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شعری شعاری به استر جمالی لئلا تقع علیه عیون الاغیار من عبادی کذالک نستر عن

My hair is My Veil whereby I conceal My Beauty, that haply the eyes of the non-believers among My servants may not fall upon it.

BLIB_Or11098.029f

LHKM3.075a, MUH3.275a, OOL.B191.08

Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment

BH11483

Tablet of the Hair 11

Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light

جعدی حبلی من تمسک به لن یضل فی ازل الازال لان فیه هدایه الی انوار الجمال

A lock of My hair is My Cord. He who layeth fast hold on it shall never to all eternity go astray

BLIB_Or11098.029i

LHKM3.076a, MUH3.275d, OOL.B191.11

BLO_PT#202, DAS.1914-09-12

BH11265

Tablet of the Hair 10

شعری سمندری لذا استقر علی نار خدی و یرعی فی ریاض وجهی و هذا مقام الذی خلع ابن

My hair is My Phoenix. Therefore hath it set itself upon the blazing fire of My Face and receiveth sustenance

BLIB_Or11098.029h

LHKM3.075c, MUH3.275c, OOL.B191.10

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Fire and light; fire and water; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light

BH11250

Suriy-i-Dhabih 5

160

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God

ان یا غلام اسمع ندآء هذا الغلام عن جهة العرش لیجذبک ندآء الرّحمن الی رضوانه

O servant! Hearken unto the call of this Youth from the precincts of the Throne, that the melody of the All-Merciful may draw thee to His paradise [3.5s]... ...Know verily that whenever this Youth turneth His eyes towards His own self, he findeth it the most insignificant of all creation.

BRL_DA#668, GWBP#049 p.073bx, OOL.B112.5x

GWB#049x

LL#454

BH11209

Salat-i-Saghir (Short Obligatory Prayer)

Bahá'í Scriptures; Prayers and Meditations; Short Obligatory Prayer in Many Languages; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

Obligatory prayer, Short

اشهد یا الهی بانک خلقتنی لعرفانک و عبادتک و اشهد فی هذا الحین بعجزی و قوتک

I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee.

PMP#181, AHM.084, TSBT.021, NFF1.009x, ABMK.008, MMJA.020, OOL.B176a

PM#181, BPRY.004, SW_v12#19 p.313, BSC.184 #265

S. Sunderland, A.E. Rahbin, S. Akhavan, Rowshan [track 7]

Importance of prayer; Law of obligatory prayer; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Purpose; goal of creation; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Twin duties of recognition and obedience; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

LL#230

BH11176

Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

یا غصن اعظم لعمر الله نوازلک کدرتنی ولکن الله یشفیک و یحفظک و هو خیر کریم

O Most Great Branch! By My life! Thy tribulations have grieved Me, but God shall heal thee and preserve thee, for He is the Best, the All-Bountiful [3.5s]... ...The glory of God rest upon Thee and upon whosoever serveth Thee and circleth around Thee

INBA81:087a

BRL_DA#244, AHM.106, HDQI.006b, AHDW.009, ASAT4.413x, AHB_128BE #06-11 p.196, ANDA#03 p.46

BRL_ATBH#42, WOB.135x

almunajat.com [item 20]

Chastisement and requital; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Praise and encouragement

LL#092

BH11086

Praise and encouragement; Prayer for protection; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

فسبحانک اللهم باسمک الاعلی فی سرادق الابهی و بکلمتک العلیا فی جبروت الاسنی

Praise be unto Thee, O Lord my God! I beseech Thee by Thy Most Exalted Name in the Tabernacle of effulgent splendour

INBA92:144a, ROB1.143x

BRL_DA#041, AQMJ2.116a, MSBH5.335

BRL_APBH#07

ROB1.038, LL#156

BH11085

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Prayer for protection; Rejection, opposition and persecution

فاجعل لی یا الهی هذه الارض مبارکا و امنا ثم احفظنی حین دخولی فیها و خروجی

Make this land, O my God, blessed and secure for me. Guard me, then, O my God, at the time of my entering into it

INBA92:026

BRL_DA#353, ADM2#112 p.201x, AVK4.067.03, NSR_1993.023a

RBB.138x, BP1929.026, ADMS#128

LL#490

BH10973

Knowledge; recognition of God; Nearness and remoteness; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayers (general or uncategorized)

یا من وجهک کعبتی و جمالک حرمی و شطرک مطلبی و ذکرک رجائی و حبک مونسی و عشقک

O Thou Whose face is the object of my adoration, Whose beauty is my sanctuary, Whose habitation is my goal

INBA33:145a, INBA30:123ax

PMP#166, AHM.064, AQMJ1.009, NSR_1993.037a

PM#166, BPRY.019

A. Youssefi, TaliaSafa, M.J. Davey-Hatcher

LL#501

BH10889

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Justice and wrath of God; Prayer for protection; Servitude; submission to God; repentance

ولو ان سوء حالی یا الهی استحقنی لسیاطک و عذابک ولکن حسن عطوفتک و مواهبک

Although this evil state in which I am, O my God, maketh me deserving of Thy wrath and punishment, Thy good pleasure and Thy bounties demand Thy forgiveness

INBA33:018a, INBA33:072b

BRL_DA#142, LHKM3.385a, AQMJ1.032a, ADH1.102

BRL_APBH#16, BKOG.287

ROB3.021?, LL#478

BH10832

Tablet of the Hair 9

شعری سفیری فی کل حین ینادی علی غصن النار فی رضوان القدس و الانوار لعل اهل

My hair is My Messenger. It is calling aloud at all times upon the branch of Fire within the hallowed and luminous garden of Paradise

BLIB_Or11098.029g

LHKM3.075b, MUH3.275b, OOL.B191.09

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Fire and light; fire and water; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Nearness and remoteness; Power of the Manifestation of God

BH10779

Lawh-i-Kuchik

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision

انشاء الله در سایه رحمت رحمانی و قباب عنایت سبحانی ساکن و مستریح باشید من کوچکم

God willing, Thou art abiding in the shade of God’s mercy, and reposing beneath the canopy of divine bounty. To outward seeming, I am but a child

NFQ.001a, TBH.297

ADMS#039

LL#145

BH10741

I bear witness that thou hast helped thy Lord, and art one of the helpers. To [the truth of] my testimony

BKOG.323-324, BRHL.053-054

Chastisement and requital; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Rendering assistance to God; victory [nusrat]; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times

LL#202

BH10688

Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for protection; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times

یا ایها المذکور لدی المظلوم فی حین الخروج عن المدینه قل الهی الهی خرجت من بیتی

O thou who art remembered before the Wronged One at the time of departure from the city! Say: My God, my God! I have gone forth from my home [3.5s]... ...O God, my God! I have set out from my home, holding fast unto the cord of Thy love, and I have committed myself wholly to Thy care

PMP#164x, AHM.209, AQMJ2.100, TSBT.236, NSR_1993.023b, NFF1.024x, ABMK.064

PM#164x, BPRY.147x

A. Youssefi, The Descendants, almunajat.com [item 27]

LL#482, LL#484

BH10658

هذا کتاب البقا من لدی البهاء الی الذی سمی بمهدی فی الواح عز عظیما ان اطمئن فی

This is the Book of Eternity, revealed from the presence of the All-Glorious unto him who hath been named Mahdi in the Tablets of transcendent glory. Be thou assured [3.5s]

AQA4a.243

Consolation and comfort; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

LL#171

BH10581

Obligatory Prayer and Fasting, The Importance of; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی انا صمنا بامرک و افطرنا بحبک و رضائک فاقبل منا یا الهی

Praise be unto Thee, O Lord my God! We have observed the Fast in conformity with Thy bidding

HDQI.126b, ANDA#29 p.03, OOL.B090.11

BRL_IOPF#3.03, BPRY.285

unknown

Law of fasting; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for fasting; Prayer for forgiveness

BH10507

Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

یا مالک الاسمآء و فاطر السّمآء خلّص احبّآء من سجن اعدآء انّک سلطان القضآء و المشرق

O Thou Who art the Lord of all names and Fashioner of the heavens! Deliver Thy loved ones from the prison of their foes

BRL_DA#122

BRL_APBH#20, MSBR.057

unknown (1), unknown (2), almunajat.com [item 46]

LL#496

BH10492

یا من باسمک تشرف العالم اسئلک بالاسم الاعظم ان تنزل من سماء عنایتک علی من

O Thou through Whose Name the world hath been ennobled! I beseech Thee by the Most Great Name to send down from the heaven of Thy loving-kindness upon him who [3.5s]

LEID.Or4971-5,

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God

BH10273

Prayer for protection; Transcendence; unknowability of God

سبحانک اللهم لاشهدنک کلشیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت لم یزل کنت … اسئلک اللهم یا الهی بأن تحفظ حامل تلک الورقة البیضآء

Praised be Thou, O my God, I and all things bear witness that Thou art God, no god is there but Thee. From all eternity

AVK4.068, AHM.208, TSBT.234a, NFF1.025x, ABMK.063

RBB.138x, RBB.139x, ADMS#019

almunajat.com [item 31]

LL#512, LL#513

BH10163

170

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Unity of thought and belief

یا غلام قبل حسین مخصوص جمیع اسامی مذکوره در نامه آیات بدیعه منیعه نازل

O Ghulam Qabl-Ḥusayn! For all the names mentioned in the letter, have We caused to be sent down verses wondrous and sublime [3.5s]... ...This is the Day in which God’s most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace

BRL_DA#649, GWBP#004 p.012bx

GWB#004x, WOB.161x

Gus & Emma, C. Zein, MANA, Soulrise Melodies, S. Sunderland (1), S. Sunderland (2), S. Scriven

LL#089

BH10129

In my Name the Oppressed, from my most great Prison. By my life, and my sorrow, and my affliction, if the Supreme Pen had addressed itself

MSBR.060-061x

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world

LL#446

BH09983

کتاب انزله المحبوب لیشتعل به قلوب الذین نبذوا اهوائهم و اخذوا ما امروا به من

The Book which the Beloved hath sent down, that thereby may be kindled the hearts of them that have cast aside their desires and taken hold of that which they were commanded [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15697.155b,

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause

ROB2.179, LL#002

BH09970

Call to action; Consolation and comfort; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times

قل یا قوم لاتخافوا من سطوه الذینهم ظلموا و اشرکوا ان استقیموا علی الامر ثم ... قل اذا جآء النصر کل یدعون الایمان و یدخلون فی امر الله

Say: O people, fear not the dominion of them that have oppressed and associated partners with God. Be ye steadfast in His Cause, then [3.5s]... ...When the victory arriveth, every man shall profess himself as believer and shall hasten to the shelter of God’s Faith

BLIB_Or15725.388a,

BRL_DA#798, GWBP#150 p.205bx

GWB#150x

LL#458

BH09906

ع ل قل الهی الهی لک الحمد بما اظهرتنی فی ایام مشرق آیاتک و مطلع بیناتک و

Say: O my God, my God! To Thee be all praise, inasmuch as Thou hast manifested me in the days of the Dawning-Place of Thy signs and the Dayspring of Thy clear tokens [3.5s]

LEID.Or4971?,

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for purity; chastity

BH09728

Ziyarat-Namih (Tablet of Visitation for the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh)

اسئلک یا الهی بالکلمه التی فیها کنزت لئالی علمک و بالبحر الذی ماج باسمک... صلّ اللّهمّ یا الهی علی عبادک الفائزین و امائک الفائزات

I beseech Thee, O my God, by the Word through which Thou hast treasured the pearls of Thy knowledge, and by the Ocean which surgeth through Thy Name [3.5s]... ...Bless Thou, also, O Lord my God, Thy servants and Thy handmaidens who have attained unto Thee

INBA18:381a

PMP#180x, AQMJ2.027b

PM#180x

Prayer for protection; Prayer for women; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#341

Part 4 of the Tablet of Visitation (BH02307).

BH09704

100

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Knowledge; recognition of God; Prayer for nearness to God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

یا من بلائک دوآء صدور المخلصین و ذکرک شفاء افئده المقربین و قربک حیوه

O God! The trials Thou sendest are a salve to the sores of all them who are devoted to Thy will

INBA48:208a, INBA30:121x, INBA41:281b, BLIB_Or15739.351a,

PMP#055, AHM.061, AQMJ1.006b

PM#055

LL#506

BH09299

100

Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; God's love for His own Essence; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment

ای محبوب روحی در دل دمیدی و قرار از من اخذ نمودی و بعد مابین مشرکین و مغلین

O My Well-Beloved! Thou hast breathed Thy Breath into Me, and divorced Me from Mine own Self.

GWBP#040 p.065a

GWB#040

LL#392

BH09280

Tablet to Badi' in Haifa

100

ای بدیع وقت آنست که قمیص بدعی در بر نمائی و خلعت جدیدی در تن کنی

O Peerless One! The time hath come for Thee to don a wondrous raiment and clothe Thyself with a new garment [3.5s]

TSHA3.368

Love of God; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ROB3.184, LL#068

BH09162

110

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for nearness to God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment

یا من وجهک کعبه المشتاقین و لقائک امل المخلصین و قربک رجاء المقربین و طلعتک

O Thou Whose face is the object of the adoration of all that yearn after Thee, Whose presence is the hope

INBA48:207, INBA30:120bx, BLIB_Or15739.350,

BRL_DA#755, PMP#010, AHM.059, AQMJ1.005, ADH1.048

PM#010, BPRY.240

Avalan & May

LL#495

BH09144

110

یا غصنی الاعظم قد حضر لدی المظلوم کتابک و سمعنا ما ناجیت به الله رب العالمین

O thou my Greatest Branch! Thy letter was surely presented before this oppressed one, and I heard that which

INBA81:087b

BRL_DA#440, AHM.105, HDQI.007, AHDW.008, YHA1.012-013, ASAT4.412x, AHB_128BE #06-11 p.197, ANDA#03 p.48, ANDA#43-44 p.02, QALAM.014

GPB.243x3x, WOB.135-136x, SW_v04#14 p.239, SW_v05#15 p.228, SW_v08#14 p.184

Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for the spiritual progress of others

LL#091

BH09086

110

یا الهی هذا غصن انشعب من دوحه فردانیتک و سدره وحدانیتک تراه یا الهی ناظرا

This is the Branch that hath extended from the bower of Thy Oneness... ...Thou knowest, O my God, that I desire for Him naught except that which Thou didst desire

INBA81:090, BLIB_Or15696.127d,

BRL_DA#402, AHM.109, HDQI.006a, AHDW.009, KKD2.002, ASAT4.414x, AHB_128BE #06-11 p.197, ANDA#03 p.47

GPB.243x, WOB.136x, SW_v04#13 p.235, SW_v05#15 p.226, SW_v08#14 p.184

Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant

LL#353

BH09085

Salat-i-Mayyit (Prayer for the Dead)

110

Salat-i-Mayyit (Prayer for the Dead)

یا الهی هذا عبدک و ابن عبدک الذی آمن بک و بایاتک و توجه الیک منقطعا عن سواک

O my God! This is Thy servant and the son of Thy servant who hath believed in Thee and in Thy signs

BRL_Mayyit, PMP#167, AVK4.203, AHM.214, BSHN.005, GHA.138x, TSBT.239, BSHA.077, OOL.B097a, OOL.B097b

PM#167, BPRY.035

Prayer with six verses to be repeated nineteen times each, recited at graveside, and stated in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas to constitute the only exception to the general prohibition on congregational prayer.

Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.

LL#231

BH08834

110

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی ترانی بین ایدی الاعدا و الابن محمرا بدمه امام وجهک یا من

Glorified art Thou, O Lord, my God! Thou seest me in the hands of Thine enemies

INBA92:405a

BRL_DA#265, NFR.171, ASAT4.416x, FBAH.227

TDH#064.11x, GPB.188x, JHT_S#194

Sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world; Suffering and imprisonment; Unity; oneness of humanity

ROB3.213, LL#485

BH08802

110

ذکر من لدی المظلوم الی الذی اقر بوحدانیه الله و فردانیته و بانه هو الاول و الآخر

A remembrance issued from the Presence of the Oppressed, to the one who confessed the Oneness of God

BLIB_Or15718.033,

Exhortations and counsels; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa]; Prayers (general or uncategorized)

LL#140

BH08723

110

ای دوست جمیع را در بیان امر نمودیم که در این ظهور اعظم بچشم خود به بینند و

O Friend! In the Bayán We directed everyone in this Most Great Revelation to see with his own eyes

INBA19:073b, INBA32:068

TBP#17e

TB#17e

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Independent investigation of truth; reality; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

LL#260

BH08672

110

ان یا جمال القدم ذکر العباد بما نزل من جبروت الفضل و الاقتدار لعل یستقیمون فی

O Ancient Beauty! Make mention of the servants through that which hath descended from the heaven of grace and power, that haply they may stand firm in [3.5s]... ...Say: whosoever desires to protect himself, let him read this verse at night and at morn

BLIB_Or15725.387c,

AVK4.068.02

RBB.138x

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Prayer for protection; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

LL#491

BH08604

120

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Prayer for nearness to God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

یا من قربک رجائی و وصلک املی و ذکرک منائی و الورود فی ساحه عزک مقصدی و شطرک

O Thou Whose nearness is my wish, Whose presence is my hope, Whose remembrance is my desire

INBA48:184a, INBA30:122x, BLIB_Or15739.319,

BRL_DA#759, PMP#104, AHM.062, AQMJ1.008, NSR_1993.028

PM#104, BPRY.185

S. Toloui-Wallace

LL#489

BH08600

120

یا من بلائک دوآء المقربین و سیفک رجاء العاشقین و سهمک محبوب المشتاقین و

O Thou Whose tests are a healing medicine to such as are nigh unto Thee... I am he, O my Lord, that hath set his face towards Thee, and fixed his hope on the wonders of Thy grace

INBA48:192, INBA30:123bx, BLIB_Or15739.330,

PMP#133, PMP#134, AHM.066, AQMJ1.010, NSR_1993.030, ADH1.032

PM#133, PM#134, BPRY.074x, BPRY.220x

Prayer for nearness to God; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayer for steadfastness; obedience; Prayer for tests and difficulties; Servitude; submission to God; repentance

LL#502

BH08013

120

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for healing; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

الهی الهی اسئلک ببحر شفائک و اشراقات انوار نیر فضلک و بالاسم الذی سخرت به

O God, my God! I beg of Thee by the ocean of Thy healing, and by the splendors of the Day-Star of Thy grace

INBA30:116bx

BRL_DA#774, PMP#174, ADM2#111 p.200x, AHM.180, AQMJ2.096, MAS4.101x, NSR_1993.019x, ADH1.097

PM#174, BPRY.095, DAS.1915-04-04, BP1929.028-029

E. Tarani

LL#477

BH07865

Suriy-i-Dhabih 3

130

Consolation and comfort; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Eulogies; reminiscences; Power of prayer; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

هذا کتاب من الله الی التی آمنت بربها و کانت من القانتات ان لاتعبدی الا الله… تالله لو لم یکن مخالفًا بما نزل فی الألواح لقبّلتُ ید الّذی یسفک دمی

This is a Book from God unto her who hath believed in her Lord and was numbered among the devoutly obedient women, that she worship none save God [3.5s]... ...God is my witness! Had it not been in conflict with that which the Tablets of God have decreed, I would have gladly kissed the hands of whosoever attempted to shed my blood

BLIB_Or15725.329a,

BRL_DA#566, GWBP#048 p.073ax, OOL.B112.3x

GWB#048x

LL#408

BH07721

130

Attaining good pleasure of God; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Names and attributes of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for healing

فسبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک باسمک الذی به ارفعت اعلام هدایتک و اشرقت انوار

Glory be to Thee, O Lord my God! I implore Thee by Thy Name, through which Thou didst lift up the ensigns of Thy guidance

INBA30:130, INBA49:066b

PMP#148, ADM1#079 p.137, AHM.181, AQMJ2.097, ADH1.098

PM#148, BPRY.096-097

LL#481

BH07657

130

Belief and denial; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Law of fasting; Prayer for fasting; Transcendence; unknowability of God

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک بهذا الظهور الذی فیه بدل الدیجور بالبکور و بنی

Praise be to Thee, O Lord my God! I beseech Thee by this Revelation whereby darkness hath been turned into light, through which the Frequented Fane hath been built… I am the one, O my Lord, who hath held fast the cord of Thy loving-kindness…

INBA48:188a, INBA49:062, INBA92:165, BLIB_Or15739.324,

PMP#007, NFF5.066, OOL.B090.14

PM#007, BPRY.269

B. Lisbeth

LL#271, LL#468

BH07594

130

Microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar]; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

حضرت رحمن انسانرا بینا و شنوا خلق فرموده اگرچه بعضی او را عالم اصغر

The All-Merciful hath conferred upon man the faculty of vision, and endowed him with the power of hearing

BLIB_Or15715.254b,

BRL_DA#797, GWBP#162 p.219ax

GWB#162x

LL#440

BH07535

130

Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Living waters; water of life; Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

انشاء ??لله در کل احیان از رحیق حیوان بیاشامید و بذکر محبوب عالمیان مشغول

God willing, may ye at all times drink from the life-giving waters and be engaged in remembrance of the Best-Beloved of the worlds [3.5s]... ...The ordinances of God have been sent down from the heaven of His most august Revelation. All must diligently observe them

BLIB_Or15710.163, , BLIB_Or15722.131,

BRL_DA#664, GWBP#133 p.185x, UAB.021cx, AYI2.049x, AYI2.195, PYB#187 p.03

GWB#133x

LL#455

BH07147

Tablet of the Hair 1

140

شهد شعری لجمالی بانی انا الله لا اله الا انا قد کنت فی ازل القدم الها فردا

My hair beareth witness for My Beauty that verily I am God and that there is none other God but Me.

BLIB_Or11098.029a

LHKM3.068, MUH3.272, ASAT3.023x, OOL.B191.01, OOL.B191.03

God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God

Exhortations and counsels; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Unity; oneness of humanity

BH07046

140

در جمیع الواح عباد الله را باخلاق مرضیه و اعمال پسندیده وصیت نمودیم و قلم

In all the Tablets have We counselled the servants of God concerning virtuous character and praiseworthy deeds, and the Pen [3.5s]

INBA19:127a, INBA32:117, BLIB_Or15697.117, , BLIB_Or15710.292b,

HDQI.156, ANDA#46 p.03

ROB4.053, LL#004

BH06839

1150

Consultation; Order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Wisdom [hikmat]

یا زین علیک بهائی و عنایتی مکتوب شما و اسم کریم علیه بهائی را عبد حاضر لدی العرش

O Zayn, upon whom rest My glory and loving-kindness! the servant in attendance before the Throne hath received thy letter and the name of the honored one, upon whom rest My glory [3.5s]... ...All praise be to God Who hath adorned the world with an ornament, and arrayed it with a vesture, of which it can be despoiled by no earthly power

BRL_DA#653, GWBP#163 p.219bx, AVK3.409.17x, AVK4.266.07x, MAS8.046x, ASAT4.092ax, ASAT4.388x, ASAT5.257x

GWB#163x

LL#365, LL#449

BH06685

150

قل سبحانک اللهم یا اله الاشیاء و خالق الاسماء اسئلک بالاسم الذی به کسرت

Say: Glorified art Thou, O my God, O Lord of all things and Creator of all names! I beseech Thee by the Name through which Thou didst shatter [3.5s]

INBA57:095a, BLIB_Or15730.072a,

NFR.178, NNY.184

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayer for steadfastness; obedience; Prayers (general or uncategorized)

ROB4.089a, LL#006

BH06550

150

ذکری لمن توجه الی الوجه و اقبل الی قبله من فی الارضین و السموات لیسمع ندآء

A remembrance unto him who hath turned toward the Countenance and set his face toward the Qiblih of all who dwell in earth and heaven, that he may hearken unto the Call [3.5s]

KHML.241

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Importance of reading the Sacred Writings; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#159

BH06350

160

یا ایتها الورقه المبارکه النورآء غنی و تغنی علی افنان دوحه البهاء هذه الکلمه العلیا

Let these exalted words be thy love-song on the tree of Bahá, O thou most holy and resplendent Leaf

BRL_DA#754, ATB.116, AHB_119BE #04-06 p.001, AKHT1.080x, ANDA#03 p.27

BW_v05p171, GPB.347x, BHK_1#01

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

LL#073

BH06328

160

Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Education of children; moral education; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity in diversity

وجه حق از افق اعلی باهل بها توجه نموده میفرماید در جمیع احوال بانچه سبب

He Who is the Eternal Truth hath, from the Dayspring of Glory, directed His eyes towards the people of Bahá

INBA35:292, INBA81:164, BN_suppl.1753.126-126

BRL_DA#651, GWBP#156 p.214, LHKM3.382, KSHG.146-147, PYB#112-113 p.49, AHB_125BE #05-06 p.118, AKHA_133BE #06 p.a

GWB#156, PDC.187x

Francesco & Lorenzo, B. Weber

LL#403

BH06114

160

بنویس بجناب مهدی انا انطقنا النبیل قبل علی فی صغره لیشهدن الناس قدرتی و

Write, O Mahdi! Verily, We caused Nabil-i-'Ali to speak forth in his childhood that men might witness My power and [3.5s]... ...He, verily is but one of My servants... Should he for a moment pass out from under the shadow of the Cause

BRL_DA#105, MAS4.361x, MAS8.040a, ASAT5.100x

WTAB.006x, GPB.251x

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Word of God the cause of creation

LL#246

BH05990

170

یا مالک الملک و الملکوت و سلطان الجبروت اسئلک بقلب العالم الذی جعلته قبله

O Thou Who art the Sovereign of the earthly kingdom and the celestial realm, and the Lord of the dominion of power! I beseech Thee by the heart of the world which Thou hast made the Qiblih [3.5s]

INBA23:053b, BLIB_Or15734.2.008b,

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for fasting; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

BH05905

170

هذا حین فیه یغسلون الابن امام الوجه بعد الذی فدیناه فی السجن الاعظم

At this very moment My son is being washed before My face, after Our having sacrificed him in the Most Great Prison

INBA65:071x, BLIB_Or11095#128, , NLAI_BH1.532

BRL_DA#248, BSHN.039, MHT2b.063, MAS4.108x, RHQM2.0788-789 (204) (125-126x), ASAT4.083x, AHB_127BE #03-04 p.068, AKHA_120BE #04 p.b, FBAH.226

TDH#064.9x, GPB.188x, GPB.348x

ROB3.216, LL#179, LL#180

BH05904

Lawh-i-'Ali Haydar Shirvani (2nd Tablet to the Czar)

170

نصار حقیقی آمد لعمر الله قادر است بر اینکه بیک کلمه عالم را منقلب نماید چون

He Who leadeth to true victory is come. By the righteousness of God! He is fully capable of revolutionizing the world

ANDA#16 p.64x, ANDA#64 p.04x, TBP#17jx

TB#17jx, GPB.106x

Hypocrisy; Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for protection; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment; Universal peace; world unity

LL#046, LL#106

BH05849

170

Law of fasting; Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Prayer for fasting; Presence of; reunion with God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

قل یا الهی و ناری و نوری قد دخلت الایام التی سمیتها بایام الهاء فی کتابک یا

My God, my Fire and my Light! The days which Thou hast named the Ayyam-i-Ha in Thy Book have begun

INBA41:006, BLIB_Or15696.022e, , BLIB_Or15734.2.087a,

PMP#045, NFR.099, AHM.131, GHA.044ax, TSBT.204, NFF5.003, ABMK.020

PM#045, BPRY.290

Soulrise Melodies

MMAH.106, LL#462

BH05801

170

Prayer for Protection; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

فسبحانک اللهم یا الهی و سیدی و مولائی و معتمدی و رجائی و کهفی و ضیائی

In His Name, the Exalted, the All-Highest, the Most Sublime! Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God!

AHM.206, MJMM.275, TSBT.232, ABMK.062

BPRY.148, RBB.138-139x, BLO_PT#068x, ADMS#033

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Prayer for protection; Transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#511

BH05741

170

ذکر من لدنا للتی آمنت بربها و کانت من القانتات فی لوح عظیم اذا اشرقت شمس

A remembrance from Our presence unto her who hath believed in her Lord and was among the devoted ones, in a mighty Tablet, when the sun shone forth [3.5s]

MAS4.365bx, MUH3.031, OOL.B185

Chastisement and requital; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Love of God; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB2.127, LL#256

BH05684

Lawh-i-Ittihad(?)

170

Call to unity; prohibition of disunity; Exhortations and counsels; Oneness; unity of religion; Unity; oneness of humanity

ای احزاب مختلفه باتحاد توجه نمائید و بنور اتفاق منور گردید لوجه الله در مقری

O contending peoples and kindreds of the earth! Set your faces towards unity, and let the radiance

BLIB_Or15690.160b, , BLIB_Or15716.138c, , BLIB_Or15728.048b, , BN_suppl.1753.123-124

BRL_DA#708, GWBP#111 p.141, AVK4.276x.08, LHKM3.379a, AHM.407, MJMM.284, HDQI.042, DWNP_v5#01 p.002a, UAB.035b, DRD.063, MAS4.367c, AKHA_121BE #02-03 p.a, ANDA#16 p.05, OOL.B048b

GWB#111

MMAH.090, GSH.187, LL#190

BH05544

180

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for nearness to God; Suffering and imprisonment

هذا کتاب من لدی المظلوم الی الذی اتخذ الی الرحمن سبیلا لیاخذه عن نفسه و یجذبه

This is the Book from the Wronged One unto him who hath chosen for himself a path unto the All-Merciful, that it may seize him from his self and draw him nigh [3.5s]... ...Blessed art thou, O My servant, inasmuch as thou hast recognized the Truth, and withdrawn from him who repudiated the All-Merciful

INBA34:315, BLIB_Or15707.170, , BLIB_Or15735.319,

BRL_DA#766, GWBP#143 p.200x, AQA1#188, HYK.319

GWB#143x, PDC.027x, WOB.161-162x

LL#434

BH05450

180

قد اصبحت الیوم یا الهی فی جوار رحمتک الکبری و اخذت القلم لاذکرک بحولک بذکر

Today, O my God, I have awakened within the precincts of Thy most great mercy, and have taken up the Pen to make mention of Thee, through Thy power, in remembrance [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15734.2.025b,

AQA6#266 p.260

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Love as fire; Pain of love; love as veil; Prayer for fasting; Prayer for nearness to God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Evanescence and eternality; fana and baqa; Love as fire; Mystical themes; Pain of love; love as veil; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

BH05338

Baz Av-u-Bidih Jamih

180

باز آو بده جامی این ساقی عطشانرا زآن ساغر باقی ده این فانی دورانرا این هیکل

Return and offer a cup to this thirsty cupbearer; From that eternal chalice, bestow upon this transient being;This temple [3.5s]

INBA30:138, OSAI I.MMS,

BRL_DA#252, TZH4.142-143x, MAS4.186, OOL.B004

Brief ode celebrating the divine love, beseeching immortal life, and expressing His desire for evanescence in God and His wish to offer up His life in the path of God.

MMAH.163, GSH.065, LL#011

BH05241

190

Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

یا ورقتی بگوش جان ندای رحمن را بشنو از سجن اعظم بتو توجه نموده و ترا بذکر

O My Leaf! With the ear of thy soul hearken thou unto the Call of the All-Merciful, Who hath turned towards thee from the Most Great Prison and maketh mention of thee [3.5s]... ...Know thou that every hearing ear, if kept pure and undefiled, must, at all times and from every direction, hearken to the voice that uttereth these holy words

INBA51:312, BLIB_Or15715.338b,

BRL_DA#743, GWBP#165 p.222ax, LHKM3.296

GWB#165x

LL#387

BH05162

190

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی زین بطراز رحمه ربه العزیز الحکیم و انطقه جذب

This is a Book from Our presence unto him whom We have adorned with the robe of the mercy of his Lord, the Mighty, the All-Wise, and caused him to speak through rapture [3.5s]... ...They that have forsaken their country for the purpose of teaching Our Cause—these shall the Faithful Spirit strengthen through its power

INBA34:302

BRL_DA#678, GWBP#157 p.215ax, AQA1#170, GHA.259ax, AKHA_124BE #04-05 p.j, YFY.077-078

GWB#157x, COC#1904x, ADJ.051x, ADJ.060x4x, ADJ.060-61x, ADJ.068x, GPB.377x, GPB.389x, MBW.038x

Claudia & Jornt

LL#428

BH05154

190

Days of Remembrance; Days of Remembrance; Countenance of the Blessed Beauty in the Mirror of Mawlúd Tablets, The

هذا شهر فیه ولد الاسم الاعظم الذی به ارتعدت فرائص العالم و استبرک بقدومه

This is the month wherein was born He Who beareth the Most Great Name, Whose appearance hath caused the limbs of humankind to quake

INBA41:224, NLAI_BH1.180

MAS4.342, AMB#45

DOR#45

R. Yazhari (1), R. Yazhari (2)

Chastisement and requital; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Praise and encouragement; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; The power of words; of speech

LL#173

BH05002

190

Lawh-i-Muhammad-`Alí I and II

ای محمد قبل علی طوبی لک بما زینت قلبک بطراز حب ربک العزیز الحمید هر نفسیکه

O Muhammad-'Ali! Great is the blessedness awaiting thee, inasmuch as thou hast adorned thine heart with the ornament of the love of thy Lord

BLIB_Or03116.086r.12, , BLIB_Or11096#127, , BLIB_Or15710.212a,

GWBP#140 p.196

GWB#140

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power of the Manifestation of God; Praise and encouragement; Prophecy and fulfillment; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

LL#187

BH04998

Ay Bulbulan

190

ای بلبلان ای بلبلان فصل گل و گلذار شد ای عارفان ای عارفان آنغیب در اظهار

It is the season of the rose, O nightingales, O nightingales! O mystic knowers of the Lord, The Unseen threw aside His veils!

INBA36:097, INBA71:261, INBA74:092x, NLAI_BH1.527, MKA.06 Mil Yz A 2791 p30a,

BRL_DA#363, TZH4.142, ASAT3.200-201, AHB_126BE #01-02 p.002

WIND#155, JHT_B#018

Love of God; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Mystical themes; Poems and quotation from poetry; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Transcending the material condition; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

LL#009

BH04990

190

Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for healing

انت الذی یا الهی باسمائک یبرء کل علیل و یشفی کل مریض و یسقی کل ظمئان و یسرع

Thou art He, O my God, through Whose names the sick are healed and the ailing are restored, and the thirsty are given drink

BRL_CHILD#03, PMP#147, AHM.199, MMTF.003

PM#147, BPRY.100, DAS.1914-09-12

R. Leigh

LL#479

BH04981

Lawh-i-Karim 2

190

Lawh-i-Karim (Tablets to Karim)

ان یا کریم اسمع ندآء ربک العلی العظیم انه ینطق عن شطر السجن و یدعو الناس الی

O Karím! Hear thou the Voice of thy Lord, the Exalted, the Mighty. He proclaimeth from the direction of this Prison

INBA34:283, INBA51:306, INBA49:355

AQA1#147, OOL.B050b

ADMS#232

Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Love of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

LL#136

BH04972

190

ان یا امه الله اسمعی ندآء الله عن هذا الغصن الذی کان علی وادی القدس عن یمین

O handmaid of God! Hearken unto the Call of God from this Branch that standeth in the holy vale upon the right hand [3.5s]

NLAI_BH1.340

RSBB.068a

Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God

ROB2.179, LL#002

BH04906

200

یا علی شهد القلم الاعلی فی حقک بما لاتعادله زخارف الارض و کنوزها و لا البحار

O Ali! The Most Exalted Pen hath testified in thy behalf with that which all the ornaments and treasures of the earth cannot equal, nor the seas thereof [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15713.193b, , LEID.Or4971-1,

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Praise and encouragement; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

BH04876

200

یا امائی علیکن بهائی و رحمتی قلم اعلی شهادت میدهد بر اینکه شما رجالید بلکه از

O My handmaidens! Upon you be My glory and My mercy! The Most Exalted Pen beareth witness that ye are indeed men, nay rather [3.5s]

INBA51:105b, KB_620:098-099

AKHT1.011x, AKHT2.000ج

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Role and station of women; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#078

BH04829

200

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; River of Life, The

مقصود از کتابهای آسمانی و آیات الهی آنکه مردمان بادابی تربیت شوند که سبب

The purpose underlaying the revelation of every heavenly Book, nay, of every divinely-revealed verse

INBA57:087a, INBA41:155bx, BLIB_Or07852.111b, , BLIB_Or15710.296a,

GWBP#101 p.134x, AVK3.001.06, MJMM.304x, DWNP_v5#01 p.001-002, UAB.023ax, DRD.001x, RRT.005x, DAUD.01x, AHB_109BE #05 p.020, AHB_134BE #03-04 p.068, AKHA_133BE #09 p.199, AKHA_136BE #07 p.110

GWB#101x, ROL.009

Call to action; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Purpose of religion in the world (personal and social); Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures

LL#431

BH04818

200

Lawh-i-Muhammad-`Alí I and II

کتاب نزل بالحق لقوم یفقهون و یامر الناس بالعدل و التقی و یمنعهم عن البغی و

A Book sent down in truth unto men of insight! It biddeth the people to observe justice and to work righteousness

INBA34:290

GWBP#141 p.197, AQA1#155

GWB#141, ADJ.032x

Call to action; Exhortations and counsels; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

LL#187

BH04772

1900

قد اتی الوعد و الموعود یقول یا ایها المذکور لدی العرش و القائم امام الوجه

The Promise hath come, and the Promised One declareth: O thou who art mentioned before the Throne and who standest before the Face [3.5s]

INBA65:064x, INBA30:103x

AVK3.418.06x, AHM.357x, DWNP_v6#09 p.001x, AQMJ1.168ax, MSHR5.297x, YIA.149-154

Courtesy; culture [adab]; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Justice and mercy; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Wisdom [hikmat]

LL#493

BH04644

200

ان یا حکیم کن محکما فی امر ربک بحیث لایحرکک عواصف التی تمر عن شطر الظالمین

O Hakim! Be thou steadfast in the Cause of thy Lord, such that the tempests that blow from the direction of the oppressors move thee not [3.5s]

INBA73:357b, NLAI_BH1.505, NLAI_BH2.245

AQA7#404 p.188, PYK.397, ANDA#33 p.43

Chastisement and requital; Consolation and comfort; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment

ROB3.267-268, LL#001

BH04631

200

Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Prophecy and fulfillment; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Thankfulness; gratitude

امریکه لم یزل و لایزال مقصود نبیین و غایه رجای مرسلین بوده باراده مطلقه و

The Revelation which, from time immemorial, hath been acclaimed as the Purpose and Promise of all the Prophets of God

BLIB_Or15715.254a,

BRL_DA#790, GWBP#003 p.012ax, OOL.B175

GWB#003x, ADJ.078x

LL#258

BH04596

210

Call to action; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God

یا معشر العلماء اتقوا الله ثم انصفوا فی امر هذا الامی الذی شهدت له کتب الله

Lay not aside the fear of God, O ye the learned of the world, and judge fairly the Cause of this unlettered One

INBA51:186b, KB_620:179-180

GWBP#044 p.070, LHKM3.339, YFY.264-265

GWB#044

LL#410

BH04502

210

قوله جل جلاله افتی علی قتل الذین اقبلوا الی الافق الاعلی قام علی قتلی فلما

He, exalted be His glory, saith: They have ruled for the slaying of those who have turned towards the Most Exalted Horizon. He arose to accomplish My martyrdom, and when [3.5s]

LEID.Or4971-2b,

Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; High station of the true believer; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab

BH04475

210

Prayer for healing; Prayer for women

فسبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک باسمک الذی به استقر جمالک علی عرش امرک و باسمک

Glory be to Thee, O Lord my God! I beg of Thee by Thy Name through which He Who is Thy Beauty hath been stablished

PMP#146, AHM.202, ADH1.098

PM#146, BPRY.099

LL#480

BH04444

210

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love of God; Meaning; importance of dreams and visions; Personal instructions; Presence of; reunion with God

ذکر الله فی شجره الفراق ان یا ایها الاحباب فاصبرون ایاکم ان لاتغفلوا عن ذکرنا ثم

God hath spoken in the tree of separation: Be patient for me, O friends! Beware that ye be not careless

INBA65:098, INBA71:013b

AHM.212, TSBT.213

RBB.124, ADMS#020

Yosi & Shay

LL#498

BH04421

210

Bahá'í Scriptures; Prayers and Meditations; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

باز بلند مکنت پرواز نمود و غراب غیرت از مغرب جان متصاعد و باوج عماء قدرت... قلباً طاهراً فاخلق فیّ یا الهی سرّاً ساکناً جدّد فیّ یا منائی

Once again hath the Phoenix of divine grandeur taken flight, and the Raven of glory hath soared from the western horizon of the soul unto the zenith of hallowed eternity [3.5s]... ...Create in me a pure heart, O my God, and renew a tranquil conscience within me, O my Hope!

INBA38:040, INBA33:020ax, INBA30:120ax

BRL_DA#689, PMP#155x, AHM.057x, BSHA.085, ADH1.047x, MMJA.025x, OOL.B159.2x

PM#155x, BPRY.164x, SW_v14#09 p.257x, BSC.186 #273x

Ahdieh, Nabilinho, E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown, L. Slott, M. Sparrow, Refuge, Chandra & Eric, C. McGrail, Elina, Mea, Nader, Pedram & Annika, The Bird & The Butterfly, N. Hamilton, Gyenyame, QuiqueSaba, G. and M. Smith, P. Held & C. Bahia [track 1], Ladjamaya [track 11], almunajat.com [item 6], S. Peyman, Nava, Michele, Roya & Marie

Composure; tranquillity; serenity; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Nearness and remoteness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for purity; chastity; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#494

BH04372

Lawh-i-Zaynu'l-Muqarrabin 1

210

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times

الیوم اعظم امور ثبوت بر امر الله بوده و هست چه که شیاطین از جمیع اشطار ظاهر

That which is of paramount importance in this day is steadfastness in the Cause of God, for fiendish souls have manifested from every side

INBA71:337

BRL_DA#164, MJMM.337, DRD.182, ASAT1.050x, AKHA_123BE #08 p.a, OOL.B085a

ADMS#213

GSH.180, LL#266

BH04254

220

قد حضر کتابک و عرضه العبد الحاضر لدی الوجه اجبناک بهذا اللوح المبین نسئل الله

Thy letter hath arrived and was presented by the servant in attendance before the Face. We have answered thee through this perspicuous Tablet. We beseech God [3.5s]... ...The first person who devoted himself to philosophy was Idrís. Thus was he named. Some called him also Hermes. In every tongue he hath a special name.

INBA51:242, KB_620:235-236

LHKM3.284, YMM.242x

TB#09n3

Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The soul as soil; cultivation of the soul

LL#409

BH04073

230

نسئل الله بان یبعث احدا من عباده و ینقطعه عن الامکان و یزین قلبه بطراز

We ask God to send one of His servants, and to detach him from Contingent Being, and to adorn his heart

NLI.32p099r, PR11.000b

BRL_DA#182, SFI03.155, BCH.032, TSHA3.365, DLH2.150, LDR.416, NJB_v03#02 p.5

BKOG.299

Acquiescence and resignation; contentment; Martyrs and martyrdom; Petitions to authorities

LL#067

BH04022

230

ذکر من لدنا لمن آمن بالله فی یوم فیه ظهر الفزع الاکبر و اتی مالک القدر

A Remembrance from Our presence unto him who hath believed in God on the Day whereon the supreme Terror was made manifest and the Lord of Destiny appeared [3.5s]

INBA19:127b, INBA32:118a, BLIB_Or15696.011c, , BLIB_Or15734.2.058,

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Suffering and imprisonment

ROB4.053, LL#004

BH03960

240

Knowledge; recognition of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

یا نعمه الله از برای نعمت مراتب لانهایه بوده و خواهد بود در کتاب پروردگار تو

Know thou that, according to what thy Lord, the Lord of all men, hath decreed in His Book, the favors vouchsafed by Him unto mankind

BLIB_Or15715.244b,

GWBP#095 p.127, AQA5#037 p.051, UAB.033ax, AKHA_121BE #11-12 p.a, ANDA#58 p.03

GWB#095

LL#399

BH03951

240

یا طاهر یذکرک الظاهر الذی اذا ظهر اعرض عنه کل مقبل و افتی علیه کل عالم و

O Tahir! The Manifest One maketh mention of thee, He at Whose appearance every seeker turned away, and every learned one pronounced judgment against Him [3.5s]

KHML.237

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Knowledge; recognition of God; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

LL#157

BH03944

240

یا جواد امروز روزیست که از ذکرش نفس ساعت مضطرب مشاهده شد و جمیع کتب الهی از

O Javád! Such is the greatness of this Day that the Hour itself is seized with perturbation, and all heavenly Scriptures

BLIB_Or15710.235,

BRL_DA#021, SFI15.016-017, TBP#17f

TB#17f

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Methods of teaching the Cause; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause

LL#312

BH03941

240

Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

یا ایها الناظر الی الوجه اسمع ندائی و لاتضطرب عما ورد علی احباء الله و امنائه

O thou who gazest upon the Countenance! Hear thou My call, and be thou not perturbed by that which hath befallen the loved ones of God and His trusted servants [3.5s]... ...The generations that have gone on before you—whither are they fled? And those round whom in life circled the fairest and the loveliest of the land, where now are they?

INBA34:272

BRL_DA#658, GWBP#123 p.168ax, AQA1#135

GWB#123x

LL#398

BH03908

Tablet for Naw-Ruz

240

Prayers and Meditations; Days of Remembrance; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

لک الحمد یا الهی بما جعلت النیروز عیدا لمن صاموا فی حبک و کفوا انفسهم عما

Praised be Thou, O my God, that Thou hast ordained Naw-Ruz as a festival unto those who have observed the fast

BLIB_Or15696.099d,

PMP#046, NFR.057, AHM.138, AYT.343, NFF5.079, AKHA_134BE #01 p.06, AMB#01

PM#046, DOR#01, BPRY.297, DAS.1915-03-22

R. Yazhari (1), R. Yazhari (2), R. Yazhari (3), R. Yazhari (4), almunajat.com [item 26], unknown

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.; Law of fasting; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

MMAH.105, LL#204

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

BH03835

240

Essential distinction of Manifestation of God from others; Identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God; Manifestation of God as mediator; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ذکر من لدنا لمن طار بذکر هذا الذکر فی هوآء الذی تطیر فیه طیور الفردوس و تمر

A remembrance from Our presence unto one who hath soared, through mention of this Remembrance, in the atmosphere wherein the birds of Paradise do wing their flight and pass [3.5s]... ...Know thou of a certainty that the Unseen can in no wise incarnate His Essence and reveal it unto men. He is, and hath ever been, immensely exalted

BLIB_Or11095#319,

BRL_DA#537, GWBP#020 p.039x

GWB#020x

LL#359

BH03710

Prologue to the Lawh-i-Mubahilih

920

Tablets concerning the Divine Test

Surat al-Mubahalah (Surah of the Divine Test)

معلوم احباءالله بوده باشد که یومى از ایام سید دجال بمکر جدیدى قیام نموده

We heard that some of our opponents desired to come into the presence of this youth. Say: Come, and do not delay! We have appointed as the meeting-place the house of God

TZH5.029, MAS4.277-281, MAS4.166a, RHQM1.068-068 (087x) (051-051x)

BLO_PT#199

Banishment to; life in Adrianople; Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Rejection, opposition and persecution; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#183

See also BH00457.

BH03629

240

Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for assistance; intercession; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

این نامه ایست از مظلوم بسوی مظلومی که از کاس بلا آشامید و از کوب باساء چشید

This is an epistle from the Wronged One to one who hath been wronged, who hath drunk from the chalice of tribulation and tasted from the cup of adversity [3.5s]... ...Dispel my grief by Thy bounty and Thy generosity, O God, my God, and banish mine anguish through Thy sovereignty

INBA61:063, INBA84:187a, INBA84:114b, INBA84:055.04, BLIB_Or15712.048, , MKI4523.288x,

BRL_DA#534, PMP#154x, ISH.288x, AHM.204, NSR_1993.031, VAA.059-059, ADH1.039

PM#154x, BPRY.223x

LL#507

BH03564

Lawh-i-Ard-i-Ta

260

Eulogies; reminiscences; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement; Prophecy and fulfillment; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Shrines and Holy places

یا ارض الطاء یاد آر هنگامی را که مقر عرش بودی و انوارش از در و دیوارت ظاهر

Call thou to remembrance, O Land of Ṭa (Ṭihrán), the former days in which thy Lord had made thee the seat of His throne, and had enveloped thee with the effulgence of His glory

INBA66:106b, BLIB_Or15730.090a, , NLAI_BH1.081

GWBP#055 p.077bx, RHQM1.072-073x (092) (053-054), ASAT1.071-072x, TSHA3.011, PYM.110ax, LDR.322, OOL.B167

GWB#055x, LTDT.270x

MUH1.0034, LL#062

BH03550

260

Disregarding own capacity in teaching the Cause; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی اخذته نفحات آیات ربه الرحمن و فاز بانوار الهدی فی

This is a Book from Our presence unto him whom the sweet-scented breezes of the verses of his Lord, the All-Merciful, have stirred, and who hath attained unto the lights of guidance in [3.5s]... ...The Pen of the Most High hath decreed and imposed upon every one the obligation to teach this Cause.

INBA34:252, NLAI_BH2.195

BRL_DA#657, GWBP#144 p.201x, AQA1#113, ASAT4.126x

GWB#144x, TDH#037.1x

Gus, Emma & Edelo, D. Mantas, A.E. Rahbin

LL#450

BH03529

Lawh-i-Jinab-i-Haji Siyyid Ibrahim (Kitab al-Fajr)

260

کتاب الفجر من افق الامر قد کان بالجهر مشهودا من قرء حرفا منه توجه الی شطر

The Book of Dawn hath appeared from the horizon of the Command, manifest unto all. Whosoever readeth a single letter thereof turneth toward its direction [3.5s]

BLIB_Or11095#168,

AQA4#101 p.341, AQA4a.129

Consolation and comfort; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity

LL#113

BH03510

260

طبیبی در این ایام که هواهای نفسانیه بعضی را از عدل و انصاف و ما نزل فی

O Physician! In these days when carnal desires have caused some to stray from justice and equity and from that which hath been revealed [3.5s]

INBA35:154, BLIB_Or15710.207, , BLIB_Or15719.158b, , BLIB_Or15722.150,

NNY.136-137

Contention and conflict; Exhortations and counsels; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God

ROB4.082b, LL#006

BH03509

260

Tablet of the Garden of Ridván (Lawh-i-Bágh-i-Ridván); Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Bagh-i-Ridvan (Tablet of the Garden of Ridvan); Lawh-i-Ridvan (Tablets of Ridvan)

صبح یوم مبارک جمعه از قصر سفر نمودیم و در بستان وارد هر شجر بکلمه ناطق و هر

On the morning of the blessed Friday We proceeded from the Mansion and entered the Garden.

BRL_DA#066, MAS8.125x, YMM.138

BRL_ATBH#66, ROB4.015, BLO_PT#129

Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Power of prayer

LL#070

BH03457

Lawh-i-Tal'atu'l-Hubb

260

ان یا طلعه الحب قد عرفنا شوقک الی الله فی رفرف البقا علی قربک فی میادین

Countenance of love, we have recognized your longing for God in the pavilions of eternity, insofar as you drew near and attained

BRL_DA#118, AQA4a.240, FRH.346

WIND#123

Mystical themes; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

LL#249

BH03447

Salat-i-Vusta (Medium Obligatory Prayer)

260

Obligatory prayer, Medium

الهی قو یدی لتأخذ کتابک باستقامة لا تمنعها جنود العالم ثم احفظها عن التصرف

Strengthen my hand, O my God, that it may take hold of Thy Book with such steadfastness

PMP#182, AHM.081, TSBT.019, NFF1.008x, ABMK.006, OOL.B176b

PM#182, BPRY.004-007, SW_v06#14 p.112, BP1929.017-019x

Law of obligatory prayer; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer

LL#230

BH03421

270

Acquiescence and resignation; contentment; Consolation and comfort; Free will and predestination; fate; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of prayer; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times

یا ثمرتی و یا ورقتی علیک بهائی و رحمتی محزون مباش از آنچه وارد شده اگر در

O thou who art the fruit of My Tree and the leaf thereof! On thee be My glory and My mercy.

BLIB_Or15716.086d, , MKI4523.284,

GWBP#068 p.091, AVK1.085x, ISH.284, ADH1.125

GWB#068

LL#021

BH03420

270

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity

یا بدیع نوصیک بالصبر و السکون و الامانه التی کانت ودیعه الله بین خلقه طوبی

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor

BRL_DA#655, GWBP#130 p.182x, AHB_117BE #12 p.371

GWB#130x, ADJ.025x, DWN_v3#01 p.009x, BSTW#401x

Joel in Real Life, Soulrise Melodies, Soulrise Melodies, D. Desimone

Exhortations and counsels; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

LL#069

BH03386

270

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; High station of the true believer; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for children and youth; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times

کتابت دیده شد و ندایت شنیده گشت انشاء الله لازال بافق اعلی ناظر باشی و بما یحب

Thy letter was beheld and thy call was heard. God willing, mayest thou remain ever-gazing toward the Most Exalted Horizon and that which He loveth [3.5s]... ...Praise be to Thee, O my God, that Thou didst graciously remember me through Thy Most Exalted Pen, at a time when Thou wert held in the Most Great Prison

BLIB_Or15697.078b,

BRL_DA#091, AVK4.069.03x

BRL_APBH#14x, RBB.126x, KSHK#22

LL#463

BH03315

270

Praise and encouragement; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Thankfulness; gratitude; Transcendence; unknowability of God

الهی الهی اشکرک فی کل حال و احمدک فی جمیع الاحوال فی النعمه الحمد لک یا اله

O God, my God! I yield Thee thanks at all times and render Thee praise under all conditions.

INBA61:041, INBA30:110x, BLIB_Or15696.190c,

BRL_DA#004, AHM.049, AQMM.058, NSR_1993.013, NFF2.026, ADH1.036

BRL_APBH#11, RBB.131x

almunajat.com [item 7]

LL#487

BH03255

Lawh-i-Siyyid Muhammad ibn Vahid

280

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa]; Power of the Manifestation of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

قد فتح باب البیان و ظهر غلام المعانی و کان فی یده الیمنی کاس من سلسبیل رحمه

Lo! The portal of utterance is flung open, and the Youth of inner meaning is come. In His right hand, He beareth a chalice

BLIB_Or11095#187,

AQA4#104 p.358, AQA4a.132, LMA1.348 (208)

ADMS#028

LL#247

BH03249

280

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Idle fancies; lust and passion; Power of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

قد اخذ المیثاق حین الاشراق من الذین آمنوا ان لا یعبدوا الا الله و لایفسدوا

He verily hath taken the Covenant at the hour of dawning from them that have believed, that they should worship none but God and should not corrupt [3.5s]... ...I sorrow not for the burden of My imprisonment. Neither do I grieve over My abasement, or the tribulation I suffer at the hands of Mine enemies

INBA34:204

BRL_DA#072, GWBP#046 p.071bx, AQA1#066

GWB#046x, ADJ.028ax, ADJ.032x

LL#444

BH03241

280

ع ل ی ان استمع ما یلقی الروح الیک من آیات ربک العلیم الخبیر قد نطقت السدره فی

O Ali! Hearken unto that which the Spirit imparteth unto thee from the verses of thy Lord, the All-Knowing, the All-Informed. Verily, the Tree hath spoken forth [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15715.146b, , LEID.Or4971?,

Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

Call of the Divine Beloved

BH03230

Rashh-i-'Ama

280

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

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

BH03181

Khutbatu'n-Nikah [marriage Tablet]

280

Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

الحمد لله القدمی بلا زوال و الابدی بلا انتقال الذی شهد لذاته بذاته انه لهو

Praise be to God, the Ancient, the Ever-Abiding, the Changeless, the Eternal! He Who hath testified in His Own Being

INBA73:042, BLIB_Or15722.057a, , NLAI_BH4.075.13-076.09

BRL_DA#564, AVK4.157x, TSBT.205x

BPRY.117, PNAK.83

Business; financial; property matters; Laws of marriage and dowry; Marriage as means of spiritual progress; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#144, LL#205

BH03116

290

Tablet on Marriage (Lawh-i-Nikáh)

عرض جناب حاجی فرج علیه بهآء الله معروض شد هذا ما نزل من جبروت القدرة این ایام بخدمت آنجا مشغول باشند... و دیگر در بارهٴ ارث آقا علی اکبر مرفوع علیه رحمة الله و غفرانه سؤال فرموده بودید

The petition of His honor Haji Faraj, upon him be the Glory of God, hath been received. This is what hath been sent down from the Heaven of Power: In these days let them occupy themselves with service in that place [3.5s]... ...Thou hast asked concerning the laws of marriage and divorce. That which was sent down previously on this matter in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas hath been forwarded

BLIB_Or15722.055x,

AVK4.157.03x, GHA.172ax

RBB.062x, BLO_PT#156

Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Law of inheritance; Laws of marriage and dowry; The power of words; of speech

LL#044

BH03109

290

Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اشهد بقدرتک و قوتک و سلطانک و عنایتک و فضلک و اقتدارک و

Glory be unto Thee, Thou O My God, the Lord Omnipotent. I testify to Thine omnipotence and Thy might

INBA61:036, BLIB_Or15695.218,

BRL_DA#549, AVK4.070.14, BSHN.001, BSHN.008, MHT1a.043, TSBT.237, BSHA.070

BPRY.038x

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for the departed; Soul; spirit after death

LL#465

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

BH02984

300

شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و الذی اتی من سماء الامر انه لهو الغیب المکنون و

God testifieth that there is none other God but Him and that He Who hath come from the heaven of divine revelation is the Hidden Secret

INBA51:369, BLIB_Or15713.118,

LHKM3.132, TBP#17a

TB#17a

Call to action; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

LL#058

BH02950

Lawh-i-Mihraban

300

Epistle to Mihrabán (Lawh-i-Mihrabán); Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Mihraban (Epistle to Mihraban)

ای مهربان دوستی از دوستان یادت نمود یادت نمودیم امروز آنچه دیده می شود گواهی

O Mihrábán! One of the friends hath evoked thy remembrance; thus have We remembered thee.

INBA66:118, BLIB_Or15690.295, , BLIB_Or15699.120, , BLIB_Or15715.199b, , BLIB_Or15722.097, , MKI4523.285, , BN_suppl.1753.068-069

BRL_DA#124, ZYN.257, ISH.285, AHM.303, YARP1.017, UAB.052bx, DRD.173, AHB_120BE #10 p.360, AKHA_119BE #05-06 p.a

BRL_ATBH#64, BW_v01p037x, BW_v02p057x, BW_v18p967, BLO_PT#033x

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Knowledge; recognition of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; True liberty; freedom; Two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight

LL#172

BH02898

310

مکتوب آنجناب در سجن اعظم بنظر اینمظلوم رسید و اینکه سوال از حکم الله در امر

This Wronged One hath perused thy letter in the Most Great Prison and is apprised of thine enquiry concerning the commandments of God… Magnified be Thy Name, O Lord my God! I am the one who hath turned his face

BLIB_Or15710.240,

BRL_DA#249, AQA5#143 p.193, MAS8.188ax, TBP#17n

TB#17n

B. Spriggs

Knowledge; recognition of God; Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Prayer for service; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Work as worship

LL#103

BH02896

310

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Praise and encouragement; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

لک الحمد یا الهی بما جعلت هذا الیوم عیدا للمقربین من عبادک و المخلصین من

Praise be to Thee, O my God, that Thou hast ordained this day as a festival unto the favoured among Thy servants and the sincere

NFR.036, AHM.133, AYT.340, GHA.405, NSR_1993.115, NFF5.076, AMB#02

DOR#02, DAS.1915-03-22, DAS.1914-04-01

MMAH.105, LL#203

BH02876

310

ع ل غبار نفاق نیر آفاق را احاطه نموده و احزان عالم سرور را منقلب کرده این

The dust of hypocrisy hath enveloped the Luminary of the horizons, and the sorrows of the world have transformed joy into perturbation [3.5s]

INBA51:164, KB_620:157-158, LEID.Or4971?,

Consolation and comfort; Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

BH02874

310

Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Return of the Manifestations of God; Suffering; rejection of Christ

شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو العزیز المحبوب له الجود و الفضل یعطی من یشاء ما

God witnesseth that there is no God but Him, the Gracious, the Best-Beloved. All grace and bounty are His. To whomsoever He will He giveth whatsoever is His wish

INBA23:197b, INBA36:087a, INBA71:249

BRL_DA#782, GWBP#030 p.055ax

GWB#030x

LL#417

BH02867

Saqi bidih abi

310

Hymn to Love (Sáqí, bi-dih ábí), A

ساقی بده آبی زآن شعله فارانی تا که بشویم جان را از وسوسه نفسانی زآن آب کزو

O Cup-Bearer, give me a drop of the mystic Flame, that it may wash my soul from the whispers of the flesh

INBA30:171, OSAI I.MMS,

BRL_DA#491, MAS4.192

LOIR16.223, BLO_PT#042

Love as fire; Love of God; Mystical themes; Pain of love; love as veil; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

LL#284

BH02846

310

بجانان جان همی دریافت ره از بوی او مهر و مه آمیخت با هم روی او و ابروی او

Through His fragrance did the soul find its way to the Beloved; sun and moon commingled in His face and brow [3.5s]

INBA30:167

MAS4.176

Living waters; water of life; Love of God; Manifestation of God as sun; Moses; Pain of love; love as veil; Power of the Manifestation of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

LL#012

BH02806

320

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for fasting; Prayer for forgiveness

یا اله الرحمن و المقتدر علی الامکان تری عبادک و ارقائک الذین یصومون فی

Thou seest, O God of Mercy, Thou Whose power pervadeth all created things, these servants of Thine, Thy thralls… Thou seest, O Lord, our suppliant hands…

GWBP#138 p.192, AHM.110, TSBT.050, NFF5.031, OOL.B090.08

GWB#138

E. Mahony

LL#244, LL#271

BH02781

320

فسبحانک اللهم یا الهی ان هذا عبدک الذی اخذه حرارت حبک و جذبات عشقک و هبت علیه

Glorified art Thou, O my God! This is Thy servant whom the heat of Thy love hath seized and the raptures of Thy divine passion have overtaken [3.5s]

NNY.135-136

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love of God; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God

ROB4.082a, LL#006

BH02777

320

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک بعظمتک التی منها استعظم کل شیء و بانوار وجهک

Glorified art Thou, O my God! I beseech Thee by Thy grandeur, through which all things have derived their greatness, and by the effulgent lights of Thy countenance [3.5s]... ...O my God and my Master! I am Thy servant and the son of Thy servant. I have risen from my couch

INBA49:001, INBA92:190, BLIB_Or15739.230,

BRL_DA#690, AQMJ2.062, TSBT.230x, TSBT.226b, NFF5.048x, ABMK.060, OOL.B090.01x

almunajat.com [item 34]

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for nearness to God; Prayer for protection; Prayer for spiritual recognition; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#271, LL#470

BH02747

320

All things are in motion; kinds of motion; Declaration of Baha'u'llah; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world; Life and death; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Satan; the Evil One; Selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ای بندگان سزاوار آنکه در این بهار جان‌فزا از باران نیسان یزدانی تازه و خرم

O My servants! It behoveth you to refresh and revive your souls through the gracious favors which, in this Divine, this soul-stirring Springtime

INBA35:110, BLIB_Or11096#059, , BLIB_Or15722.089, , CMB_F33.039, , NLI.32p009v, Majlis934.046-049

GWBP#085 p.111b, ZYN.283, AHM.308, MJMM.255, YARP1.013, DWNP_v1#02 p.001-002x, UAB.058bx, DRD.040, DRD.101, PYB#019 p.02

GWB#085, ADJ.081x

LL#072

BH02731

320

الحمد لله الذی اظهر الاسم الاعظم رغما للامم الذین انکروا حجه الله و برهانه و

Praise be unto God Who hath manifested the Most Great Name, despite the nations that denied His proof and His testimony [3.5s]

AQA7#362 p.052

Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#445

BH02699

330

Critique of Western values; culture; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; High station of teachers of the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

قلم اعلی در کل حین ندا میفرماید ولکن اهل سمع کمیاب الوان مختلفه دنیا اهل

The Pen of the Most High is unceasingly calling; and yet, how few are those that have inclined their ear to its voice! The dwellers of the kingdom of names have busied themselves with the gay livery of the world

INBA51:453, BLIB_Or15715.253a,

BRL_DA#683, GWBP#096 p.128x, LHKM3.311

GWB#096x, ADJ.066-67x, ADJ.075x, ADJ.079x, ADJ.083x, ADJ.084x, GPB.377x, WOB.202x

G. Munro, M. Sparrow, L. Dely & M. Congo [track 11]

LL#422

BH02680

330

Trustworthiness

باین بیان که مانند آفتاب جهان از افق آسمان اوامر الهی طالع و مشرق است ناظر

Fix thine eyes upon this utterance, which, even as the sun in the heavens, hath dawned and shone forth from the horizon of God's celestial commandments [3.5s]... ...Were a man in this day to adorn himself with the raiment of trustworthiness it were better for him in the sight of God than that he should journey on foot towards the holy court

INBA19:015, INBA32:015, INBA57:078, BLIB_Or15710.279, , BLIB_Or15722.172, , BLIB_Or15734.2.031,

COMP_TRUSTP#12x, GHA.316ax, UAB.039ax, MAS4.025x, AHB_133BE #03-04 p.003

BRL_TRUST#12x, COC#2024x

Education of children; moral education; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Words vs deeds

LL#261

BH02654

Lawh-i-Kimiya 3

340

یا علی قبل اکبر مکتوبت را عبد حاضر حاضر نمود و در منظر اکبر معروض داشت معلوم

O 'Ali-Qabli-Akbar! This servant in attendance presented thy letter and laid it before the Most Great Horizon. Know thou [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15715.113b, , BLIB_Or15722.168c,

SFI07.016b, MAS1.045x, OOL.B197.3x

Alchemy; the elixir; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#391

BH02628

340

Tablet about Ashrafs mother

لا تجزعی من غربتک تالله لو تنظرین بعینی لتفدین نفسک فی سبیلی بما جعلک الله

Grieve thou not in thine exile. By God! Wert thou to behold through Mine eyes, thou wouldst sacrifice thyself in My path, through that which God hath made thee to be [3.5s]... ...Call thou to mind the behavior of Ashraf’s mother, whose son laid down his life in the Land of Zá (Zanján). He, most certainly, is in the seat of truth

INBA34:182

BRL_DA#074, GWBP#069 p.092x, AQA1#048, TISH.509-510

GWB#069x

Consolation and comfort; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]

LL#363

BH02620

340

ع ل علیک بهاء الله العزیز العلام و سلامه فی اللیالی و الایام جناب نیاز افندی

Upon thee be the Glory of God, the Mighty, the All-Knowing, and His peace throughout the nights and days, O Niyáz Effendi [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15716.087a, , LEID.Or4971?,

Justice and mercy; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for prosperity; Prayer for protection; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Unity; oneness of humanity

Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God

BH02612

340

سبحان الذی بیده ملکوت ملک السموات و الارض و انه کان بکل شی علیما له الجود و

Glorified be He in Whose hand is the dominion of the heavens and of the earth, and verily He hath knowledge of all things. His is the bounty and [3.5s]

INBA36:024, INBA71:181

BRL_DA#217, LHKM1.022

LL#237

BH02595

340

بحر معانی از مطلع فم مشیت رحمانی بصورت این کلمات تجلی فرموده و غیوم اوهام

The ocean of meanings hath shone forth from the Dawning-Place of the Mouth of the All-Merciful Will in the form of these words, and the clouds of vain imaginings [3.5s]

INBA35:152, INBA57:075, BLIB_Or15719.058b,

NNY.138-140, RHQM1.503-504 (617) (378x), PYB#024 p.01

Knowledge; recognition of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Wisdom [hikmat]

ROB4.087, LL#006

BH02591

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Awliya (Vahid)

340

Tablet of Visitation for Vahid-i Darabi (Lawh-i-Ziyarát-i-Vahíd-i-Darabí)

Lawh-i-Ziyarat-i-Vahid-i-Darabi (Tablet of Visitation for Vahid-i Darabi)

اول موج علا من بحر رحمه ربک الرحمن علیک یا سر الفرقان و مستسر البیان اشهد

The first wave of exaltation from the ocean of grace of thy Lord, the Compassionate, be upon thee, who art the essence of the Qur'án

BLIB_Or15714.092, , Majlis210461.091-092

LMA1.347 (207), ASAT4.079x, OOL.B150

BLO_PT#152, NYR#126

Eulogies; reminiscences; Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for martyrs; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Visitation Tablets

MMAH.230, GSH.065, LL#343, LL#351

Tablet of Visitation for Vahid-i Darabi.

BH02563

Lawh-i-Rada'r-Ruh

350

Tablet to Rada'r-Rúh

Lawh-i-Radar-Ruh (Tablet to Radar-Ruh)

یا ایها الناظر الی الوجه اسمع ندآء من سجن مره بعد اخری فی سبیل الله ربک و رب

O Thou who hast fixed his gaze upon the (divine) Countenance! Hearken unto the Call of Him Who hath suffered imprisonment, time after time, in the path of God

INBA73:362, NLAI_BH1.510, NLAI_BH2.249

SFI16.036-037, MUH3.026-027, ASAT1.051x, DLH3.472

BLO_PT#189, BTO#11

Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB3.007-010, LL#197

BH02524

350

Acquiescence and resignation; contentment; Call to action; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ح س علیک بهاء الله رب العالمین لازال نامه های آنجناب که بعبد حاضر ارسال نمودند... سبحانک یا الهی لو لا البلایا فی سبیلک

Upon thee be the Glory of God, the Lord of all worlds! The letters which thou didst dispatch to this servant have never ceased to arrive [3.5s]... ...Glory to Thee, O my God! But for the tribulations which are sustained in Thy path, how could Thy true lovers be recognized

BLIB_Or15716.062.03,

BRL_DA#693, PMP#092x, ADH1.007x

PM#092x, BPRY.220-222x

Niaz & Adrian

ROB3.390, LL#181

BH02517

350

ان یا محمد قبل مصطفی ان استمع الندآء من الافق الحمرآء بما ینطق سدره المنتهی

O Muhammad, before Mustafa! Hearken unto the Call from the crimson horizon, wherewith the Lote-Tree beyond which there is no passing doth speak [3.5s]... ...The hill of God hath trembled on account of the breeze of expected reunion with God.

BLIB_Or11095#027,

LHKM2.259, RHQM2.527 (?), YMM.304x

BSB7.3-4 p34x

Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Wisdom [hikmat]

LL#138

BH02516

350

ان یا فتح الاعظم کن بکینونتک و حقیقتک و ذاتک سمعا لتسمع ما ینطق ربک العلی

O Greatest Victory! Be thou with thine essence, thy reality and thy very being, an ear, that thou mayest hearken unto that which thy Lord, the Most Exalted, doth speak [3.5s]... ...The Mount dwellers have assuredly swooned away on the Elevated Mount. The denizens of the heavenly Kingdom

INBA23:030, INBA83:242, BLIB_Or03114.080rx, , BLIB_Or15725.532, , ALIB.folder18p376

SHHB.134-135x

Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

LL#086

BH02484

360

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Power of prayer; Praise and encouragement; Sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی سلک سبیل الله الواضح المستقیم و تمسک بالعروه

This is a Book from Our presence unto him who hath walked the path of God, manifest and straight, and held fast unto the cord [3.5s]... ...The Ancient Beauty hath consented to be bound with chains that mankind may be released from its bondage, and hath accepted to be made a prisoner

INBA34:181, INBA84:170, INBA84:098b, INBA84:039, BLIB_Or15707.155, , BLIB_Or15735.306,

BRL_DA#656, GWBP#045 p.071ax, AQA1#047, ASAT4.333x, HYK.036

GWB#045x

LL#443

BH02479

360

Inebriation of His Enrapturing Call (mast-and bulbulán), The

مستند بلبلان ز نغمه یاهوی او هم جان ... هم جان عاشقان ز جرعه یاهوی او جان بجانان

Nightingales are inebriated by the melody of His enrapturing Call, and spirit lovers by one draught of His enrapturing Call

INBA30:169, OSAI I.MMS,

BRL_DA#590, MAS4.194

BLO_PT#044

Evanescence and eternality; fana and baqa; Love of God; Mystical themes; Presence of; reunion with God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#269

BH02443

360

انا اردنا ان نذکر من اقبل الینا و نسقیه کوثر العنایه مره بعد مره لیقربه الی

We desire to mention him who hath set his face towards Us and to let him once again drink deep from the life-giving waters

INBA15:303, INBA26:306

PYK.047, TBP#17l

TB#17l

Consolation and comfort; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Praise and encouragement; Predictions and prophecies; Presence of; reunion with God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#043

BH02329

Lawh-i-Babu'l-Ata [Lawh-i-Banu-Qurayzih]

380

Lawh-i-Bábu’l-ʻAtá (or Lawh-i-Banú-Qurayzih)

ذرات کائنات شاهد و حقائق ممکنات گواه که این عبد از ظهور و اظهار امر مقصودی جز

The atoms of every contingent being and the realities of all created things bear witness that this Servant.... When I was but a child, this Wronged One read an account of the invasion of the Banú-Qurayẓih recorded in a book attributed to the late Mullá Báqir Majlisí.

INBA81:158, BLIB_Or15695.037, , BLIB_Or15724.101,

MAS7.135, ASAT2.017x

ADMS#042

Early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah; Episodes from the early history of Islam; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Personal instructions; Purpose of religion in the world (personal and social); Unity; oneness of humanity

ROB2.348, LL#075

BH02324

Lawh-i-Karmil (Tablet of Carmel)

380

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Lawh-i-Karmil (Tablet of Carmel)

حبذا هذا الیوم المبارک الذی لا تعادله القرون و الاعصار حبذا هذا الیوم اذ

All glory be to this Day, the Day in which the fragrances of mercy have been wafted over all created things

GWBP#011 p.018, RHQM2.0976-977 (412) (254-255), ASAT5.027x, PYB#041 p.04, AHB_110BE #17-18 p.340, ANDA#06 p.01, TBP#01, NJB_v06#05 p.6, OOL.B051

TB#01, DAS.1914-01-02, GWB#011, TDH#064.3x, TDH#064.6x, GPB.219x, GPB.277-278x, GPB.278x, WOB.105x, SW_v14#05 p.149

J. Murday, Ahdieh, NIKNAK, Mea, almunajat.com [items 42-43]

Brief proclamatory tablet, revealed during a visit to Mount Carmel, taking the form of a joyful dialogue between Bahá’u’lláh and the sacred mountain and promising that ‘Ere long will God sail His Ark upon thee, and will manifest the people of Bahá who have been mentioned in the Book of Names’, words that have been taken as the charter for the establishment of the Bahá’í World Centre in Haifa.

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Presence of; reunion with God; Proclamation to Jews; Shrines and Holy places

ROB4.351, ROB4.423, BKOG.375, GPB.219, GPB.345, MMAH.081, GSH.147, LL#137

BH02307

Ziyarat-Namih (Tablet of Visitation)

380

Bahá'í Scriptures; Prayers and Meditations; Days of Remembrance; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

Ziyarat-Namih (Tablet of Visitation for the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh)

الثناء الذی ظهر من نفسک الاعلی و البهاء الذی طلع من جمالک الابها علیک یا مظهر الکبریاء و

The praise which hath dawned from Thy most august Self, and the glory which hath shone forth from Thy most effulgent Beauty

INBA47:245ax, INBA65:065, INBA33:157, Majlis210461.119-120

PMP#180, AHM.092b, AYT.227, TSBT.277, NSR_1993.118, NFF2.003, ABMK.045, OOL.B149, AMB#33

PM#180, DOR#33, BPRY.328, DAS.1914-08-30, SW_v09#19 p.222, SW_v12#15 p.246, BSC.184 #266x, BP1929.013x

A. Nakhjavani, Ahdieh, S. Toloui-Wallace, almunajat.com [item 11], K. Towfigh [track 9], unknown

Prayer of visitation compiled by Nabíl Zarandí after the passing of Bahá’u’lláh and often recited in His Shrine.

Praise and encouragement; Prayer for the departed; Presence of; reunion with God; 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

BKOG.427, MMAH.205, GSH.206, LL#341

Consists of four passages selected by Nabil-i-Zarandi at the instruction of Abdu'l-Baha; the source Tablets are BH01728, BH06772, BH04427, and BH09728. Regarding the chant by A. Nakhjavani, he related to the compiler (sp) in 1995 that, to his best recollection from childhood, this is how Shoghi Effendi would chant the Tablet in the Shrines. blog.loomofreality.org

BH02301

390

یا سمندر لعمرک قد تجددت مصیبه محمد رسول الله فی الجنه العلیا و رزیه البتول

O Samandar! By thy life! The calamity of Muhammad, the Apostle of God, hath been renewed in the Most Exalted Paradise, and likewise the tribulation of the Pure One [3.5s]

INBA97:039, BLIB_Or15697.191,

AYBY.044b, NNY.169-171, SAM.180, TRZ1.074a, LDR.152x

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Imagery in the Qur'an; Imam Husayn; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment

ROB4.088b, LL#006, LL#241

BH02294

390

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]; Justice and wrath of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Suffering and imprisonment

هر منصفی شهادت داده و میدهد که اینمظلوم از اول ظهور کل را بافق اعلی دعوت

Every unbiased observer will readily admit that, ever since the dawn of His Revelation, this wronged One hath invited all mankind to turn their faces towards the Dayspring of Glory

BLIB_Or15715.328b,

BRL_DA#795, GWBP#059 p.081bx, SFI16.045-046x

GWB#059x, ADJ.032x, GPB.194x4x, GPB.196x

LL#375

BH02249

390

الحمد لله الذی ایدنا علی الصیام فی شهر القیام الذی قام فیه الناس لعباده الله

Praise be unto God Who hath strengthened us to observe the Fast in the month of arising, wherein mankind arose for the worship of God [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15700.237, , BLIB_Or15711.089,

Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Knowledge; recognition of God; Law of fasting; Muhammad; Islam; One universal law; attractive power of love; Power of love; Presence of; reunion with God

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Translation List

BH02224

400

قلم اعلی این ایام بلسان پارسی تکلم میفرماید تا طایران هوای عرفان بیان رحمن را

The Most Exalted Pen in these days speaketh in the Persian tongue, that the birds soaring in the atmosphere of divine knowledge may comprehend the utterance of the All-Merciful [3.5s]... ...Some have regarded it as lawful to infringe on the integrity of the substance of their neighbor, and have made light of the injunction of God

INBA15:312, INBA35:170b, INBA26:316, BLIB_Or07852.092, , BLIB_Or15719.149c, , BN_suppl.1753.100-102

BRL_DA#662, GWBP#137 p.190x, LHKM3.372, UAB.047ex, MAS8.007bx, HYB.020

GWB#137x, COC#2041x, ADJ.023-024x, TRBP.003-004, ADMS#066x

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Suffering and imprisonment; Theft; seizing the properties of others

LL#358

BH02218

400

Justice and wrath of God; Mosaic imagery; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

شهد الله بلسانه الحق فیکل الألواح بأننی انا حی فی الأفق الأبهی و اذا تالله فی هذا الأفق

God hath, through His tongue that uttereth the truth, testified in all His Tablets to these words: “I am He that liveth in the Abhá Realm of Glory.”

BLIB_Or15694.334, , BLIB_Or15725.152, , ALIB.folder18p346

BRL_DA#647, GWBP#103 p.136a, PYB#337 p.12

GWB#103

LL#313

BH02209

Lawh-i-Ard-i-Ba

400

Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Lawh-i-Ard-i-Ba (Tablet of the Land of Ba)

حمدا لمن تشرف ارض الباء بقدوم من طاف حوله الاسماء بذلک بشرت الذرات کل

Praise be to Him Who hath honoured the Land of Bá through the presence of Him round Whom all names revolve.

INBA81:088x, BLIB_Or15727a.043,

AHM.107x, HDQI.005x, AHDW.009x, ASAT4.413x, AHB_128BE #06-11 p.196x, TBP#16x, OOL.B166x

TB#16x, GPB.243x, WOB.136x, SW_v04#14 p.239x, SW_v08#14 p.185x

almunajat.com [item 21], L. Slott

Consolation and comfort; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Prayer for specific individuals; groups; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ROB4.240, BKOG.378, YMM.151, LL#061

BH02198

Lawh-i-'Ashiq va Ma'shuq

400

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Days of Remembrance

Lawh-i-Ashiq va Mashuq (Tablet of the Lover and the Beloved)

ای بلبلان الهی از خارستان ذلت بگلستان معنوی بشتابید و ای یاران ترابی قصد

Release yourselves, O nightingales of God, from the thorns and brambles of wretchedness and misery

INBA35:041, Majlis210461.046-048

GWBP#151 p.205c, MJMM.334, AYT.319, DWNP_v4#11-12 p.059-060, UAB.059c.11x, DRD.029x, PYB#019 p.01, AHB_104BE #06 p.003, AHB_118BE #02 p.031, AKHA_120BE #02-03 p.b, AKHA_130BE #03 p.a, AKHA_133BE #11 p.252, AKHA_134BE #03 p.105, AKHA_135BE #02 p.25, ANDA#02 p.02, MSBH6.406x, OOL.B028, AMB#21

GWB#151, DOR#21

R. Lea, KC Porter, TaliaSafa, Mona, Sasha & Sam, Eduke

Addresses the ‘nightingales of God’, announcing the blooming of a ‘new flower’ in the ‘rose-garden of changeless splendour’, calling them to detach themselves from the world and to taste ‘the abandonment of enraptured love’, and warning them of the fleeting nature of their opportunity.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Love of God; Manifestation of God as sun; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ROB2.241, MMAH.136, GSH.176, LL#064

BH02194

400

ان یا اسمنا الاصدق قد شربت رحیق اللقاء اذ کان مالک الاسماء فی الزورآء و مره

O Our Name, the Most Truthful! Thou didst quaff the choice wine of reunion when the Lord of Names was in Zawrá [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15719.025b,

MJAN.048, MAS4.362, AKHA_121BE #10 p.a, PYK.029

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Presence of; reunion with God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB3.253, ROB3.258, LL#127

BH02183

Asl-i-Kullu'l-Khayr (Words of Wisdom)

400

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Asl-i-Kullul-Khayr (Words of Wisdom)

اصل کل الخیر هو الاعتماد علی الله و الانقیاد لامره و الرضاء لمرضاته اصل الحب

The source of all good is trust in God, submission unto His command, and contentment with His holy will and pleasure.

INBA36:170, INBA30:039, BLIB_Or15714.155, , NLI.32p026r, OSAI I.MMS

AVK1.014.09x, AVK3.003.04x, AVK3.161.13x, ZYN.036, AHM.044, MJMM.033, TZH4.224, NSR_1993.083, TBP#10, OOL.B002

TB#10, SW_v04#10 p.171, SW_v06#16 p.121, SW_v07#18 p.185-186, SW_v14#04 p.099-100, BSC.158 #155-163

Y. Mesbah, E. Mahony, Pradheep, Shayna, Shafireh & Prasad, Soulrise Melodies

A brief collection of moral maxims, summarizing the essence of faith, love, wisdom, religion, wealth, and others and centring around belief in God and submission to His will.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Exhortations and counsels; Fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf]; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Independent investigation of truth; reality; Love of God; Thankfulness; gratitude; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Words vs deeds

MMAH.194, GSH.210, LL#008

BH02170

Lawh-i-Nuqtih

410

Lawh-i-Nuqtih (Tablet of the Point)

هذا لوح القدس قد جعل الله مقامه مقام النقطه کما ان من النقطه فصلت کل الحروفات

This is the Tablet of holiness; upon it hath God conferred the station of the point, just as it is through the point that every letter and word is made distinct

BRL_DA#737, LHKM1.020

ADMS#228

Proclaims itself as occupying the station of the point, differentiating all that has been revealed from all eternity to all eternity, in the same way that the point differentiates letters and words.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Word of God the cause of creation

ROB2.397, BKOG.220, BKOG.245, LL#206

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

BH02162

410

Days of Remembrance; Days of Remembrance; Countenance of the Blessed Beauty in the Mirror of Mawlúd Tablets, The

لوح من لدنا الی لیله فیها لاحت السموات و الارض من نیر به انار من فی العالمین

This is a Tablet We have addressed unto that night wherein the heavens and the earth were illumined by a Light that cast its radiance over the entire creation

INBA08:619, INBA35:001, BLIB_Or15706.117, , BLIB_Or15714.003,

AYT.012, GHA.388, NSR_1993.093, ABMK.038, DLH3.392, AMB#40

DOR#40

NIKNAK, B. Rezaei

Declaration; advent of the Bab; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#169

BH02113

420

م ع ان استمع ما یلقی الروح علیک من آیات الله المهیمن القیوم لیجذبک الندآء

Give ear unto that which the Spirit imparteth unto thee in the days of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting

INBA33:011

TBP#17m

TB#17m

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Exhortations and counsels; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

LL#167

BH02101

420

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for tests and difficulties; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

فنعم یا الهی ما استغرد بغاء الداود فی حدیقه الزبور من تغنیات ورقاء الانجذاب... الهی الهی لا تبعد عنّی لأنّ الشّدائد بکلّها احاطتنی

O God, my God! Be Thou not far from me, for tribulation upon tribulation hath gathered about me.

INBA33:022x, INBA30:117.09x, INBA92:035

BRL_DA#544, PMP#145x, AHM.052x, TZH4.143ax, AQMJ1.013x, ADH1.041, OOL.B159.1

PM#145x

LL#492

BH02046

430

Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment

در قرون اولی تفکر نما هر هنگام که آفتاب عنایت الهی از افق ظهور طالع شد ناس

Consider the former generations. Witness how every time the Day Star of Divine bounty hath shed the light of His Revelation upon the world

BLIB_Or15715.361a,

GWBP#023 p.045

GWB#023, GPB.187x, PDC.131-132x

LL#354

BH02035

430

Acquiescence and resignation; contentment; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment

ان یا مصطفی قد حضر بین یدینا کتابک و قرأناه و انا کنا قارئین و سمعنا حنین قلبک

O Mustafa! Thy letter hath reached Our presence, and We have read it, for verily We have ever been the Reader thereof, and We have hearkened unto the yearning of thy heart [3.5s]... ...Recall thou to mind My sorrows, My cares and anxieties, My woes and trials, the state of My captivity, the tears that I have shed, the bitterness of Mine anguish

BLIB_Or15694.336, , ALIB.folder18p347

BRL_DA#646, GWBP#062 p.084ax, PYB#337 p.09

GWB#062x, PDC.014x

LL#416

BH02022

Lawh-i-Ahmad (Arabic)

440

Tablet of Ahmad, Arabic (Lawh-i-Ahmad); Tablet of Ahmad (Arabic); Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

Lawh-i-Ahmad (Tablet of Ahmad (Arabic))

هذه ورقه الفردوس تغنی علی افنان سدره البقا بالحان قدس ملیح و یبشر المخلصین

Lo, the Nightingale of Paradise singeth upon the twigs of the Tree of Eternity, with holy and sweet melodies

INBA19:001, INBA32:002, INBA36:041, INBA71:199, INBA30:076, BN_suppl.1974.067

BRL_DA#197, AHM.193, RSBB.007, SFI17.008, TZH4.302, TSBT.215, NSR_1993.025, NFF1.016, BSHA.032, ASAT5.103x, ABMK.052, OOL.B023a

BPRY.307

Ahdieh, L. Slott, G.H. Miller, Seals & Crofts, L. Bergsmo & S. Vadeghani, R. Lehmer-Chang, MANA, N. Hamilton, R. Grammer [track 2], L. Dely, L. Dely & M. Congo, KC Porter, Ladjamaya [track 15], almunajat.com [item 19], F. Dehghan & M. Weigert

Brief words of consolation and encouragement to its recipient, affirming the prophetic station of the Báb, exhorting steadfastness, and assuring the resolution of difficulties and the removal of afflictions to the one who chants it.

Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Power of prayer; Recompense; reward for belief; right action; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.107, MMAH.183, GSH.074, LL#040

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

Love of God; Mystical themes; Poems and quotation from poetry; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light

Ecstatic poem celebrating the descent of the Maid of Heaven, who brings both life and death to her lovers.

ROB1.219, MMAH.143, LL#017

BH01966

Hur-i-'Ujab (The Wondrous Maiden)

450

Hur-i-Ujab (Tablet of the Wondrous Maiden)

قد طلع جمال القدس عن خلف الحجاب و ان هذا لشیء عجاب و انصعقت الارواح من نار

The hallowed Beauty shone resplendent from behind the veil. How wondrous a thing, how wondrous indeed!

INBA47:245b, INBA36:463a, BLIB_Or15706.122, , BLIB_Or15714.025,

AHM.153, AYT.251, AHB_120BE #03-06 p.001, OOL.B009, AMB#12

DOR#12, RBB.132-133, BLO_PT#145

L. Slott, R. Yazhari

Ecstatic poem announcing the appearance and unveiling of the Maid of Heaven, her announcement to the people of the world, their rejection of her summons, and her return in sorrow to her abode.

Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Mystical themes; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ROB1.218, ROB1.211, MMAH.134, MMAH.232, LL#018, LL#042

BH01965

450

قد حضر کتابک و کان برهانا علی حبک و اقبالک و خضوعک و خشوعک و استقامیتک علی امر

Thy letter hath reached Our presence and standeth as a testimony to thy love and devotion, thy humility and submissiveness, and thy steadfastness in the Cause [3.5s]

LEID.Or4971-2,

BH01928

460

Call to action; Declaration; advent of the Bab; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Praise and encouragement; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

قد نطق اللسان باعلی البیان و نادت الکلمه باعلی الندآء الملک لله خالق السماء و

Lo, the Tongue of Glory hath called aloud and the Word of God hath cried out, proclaiming: The Kingdom is God’s

BLIB_Or11095#101,

AYT.180, GHA.371x, NSR_1993.107, AMB#28

DOR#28

LL#149

BH01924

460

Apocalyptic imagery; Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Predictions and prophecies; Suffering and imprisonment

ص و النبا العظیم قد اتی الرحمن بسلطان مبین و وضع المیزان و حشر من علی الارض

By Him Who is the Great Announcement! The All-Merciful is come invested with undoubted sovereignty. The Balance hath been appointed

INBA34:150, BLIB_Or15707.090, , BLIB_Or15735.252,

BRL_DA#659, GWBP#017 p.034x, AQA1#027, PYK.017, DLH1.048, HYK.252

GWB#017x, WOB.194x

ROB3.032, LL#453

BH01911

Huwa Munfikhu'r-Ruh (Lawh-i-Nuqtih?)

460

Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá

حمد خدا را که عیون حیوان غیبی که در حجبات ستر الهی مستور بود بتاییدات روح

Praise be to God that the invisible springs of life that were concealed behind the divine veil are now abundantly flowing from the reality of the Word

INBA36:463b, BLIB_Or15706.133, , BLIB_Or15714.047,

BRL_DA#642, MJMM.272, AKHA_121BE #08 p.a, OOL.B064

WIND#125, BLO_sazedj#09

Continual renewal of creation; Living waters; water of life; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#120

BH01888

470

Collection; ordering of the Sacred Writings; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Law of fasting; Prayer for fasting; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayer for victory and requital; triumph of the Cause; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

یا الهی هذه ایام فیها فرضت الصیام علی عبادک و به طرزت دیباج کتاب اوامرک بین

These are, O my God, the days whereon Thou didst enjoin Thy servants to observe the fast. With it Thou didst adorn the preamble of the Book

INBA92:370

PMP#085, AHM.115, TSBT.053, NFF5.051, OOL.B090.03

PM#085, BPRY.270

K. Porray, E. Mahony, B. Weber, unknown

LL#271, LL#472

BH01881

470

Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Prophecy and fulfillment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Word of God and human limitations

قلم اعلی در سجن عکا باحبای ارض خا توجه نموده یعنی نفوسیکه بطراز جدید مزین

The Most Exalted Pen hath, in the Prison of 'Akká, turned toward the loved ones in the land of Khá, namely, those souls who are adorned with the new raiment [3.5s]... ...The time foreordained unto the peoples and kindreds of the earth is now come. The promises of God, as recorded in the holy Scriptures, have all been fulfilled

BLIB_Or15719.171c, , BLIB_Or15722.191,

BRL_DA#538, GWBP#010 p.016bx, MJMM.267, DLS.065, ASAT1.250x, ASAT3.238x, YMM.408x, YMM.430x

GWB#010x, PDC.124x2x

LL#376, LL#426

BH01880

470

Apocalyptic imagery; Chastisement and requital; Imagery in the Qur'an; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God

قل انا انزلنا من جهه العرش ماء البیان لینبت به من قلوبکم نبات الحکمه و

Say: We have caused the rivers of Divine utterance to proceed out of Our throne, that the tender herbs of wisdom and understanding may spring forth

INBA34:148, BLIB_Or15707.087, , BLIB_Or15735.249,

GWBP#018 p.036, AQA1#026, HYK.249

GWB#018

Turning Point

LL#402

BH01865

Lawh-i-Rasul

470

Lawh-i-Rasul (Tablet to Rasul)

ان یا رسول اگر از شمس سماء معنی پرسی در کسوف حسد مکسوف و مغطوء و اگر از قمر

O Rasúl! Shouldst thou ask concerning the Sun of the heaven of inner meaning, know that it hath been eclipsed by the clouds of envy

INBA38:257

NANU_BH#10x, ASAT4.013x, AMB#30, QUM.029

DOR#30

Identifies Himself, through His sufferings, with the prophets of the past and announces His intention to take leave of both friend and foe.

Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Love of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment

MMAH.107, GSH.181, LL#219

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

BH01850

Lawh-i-Shaykh Fani

480

Lawh-i-Shaykh Fání (Tablet to Shaykh Fání)

قلم اعلی من فی الانشا را ندا میفرماید و بحق واحد هدایت مینماید ای شیخ فانی حمد کن

The Most Exalted Pen calleth unto all who dwell in creation and guideth them unto the One True God. O mortal elder! Render thou praise [3.5s]... ...He is indeed a true believer in the unity of God who, in this Day, will regard Him as One immeasurably exalted above all the comparisons and likenesses with which men have compared Him

BLIB_Or03116.111r, , BLIB_Or11096#041, , NLI.32p132r, Majlis934.031-036

BRL_DA#704, GWBP#160 p.217x, AVK1.175ax, OOL.B080

GWB#160x

Stresses the importance of distinguishing the transcendent reality of God from the signs of God in the world, taking as an example the subject of mystical self-surrender (faná’) and eternal union (baqá’) with God, which should be understood as the act of complete renunciation of worldly desire and not the elevation of the individual will to that of God.

Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Empty learning; false spirituality; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Law of fasting; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Transcendence; unknowability of God

GSH.177, LL#240

BH01835

480

River of Life, The

ان یا محمد بشر فی نفسک بما نزل علیک کتاب قدس کریم و فیه ما ینقطعک عن ملک

Rejoice in thy soul, O Muhammad, inasmuch as a noble and holy Book hath been sent down unto you. In it is that which shall detach thee

INBA36:152b, INBA71:323, INBA92:222x

ADM3#038 p.051x, LHKM2.017, MJMM.301, DAUD.29, ADH1.078

ROL.045-048, SW_v13#11 p.317

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Word of God and human limitations

LL#185

BH01828

480

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Twin Manifestations

اذا نطق لسان الله فی کل شیء بانی حی فی هذا الافق الذی ظهر بالحق و سمی فی

When the Tongue of God spoke within all things, proclaiming: "Verily, I am alive in this horizon which hath appeared in truth and hath been named..." [3.5s]... ...O people! I swear by the one true God! This is the Ocean out of which all seas have proceeded, and with which every one of them will ultimately be united

BLIB_Or15694.451, , ALIB.folder18p357

BRL_DA#670, GWBP#051 p.074x, LMA1.413 (249b), MAS4.086, RHQM2.0712-714 (104) (065-066)

GWB#051x, ADJ.080x

LL#424

BH01822

Lawh-i-Amr

490

Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Word of God and human limitations

هذا لوح الامر قد نزل من لدن مالک القدر لیقرب الناس الی المنظر الاکبر هذا المقام

This is the Tablet of Command which hath been sent down from the presence of the Lord of Destiny, that it may draw mankind nigh unto the Most Great Vision, this exalted station [3.5s]... ...There hath appeared in this Revelation what hath never appeared before. As to the infidels that have witnessed what hath been manifested

INBA34:145, BLIB_Or15707.079, , BLIB_Or15735.242, , NLAI_BH3.157

BRL_DA#660, GWBP#067 p.090x, AQA1#024, AVK2.274.04x, SFI13.017, ASAT1.207x, TISH.276-278, FBAH.143, DLH2.218, HYK.242, LDR.430x

GWB#067x

ROB2.161, LL#047

BH01801

490

ان یا قلمی الاعلی انا نراک ترکض فی اللوح مره تمیل الی الیمین و اخری الی

O My Most Exalted Pen! Verily, We behold thee hastening across the Tablet, now inclining to the right, and at another moment to the left [3.5s]

INBA15:301, INBA26:304

MAS4.150bx, MAS8.041ax

Blind imitation [taqlid]; Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

LL#355

BH01786

500

Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá

Tablet of visitation for Badi

هذا کتاب نزل بالحق و فیه یذکر ما یلوح به وجه الامر بین الارضین و السموات قل

This is a Book sent down in truth in remembrance of that which hath caused the face of the Cause of God to unveil its splendor betwixt earth and heaven

INBA34:138, BLIB_Or11095#003, , BLIB_Or15707.062, , BLIB_Or15735.228, , LEID.Or4970.64v-66r,

BRL_DA#082, AQA1#020, ASAT4.081x, AKHA_124BE #02-03 p.jx, TSHA3.380, HYK.229, LDR.412

BLO_sazedj#06

Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB3.179, ROB3.202, LL#032

BH01774

Suriy-i-Hijr

500

فسبحان الذی خرق حجبات الممکنات بسلطانه و خلق السموات بامره و انزل من مکفهرات

Glorified be He Who hath rent asunder the veils of all contingent beings through His sovereignty, and hath fashioned the heavens by His command, and hath caused to descend from the darkening clouds [3.5s]

INBA37:001, BLIB_Or15723.166, , BLIB_Or15737.004,

AQA4#077 p.072, AQA4a.024, ASAT5.262x, OOL.B123

Announces His withdrawal from the community and His sorrow at the state of affairs that made this action necessary.

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Personal instructions; Proclamation to the people of the world; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment

ROB2.397, GSH.188, LL#308

BH01761

Suriy-i-Zuhur

500

Súriy-i-Zuhúr (Surah of Revelation)

تلک آیات الکتاب قد نزلت علی احسن النغمات و انها بنفسها لیکون حجه علی من فی

These are the verses of the Book, revealed in the most melodious of tones, and they shall, of themselves, stand as testimony against all who dwell therein [3.5s]

INBA83:113, BLIB_Or15702.028, , ALIB.folder18p316

PYK.115, OOL.B143

Declares, at a time when He is beset on all sides, that His revelation is the testimony of God that separates truth from error; asserts that what the people recognize of His cause is but the robe and cloak wherewith He attires Himself; and admonishes the people for failing to recognize Him upon His return, after changing His garb and departing for but a little while from their midst.

Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power of faith; power of the spirit; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Word of God and human limitations

LL#332

Not to be confused with Lawh-i-Zuhur (BH00686).

BH01712

520

یا طاهر نامه ات چندی قبل بساحت امنع اقدس واصل و باصغاء مظلوم فائز یا طاهر ناس

O Tahir! Some time ago thy letter reached the Most Holy and Most Exalted Court and was graced with the hearing of the Wronged One. O Tahir [3.5s]

KHML.238-240

Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#158

BH01707

Lawh-i-Jud

520

یا اسمی الجود علیک بهائی ان استمع ما سمعته من قبل اذ کان نیر البرهان مشرقا

O thou who bearest My Name, Júd! Upon thee be My Glory. Give ear unto that which thou didst hear aforetime

BLIB_Or15715.232b,

BRL_DA#247, FBAH.000ii, TBP.000ii, TBP#17h

TB#17h

Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Wisdom [hikmat]

LL#134

BH01678

520

ان یا علی ان اشهد فی نفسک بانه لا اله الا هو و ان الذی ظهر باسم علی قبل نبیل انه

O Ali! Bear thou witness in thine inmost heart that verily there is none other God but Him, and that He Who appeared bearing the name of Ali before Nabil, verily He [3.5s]

INBA83:191, BLIB_Or03114.088, , BLIB_Or15702.231, , ALIB.folder18p321

MAS4.175cx

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ROB3.194, LL#429

BH01658

530

کتاب نزلت آیاته عربیا و انه فصل من ام الکتاب من لدی الله العزیز الوهاب و فیه یلقی

A Book whose verses have been sent down in Arabic, and verily it is a chapter from the Mother Book from the presence of God, the Mighty, the All-Bountiful, wherein is cast [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15715.143c,

MAS4.095ax, ASAT5.177x, MSHR5.143-144x

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#447

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

BH01652

530

Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

سبحان الله اظهر امره و انطق الاشیاء علی انه لا اله الا هو الحق علام الغیوب

Glorified be God Who hath manifested His Cause and made all things speak forth that there is none other God but Him, the Truth, the Knower of things unseen [3.5s]... ...Happy is the man who will arise to serve My Cause, and glorify My beauteous Name. Take hold of My Book with the power of My might

BRL_DA#679, GWBP#028 p.052x, AVK2.056.06x, MJMM.219, ASAT1.113x

GWB#028x, WOB.172-173x

LL#435

BH01644

Lawh-i-Bulbulu'l-Firaq (Tablet of the Nightingale of Bereavement)

530

Tablet of Nightingale of Separation (Lawh-i-Bulbulu'l-Firáq)

Lawh-i-Bulbulul-Firaq (Tablet of Nightingale of Separation)

بلبل الفراق علی غصن الافاق ینادی هذا الفراق یا ملا الاشتیاق و طیر الوفا یتغن

The nightingale of separation, perched upon the branch of the horizon, calls out in grief, you who are filled with yearning

INBA38:063, INBA36:376b, INBA71:074b

AQA4#095 p.324x, AQA4a.363x, GSH.042, OOL.B034a, OOL.B034b

SW_v12#16 p.251, BLO_PT#115

Announces in sorrowful language His departure from Baghdad and reproaches those who had thus far failed to recognize Him.

Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Call to action; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB1.244, MMAH.079, LL#080

BH01640

530

Absolute freedom; independence of God; Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ان یا عبد قد حضر بین یدینا کتابک و عرفنا بما فیه و کان الله علی ما فی قلبک علیما

O servant! Your letter hath come before Our presence, and We have understood that which was therein, and verily God is the All-Knowing of what lieth within thy heart [3.5s]... ...And now concerning thy reference to the existence of two Gods. Beware, beware, lest thou be led to join partners with the Lord, thy God

BLIB_Or15694.307, , ALIB.folder18p340

BRL_DA#672, GWBP#094 p.126x

GWB#094x

LL#456

BH01637

530

ان یا اسم الله اسمع نغمات الروح و لاتلتفت الی الذینهم کفروا بالله و آیاته و

O Name of God! Hearken unto the melodies of the Spirit and turn not unto them that have denied God and His signs [3.5s]

BLIB_Or03114.077, , BLIB_Or15725.110, , BLIB_Or15737.201,

LHKM1.026, NNY.131-132

Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB4.080, LL#006

BH01624

Lawh-i-Rida

2400

Lawh-i-Rida (Tablet to Rida)

بروحی و کینونتی لک الفدآء یا حبّذا بما فزت بکتابک الّذی کان رأسه مزیّناً باکلیل ذکر ربّنا

By My spirit and essence, may I be a sacrifice unto Thee! How excellent it is that thou hast attained unto thy letter, whose apex was adorned with the crown of the remembrance of our Lord! [3.5s]... ...That which thou hast heard concerning Abraham, the Friend of the All-Merciful, is the truth, and no doubt is there about it.

BLIB_Or11096#234x, , BLIB_Or15722.034x, , BN_suppl.1754.143-144x

BRL_DA#682a, GWBP#032 p.056x, AVK2.160.20x, AVK2.196.11x, AVK3.117.05x, MJMM.330x, MAS1.075x, ASAT1.037x, ASAT1.142x, ASAT2.036x, ASAT3.008x, ASAT3.082x, ASAT3.268x, BCH.032x, TABN.215bx

GWB#032x

Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause

LL#220

BH01615

540

قد ارسل الی حضرتک عریضه من قبل و تلک مره اخری لان کلما یتوجه الیک احد یشتعل

Verily I have sent unto thy presence a petition aforetime, and this is yet another, for whenever anyone turneth unto thee, they are set aflame [3.5s]... ...Blessed the palate that savoreth its sweetness, and the perceiving eye that recognizeth that which is treasured therein

INBA28:046

BRL_DA#113, AVK1.010bx, AVK1.010.10x

GPB.216x

Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Praise and encouragement; Review of publications; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Unity; oneness of humanity

ROB3.279, LL#098

BH01611

540

ذکر بلایای احباب شده بود الحمد لله که احبای الهی هر یک علی قدره از کاس بلا در

Mention was made of the tribulations of the loved ones. Praised be God that each of His loved ones hath, in the measure decreed for him, drunk from the chalice of affliction [3.5s]... ...detachment, love and trust in God

BLIB_Or11096#023, , BLIB_Or15710.003, , NLAI_BH1.519, NLAI_BH2.255b

MAS8.005x

GPB.182x

Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

LL#388

BH01591

Suriy-i-Dhabih 4

550

Call to action; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment

قلم الامر یقول الملک یومئذ لله لسان القدره یقول السلطنه یومئذ لله ورقاء العماء علی

The Pen of Revelation exclaimeth: “On this Day the Kingdom is God’s!” The Tongue of Power is calling: “On this Day all sovereignty is, in very deed, with God!”

INBA83:270, BLIB_Or15725.561, , NLAI_BH1.445

BRL_DA#543, GWBP#015 p.031x, OOL.B112.4x

GWB#015x, GPB.155x

LL#385

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

BH01580

550

رسولی لاتحزن عما ورد علیک لعمری انک تحت جناح فضل ربک العزیز الحمید اشهد انک

O My Messenger! Grieve not for that which hath befallen thee. By My life! Thou art beneath the wing of thy Lord's grace, the Mighty, the All-Praised. I bear witness that thou [3.5s]... ...I beseech Thee, O Thou the best Beloved of the worlds and God of all in the heavens and on earth, to grant that I be confirmed in Thy love and steadfast under Thy command

INBA34:130, BLIB_Or11095#004, , BLIB_Or15707.045, , BLIB_Or15735.214,

AQA1#016, ADM2#039 p.066x, HYK.214, OOL.B072

JHT_S#039x

Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for protection; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

MMAH.108, GSH.180, LL#219

BH01572

550

بشنوید ندای الهی را و ببصر حدید و قلب منیر در کلمات بدیعش نظر نمائید و تفکر

Hearken unto the divine Call, and with penetrating vision and illumined heart, ponder the wondrous words He hath revealed, and meditate thereon [3.5s]... ...Praise be to Thee, O my God! I beseech Thee by Thy Most Great Name, whereby the Sun of Thy Command shone forth above the horizon of Thine inspiration

INBA47:244, INBA33:018bx, BLIB_Or03116.078, , BLIB_Or11096.172, , BLIB_Or15722.019,

AVK3.453.07x, AVK4.060.03, AHM.210, AQMJ2.099x, GHA.340x, MAS4.102ax, NSR_1993.020x, BSHA.060, ADH1.012x, AKHA_105BE #04 p.001x, VUJUD.095.07x

RBB.119x, VUJUDE.138x, JHT_S#001

almunajat.com [item 28]

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#486

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

BH01536

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Bayt (Lawh-i-Hajj Baghdad)

570

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Translation List

یا ایها الناظر الی المنظر الاکبر اسمع ندآء جمال القدم من شطر سجنه الاعظم

O thou who gazest upon the Most Great Scene! Hearken unto the call of the Ancient Beauty from the direction of His Most Great Prison [3.5s]... ...When thou art departed out of the court of My presence, O Muḥammad, direct thy steps towards My House (Baghdád House), and visit it on behalf of thy Lord

INBA34:136, INBA49:283, BLIB_Or15707.058, , BLIB_Or15735.225, , NLAI_BH1.007x

BRL_DA#712, GWBP#057 p.079x, AQA1#019, AHM.097, TSBT.090, RHQM2.0805-807 (214) (133-134x), ASAT2.111x, HYK.255, OOL.B152

GWB#057x, GPB.110x9x, GPB.149x2x, GPB.360x, MBW.168x, PDC.026x, ADMS#107

Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Rejection, opposition and persecution; Shrines and Holy places; Suffering and imprisonment

MMAH.206, GSH.206, LL#114, LL#345

Tablet to be recited when making pilgrimage to Bahá'u'lláh's House in Baghdad

BH01507

570

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Letters of the Living; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ان یا حرف الحی لقد سمعت اذن الله ندآئک و لاحظت عین الله کتابک و ینادیک حینئذ عن

O Letter of the Living! The ear of God hath heard thy cry, and His eyes have beheld thy written supplication. He is calling thee from His seat of glory

INBA19:183, INBA32:166, INBA83:255, BLIB_Or03114.063r, , BLIB_Or15725.545, , BLIB_Or15737.180, , ALIB.folder18p284

BRL_DA#770, GWBP#135 p.187x

GWB#135x

LL#412

BH01506

570

الحمد لله الذی توحد بالعظمه و تفرد بالکلمة التی اذا ظهرت ظهرت الحاقة

Praise be unto Him Who standeth alone in His grandeur and is unique through His Word, whereupon its revelation hath manifested the Ultimate Truth [3.5s]

INBA81:148, BLIB_Or15719.139b,

Day of Resurrection; Judgement; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment

LL#227

BH01494

Suriy-i-Fu'ad (=Lawh-i-Fu'ad)

580

Summons of the Lord of Hosts

Lawh-i-Fuad (Tablet to Fuad Pasha)

ک ظ نادیناک عن وراء قلزم الکبریا علی الارض الحمرا من افق البلا انه لا اله

Káf. Ẓá’. We call unto thee from beyond the sea of grandeur, upon the crimson land, above the horizon of tribulation.

INBA34:128, BLIB_Or15707.040, , BLIB_Or15735.210,

NRJ#4, AQA1#015, AYBY.023b, MAS4.246x, RHQM1.592-594 (723) (444-445), ASAM.261-262, SAM.292, DLH2.186x, HYK.210, OOL.B117

SLH#04, GPB.208-209x, PDC.100x, BLO_PT#172

Details the divine justice that was meted out to the recently deceased Ottoman Prime Minister in consequence of his abuses of power and foretells the imminent downfall of his colleague, ‘Álí Páshá, as well as the overthrow of the Sultan himself.

Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of prayer; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB3.087 et al, MMAH.225, GSH.192, LL#088, LL#302

BH01484

580

جوهر الحمد علی هیئه من العباد ینادی فی بریه الاشتیاق یا اله الغیب و الشهود و

The essence of praise appeareth in the form of servants who cry out in the wilderness of longing: "O Thou God of the unseen and the seen!" [3.5s]... ...In these days the stay in the True House of Haram-i-Athar (the Purest Wife), upon her be all glory and loftiness

INBA31:014, BLIB_Or11097#046,

MAS4.354cx

LTDT.048-049x

Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Business; financial; property matters; Consolation and comfort; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Wisdom [hikmat]

ROB4.007, LL#055

BH01459

590

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ان یا قلم الابهی بشر اهل ملا الاعلی بما شق حجاب الستر و ظهر جمال الله عن هذا

Proclaim unto the celestial Concourse, O Pen of effulgent glory, that lo, the veil of concealment hath been rent asunder

INBA81:076, BLIB_Or15706.110, , BLIB_Or15714.001,

AHM.162, AHM.158, AYT.246, NSR_1993.111, ASAT1.075x, ASAT3.137x, ASAT4.400x, ASAT4.400x, AHB_120BE #02 p.040, AMB#07

DOR#07, GPB.154x

unknown, S. Jaberi

LL#222

BH01455

590

الحمد لله الذی انزل الایات و اظهر البینات و نطق بالکلمه العلیا و انطق بها

Praise be unto Him Who hath sent down the verses and manifested the clear tokens, Who hath spoken the Supreme Word and caused it to be uttered [3.5s]

LEID.Or4971-4,

Personal instructions; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

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

BH01419

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Zahra Bagum

610

یا اوراق سدرتی علیکن بهاء الله رب العالمین یا اثمار شجر عنایتی علیکن نور الله

O ye Leaves of My Divine Lote-Tree! Upon ye be the Glory of God, the Lord of both worlds. O ye fruits of My Tree of Bounty! Upon ye rest the Light of God, the Luminous, the Radiant, the Effulgent!

INBA51:343, BLIB_Or15716.034.12,

KHAF.188

GEN.121-122

Consolation and comfort; Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Personal instructions; Prayer for forgiveness; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#166

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

BH01394

Lawh-i-Quds 1 (Lawh-i-A'rabi)

620

Tablet of Holiness

Lawh-i-Quds (Tablets of Holiness); Lawh-i-Quds or Lawh-i-A'rabi (Tablet of Holiness)

یا اعرابی ثم یا احبائی ثم یا اصفیائی ثم یا جنودی ثم یا ظهوری اسمعوا ندائی ان

My Arabs, My Loved ones, My friends, My legions, My manifestation! Hearken unto My call, if ye be among them with ears to hear

INBA36:149, INBA71:320, BLIB_Or15696.169,

BRL_DA#362, AQA4#096 p.325, AQA4a.070, OOL.B068a

BLO_PT#112, JHT_B#008

Contention and conflict; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Exhortations and counsels; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God

MMAH.171, LL#213

BH01389

620

هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی استقام علی امر ربه و به زین ثوب الایقان و اخذه جذب

This is a Book from Our presence unto him who hath stood firm in the Cause of his Lord, who hath adorned himself with the robe of certitude, and whom divine attraction hath seized [3.5s]

INBA34:152, BLIB_Or15707.094, , BLIB_Or15735.255,

AQA1#028, ASAT4.153x, ASAT5.121x, HYK.255

Methods of teaching the Cause; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB3.199, LL#370

BH01371

620

Praise and encouragement; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Rendering assistance to God; victory [nusrat]; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

الحمد لله از دریای عنایت الهی آشامیدی و بافق اعلی توجه نمودی جمیع احزاب

Praise be to God! Thou hast drunk from the ocean of divine bounty and turned thy face toward the Most Exalted Horizon, while all the peoples [3.5s]... ...Behold, how the divers peoples and kindreds of the earth have been waiting for the coming of the Promised One. No sooner had He, Who is the Sun of Truth, been made manifest

BLIB_Or15730.080,

BRL_DA#652, GWBP#006 p.014x

GWB#006x

LL#439

BH01361

Gul va Bulbul (The nightingale and the owl)

630

Tablet of the Nightingale and the Owl

Gul va Bulbul (Tablet of the Nightingale and the Owl)

گل معنوی در رضوان الهی بقدوم ربیع معانی مشهود ولکن بلبلان صوری محروم مانده اند گل

The spiritual rose in the divine garden blossoms into mystical meanings at the approach of spring, but the artificial nightingales remain deprived.

INBA65:234, BLIB_Or07852.108, , NLI.32p002v

AQA4#099 p.336, AQA4a.368, HDQI.011, AHB_126BE #01-02 p.002x, AKHA_123BE #11-12 p.a, ANDA#06 p.03, OOL.B200

BLO_PT#136

Blind imitation [taqlid]; Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light

LL#064, LL#094

BH01353

Lawh-i-Dustan-i-Yazdani

630

Tablet to the Zoroastrians (Lawh-i-Dustan-i-Yazdaní); Tabernacle of Unity, The

Lawh-i-Dustan-i-Yazdani (Tablet to the Zoroastrians); - Tabernacle of Unity (book)

ای دوستان یزدان آواز یکتا خداوند بی نیاز را بگوش جان بشنوید تا شما را از بند

O friends of God! Incline your inner ears to the voice of the peerless and self-subsisting Lord, that He may deliver you

INBA35:106, BLIB_Or11096#039, , BLIB_Or15722.085, , NLI.32p005r, Majlis934.036-042

BRL_TBUP#5, AVK2.217.02x, ZYN.271, MJMM.247, YARP1.005, DWNP_v5#06 p.003-004x, DRD.058x, DLS.300x, AKHA_120BE #01 p.ax

TBU#5, COC#1846x, GPB.211x, PDC.127x2x, BLO_PT#196

Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love as fire; Power of prayer; Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering; rejection of Christ; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

LL#084

BH01343

Suriy-i-Amin

640

Súriy-i-Amín (Tablet to Amín)

هذا کتاب من لدی الله المهیمن القیوم الی الذی منه ظهرت الاستقامه الکبری فی

This is a Book from God, the All-Compelling, the Self-Subsisting, unto him through whom was manifested the Most Great Steadfastness [3.5s]

INBA34:123, BLIB_Or15707.030, , BLIB_Or15735.202, , LEID.Or4970 item 11,

AQA1#013, AQA4#094 p.320, ASAT1.201x, ASAT2.035x, ASAT4.459x, DLH2.187x, HYK.202, OOL.B104

Praises the recipient for his steadfastness; calls the followers of the Qur’an to hear ‘the voice of the Crier, Who cried out between heaven and earth’; relates the fallen state of Fu’ád Páshá upon his death; and extols the ultimate sacrifice of the youthful Badí‘, who delivered Bahá’u’lláh’s epistle to Náṣiru’d-Dín Sháh.

Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of faith; power of the spirit; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

MMAH.157, GSH.200, LL#290

BH01333

640

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Eulogies; reminiscences; Martyrs and martyrdom; Obedience to and respect for government authority; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

حمد و ثنا متغمسین بحر تجرید را لایق و سزا که در ظلمت ایام و اعتساف انام

The highest praise is due to them who have immersed themselves in the ocean of detachment—they who in the darkness of these times...Give a hearing ear, O people, to that which I, in truth, say unto you. The one true God, exalted be His glory, hath ever regarded

BRL_DA#742, GWBP#102 p.135x, AVK3.268.08x, AVK4.283ax, MJMM.364, MAS8.121bx, SAAF.198-201, ASAT1.039-040x, ASAT4.084x, ASAT4.106x, ASAT4.373x, TISH.247-249

GWB#102x, PDC.120x, RIDA.176-179

LL#163

BH01328

Lawh-i-Ziyarih

640

اول بهاء ظهر و اشرق عن مشرق البقا و اول ضیاء لاح عن مطلع السنا و اول رحمه

The first splendor that dawned and shone forth from the Dayspring of eternity, and the first light that gleamed from the Horizon of glory, and the first mercy [3.5s]

INBA37:131, INBA83:233, INBA49:305, BLIB_Or15725.524, , Majlis210461.102-104

ASAT4.081x

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for forgiveness; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Visitation Tablets

LL#268

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

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).

BH01252

670

اینکه مرقوم داشتند نفسی از احباء این آیه مبارکه را سوال نموده قد ظهر سر

Concerning that which was written, that one of the loved ones inquired about this blessed verse "The Mystery hath appeared" [3.5s]

INBA73:048

MAS1.015x, RHQM1.561-562 (687) (421x), NSS.100-102

Empty learning; false spirituality; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Quotation from or interpretation of the Bible; Shaykhis; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light

LL#362

BH01234

680

Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

قد ماج بحر السرور و ابتسم ثغر الله المهیمن القیوم بما بلغ الندآء من ارض

The ocean of joy hath surged, and the countenance of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting, hath smiled, inasmuch as the Call hath been raised from the land [3.5s]... ...The vitality of men’s belief in God is dying out in every land; nothing short of His wholesome medicine can ever restore it. The corrosion of ungodliness is eating into the vitals of human society

BLIB_Or15716.066.07x, , BN_suppl.1753.116-118

BRL_DA#648, GWBP#099 p.131x, LHKM3.375, PYB#156 p.03x

GWB#099x, GPB.217x, PDC.184x, WOB.181x

LL#459

BH01231

680

Lawh-i-Muhammad-`Alí I and II

ای محمد قبل علی بشنو ندای محبوب باوفا را که از شطر ابهی ندا میفرماید و

O Muhammad-'Ali! Hearken unto the call of thy faithful Beloved, Who from the Most Glorious Horizon doth proclaim and [3.5s]... ...I swear by the beauty of the Well-Beloved! This is the Mercy that hath encompassed the entire creation, the Day whereon the grace of God hath permeated and pervaded all things

INBA35:035, INBA74:097, BLIB_Or03116.106r, , BLIB_Or11096#033, , BLIB_Or15710.208, , BLIB_Or15722.151,

BRL_DA#767, GWBP#142 p.198x, ADM1#010 p.031x, AVK3.178.13x, RSBB.090, MAS4.110, ASAT5.167x, ADH1.029x

GWB#142x

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Prayer for forgiveness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ROB2.117, LL#186

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

BH01194

Lawh-i-Zaynu'l-Muqarrabin 2

700

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Prophecy and fulfillment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

یا ایها الناظر الی وجهی و الشارب کاس عنایتی و کوب رحمتی و افضالی و الساکن فی

O thou who gazest upon My countenance and hast quaffed the chalice of My loving-kindness and the cup of My mercy and bounty, and who dwellest in [3.5s]... ...Call thou to mind that which hath been revealed unto Mihdí, Our servant, in the first year of Our banishment to the Land of Mystery (Adrianople)

INBA34:125, BLIB_Or15707.035, , BLIB_Or15735.206,

BRL_DA#711, GWBP#058 p.081ax, AQA1#014, ASAT4.048x, ASAT5.354x, HYK.206, MSBH5.453ax, OOL.B085b

GWB#058x, BADM.099-100x, BADM.165x, GPB.110x2x, GPB.357x, GPB.360x

GSH.180, LL#373

BH01184

700

Creation of the world; Exhortations and counsels; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Unity; oneness of humanity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

انا نحب ان نری کل واحد منکم مبدء کل خیر... ان یا مقصود ان استمع ندآء الله العزیز الودود من هذا المقام

...It is Our wish and desire that every one of you may become a source of all goodness unto men, and an example of uprightness to mankind

BLIB_Or15715.152cx,

GWBP#146 p.202bx, LHKM2.277x

GWB#146x

E. Mahony

LL#452

BH01172

710

تعالی الذی نزل الایات من ملکوت کان بانوار العرش مضیئا و ینطق فی سدره الوحی

Exalted is He Who hath sent down the verses from the Kingdom that was illumined by the lights of the Throne, and Who speaketh from the Lote-Tree of Revelation [3.5s]

INBA34:121, BLIB_Or15707.025, , BLIB_Or15735.198,

AQA1#012, AVK4.475cx, ASAT3.022x, HYK.198

Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Presence of; reunion with God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ROB3.179, LL#369

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

BH01125

Prayer for the Fast (Dawn)

740

Munajathay-i-Siyam (Prayers for Fasting)

اللهم انی اسئلک بالایه الکبری و ظهور فضلک بین الوری بان لاتطردنی عن باب

I beseech Thee, O my God, by Thy mighty Sign, and by the revelation of Thy grace amongst men

INBA97:153, Majlis210461.121-124

PMP#177, AHM.121, TSBT.057, NFF5.041, OOL.B090.04

PM#177, BPRY.261, SW_v04#18 p.306, BP1929.004-011

The Badasht Project, E. Mahony, L. Harley

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Prayer for fasting; Presence of; reunion with God; Service to others; to the Cause of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#271, LL#467

BH01120

Lawh-i-Napoleon I

750

First Tablet to Napoleon III (Lawh-i-Napulyun); Baha'u'llah's First Tablet to Napoleon III

Lawh-i-Napulyun (Tablets to Napoleon III)

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی انت تعلم بانی مااردت فی ذکر الا ذکرک و فی توجهی الی جهه

Glory be to Thee, O Lord my God! Thou art aware that nothing have I sought by making any mention, except a fitting mention of Thee

BRL_DA#706, ROBP2.388x

GPB.173x, PDC.082-083x, LOIR4.151, BLO_PT#014, BLO_PT#038x

Recounts the sufferings endured by Bahá’u’lláh and His followers; avows their innocence; reminds the Emperor of two pronouncements he had made on behalf of the oppressed and the helpless; and calls upon him to inquire into the condition of those who have been wronged, including Bahá’u’lláh and His fellow exiles.

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Petitions to authorities; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Suffering and imprisonment

ROB2.368, ROB2.337, ROB3.110, GSH.097, LL#199

BH01117

Lawh-i-Ism-i-Jud

750

Excellence in all Things

یا اسم جود علیک بهائی نامهای جناب سمندر که ارسال نموده عبد حاضر لدی المظلوم

O Ism-i-Júd! Upon thee be My Glory! The letters sent by his honor Samandar were presented before the Wronged One [3.5s]... ...It is incumbent upon the children to exert themselves to the utmost in acquiring the art of reading and writing.... Writing skills that will provide for urgent needs will be enough for some

MJAN.026, AYBY.067, GHA.089x, MAS7.129cx, MAS8.193x, SAM.204, PYM.214bx, TRZ1.081x

BRL_EXCEL#06x, COC#0006x, COC#0569x, COC#0771x

Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Education of children; moral education; Excellence; distinction; Praise and encouragement; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB3.091, LL#415

BH01079

770

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Days of Remembrance

تلک آیات الله قد نزلت بالحق و انها لکتاب مبین و جعلها برهانا من لدنه ثم ذکری للعالمین

These are the verses of God which have verily been sent down in truth, and they are indeed a perspicuous Book, which He hath made a testimony from His presence and a remembrance unto all the worlds [3.5s]... ...Give ear, O My servant, unto that which is being sent down unto thee from the Throne of thy Lord, the Inaccessible, the Most Great.

INBA73:173, INBA83:181, BLIB_Or03114.094, , BLIB_Or15702.213, , ALIB.folder18p280

BRL_DA#799, GWBP#076 p.098, AMB#34x

GWB#076x, DOR#34x

Creation of the world; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Manifestation of God as mediator; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#381

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.

BH01068

Lawh-i-Husayn

780

Lawh-i-Husayn (Tablet to Husayn)

ای حسین بذکر الله مانوس شو و از دونش غافل چه که ذکرش انیسی است بی نفاق

O Ḥusayn! Commune with the remembrance of God and become oblivious of all but Him, inasmuch as His mention is an intimate free of hypocrisy and a most agreeable confidant

BLIB_Or15722.061, , Majlis934.070-076

BRL_DA#131, DRD.132, MAS4.104x, AHB_134BE #03-04 p.006x

ADMS#080

R. Fahandezh

Calls the recipient to commune intimately with God; warns that whatever is concealed in people’s inmost hearts will be revealed in this day; compares all creation to mirrors which reflect the light of the Sun of Truth to the extent that they turn to it; proclaims the purifying and healing agency of the love of God; and observes that the prophets of God would never have subjected themselves to such persecutions if human life ended with this physical one.

Love of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

GSH.183, LL#119

BH01052

800

Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Manifestation of God does not act of own volition; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God

هذا کتاب فیه یذکر ما یجری عنه الدموع من اعین المقربین ان یا قلم فاذکر ما ورد علی ذکر

This is a Book wherein is mentioned that which causeth tears to flow from the eyes of them that are near unto God. O Pen! Make mention of that which hath befallen the Remembrance [3.5s]... ...God is My witness, O people! I was asleep on My couch, when lo, the Breeze of God wafting over Me roused Me from My slumber.

INBA49:316, BLIB_Or15694.377, , ALIB.folder18p249

BRL_DA#671, GWBP#041 p.065bx

GWB#041x

LL#379

BH01042

Lawh-i-Malik-i-Rus (Tablet to Czar Alexander II)

800

Lawh-i-Malik-i-Rus (Tablet to Alexander II)

ان یا ملک الروس ان استمع ندآء الله الملک القدوس ثم اقبل الی الفردوس مقر الذی

O Czar of Russia! Incline thine ear unto the voice of God, the King, the Holy, and turn thou unto Paradise

INBA34:041, BLIB_Or15705.028, , CMB_F31.037, , PR11.038b-040b

NRJ#1c, AQA1#001c, OOL.B054

SLH#01c, WOB.105x, BSC.094 #040

States cryptically that Bahá’u’lláh has answered a secret wish of the Czar; praises him for offering, through one of his ministers, aid to Bahá’u’lláh while in the dungeon of Tehran; calls on him to arise to become a champion of the Cause of God; declares that Bahá’u’lláh is the one ‘Whom the tongue of Isaiah hath extolled, the One with Whose name both the Torah and the Evangel were adorned’; and warns of the ephemerality of earthly possessions.

Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Status of kings; future of monarchy; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ROB3.118, MMAH.176, GSH.120, LL#154

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

BH01027

Lawh-i-Tabib

810

اینکه در باره انقلاب و اختلاف ایران مذکور نموده بودید هذا ما وعدنا به فی

That which thou didst mention concerning the upheaval and dissension in Persia - this is what We had promised in [3.5s]

BLIB_Or11096#257, , BLIB_Or15698.318, , BLIB_Or15720.311, , BLIB_Or15740.242, , NLI.32p135v

BRL_DA#135, AVK4.438x, AVK4.477dx, IQT.318, SFI03.157.19x, MAS4.034x, ASAT2.112x, ASAT4.051x

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Petitions to authorities; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB3.200, ROB3.201, ROB3.351-2, LL#371

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

BH01007

Az Bagh-i-Ilahi

820

Az-Bágh-i-Iláhí (From the Divine Garden)

از باغ الهی با سدره ناری آن تازه غلام آمد های های هذا جذب اللهی هذا خلع

Hailing from the godly garden, Invested with the Burning Bush, That fresh and novel Youth is come!

INBA19:037, INBA32:036, INBA36:457, NLI.32p158r

BRL_DA#281, MAS8.023x, OOL.B003

ADMS#115

Poem hailing the revelation of the Báb and the advent of the approaching Day of God, coming with the trumpet blast of the words ‘I am God!’, and shattering the idols of the past.

Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight

ROB1.218, MMAH.118, GSH.066, LL#010

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

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

BH00987

Salat-i-Kabir (Long Obligatory Prayer)

840

Prayers and Meditations; Long Obligatory Prayer; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

Obligatory prayer, Long

یا اله الاسماء و فاطر السماء اسئلک بمطالع غیبک العلی الابهی بان تجعل صلوتی

O Thou Who art the Lord of all names and the Maker of the heavens! I beseech Thee by them Who are the Day-Springs of Thine invisible Essence

PMP#183, AHM.070, TSBT.012x, NFQ.001, NFF1.003x, ABMK.001, OOL.B176c

PM#183, BPRY.007-016, BP1929.021x, BP1929.022x, BP1929.030x

The Friends in Bristol, Nabil and Karim, M. Perez, MANA, MANA, R. Peterson [track 1], S. Agbortoko & M. Weigert

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Law of obligatory prayer; Love of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB1.030, LL#230

BH00972

Lawh-i-Zaynu'l-Muqarrabin 3

850

Christ; Christianity; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Recompense; reward for belief; right action; Soul; spirit after death; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

کتابت لدی الوجه حاضر آنچه مسطور مذکور آمد و شنیده شد انشاء الله همیشه ایام

Thy letter hath been presented before Our countenance, and that which was inscribed therein hath been mentioned and heard. God willing, may all thy days [3.5s]... ...And now concerning thy question whether human souls continue to be conscious one of another after their separation from the body

INBA66:115, BLIB_Or11096#021, , BLIB_Or15698.226, , BLIB_Or15720.222, , BLIB_Or15740.172,

BRL_DA#539, GWBP#086 p.113x, AVK1.278.02x, IQT.226, YARP1.055a, MAS1.071x, OOL.B085c

GWB#086x, PNAK.86

LL#438

BH00970

Lawh-i-Laylatu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Sacred Night - Adrianople)

850

Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh Laylat al-Quds (Tablet of the Sacred Night, Edirne)

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی تشهد و تری کیف ابتلیت بین عبادک بعد الذی مااردت الا الخضوع

The Most Great Name beareth Me witness! How sad if any man were, in this Day, to rest his heart on the transitory things of this world!

INBA81:021x, BLIB_Or15698.213, , BLIB_Or15720.209, , BLIB_Or15740.162, , Majlis934.127-133x

BRL_DA#715, GWBP#147 p.203x, AVK2.027.04x, AVK3.240x, IQT.213, MJMM.227, HDQI.027ax, ASAT3.212x, ASAT4.015x, ASAT5.248x, ASAT5.284x, AHB_107BE #09 p.180x, AKHA_105BE #06 p.001x, AKHA_108BE #08 p.002x, OOL.B001bx

GWB#147x, ADJ.083x, SW_v07#19 p.191, SW_v10#01 p.001, BSC.133 #051x

Calls on His followers to be closely united and to associate with their neighbours ‘with faces joyous and beaming with light’.

Being a source of light; guidance; Call to unity; prohibition of disunity; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB2.164, ROB2.188, GSH.209, LL#147

Sometimes referred to in the plural, Alváḥ-i-Laylatu’l-Quds. Not to be confused with Inventory #BH00915.

BH00959

860

نامهای آنجناب هر یک بلحاظ مظلوم فائز و عرف توجه و خلوص و استقامت از هر حرفی

The letters of that honored one, each attained unto the presence of the Wronged One, and from every letter thereof wafted the fragrance of devotion, sincerity and steadfastness [3.5s]

INBA15:423, INBA26:426

YIA.101-102x

Greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Review of publications; Wisdom [hikmat]

ROB4.321, LL#102, LL#194

BH00958

860

Growth of the Cause; Knowledge; recognition of God; Nearness and remoteness; Power of the Manifestation of God; Purpose; goal of creation; Suffering and imprisonment

لم یزل نفحات قدسی از رضوان عنایت الهی در وزیدن بوده و لایزال روایح عز معنوی

From time immemorial have the breezes of holiness wafted from the Paradise of divine favor, and unto eternity shall the fragrances of spiritual glory continue to be diffused [3.5s]... ...The purpose of God in creating man hath been, and will ever be, to enable him to know his Creator and to attain His Presence

INBA36:080, INBA71:241

BRL_DA#130, GWBP#029 p.053x, AVK1.333.010x, MJMM.368, DRD.139, ASAT5.061x, ASAT5.262x, AKHA_134BE #18 p.691

GWB#029x, DWN_v3#12 p.031-032x

LL#430

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

BH00951

860

احرف حمد حقایق و دقایق حمد مخصوص ساحت قدس قرب حضرت سلطانیست که از لطایف

The letters of praise and the subtleties of glorification belong unto the holy and intimate sanctuary of that Sovereign Lord Who, through His grace [3.5s]... ...My God, My Master, My Desire! …Thou hast created this atom of dust through the consummate power of Thy might

INBA65:268, INBA36:329c, NLAI_BH1.278

HDQI.060, TZH4.117-120x, MAS8.049bx, FBAH.099x, OOL.B155, UVM.083.02x

BKOG.104x, GPB.109x

Creation of the world; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God

MMAH.217, LL#407

BH00948

Lawh-i-Aqa Siyyid Hasan

870

قد ارتفع ندآء الله عن یمین الرضوان بندآء الذی یسمعه حقایق کل الاشیاء بین الارض

The call of God hath been raised from the right hand of the Ridván with such a call as is heard by the realities of all things upon the earth [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15702.100, , NLAI_BH2.122, ALIB.folder18p269

AQA4#097 p.328, AQA4a.123, MAS4.139bx, ASAT4.023x

Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

LL#057

BH00945

870

ذکر من لدنا لمن اقبل الی المذکور اذ اتی الوعد و ظهر الموعود بسلطان مبین

A remembrance from Our presence unto him who turned to the Remembered One, when the Promise came to pass and the Promised One appeared with manifest sovereignty [3.5s]

MKI4523.248,

BRL_DA#507, ISH.248, ADH1.124x

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prophecy and fulfillment; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering; rejection of Christ; Suffering and imprisonment; Word of God and human limitations

LL#389?

BH00939

Suriy-i-Ghusn (Tablet of the Branch)

870

Bahá'í Scriptures; Days of Remembrance

Suriy-i-Ghusn (Tablet of the Branch)

اتی امر الله علی ظلل من البیان و المشرکون یومئذ فی عذاب عظیم قد نزلت جنود الوحی

The Cause of God hath come down upon the clouds of utterance, while they that have joined partners with Him are afflicted with a sore torment

INBA83:144ax, BLIB_Or03114.089r, , BLIB_Or15702.108, , ALIB.folder18p221

AQA4#098 p.331, AQA4a.424, AYT.360, HDQI.002, SFI08.012, MAS4.115, HHA.058x, RHQM1.596-600 (728) (447-449), AHDW.005, AHB_128BE #06-11 p.194x, ANDA#03 p.08-09, OOL.B118, AMB#29

DOR#29, GPB.177x, GPB.242x, WOB.135x, SW_v03#14 p.015, BLO_PT#125, BSC.255 #528-531

Announces the high station of Bahá’u’lláh’s son ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, titled Ghuṣn-i-A‘ẓam (‘the Greatest Branch’), foreshadowing His later appointment in the Kitáb-i-‘Ahd as successor to Bahá’u’lláh.

Condition of search; Methods of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.388, BKOG.250, EBTB.052, GSH.107, LL#303

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

BH00926

890

Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Return of the Manifestations of God; Suffering and imprisonment

هذا کتاب من الله المهیمن القیوم الی الذی آمن به و استهدی بانوار الروح فی تلک الایام

This is a Book from God, the All-Protecting, the Self-Subsisting, unto him who hath believed in Him and sought guidance from the splendours of the Spirit in these days [3.5s]... ...O Jews! If ye be intent on crucifying once again Jesus, the Spirit of God, put Me to death, for He hath once more, in My person, been made manifest unto you

BLIB_Or15725.104, , NLAI_BH2.102

BRL_DA#669, GWBP#047 p.072x

GWB#047x

LL#406

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

BH00921

Lawh-i-Raqsha

890

ذکر من لدنا لمن اقبل و سمع ندآء الله المهیمن القیوم و اجاب مولیه فی یوم فیه

A remembrance from Our presence unto him who hath turned and hearkened unto the Call of God, the All-Compelling, the Self-Subsisting, and who hath answered his Lord on this Day wherein [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15713.014,

NNY.235-236x, MAS4.107x, OOL.B071

Details the divine justice and wrath that was visited upon the two individuals mentioned in the Lawḥ-i-Burhán and offers remembrance and praise for several of His followers.

Call to action; Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment

LL#218

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.

BH00903

910

هذا کتاب یهدی الی الحق و یذکر الناس بایام الروح و یبشرهم برضوان الله المهیمن

This is a Book that guideth unto truth, remindeth the people of the days of the Spirit, and beareth unto them the glad-tidings of God's all-compelling Paradise [3.5s]

INBA36:025, INBA71:182, BLIB_Or15696.171c,

BRL_DA#365, LHKM2.032, RSBB.018, ASAT2.194x

Avoidance of Covenant-Breakers; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#378

BH00889

920

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; Hospitality; Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement; Transcendence; unknowability of God

لک الحمد یا الهی بما جمعت احبائک فی عیدک الاعظم الذی فیه تجلیت باسمائک الحسنی

Praise be to Thee, O my God, for having gathered together Thy loved ones to celebrate Thy Most Great Festival

AYT.313, ASAT4.401x, OOL.B202, AMB#17

DOR#17, DAS.1915-04-29n

ROB3.053, LL#223

BH00875

940

هذا کتاب من لدی القیوم لقوم یعلمون هل الذین اعرضوا علی شیء لا وربک المهیمن القیوم

This is a Book from before the Self-Subsisting unto those who possess understanding. Are they who have turned away possessed of aught? Nay, by thy Lord, the All-Subduing, the Self-Subsisting [3.5s]

INBA34:118, BLIB_Or11096#265x, , BLIB_Or15707.018, , BLIB_Or15735.192,

AQA1#011, AYBY.025b, HYK.192

Call to action; Personal instructions; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Word of God is its own standard

ROB3.179, LL#368

BH00870

Lawh-i-Anta'l-Kafi (Long Healing Prayer)

940

Long Healing Prayer, The; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

Healing prayer, Long

بک یا علی بک یا وفی بک یا بهی انت الکافی و انت الشافی و انت الباقی یا باقی بک

I call on Thee O Exalted One, O Faithful One, O Glorious One! Thou the Sufficing, Thou the Healing, Thou the Abiding, O Thou Abiding One!

INBA36:448, NLAI_BH_AB.103

BRL_DA#075, AHM.183, TSBT.207, NFF2.017x, ABMK.048, OOL.B025

BPRY.102, BLO_PT#053

Ahdieh, L. Thoresen [track 5], The Badasht Project, A. Youssefi (1), A. Youssefi (2), A.Youssefi (3), E. Mahony, Gyenyame, K. Rushdy, N. Ward, unknown, C. Frith

Prayer for healing, rhyming and with repeated refrain, invoking various names of God for the curing of disease and the alleviation of distress.

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power of prayer; Prayer for healing; Prayer for protection

GSH.186, LL#052

BH00868

940

Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for forgiveness; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

امروز ثنا و سلام و ذکر و بیان مخصوص اولیاء حق جل جلاله است که شبهات اهل

In this day, praise and salutations and remembrance and utterance are reserved unto the chosen ones of God, exalted be His glory, who have dispelled the doubts of the people [3.5s]... ...My God, Whom I worship and adore! I bear witness unto Thy unity and Thy oneness, and acknowledge Thy gifts

INBA65:032x, INBA30:086ax, INBA41:117, INBA81:018x, NLAI_BH_AB.021

BRL_DA#685, PMP#157x, AHM.317, AQMJ1.140, MMJA.012x

PM#157x, BPRY.111x, BP1929.033-034x

LL#503

BH00848

970

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Prayer for fasting; Prayer for martyrs; Suffering and imprisonment; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; Transcendence; unknowability of God

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک بالذی اظهرته و جعلت ظهوره نفس ظهورک ... فی هذا الظهور الذی فیه اسودت وجوه مظاهر النفی

Praised be Thou, O Lord my God! I supplicate Thee by Him Whom Thou hast called into being

INBA48:085, INBA49:174, INBA92:293, BLIB_Or15739.160,

PMP#178, TSBT.022, NFF5.068, ABMK.014, RAHA.110x, OOL.B090.05

PM#178

LL#271, LL#473

BH00846

970

Courtesy; culture [adab]; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Status of kings; future of monarchy; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Words vs deeds

ان یا نبیل الاعظم اسمع ما ینادیک به لسان القدم عن جبروت اسمه الاکرم و انه ینطق

Let thine ear be attentive, O Nabíl-i-A‘ẓam, to the Voice of the Ancient of Days, crying to thee from the Kingdom of His all-glorious Name.

INBA83:108, BLIB_Or15702.018, , ALIB.folder18p207

BRL_DA#772, GWBP#139 p.194, KHSH07.011

GWB#139, ADJ.025x, ADJ.060x

T. Ellis

ROB3.026, LL#198

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

BH00829

990

Tablet to Varqá Regarding the Prince and King of Martyrs (Lawh-i-Varqá dar barih-yi-Mahbubu wa Sultánu'sh-Shuhada)

Lawh-i-Varqa dar barih-yi-Mahbubu wa Sultanush-Shuhada (Tablet to Varqa regarding the King of Martyrs and Beloved of Martyrs)

یا ورقاء قد حضر العبد الحاضر و عرض ما فی کتابک انا وجدناه مراتا حاکیه عن

O Varqá! The Servant in Attendance attained My presence and mentioned what thou hadst written and We found thy letter a mirror reflecting thy love for the Beloved of the world

INBA97:052

NNY.184-188

EBTB.049-051, BLO_PT#197

Martyrs and martyrdom; Power of prayer; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ROB4.089, LL#264

BH00827

Lawh-i-Haft Pursish (Tablet of the Seven Questions)

990

Tabernacle of Unity, The

Lawh-i-Haft Pursish (Tablet of Seven Questions); - Tabernacle of Unity (book)

ستایش پاک یزدانرا سزاوار که از روشنی آفتاب بخشش جهانرا روشن نمود از با بحر

All praise be to the sanctified Lord Who hath illumined the world through the splendours of the Daystar of His grace.

BLIB_Or15712.229, , IOL, , MKI4523.231, , BN_suppl.1753.063-068

BRL_TBUP#3, AVK1.300x, AVK2.229.03x, ZYN.246, ISH.231, MJMM.240, YARP1.008, DWNP_v6#03 p.003x, UAB.034cx, DRD.065, TSBT.234bx, AQMJ1.110ax, ASAT1.039x, PYB#166 p.03x, ABMK.063, OOL.B040

TBU#3, GPB.211x, GPB.230x, PDC.126x, PDC.126-127x, BLO_PT#119

almunajat.com [item 29]

Briefly addresses a follower of Zoroastrian background, answering seven questions regarding the problem of conflicting religious claims, declaring that His religion is ‘the religion of forbearance’ and that it ‘embraceth all faiths and all religions’, and affirming ‘the reality of Paradise and Hell, for reward and punishment require their existence’.

Day of Resurrection; Judgement; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Existence; immortality of the human soul; The human soul; The human soul at midpoint of creation; the isthmus [barzakh]; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB3.272, BKOG.009, MMAH.221, GSH.172, LL#096, LL#257

BH00822

990

Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

تلک آیات الله الملک الحق العدل المبین نزلت بالحق من جبروت فضل عظیم و انها

These are the verses of God, the King, the Truth, the Manifest Justice, which have verily descended from the heaven of a mighty favor; and they are [3.5s]... ...Should any man, in this Day, arise and, with absolute detachment from all that is in the heavens and all that is on the earth, set his affections on Him Who is the Dayspring of God’s holy Revelation

BLIB_Or15725.130,

BRL_DA#674, GWBP#149 p.205ax

GWB#149x

LL#361

BH00821

Tablet of the Divine Springtime

990

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Days of Remembrance

Lawh-i-Ridvan (Tablets of Ridvan)

ان یا قلم الاعلی قد اتی ربیع البیان بما تقرب عید الرحمن قم بین ملا الانشاء

The Divine Springtime is come, O Most Exalted Pen, for the Festival of the All-Merciful is fast approaching.

BLIB_Or15692.037, , BLIB_Or15706.061, , BLIB_Or15714.027,

GWBP#014 p.027, AYT.254, OOL.B203, AMB#06

GWB#014, DOR#06, ADJ.078x, GPB.154x3x, GPB.154-155x, WOB.206x

R. Yazhari (1), R. Yazhari (2), E. Mahony, TaliaSafa (1), TaliaSafa (2), B. Butler, Joel in Real Life, Joel in Real Life

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love of God; Proclamation to the people of the world; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB1.274, ROB2.397, BKOG.169, LL#221

BH00779

1020

Changing and unchanging parts of religion; Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Freedom of thought and action; Knowledge of self; Manifestation of God as divine physician; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Relativity of religious truth; Universal human capacity for spiritual recognition

سپاس و ستایش خداوندی را سزاوار که آفرینش را بتوانائی خود از برهنگی نابودی

All praise and glory be to God Who, through the power of His might, hath delivered His creation from the nakedness of nonexistence, and clothed it with the mantle of life

INBA72:080, Ghazi3072.167-177

GWBP#034 p.057bx, AYI1.332x, YARP1.045, UAB.010ax, UAB.018x, UAB.019x, MAS4.044x

GWB#034x, WOB.187x

LL#393

BH00778

1020

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Law of fasting; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for fasting; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; Twin Manifestations

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی هذه ایام فیها فرضت الصیام لکل الانام لیزکی بها انفسهم و

Glory be to Thee, O Lord my God! These are the days whereon Thou hast bidden all men to observe the fast

INBA48:080, INBA49:180, INBA92:278, BLIB_Or15739.151,

PMP#056, TSBT.029x, NFF5.034, AKHA_123BE #10 p.ax, ABMK.009, OOL.B090.07

PM#056, BPRY.275

N. Chiang

LL#271, LL#474

BH00759

Lawh-i-Naqus (=Subhanaka Ya Hu)

1040

Lawh-i-Naqus (Tablet of the Bell)

یا راهب الاحدیه اضرب علی الناقوس بما ظهر یوم الله و استوی جمال العز علی عرش

This is the garden of Paradise, wherein arise the anthems of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting; wherein ascend the soul-entrancing melodies

INBA36:466, BLIB_Or15706.083, , BLIB_Or15714.020,

AHM.141, AYT.100, NSR_1993.099, TSQA4.293, ABMK.040, OOL.B101, AMB#26, RMT.023

DOR#26, RBB.169-172, BLO_PT#122, BLO_PT#123, BLO_PT#124

Proclamatory tablet, with repeated refrain celebrating the name ‘He’, commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the declaration of the Báb.

God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Monasticism; asceticism; Nearness and remoteness; Prayer for detachment; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB2.018, EBTB.130, BKOG.206, MMAH.103, GSH.071, LL#288

BH00746

Shikkar-Shikan Shavand

1050

Fire and Light; Tablet of Shikkar Shikan (Shikkar Shikkan Shavand); Tablet of Shikkar Shikan (Shikkar Shikkan Shavand); Tablet of Shikkar Shikan Shavand

Lawh-i-Shikkar Shikan (Tablet of Shikkar Shikan Shavand)

شکرشکن شوند همه طوطیان هند زین قند پارسی که به بنگاله میرود مکتوب آنجناب

Warblers, mellifluous-toned, all the parrots of Ind shall be, Because of this Pársí sugar-cone which to Bengal goes… They that yearn for the abode of the Beloved, they that circle round the sanctuary of the Desired One

INBA38:064, INBA36:351, INBA30:070, BLIB_Or15722.210, , BN_suppl.1753.102-106

BRL_DA#127, NANU_BH#11x, TZH4.242, DRD.147, RHQM1.575-577 (703) (431-433x), ASAT2.105x, ASAT3.105x, AKHA_119BE #09-10 p.ax, FBAH.134x, LDR.432x, NJB_v11#01 p.21-24, OOL.B099

BRL_FIRE_BH#06x, BLO_PT#120, BLO_PT#121, BKOG.149x

Poetically anticipates future opposition and lauds the constancy of the loved ones of God in the face of threats and persecutions.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB1.147, BKOG.149, BKOG.446, MMAH.209, GSH.031, LL#286

BH00739

Lawh-i-Sahab (Tablet of the Cloud)

1060

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablet of the Clouds (Lawḥ-i-Saḥáb), The

Lawh-i-Sahab (Tablet of the Clouds)

هذا کتاب من لدی الرحمن الی الذین اقبلوا الی قبله من فی السموات و الارضین

This is a Book from before the Most Merciful unto those who have turned their faces towards Him Who is the Qiblih of all who dwell in the heavens and on earth [3.5s]... ...My captivity can bring on Me no shame. Nay, by My life, it conferreth on Me glory. That which can make Me ashamed is the conduct of such of My followers as profess to love Me

INBA34:109, LEID.Or4970 item 10, , Majlis934.125.02-126.09x

BRL_DA#073, GWBP#060 p.083ax, AQA1#008, MAS4.168ax, MAS4.364bx, MAS8.107bx, ASAT4.051x, ASAT4.132x, ANDA#72 p.03x, OOL.B075

GWB#060x, TN.042x, ADJ.032x, GPB.190x, PDC.135-136x, PDC.139x, WOB.105x, JHT_B#002

Proclamatory tablet mentioning Bahá’u’lláh’s recent summons to Náṣiru’d-Dín Sháh and Napoleon III, extolling the prophetic significance of the Holy Land and His banishment there, and exhorting His followers to proclaim His message with wisdom, deeds, and upright conduct, describing them as those who would pass through a valley of pure gold ‘aloof as a cloud’.

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Chastisement and requital; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Predictions and prophecies; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

MMAH.167, GSH.179, LL#228

BH00729

Lawh-i-Ghulamu'l-Khuld (Tablet of the Immortal Youth)

1070

Lawh-i-Ghulamul-Khuld (Tablet of the Immortal Youth)

قد فتحت ابواب الفردوس و طلع غلام القدس بسلطان مبین فیا بشری هذا غلام الخلد

Lo, the gates of Paradise were unlocked, and the hallowed Youth came forth bearing a serpent plain. Rejoice! This is the immortal Youth

INBA36:464, BLIB_Or15706.093, BLIB_Or15706.139, BLIB_Or15714.014,

AQA7#414 p.203, AYT.092, ASAT4.401x, AKHA_124BE #04-05 p.hx, OOL.B038, AMB#27

DOR#27, BLO_PT#127

Narrates in mystical language the appearance of the Immortal Youth (Bahá’u’lláh), whose beauty is compared to that of Joseph, who is unveiled by the Maid of Heaven and who summons His lovers unto Him.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love of God; Mystical themes; Pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God

ROB1.213, MMAH.125, GSH.032, LL#090

BH00718

Lawh-i-'Ali

1090

Lawh-i-'Ali (Tablet to 'Ali)

یا علی از یومی که لوح معهود که به صیحه و ساعه و صور نامیده شده ارسال گشت مشرکین

O Ali! From the day when that promised Tablet - which hath been designated as the Cry, the Hour and the Trumpet - was dispatched, the ungodly [3.5s]... ...The voice of the Divine Herald, proceeding out of the throne of God, declareth: O ye My loved ones! Suffer not the hem of My sacred vesture

BLIB_Or11096#260, , BLIB_Or15698.290, , BLIB_Or15710.051, , BLIB_Or15720.286x, , BLIB_Or15740.222x, , Majlis934.273-281

BRL_DA#136, GWBP#100 p.132x, AVK3.473.02x, IQT.290, ASAT4.264x, OOL.B164

GWB#100x, LOG#0419x, ADJ.025x2x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.059x, MBW.117x, WOB.163x

Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf]; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Work as worship

LL#045

BH00704

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Babu'l-Bab va Quddus

1100

Translation List; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Ziyarat-Namih-i-Mulla Muhammad `Ali-i-Barfurushi (Tablets of Visitation for Mulla Muhammad `Ali-i-Barfurushi (Quddus))

السلام الظاهر من مطلع فم اراده الله مولی الوری و النور المشرق من افق سماء

The peace that hath shone forth from the Dayspring of the Will of God, the Lord of all being, and the light that hath dawned above the horizon

BLIB_Or15714.077,

BRL_DA#535, GANJP.009-010x

BRL_ATBH#82, ADMS#153

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Hands of the Cause; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for forgiveness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

LL#344

Baha’u’llah’s Tablet of Visitation for Mulla Husayn and Quddus.

BH00698

Lawh-i-Manikchi Sahib

1110

Bahá'í Scriptures; Baha'u'llah's Tablet to Mánikchí Sáhib; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tabernacle of Unity, The

Lawh-i-Manikchi Sahib (Tablets to Manikchi Sahib); - Tabernacle of Unity (book)

ستایش بیننده پاینده را سزا است که بشبنمی از دریای بخشش خود آسمان هستی را بلند

Praise be to the all-perceiving, the ever-abiding Lord Who, from a dewdrop out of the ocean of His grace, hath reared the firmament of existence

INBA35:116, BLIB_Or15715.120b, , BLIB_Or15722.092, , BN_suppl.1753.118-123

BRL_TBUP#1, GWBP#106 p.138x, AVK3.095.19x, AVK3.104.08x, AVK3.169.06x, AVK3.205.03x, ZYN.236, MJMM.259, RSBB.175, YARP1.019, DWNP_v5#02-3 p.001-002x, UAB.021ax, UAB.027ax, UAB.032ax, UAB.035ax, UAB.046cx, DRD.002, DLS.301x, NVJ.030, ASAT1.009x, ASAT4.014x, ASAT4.131x, ASAT5.041x, PYB#066 p.03x, ADH1.009x, AKHA_109BE #01 p.002x, AKHA_119BE #08 p.ax, PYM.111ax, ANDA#79 p.12x, ANDA#79 p.16x, OOL.B056

TBU#1, GWB#106x, SW_v01#01 p.005, SW_v03#02 p.003, SW_v07#18 p.186, BLO_PT#019, BSC.130 #050

Parrish & Toppano, S. Toloui-Wallace, M. Sparrow, The Joburg Baha'i Choir, Sahar & Hoda

Addresses a number of theological questions by implying that the answers lie in the realm of action, in the process elucidating several central Bahá’í teachings: that the Manifestations should be regarded as ‘divine physicians’ prescribing the remedy from age to age in accordance with the disease, that the unity of mankind is the remedy for the ills of today, that one should be ‘anxiously concerned with the needs of the age’ in which one lives and centre one’s deliberations ‘on its exigencies and requirements’, and that words should be matched with deeds and that both should be motivated by purity of intention.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Procession; appearance of the Word from God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity; Words vs deeds

ROB3.270, GSH.174, LL#160, LL#176

BH00690

1120

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablet of the Gems of Unity, The (Lawh-i-Javáhir-i-Tawhíd)

Lawh-i-Javáhir-i-Tawhíd (Tablet of the Gems of Unity)

جواهر توحید و لطایف تحمید متصاعد بساط حضرت سلطان بی مثال و ملیک ذوالجلالی

All praise to the unity of God, and all honor to Him, the sovereign Lord, the incomparable and all-glorious Ruler of the universe, Who, out of utter nothingness, hath created the reality of all things

INBA65:242, INBA57:001, BLIB_Or15722.224, , NLAI_BH1.283, NLAI_BH3.186

BRL_DA#773, GWBP#027 p.050x, AVK1.015.08x, AVK1.212.08x, AVK2.001.03x, AVK3.014.09x, AVK3.422.11x, MJMM.338, DWNP_v3#12 p.028-031, UAB.008bx, UAB.014bx, MAS4.042x, PYB#006-007 p.01x, AKHA_107BE #06 p.002x, YMM.169x

GWB#027x, JHT_B#015

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness; Human reality created in the image of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God

LL#383

BH00687

Qad Ihtaraqa'l-Mukhlisun (The Fire Tablet)

1120

Fire Tablet; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

Lawh-i-Qad-Ihtaraqal-Mukhlisun (Fire Tablet)

ان یا مهدی ان انظر من افق البدآء انوار وجه ربک العلی الابهی ثم استمع الندآء

Indeed the hearts of the sincere are consumed in the fire of separation: Where is the gleaming of the light of Thy Countenance, O Beloved of the worlds?

INBA33:147x, INBA30:124, INBA81:192, BLIB_Or11095#009, , BLIB_Or15738.124,

BRL_DA#335, AHM.169, TSBT.219, MAS4.236ax, NFF2.007x, ASAT1.064x, ASAT5.255x, ABMK.055, OOL.B091

BPRY.312, BLO_PT#036, BLO_PT#037, BSTW#411

Ahdieh, S. and S. Toloui-Wallace, B. Lisbeth, A. Yanch, Gyenyame, T. Ellis

Written in rhythmic prose and taking the form of a conversation between Bahá’u’lláh and God in verses reminiscent of the biblical Book of Job, Bahá’u’lláh calls to God in His suffering and in God’s apparent absence and receives God’s answer as to the wisdom of this suffering.

Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB3.226, BKOG.321, MMAH.115, GSH.188, LL#211

BH00682

Suriy-i-Hifz

1130

هذا کتاب یذکر فیه ما الهمنی الروح و انه لتنزیل من الله و آیه ذکره للذینهم اقروا بالله و

This is a Book wherein is recorded that which the Spirit hath inspired within Me, and verily it is a revelation from God and a token of His remembrance unto them that have acknowledged God [3.5s]

INBA83:139, BLIB_Or03114.047r, , BLIB_Or15702.090, , BLIB_Or15737.129, , ALIB.folder18p152-162

OOL.B122

Discusses Bahá’u’lláh’s opposition from Mírzá Yaḥyá and the latter’s intention to have Bahá’u’lláh killed, which was averted through divine protection, and Bahá’u’lláh’s open offer of forgiveness should His half-brother turn to Him in repentance.

Call to action; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

LL#307

BH00668

Tajalliyat (Effulgences)

1140

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Tajalliyat (Effulgences)

شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و الذی اتی انه هو السر المکنون و الرمز المخزون و

God testifieth that there is none other God but Him and that He Who hath appeared is the Hidden Mystery

BLIB_Or07851.011b, , CMB_F32.077, , PR05.038b-042a, OSAI_TC 29v-32r, MKI4523.198, , BN_suppl.1753.054-059

ZYN.201, ISH.198, UAB.040ax, TBP#05, TUM.098-102x, OOL.B147

TB#05, LOG#1881x, GPB.215x3x, GPB.218x3x, BLO_PT#201, BSC.153 #125-137x

Emphasizes the importance of belief in the Divine Manifestation and proclaims four ‘effulgences’: the knowledge of God and recognition of His Prophet, steadfastness in the Cause of God, acquiring useful knowledge, and refuting accusations that Bahá’u’lláh had claimed the station of the Godhead.

Free will and predestination; fate; High station of learning; Knowledge; recognition of God; Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Manifestation of God as mediator; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment

ROB4.118, EBTB.062, MMAH.101, GSH.159, LL#339

ROB4.124 mentions revelation writing having been sent to recipient.

BH00662

Lawh-i-Malikah Victoria (Tablet to Queen Victoria)

1150

Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Summons of the Lord of Hosts

Lawh-i-Malikih (Tablet to Queen Victoria)

یا ایتها الملکه فی اللوندره ان استمعی ندآء ربک مالک البریه من السدره الالهیه

O Queen in London! Incline thine ear unto the voice of thy Lord, the Lord of all mankind, calling from the Divine Lote-Tree

INBA34:044, BLIB_Or15705.029, , PR11.040b-043b

NRJ#1d, GWBP#119 p.162x, GWBP#120 p.164x, AQA1#001d, DLH2.176x, OOL.B053

SLH#01d, GWB#119x, GWB#120x, WOB.039-040x, WOB.040x, WOB.162x2x, SW_v14#10 p.296, DWN_v5#01 p.004x, BLO_PT#188, BSC.111 #045

B. Parmar

Announces the fulfilment of ‘all that hath been mentioned in the Gospel’; praises the Queen for forbidding the trading in slaves and for entrusting ‘the reins of counsel into the hands of the representatives of the people’; calls the elected representatives of the people in every land to take counsel together for the sake of mankind; ordains that ‘the mightiest instrument for the healing of all the world is the union of all its peoples in one universal Cause, one common Faith’; and instructs the kings of the earth to cease burdening their subjects with their own wanton expenditures, to be reconciled among themselves, and to enforce a common peace by joining forces against any who would take up arms against another.

Prayer for governments and rulers; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Status of kings; future of monarchy; Suffering and imprisonment; The Lesser Peace and the Most Great Peace; Unity of thought and belief; Universal peace; world unity

ROB3.123, MMAH.177, GSH.130, LL#153

Included in the Suriy-i-Haykal.

BH00652

1170

Call to action; Imam Husayn; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcendence; unknowability of God

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی کیف اذکرک بعد الذی ایقنت بان السن العارفین کلت عن ذکرک

Lauded and glorified art Thou, O Lord, my God! How can I make mention of Thee, assured as I am that no tongue, however deep its wisdom

INBA48:073, INBA83:144b, INBA49:107, INBA92:304, BLIB_Or15702.116, , BLIB_Or15739.131,

BRL_DA#771, GWBP#001 p.010x

GWB#001x

LL#056

BH00647

Lawh-i-Pisar-'Amm (Tablet to the Cousin)

1170

Tablet to the Cousin (Lawh-i-Pisar-'Amm); River of Life, The; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Pisar-Amm (Tablet to the Cousin)

ای پسر عم حمد کن خدا را که این نسبت کبری قطع نشد و سبقت گرفتی از جمیع

O son of My paternal uncle! Render praise unto God that the ties of this most great kinship have not been severed.

BLIB_Or03116.082, , BLIB_Or11096#019, , BLIB_Or15698.174, , BLIB_Or15720.171, , BLIB_Or15740.132, , Majlis934.308-318

BRL_DA#156, AVK3.110.02x, AVK3.189.12x, AVK3.368.06x, IQT.174, AYI1.339x, UAB.044ax, IQN.128x, ASAT4.503x, OOL.B066

BRL_ATBH#53x, ROL.050-051x

Praises the recipient, a paternal cousin, for his faithfulness; remonstrates with another relative for remaining distant, asking him whether it is better to die in his bed or in the path of God; and calls the people of a certain village not to grieve over their suffering and not to engage in rebellion and revolt but to eschew dissension and strife and to be characterized with divine attributes.

Fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf]; Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB3.216, MMAH.139, GSH.184, LL#209, LL#427

BH00637

Lawh-i-Fitnih (Tablet of the Test)

1500

Lawh-i-Fitnih (Tablet of the Test)

ان یا فتنه البقا فانتظری فتنه الله المهیمن القیوم بانها سیاتیکم بالحق فها قد

O Enchantment of eternity! Await thou the Enchantment of God, the All-Protecting, the Self-Subsisting, for verily it shall come unto you with truth. Lo, it hath [3.5s]

INBA81:080x

BRL_DA#574, MAS4.261x, RHQM1.206-209 (262-265) (157-159x), YIA.567-569x, OOL.B037x

Foretells a coming period of tests and trials, which will encompass all created things and every atom of existence and lay violent hold on the peoples of the world.

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB1.128, MMAH.173, GSH.036, LL#087

BH00627

Lawh-i-Ibrahim

1220

Growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Prayer for forgiveness; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ان یا ایها السائل فاعلم بان حضر بین یدینا کتاب من الذی اشتعل بنار الله و وجدنا فیه

O thou who dost inquire! Know thou that there hath appeared before Us a letter from one who hath been enkindled with the fire of God, and therein We found [3.5s]... ...It hath been decreed by Us that the Word of God and all the potentialities thereof shall be manifested unto men in strict conformity with such conditions

INBA83:279, Berlin1237#23, ALIB.folder18p181

BRL_DA#746, GWBP#033 p.057ax, GWBP#038 p.063x, GWBP#127 p.175x, MAS8.171x

GWB#033x, GWB#038x, GWB#127x, PDC.194x, WOB.059x, WOB.117x, WOB.164x

LL#125, LL#142, LL#404

BH00610

Suriy-i-A'rab

1250

Surah of the Arabs

Surat Al-Arab (Surah of the Arabs)

تلک آیات الله قد نزلت بالحق من سماء عز بدیع و جعلها الله حجه من عنده و برهانا

These are the verses of God which have been sent down from the heaven of wondrous glory, and which God has made to be a proof and testament from Him unto the worlds

INBA37:081, BLIB_Or15723.224, , BLIB_Or15725.045, , BLIB_Or15737.064,

BRL_DA#705, AQA4#085 p.215, AQA4a.061, MUH3.267-268x, OOL.B106

BLO_PT#093, JHT_B#004

Addresses words of praise and encouragement to the Arabs among His followers, inviting them to remember with gladness the years He spent amongst them in ‘Iraq.

Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Proclamation of the Cause (general or uncategorized); Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Status of kings; future of monarchy; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

MMAH.224, MMAH.237, GSH.204, LL#292

BH00604

Suriy-i-Zubur

1260

جمال الرحمن عن افق الرضوان خلف سحاب الاحزان قد کان بالحق مشروقا و ان یرفع السحاب

The Beauty of the All-Merciful hath risen from the horizon of the Divine Good-Pleasure, veiled behind clouds of sorrow, and verily these clouds shall be lifted [3.5s]

INBA83:132, BLIB_Or03114.039r, , BLIB_Or15696.124b, , BLIB_Or15702.070, , BLIB_Or15737.121, , NLAI_BH1.390, ALIB.folder18p147-152

ASAT1.125x, TISH.269-273, OOL.B142

Explains the circumstances of His withdrawal from the community, states that He has as a result hidden His reality behind the veils, and calls the recipient to proclaim and defend Bahá’u’lláh’s cause both in person and in his writings, assuring him that divine confirmations will attend his efforts.

Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#331

BH00597

Lawh-i-Ashraf

1270

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablet to Ashraf

Lawh-i Ashraf (Tablet to Ahsraf)

ان یا اشرف اسمع ما یلقیک لسان القدم و لاتکن من الغافلین و ان استماع نغمه من نغمات

O Ashraf, listen carefully to what the Tongue of the Eternal has to say. Any one of the melodies of your Lord would be sufficient to attract the hearts

INBA83:216, BLIB_Or15702.276, , NLAI_BH2.308, ALIB.folder18p167

BRL_DA#722, GWBP#052 p.075x, AVK3.088.11x, MJMM.211, ASAT1.123x, ASAT1.140x, ASAT2.065x, ASAT5.347x, OOL.B027

GWB#052x, BLO_PT#171

A summons to the recognition of Bahá’u’lláh, naming the proofs of His cause as His own self, His revelation, and His words, and admonishing the Bábís who had not yet embraced it.

Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Personal instructions; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.230, ROB2.120, GSH.186, LL#063

Quoted in the Lawh-i-Istintaq, BH00015.

BH00587

Lawh-i-Siyyid Mihdiy-i-Dahaji

1290

Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Lawh-i-Siyyid-i-Mihdiy-i-Dahaji (Tablet to Siyyid Mihdiy-i-Dahaji)

ان یا اسمی ان احمد الله بما جعلناک امطار الفضل لما زرعناه فی الاراضی الطیبه

O my Name! Yield thou praise unto God for having graciously chosen thee to be a shower of bounty for that which We have sown

BLIB_Or15710.097, , BLIB_Or15738.100, , Majlis934.133-147

BRL_DA#103, AVK3.468.12x, AVK3.470.15x, AVK4.480ax, ASAT5.206x, ASAT5.256x, TBP#13, OOL.B163

TB#13, GPB.216x

T. Ellis, L. Harley

Praises a prominent teacher of the Bahá’í Faith, declares that the complete victory of the Cause of God will be achieved through speech and utterance, and stipulates the prerequisites of effective speech: that it possess moderation and refinement, be delivered with tact and wisdom, and have penetrating influence, all of which require detachment and purity of heart on the part of the speaker.

Methods of teaching the Cause; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Stories; anecdotes; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The power of words; of speech

ROB4.236, LL#245

BH00579

Lawh-i-Maryam

1300

Lawh-i-Maryam (Tablet to Maryam) Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh's Four Tablets to Maryam; Days of Remembrance

Lawh-i-Maryam (Tablet to Maryam)

ای مریم مظلومیتم مظلومیت اسم اولم را از لوح امکان محو نموده و از سحاب قضا

O Maryam! The wrongs which I suffer have blotted out the wrongs suffered by My First Name from the Tablet of creation.

INBA38:087, INBA28:386

BRL_DA#739, AYT.366, BSHN.046, MHT2b.044x, TZH4.138-139x, TZH4.159-161x, TZH4.261-262x, MAS4.329, RHQM2.0991-996 (430) (264-267), ANDA#05 p.02, OOL.B058c, AMB#31

DOR#31, BKOG.117x, LTDT.300x, GPB.118x, GPB.119x, GPB.120x, GPB.124x, GPB.125x, BLO_PT#015, BLO_PT#048

Recounts to one of His cousins Bahá’u’lláh’s banishment to Baghdad, His departure for Sulaymaniyah, the dispirited character of the Bábí community upon His return, and His efforts to instil new life into it; alludes to His still-hidden messianic secret and counsels purity of heart as a precondition to its recognition; and announces His withdrawal from the community.

Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ROB1.013, BKOG.117, MMAH.132, GSH.174, LL#164

BH00576

1300

Consultation; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Suffering and imprisonment; Wisdom [hikmat]

الحمد لله الذی تجلی بنقطه من الکتاب الاعظم علی اوراق العالم اذا ظهرت الکتب و

Praise be unto Him Who hath revealed through a single Point from the Most Great Book upon the pages of the world when the Books appeared and [3.5s]... ...Members of the human race! Hold ye fast by the Cord which no man can sever. This will, indeed, profit you all the days of your life

BLIB_Or15715.097c,

BRL_DA#745, GWBP#164 p.220x, AVK4.460bx, MAS4.349ax

GWB#164x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.081x, GPB.183x, GPB.185x, GPB.218x3x, PDC.004x, PDC.136x, WOB.194x

LL#414

BH00568

Bisharat (Glad-Tidings; =Lawh-i-Nida)

1320

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Bisharat (Glad Tidings)

حق شاهد و مظاهر اسماء و صفاتش گواه که مقصود از ارتفاع ندآء و کلمه علیا آنکه

God, the True One, testifieth and the Revealers of His names and attributes bear witness that Our sole purpose in raising the Call

INBA30:042, BLIB_Or07851.043b, , KB_262:033-041, PR05.002b-007a, BN_suppl.1753.069-075

ADM2#108 p.195x, AVK3.431.02x, AVK4.248.04x, AVK4.282ax, MJMM.116, UAB.057cx, BSHA.066x, PYB#188 p.04x, ADH1.086x, TBP#03, OOL.B005, OOL.B132

TB#03, LOG#0410x, LOG#2105x, LOG#2116x, GPB.218x, PDC.026x, PDC.118x, SW_v08#06 p.067, SW_v08#09 p.113, SW_v11#18 p.297, DWN_v5#04 p.001x, DWN_v5#09 p.001x, DWN_v6#01 p.001-002x, BLO_PT#201, BSC.141 #070-091

Proclaims fifteen ‘glad-tidings’: the abolition of holy war, consorting in fellowship with the followers of all religions, the adoption of a universal auxiliary language, the obligation to faithfully serve just monarchs, obedience to government, the establishment of the ‘Lesser Peace’, freedom in choice of clothing and cut of beard, abandonment of monasticism, forbidding the confession of sins, abrogating a law of the Báb regarding the destruction of books, exalting useful work to the status of worship and forbidding mendicancy, entrusting the affairs of the people to the House of Justice, abrogating the requirement of making special journeys to visit the graves of the dead, and commending a combination of republicanism and monarchy in the governance of human affairs.

Destruction of books; House of Justice; Law of pilgrimage; Monasticism; asceticism; Status of kings; future of monarchy; Useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession; Work as worship

JRAS.676-679, ROB4.161-168, GSH.156, GSH.191, BSR_v16p03, LL#013, LL#320

BH00565

1330

Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Suffering; rejection of Christ; Suffering and imprisonment

هذا کتاب من لدی المظلوم الی من تمسک بالعلوم لعل یخرق حجاب الاکبر و یتوجه الی

This is a Book from Him Who is Wronged unto him that hath clung to learning, that perchance he may rend asunder the most great veil and turn towards [3.5s]... ...Ponder awhile. What is it that prompted, in every Dispensation, the peoples of the earth to shun the Manifestation of the All-Merciful?

INBA35:053, INBA66:110, BLIB_Or11096#007, , BLIB_Or15698.231, , BLIB_Or15720.228, , BLIB_Or15740.176,

BRL_DA#666, GWBP#035 p.060x, ADM1#005 p.018x, IQT.231, AYI1.329x, MJMM.232, DWNP_v5#06 p.002-003x, UAB.002bx, ASAT3.074x, ASAT3.131x, ASAT4.146x, ASAT4.429x, YMM.404x, NSS.125x

GWB#035x, JHT_S#100x

LL#377, LL#423

BH00560

1330

حمد مقدس از ذکر و بیان مالک امکان را لایق و سزاست که از انقلاب سکون ظاهر

Sanctified praise, transcending all mention and utterance, befitteth the Lord of all contingent being, Who hath been made manifest through the transformation of repose [3.5s]

INBA31:179

Consultation; Exhortations and counsels; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Wisdom [hikmat]

LL#104, LL#105

BH00554

1350

Exhortations and counsels; Power of the Manifestation of God; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

یا حیدر قبل علی بگو یا اهل ارض آذان را از برای اینکلمه مبارکه از آنچه

O Haydar-'Alí! Say: O peoples of the earth! Purge your ears for this blessed Word from whatsoever [3.5s]... ...O my God, the God of bounty and mercy! Thou art that King by Whose commanding word the whole creation

INBA42:001, INBA65:029x, INBA30:084a, BLIB_Or15690.234, , BLIB_Or15699.080, , BLIB_Or15718.155,

BRL_DA#684, PMP#159x, AHM.319x, AQMJ1.141x, VAA.202-202x, ADH1.044x, MMJA.034x

PM#159x, BPRY.168

A. Youssefi

LL#497

BH00545

1360

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

انه هو حینئذ حی فی هذا الافق العزیز المنیر یشهد و یری و یقول مخاطبا لملا

Verily He is, in this hour, alive in this glorious and resplendent horizon. He doth witness and behold and speaketh, addressing the concourse [3.5s]... ...Every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God is endowed with such potency as can instill new life into every human frame, if ye be of them that comprehend this truth

BLIB_Or15725.455, , NLAI_BH2.072

BRL_DA#675, GWBP#074 p.096bx, YMM.380x

GWB#074x

LL#394

BH00542

1370

Huqúqu'lláh

یا مهدی عالم منقلب و احدی سبب آنرا ندانسته باسا و ضرا احاطه نموده ارض آرام

O Mihdi! The world is in turmoil, yet none hath discerned the cause thereof. Tribulation and affliction have encompassed the earth, which findeth no peace [3.5s]... ...There is no objection to offering for sale that which is donated in the name of Huquq…. Whoso desireth to offer Ḥuqúqu’lláh with the utmost joy and eagerness

BLIB_Or15697.193, , BLIB_Or15738.156, , LEID.Or4971 item 7b?,

BRL_HUQUQP#086x, AVK4.461bx, MAS4.109x, RHQM1.575-575 (702) (431-431x), SAM.268, KHMT.142x, LDR.120x, YQAZ.438x

BRL_HUQUQ#086x, COC#1153x, COC#1154x

Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Acting according to the exigencies of the day; pragmatism; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization; Reward and punishment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

LL#152

BH00537

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Siyyidu'sh-Shuhada

1380

Tablet of Visitation for Imám Husayn (Lawh-i-Zíyárat-Namih-i-Imám Husayn); Translation List; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Ziyarat-Namih-i-Imam Husayn (Tablet of Visitation for Imam Husayn)

شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و الذی اتی انه هو الموعود فی الکتب و الصحف و

God testifieth that there is no God but Him! And He that hath appeared is the One promised in all the Books and sacred Scrolls…. Glory be unto Thee O my God, O Thou the Lord of Manifestation, Whose shed the glory of His effulgence upon the branch of Sinai!

INBA65:001, BLIB_Or15696.175bx, , BLIB_Or15714.112,

BRL_DA#158, ADM2#010 p.024x, MJMM.202, AYT.235, ASAT3.100x, DLH3.422x, OOL.B154

BRL_ATBH#59x, BLO_PT#149, ADMS#003x, JHT_S#173x

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Imam Husayn; Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for martyrs; Visitation Tablets

ROB3.303, MMAH.226, GSH.144, LL#347, LL#350

Tablet of Visitation for Imam Husayn.

BH00534

1400

الحمد لله الذی تفرد بالامر و توحد بالحکم و انزل من سماء الاحدیه حکم الحکمه و

All praise be unto God Who is single in His command and unique in His decree, and Who hath sent down from the heaven of oneness the precepts of wisdom [3.5s]... ...I beseech Thee, Who art the Lord of the entire creation and the Edifier of all that is come into being, by Him Who is the Revelator of the divine verses

BLIB_Or15727b.108,

ADM3#093 p.106x, AVK3.020.09x, AVK3.116.03x, NNY.150-152x, MAS8.106ax, AYI2.305x, RHQM1.430-430 (521x) (320x), ASAT3.210x, ASAT5.250x, YMM.425x

JHT_S#167x

Knowledge; recognition of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Wisdom [hikmat]

ROB4.089b, LL#006

BH00532

Suriy-i-Ismuna'l-Mursil

1410

هذا کتاب من لدی البهاء الی من اقر بالله و اعترف بسلطانه ثم استقر علی مقر قدس رفیع

This is the Book from the presence of Bahá unto him who hath acknowledged God and recognized His sovereignty, and hath moreover attained unto a seat of celestial sanctity [3.5s]... ...Among them is the King of Persia, who suspended Him Who is the Temple of the Cause in the air, and put Him to death with such cruelty

INBA37:133, INBA83:118, BLIB_Or15702.037, , BLIB_Or15723.253, , BLIB_Or15737.097, , ALIB.folder18p142-147

BRL_DA#731, AQA4#092 p.311, OOL.B126

PDC.111-112x

A meditation on the name of God, ‘the Sender’, and its various present and future manifestations in the world, from the Messengers of God, to individuals such as couriers who may be unaware of their role in propagating the divine message, to the Bábí and Bahá’í kings of the future, to the newly designated ‘people of Bahá’—His own followers, upon whom lies the responsibility of delivering the message to others.

Categories of Prophets (major; minor; village); Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

GSH.201, LL#311

BH00528

Lawh-i-Bismillih

1410

Tablet on Understanding the Cause of Opposition to the Manifestations of God

Lawh-i-Bismillih or Lawh-i-irfán-i'illat-i-i'rád (Tablet on Understanding the Cause of Opposition to the Manifestations of God)

این مظلوم اراده نموده لوجه الله بر شما القا نماید آنچه را که سبب بقای ابدی… قل الهی الهی اشهد بوحدانیتک و فردانیتک و اعترف بما نطقت به السن

This Wronged One wishes to impart to you, wholly for the sake of God, that which is the cause of eternal life and everlasting remembrance.

BRL_DA#183, AVK3.408.11x, MJMM.276, DRD.072, NSS.126x, OOL.B033

WOB.107x, BLO_PT#165

Emphasizes the importance of the independent investigation of spiritual reality upon attainment of maturity, which entails the understanding of why some choose the path of faith and others that of denial, why each religious sect believes it is in sole possession of the truth, and why the Prophets of the past were all rejected in their day.

Independent investigation of truth; reality; Prayer for forgiveness; Prayer for nearness to God; Purpose; goal of creation; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Suffering; rejection of Christ; Suffering and imprisonment

LL#079

BH00513

Suriy-i-Dhabih (= Lawh-i-Dhabih)

1450

Bribery and corruption; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Obedience to and respect for government authority; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

روحی و نفسی لک الفداء کتاب مبارک که بطراز حب محبوب عالمیان مزین بود این خادم

My spirit and soul be a sacrifice unto Thee! The blessed Book, which was adorned with the ornament of love for the Best-Beloved of all worlds, reached this servant [3.5s]... ...The Pen of Revelation, O Dhabih, hath, in most of the divinely-revealed Tablets, recorded these words

BLIB_Or11096#242x, , BLIB_Or15698.323, , BLIB_Or15720.315, , BLIB_Or15740.246x,

BRL_DA#141, GWBP#115 p.155, AVK3.269.13x, AVK3.270.08x, IQT.323, GHA.333x, ASAT1.131x, OOL.B112.1

GWB#115x, ADJ.024x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.077x, GPB.099x, PDC.119-120x

Summons the Bahá’ís to upright conduct, obedience to worldly authority, and high moral character and warns that the greatest harm that can be inflicted upon Bahá’u’lláh’s Cause is not His imprisonment and persecution but the misdeeds of those who claim to be His followers.

ROB2.412, LL#082, LL#297

BH00512

Lawh-i-Tawhid

1450

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Translation List

Lawh-i-Tawhid (Tablet of Divine Unity)

حمد مقدس از عرفان ممکنات و منزه از ادراک مدرکات ملیک عز بی مثالی را سزا است

Praise be to God, the All-Possessing, the King of incomparable glory, a praise which is immeasurably above

INBA38:012, INBA65:167, INBA35:058b, INBA36:396, NLI.32p020v, PR23.039b-041b

BRL_DA#716, GWBP#026 p.047bx, AVK1.113b.02x, AVK2.013.17x, AVK2.072.02x, ZYN.056, MJMM.307, DWNP_v1#01 p.003-007, UAB.006bx, UAB.008ax, DLS.070x, ASAT2.104x, AHB_109BE #07 p.002x, PYM.335-341, OOL.B081

GWB#026x, WOB.113x2x, ADMS#013

Discourse on the transcendence of God, Whose signs have pervaded the entire creation and Who is known only through His Manifestations, Who appear from age to age and call the people to recognize His cause as one would recognize a friend: that is, by his own self and not by the garments he may be wearing on any given day.

Creation of the world; Manifestation of God as mirror; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God

GSH.184, LL#250

BH00508

1460

Huqúqu'lláh

این ایامیست که قلم و لسان جز بذکر شهدا ساکن نه و دوست نداشته و ندارد بذکری

These are the days wherein neither pen nor tongue findeth rest or desireth aught save the remembrance of the martyrs [3.5s]... ...Payments for the Huququ'llah cannot be handed over to every person. These words have been uttered by Him Who is the sovereign Truth

INBA28:516

BRL_DA#398, BRL_HUQUQP#087x

BRL_HUQUQ#087x, COC#1156x, LOG#1040x

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Law of Huququ'llah; Martyrs and martyrdom; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB4.089c, LL#006

BH00505

Lawh-i-Aqdas (Tablet to the Christians)

1470

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Lawh-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Tablet)

هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی مامنعته سبحات الاسماء عن الله فاطر الارض و السما

This is an Epistle from Our presence unto him whom the veils of names have failed to keep back from God

INBA34:100, BLIB_Or15735.163, , CMB_F32.085,

AQA1#006, SFI16.025, NSR_1993.024ax, ASAT1.168x, ASAT4.185x, HYK.163, TBP#02, OOL.B026

TB#02, COF.030ax, TDH#158.3x, GPB.210x8x, GPB.253x, GPB.396x, PDC.166x, PDC.166-167x, PDC.167-168x, PDC.168x, PDC.174x, WOB.078x, SW_v04#01 p.013, SW_v04#01 p.014-020, BSC.124 #049

Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Monasticism; asceticism; Mosaic imagery; Proclamation to Christians; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

Announces to an unnamed Christian Bahá’u’lláh’s revelation as the fulfilment of Christian prophetic expectations, reproaches the Christians in general and the clergy in particular for failing to recognize it, asks them to consider how Christ was similarly rejected by the people of His day, and concludes with a series of beatitudes reminiscent of the Sermon on the Mount.

ROB4.227 et al, BKOG.382, GPB.209, WOB.104, MMAH.165, GSH.164-168, LL#060

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

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

BH00483

1500

Bahá'í Scriptures; Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

الحمد لمن نطق بعد تقدیسه عن اللسان و علم بعد تنزیهه عن البیان انه لهو الذی

Praise be unto Him Who, after His sanctification beyond all tongues, hath spoken, and Who, after His transcendence above all utterance, hath taught. He, verily, is the One Who [3.5s]... ...It hath been decreed that, if anyone should have a troubled dream and should thereby be grieved and saddened, he may recite this blessed verse… O Thou by Whose name the sea of joy moveth and the fragrance of happiness is wafted!

INBA07:128, INBA18:421, BLIB_Or15717.233, , Majlis210461.126x

ADM2#113 p.202x, MAS4.366bx, ASAT1.072x, PYK.033x

BRL_APBH#23x, RBB.123x, BSC.186 #270x, BP1929.012x

Sixth Choral Music Festival Concert, C. Wolcott

Consolation and comfort; Eulogies; reminiscences; Meaning; importance of dreams and visions; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#189

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".

BH00475

Lawh-i-Rafi'(?)

1520

حمد مقدس از لسان و بیان مالک الملکی را لایق و سزاست که بمفتاح بیان ابواب

Sanctified praise, through tongue and utterance, befitteth the Lord of all sovereignty, Who by the key of expression hath opened the doors [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15717.090,

NSS.105x

Call to action; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#215

BH00472

Lawh-i-Ittihad

1530

Tablet of Unity; Tablet of Unity; Creative Word and the Meaning of Unity, The

Lawh-i-Ittihad (Tablet of Unity)

قد حضر لدی المظلوم کتاب احد من السادات الذین اقبلوا الی الله و سمعوا و اجابوا

The letter of one of the Sádát, they who have set themselves towards God and having heard the Call have answered their Lord, the All-Loving

BLIB_Or15738.055,

BRL_DA#707, AVK3.095.10x, AVK3.113.10x, AVK3.258.12x, AVK3.474.02x, AHM.388, UAB.048dx, KHSK.089-093, OOL.B048a

LOIR02.093, BLO_PT#027, BLO_PT#146, BLO_PT#147

Elucidates the subject of unity in different aspects: unity of religion, unity in speech, unity of deeds, unity in rank and station, unity of souls, and unity in material possessions.

Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; The power of words; of speech; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity in diversity; Wisdom [hikmat]

ROB4.191, MMAH.090, LL#129

BH00466

1540

رشحات وحی از اوراق سدره منتهی باعانت نسیم اراده مالک اسماء بهیئت این کلمات

The dewdrops of revelation, aided by the breezes of the Will of the Lord of Names, have descended from the leaves of the Divine Lote-Tree in the form of these words [3.5s]... ...Indeed the laws of God are like unto the ocean and the children of men as fish

INBA35:140x, BLIB_Or15719.031, , Majlis934.092-108

AVK2.057.13x, AVK3.119.11x, AVK3.298.16x, UAB.031dx, MAS4.170x, KSHG.064-070, MSBH2.482-489

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity; Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Methods of teaching the Cause; Music and singing; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight; Wisdom [hikmat]

ROB3.279, LL#131

BH00465

1550

حیرت اندر حیرت و عجب اندر عجب که اینفانی مفقود در اول عرایض و مکاتب و رسائل

Wonder upon wonder and astonishment upon astonishment, that this evanescent and lost one, in the beginning of supplications, letters and treatises [3.5s]... ...My God, my God! I beseech Thee by the station wherein Thy most sweet voice calleth aloud,and by the horizon from which the luminary of Thy Cause doth shine forth

INBA31:116

AQA6#217 p.051, ADM2#030 p.051x, FRH.077-078x

JHT_S#055x

Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Justice and wrath of God; Prayer for the spiritual progress of others; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#352

BH00457

Lawh-i-Mubahilih

1580

Tablets concerning the Divine Test

Surat al-Mubahalah (Surah of the Divine Test)

هذا لوح قد فصل من لوح المحفوظ لیکون بنفسه هدایه و رحمه علی کل من فی السموات

This is a Tablet that hath been separated from the Preserved Tablet, that it might serve, of itself, as a guidance and mercy unto all who dwell in the heavens [3.5s]... ...O Muhammad! He Who is the Spirit hath, verily, issued from His habitation, and with Him have come forth the souls of God's chosen ones

BLIB_Or07852.089, , BLIB_Or15725.463, , NLAI_BH2.006

BRL_DA#153, TZH5.029n-044n, MAS4.278.18x, MAS7.243-244x, ASAT4.487x, SAM.208, PYK.006, YMM.338x, OOL.B060

GPB.168-169x, BLO_PT#199x

Praises the station of Quddús, one of the Báb’s first disciples and an early martyr, and relates the circumstances of the public challenge issued by Bahá’u’lláh to Mírzá Yaḥyá to take place in the mosque of Sultan Salim, at which the latter failed to present himself, which sealed the irreparable breach that had arisen between them.

Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Martyrs and martyrdom; Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB2.293, GPB.169, MMAH.168, LL#184

See also BH03710.

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

BH00438

1620

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment

قد انزلنا الکتاب و هو ینطق امام وجوه العباد الملک لله رب الارباب و یبشر... الها معبودا ملکا مقصودا

Lo, We have sent down the Book, and it proclaimeth before the faces of the servants: "Dominion belongeth unto God, the Lord of Lords," and announceth [3.5s]... ...My God, my Adored One, my King, my Desire! What tongue can voice my thanks to Thee? I was heedless

INBA65:026x, INBA30:082bx, INBA81:001ax, BLIB_Or15690.221, , BLIB_Or15699.006, , NLAI_BH_AB.016x

BRL_DA#687, PMP#173x, AHM.323x, AQMJ1.144x, AYI2.050x, MMJA.011x

PM#173x, BPRY.019-020

L. Thoresen, R. Price, L. Slott, Soulrise Melodies, K. Porray

LL#504

BH00437

Prayer for the Fast (Iftar)

1620

Obligatory Prayer and Fasting, The Importance of

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک بالذین جعلت صیامهم فی حبک و رضائک و اظهار امرک

Exalted art Thou, O Lord my God! I beseech Thee by those whom Thou hast bidden to observe the Fast for the sake of Thy love

INBA38:304, INBA48:045, INBA33:087, INBA49:227, INBA92:284, BLIB_Or15739.094,

BRL_DA#242, TSBT.064, NFF5.055, ASAT4.488x, OOL.B090.02

BRL_IOPF#3.06

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Justice and wrath of God; Law of fasting; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for fasting; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; Transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#271, LL#469

BH00436

1620

الحمد لله الذی فتح باب العلوم و الفنون بمفتاح اسمه الاقدس الاعظم الابهی الذی به نصب خباء

Praise be to God Who hath unlocked the gates of sciences and arts with the key of His Most Holy, Most Great and Most Glorious Name, whereby He hath raised the pavilion [3.5s]... ...O God! O God! I beg of Thee by Thy Radiant, Collective Name

BLIB_Or15695.210,

ABIE.362x, DAS.1913-09-27x

Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for forgiveness; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#475

BH00434

Suriy-i-Dhibh

1620

Surah of the Sacrifice (Súratu'dh-Dhibh)

Suratudh-Dhibh (Surah of the Sacrifice)

اقر لله علی عرش العظمه و الجلال بانی انا الله لا اله الا انا المهیمن

God hath proclaimed from the throne of grandeur and splendor, "I, verily, am the Lord God, and there is no other god beside Me

INBA18:001, INBA37:003, BLIB_Or15723.188, , BLIB_Or15737.027,

AQA4#079 p.100, AQA4a.029, AVK3.467.01x, MAS4.139ax, ASAT3.267x, OOL.B113

BLO_PT#096

Exhorts the recipient to look into the truth of the Cause of God with his own eyes and declares that Bahá’u’lláh has been offered up as a sacrifice at the hands of the wicked at every moment for the past twenty years.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Independent investigation of truth; reality; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God

MMAH.222, GSH.113, LL#298

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"

BH00431

Lawh-i-Ibna'

1630

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

تلک لآیات الله المهیمن القیوم الی الذینهم آمنوا بالله و آیاته و هم من فزع

These are the verses of God, the All-Protecting, the Self-Subsisting, unto them that have believed in God and His signs, and who are among those that are in terror [3.5s]... ...And now, concerning thy question regarding the creation of man. Know thou that all men have been created in the nature made by God

INBA35:063

BRL_DA#109, GWBP#077 p.101ax, RSBB.069, TZH5.148x, MAS1.065x, AHDW.010, YIK.050-054, OOL.B161

BRL_ATBH#38x, GWB#077x, GPB.242x, SW_v08#14 p.185x

Admonishes the believers not to deny Him, not to forget the Covenant established in the Bayán and in all the sacred Books, and not to contend with His verses. Answers three questions out of more than twenty that were asked: regarding the station of man -- that all were created in God's nature and have been assigned predetermined measures of capacities and capabilities, which manifest according to their individual efforts; regarding His own station, which is greater than the creation of the heavens and the earth; and regarding the station of His sons, one of whom which will be manifested "through the power of the true Faith".

Free will and predestination; fate; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Power of the Manifestation of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB2.259-260, LL#141, LL#384, LL#433

BH00425

1650

Ascension of Baha'u'llah; Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih; Baha'u'llah; Christian rejection of Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith; Declaration of Baha'u'llah; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Banishments of Baha'u'llah; Early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah; Incarceration of Baha'u'llah in Siyah Chal; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Proclamation to Christians; Proclamation to Jews; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Suffering and imprisonment

هذا کتاب من لدی المسجون الی الذی آمن بالله ربه العلی العظیم و فاز بلقاء الغلام

This is an Epistle from the Prisoner unto him who hath believed in God, his Lord, the Most High, the Most Great, and hath attained to the presence of the Youth [3.5s]... ...By the righteousness of God, my Well-Beloved! I have never aspired after worldly leadership

INBA27:398, BLIB_Or15725.459, , NLAI_BH2.108

BRL_DA#245, GWBP#054 p.077ax

GWB#054x

LL#460

BH00423

Lawh-i-Haqqu'n-Nas

1650

Bahá'u'lláh's Lawh-i Haqqu'n-Nas; Tablet on the Right of the People (Lawh-i haqq al-nas)

Lawh-i Haqqun-Nas (Tablet of the Right of the People)

الحمد لله الذی وفی بما اوحی علی کافة انبیائه و رسله و بشر الکل بایامه و منها یوم

Praise be to God Who fulfilled what He revealed to all His Prophets and Messengers and gave to all the tidings of His days

MAS7.119, VUJUD.102x

BLO_PT#016, BLO_PT#162, VUJUDE.189x

Answers a question about the execution of justice in the next world as a result of actions in this world, explaining that everything in this physical world has a metaphorical counterpart in each of the divine worlds, which guarantees the settling of accounts, and giving three illustrative examples.

Goodly deeds; actions; Islamic laws and jurisprudence; Meaning; importance of dreams and visions; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Soul; spirit after death; Two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization

ROB3.286, ROB3.296-297, LL#356

BH00415

Lawh-i-Sirr al-Tankis

1690

مطالب مذکوره در ساحت اقدس معروض افتاد هذا ما نزل من سمآء الأمر قد سمعنا ما نادیت به الله بما علمک من قبل... و اما در فقرهٴ عباراتی که منسوب بجناب شیخ احمد احسائی

The matters mentioned were presented to the Most Holy Court, and this is what hath been sent down from the heaven of Command: We have heard that which thou didst call upon God concerning what He taught thee aforetime... And as for the phrases attributed to Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsá'í [3.5s]

BLIB_Or11096#253x, , BLIB_Or15722.035, , NLI.32p144rx

ADM2#095 p.176x, MAS1.012x, MAS4.276x, ASAT4.088x, ASAT5.065x, NSS.098x

ADMS#199n77x

Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Personal instructions; Petitions to authorities; Praise and encouragement; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation

LL#243

BH00413

1690

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for steadfastness; obedience; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God

سبحان الذی اظهر نفسه کیف شاء و اراد فی حین ماادرکته افئده اولی الحجی و اعترض

Glorified be He Who hath manifested His Self as He hath willed and desired, at a time when the hearts of them that are endowed with understanding could not comprehend Him and raised objection [3.5s]... ...Regard thou the one true God as One Who is apart from, and immeasurably exalted above, all created things. The whole universe reflecteth His glory

INBA35:094, BLIB_Or11096#009, , BLIB_Or15698.143, , BLIB_Or15720.141, , BLIB_Or15740.110, , NLI.32p083v

BRL_DA#597, GWBP#084 p.111ax, ADM1#006 p.021x, IQT.143, AYI1.337x, UAB.031ax, AQMJ1.181x, ASAT4.270x

GWB#084x, SW_v02#05 p.015x, JHT_S#030x

LL#421

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

BH00401

1710

خادم مسکین متحیر و متفکر که چه ذکر نماید و که را وصف کند و ستایش گوید حق جل

This lowly servant, bewildered and deep in thought, wondereth what to utter, whom to describe, and how to render praise unto the All-Glorious [3.5s]

INBA15:429, INBA26:433

AHM.068, GHA.017.11, GHA.032ax, TSBT.011, MSHR5.113-114x

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Power of prayer; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for forgiveness; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB4.299, LL#191, LL#230

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

BH00394

Sahifiy-i-Shattiyih (the Book of the Tigris)

1730

Tablet of the River [Tigris]; Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá

Shahifiy-i-Shattiyyih (Book of the River)

قد اکثرت القول فی ذلک ولکن الناس اکثرهم لایفقهون آنچه از ظهورات معجزات که

The people talk constantly about this subject, but most of them comprehend not. Of the miracles mentioned, those which are ascribed to this humble one are fabrications contrived by impostors

INBA36:316, INBA57:010, BLIB_Or15722.267, , BN_suppl.1754.139-143

BRL_DA#734, MAS4.142, RHQM1.285-291 (349) (209-213), OOL.B096

BLO_PT#137, BLO_sazedj#10x, JBS#9.3

Challenges the validity of miracles as proof and takes the coursing of the Tigris River as a central metaphor in a discussion of the irresistible power of the Cause of God, fate and predestination, and the root cause of dissension in the world.

Differences in human capacity; Miracles and their interpretation; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God is its own standard

ROB1.105, MMAH.228, GSH.024, LL#280

BH00391

1740

ساذج ذکر و ثنا سلطان قدم و دارای عالم را سزاست که بیک تجلی از تجلیات انوار

The pure essence of praise and glorification befitteth the Sovereign of eternity and the Lord of all worlds, Who through but a single effulgence from among the effulgences of His light [3.5s]

INBA07:197, INBA19:124x, INBA32:114x, INBA57:079x, BLIB_Or11097#059, , BLIB_Or15710.282, , NLAI_BH4.202-209

NNY.005x, NNY.087-088x, NNY.144-150, MAS8.176x

Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prophecy and fulfillment

ROB4.073, ROB4.088a, LL#006, LL#263

BH00388

1740

الحمد لله الذی تجلی للکائنات بالنقطه التی کانت مقدسه عن الجهات و النقاط و انها

Praise be to God, Who hath manifested Himself unto all created things through the Point that hath been sanctified above all directions and points, and verily it [3.5s]

BLIB_Or11097#008,

BRL_DA#328, MAS7.139x, MAS7.254x, AYI2.304x, ANDA#20 p.03x, MSHR2.286x, YMM.172x, YMM.433x, NSS.134x

Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Methods of teaching the Cause; Prophecy and fulfillment; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Wisdom [hikmat]

LL#195

BH00387

1750

Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Seal of the Prophets; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God

یا قلمی الاعلی اذکر من اقبل الی الله فی یوم فیه اعرض اکثر الناس و شرب الرحیق

O My Most Exalted Pen! Make mention of him who hath turned unto God on a day wherein most men have turned away, and hath quaffed the choice wine [3.5s]... ...It is evident that every age in which a Manifestation of God hath lived is divinely ordained, and may, in a sense, be characterized as God’s appointed Day

BLIB_Or15690.214, , BLIB_Or15699.123,

BRL_DA#677, GWBP#025 p.047ax, AYI2.319x, AYI2.320x, AYI2.322x, AYI2.324x, AYI2.338x

GWB#025x, WOB.167x2x

LL#386

BH00386

Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words - Arabic)

1750

Bahá'í Scriptures; Hidden Words

Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words)

هذا ما نزل من جبروت العزه بلسان القدره و القوه علی النبیین من قبل و انا

This is that which hath descended from the realm of glory, uttered by the tongue of power and might, and revealed unto the Prophets of old.

INBA36:440, INBA30:002, BLIB_Or8901, BLIB_Or15714.147, , CMB_F33.033, , PR22.049b-056b, PR23.029a-033a, BLIB_Or.08685, CUL.X893.7.B111, UMich962.143-151

BRL_HWA, AVK3.161.16x, ZYN.040, MJMM.017, BSHN.013x, MHT2b.030x, MAS4.367bx, NSR_1993.053, NFF4.001, OOL.B013a

HWAE, LOG#0304x, GPB.140x, SW_v03#01 p.004+007x, SW_v03#02 p.004x, SW_v04#18 p.300x2x, SW_v14#10 p.289-290x, BSC.171 #175-262

L. Slott (#1), S. and S. Toloui-Wallace (#1), almunajat.com (#1) [item 2], D. Gundry (#1), E. Mahony (#1), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#1), Baha'i Youth of Japan (#1), Joel in Real Life (#1), The Daguerreotypes (#1), E. Kelly (#1), L. Dely (#1), Y. Mbazo & Friends (#1), Fleur & Tessa (#1), G.H. Miller (#1), S. Peyman (#1), S. Eblaghi and M. Weigert (#1), K. Porray (#1), R. Johnston-Garvin (#1) [track 6], D. Sylvester (#1), M. Levine (#2), Nicolas & Louis (#2), L. Dely (#2), A.E. Rahbin (#2), R. Peterson (#2) [track 6], A. Wensbo (#3), E. Mahony (#3), S. Sunderland (#3), S. Sunderland (#3), M. Levine (#3) [track 2], L. Dely (#3), Rowshan (#3) [track 8], P. Held & C. Bahia (#3) [track 2], A. Youssefi (#4), E. Lilian (#4), MANA (#4), S. Peyman (#4), J. Cooper (#4), L. Dely (#4), R. Peterson (#4) [track 4], Corinne & Riaz (#4), L. Dube (#4) [track 3], Ladjamaya (#4) [track 7], D. Gundry (#5), W. Heath (#5), E. Mahony and A. Youssefi (#5), Bass Adjustment (#5), Ine (#5), M. Weigert (#5), S. Engle and J. White (#5), S. Gomes (#5), T. Ellis (#5), K. Kuolga (#5), A. Mirra (#5), Rowshan (#5) [track 11], SKY (#5), KC Porter (#5), E. Kelly (#5), M. Levine (#5) [track 7], L. Dely (#5), K. Key (#5), A. Sperandeo (#5), A. Wood (#6), L. Slott (#6), Y. Mesbah (#6), L. Dely (#6), The Descendants (#6), The Joburg Baha'i Choir (#6), Honiara Baha'i Youth (#6), The Badasht Project (1) (#7), The Badasht Project (2) (#7), Nabil and Karim (#7), Matt McGrath (#7), T. Nosrat (#7), L. Dube (#7) [track 12], Ladjamaya (#8) [track 4], almunajat.com (#9) [item 1], E. Mahony (#9), D. Hunt (#9), N. Ma'ani (#9), S. Toloui-Wallace (#9), J. Raj (#9), MJ Cyr (#11), O. Devine (#11), Refuge (#11), L. Dely & M. Congo (#11), Oisin & Bahiyyih Devine (#11), A. Azad (#11), Ahdieh (#11), S. Taborn (#11), S. Sunderland (#11), The Descendants (#12), O. Devine (#12), B. Nakedi (#12), P. Held & C. Bahia (#12) [track 3], M.C. Santillana (#12), M. Levine (#12) [track 2], R. Lea (#13), P. Held & C. Bahia (#13) [track 4], Joel in Real Life (#13), A.E. Rahbin (#13), L. Dube (#13) [track 2], MJ Cyr (#14), S. Taefi (#14) [track 9], L. Slott (#14), SKY (#14), A.E. Rahbin (#14), L. Slott (#15), A. Youssefi (#15), L. Dely (#15), E. Mahony (#15), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#15), L. Dube (#15) [track 14], Chicago Baha'i Community (#15), M. Sparrow (#16), Honiara Baha'i Youth (#16), MANA (#16), S. Jaberi (#16), L. Dely & M. Congo (#16) [track 7], L. Slott (#17), E. Mahony (#17), E. Mahony, E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#17), E. Henrikson (#17), Mona, Dibo & Nachidah (#17), L. Dely & M. Congo (#17) [track 7], E. Lilian (#18), Rowshan (#19) [track 5], J. Heath (#19) [track 9], J. Heath (#19), D. Olam (#19) [track 11], T. Ellis (#19), Sabin & Leticia (#19), A. Youssefi (#20), TaliaSafa & Friends (#20), Ine (#21), M. Saraswati (#21), A. Youssefi (#22), G.H. Miller (#22), NKAK (#22), K. Porray (#22), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#22), Ann-Sofie & Shahram (#22), T. Ellis (#22), The Descendants (#22), Naseem, Michele & Yasmin (#22), Meredth & Arman (#22), E. Tarani (#22), R. Yazhari (#23), L. Dely (#23), L. Dely (#25) [track 5], L. Dube (#26) [track 17], L. Dely (#27), P. Held & C. Bahia (#29) [track 5], L. Slott (#31), jeph.ilosopher (#31), L. Dely (#31), K. Key (#31), A. Youssefi (#32), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#32), Roz, Amelia & Andre (#32), Ahdi (#32), P. Escobar (#33), N. Ma'ani (#33), Laura & Michael (#33), R. Peterson (#33) [track 5], L. Herrmann (#34), Gyenyame (#34), C. Zurek (#34), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#35), L. Dely (#35), S. & H. Fikri (#35), L. Dube (#35) [track 21], A. Tahirih R. Weiss (#36), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#36), J. Marks and S. Engle (#36), K. Porray (#36), Hayden, Alessia & Anis (#36), A. Youssefi (#38), T. Ellis (#38), E. Mahony (#39), Rowshan (#40), A.E. Rahbin (#40), M. Tokuma (#41), L. Dely & M. Congo (#41) [track 1], Calling Waiting Searching (#42), G.H. Miller (#42), L. Dube (#42) [track 19], S. Gomes (#42), E. Mahony (#43), Dawnbreaker Collective (#43), Heroes Teaching Conference (#43), M. Perez (#43), J. Duhart (#43), G.H. Miller (#44), L. Dely (#44), A.E. Rahbin (#44), L. Dube (#44) [track 8], Nabil and Karim (#46), R. Lea (#48), L.Slott (#48), Katie & Faizi (#48), L. Dely (#48), SKY (#48), L. Dube (#48) [track 15], HeartBeat Collective (#48), L. & L. Hosack (#48), S. Acevedo (#48), A. Youssefi (#50), E. Mahony (#50), K. and D. Eckert and A. Youssefi (#50), Leona and Larry (#51), The Baha'i Trio (#51), E. Lilian (#52), L. Dely & M. Congo (#52) [track 6], E. Mahony (#52), N.D. Huening (#52), C. Oja (#52), S. Skiti (#52), J. Heath (#53) [track 7], S. Toloui-Wallace (#55), M. Levine (#55) [track 3], W. Eng & N. Rajan (#55), Qurratul, Ruhiyyih & Verona (#55), O. Devine (#55), R. Orona (#55), T. Bradley (#55), J. Cooper (#55), Seaon & Saman (#55), D. Stevenson (#56), L. Dube (#57) [track 7], K. Porray (#58), K. Porray (#59), O. Devine (#59), Baha'i Youth of Japan (#59), QuiqueSaba (#59), Strong Steep (#59), Ladjamaya (#59) [track 2], Z. Affolter (#60), L. Dely (#60), L. Dube (#61) [track 10], unknown (#62), L. Dube (#62) [track 1], M. Cuvillier (#63), L. Dube (#63) [track 9], P. Held & C. Bahia (#64) [track 6], L. Dube (#66) [track 20], Ine (#66), W. Heath (#68), Chicago Baha'i Community (#68), P. Held & C. Bahia (#68) [track 7], D. E. Walker (#68), S. Jaberi (#68), C. Oja (#68), L. Harley (#68), D. Stevenson (#71), L. Dely (#71), L. Dube (#71) [track 16]

The Arabic portion of His foremost ethical work, consisting of 71 aphorisms spoken in the voice of the Divine and declaring themselves to be the ‘inner essence’ of what was revealed to ‘the Prophets of old’, affirming the essential nobility and divinity of the human soul, prescribing its intimate communion with its Creator, proclaiming the oneness of the human race, and declaring our consequent responsibility to fellowship, love, fair-mindedness, and mutual aid for one another, especially the poor and downtrodden.

Bringing oneself to account each day; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf]; God's love for His own Essence; Human reality created in the image of God; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Knowledge of self; Love of God; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Soul; spirit after death

ROB1.071 et al, BKOG.159 et al, GPB.140, MMAH.092, GSH.016, LL#025

BH00382

1770

حمد و ثنا و شکر و بها مقصودیرا لایق و سزا که بحرکت اصبع اقتدار سبحات و حجبات

Praise and glory and thanksgiving and splendor befit and are worthy of that Most Desired One Who, through the motion of the Finger of Power, hath rent asunder the veils and shrouds [3.5s]... ...My God, the Object of my adoration, the Goal of my desire, the All-Bountiful, the Most Compassionate! All life is of Thee

INBA65:030x, INBA30:084bx, INBA81:013bx, BLIB_Or15690.210, , BLIB_Or15699.099b, , NLAI_BH_AB.025x

BRL_DA#691, PMP#160x, AHM.326, AQMJ1.146x, AYI2.310x, AYI2.311x, ADH1.017x

PM#160x

Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#464

BH00379

1780

Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Proclamation of the Cause (general or uncategorized); Rejection, opposition and persecution; Stories; anecdotes; Suffering and imprisonment

شمس الکلمات عن افق بیان ملیک الاسماء و الصفات قد کانت فی احسن الساعات بانوار

The day-star of words, dawning above the horizon of the utterance of Him Who is the Lord of all names and attributes, hath, at this most blessed of hours

INBA81:062, BLIB_Or15692.005, , BLIB_Or15706.021, , BLIB_Or15714.005,

BRL_DA#200, AYT.305x, ASAT4.400x, AMB#10

DOR#10

LL#015

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

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.

BH00354

Suriy-i-Vafa (=Lawh-i-Vafa)

1870

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Suriy-i-Vafa (Tablet to Vafa)

ان یا وفاء ان اشکر ربک بما ایدک علی امره و عرفک مظهر نفسه و اقامک علی ثناء ذکره

O Vafa! Render thanks unto thy Lord for having aided thee to embrace His Cause, enabled thee to recognize the Manifestation

INBA28:215, BLIB_Or15694.386, , Berlin1237#26, ALIB.folder18p103-109

GWBP#079 p.102x, AQA4#103 p.350, AQA4a.418, AVK1.119.07x, AVK1.276bx, AVK1.321.01x, LMA1.418 (253), MAS1.006x, MAS1.063x, ASAT5.300x, TBP#12, OOL.B140

TB#12, GWB#079x, WOB.138-139x, NYR#143

Exhorts the recipient to be the essence of faithfulness; asserts Bahá’u’lláh’s mystical identity with the Báb; answers questions about ‘the return’, the worlds of God, the ordinances of God, and paradise; and confirms that, as predicted during the time of His departure from ‘Iraq, the ‘birds of darkness’ have begun to stir.

Chastisement and requital; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Meaning; importance of dreams and visions; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Realms of being; three realms; five realms; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Return of the Manifestations of God

ROB4.205, GSH.190, LL#329

BH00347

Lawh-i-Pap (Tablet to Pope Pius IX)

1900

Lawh-i-Pap (Tablet to Pope Pius IX)

ان یا پاپا ان اخرق الاحجاب قد اتی رب الارباب فی ظلل السحاب و قضی الامر من

O Pope! Rend the veils asunder. He Who is the Lord of Lords is come overshadowed with clouds, and the decree hath been fulfilled by God

INBA34:026, BLIB_Or15705.018, , CMB_F31.032, , PR11.026a-031a

NRJ#1a, AQA1#001a, RHQM1.141-142 (180) (106-106x), OOL.B065

SLH#01a, BSC.098 #041

Announces the return of Christ, ‘come down from Heaven even as He came down from it the first time’; warns of the ‘veils of human learning’ that threaten to obscure this truth; calls on the monks to come forth from their seclusion; summons the people of all religions to hasten unto the most great Ocean; asserts the power of His revelation to overcome all opposition; bids the Pope to abandon his worldly riches and adornments; and proclaims to the Christians that John the Baptist has reappeared in the person of the Báb while the promised Father foretold by Isaiah and the Comforter promised by Christ has appeared in the person of Bahá’u’lláh.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Monasticism; asceticism; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to Christians; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering; rejection of Christ; Suffering and imprisonment; Universal peace; world unity

ROB3.116, MMAH.166, MMAH.229, GSH.124, LL#208

Included in the Suriyi-Haykal.

BH00346

1910

یا مهدی استمع ندآء من کان متغمسا فی بحر البلاء و اذا تمهله الامواج یرفع راسه

Hearken, O Mahdi, unto the call of Him Who is drowning in a sea of tribulation.

BLIB_Or11096#013, , BLIB_Or15698.116, , BLIB_Or15720.116, , BLIB_Or15738.108, , BLIB_Or15740.091, , LEID.Or4971-7 p4,

BRL_DA#279, AVK2.307.06x, IQT.116, RSBB.085, ASAT3.115x, ASAT3.132x, ASAT4.287x, ASAT4.406x, ASAT4.432x, ASAT4.496x, ASAT5.256x

PDC.028x, KSHK#24

Episodes from the early history of Islam; Rejection of Muhammad; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

BH00343

Suriy-i-Fadl

1920

Suriy-i-Fadl

ان یا ذبیح انا ارسلنا الیک من قبل لوحا ممتنعا منیع و فیه ذکر ما جعله الله حجه علی من فی

O Dhabih! We did verily send unto thee aforetime a Tablet, mighty and impregnable, wherein was inscribed that which God hath made a testimony unto all who dwell therein [3.5s]... ...Say: By God! The Sovereign of Words hath assuredly come upon the clouds of the verses, and lo, the words of every contentious polytheist were thunderstruck

INBA83:247, BLIB_Or15725.537, , BLIB_Or15737.173, , ALIB.folder18p081-088

OOL.B115

SHHB.135x

Exhorts the recipient to be bold in conveying Bahá’u’lláh’s claim to the followers of the Báb and to sharply challenge those who have repudiated the former’s claim, asking them to consider the infinite grace of God in revealing again the divine verses.

Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Idolatry; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#300

BH00336

Lawh-i-Burhan (= Lawh-i-Raqsha?)

1960

Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Lawh-i-Burhan (Tablet of the Proof)

قد احاطت اریاح البغضا سفینه البطحا بما اکتسبت ایدی الظالمین یا باقر قد افتیت

The winds of hatred have encompassed the Ark of Baṭḥá, by reason of that which the hands of the oppressors have wrought

INBA47:126, INBA35:119x, INBA90:026, INBA97:072, BLIB_Or15729.119, , NLAI_22848:289, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p150r, , UMich962.105-113, MKI4522.289,

AQA2#008 p.152, AVK3.110.07x, AVK4.284ax, AVK4.454bx, MJMM.053, NNY.245, RHQM2.0965-973 (399) (247-252), ASAT2.073x, ASAT3.250x, ASAT4.034x, ASAT4.052x, ASAT4.376x, LDR.217x, TBP#14, OOL.B035, OOL.B110

TB#14, BADM.173-174x, GPB.211x, GPB.218x, GPB.231x, GPB.232x3x, PDC.159x, WOB.179x

Condemns in fiery language two members of the Shiite clergy for their roles in the martyrdom of two prominent Bahá’ís, sets forth the spiritual prerequisites of the truly learned, and summons them to investigate the truth of Bahá’u’lláh’s cause by perusing His writings.

Chastisement and requital; Empty learning; false spirituality; Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment

ROB4.091 et al, GPB.219, MMAH.219, GSH.145, LL#081

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

BH00334

Suriy-i-Qalam

1970

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

BH00328

2000

Celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy; Degrees of faith; certitude; Literal interpretation; Soul; spirit after death; Suffering and imprisonment; Existence; immortality of the human soul; The human soul; The human soul at midpoint of creation; the isthmus [barzakh]; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures

ذکر من لدنا لمن اقبل الی الله رب العالمین و حضر کتابه فی السجن الاعظم و فاز

A remembrance from Our presence unto him who hath turned unto God, the Lord of all worlds, who hath attained unto His Book in the Most Great Prison, and who hath achieved [3.5s]... ...Thou hast asked Me concerning the nature of the soul. Know, verily, that the soul is a sign of God, a heavenly gem whose reality the most learned of men hath failed to grasp

INBA51:165, BLIB_Or15730.039, , KB_620:158-166

BRL_DA#663, GWBP#082 p.107x, ADM1#037 p.079x, AVK1.137bx, AVK1.185ax, AVK1.276ax, MAS8.189bx, RRT.144x, ASAT4.106x, YMM.270x

GWB#082x

LL#427

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

BH00308

Tarazat (Ornaments)

2100

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

Tarazat (Ornaments)

حمد و ثنا مالک اسما و فاطر سما را لایق و سزاست که امواج بحر ظهورش امام وجوه

Praise and glory beseem the Lord of Names and the Creator of the heavens, He, the waves of Whose ocean of Revelation surge… Glory be unto Thee, O Lord of the world

BLIB_Or07851.002a, , KB_262:063-074, CMB_F32.064, , PR05.020a-030b, OSAI_TC 20v-25r, MKA.06 Mil Yz A 2791 p01, , MKI4523.147, , BN_suppl.1753.046-054

ZYN.182, ISH.147, UAB.045cx, UAB.045dx, UAB.047ax, TBP#04, TUM.087-091x, OOL.B148

TB#04, BPRY.197x, ADJ.024x, GPB.218-219x, SW_v03#03 p.003x, SW_v08#02 p.027x, BLO_PT#201, BSC.137 #053-054x, BSC#092-099x, BNE.155x

J. Michel

Proclaims six ‘ornaments’: knowledge of self and acquiring a useful profession, fellowship with all religions, possessing a good character, truthfulness and trustworthiness, preserving the station of craftsmanship, and the importance of acquiring knowledge and of fairness in newspaper reporting.

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Limits of the intellect; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB4.168 et al, BKOG.382, EBTB.062, GSH.158, LL#340

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

BH00305

Namaz-i-Hajat and instructions re ablutions

2100

Tablet to Jináb-i-Mullá 'Alí-Akbar fí ardi'l-álif

Salat-i-Hajat or Salat-i-Liqá (Prayer of the Needs or Reunion prayer)

ان یا قلم الاعلی ذکر الذی غرق فی ابحر الظن و الهوی لعل یخلصه ما یجری عنک و

O Pen of the Most High! Make mention of him who is immersed in the seas of doubt and passion, that perchance thou mayest purify him

INBA66:122, BLIB_Or15694.342, , Berlin1237#27, ALIB.folder18p066-075

BRL_DA#076, AVK4.074x, MAS7.131x, RSR.106-107x

RBB.115-118x, BLO_PT#183

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Law of obligatory prayer; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

LL#281, LL#505

BH00297

Suriy-i-Dhikr

2160

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

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

BH00293

2180

حمد مقدس از ذکر و حدود مالک غیب و شهودیرا لایق و سزاست که افئده و قلوب اولیا

Sanctified praise, beyond all mention and limitation, beseemeth the Lord of the invisible and the visible, Who hath caused the hearts and souls of His chosen ones to be illumined [3.5s]... ...The Kitab-i-Iqan was revealed in 'Iraq especially for the honored Afnan, the illustrious Khal Akbar, upon him rest all My Glory. The details are thus

INBA31:093

AYI2.294x, AYI2.309x

GEN.287-288x

Call to action; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment; Unity; oneness of humanity

LL#177

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

BH00280

Suriy-i-Ziyarih

2280

Wronged One, The; Surih of Visitation

Surat az-Ziyarah (Surih of Visitation for Mulla Husayn)

هذا کتاب من لدی المظلوم الذی سمی فی ملکوت البقاء بالبهاء و فی جبروت العلاء

This is a letter from a wronged One, who is known in the kingdom of eternity as Bahá, in the dominion of exaltation… Our God and Beloved! Forgive us, our parents, and such of our relations as have believed in Thee and Thy signs

INBA37:122, INBA83:195, INBA49:289, BLIB_Or15702.239, , NLAI_BH2.297, ALIB.folder18p057-066

AQA4#091 p.301, ADM2#005 p.017x, MAS8.082, ASAT4.078x, OOL.B141

LOIR03.083, BLO_PT#098, JHT_S#087x

Visitation tablet for Mullá Ḥusayn, who was the first to embrace the cause of the Báb and was one of its early martyrs and who is implicitly related in the tablet to Bahá’u’lláh (whose given name was also Ḥusayn) and through Him to the persecution and suffering of Abel, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, Imam Ḥusayn, and the Báb.

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Power of the Manifestation of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Visitation Tablets

MMAH.204, GSH.196, LL#330

BH00279

Remembrance of the seven martyrs of Yazd

2280

Tablet to The Times of London; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Times (Tablet to the Times)

کنا ماشیا فی البیت و سامعا حدیث الارض اذا ارتفع الندآء من الفردوس الاعلی

We were walking in the House and hearing the discourse of the earth when the Call was raised from the Most Exalted Paradise [3.5s]... ...O 'Times', O thou endowed with the power of utterance! O dawning place of news! Spend an hour with the oppressed of Iran

INBA39:154

BRL_DA#375, MAS4.124cx, RHQM1.382-382 (461) (283-289), ASAT4.387x, MSBH2.171x, OOL.B169, OOL.B199

BRL_ATBH#08x, BLO_PT#195

Call to action; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB4.348, MMAH.144, LL#253

Includes the "Lawh-i-Times"

BH00275

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Khadijih Bagum

2300

Tablet of Visitation for the wife of the Bab, Khadijih Begum; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Khadijih Begum (Tablet of Visitation for the wife of the Báb, Khadijih Begum)

ان القلم ینوح و اللوح یبکی بما صعدت زفرات اهل الوفاء و نزلت عبرات الفردوس... ان یا قلم قد اتتک مصیبة کبری

O Pen! Verily a great tribulation and mighty calamity hath come upon Thee, one that hath caused the denizens of the Exalted Paradise and the dwellers of the Concourse on High

INBA31:074, BLIB_Or15704.218, , BLIB_Or15714.095x, , Majlis210461.114-116x

BRL_DA#273x, AQA4#100 p.339, AQA4a.201, AVK3.133.02x, AYT.029x, KHAF.184 (285), ASAT4.080x, AKHT1.364x, OOL.B179a, MATA.154-155x

BRL_ATBH#16x, EBTB.379, LTDT.055x, LTDT.057x, BLO_PT#151, GEN.099-102

Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Visitation Tablets

LL#139

BH00272

2340

Unnamed Tablet (Purpose of the one true God)

حق جل جلاله از برای ظهور جواهر معانی از معدن انسانی آمده الیوم دین الله و مذهب

The purpose of the one true God, exalted be His glory, in revealing Himself unto men is to lay bare those gems that lie hidden within the mine of their true and inmost selves… So powerful is the light of unity

BLIB_Or15692.040, , BLIB_Or15738.044ax, , MKI4523.133, , BN_suppl.1753.037-043

BRL_DA#661, GWBP#126 p.174x, GWBP#132 p.184x, AVK3.111.03x, AVK3.212.05x, ISH.133, UAB.023bx, UAB.036bx, ASAT3.118x, NSS.119-120x

GWB#126x, GWB#132x, TN.042-048x, STOB#085n, STOB#108n, ADJ.065bx, PDC.181x, WOB.203x2x, SW_v03#02 p.006x, DWN_v3#01 p.010x

L. Dely & M. Congo [track 4], R. Yazhari, T. Nosrat, MANA, N. Zabihi, Naim, Ridvan, Reza & Bahia, Pedram, Aram, Onni & Nader, A Family Affair, Soulrise Melodies (1), Soulrise Melodies (2), Leona and Larry, G.H. Miller, R. Peterson [track 13], E. Mahony, P. Weber

Call to action; Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Oneness; unity of religion; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Unity; oneness of humanity

LL#020

Part of this quoted in ESW.

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

BH00269

Lawh-i-Ra'is

2370

Lawh-i-Rais (Tablet to Sultan Ali Pasha)

قلم اعلی میفرماید ای نفسیکه خود را اعلی الناس دیده و غلام الهی که چشم اهل ملا

The Pen of the Most High proclaimeth: O thou who hast imagined thyself to be the most exalted of men

INBA35:043, BLIB_Or11096#015, , BLIB_Or15698.302, , BLIB_Or15720.296, , BLIB_Or15740.230, , CMB_F31.030, , NLI.32p039v, PR11.066a-072a

NRJ#3, AVK1.333.04x, AVK2.287.11x, AVK3.052.07x, AVK4.455x, IQT.302, MJMM.102, UAB.058cx, DRD.043, ASAT3.015x, ASAT4.168x, ASAT4.419x, OOL.B070b

SLH#03, GPB.173x2x, GPB.187x3x, GPB.208x3x, PDC.073-074x, PDC.099x, PDC.099-100x, SW_v02#02 p.003-007x, BLO_PT#198, BSC.081 #038

Bahá’u’lláh’s second tablet to the Ottoman Prime Minister ‘Álí Páshá, denouncing him for his further act of cruelty in imprisoning Bahá’u’lláh and His followers in the citadel of ‘Akká, warning him of the ephemerality of his worldly power, relating the episode of a puppet show from Bahá’u’lláh’s own childhood which convinced Him of the fleeting nature of the trappings of the world, asking ‘Álí Páshá to comport himself with reason and justice, and reiterating a request for a brief audience with the Sultan.

Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ROB3.033 et al, BKOG.013, MMAH.148, GSH.121, LL#217

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

BH00260

Suriy-i-Ra'is

2450

Suriy-i-Rais (Tablet to Sultan Ali Pasha)

ان یا رئیس اسمع ندآء الله الملک المهیمن القیوم انه ینادی بین الارض و السماء

Hearken, O Chief, to the voice of God, the Sovereign, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. He, verily, calleth aloud between heaven and earth

INBA47:147, INBA34:081, BLIB_Or15735.129, , NLAI_BH2.354, Berlin1237#28, PR11.020b-026a, UMich962.130-132x

NRJ#2, AQA1#003, AVK4.453x, MJMM.087, ASAT3.048x, ASAT4.254x, ASAT5.230x, BCH.104x, YMM.269x, OOL.B070a

SLH#02, GPB.174x, GPB.179-180x, GPB.180x, GPB.181x2x, PDC.099x, PDC.120x, WOB.105-106x, WOB.178x, BLO_PT#194, BSC.088 #039x, BSC.224 #444-445x

Addresses ‘Álí Páshá, the Ottoman Prime Minister, as Bahá’u’lláh and His companions were being transferred from Adrianople to Gallipoli en route to ‘Akká; takes the minister to task for his abuse of power; predicts the downfall of Sulṭán ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz; announces that He has come to ‘quicken the world and unite all its peoples’; relates the circumstances of His expulsion from Edirne; and parenthetically answers a question from a follower about the origin and nature of the soul.

Chastisement and requital; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for nearness to God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Suffering and imprisonment; Existence; immortality of the human soul; The human soul; The human soul at midpoint of creation; the isthmus [barzakh]; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB2.411 et al, BKOG.259, MMAH.146, GSH.109, LL#326

BH00259

Lawh-i-Napoleon II

2460

Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Summons of the Lord of Hosts

Lawh-i-Napulyun (Tablets to Napoleon III)

قل یا ملک الباریس نبأ القسیس بأن لا یدق النواقیس تالله الحق قد ظهر الناقوس

O King of Paris! Tell the priests to ring the bells no longer. By God, the True One! The Most Mighty Bell hath appeared

INBA34:033, BLIB_Or15705.022, , CMB_F31.034, , PR11.031a-038b

NRJ#1b, GWBP#107 p.139ax, GWBP#158 p.215bx, AQA1#001b, AVK3.203.19x, AKHA_123BE #01-02 p.ax, OOL.B062

SLH#01b, GWB#107x, GWB#158x, WOB.203x, SW_v03#05 p.007x, DWN_v5#02-3 p.002-004x, DWN_v6#10 p.001bx, BSC.105 #042

W. Heath, Soulrise Melodies (1), Soulrise Melodies (2)

Summons the Emperor to ‘tell the priests to ring the bells no longer’, announcing that He is the one promised by Christ; bids the monks to come forth from their seclusion; prophesies that his ‘kingdom shall be thrown into confusion’ and his empire ‘shall pass from [his] hands’ for ‘casting behind [his] back’ the first epistle from Bahá’u’lláh; recounts the sufferings of Bahá’u’lláh in His successive exiles; counsels the Emperor to watch over his subjects with justice; and instructs him, and the people of the world in general, to teach the Cause of God through the power of utterance, to be trustworthy, and to conceal the sins of others.

Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ROB3.110, BKOG.320, BKOG.392, MMAH.124, LL#200

Included in the Suriy-i-Haykal.

BH00258

Lawh-i-Yusuf

2460

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablet of Joseph (Lawh-i Yusuf); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Resurrection and the World to Come

Lawh-i-Yusuf (Tablet of Joseph)

تلک آیات الله قد نزلت بالحق عن جهه ایمن العرش و جعلها الله هدی و ذکری للعالمین... ای یوسف حجّتم بر کلّ من فی السّموات و الارض... انّا قد جعلنا میقاتاً لکم فاذا تمّت المیقات

These are the verses of God which have verily been sent down in truth from the right hand of the Throne, and which God hath made a guidance and a remembrance unto all the worlds [3.5s]... ...We have a fixed time for you, O people. If ye fail, at the appointed hour, to turn towards God, He, verily, will lay violent hold on you

INBA38:139, BLIB_Or15694.465, , ALIB.folder18p199, NLI.32p030vx

BRL_DA#532, GWBP#108 p.139bx, AVK1.279.19x, RSBB.181, GHA.255x, UAB.031cx, MAS4.019bx, MAS8.013x, AYI2.248x, AYI2.250x, ASAT4.378x, OOL.B084b

GWB#108x, LOG#1982x, PDC.007x, WOB.201x, SW_v02#03 p.003x, BLO_PT#113, BSC.199 #339-372, KSHK#28x

Emphasizes the importance of detachment as prerequisite to the recognition of spiritual truth and explains the meaning of ‘paradise’, ‘hellfire’, ‘resurrection’, and similar terms.

Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God and human limitations

GSH.171, LL#265, LL#395

BH00249

Lawh-i-Ahmad (Persian)

2510

Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Provisional Translation of the Persian Tablet of Ahmad

Lawh-i-Ahmad (Tablet of Ahmad (Persian))

اینست بدایع نصایح الهی که بلسان قدرت در مکمن عظمت و مقعد قدس رفعت خود میفرماید پس بگوش

O banished and faithful friend! Quench the thirst of heedlessness with the sanctified waters of My grace

INBA38:018, INBA65:185, INBA35:073, INBA36:401, NLI.32p145r, PR23.041b-045b, Majlis210461.020-030, BN_suppl.1753.106-115

BRL_DA#126, GWBP#152 p.207x, GWBP#153 p.208x, AVK1.021.09x, ZYN.070, MJMM.315, DRD.114, MAS8.038bx, ASAT5.106x, PYM.012x, OOL.B023b

GWB#152x, GWB#153x, ADJ.081x, ADJ.082x, PDC.024-025x, SW_v07#06 p.044x, SW_v07#16 p.152x, SW_v14#02 p.040x, BLO_PT#073, BSC.223 #435-443

L. Slott, A. Youssefi (1), A. Youssefi (2), E. Mahony (1), E. Mahony (2), E. Mahony (3), A. Bryan, Samira & Sara, MANA, Soulrise Melodies (1), Soulrise Melodies (2), A.E. Rahbin, E. Kelly, K. Porray, M. Levine [track 7]

Sets forth the conditions of spiritual search, with purity of heart being foremost; compares His revelation to that of an ocean which yields up its pearls in proportion to the eagerness of the search; and proclaims that ‘this fathomless and surging ocean is near, astonishingly near, unto you’.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge of self; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB2.137, BKOG.157, BKOG.223, BKOG.245, MMAH.184, LL#041

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

BH00245

Commentary on a verse from Sa'di

2530

Commentary on a Verse of Sa'di (Tafsir-i Bayti az Sa'di); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Unrestrained as the Wind; Tafsir-i Bayti az Sadi (Commentary on a Verse of Sadi)

آنچه از معنی بیت در آیات الهی نازل و از افق سماء حقیقت مشرق همان تمام است و

The intent of the poet in these verses, "The Friend is closer to me that I am to myself

BLIB_Or11096#006, , BLIB_Or15722.022, , NLAI_BH3.097, BN_suppl.1754.042-047

BRL_DA#034, GWBP#093 p.122bx, GWBP#161 p.218x, AVK3.105.13x, AVK3.465.02x, KHSH01.054, MAS1.057x, ASAT1.035x, ASAT2.085x, ASAT2.114x, ASAT3.091x, ASAT5.094x, ASAT5.235x, UVM.101.07x

GWB#093x, GWB#161x, ADJ.050-051x, ADJ.060x, ADJ.077x2x, ADJ.060x5x, COF.120x, GPB.389x, WOB.103x, WOB.167x, WIND#133

B. Grover, MANA

Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Nearness and remoteness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Word of God and human limitations

ROB3.404, LL#335, LL#448, LL#457

BH00244

2540

Changing Pronouns and Dropping 'Say' in Prayers

بجناب ذبیح علیه بهاء الله تکبیر مالانهایه برسانید عجبست که خبر ایشان نرسید

Convey unto his honor Dhabih, upon whom be the Glory of God, boundless greetings. Strange it is that no word hath been received from him [3.5s]... ...In some of the revealed prayers and supplications it is written, “and make him.” Is it considered interpolation if one recites, in a passsage of entreaty, "and make me"

INBA28:171, NLAI_BH4.053-062.03x

AVK2.318.17x, AVK4.028.13x, AVK4.267.10x, AVK4.439ax, MAS4.030x, MAS4.036x, ASAT4.030x, ASAT4.462x, ASAT5.054x, YIK.071-078

KSHK#08x

Empty learning; false spirituality; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity

ROB4.321, ROB3.200-201, LL#193, LL#372

BH00238

Lawh-i-Dunya (Tablet of the World)

2590

Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Lawh-i-Dunya (Tablet of the World)

حمد و ثنا سلطان مبین را لایق و سزاست که سجن متین را بحضور حضرت علی قبل اکبر

Praise and thanksgiving beseem the Lord of manifest dominion Who hath adorned the mighty prison… The betterment of the world can be accomplished

INBA89:190x, BLIB_Or07851.066a, , BLIB_Or15696.107bx, , BLIB_Or15716.198x, , PR05.009a-020a, Majlis934.001-026, BN_suppl.1753.078-089

GWBP#043 p.066bx, AVK1.021.02x, AVK3.063.14x, AVK3.161.09x, AVK3.203.15x, AVk3.459.04x, AVK4.239.06x, AVK4.255.05x, AVK4.280x, ZYN.212, MJMM.285, AQMJ2.151x, AQMJ2.152x, UAB.051cx, DRD.084, MAS4.120ax, ASAT3.039x, ASAT4.387x, ASAT5.067x, AHB_107BE #03 p.046x, ADH1.080x, SAM.235x, TBP#07, OOL.B036

TB#07, GWB#043x, ADJ.024x, ADJ.024-025x, ADJ.028x, ADJ.077x, GPB.232x, PDC.196x, PDC.199x, WOB.107x2x, WOB.198x, SW_v09#07 p.082x, SW_v14#06 p.179x, DWN_v3#01 p.009x, DWN_v5#01 p.003-004x, DWN_v6#06-7 p.001-002x, BLO_PT#201, BSC.138 #055-069x

T. Price, T. Ellis, A. Tahirih R. Weiss, MANA, Soulrise Melodies, S. Jaberi

Reiterates many of Bahá’u’lláh’s central social teachings, such as renunciation of self and promoting the good of the entire human race; achieving the betterment of the world ‘through pure and goodly deeds, through commendable and seemly conduct’; consorting with all religions in friendliness and fellowship; avoiding contention and conflict; observing courtesy; promoting the ‘Lesser Peace’; adopting a universal language; championing the universal education of children; and recognizing the importance of agriculture.

Call to action; House of Justice; Lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Unity in diversity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB4.329 et al, BKOG.382, BKOG.399, BKOG.410, BKOG.454, MMAH.131, GSH.168, LL#083

BH00234

10150

Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

الحمد لله الذی نصر امره بالاعدآء الذین استقروا علی سرر الظلم فی ناسوت الانشاء

Praise be unto God Who hath aided His Cause through the enemies who have occupied the seats of tyranny in the kingdom of creation [3.5s]... ...O Haydar! This Wronged One hath heard thy voice raised in the service of the Cause of God... O my handmaiden, O my leaf!... It is indeed a most excellent favour

INBA51:010x, KB_620:003-004x

BRL_DA#478, LHKM2.094x, UAB.012bx, QT108.059x, PYB#114 p.04x, ANDA#64 p.08-33x, TBP#17ix, YMM.309x, YMM.341x

TB#17ix, BRL_ATBH#03x, LTDT.059x, COC#1134x

R. Yazhari

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

LL#107, LL#188

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.

BH00223

Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom)

2680

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom)

کتاب انزله الرحمن من ملکوت البیان و انه لروح الحیوان لاهل الامکان تعالی الله

This is an Epistle which the All-Merciful hath sent down from the Kingdom of Utterance. It is truly a breath of life… Say: Magnified be Thy Name, O Lord my God!

INBA47:098, INBA90:001, INBA30:052, INBA81:024, BLIB_Or15729.106, , NLAI_22848:255, NLAI_BH3.142, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p133v, , Ghazi3072.045-093, UMich962.095-105, MKI4522.255, MKI4524.290, BN_suppl.1753.089-100

AQA2#006 p.130, ADM2#011 p.026x, AVK4.437bx, MJMM.037, RSBB.092, NSR_1993.047x, ASAT1.042-043x, ASAT1.190x, ASAT1.156x, ASAT5.213x, ASAT5.372x, ADH1.103x, TBP#09, OOL.B043

TB#09, BPRY.199x, PN_1900_heh p013, ADJ.025x, GPB.197x, PDC.186-187x, SW_v14#09 p.257x, BSC.189 #277-338

Arrayanes, Rafael, Efe, Sabria & Maarten, L. Dely & M. Congo [track 8], P. Held & C. Bahia [track 9], almunajat.com [item 23]

Calls on the people to observe a number of spiritual maxims; answers a question regarding the origin of creation; describes the Word of God as ‘the Cause which hath preceded the contingent world’; identifies nature with the operation of the Divine Will; mentions in positive terms some ancient philosophers, including Empedocles, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Balinus, and Hermes; states that the essence and fundamentals of philosophy have emanated from the Prophets; and asserts that a true philosopher would never deny God and His evidences.

Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Greek philosophers; Greek civilization; Heat and motion; Purpose; goal of creation; Special knowledge of the Manifestation of God; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God sanctified from time and place

ROB4.033 et al, BKOG.382, GPB.219, EBTB.115, MMAH.085, GSH.139, LL#116

BH00210

Lawh-i-Hadi - Re "He who knoweth himself..."

2770

He who knoweth his self hath known his Lord (Man 'arafa nafsahú faqad 'arafa Rabbahú); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Man ‘arafa nafsahú faqad ‘arafa Rabbahú (He who knoweth his self hath known his Lord); Lawh-i-Hadi (Tablet to Mírzá Hadi)

توحید بدیع مقدس از تحدید و عرفان موجودات ساحت عز حضرت لایزالی را لایق و سزا

How wondrous is the unity of the Living, the Ever-Abiding God—a unity which is exalted above all limitations, that transcendeth the comprehension of all created things! He hath, from everlasting, dwelt

INBA38:238, INBA36:409, INBA57:018b, BN_suppl.1754.059-064

BRL_DA#125, GWBP#073 p.096ax, GWBP#083 p.109x, GWBP#124 p.168bx, AVK1.061x, AVK1.180ax, AVK1.180bx, AVK1.187.06x, AVK1.242.05x, AVK1.307.02x, AVK2.077.13x, AVK3.398.09x, MJMM.346, DWNP_v6#05 p.003-004x, DRD.155, MAS4.026bx, MAS4.028x, ASAT1.185x, ASAT2.102x, ASAT4.292x, ASAT5.062x, ASAT5.251x, PYB#026 p.01x, PYB#221 p.03x, OOL.B160

GWB#073x, GWB#083x, GWB#124x, BLO_PT#040, WIND#112

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine attributes are within all things; every atom; Knowledge of self; Manifestation of God the only route to knowledge of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB3.063, LL#097

BH00206

2790

تبارک الرب الناطق علی العرش الذی باسمه نصب علم انه لا اله الا هو علی طور

Blessed be the Lord, speaking upon the Throne, Who through His Name hath raised aloft the Standard that proclaimeth "There is none other God but Him" upon the Mount [3.5s]

INBA07:001, INBA28:183, INBA97:107.11x, BLIB_Or11097#071,

AVK3.113.13x, AVK3.132.11x, AVK3.464.15x, MAS4.102bx

Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#101

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

BH00192

2940

جوهر حمد و بیان و ساذج شکر و تبیان بساط امنع اقدس مالک امکان را لایق و سزاست

The essence of praise and utterance, and the quintessence of thanksgiving and exposition, beseemeth and befitteth the most holy and most exalted court of the Lord of all possibility [3.5s]... ...God hath not blinked, nor will He ever blink His eyes at the tyranny of the oppressor

INBA28:229

BRL_DA#787, AVK2.181.09x, AVK3.402.09x, NANU_BH#08x, ASAT2.128x, ASAT3.269x, ASAT4.055x, ASAT4.206x, YMM.425x

GPB.224x

Justice and wrath of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Personal instructions; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB2.413, LL#210

BH00155

Suriy-i-Ahzan

3410

Surah of Sorrows (Suriy-i-Ahzán); Days of Remembrance

Suriy-i-Ahzan (Surih of Sorrows)

ان یا سیاح الاحدیه سبح فی قلزم الکبریاء الذی ظهر باسمی الابهی و جرت علیه سفن

O thou who art the pilgrim of Divine Oneness! Swim thou in the ocean of grandeur which hath been manifested through My Most Glorious Name, whereon sail the barques [3.5s]... ...Would that thou wert standing at this moment before the Throne and couldst hear how the melodies of eternity

INBA37:085, BLIB_Or15694.494, , BLIB_Or15723.212, , BLIB_Or15737.052, , NLAI_BH2.125, NLAI_BH2.265, ALIB.folder18p034-047

BRL_DA#733, AQA4#086 p.221, AQA4a.075, ASAT5.351x, OOL.B103, AMB#39x

DOR#39x, LTDT.080x, BLO_PT#092

Expatiates on the sorrows experienced by Bahá’u’lláh and the Báb, taking in part the form of a mystical conversation between the two.

Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Suffering and imprisonment; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.397, MMAH.155, GSH.114, LL#289

BH00154

3430

Obligatory Prayer and Fasting, The Importance of; Translation List; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک باسمک الباقی الذی به استبقت مظاهر امرک و باسمک

Praised be to Thee, O God, my God! I beg of Thee, by Thy name the Enduring One by which the Manifestations of Thy Cause… This is, O my God, the first of the days on which Thou hast bidden Thy loved ones observe the Fast

INBA38:287, INBA48:001, INBA33:091x, INBA49:151, INBA92:263, BLIB_Or15739.001,

AVK1.105.16x, TSBT.037x, NFF5.010, ASAT3.262x, ASAT4.162x, ASAT4.297x, ASAT5.169x, ASAT5.349x, ASAT5.364x, OOL.B090.06x, OOL.B090.09x

BRL_IOPF#3.01x, BPRY.259x, ADMS#047

unknown

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love of God; Prayer for fasting; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#271, LL#466, LL#471

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

BH00149

3510

یا حبذا نامه رسید و عرف محبت محبوب عالمیان از او متضوع هر حرفش دفتری بود و هر

O how excellent! The letter arrived, perfumed with the fragrance of love for the Beloved of all worlds. Each letter thereof was as a volume, and every [3.5s]

INBA15:409, INBA26:412

AYI2.233x, AYI2.350x

Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity

ROB4.300, LL#192

BH00144

Suriy-i-Bayan

3580

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

BH00141

3650

روح حمد و جوهر آن ساحت امنع اقدس حضرت محبوبی را سزاست که از معین قلم

The spirit of praise and its essence befitteth the most hallowed and exalted sanctuary of the Best-Beloved One, Who from the wellspring of the Pen [3.5s]

INBA08:358, BLIB_Or15727a.111, , BLIB_Or15732.046, , NLAI_BH4.263-287

Chastisement and requital; Consolation and comfort; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

SHHB.157, LL#054

BH00140

Lawh-i-Maqsud

3650

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Lawh-i-Maqsud (Tablet of Maqsud)

حمد مقدس از ذکر و بیان حضرت معبود و مالک غیب و شهودی را لایق و سزاست که از

A praise which is exalted above every mention or description beseemeth the Adored One, the Possessor of all things… Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value… The Word is the master key for the whole world

BLIB_Or15696.091dx, , IOM.099, MKA.06 Mil Yz A 2791 p06,

GWBP#110 p.140x, GWBP#112 p.142x, GWBP#117 p.159x, GWBP#122 p.167x, ADM2#007 p.020x, AVK3.171.04x, AVK3.210.04x, AVK3.213.14x, AVK3.217.04x, AVK4.281.01x, AYI1.335x, DWNP_v5#01 p.002bx, UAB.010bx, UAB.011ax, UAB.013bx, UAB.024bx, UAB.026ax, UAB.028bx, UAB.030ax, UAB.033bx, UAB.037ax, UAB.039dx, UAB.040bx, UAB.041ax, UAB.045bx, UAB.050ax, UAB.050bx, UAB.051bx, UAB.052ax, UAB.053bx, DRD.011x, ASAT5.236x, ANDA#79 p.13x, TBP#11, MMUH#05x, OOL.B057

TB#11, GWB#110x, GWB#112x, GWB#117x, GWB#122x, ADJ.028ax, ADJ.088x, GPB.217x3x, GPB.218x5x, GPB.219x, PDC.186x, PDC.187x2x, PDC.190x, WOB.032x, WOB.041xx, WOB.198x, WOB.041x, WOB.162x, WOB.187x2x, WOB.198x2x, WOB.202-203x, DWN_v1#10-11 p.001-004, KSHK#20x

Morgane & Samy, E. Kelly, L. Harley

Relates various teachings as prerequisites to world peace: universal education; regarding one another as ‘the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch’; reward and punishment as pillars of world stability; rulers acting with justice and wisdom; the gathering of the nations to lay the foundations of the ‘Lesser Peace’; the adoption of a universal language and script; affirming that ‘the earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens’; not allowing religion to become the source of disunity; taking counsel together in all matters; promoting useful branches of knowledge; exercising moderation in all things; inculcating tolerance and righteousness; and having due regard for the power of human utterance, in particular the Word of God, which is the ‘master key for the whole world’.

Consultation; Education of children; moral education; Reward and punishment; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity; Universal language; Work as worship

ROB4.235 et al, MMAH.138, GSH.213, LL#162, LL#461

BH00134

Madinatu't-Tawhid (the City of Unity)

3720

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

BH00132

Commentary on the Dala'il-i-Sab'ih of the Bab

3750

قد فتح ختم رحیق المختوم باسمی القیوم طوبی لقوم یعرفون انه لکوثر الرحمن ...قوله جل و عز از جمله ادلاء متقنه علم کل شیء است

The seal of the Choice Wine hath been broken through My Name, the Self-Subsisting. Blessed are they that recognize it as the Kawthar of the All-Merciful... His Word - exalted and glorious be He - is among the most perfect proofs of the knowledge of all things [3.5s]

INBA33:001x, BLIB_Or11095#033x, , BLIB_Or11096#011x, , BLIB_Or15722.107x, , NLAI_BH3.222x, BN_suppl.1754.037-042x

GHA.042x, ASAT5.276x

Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Prophecy and fulfillment; Word of God is its own standard

DB.304-305, SRC.089, LL#178

BH00130

Lawh-i-Ahbab

3770

Lawh-i-Ahbab (Tablet of the Friends)

هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی اذا سمع الندا من شطر ربه الابهی قال بلی یا اله من

This is a Book from Our presence unto him who, when he heard the Call from the direction of his Most Glorious Lord, responded "Yea, verily, O my God!" [3.5s]... ...O Pen of Revelation! Call thou to mind the Baptizer. Say: The Day of baptism hath come. Blessed is the one who hath baptized himself with the baptism of God

INBA34:069, BLIB_Or11095#001,

AQA1#002, AVK4.476ax, MAS4.159x, ASAT3.071x, BCH.032x, PYK.031x, OOL.B022

ADMS#244, BTO#02x

Addresses various followers with words of advice and encouragement, calling them to be united, to be detached from the things of the world, and to promote the cause of God, and lamenting the Bábís and others who have rejected His message.

Call to action; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB3.258, GSH.187, LL#038

BH00127

Suriy-i-Qahir

3810

Suriy-i-Qahir (Tablet to Qahir)

هذا کتاب من لدن نقطه الاولی الی الذی آمن بالله و آیاته و دخل بقعه الروح مقر الذی

This is the Book from the Primal Point unto him who hath believed in God and His verses, and hath entered the sacred precincts of the Spirit, the dwelling-place of Him Who [3.5s]... ...I am not apprehensive for My own self. My fears are for Him Who will be sent down unto you after Me

BLIB_Or15694.471, , Berlin1237#11, ALIB.folder18p018-034

BRL_DA#542, OOL.B135

WOB.117x

Affirms Bahá’u’lláh’s mystical identity with the Báb; answers a number of specific objections to His claims advanced by followers of the Báb; and laments His persecution at their hands, while reserving His real fears for ‘Him who will come after Me’, a statement that was reiterated in the Súriy-i-Haykal.

Chastisement and requital; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Suffering and imprisonment

LL#323

BH00118

3900

الحمد لله الذی انزل الایات و اظهر البینات و انطق ام الکتاب فی الماب الذی به

Praise be unto God, Who hath sent down the verses and made manifest the clear tokens, and caused the Mother Book to speak forth in the final return [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15690.182, , BLIB_Or15699.103,

MAS4.371x, RHQM2.0773-773 (174) (108-108x), ASAM.245-254, SAM.297-314

Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Presence of; reunion with God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Purpose of religion in the world (personal and social)

LL#182

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

BH00113

Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words - Persian)

3970

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Hidden Words

Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words)

ای صاحبان هوش و گوش اول سروش دوست این است ای بلبل معنوی جز در گلبن معانی جای

O ye people that have minds to know and ears to hear! The first call of the Beloved is this

INBA65:115, INBA36:383, INBA30:014, BLIB_Or15714.131c, , CMB_F33.001, , NLI.32p048v, BLIB_Or.08117, BLIB_Or.08685, CUL.X893.7.B111, Majlis210461.030-045, BN_suppl.1974.001

BRL_HWP, GWBP#042 p066ax, GWBP#104 p.136bx, ZYN.001, AHM.421, MJMM.373, BSHN.017x, MHT2b.036x, UAB.047dx, UAB.048ax, UAB.048bx, UAB.069ax, UAB.069bx, TZH4.223-224, NFF4.017, OOL.B013b

HWPE, GWB#042x, GWB#104x, LOG#0835x, ADJ.081x, BADM.155-156x, PDC.007x, PDC.148x, PDC.149x, WOB.059-060x, WOB.116x, WOB.201x, SW_v03#02 p.005x, SW_v05#10 p.150-151x, SW_v14#11 p.321x, BLO_PT#061

S. Toloui-Wallace (#1), S. Taefi (#1) [track 1], R. Johnston-Garvin (#1) [track 7], Baha'i Youth of Japan (#2), S. Taefi (#2) [track 2], L. Dely & M. Congo (#2), S. Toloui-Wallace (#3), K. Key (#3), A. Bridges (#3), L. Slott (#3), Rowshan (#3), SKY (#3), E. Mahony (#3), L. Dely (#3), S. Engle and J. White (#3), Delia Olam (#3), B. Vahdat (#3), Sanale & Xolani (#3), Nora, Sasha & Ann-Sofie (#3), NKAK (#3), Zannetta (#3) [track 10], A.E. Rahbin (#3), B. Silvestre (#3), R. Bennett (#3), S. Kouchekzadeh (#3), L. Dube (#3) [track 6], D. Hunt (#4), A. Youssefi (#4), Bass Adjustment (#4), S. Taefi (#4) [track 4], G.H. Miller (#4), Rowshan (#4) [track 6], Nabil and Karim (#4), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#4), N. Ma'ani (#4), A. Stephen (#4), A. Wood (#4), G. Besungu (#4), Ahdieh (#4), S. Parak (#4), A. Youssefi (#7), G.H. Miller (#7), S. Zahrai (#7), A.E. Rahbin (#7), B. Khademi (#7), G. and M. Smith (#7), S. Zein (#7), The Badasht Project (#8), A. Wensbo (#8), A. Bryan (#8), G.H. Miller (#9), A. Toufighian & A. Youssefi (#9), A. Wensbo (#10), L. Dube (#10) [track 18], S. Taefi (#10) [track 5], G.H. Miller (#11), S. Taefi (#11) [track 7], Naim, Miad & Justus (#11), Z. Rolle (#11), A. Bryan (#12), E. Mahony (#12), J. Sweeting & M. Weigert (#12), Chicago Baha'i Community (#12), MANA (#12), Meredith & Arman (#12), J. Cooper (#12), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#13), G.H. Miller (#13), S. and S. Toloui-Wallace (#14), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#14), MANA (#14), S. Esmaeili (#14), S. Peyman (#14), J. Cooper (#14), Rowshan (#16), A.E. Rahbin (#16), G.H. Miller (#16), L. Dely & M. Congo (#16), G.H. Miller (#18), O. Master (#19), S. Taefi (#20) [track 10], G.H. Miller (#21), Anis & Friends (#21), T. Ellis (#21), S. Taefi (#21) [track 8], R. Johnston-Garvin (#21) [track 6], E. Mahony (#21), N. Ma'ani (#22), D. Stevenson (#26), M. Kerr (#26), A.E. Rahbin (#26), J. Marks and S. Engle (#26), Chicago Baha'i Community (#26), Ashwin & Arhwin (#26), Temple of Light (#29), L. Dube (#30) [track 11], G.H. Miller (#31), TaliaSafa (#31), E. Mahony (#31), Turning Point (#31), S. Taefi (#31) [track 3], A. & M. Zemke (#31) [track 5], N. Ma'ani (#31), G.H. Miller (#32), TaliaSafa (#32), A. Wensbo (#32), MANA (#32), S. Trick (#32), S. and S. Toloui-Wallace (#33), A. Youssefi (#33), L. Dube (#34) [track 4], Carmel, Roya & Maryam (#35), A.E. Rahbin (#36), S. and S. Toloui-Wallace (#38), S. Toloui-Wallace (#38), F. Lionheart (#38), J. Cooper (#38), Seaon, Sasha & Sam (#38), S. Taefi (#38) [track 6], S. Bayan & S. Suggs (#38), L. Dely (#38), N. Hamilton (#38), B. Khademi (#39), A.E. Rahbin (#39), S. Toloui-Wallace (#40), Rasmus & Ann-Sofie (#40), Voices of Baha 2010 (#40), T. Ellis (#40), A Family Affair (#40), A. Youssefi (#40), The Badasht Project (#40), Refuge (#40), R. Peterson (#40) [track 8], Nabil and Karim (#40), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#40), J. Cooper (#40), S. Parak (#40), A. Youssefi (#40), N. Hamilton (#40), Kiskadee (#40), L. Dely (#40), Rasmus & Ann-Sofie (#40), L. Dely & M. Congo (#42), J. Cooper (#42), L. Dely & M. Congo (#44) [track 9], D. E. Walker (#44), S. Cleasby (#44), MANA (#44), M. Sparrow (#45), L. Dube (#63) [track 13], G.H. Miller (#64), G.H. Miller (#70), Bosch Bluegrass Band (#72), Arrayanes (#72) [track 8], A. Youssefi (#73), Friends from Mongolia (#73), N. D. Huening (#76), C. & L. Heggie (#80), K. Key (#80)

The Persian portion of His foremost ethical work, consisting of 82 aphorisms spoken in the voice of the Divine and declaring themselves to be the ‘inner essence’ of what was revealed to ‘the Prophets of old’, affirming the essential nobility and divinity of the human soul, prescribing its intimate communion with its Creator, proclaiming the oneness of the human race, and declaring our consequent responsibility to fellowship, love, fair-mindedness, and mutual aid for one another, especially the poor and downtrodden.

Begging; mendicancy; idleness and sloth; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Goodly deeds; actions; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Justice and wrath of God; Love of God; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Primordial Covenant; the day of alast; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Words vs deeds

ROB1.071 et al, BKOG.159 et al, GPB.140, MMAH.092, GSH.016, LL#025

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

BH00111

Kalimat-i-Firdawsiyyih (Words of Paradise)

4020

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Kalimát-i-Firdawsíyyih (Words of Paradise)

یا مشارق العدل و الانصاف و مطالع الصدق و الالطاف ان المظلوم یبکی و یقول ینوح

O ye the embodiments of justice and equity and the manifestations of uprightness and of heavenly bounties!

INBA33:044x, BLIB_Or07851.049b, , BLIB_Or15692.025, , BLIB_Or15716.042.14x, , KB_262:042-062, CMB_F32.048, , OSAI_TC 2v-8r, , MKI4523.112, , BN_suppl.1753.023-037

ADM2#008 p.022x, AVK1.212.13x, AVK2.075.04x, AVK3.003.16x, AVK3.164.02x, AVK3.225.12x, AVK3.326.11x, AVK4.282bx, ZYN.147, ISH.112, UAB.007x, UAB.032bx, UAB.036cx, UAB.039cx, UAB.042cx, UAB.043ax, UAB.046ax, UAB.046dx, UAB.050cx, UAB.053ax, UAB.054ax, ADH1.056x, TBP#06, TUM.109-115x, OOL.B012

TB#06, LOG#0479x, LOG#0785x, ADJ.027-028x, GPB.217x2x, GPB.218x, GPB.219x, PDC.136x, PDC.151x, WOB.023x, WOB.149x, WOB.153x, SW_v01#04 p.021x, SW_v03#01 p.005x, SW_v03#02 p.007x, SW_v09#07 p.081x, SW_v11#18 p.297x, DWN_v3#01 p.009-010x, DWN_v5#04 p.002-003x, DWN_v5#05 p.002-003x, BLO_PT#201, BSC.146 #100-124x, BSC#144-146x, BSC#151-154x

D. E. Walker, Chicago Baha'i Community, C. Oja

Proclaims eleven ‘leaves of paradise’: the fear of God, the importance of religion, the golden rule, that rulers should possess good character and act in justice (in contrast to Muḥammad Sháh, whose deeds in particular are denounced), reward and punishment as the basis of order in the world, justice, the unity of mankind, the education of children, moderation, renouncing asceticism and monasticism, and forbidding religious strife and dissension.

Contention and conflict; Education of children; moral education; Monasticism; asceticism; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB4.214 et al, BKOG.382, MMAH.161, GSH.161, LL#024

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

BH00095

4510

Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God and human limitations

یومی از ایام نشسته بودم در امر الهی متحیر و در آنچه در ارض کاف و را ظاهر شده

One day, as I sat in contemplation, bewildered by the divine Cause and by that which had been made manifest in the land of Káf and Rá [3.5s]... ...My God, Thou Whom I adore and worship, Who art Most Powerful! I testify that no description by any created thing

INBA65:021bx, INBA30:079x, INBA81:015x, BLIB_Or15704.439, , NLAI_BH4.417-449

BRL_DA#692, PMP#153x, AHM.320x, DWNP_v5#09 p.002x, AQMJ1.142x, ASAT3.017x, ADH1.014x, AKHA_133BE #15 p.469x, AKHA_136BE #08 p.125x

PM#153x

ROB3.044, LL#255

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

BH00084

Suriy-i-Amr

4760

Suriy-i-Amr (Surih of Command)

سبحان الذی خلق الخلق بأمره و ابدع خلق کلشیء اقرب من ان یحصی ان انتم تعلمون

Glorified be He Who hath created all beings through His command and brought forth the creation of all things in ways beyond reckoning, were ye to comprehend [3.5s]

INBA36:001, INBA71:155, INBA81:108, BLIB_Or07852.093, , BLIB_Or15723.109, , PR19.069b-072bx, PR23.060b-063bx, ROB2.000x

BRL_DA#725, NANU_BH#17x, RSBB.026, RSBB.030, RSBB.033, SFI13.019, ASAT4.303x, ASAT4.326x, YIA.549-553x, OOL.B105

Major proclamatory work formalizing Bahá’u’lláh’s claim to divine messengership, read aloud at His instruction to Mírzá Yaḥyá and written partly in the voice of God and partly in the voice of Bahá’u’lláh, describing the rivers of paradise and apostrophizing earth and heaven, the trees and clouds, the lands of ‘Iraq and Rumelia, and the followers of the Báb.

Chastisement and requital; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Suffering and imprisonment

ROB2.161, BKOG.230, MMAH.141, GSH.073, LL#291

BH00082

Lawh-i-'Andalib

4810

Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

الحمد لله الذی سخر شمس البیان بقدرته و قمر البرهان بسلطانه الذی بامره طوی ما

Praise be to God Who, through His might, hath caused the Sun of Utterance to shine forth and, through His sovereignty, hath made manifest the Moon of Proof, He Who by His command hath rolled up that which [3.5s]

INBA39:001, BLIB_Or15698.002, , BLIB_Or15720.001, , BLIB_Or15740.001, , Majlis934.153-198

BRL_DA#078, AVK3.070.06x, AVK4.139.10x, AVK4.248.09x, IQT.002, GHA.191x, GHA.270x, ASAT1.073x, ASAT1.128x, ASAT4.288x, ASAT4.340x, NSS.204-205x

BRL_ATBH#22x

Call to action; Justice and wrath of God; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ROB4.083, LL#050

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

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

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

BH00069

Su'al va Javab (Questions and Answers)

5150

Consultation; Kitáb-i-Aqdas

Su'al va Javab (Questions and Answers, Kitáb-i-Aqdas)

سوال از عید اعظم جواب اول عید عصر ۱۳ ماه دوم از اشهر بیان است یوم اول و تاسع

Question: Concerning the Most Great Festival. Answer: Most Great Festival commenceth late in the afternoon of the thirteenth day

INBA63:001, INBA66:213

BRL_Su'al, AVK3.056.16x, AVK4.091x, AVK4.152.13x, AVK4.478ax, OOL.B178

BRL_CONSULT#07x, COC#0029x, COC#0172x, COC#0527x, COC#0821x, COC#1109-1115x, COC#1119x, LOG#0505x, LOG#0516x, LOG#0637x, LOG#0762x, LOG#0764x, LOG#1260x, LOG#1499x, NYR#137x

Compilation of answers and clarifications by Bahá’u’lláh to over one hundred questions regarding the laws of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas.

Business; financial; property matters; Grammar and orthography; Law of divorce; Law of fasting; Law of inheritance; Law of obligatory prayer; Laws of marriage and dowry; Parents and children; youth; families

ROB3.278, GPB.219, GSH.145, LL#279

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

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

BH00062

5330

Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity; oneness of humanity; Wisdom [hikmat]

حمد محبوب امکان و مقصود عالمیان را لایق و سزا است که اولیای خود را موید فرمود

Praise be unto Him Who is the Best-Beloved of all possibility and the Goal of the peoples of the world, Who hath graciously confirmed His chosen ones [3.5s]... ...Say: O men! This is a matchless Day. Matchless must, likewise, be the tongue that celebrateth the praise of the Desire of all nations

BLIB_Or15733.050,

BRL_DA#640, GWBP#016 p.033x, MSHR3.155x

GWB#016x, ADJ.080x, WOB.194x

ROB2.417, LL#413

BH00061

Suriy-i-Sultan

5370

تلک آیات الله قد نزلت بالحق من جبروت البقاء و جعلها الله حجه من عنده و

These are the verses of God, sent down in truth from the dominion of eternity, and God hath made them a testimony from His presence [3.5s]

INBA37:040, BLIB_Or15723.126,

BRL_DA#211, AQA4#082 p.154, AQA4a.261, OOL.B139

Addresses individually words of praise and encouragement to a number of followers in the town of Sulṭán-Ábád and addresses parenthetically Mírzá Yaḥyá, upbraiding him for his opposition and urging him to repent, while assuring him that Bahá’u’lláh holds no hatred in His heart for him.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Martyrs and martyrdom; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

MMAH.170, GSH.193, LL#328

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

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

BH00053

Ishraqat (Splendours)

5740

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

Lawh-i-Ishraqat (Tablet of Splendors)

الحمد لله الذی تفرد بالعظمه و القدره و الجمال و توحد بالعزه و القوه و الجلال و

Praise be unto God, incomparable in majesty, power and beauty, peerless in glory, might and grandeur… I magnify Thy Name, O my God, and offer thanksgiving

BLIB_Or07851.016b, , KB_262:002-032, CMB_F32.002, , PR05.030b-037a, OSAI_TC 8r-20v, MKI4523.050, , BN_suppl.1753.001-023

AVK2.273.14x, AVK3.157.10x, AVK3.203.11x, ZYN.092, ISH.050, GHA.202x, UAB.024ax, UAB.025x, UAB.037bx, UAB.042bx, UAB.043bx, UAB.057dx, ASAT4.057x, ASAT4.250x, TBP#08, TUM.076-080x, OOL.B011

TB#08, BPRY.183x, LOG#0578x, ADJ.028ax, COF.095ax, GPB.057x, GPB.208x, GPB.217x, GPB.218x3x, GPB.219x, PDC.185x, WOB.041x, WOB.186-187x, SW_v08#10 p.123x, SW_v09#07 p.081x, SW_v11#17 p.286x, DWN_v2#07 p.051-054x, DWN_v5#01 p.005x, DWN_v6#10 p.001ax, BSC.236 #497-523

almunajat.com [item 36]

Explains the meaning of the ‘most great infallibility’ and the nature of the authority of the Manifestations of God, proclaims the fulfilment of prophetic expectations derived from various passages in the Qur’an, recalls a vision of the personified virtue of trustworthiness, and proclaims nine ‘splendours’: religion as source of order in the world; the promotion of the ‘Lesser Peace’ by the rulers of the world; the commandments of God as source of life to the world; the importance of praiseworthy deeds and upright character; the conferral of government positions based on merit; union and concord among all people, which can be achieved by establishing a universal language; the importance of parenthood and the education of children; entrusting administrative affairs to the trustees of the House of Justice; and religion as the most potent instrument for establishing unity in the world.

Business; financial; property matters; Education of children; moral education; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; House of Justice; Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Justice and mercy; Oneness; unity of religion; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity; oneness of humanity

ROB4.146 et al, BKOG.382, EBTB.062, MMAH.215, GSH.154, LL#022, LL#334, LL#397

BH00052

Suriy-i-Qamis

5750

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

BH00051

5760

Chastisement and requital; Dissimulation [taqiyyih]; concealment or denial of Faith; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Praise and encouragement; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings; Prophecy and fulfillment; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Wisdom [hikmat]

شهد الخادم بما شهد الله و اعترف بما اعترف به القلم الاعلی قبل خلق الاشیاء انه

The servant beareth witness unto that which God Himself hath witnessed, and acknowledgeth that which the Most Exalted Pen hath acknowledged ere the creation of all things, that verily He [3.5s]... ...And now concerning thy question about the Manifestations of God. Know thou that, even in the wombs of their mothers, the Manifestations possessed stations

INBA19:318, INBA32:277

BRL_DA#174, AVK2.036.10x, AVK2.059.14x, AVK2.250.15x, MAS1.019x, MAS4.150ax, MAS4.166bx, ASAT4.315x, ASAT5.296x, NSS.087-088x

ADMS#043x, ADMS#199n79x

LL#259, LL#391

BH00050

5800

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913

هذا کتاب یجد منه الاشجار عرف الربیع و الابناء رآئحه الاب المشفق الکریم

This is a Book from which the trees inhale the fragrance of springtime, and from which the sons perceive the sweet perfume of their tender, bountiful Father [3.5s]... ...The beginning of all things is the knowledge of God, and the end of all things is strict observance of whatsoever hath been sent down

BLIB_Or15729.072, , BLIB_Or15737a.039, , BLIB_Or15738.016, , NLAI_22848:173, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p091r, , Majlis210461.117-119x, MKI4522.173,

BRL_DA#533, GWBP#063 p.084bx, GWBP#064 p.085x, AQA2#003 p.076, NNY.123-126x, QT105.1.165, ASAT4.085x, ASAT4.274x, TABN.028x, PYM.110bx, QUM.073.17x

GWB#063x, GWB#064x, GPB.102x, MHMD2.500x

G.H. Miller

Alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB1.048, LL#238, LL#451

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

BH00048

12400

Tabernacle of Unity, The; Tablet to Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Concerning the Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria

Lawh-i-Manikchi Sahib (Tablets to Manikchi Sahib); - Tabernacle of Unity (book)

الحمد لله الذی اظهر من الالف الاستقامه الکبری و بالباء شان الامتیاز بین الاشیاء... استدعای دیگر آنکه خدمت جناب صاحب یگانه سلام برسانید انشآءالله در این دار فانی بامری فائز شوند

Praise be to God Who hath manifested through the Alif the Most Great Steadfastness, and through the Bá the station of distinction between all things [3.5s]... ...In regard to what thou hast written concerning his honour the learned Sahib, upon him be the grace of God... And that which you have mentioned about Shalmaghani and what Shalmaghani has uttered in relation to this Supreme Manifestation of God

BRL_TBUP#2x, AVK2.067.06x, LHKM1.156x, AYI1.333x, YARP1.023x, UAB.022cx, MAS7.148x, AYI2.396x, SAAF.085x, SAAF.091x, SAAF.365x, ASAT1.277x, ASAT4.179x, ASAT5.251x, NSS.129-130x, DVB5.007-033

TBU#2x, BLO_PT#184x, KFPT#03.2x

Existence and nonexistence; preexistence; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Proclamation to the people of the world; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity; oneness of humanity

ROB3.433, LL#161, LL#174, LL#175

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

BH00038

Lawh-i-Sultan

6890

Lawh-i-Sultan (Tablet to Nasirid-Din Shah)

یا ملک الارض اسمع ندآء هذا المملوک انی عبد آمنت بالله و آیاته و فدیت نفسی فی

O King of the Earth! Hearken unto the call of this Vassal: Verily, I am a Servant Who hath believed in God

INBA34:047, BLIB_Or03115.001, , BLIB_Or15705.032, , CMB_F31.022, , NLAI_BH2.367, NLI.32p100r, PR11.001b-020b, LEID.Or4970 item 7, LEID.Or8685

NRJ#1e, AQA1#001e, UAB.022ax, FBAH.215x, DLH2.154x, OOL.B018

SLH#01e, BLO_PT#186, BLO_PT#187, BSC.068 #037, BP1929.036x

almunajat.com [item 22], S. Jaberi

Bahá’u’lláh’s lengthiest tablet to any monarch, delivered in person to the Shah at the cost of the messenger’s life, urging the Shah to judge His cause fairly; disavowing any designs on worldly power; detailing the injustices He and His followers had suffered over the course of successive banishments; calling the clergy to account for their role in His rejection; and, citing the rejection of Jesus and Muhammad by the people of their day, urging the Shah to consider the possibility of the appearance of a new Manifestation of God in this day.

Call to action; Justice and wrath of God; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Rendering assistance to God; victory [nusrat]; Special knowledge of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ROB2.337 et al, BKOG.309 et al, MMAH.113, GSH.102, LL#248

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)

Surih-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

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

BH00032

Lawh-i-Ruh

7220

Lawḥ-i-Rúh (Tablet of the Spirit)

فسبحان الذی فی قبضته ملکوت ملک الآیات یصرفها کیف یشآء بأمر

Glorified be He in Whose grasp lieth the dominion of the realm of verses, Who directeth them as He pleaseth through His command [3.5s]

INBA37:018, INBA83:073, BLIB_Or15723.082, , PR23.001b-015b

AQA4#081 p.123, AQA4a.150, ASAT1.276x, OOL.B073

Refutes certain claims of Mírzá Yaḥyá; asserts the magnitude of Bahá’u’lláh’s own station, whose full transformative power remains, out of wisdom, as yet undivulged; and foretells the ultimate triumph of His cause.

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Oneness; unity of religion; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.181, ROB2.260, MMAH.185, GSH.085, LL#224

BH00031

Suriy-i-Nush

7310

Surih of Admonition (Suratu'l-Nus'h); Days of Remembrance

Suriy-i-Nush (Surih of Counsel)

فسبحان الذی نزل الایات بالحق علی النبیین و المرسلین و ینزل حینئذ علی ما کان

Glorified be He Who hath sent down the verses in truth unto the Prophets and Messengers, and Who doth now send down what hath ever been [3.5s]... ...Announce unto My servants the advent of the One Who came unto them with the power of truth bearing the name of ‘Alí

INBA47:171, INBA36:242, INBA73:181.09x, INBA83:001, PR19.034b-048b

BRL_DA#727, AVK2.228.08x, TZH4.200-202x, LMA1.350 (209), MAS4.135x, ASAT3.024x, YMM.152x, OOL.B133, AMB#35x

DOR#35x, GPB.141x6x, BLO_PT#097, NYR#145x

A lengthy work recounting the stories of the prophets of God and their rejection by the people and clergy of their day, and exhorting the people of this day not to reject ‘Him Whom God shall make manifest’ upon His appearance.

Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Noah; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Stories; anecdotes; Suffering and imprisonment

ROB1.137, MMAH.207, LL#321

BH00030

7400

Tablet of Ridván (Lawh-i-Ridván); Days of Remembrance

Lawh-i-Ridvan (Tablets of Ridvan)

حمد مقدس از حقیقت و مجاز حضرت بینیازیرا لایق و سزاست که از نقطه چهار رکن

Sanctified praise, transcending reality and metaphor, beseemeth and befitteth the Most Exalted Lord, Who from the Point hath fashioned the four pillars [3.5s]... ...On the first day that the Ancient Beauty ascended His Most Great Throne in the garden named Riḍván, the Tongue of Glory gave utterance to three blessed words.

INBA44:205

AVK3.456.09x, MAS8.064x, ASAT4.022x, BCH.041x, AMB#09x

DOR#09x

Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment

ROB1.278, LL#333

BH00026

7800

قد تحرک القلم الأعلی و اراد ان یذکر اولیائه الذین اقبلوا الی مشرق وحی

The Most Exalted Pen hath stirred, and desireth to make mention of His loved ones who have turned themselves unto the Dawning-Place of Revelation [3.5s]... ...My God, my God! Separation from Thee hath destroyed me, and the sorrow of Thine exile and the hardship Thou hast sustained in Thy path hath consumed me… My God, my God! If Thou prevent me from drawing nigh unto Thee, being present before Thy throne... My God, my God! Thou dost behold the impoverished one who hath stood at the gate of Thy wealth, the ailing one

BLIB_Or15729.051, , NLAI_22848:121, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p066r, , MKI4522.120,

BRL_DA#681, GWBP#002 p.011x, AQA2#002 p.041, ADM2#034 p.056x, ADM2#035 p.058x, ADM2#105 p.189x, AVK3.204.19x, ASAT3.258x, ADH1.063x, ADH1.065x, ADH1.066x, QUM.096.16x

GWB#002x, JHT_S#034x, JHT_S#057x, JHT_S#174x

Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#374

BH00023

Tablet to Varqa I

8000

حمد مقدس از ذکر تقدیس و تنزیه و فوق آن بساط حضرت مقصودی را لایق و سزاست که

Sanctified praise, transcendent above all mention of glorification and exaltation, beseemeth the court of that Divine Object of all desire, Who [3.5s]... ...This heedless and prattling have understood this Revelation to be like unto the events of the past. Up to this moment they have not comprehended

INBA41:158x, INBA41:379bx

MAS4.032x, MAS4.141bx, MAS4.348x, AYI2.003x, ABDA.093-094x, TSAY.472x, MSHR2.027.01x, MSHR5.381bx

KFPT#03.1x

Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Call to action; Consolation and comfort; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Development of capacity and readiness; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Goodly deeds; actions; One universal law; attractive power of love; Power of love; Praise and encouragement; Presence of; reunion with God; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Wisdom [hikmat]; Words vs deeds

LL#259

BH00021

Suriy-i-Muluk

8150

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Summons of the Lord of Hosts; Days of Remembrance

Suriy-i-Muluk (Surih to the Kings)

هذا کتاب من هذا العبد الذی سمی بالحسین فی ملکوت الاسما الی ملوک الارض کله

This is a Tablet from this Servant, who is called Ḥusayn in the kingdom of names, to the concourse of the kings of the earth.

INBA71:123, BLIB_Or15723.001, , IOM.098-099, PR11.043b-064a, PR19.048a-061b, PR23.016a-029b

NRJ#5, GWBP#065 p.086x, GWBP#066 p.087x, GWBP#113 p.143x, GWBP#114 p.150x, GWBP#116 p.158x, GWBP#118 p.160x, RSBB.040, TZH4.328-353, BCH.008x, PYB#129 p.03x, OOL.B131, AMB#36x

SLH#05, GWB#065x, GWB#066x, GWB#113x, GWB#114x, GWB#116x, GWB#118x, DOR#36x, LOG#1615x, COF.138-139x, GPB.161x4x, GPB.171x, GPB.172x7x, GPB.175x4x, GPB.210x, GPB.230x2x, PDC.007x, PDC.020x, PDC.027-028x, PDC.033-034x, PDC.034x, PDC.034-035x, PDC.035x2x, PDC.035-038x, PDC.038-039x, PDC.043-044x, PDC.060x, PDC.060-062x, PDC.062x, PDC.062-063x, PDC.063-064x, PDC.098x4x, PDC.098-099x, PDC.114-115x, PDC.143x, PDC.146-147x, PDC.182x, WOB.108x, WOB.174x, WOB.177x3x, WOB.177-178x, WOB.178x

E. Mahony

His most momentous proclamatory work, though not yet divulging the totality of His messianic claim, in which He counsels and chastises, in turn, the entire company of the kings of the earth, the kings of Christendom, the French Ambassador in Constantinople, the ministers of the Ottoman Sultan, the inhabitants of Istanbul, the Sultan himself, the Persian Ambassador to the Sultan, the people of Persia, the divines and wise men of Constantinople, and the philosophers of the world.

Chastisement and requital; Justice and wrath of God; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment

ROB2.301 et al, BKOG.207, BKOG.213, BKOG.330, GPB.171, MMAH.158, GSH.090, LL#319

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?

BH00018

Commentary on the Fire Tablet

8330

الحمد لله الذی اظهر بسلطانه ما اراد و زین الیوم بنسبته الیه و سمیه فی کتب السماء

Praise be unto Him Who hath, through His sovereignty, manifested whatsoever He hath willed, and Who hath adorned this Day through its connection with His Name, as recorded in the Books of Heaven [3.5s]... ...One day during My childhood, I set out intending to visit the grandmother of the Most Great Branch at a time when she was the wife of Mirza Isma'il-i-Vazir

INBA39:090, MKI4523.002,

BRL_DA#221, AVK2.061.04x, AVK4.436x, ISH.002, UAB.034ax, ASAT1.134x, ASAT5.109x, ASAT5.252x, ADH1.051x, LDR.077x, MSHR2.087x, YIA.119-120x

LTDT.088x, GPB.209x

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual foundations of true knowledge; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God is its own standard

ROB3.230, LL#382

BH00017

8350

Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

یا عندلیب اسمع الندآء انه یظهر مره باسم الحبیب و اخری باسمی المحبوب و تاره

O 'Andalib! Hearken unto the Call, for verily it appeareth at one time in the name of the Beloved, and at another time in Mine Own name, the Well-Beloved, and again at times [3.5s]... ...The Hand of Omnipotence hath established His Revelation upon an unassailable, an enduring foundation. Storms of human strife are powerless to undermine its basis

BLIB_Or15691.040, , BLIB_Or15715.066c, , BLIB_Or15729.028, , NLAI_22848:066, Berlin1237#12, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p037v, , UMich962.156-158x, MKI4522.066,

BRL_DA#222, AQA2#001 p.002, AVK3.190.14x, AVK3.203.08x, AVK3.212.02x, AVK3.283.08x, MAS4.158x, MAS8.007ax, KHSK.015x, QT105.2.163, QT105.2.217, ASAT1.166x, ADH1.068x, ADH1.106x, QUM.028x

BRL_ATBH#36x, GPB.217x, WOB.104x, WOB.109x, RKS.005-006x

S. Jaberi

Oneness; unity of religion; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

LL#051

BH00015

Lawh-i-Istintaq

9560

سبحانک یا من بک حقق الذات فی الذات و تردی کینونة القدم برداء الاسماء... این عبد تا ان یوم از لسان عظمت ایات قهریه باین شان استماع ننموده

Glorified art Thou, O Thou through Whom the Essence is realized within the Essence, and the Ancient Being is adorned with the mantle of Names [3.5s]... ...My name is Bahá’u’lláh (Light of God), and My country is Núr (Light). Be ye apprized of it.

BRL_DA#587, MAS4.220-260, MUH3.384-385x, RHQM2.0746x (141-154) (090x), QT108.128-130x, OOL.B168

GPB.190x, BTO#15

Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Prophecy and fulfillment; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Stories; anecdotes; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#128

BH00013

10050

Tablet on Interpretation of Sacred Scripture (Lawh-i-Ta'wíl); Tablet on Interpretation of Sacred Scripture (Lawh-i-Ta'wíl)

Lawh-i-Ta'wíl (Tablet on Interpretation of Sacred Scripture)

البهاء لمن خرق الاحجاب فی یوم الماب و کسر اصنام الاوهام باسم مالک الایام ... قَد جِئت بِاَمرِ الله وظَهَرت لِذکره وخُلِقْت لِخدمتهِ العزیز المحبوب

Glory be unto Him Who hath rent asunder the veils on the Day of Return, and shattered the idols of vain imaginings through the Name of the Lord of all Days [3.5s]... ...The purpose of interpretation is this: that none become deprived of that which is evident, and be veiled from that which is intended

INBA23:062, INBA41:132x, INBA41:329x, BLIB_Or15698.279, , BLIB_Or15720.274x, , BLIB_Or15733.001, , BLIB_Or15740.213x, , Majlis934.255-266

AVK4.028.05x, AVK4.073-074x, AVK2.143.09x, AVK3.300.03x, AVK3.450.13x, AVK3.426.12x, AVK3.472.01x, IQT.279-286x, AYI1.336x, GHA.341ax, UAB.029bx, UAB.042ax, MAS1.018.1x, MAS4.354bx, TSAY.472x, TSAY.472-473x, ASAT2.119x, ASAT3.120x, ASAT3.242x, ASAT4.286x, PYB#115 p.03x, VUJUD.095-096x, VUJUD.105x

BLO_PT#154, BLO_PT#155, WIND#115, VUJUDE.139-141x, VUJUDE.212-213x

almunajat.com [item 41]

Chastisement and requital; Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Exhortations and counsels; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Outward and inward meanings; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#251, LL#282

Includes verses for newborn child

BH00012

Javahiru'l-Asrar (Gems of Divine Mysteries)

10360

Gems of Divine Mysteries

Javáhiru'l-Asrár (Gems of Divine Mysteries)

یا ایها السالک فی سبل العدل و الناظر الی طلعه الفضل قد بلغ کتابک و عرفت سوالک

O thou who treadest the path of justice and beholdest the countenance of mercy! Thine epistle was received, thy question was noted

INBA46:001, INBA66:036, INBA99:001, PR07.015b-029b, LEID.Or4970.1-26, UMich968.041-052x

BRL_Jawahir, AQA3#067 p.004, TZH4.189-190x, TZH4.190-191x, TZH4.191x, ANDA#21 p.04x, OOL.B157

GDM

D. Stevenson (¶110)

A lengthy commentary in answer to a question on the fulfilment of prophetic expectations in unexpected ways, describing the difficulties encountered in understanding sacred scriptures, offering keys to their symbolic interpretation with reference to a passage in the Gospels, and describing in a manner similar to ‘the Seven Valleys’ the stages traversed by the spiritual wayfarers.

Jabulqa and Jabarsa; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Mystical themes; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Prophecy and fulfillment; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud]; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

LOC.062-066, ROB1.151, MMAH.195, GSH.027, LL#023

BH00010

13180

الحمد للّه الذی تفرد بالمحبة و توحد بالوداد انه لمولی العباد و مالک الایجاد

Praise be unto Him Who is unique in His love and singular in His affection; verily, He is the Lord of all beings and the Sovereign of creation [3.5s]... ...The companions of God are, in this day, the lump that must leaven the peoples of the world. They must show forth such trustworthiness, such truthfulness and perseverance, such deeds and character that all mankind may profit by their example

INBA28:049, INBA22:307, INBA45:049, BLIB_Or15713.144x, , Majlis210461.120x

BRL_DA#084, AVK3.148.06x, ASAT5.263x, AKHA_129BE #18 p.ax

COC#0768x, COC#2040x, ADJ.023x, ADJ.079x2x

Goodly deeds; actions; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB4.023?, LL#112

BH00009

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