKHA_118BE #08-09 p.ax, AKHA_122BE #07-08 p.bx, ANDA#49 p.04x, OOL.B049a | GWB#005x, ADJ.060x, ADJ.077x, BLO_PT#181, HURQ.BH60 | D. E. Walker, L. Slott | Advises the recipient to practice love, humility, and detachment when engaging people with different views since souls are created in different states of understanding; gives an example of two valid yet opposing positions regarding the relationship of the Manifestations to God; and states that ‘the whole duty of man in this Day is to attain that share of the flood of grace which God poureth forth for him’, advising that the ‘largeness or smallness of the receptacle’ should not be considered. | Contention and conflict; Differences in human capacity; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity in diversity | * | - | GSH.183, LL#130 | |
| BH01069 | Lawh-i-Hawdaj (=Lawh-i-Samsun) | 780 | Lawh-i-Hawdaj (Tablet of the Howdah) | تلک آیات ظهرت فی خدر البقا و هودج القدس حین ورود اسم الاعظم عن شطر السبحان | These verses were revealed behind the Veil of Immortality, in the Howdah of Holiness, when the Most Great Name arrived | BRL_DA#728, LHKM1.012, SFI08.015, ASAT4.241x, AKHA_122BE #10 p.ax, AKHA_122BE #10 p.bx, OOL.B042, OOL.B078 | GPB.157x2x, HURQ.BH29 | Written upon Bahá’u’lláh’s arrival on the shores of the Black Sea en route to Istanbul, announcing the fulfilment of what was foretold in the ‘Tablet of the Holy Mariner’ a short time before, and warning of an impending ‘grievous and tormenting mischief ’ that would serve as the ‘divine touchstone’ separating truth from error. | Banishment to; life in Constantinople; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Power of the Manifestation of God; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | * | - | ROB2.006, BKOG.195, GPB.157, MMAH.111, GSH.067, LL#115, LL#235 | See howdah at wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdah. | |||
| BH01132 | Suriy-i-Qadir | 740 | Surah of the Almighty (Surat al-Qadir) | Surat al-Qadir (Surah of the Almighty) | سبحان الذی قدر مقادیر کل شیء فی الواح عز محفوظا و خلق کل شیء علی شان لو یصفن | Praise be unto him, who foreordained for each thing its portion in mighty, preserved Tablets. He created all things in such a manner that, were they to purify themselves | INBA37:138, INBA83:115, BLIB_Or15702.032, , BLIB_Or15723.250, , BLIB_Or15737.094, , ALIB.folder18p211 | AQA4#093 p.317, AQA4a.373, GSH.051, OOL.B134 | WIND#157, HURQ.BH44 | A meditation on the name of God ‘the Omnipotent’ and its pervasive influence in the world according to the capacities of things and, referring to the opposition of Mírzá Yaḥyá, calling the Bábís and the manifestations of worldly power to recognize Bahá’u’lláh. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Predictions and prophecies; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | * | - | ROB1.119, MMAH.083, LL#322 | ||
| BH01217 | Lawh-i-Hirtik (Tablet to David Hardegg) | 690 | Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh; Lawh-i-Hirtík (Tablet to Hardegg) | Lawh-i-Hirtik (Tablet to Hardegg) | قد حضر کتابک المختوم لدی المظلوم و وجدنا منه عرف خلوصک لله المهیمن القیوم | Thy sealed letter hath reached the presence of this Wronged One, and from it We have inhaled the sweet savour of thy devotion to God | BRL_DA#546, LHKM3.215b, SFI11.011, ASAT4.232x, OOL.B044 | BRL_ATBH#87, BBR.216-217, LOIR04.097, BLO_PT#177, HURQ.BH76 | Briefly addresses the head of the German Templers of Haifa, calling him to consider with insight the ascendancy and sweetness of the word of God, the mysterious processes by which the abased become exalted and the exalted abased, and the lessons of the past; employs the science of letters and their numerical equivalents in explaining the significance of certain names; and affirms that He and the recipient are moved by the same divine spirit. | Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Mystery of the great reversal; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | * | ROB3.028, MMAH.116, GSH.172, LL#117 | |||
| BH01313 | Lawh-i-Tibb (Tablet of Medicine) | 650 | Tablet to the Physician, or Tablet of Medicine (Lawh-i-Tibb); Tablet to a Physician (Lawh-i-Tibb); Prayers and Meditations; Tablet of Medicine (Lawh-i-Tibb); Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | Healing prayer, Short; Lawh-i-Tibb (Tablet to a Physician) | لسان القدم تنطق بما یکون غنیه الالبا عند غیبه الاطبا قل یا قوم لاتاکلوا... جمیع احبا را من قبل الله تکبیر | The Ancient Tongue speaks what which will satisfy the wise in the absence of doctors. O People, do not eat except when you are hungry… Thy name is my healing, O my God, and remembrance of Thee is my remedy | INBA35:004c, BLIB_Or07852.105, , BLIB_Or11096#233, , NLAI_BH1.138x, NLAI_BH2.365 | BRL_DA#718, PMP#170x, AVK3.112.02x, AVK3.114.07x, MJMM.222, AQMJ1.006ax, MMJA.013x, OOL.B082 | PM#170x, BPRY.096x, COC#1019x, COC#1020x, LOG#1003x, SW_v13#09 p.252, BLO_PT#114, BLO_PT#168, BP1929.031-032x, HURQ.BH64 | S. Toloui-Wallace, A. Wensbo, E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown, A. Youssefi, The Badasht Project, L. Slott, A. Bryan, P. Escobar, D. Gundry, Nabilinho, A. McDonald, M. Sparrow, Baha'i Youth of Japan, Ann-Sofie & Rasmus, O. Gollmer, K. Bartlett, C. Bolton, M. Matouf, Yoshie & Aleksandar, M. Hadji & D. Czimek, J. Heath, M.C. Santillana, Honiara Baha'i Youth, N. Ma'ani, N Chiang, W. Heath, Soulrise Melodies, N. Hamilton, C. Signori, L. Robinson, G.H. Miller, Rowshan, K. Porray, Arrayanes, J. Heath [track 3], A. & M. Zemke [track 3], M. Levine [track 3], T. Ellis, Zannetta [track 5], Ladjamaya [track 12], almunajat.com [item 5], Ellie, Rose & Steve | Relates various items of medical and dietary advice—paraphrasing in part a chapter from Náṣíf al-Yázijí’s Majma‘u’l-Baḥrayn, a popular literary work of the time—and concludes with a prayer for healing. | Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Prayer for healing; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Wisdom [hikmat] | * | - | ROB3.358, MMAH.174, GSH.177, LL#252, LL#476 | Advice follows closely (in different order) the content and wording of Nasif al-Yajizi, "Majma'ul-Bahrayn", ch. 30, p. 182, from line 10: Yaziji, Shaykh Nasif al - Majma' al-Bahrayn (also at archive.org). |
| BH01325 | Lawh-i-Ru'ya (Tablet of the Vision) | 640 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablet of the Vision; Tablet of Vision | Lawh-i-Ruya (Tablet of the Vision) | یا اسمی استمع ندائی من حول عرشی لیبلغک الی بحر ما له ساحل و ما بلغ قعره | O My Name! Give thou ear unto My Voice ringing from around the precincts of My Throne | INBA23:084b, BLIB_Or15729.133, , BLIB_Or15737a.073, , BLIB_Or15738.061, , NLAI_22848:324, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p166v, , MKI4522.324, | BRL_DA#730, AQA2#011 p.174, AYT.016, RHQM2.0973-975 (409) (252-253), ASAT3.135x, ASAT4.049x, ASAT4.403x, AKHA_123BE #04 p.ax, OOL.B074 | GPB.221x2x, BLO_PT#143, BLO_PT#148, BSC.249 #525, HURQ.BH66 | unknown | Recounts, in celebration of the anniversary of the birth of the Báb, a joyful vision of the Maid of Heaven as personification of the Holy Spirit, who embraces Him and addresses Him ecstatically and who bids Him leave ‘Akká and hasten to His ‘other dominions’. | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Mystical themes; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light | * | - | ROB3.223, BKOG.246, GSH.149, LL#226 | |
| BH01355 | Lawh-i-Mallahu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Holy Mariner - Persian) | 630 | Tablet of the Holy Mariner; Tablet of the Holy Mariner | Lawh-i-Malláhu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Holy Mariner, Persian) | چون اهل فلک الهی باذن ملاح قدسی در سفینه قدمی باسمی از اسما تشبث نموده بر بحر | Whilst the dwellers in the divine Ark, by the permission of the Holy Mariner, held fast unto one name amongst all names in the ancient Ark and sailed upon the ocean of names, they passed the grades of worldly limitation | INBA36:437, BLIB_Or15696.107c, , BLIB_Or15706.126, , BLIB_Or15714.043, , BLIB_Or15722.315, | BRL_DA#729, AQA5#137 p.181, MAS4.339, YADG.049-050, AHB_107BE #19 p.002x, YMM.291x, OOL.B055b | BLO_PT#131, BLO_PT#132, HURQ.BH22 | Relates two different versions of a mystical narrative of the launching of the ‘Crimson Ark’ of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant upon the ocean of glory and foreshadows that some within that Ark will stray and be cast out for desiring ‘to ascend unto that state which the Lord hath ordained to be above their stations’. (Persian portion) | Love of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | - | |||
| BH01403 | Lawh-i-Salman II | 610 | Second Tablet of Salmán (Lawh-i-Salmán) | Lawh-i-Salman II (Tablet to Salman II) | ای سلمان در هر امور اقتدا بحق کن و بقضایای الهی راضی باش ملاحظه کن که این | O Salmán! Follow thou in all things the example of the One true God, and be content with whatsoever He ordaineth. | BLIB_Or11096#022, , BLIB_Or15710.001, , NLAI_BH2.208 | BRL_DA#128, AVK1.135.12x, MJMM.124, BSHN.032x, MHT2b.060x, DRD.036, MAS4.167x, ASAT1.209x, ASAT4.315x, OOL.B077 | PDC.115-116x, WIND#180, HURQ.BH56 | Emphasizes the fleeting nature of this world, that those who remain occupied with it are heedless of this truth, and that one of the signs of the maturity of the world is that none will be found to bear the burden of kingship and its earthly cares. | Prayer for specific individuals; groups; Status of kings; future of monarchy; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | * | - | ROB3.025, ROB3.157, MMAH.188, GSH.179, LL#233 | ||
| BH01447 | Subhana Rabbiya'l-A'la | 600 | Subḥána Rabbíya'l-A'lá (Praise to the Exalted Lord) | یا حرف البقاء البس نعلی الانقطاع ثم ارکب علی الرفرف الاعلی فسبحان من خلق | Letter of eternity, put on the bridal trousseau of detachment and walk upon the exalted brocade runner; praised be my Lord, the most high. | INBA15:355, INBA19:029, INBA26:359, INBA36:462, INBA81:139, BLIB_Or15706.102, , BLIB_Or15714.017, , NLAI_BH1.229 | BRL_DA#250, GSH.061, ASAT3.092x, ASAT3.137x, ASAT4.021x, AKHA_124BE #02-03 p.hx, OOL.B100 | WIND#144, HURQ.BH19 | Celebrates, through a vision of the appearance and unveiling of the Maid of Heaven, the renewal of the mystic realm and portends future tests and difficulties. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; Transcending the material condition | * | - | ROB1.211, MMAH.201, LL#287 | |||
| BH01547 | Lawh-i-Haqq | 560 | Lawh-i-Haqq (Tablet of the Ultimately Real) | ان یا ملا الحق قد ظهر الحق عن افق الحق فی هذالحق الذی طلع عن مطلع الحق | O concourse of the Ultimately Real One! The Truly Real One has, in very Truth, been made manifest from the horizon of Ultimately Real | INBA37:141, OSAI I.MMS, | BRL_DA#720, GSH.037, ASAT3.117x, OOL.B041 | HURQ.BH09 | Announces to ‘the followers of the True One’ the appearance of the Spirit of Truth, round which circle all the Prophets of God, while sharply remonstrating the Bábís for their rejection of Bahá’u’lláh. | Power of the Manifestation of God; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | MMAH.133, LL#001 | |||
| BH01585 | 550 | Tablet on the Daystar of Divine Beauty | Lawh-i-Shams-i-Jamal-i-Ilah (Tablet on the Daystar of Divine Beauty) | شمس جمال الهی از مشرق غیب ربانی طالع شده و بر جمیع ممکنات مشرق گشته فیا طوبی | The Daystar of Divine Beauty hath risen from the dawning-place of ancient glory and shineth upon all created things. Happy art thou, who hast been illumined by its splendours. | INBA19:032, INBA32:031 | BLO_PT#158, HURQ.BH30 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Mystical themes; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light | - | - | LL#285 | |||||
| BH01597 | Lawh-i-Kimiya 1 | 550 | Lawḥ-i-Kímíya III (Tablet on Alchemy III) | و اما ما سئلت من الحجر فاعلم بأنه مطروح فی کل مکان و فیه قدرنا کنوزاً ما اطلع بها الا من علمناه | And now as regards that which you hast asked about the Stone: Know that it exists in every locality. In it We decreed treasures which none hath fathomed | MAS1.024x, MAS8.107ax, OOL.B197.1 | HURQ.BH07x | Alludes to the identity of the Stone of the Philosophers, declaring that it is "cast down in every place", that it is single in its essence yet diverse in its manifestations, and that the alchemical process is brought to completion solely by that which resides within it. Explains that the water which is extracted from it, which has been called mercury and which is the key of the operation, nurtures the earth of the stone until the red sulfur, which was concealed within the earth, rises to the surface through the power of the water. Reveals that the red sulfur, which has been called by many names, is the essence of the active agent (jawharu'l-fa'il), the activity of which "astounds the hearts of those who have attained". Enjoins those who have discovered the secret not to make it for themselves. Accuses Mirza Yahya of producing false treatises on the subject based on what he had heard, and misunderstood, from Baha'u'llah's many Tablets on the subject. | Alchemy; the elixir; Free will and predestination; fate; Prayer for forgiveness; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Soul; spirit after death | - | - | |||||
| BH01654 | Second Tablet to Faris | 530 | قد حضر کتابک لدی الوجه و وجدنا منه عرف الحب و الوداد لذا نزل لک هذا اللوح | Thy letter hath come before Our Countenance, and from it We have inhaled the fragrance of love and affection; wherefore this Tablet hath been sent down unto thee [3.5s]... ...The Breath hath been wafted, and the Breeze hath blown, and from Zion hath appeared that which was hidden, and from Jerusalem is heard the Voice of God | INBA81:153, BLIB_Or11095#030, | BRL_DA#274, AVK3.121x, SFI16.038-039, ASAT4.432x, YIK.120-121 | GPB.211x, PDC.125x, PDC.165x2x, PDC.165-166x, PDC.167x, BSB7:3-4 p27x, HURQ.BH77 | Methods of teaching the Cause; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to Christians | - | - | LL#085 | |||||
| BH01700 | 520 | قد ارتفع ندآء الله عن یمین العرش انی انا الله الواحد الفرد الاحد لاتمنعوا | The Call of God has assuredly been raised up from the right-hand side of the Divine Throne [uttering the words]: “I, verily, am God, the Unique, the Peerless, the One | INBA34:147, BLIB_Or15707.083, , BLIB_Or15735.245, | AQA1#025, HYK.245, YMM.214x, YMM.219x, YMM.250x, YMM.404x | HURQ.BH79x | Call to action; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Knowledge; recognition of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||
| BH01725 | Suriy-i-Javad | 510 | ذکر اسم ربک عبده جواد الذی آمن و هدی و استقر علی الامر فی یوم الذی زلت فیه اقدام | Make mention of the Name of thy Lord, His servant Jawad, who came to faith and was one guided aright. And he was one established in His Cause on the Day | INBA83:123, BLIB_Or03114.033, , BLIB_Or15702.047, , BLIB_Or15737.114, , ALIB.folder18p318 | OOL.B127 | HURQ.BH40 | Recalls the idol worshippers of ages past and condemns their blind imitation, equates their words and deeds with those of the Bábís, and affirms that most of the people today are similarly worshipping false idols and that when they are gone it will be as if they had never existed, but that none of this will hinder the divine Sun from shining. | Blind imitation [taqlid]; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Idolatry; Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | |||||
| BH01854 | Suriy-i-Man' | 480 | هذا کتاب ینطق بالحق و یذکر فیه عبد من عبادنا لیشکر الله رب و یکون من الشاکرین | This is a Book in which He, in very Truth, crieth out and maketh mention of one among Our servants to the end that he render thanks unto God, his Lord, and be numbered among the especially thankful | INBA83:148, BLIB_Or15702.128, , ALIB.folder18p319 | BRL_DA#320 | HURQ.BH41 | Avoidance of Covenant-Breakers; Personal instructions; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | LL#318 | |||||
| BH02000 | Halih Halih ya Bisharat | 440 | Tablet of Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah O Glad Tidings (Lawh-i Halih, Halih, Halih yá Bisharát) | Lawh-i Halih, Halih, Halih ya Bisharat (Tablet of Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah O Glad Tidings) | حور بقا از فردوس اعلی آمد هله هله هله یا بشارت با چنگ و نوا هم با کاسه حمرا | The maid of eternity came from the Most Exalted Paradise: Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah O glad tidings! | INBA36:456 | BRL_DA#253, HDQI.160, GSH.033, ANDA#18 p.03, OOL.B008 | BLO_PT#111, HURQ.BH17 | Ahdieh | Ecstatic poem celebrating the descent of the Maid of Heaven, who brings both life and death to her lovers. | Love of God; Mystical themes; Poems and quotation from poetry; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light | * | - | ROB1.219, MMAH.143, LL#017 | |
| BH02169 | Lawh-i-Baqa | 410 | هذا لوح البقا من لدی البهاء الی الذی فاز بعرفان الله و شرب کوثر الحیوان من | This is the Tablet of Eternity which cometh from the All-Glorious unto he who hath attained the deep knowledge of God and did drink of the Kawthar of Life | INBA34:160, BLIB_Or15707.112, , BLIB_Or15735.270, , NLAI_BH1.005 | AQA1#033, AVK4.437ax, HYK.270, OOL.B031 | HURQ.BH68 | Brief tablet assuring the recipient of a lofty station in the world to come and counselling him to detachment and service to the Cause of God. | Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Rendering assistance to God; victory [nusrat] | * | - | GSH.185, LL#076 | ||||
| BH03033 | 3390 | هذا کتاب نزل من سماء مشیة الرحمن علی من فی الامکان ... یا ایلیا اراضی جرزه لایق بذر حکمت الهی | This is a Book that hath been sent down from the heaven of the will of the All-Merciful unto all who dwell within the realm of possibility [3.5s]... ...By the one true God, Elijah hath hastened unto My court and hath circumambulated | INBA65:042x, INBA30:091ax, INBA81:006bx, NLAI_BH_AB.018x | BRL_DA#395, AHM.337x, DWNP_v6#05 p.001bx, AQMJ1.154x, AQMJ1.176ax, AYI2.325x, AYI2.326x, AYI2.327x, AYI2.328x, AYI2.330x, ADH1.021x, ADH1.027x, AKHA_131BE #13 p.ax, TAH.011bx | WOB.105x2x, HURQ.BH73x | unknown | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power of prayer; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prophecy and fulfillment; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause | - | - | ||||||
| BH03062 | Lawh-i-Amvaj (Tablet of the Waves) | 290 | Trustworthiness; Tablet of the Waves (Lawh-i-Amvaj) | Lawh-i-Amvaj (Tablet of the Waves) | امروز ام الکتاب امام وجوه احزاب ذکر مبدا و ماب میفرماید فی الحقیقه ایام | The Mother Book is standing in this Day before the gaze of all the peoples and kindreds of the earth, magnifying the glory of Him | PR05.042a-044b, BN_suppl.1753.075-076 | BRL_DA#132, COMP_TRUSTP#01x, MJMM.362, DWNP_v1#10-11 p.001-002x, DRD.184, AKHA_123BE #09 p.a, OOL.B024 | BRL_TRUST#01x, COC#2013x, BLO_PT#144, HURQ.BH69 | Brief tablet declaring that the ocean of utterance has surged with four ‘waves’: shining the light of unity over the whole earth, being clothed in the garment of trustworthiness, establishing the transcendence of God, and casting away the causes of abasement and embracing that which leads to exaltation. | Prayer for protection; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity; oneness of humanity | * | - | GSH.186, LL#049 | ||
| BH03065 | 290 | امروز مکلم طور در ملکوت بیان ناطق و کل را بصراط مستقیم و نباء عظیم دعوت میفرماید | In this day doth He Who conversed upon Sinai speak forth within the Kingdom of utterance, summoning all humanity unto the straight path and the Most Great Announcement [3.5s]... ...Your letter was sent to the Supreme Threshold by Afnan on whom be My glory. The youth mentioned therein attained Our presence. Although this Wronged One had not consorted for many years past with people from foreign lands, We received him on several occasions. Portents of sincerity could be discerned on his visage. | BLIB_Or15695.114, | KHAF.263 | EGBBF.052x, HURQ.BH61x | Blind imitation [taqlid]; Praise and encouragement; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | |||||||
| BH03230 | Rashh-i-'Ama | 280 | Call of the Divine Beloved | Rashh-i-Ama (Sprinkling from the Cloud of Unknowing) | رشح عما از جذبه ما میریزد سر وفا از نغمه ما میریزد از باد صبا مشک خطا گشته | Tis from our rapture that the clouds of realms above are raining down; ’Tis from Our anthem that the mysteries of faith are raining down | INBA36:460, INBA30:165, OSAI I.MMS, , MKA.06 Mil Yz A 2791 p30b, | BRL_DA#709, SFI02.059, MAS4.184, TWQ.441x, YMM.224x, OOL.B093 | CDB#1, BLO_PT#089, BLO_PT#135, HURQ.BH01 | Ahdieh | Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Mystical themes; Poems and quotation from poetry; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light | * | * | ROB1.045, MMAH.077, LL#275 | ||
| BH03843 | Saqi az Ghayb-i-Baqa | 240 | Short Poem by "Darvísh" Muhammad, Bahá'u'lláh: Sáqí az ghayb-i baqá burqa' bar afkan az 'idhár, A | Saqi az Ghayb-i-Baqa (The Cup-bearer from the Eternal Unseen) | ساقی از غیب بقا برقع برافکن از عذار تا بنوشم خمر باقی از جمال کردگار آنچه در | Lift up the veil from Thy face, O Cup-Bearer of the hidden Realm of Immortality, That I may taste the wine of eternal life | INBA36:455a, INBA30:137, OSAI I.MMS, | BRL_DA#155, TZH4.141-142x, MAS4.209, RHQM1.350-351 (425) (258-259), OOL.B098 | DB.137x, BLO_PT#087, HURQ.BH11 | A brief ode alluding to His messianic secret and calling for purification of heart and commitment to love and sacrifice as conditions of the spiritual journey. | Christ; Christianity; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Mosaic imagery; Mystical themes; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | * | - | ROB1.064, MMAH.164, GSH.065, LL#283 | ||
| BH04076 | Lawh-i-Liqa' | 230 | Bahá'í Scriptures; In the Presence of the Beloved: Bahá'u'lláh's Lawh-i-Liqá' | Lawh-i-Liqa | هذا کتاب جعلناه لقائنا للذین اقبلوا الی الله فی تلک الایام التی فیها تغیرت | Lo, We made this epistle to be the attainment of Our presence for such as have turned unto God in these days | INBA34:274, CMB_F31.039b-040a, | BRL_DA#369, AQA1#137, MAS8.167x, ASAT5.068x | LOIR18.471, BLO_PT#043, BSC.187 #276, HURQ.BH84 | Praise and encouragement; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | - | - | JRAS.289 | |||
| BH04673 | 200 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | آفتاب حقیقی کلمه الهی است که تربیت اهل دیار معانی و بیان منوط باوست و اوست | The Sun of Truth is the Word of God, upon which dependeth the education of those who are endowed with the power of understanding and of utterance | Majlis210461.045-046 | BRL_DA#168, DRD.106, MAS4.023b, PYB#231 p.03, AKHA_134BE #14 p.547 | BRL_ATBH#47x, BSC.156 #141-143, HURQ.BH83 | Fire and light; fire and water; Living waters; water of life; Love as fire; Manifestation of God as sun; Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God | - | - | ||||||
| BH08416 | 120 | کتابت در سجن حاضر و توجه الیه طرف المظلوم الذی دعا الکل الی الله | Thy letter arrived in the Prison and the gaze of the Wronged One who summoneth all unto God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting was directed unto it | MAS4.023ax | HURQ.BH81 | Greatest Name; Law of repetition; recitation of the Greatest Name; Rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | ||||||||
| BH09112 | 110 | یا ایها الناظر الی الوجه و المذکور لدی العرش امروز لسان برهان در ملکوت بیان | O Thou who gazest towards the [Divine] Countenance and are one mentioned nigh the Divine Throne! Today the Tongue of the Proof in the Kingdom of Exposition giveth utterance to this Elevated, Blessed, Word | BLIB_Or15703.055, | LHKM2.183 | HURQ.BH80 | Greatest Name; Law of repetition; recitation of the Greatest Name; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||
| BH09470 | 100 | قد زینا لیله القدر بالهاء لیوقنن اهل البهاء بهذا الاسم الاعظم العظیم بها زین | We did indeed ornament the Laylat al-Qadr (Night of Destiny [Power]) with the Letter "H" to the end that the people of Baha' might be certain about this Greatest, Mighty Name | LHKM1.076, YMM.394 | HURQ.BH82 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Greatest Name; Law of repetition; recitation of the Greatest Name; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Night of Power (Laylat al-Qadr); Thankfulness; gratitude; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - |
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