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| AB00025 | Lawh-i-'Ammih (Tablet to the Aunt) | 2740 | Lawh-i-'Ammih (Tablet to the Aunt) | قد اشرقت الانوار و القوم فی عمه عظیم قد ظهرت الاسرار و الناس فی دهش قدیم | O kind aunt! The world hath been stirred into motion by the life-giving breezes of the disposition of thy august Brother | CMB_F60, CMB_F61, CMB_F62, PR20.008 | MKT2.168, YHA1.374x, OOL.C007 | LTDT.289-291x | Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | Tablet written by 'Abdu'l-Bahá to His unfaithful aunt Shah Sultan Khanum, after the ascension of Bahá'u'lláh. | ||||
| AB00045 | 1530 | Light of the World | و انت الذی یا الهی تقدست اسمائک الحسنی و تنزهت امثالک العلیا عن ادراک عقول | Thou art He, O my God, Whose most beauteous names and most sublime likenesses are sanctified above the comprehension | CMB_F65.001-005x, PR12.001x | NURA#72, MMK4#173 p.196 | LOTW#72 | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Limits of the intellect; Power of the Manifestation of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||
| AB00814 | 440 | قال الله تعالی فی القرآن المبین و الذکر الحکیم اذ الشمس کورت و اذ النجوم انکدرت | In the words of Almighty God, as revealed in the perspicuous Qur'an: "When the sun shall be folded up, and when the stars shall fall, darkened" [4o] | PR20.006 | BRL_DAK#0867, MKT2.165, MNMK#028 p.110 | Apocalyptic imagery; Existence and nonexistence; preexistence; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Realms of being; three realms; five realms | - | - | ||||||||
| AB02853 | 220 | الحمد لله الذی اظهر من افق العالم النیر الاعظم و اشرق و ابرق و سطع و لاح علی | Praise be to God, Who hath manifested from the horizon of the world the Most Great Light, and made it to shine forth and gleam and shed its radiant effulgence upon all [3.5s] | PR20.005 | MKT2.163 | Development of capacity and readiness; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Manifestation of God as sun; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God | - | - | ||||||||
| AB03050 | 220 | واشوقی یا الهی الی باهی جمالک و ضاحی وجهک و شهی وصالک و ظماء قلبی لمعین | O my God! How I yearn for Thy resplendent beauty, Thy radiant face, the sweetness of reunion with Thee, and my heart thirsts for the wellspring [3.5s] | PR20.004 | MKT2.162, ASAT4.395x | Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love of God; Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The soul as soil; cultivation of the soul | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00002 | Qayyumu'l-Asma' (Commentary on the Surah of Joseph) | 112000 | Qayyum al-Asma' Sura 93: Chapter of the Bees (Qayyum al-Asma 93: Surat al-nahl); Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Qur'an Commentary of Sayyid 'Alí Muhammad, the Báb, The; Terms Remembrance (dhikr) and Gate (bab) in the Bab's Commentary on the Sura of Joseph, The; Gate of the Heart | Qayyumul-Asma (book) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی نزل الکتاب علی عبده بالحق لیکون للعالمین سراجا وهاجا ان هذا صراط علی | All praise be to God Who hath, through the power of Truth, sent down this Book unto His servant [the Bāb], that it may serve as a shining light for all mankind | INBA03, INBA_6020C, INBA_6016C, PR41.002-192, CMB_F23.150r14-153r11 (53)x, , CMB_F11, , BLIB_Or3539, BLIB_Or6681, BN_6435, BN_5780, MKI4496, , IOM.089-090, KB_qayyum, BYC_qayyum | ASH.055-370, RHQM1.019-021x, MBA.309-314x, SWBP#08 (p.026-050x), OOL.A003 | SWB#08 (p.041-074x), GPB.005-006x, GPB.023x, GPB.376x, WOB.101x, WOB.126x, GOH.passim (see index), MNP.001-027n, MNP.088x, MNP.110-114x, MNP.127-134x, HURQ.BB02x, LOIR06.047x, BLO_PT#074x | T. Ellis, unknown, friends in Jordan | Adam; Adam and Eve; Angels; Apocalyptic imagery; Belief and denial; Birth of Christ; purity; virginity of Mary; Call to action; Celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy; Chastisement and requital; Creation of the world; Crimson Ark; the Ark of God; Day of Resurrection; Judgement; Development of capacity and readiness; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Empty learning; false spirituality; Exhortations and counsels; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Fellowship with the wayward and ungodly; Fire and light; fire and water; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Goodly deeds; actions; Greatest Name; Law of repetition; recitation of the Greatest Name; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; High station of the true believer; Hypocrisy; Idolatry; Imagery in the Qur'an; Imam Husayn; Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; John the Baptist; Justice and wrath of God; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Knowledge; recognition of God; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Language and the structure of reality; Life and death; Living waters; water of life; Manifestation of God as mediator; Manifestation of God as sun; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Martyrs and martyrdom; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Mosaic imagery; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Mystical themes; Night of Power (Laylat al-Qadr); Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Outward and inward meanings; Piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa]; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Praise and encouragement; Predictions and prophecies; Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God; Proclamation of the Cause (general or uncategorized); Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Proofs for the existence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Quotation from or interpretation of the Bible; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Realms of being; three realms; five realms; Recompense; reward for belief; right action; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Satan; the Evil One; Scarcity of receptive souls; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Seven stages of creation; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Stories; anecdotes; Suffering and imprisonment; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; The Imamate; the Caliphate; The truth of past religions and sacred scriptures; The Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Twin duties of recognition and obedience; Unity; oneness of humanity; Visitation Tablets; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | - | FHR#01, NSS.023-024, DB.061x, DB.179x, BRHL.59, MSBR.202-203, AHDA.445.4, MMAH.009, SRC.055-057, SRC.195, GOH.030, GOH.111-159, KKD1.228.08x | ||
| BB00003 | Kitab-i-Asma' (Book of Names) | >500000 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Gate of the Heart; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | Kitáb-i-Asma (Book of Names); Tablet of the Báb to the Sherif of Mecca | الباب الاول من الواحد الاول ... بسم الله الاسمم الاسمم. لا اله الا هو الأرشد الأرشد قل الله ارشد فوق کل ذا ارشاد لن يقدر ان يمتنع عن مليک سلطان ارشاده | God, no God is there save Him., the Supremely Guided (al-arshad), the Supremely Guided (al-arshad). Say: God proffers a Guidance (arshad) beyond every possessor of Guidance (irshad)…. O Lord! Enable all the peoples of the earth to gain admittance | INBA60:156-166x, INBA64:025.10-030.01x, INBA82:060-066x, INBA_6002C, INBA29, PR02.069v01-069v20x, PR03.150v08-151v11x, PR24.069r-072vx, PR30.001-344, CMB_F16x, CMB_F18x, CMB_F23.171v04-174r04 (58)x, , CMB_F17x, CMB_F19x, BLIB_Or5278, BLIB_Or5481, BLIB_Or5869, BLIB_Or6255, BN_5806, BN_5807, BN_6141, BN_6142, BLIB_Or5487-5490, , MKI4491, MKI4492, MKI4493, IOL (12:1-18)x, IOM.091-092x, HBH_asma, BYC_asma | MANU.039-045x, TZH2.006x, SWBP#07 (p.018-024x), SWBP#11 (p.092-106x), SWBP#15 (p.109-110x), SWBP#28 (p.121-122x), SWBP#31 (p.124-125x), SWBP#32 (p.125-125(a)x), SWBP#33 (p.125-125(b)x), SWBP#47 (p.136-136x), OOL.A008 | SWB#07 (p.029-037x), SWB#11 (p.129-149x), SWB#15 (p.155-155x), SWB#29 (p.172-172x), SWB#32 (p.176(a)x), SWB#33 (p.176(b)x), SWB#34 (p.177(a)x), SWB#48 (p.191-191x), BPRY.081x, BPRY.234x, GOH.passim (see index), HURQ.BB58x | E. Mahony, A. Bryan, G.H. Miller, K. Key | Absolute freedom; independence of God; Business; financial; property matters; Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Courtesy; culture [adab]; Cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds; Divine attributes are within all things; every atom; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Essential distinction of Manifestation of God from others; Excellence; distinction; Exhortations and counsels; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; God's attributes require the existence of objects; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; God as immanent vs. transcendent reality; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God; Importance of reading the Sacred Writings; Justice and wrath of God; Knowledge; recognition of God; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Literature; drama; humanities; the arts; Manifestation of God as mediator; Manifestation of God as mirror; Martyrs and martyrdom; Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Oneness; unity of religion; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of prayer; Power of the Manifestation of God; Prayer for martyrs; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Predictions and prophecies; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings; Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God; Proclamation to Muslims; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Proofs for the existence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Recompense; reward for belief; right action; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Relativity of religious truth; Return of the Manifestations of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Thankfulness; gratitude; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud]; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God and human limitations; Words vs deeds | * | - | BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, AHDA.447.7, MMAH.065, SRC.091-092, SRC.188, GOH.036 and passim | Note that the Partial Inventory states that the word count is more than 500,000 words. | |
| BB00004 | Kitab-i-Jaza' (Book of the Reckoning) | >100000 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | فلتسبحن الله فی دین الحق تسبیحاً عظیماً. سبحان الذی فی قبضته ملکوت یاقوتیات السموات و الارض وما بینهما فلتسبحن الله فی دین الحق تسبیحاً عظیماً... شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو قل کل له عابدون شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو قل کل له ساجدون | Glorified be He in Whose grasp lieth the dominion of the ruby-like realms of the heavens and of the earth and whatsoever lieth between them. Therefore glorify ye God in the true Faith with mighty glorification. God beareth witness that there is none other God but Him. Say: All are His worshippers. God beareth witness that there is none other God but Him. Say: All bow down before Him [3.5s]... ...God testifieth that there is none other God but Him. His are the kingdoms in the heavens and on the earth and all that is between them | PR09.001-274x, PR40.099v-204vx, CMB_F23.190r10-199r12 (65)x, , MKI4488.029r-133vx, MKI4500.001-119vx, MKI4517, BYC_misc-a.001-203x, BYC_jazax, BYC_misc-b.130a05-162a03x | TZH3.070.12-072.21x, SWBP#13 (p.108-109x), SWBP#14 (p.109-109x), SWBP#49 (p.136-137x) | SWB#13 (p.153-154x), SWB#14 (p.154-155x), SWB#50 (p.192-193x), BPRY.231-232x | Absolute freedom; independence of God; Acquiescence and resignation; contentment; Angels; Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Call to action; Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Chastisement and requital; Cleanliness and refinement; Collection; ordering of the Sacred Writings; Continual renewal of creation; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Creation of the world; Day of Resurrection; Judgement; Declaration; advent of the Bab; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations; Eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness; Events in the life and ministry of the Bab; Exhortations and counsels; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Fire and light; fire and water; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Free will and predestination; fate; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; God as immanent vs. transcendent reality; Greatest Name; Law of repetition; recitation of the Greatest Name; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Imam 'Ali; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Knowledge; recognition of God; Knowledge of self; Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Letters of the Living; Life and death; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Limits of the intellect; Love of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Muhammad; Islam; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Outward and inward meanings; Pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient; Personal instructions; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; One universal law; attractive power of love; Power of love; Power of prayer; Power of the Manifestation of God; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for nearness to God; Prayer for parents; Prayer for praise and gratitude; Prayer for protection; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayer for the spiritual progress of others; Predictions and prophecies; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings; Primordial Covenant; the day of alast; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Purpose; goal of creation; Religion as reality; definitions of religion; Rendering assistance to God; victory [nusrat]; Return of the Manifestations of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Soul; spirit after death; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Symbolism of color and light; Thankfulness; gratitude; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The first and the last; the seen and the hidden; The golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others; The Imamate; the Caliphate; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer; The Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Unity in diversity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God and human limitations; Word of God the cause of creation | - | - | JRAS.482, MSBR.206-207, SRC.095, SRC.102 | ||||
| BB00005 | Panj Sha'n (Book of the Five Modes) | 98000 | Kitáb-i-Panj Sha'n, Book of Five Qualification; Kitab-i-Panj Sha'n; Reflection on the Theory of Alchemy as Explained in the Bahá'í Writings, A; Gate of the Heart | Kitáb-i-Panj Shan (Book of Five Modes); Lawh-i-Hurufat (Tablet of the Letters) | بسم الله الائله الائله. اننی انا الله لا اله الا انا الائله الائله بسم الله الاله الاله بالله الله الاله الاله بسم الله الموله الموله | Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the Most High, the Most High. In the Name of God, the Divine One, the Divine One. By God, the Divine One, the Divine One. In the Name of God, the Lord Supreme [3.5s]... ...God has not created anything without creating a trace of the elixir within it | INBA01:001-088x, INBA64:085.02-094.05x, INBA82:002-016x, INBA82:066-078x, INBA_6007C.494-541x, PR02.053v07-060r04x, PR02.069r01-075r17x, PR02.154r01-159v28x, PR03.040v05-042v06x, PR03.089v26-136r16x, PR03.241v07-245r27, CMB_F23.002v04-076r03x, , CMB_F15, CMB_F25.3, BLIB_Or5612, BLIB_Or6680, BN_6143, BN_6518 p.002v, MKI4488.134r-315rx, , KB_panj, HBH_panjshan, HBH_panjshan2, BYC_collect3.045-062x, BYC_panj | PANJx, MAS7.114-18x, RBB.098-100x, RBB.109x, MBA.203-209x, MBA.276-293x, MBA.301x, MBA.314-326x, AHDA.467x?, OOL.A012, OOL.A019x | RBB.015-016x, GOH.174-178x, GOH.184-185x, GOH.393fn17x, GOH.191x, GOH.245x, GOH.292x, GOH.348-349x, GOH.368x, MNP.220-222x, HURQ.BB59x, BLO_PT#046x, BLO_alchemy | Absolute freedom; independence of God; Adam; Adam and Eve; Alchemy; the elixir; Belief and denial; Blind imitation [taqlid]; Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Creation of the world; Da'iras and haykals; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine attributes are within all things; every atom; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Essential vs. actional attributes of God; Exhortations and counsels; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Manifestation of God as mediator; Manifestation of God as mirror; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Names and attributes of God; Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Oneness; unity of religion; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Perfect Man [insan-i-kamil]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Predictions and prophecies; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Prophecy and fulfillment; Purpose of religion in the world (personal and social); Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Return of the Manifestations of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Symbolism of color and light; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Unity in diversity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God and human limitations | * | - | BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, AHDA.446.6, AHDA.459.01x, MMAH.038, MMAH.062, SRC.088-090, SRC.093-095, SRC.189, SRC.190, SRC.281, GOH.036 | Last part is known as the Lawh-i-Hurufat | ||
| BB00006 | Tafsir-i-Suratu'l-Baqarah (2nd Juz') (Commentary on the Surah of the Cow II) | 6300 | Gate of the Heart | Tafsir surat al-baqara (Commentary on the Surah of the Cow) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی بامره تلجلجت اللاهوتیات بکینونیاتها لها بها الیها فاجتمعت المجتمعات و افترقت المتفرقات | Praise be to God, through Whose bidding the divine essences did surge in their inmost realities, by Him, unto Him, and through Him, whereupon the gathered were joined together and the dispersed were scattered [3.5s]... ...Elevate the alphabetical letters of that divine verse unto the sublime station of the manifestation of their heart | INBA69:377-410x, PR04.051v06-052r06x | GOH.050x, GOH.108x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Knowledge; recognition of God; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; The Imamate; the Caliphate | - | - | GOH.127 | ||||
| BB00008 | Tafsir-i-Suratu'l-Baqarah = Kitab al-Ahmadiyya (Commentary on the Surah of the Cow I) | 43700 | Qur'an Commentary of Sayyid 'Alí Muhammad, the Báb, The; Gate of the Heart | Tafsir surat al-baqara (Commentary on the Surah of the Cow) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الم ذلک الکتاب لا ریب فیه هدی للمتقین هذه الایة لاهل الحقیقة معرفة الله سبحانه | "Alif. Lám. Mím. This is the Book wherein there is no doubt, a guidance unto them that fear God." For the people of truth, this verse signifieth the knowledge of God, glory be unto Him [3.5s]... ...The Primal Adam is the Will, Who is the Primal Utterance, manifested in the primal realm of contingency | INBA69:157-377, INBA_6004C:002-178, , INBA_6014C:001-296, , INBA_6012C.060-257, , PR02.001v21-044v14, PR03.043r-043rx, PR40.003v-095v, CMB_F08, , BLIB_Or5277, , BN_5780, BN_5805, BN_6610, LEID.Or4371-8, , OXF.MS.Arab.e.59-60, IOM.090-091x, HBH_baqarah (=INBA 69) | ASAT2.064x | TAME, BLO_PT#216.019-020, GOH.119-121x, GOH.204x, GOH.251-252x, HURQ.BB01x | - | - | FHR#09, NSS.021-022, BRHL.59, MSBR.202-203, AHDA.455.05, MMAH.011, SRC.046-047, SRC.201, GOH.030, GOH.118 | ||||
| BB00009 | Kitab al-Ruh (Book of the Spirit) | 36000 | Gate of the Heart | Kitáb al-Ruh (Book of the Spirit) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد نزل الايات بالحق الي عبده لعل الناس بايات ربک يومنون ان اتبع ما اوحينا اليک | Praise be to God, Who hath revealed the verses in truth unto His servant, that perchance mankind might believe in the signs of their Lord. Follow that which We have revealed unto thee [3.5s]... ...This Book is a Dhikr (Remembrance) from God according to the Decree of a wondrous servant [the Bāb]. He is assuredly the True One within the heavens and the earth. | INBA78:069-076x, INBA_4011C.069-100, INBA_7005C, PR04.036r12-038r12x, MKI4507.001x, , IOM.091 | ASAT4.044-45x, AHDA.198x, OOL.A017 | HURQ.BB05x, HURQ.BB15x | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Justice and wrath of God; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God is its own standard | * | - | FHR#10, AHDA.446.5, MMAH.064, SRC.061, SRC.189, GOH.031, GOH.380fn3 | The "Suratu'l-Ridvan" is a part of this work | ||
| BB00011 | Kitab-i-Si Du'a (Book of 30 prayers) | 22000 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Ethiopian King, The | Kitab-i-Si Du'a (Book of 30 prayers) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم بسم الله المتفرد المتقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاحبن ان اعرجن الیک بجوهر کافور سری و ما قد قدرت فی علانیتی لاصعدن لدیک بما قد قدرت فی ساذج کینونیتی | Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I verily long to ascend unto Thee with the essence of my most hidden being, and with whatsoever Thou hast ordained in my outward self; that I may rise into Thy presence with that which Thou hast decreed in the pure substance of my reality [3.5s]... ...Thou art aware, O My God, that since the day Thou didst call Me into being out of the water of Thy love till I reached fifteen years of age… Send down, then, upon me, O my God, when I was seven years old and upon him who raised me on Thy behalf, whose name is Mubarak | PR03.004r17-038v18x | SWBP#38 (p.128-129x) | SWB#39 (p.180-182x) | Absolute freedom; independence of God; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Events in the life and ministry of the Bab; Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within; Impossibility of true worship of God; Knowledge; recognition of God; Limits of language; Martyrs and martyrdom; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Muhammad; Islam; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for nearness to God; Prayer for praise and gratitude; Prayer for protection; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayer for the departed; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Self-description of God; God's self-remembrance; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual warfare; struggle; Thankfulness; gratitude; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | see https://clearwaterbahais.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Ethiopian-King.pdf | |||
| BB00012 | Sahifiy-i-Ja'fariyya (Epistle of Ja'far) | 19300 | Analysis of the Salient Features of Risáliy-i-Ja'faríyyih, An; Gate of the Heart | Risaliy-i-Jafariyyih (Treatise of Jafar) or Shar-i Du‘á’-i-Ghaybat (Commentary on the Occultation Prayer) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی شهد بذاته لذاته ان لا اله الا هو الذی قد علا بعلو نفسه علی کل شیء و استتر من علو ظهوره عن کل شیء الذی کان لم یزل کان بلا ذکر شیئ | All praise be to God Who hath testified through His Own Self unto His Self that there is none other God but Him, Who hath ascended through the sovereignty of His Being above all things, and Who, through the loftiness of His Revelation, hath concealed Himself from all things - He Who hath everlastingly been, and existed ere the mention of aught else [3.5s]... ...The fifth station testifieth unto God in the mirror of the Letter Há’, and it is the Word that consisteth of the Twin Alifs | INBA60:057-154, INBA98:048.15-110.05x, PR14.001-060, Berlin3655.008r-051v | TZH3.280.06-282.21x, NSS.184ax, OOL.A010 | GOH.224x, MNP.199-212x (infra), LOIR20.248 | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; God as immanent vs. transcendent reality; Impossibility of true worship of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | NSS.030-035, AHDA.453.4, SRC.066-067, SRC.198, GOH.021-022, GOH.032, GOH.235 | |||
| BB00014 | Tafsir-i-Nubuvvat-i-Khassih (Treatise on Specific Prophethood) | 15400 | Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الواح کتاب الاذن طراز النقطة التی عینت بعد ما شیئت | Praise be to God who made the ornament of the Tablets the Book of Authorization which is the ornament of the Point singled out after such was willed and decreed [by God] | INBA14:321-384, INBA40:081-132, INBA_6010C:311-382, , INBA_4011C.001-060, INBA_4012C.013-076, PR02.115v05-130v22, CMB_F23.169v02-171v02 (57)x, , HBH_nubuwwah (=INBA14), BYC_nubuva, BYC_nubuva2, BYC_three.016-092 | ESCH.357, OOL.A020 | GOH.091x, HURQ.BB50x, GPB.014-015x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Impossibility of true worship of God; Innateness; early self-awareness of the Manifestations of God; Knowledge; recognition of God; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Muhammad; Islam; Power of the Manifestation of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Prophecy and fulfillment; Self-description of God; God's self-remembrance; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Imamate; the Caliphate; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | DB.202x, AHDA.448.9, MMAH.042, SRC.076, SRC.196, GOH.034, GOH.199 | ||||
| BB00015 | Dala'il-i-Sab'ih (The Seven Proofs - Persian) | 13900 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Seven Proofs, The; Gate of the Heart; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | Dala'il-i-Sab'ih (Seven Proofs - Persian) | بسم الله الافرد الافرد. الحمد لله الذی لا اله الا هو الافرد الافرد و انما البهاء من الله علی من یظهره الله ثم ادلائه لم یزل و لا یزال و بعد | Praise be to God, for there is none other God but He, the Only Unique, the Only Unique. All splendor comes from God, upon the 'Man Yuzhiruhu'llah' and upon His Apostles… Say: God sufficeth all things above all things | INBA_2007C:13b-64b, , PR02.104r21-115v02, CMB_F22.092b, CMB_F25.7, BLIB_Or5109, BLIB_Or5110, BN_6154, NLI.50, KB_seven, HBH_dalail=DLLS, BYC_saba-p | DLLS, AYT.043x, SWBP#10 (p.083-090x), OOL.A005b | SWB#10 (p.117-126x), BPRY.056x, GOH.078x, GOH.169x, GOH.171x, GOH.244-245x, GOH.267x, GOH.359x, GOH.361x, HURQ.BB53x, BLO_PT#085 | The Badasht Project, K. Key, B. Vahdat, C. Shoemaker, B. Groetzinger, Edelo & Emma, T. Francis, M. Leong-Granfar, Honiara Baha'i Youth, W. Heath, Soulrise Melodies, N. Hamilton, J. Cooper, Baha'i Youth in Jordan, Kiskadee, L. Dely & M. Congo [track 10], A. & M. Zemke [track 4], Zannetta [track 7], almunajat.com [item 1], S. Jaberi | Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Proofs for the existence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God | * | - | NSS.039-044, JRAS.447, BRHL.63, BRHL.65?, MSBR.204-205, AHDA.447.8, MMAH.066, SRC.085-087, SRC.185, GOH.035 | ||
| BB00017 | Sahifiy-i-'Adliyya = Risaliy-i-'Adliyyih (Epistle of Justice: Root Principles) | 13500 | Selections from the Bahá'í Writings and from Shaykh Ahmad on the Seven Stages of Creation; Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá; Gate of the Heart | Sahifiy-i-Adliyyih (Epistle of Justice: Root Principles) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. حمد و سپاس وصف جمال ذاتی است که لم یزل بوده یگانه فرد بدون وجود شیئ با او و لایزال بکینونیة خود | Praise and thanksgiving befit that Essential Beauty Who hath been from time immemorial single and alone, with naught existing alongside Him, and Who everlastingly endureth in His own Being [3.5s]... ...The supporters of the “oneness of existence” have joined partners with God through their testimony of existence… Since the Ancient of Days created mankind for the purpose of apprehending the power shining within themselves | INBA82:134-205, INBA_3006C:097-, , INBA_5010C:012-082, , INBA_6011C:001-077, , INBA_6012C.265-299x, , PR03.214v27-228r05, PR17.000v-044v, IOM.091, KB_adliyya, HBH_sahifadl, BYC_adliyya, AEWB.136-141x, | AYT.039x, AVK1.030.09x, AVK1.075.10x, AVK1.099-100x, AVK1.103-104x, AVK1.322.07x, AVK2.102.15x, AVK2.167.14x, AVK2.334.11x, HNMJ.093-096x, OOL.A014 | BAPT.017-018x, BAPT.026-039x, TAME, BLO_PT#216.021x, GOH.191-192x, GOH.196-197x, GOH.207x, GOH.218-219x, GOH.222x, GOH.225-232x, GOH.235x, GOH.252x, MNP.047x, MNP.057x, HURQ.BB52x, BLO_PT#079.1.1x, BLO_PT#079.1.3x, BLO_sazedj#02 | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Essential vs. actional attributes of God; God's love for His own Essence; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Impossibility of true worship of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | - | NSS.036-038, AHDA.453.5, MMAH.045?, MMAH.058, SRC.042, SRC.068-070, SRC.197, GOH.032-033, GOH.217-236 | |||
| BB00018 | Sahifiy-i-Makhdhumiyyih = Sahifiy-i-Makhzunih (Hidden Treasured Epistle) | 13200 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Gate of the Heart; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | Sahifiy-i-Makhzunih (Hidden Treasured Epistle) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی هو کائن قبل کل شیء و لا یکون شیء معه و کان موجوداً حین لا وجود لشیء لدیه الذی قد قصدت افئده العارفین عن معرفة ادنی وصفه | Praise be to God Who existed ere all things were brought into being, and with Whom nothing can be compared. He was manifest when there was none other to contemplate His reality. He is the One Whose essence the hearts of the knowing have longed to fathom, yet fail utterly to apprehend even the most infinitesimal glimpse of His attributes [4o]... …The glory of glories and the most resplendent light rest upon Thee, O my God. Thy majesty is so transcendent… O my God, my Lord and my Master! I have detached myself… I adjure Thee by Thy might, O my God!... O My God, O my Lord, O my Master! I beg Thee to forgive me | INBA_5006C:284-314, , INBA_6009C:001-171, , PR03.043r-043rx, PR04.058r06-100r11, PR25.001-043, CMB_Add.3704, , MKI4499.043x | SWBP#53 (p.138-139x), SWBP#54 (p.139-141x), SWBP#57 (p.142-144x), SWBP#58 (p.144-145x), SWBP#59 (p.145-146x), SWBP#60 (p.146-147x), SWBP#62 (p.149-149(a)x), SWBP#63 (p.149-149(b)x), SWBP#64 (p.149-150x), SWBP#73 (p.155-155x), OOL.A009 | SWB#54 (p.194-195x), SWB#55 (p.196-198x), SWB#58 (p.200-202x), SWB#59 (p.202-204x), SWB#60 (p.204-205x), SWB#61 (p.205-206x), SWB#63 (p.209-209x), SWB#64 (p.210(a)x), SWB#65 (p.210(b)x), SWB#73 (p.216x), BPRY.022x, BPRY.063x, BPRY.130x, BPRY.141x, BPRY.227x, HURQ.BB29x | The Humming Birds, S. Toloui-Wallace, Kiya & Parya, TaliaSafa, E. Mahony, E. Mahony, E. Mahony, E. Mahony, A. Wensbo, Louis & Eleonore, Z. Johnson, Nahal & Bakang, D. Khavari, Shadi, Hoda & Leif, C. Kinglit, O. Devine, N. Chiang, Soulrise Melodies, Soulrise Melodies, N. Hamilton, L. & L. Hosack, S. Ihsan, P. Held & C. Bahia [track 10], almunajat.com [item 4], E. Tarani, unknown | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God; Impossibility of true worship of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#02, AHDA.451.1, MMAH.059, SRC.059, SRC.198, GOH.030-031 | Prayer 1 is Du'a-yi sahifa. | |
| BB00019 | Sahifa Baynu'l-Haramayn (Epistle Revealed between the Twin Shrines) | 13100 | Gate of the Heart | Sahifiy-i-Bayna'l-Haramayn (Epistle between Twin Shrines) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. ان هذا کتاب قد نزلت علی الارض المقدسة بین الحرمین من لدن علی حمید | This Book was indeed sent down within the sacred land between the Two Shrines on the part of one Elevated, Praiseworthy. | INBA50:073-106x, INBA_4011C:179-252, , INBA_6007C.348-413, PR03.058r22-068v23, PR04.115v04-164r03, CMB_F07, CMB_Or943 ff.489-545, BLIB_Or0943, BLIB_Or5325, BN_5804, BN_6248, LEID.Or4371, LEID.UL2414, MKI4499.069-118x, MKI4488.001r-028v, MKI4511.029v-037v, KB_bayn, BYC_bayn, BYC_baynal, AEWB.061-071x, AEWB.116-135x | HBAB.727x, HNMJ.006-008x, HNMJ.009-011x, HNMJ.011-016x, HNMJ.016-018x, HNMJ.019-020x, OOL.A004 | RBB.093-096x, GOH.056x, HURQ.BB14x, KSHK#01x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Impossibility of true worship of God; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Law of fasting; Law of pilgrimage; Martyrs and martyrdom; Personal instructions; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for martyrs; Seven stages of creation; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Visitation Tablets; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God and human limitations | * | - | FHR#07, DB.137x, BRHL.59, MSBR.200-201, AHDA.450.6, MMAH.049, SRC.060, SRC.198, GOH.031 | |||
| BB00021 | Tafsir al-Ha I (Tafsir alfayn) (Commentary on the Letter Ha’) | 11000 | Selections from the Bahá'í Writings and from Shaykh Ahmad on the Seven Stages of Creation; Gate of the Heart | Tafsir-i-Ha' (Commentary on the Letter Ha') | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الالواح الابداع طراز الالف القائم بین الحرفین الذی لاح و اشرق بما استشقق و استنطق فسبحان رب العرش عما یصف القائلون و انه هو فوق ما یعرف العارفون ... | Praise be to God Who hath made the ornament of the Tablets of creation to be the ornament of the Alif standing between two letters, which hath shone forth and gleamed resplendent through that which was cleft asunder and made to speak. Glorified be the Lord of the Throne above whatsoever they who speak may describe, and verily He transcendeth all that they who know can comprehend [3.5s]... ...God, verily, created the Will from nothing through itself… That which I set forth in explanation of the letter Há was to extol the Tree of Bahá, for the supporters of fate recognize the decree of spontaneity | INBA14:231-283, INBA53:081-125, INBA67:004-052, INBA86:099-154, INBA_3006C:002-058, , INBA_6010C:221-274, , INBA_4002C, , PR02.181r22-193v13, PR07.078r-092v | AADA.138x, ASAT1.189x, ASAT3.214x, AVK1.100-102x, HNMJ.080-081x | GOH.211-214x, GOH.222-223x, MNP.209x, LOIR06.052x, BLO_PT#079.1.3x, BLO_PT#079.1.6x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Eternal archetypes [a'yan-i-thabitah]; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | AHDA.454.01, SRC.072, SRC.199, GOH.033 | |||
| BB00023 | Regarding the four pillars | 10100 | هو العالی العلی الاعلى بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله الذی هدانا الی الاکسیر الأحمر و هو اول بیت وضع للناس فی عالم الفؤاد فی کثیب الأحمر | Praise be to God Who hath guided us to the Red Elixir, the foremost habitation raised for humankind in the realm of the heart, set upon the Crimson Dune [4o] | PR07.001v-014v | Alchemy; the elixir; Four pillars; Language and the structure of reality; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00025 | Kitab-i-A'mal al-sana (sahifa) = Sahifa Fatimiyya (Epistle on the Devotional Deeds of the Year) | 7600 | Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی نزل الکتاب بالحق هدی و ذکری للخاشعین و انه لکتاب قد فصل فی حکم شهرالله فی القران هدی و رحمة من عندالله لقوم ساجدین | Praised be to God Who hath, in very truth sent down the Book, a guidance and a remembrance for such as fear God. It is indeed a Book which sets forth regulations pertaining to the month(s) of God in the Qur'an | INBA50:106-158x, INBA_5006C:262-278, , INBA_6007C.413-452, PR04.168v01-194v07, MKI4499.118-147, AEWB.001-060, | HNMJ.021-027x, HNMJ.027-030x, HNMJ.031-036x | HURQ.BB30x | Law of obligatory prayer; Martyrs and martyrdom; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#05, AHDA.452.2, AHDA.461.02?, SRC.048, SRC.064-065, SRC.197, GOH.031 | ||||
| BB00029 | Tafsir al-Ha II (Tafsir sirr al-ha) (Commentary on the Mystery of Ha’) | 7200 | Gate of the Heart | Tafsir-i-Sirr-i-Ha' (Commentary on the Mystery of Ha') | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تقدس بقدس کینونیته عن عرفان اعلی مجردات اللاهوت و من یشا... الحمد لله الذی یمن فی الکتاب علی الذین آمنوا | Praise be to God Who, through the sanctity of His Essence, transcendeth the comprehension of the most sublime abstractions of divinity and whatsoever... Praise be to God Who bestoweth grace in the Book upon them that have believed [3.5s]... ...For verily each name hath infinite degrees, and the meaning of each thing that is named pertaineth to its own degree | INBA14:283-320, INBA53:125-156, INBA67:052-085, INBA86:154-193, INBA_3006C:058-096, , INBA_6010C:274-310, , INBA_4002C, , PR02.193v14-200v02, PR03.065r28-067r27x, PR07.092v-102r, BYC_collect3.116-126x | ASAT1.190x, ASAT5.158-159x, ASAT5.163-164x, HNMJ.081-086x, HNMJ.086-093x, HNMJ.086-093x | GOH.064x | Essential vs. actional attributes of God; Impossibility of true worship of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God and human limitations | - | - | AHDA.454.02, SRC.072, SRC.199, GOH.034 | |||
| BB00031 | Answer to seven questions | 6500 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی استشرق ما اشرق و اطلع ما اطلع و الاح ما الاح و جعل الاستنطاق حرف الاشتقاق فی مبدء الافتراق | Praise be to God Who hath caused to shine forth that which hath shone forth, and caused to rise that which hath risen, and made to gleam that which hath gleamed, and made utterance to be the letter of derivation at the beginning of separation [3.5s] | PR02.168v08-173v09 | Law of obligatory prayer; Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Prayer for protection; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00036 | Tawqi’i-i-Dhahabiyyih (Risaliy-i-Dhahabiyya II) | 5700 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الواحد الاحد الفرد القهار الصمد الوتر الدائم الجبار الحی القیوم المتعال المختار المقتدرالعادل الغفار الذی خلق بامره جوهریات الاسرار | Praise be to God, the One, the Single, the Peerless, the All-Compelling, the Eternally Besought, the Unique, the Ever-Abiding, the Almighty, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting, the Most Exalted, the All-Choosing, the All-Powerful, the Just, the All-Forgiving, Who through His command hath created the essences of mysteries [3.5s] | INBA53:157-180, INBA86:070-098, PR07.102v-110r, HBH_RisalahDhahabiyyihll, BYC_zahab | HNMJ.071-079x, OOL.A016 | Impossibility of true worship of God; Knowledge; recognition of God; Limits of language; Manifestation of God the only route to knowledge of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God is its own standard | - | - | SRC.080-081, SRC.207, SRC.195 | ||||||
| BB00037 | Risala fi Tashkhis al-Ghina (on singing) | 5600 | Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تقدس تقدیس قیومته عن نعت الجوهریات و ما یشاء بهها و الحمد لله الذی تفرد بتفرد ازلیته عن وصف الذاتیات و ما یعادلها | Praise be to God Who, through the sanctity of His Essence, hath sanctified Himself above the attributes of essences and all that pertaineth thereunto; and praise be to God Who, in His primal Eternity, hath singled out His oneness above the description of intrinsic qualities and their like [3.5s]... ...The reality of all beings, save God, dependeth on two aspects. The first is the existential aspect (jihat-i-vujúdí) which indicateth the divine effulgence | INBA14:432-452, INBA40:202-220, INBA67:233-259, INBA82:096-133, INBA_6010C:430-450, , PR02.146v16-152r04, PR07.110r-117v, UMich962.152-156, BYC_collect4.022x | SFI01.085-095, ASAT4.424-425x | GOH.177x | Martyrs and martyrdom; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | AHDA.450.5, MMAH.047, SRC.080, SRC.194, GOH.034-035 | ||||
| BB00038 | Sahifiy-i-Vaviyyih | 5600 | بسم الله الرب الفعال المختار. الحمد لله الذی یفصل بین الناس بالحق فیما هم فیه یختلفون هو الذی انزل الایات | Praise be to God, Who judgeth between men in truth concerning that wherein they differ. He it is Who hath sent down the verses [3.5s] | PR03.193r11-199r07 | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Impossibility of true worship of God; Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00039 | Risala Furu' al-'Adliyya (Epistle of Justice: Branches) | 5500 | Gate of the Heart | Sahifiy-i-Furu-i-Adliyyih (Epistle of Justice: Branches) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. و لقد فرض الله علی الناس قبل الصلوة بعضاً من الاحکام و هی ان الله لا یکلف لاحد الا دون قوته و ما یجبر علی احد لشیء | God hath enjoined upon mankind certain ordinances prior to the act of prayer, and among them is His decree that He imposeth no burden upon any soul beyond its capacity, nor is anyone to be compelled in any matter [4o] | INBA_3006C:148-182, , INBA_5010C:082-166, , INBA_6011C:081-120, , PR02.077v01-077v28, MKI4499.020, AEWB.141-145, | HBAB.798, OOL.A021a, OOL.A021b | Business; financial; property matters; Holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God; Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.; Justice and wrath of God; Law of Huququ'llah; Law of obligatory prayer; Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas | * | - | DB.208x, AHDA.448.1, MMAH.044, SRC.068-071, SRC.196, SRC.203, GOH.033 | ||||
| BB00042 | Risalata’l-Ishraq | 4600 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع المشیة قبل کلشیء لظهور قیومیته فی ملکوت الامر و الخلق لیعلم کل الذرات | Praise be to God Who hath brought forth the Primal Will before all else, that His divine sovereignty might be made manifest in the kingdom of command and creation, and that all atoms might come to know [3.5s] | INBA40:164-180, PR02.142r14-146v13, Berlin3655.126r-135v | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Essential vs. actional attributes of God; Eternal archetypes [a'yan-i-thabitah]; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | SRC.079, SRC.194 | |||||||
| BB00045 | Tafsir-i-Hadithi Abu Lubaydi Makhzumi or Tafsir-i-Hurufat al-Muqatta'ih | 4200 | Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الواح الاختراع اسرار الابداع التی عینت قبل ما شیئت و اقضت | Praise be to God Who hath made the ornament of the Tablets of origination to be the mysteries of creation, which were ordained ere they were brought into being [3.5s]... ...Verily, the appearance of the day of Muhammad, the Apostle of God, the blessings of God rest upon Him and His kin | INBA98:033.06-048.13, PR02.048v02-052v27, CMB_F21.009.02-026.16#03, , Berlin3655.095v-105r | GOH.109x | Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient; Personal instructions; Predictions and prophecies; Prophecy and fulfillment; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, MMAH.021 | |||||
| BB00046 | Tafsir-i-Ayati'n-Nur (Commentary on the Verse of Light) | 4200 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم بسم الله المتعالی المنیع. الحمد لله الذی خلق کل شیء بامره و قدر مقادیر کل شیء بقوله اذ انه هو الحق به یخلق ما خلق و یبدع ما بدع لا راد و لا مره و لا مرد لتقدیره | Praised be to God Who created all things through His Command and decreed the measure of all things through His Utterance, `Wherefore is He, verily, is the Ultimate Reality (al-ḥaqq)' | PR02.063r12-063r19x, PR07.044r-049v, CMB_F21.155.17-171.08#27, | HURQ.BB12x | Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, AHDA.458.15, MMAH.005 | ||||||
| BB00048 | Du'a-yi Alif | 3800 | Autobibliography in the Writings of the Báb | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی خلق السموات و الارض بامره ثم الذین آمنوا بالله و آیاته فاولئک هم الی الله یحشرون یا الهی کیف ادعوک و انک لم تزل لن تعرف بسواک و لا تزال .... | Praise be to God, Who hath created the heavens and the earth by His command, and beyond them those who have believed in God and His signs - these shall verily be gathered unto Him. O my God! How can I call upon Thee, when Thou hast ever been unknowable except through Thine own Self, and shalt ever thus remain [3.5s]... ...I have not claimed a single word of revelation. They say, “He has laid claim to spiritual authority and its trappings.” | PR02.135v06-139r25 | ASAT1.179-182 | MNP.088x, LOIR06.047x, BLO_PT#012x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Impossibility of true worship of God; Prayer for forgiveness; Self-description of God; God's self-remembrance; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | SRC.067-068, SRC.185 | ||||
| BB00049 | Ziyarat Jami’atu'l-Kabira | 3600 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم [بسمه المکنون الرؤف]. الحمد لله رب العالمین و انما الصلوة علی محمد رسول الله و خاتم النبیین ... و اذا اردت زیارت حبیب الله او احد من ائمة الدین طهر ادلا جسمک | Praised be to God, the Lord of all the worlds. And may prayerful devotion [peace] be upon Muhammad, the Messenger of God, and the Seal of the Prophets. | INBA50:001-072, INBA_5019C:132-145, , INBA_6009C:173-219, , PR02.090r01-093v09, CMB_F22.019b, , MKI4499.049, AEWB.145-170, | ASAT3.074x | HURQ.BB34x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Visitation Tablets | - | - | JRAS.445, BRHL.63, MSBR.204-205, SRC.045, SRC.202 | |||||
| BB00053 | Ziyarat | 3400 | بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لم یکن لی قلب اقدر ان اذکرک و لا فؤاد ان اسبحک و لا روح ان اقدسک و لا نفس ان اوحدک و قد ذاب کلی بما قد قضیت و ان لک الامر و الخلق | Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I have no heart wherewith to remember Thee, nor soul wherewith to praise Thee, nor spirit wherewith to sanctify Thee, nor being wherewith to proclaim Thy unity. All that I am hath melted away through what Thou hast ordained, and unto Thee belongeth both command and creation [3.5s] | PR02.082v19-085v28, CMB_F23.098v06-107r06 (23), , BYC_tablets.003.11-017.08 | MANU.054-064 | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for martyrs; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Visitation Tablets | - | - | JRAS.474, MSBR.206-207 | ||||||
| BB00054 | Letter to Mirza Hasan Vaqay’-Nigar | 3300 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع ما فی السموات و الارض بامره و اقام الکل بحکمه لیعرف کل الموجودات فی مقام عرفان طلعة الذات و آیات ظهورات الصفات | Praise be to God Who hath brought into being, through His command, whatsoever is in the heavens and on earth, and hath established all things through His wisdom, that every created thing might attain unto the station of recognition of the Countenance of His Essence and the signs of the manifestations of His attributes [3.5s] | INBA40:180-192, INBA53:385-398, INBA67:085-100, PR02.175r27-179r06, CMB_F28.7.06, | ASAT4.368x | BAPT.002x, HURQ.BB51x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Free will and predestination; fate; Names and attributes of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.68, MSBR.208-209, MMAH.032, SRC.079, SRC.194 | |||||
| BB00055 | Sahifiy-i-Ha’iyyih | 3300 | بسم الله القائم القدوس. الحمد لله الذی خلق السموات و الارض بامره و ان الذین یومنون بالله و ایاته اولئک هم الی الله یقلبون شهد الله انه لا اله | Praise be to God, Who hath created the heavens and the earth by His command. Verily they who believe in God and His signs - these are they who turn unto God. God beareth witness that there is no god [3.5s] | PR03.190v11-193v08 | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for protection; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayer for victory and requital; triumph of the Cause; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00056 | 3100 | بسم الله العزیز الحکیم. اشهد لله فی اول الدین بانه لا اله الا هو و کل له عابدون و ان نقطة الاولی عبده و بهائه لمن فی السموات و الارض و ما بینهما و ان ادلاء الحی حروف لنفسه کل بامره من عنده یعملون | I bear witness unto God, as the first confession of Faith, that there is none other God but Him, and that all are His worshippers, and that the Primal Point is His servant and His Glory unto all who dwell in the heavens and the earth and whatsoever lieth between them, and that the Guides of the Living [Hayy] are the Letters of His Self, all acting by His command [3.5s] | PR24.074r-081r | Alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium; Cleanliness and refinement; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Law of fasting; Law of inheritance; Law of obligatory prayer; Law of pilgrimage; Laws of marriage and dowry; Role and station of women | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00061 | Sharh-i-Du’a'-i-Sabah II | 2800 | Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع ما فی السموات و الارض بامره و یحکم بین الکل بالقسط فی یوم الذی فیه کل الی الله یحشرون | Praise be to God Who hath brought into being, through His command, whatsoever is in the heavens and on earth, and Who judgeth between all with justice on the Day whereon all shall be gathered unto God [3.5s]... ...Know thou that each letter thereof [the Morning Prayer of Imám ‘Alí] pertaineth to seven stations that were enjoined by the Imám to Jábir in reference to true recognition | INBA_4012C.096-109, , PR07.032r-036r, CMB_F21.143.06-155.14#26, , BYC_collect3.026-041 | GOH.117x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Knowledge; recognition of God; Seven stages of creation; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Imamate; the Caliphate; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, AHDA.458.13, MMAH.020, SRC.098, SRC.199 | |||||
| BB00062 | Prayers for the days of the week | 2800 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی خلق السموات و الارض بامره ثم الذین آمنوا بالله و آیاته الی الله یحشرون اللهم انک انت الله الفرد الاحد الصمد الحی القیوم | Praise be to God, Who hath created the heavens and the earth by His command, and beyond them those who have believed in God and His signs and who shall be gathered unto Him. O God! Thou art indeed God, the Single, the One, the Eternal, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting [3.5s] | INBA58:072.03-095.07, INBA78:001-045, PR03.228r07-231r09, MKI4499.035-047 | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Essential vs. actional attributes of God; Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for specific individuals; groups; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | AHDA.461.01a | |||||||
| BB00066 | Dala'il-i-Sab'ih (The Seven Proofs - Arabic) | 2700 | Gate of the Heart | Dala'il-i-Sab'ih (Seven Proofs - Arabic) | بسم الله الافرد الافرد. بسم الله الفرد الفرد بسم الله الفرد الفرد بسم الله الفرد الفراد بسم الله الفرد الفراد بسم الله الفارود الفارد بسم الله الفرد الفراد بسم الله الفرد الفرود | In the name of God, the One, the Peerless. In the Name of God, the One, the Peerless. In the Name of God, the Singular, the Matchless. In the Name of God, the Singular, the Matchless. In the Name of God, the Unique, the Supreme. In the Name of God, the Singular, the Matchless [4o] | INBA_2007C:01a-13b, , PR02.101v10-104r18x, CMB_F22.092b?, , HBH_dalail=DLLS, BYC_saba-a | DLLS, OOL.A005a | HURQ.BB54x | Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | JRAS.447, BRHL.63, BRHL.65, MSBR.204-205?, AHDA.447.8, MMAH.066, SRC.087-088, SRC.185, GOH.035 | |||
| BB00067 | Answer to Shaykh Nasiru'd-Din Karbila'i | 2700 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم بسمه العلی الاعلی الاعظم الاکبر الارفع الاظهر. حمداً لمن استوی علی عرش فردانیته و تقدس بقدس قدوس کبریائیته | Praise be unto Him Who is established upon the throne of His singleness, and Who hath sanctified Himself with the holiness of His exalted divinity [3.5s]... ...As for what thou did ask regarding the clarification of the issue of pre-existence and the origination of things. There is no doubt that the pre-existence of the eternal Divine Essence | PR02.060r08-063r10, CMB_F21.065.17-077.06#09, | HURQ.BB38x | Creation of the world; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Eternal archetypes [a'yan-i-thabitah]; Eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095 | ||||||
| BB00069 | Du’a’ li’s-Sab’a | 2700 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحان الذی یبدع ما فی السموات و ما فی الارض بامره و انه لعزیز حکیم یا الهی ان وجودک اعلی وجود لایشابهه شیء و ان وجودی ادنی وجود لایساویه شیء | Glorified be He Who createth, by His command, whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is on earth, and verily He is the Mighty, the All-Wise. O my God! Verily Thy Being is the most exalted of all being, naught can be likened unto it, and my being is the lowliest of all being, naught can equal it [3.5s] | INBA67:109-121, INBA78:105-138, INBA82:035-053, INBA98:001.03-011.02, PR03.043v-043vx, BN_6518 p.320v, MKI4511.014b-017x, BYC_tablets.042.10-052.04 | Absolute freedom; independence of God; Impossibility of true worship of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00074 | Epistle to Haji Mirza Aqasi 3 (Khutbiy-i-Qahriyyih) | 2600 | Fourth Epistle Revealed by the Báb to Mírzá Áqásí, The | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تقهر بتقهیر تقهر اقتهار قهر قهاریته علی کینونیات المشرکات من الممکنات... اما بعد فاعلم یا ایها الکافر بالله والمشرک بآیاته والمعرض عن جنابه والمستکبر عن بابه | Praise be to God Who, through His transcendent dominion, His sovereign power and His all-subduing might, hath prevailed over the essences of those beings who have joined partners with Him from among all contingent things... And now know thou, O thou who hast disbelieved in God, associated partners with His signs, turned away from His presence and shown pride before His gate [3.5s] | INBA64:127.04-150.07, INBA_4012C.001-013, PR02.045v07-048r26, BYC_collect4.004-012 | RHQM1.438-440 (326-328x), KKD1.104.19, HNU.204-206x, TZH2.241-250, AHDA.359, OOL.A023.8 | Chastisement and requital; Events in the life and ministry of the Bab; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Justice and wrath of God; Personal instructions; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | MMAH.031, SRC.092-093, SRC.186 | |||||
| BB00077 | Ziyarat for Mulla 'Ali Bastami | 2500 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد تجلی بنفسه لاهل العماء فاستقاموا علی هیکل البهاء و لاهل السناء بالنقطة الثناء حول نقطة الباء | Praise be to God, Who hath revealed Himself unto the denizens of the unseen, enabling them to arise steadfastly around the embodiment of Glory. Unto the people of splendor, He hath manifested the Point of Praise encircling the Point of the Letter “B.” [4o] | PR03.047r24-050r08, PR04.043v06-051r14 | Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Pilgrimage [Hajj] in Islam; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00087 | Kitabu’l-Bashir | 2100 | بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. الله لا اله الا هو الابشر الابشر و انما البهاء من الله ثم من کل شیء علی الواحد الاول و من یشاهد ذالک الواحد الی ان لا یحصی احد لا بما یعد و لا بما لایعد و بعد فلتشهدن علی الله | God, no God is there but Him, the Giver of tidings! Verily, the glory from God, and then from all things, be unto the first Vahid, and unto whoso beholdeth that Vahid, until none can reckon their number, neither by that which can be counted nor by that which cannot be counted. Then ye shall testify unto God [3.5s] | PR03.061r04-063r08 | Day of Resurrection; Judgement; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Love of God; Manifestation of God as mediator; Manifestation of God as sun; Presence of; reunion with God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Purpose; goal of creation; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00088 | Answer to Navvab-i-Hindi | 2000 | Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الاسماء فی مبدء الاشتقاق طراز الف الاستنطاق الذی تکعب بالحرفین و استقام فی ظرفی الامرین الذی لاح عن لوح الابداع | Praise be to God Who hath made the ornament of Names at the source of derivation to be the ornament of the Alif of utterance, which was formed through two letters and stood firm in the vessel of the two commands, shining forth from the tablet of creation [3.5s]... ...Verily, that which We sprinkled upon thee out of the ocean of Names and Attributes is due to the sweet melodies of This Bird | INBA98:011.05-020.06, PR02.163v24-165v28, Berlin3655.110v-114v | NSS.050-055 | GOH.080x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Impossibility of true worship of God; Names and attributes of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||
| BB00089 | Letter to Jinab-i-Haji Siyyid Javad Karbala'i | 2000 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الواح صبح الازل طراز الالف القائم بین البائین فلاحت و اضائت بعد ما بدعت قبل ما اخترعت | Praise be to God Who hath made the ornament of the Tablets of the Morn of Eternity to be as the Alif standing betwixt two Bás, resplendent and illumining after it was originated, ere it was fashioned [3.5s] | INBA98:150.07-158.13, PR02.161r25-163v22, CMB_F21.026.18-035.16#04, , Berlin3655.105v-110v | ASAT3.054-055x, NSS.059-064 | Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209 | ||||||
| BB00091 | Kitabu’l-‘Ulama I (Bushihr) | 2000 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی نزل الکتاب علی من یشاء من عباده و انه لا اله الا هو الغنی الجمیل و انه کتاب لا ریب فیه فصل فی حکم باطن القران | Praised be to God who sends down the Book upon whomsoever He willeth among His servants. He, verily, no God is there except Him. | INBA67:206-216, INBA91:082.02-094.10, INBA_4011C:318-328, , INBA_6007C.452-463, INBA_4012C.083-092, , PR03.063r10-065r26, PR04.106v02-115v02, PR07.049v-052v, CMB_F21.224.02-232.13#32, , BYC_collect5 | HNU.085x, HNU.134x, AHDA.107 | DB.148fn1, DB.129fn2, HURQ.BB22x, RR.121x | Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | FHR#03.03, GPB.024, BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, MMAH.034, SRC.074, SRC.098, SRC.189 | |||||
| BB00096 | Du’a’-i-Muttasil bi-Salat | 1900 | بسم الله المتعالی المنیع. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی انک خالق السموات و الارض و ما بینهما لم تزل کنت کائناً قبل کل شیء و لا تزال انک کائن بعد فناء کل شیء | Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! Verily, Thou art the Creator of the heavens and the earth and all that lieth between. Thou hast ever existed before all things, and Thou shalt continue to exist after the extinction of all things [4o] | INBA58:121.05-130.07, PR03.071v19-073v19, MKI4511.053v-064v, BYC_collect3.094-102 | Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00098 | Tafsir-i-Hadith-i-Ma’rifati Nafs | 1900 | Gate of the Heart | هو بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. قال السائل سلمه الله تعالی ما معنی الحدیث المروی عن علی علیه السلام من عرف نفسه فقد عرف ربه اقول اعلم یا اخی رحمک الله انی اوصیک | The questioner—may God, the Most High, preserve him—asked: "What is the meaning of the tradition related from 'Alí—peace be upon him—'Whoso knoweth his own self hath verily known his Lord'?" I say: Know thou, O my brother—may God's mercy be upon thee—that I counsel thee [3.5s]... ...He (God) hath not begotten anything; rather He hath created all beings by His Will, and created the Will by Itself | INBA14:468-479, INBA53:046-053, INBA64:082.05-084.09x, INBA67:181-190, INBA_4011C:101-110, , INBA_6004C:180-187, , INBA_6006C:063-067, , INBA_6010C:464-473, , PR02.152r08-153v27, PR07.057r-059v, BYC_collect4.012-017 | GOH.062-063x, GOH.096x | Adam; Adam and Eve; Degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence; Empty learning; false spirituality; Human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within; Knowledge; recognition of God; Manifestation of God as mediator; Realms of being; three realms; five realms; Self-description of God; God's self-remembrance; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | AHDA.458.12, MMAH.060, SRC.072, SRC.200 | |||||
| BB00100 | Alfayn Munajat | 1800 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع السموات و الارض بامره ثم الذین آمنوا بالله و آیاته الی ربهم یحشرون اللهم انت الله رب السموات و الارض تعلم کل شیء و لا یخفی علیک شیئ فی السموات و الارض | Praise be to God Who hath brought forth the heavens and earth by His command; then shall they who have believed in God and His signs be gathered unto their Lord. O God! Thou art God, Lord of the heavens and earth, Thou knowest all things, and naught in the heavens or earth remaineth concealed from Thee [3.5s]... ...Glory be to Thee, O God! Thou art the God Who hath existed before all things, Who will exist after all things and will last beyond all things… Verily Thou art the Lord of all created things | INBA_5019C:173-188, , PR03.172v13-179r06 | ASAT5.165-167x, HNMJ.096-115, SWBP#42 (p.132-132x) | SWB#43 (p.186-186x), BPRY.150x | Kiya & Parya | Love of God; Predictions and prophecies; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | AHDA.458.14, SRC.072, SRC.190, SRC.202 | |||
| BB00102 | Answer to Mulla Abdu'l-Jalil on 20 questions | 1800 | Tablet of Twenty Questions Revealed by the Báb and Addressed to Mullá 'Abdu'l-Jalíl Urūmī, The | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد توحد بالعزة و تقدس بالکبریاء لا اله الا هو العزیز الحکیم اشهدک اللهم یا الهی فی ذلک الیوم من شهر الصیام الذی قد شرفته و فضلته و جعلته هدی للعالمین | Praise be to God Who hath been distinguished by might and sanctified by grandeur. There is no God but Him, the Mighty, the All-Wise. I bear witness before Thee, O my God, on this day of the month of fasting, which Thou hast honored and exalted and made a guidance unto all the worlds [3.5s] | INBA91:111.03-121.01, INBA_5019C:300-304, , PR04.015v13-020v04 | HBAB.167x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Law of fasting; Power of prayer; Prayer for fasting; The Imamate; the Caliphate; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#12.01, SRC.191 | |||||
| BB00104 | Ziyarat-i-Husayn (or li-Husayn) | 1700 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اعلم یا اخی حکم الزیارة هکذا فاذا وفقت باب الحمر فقل اشهد ان لا اله الا | Know thou, O my brother! The ordinance of visitation is thus: When thou standest before the crimson Gate, say thou: "I bear witness that there is none other God…" [3.5s] | PR02.174r11-175v25 | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Imam Husayn; Martyrs and martyrdom; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Visitation Tablets | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00108 | Haykal | 200 | سبحان الذی … له من فی الیسموات و من فی الارض و کل له ... هو الذی ... من یشا (.illeg) | Glorified be He before Whom … all that are in the heavens and all that are on earth, and all … He it is Who [3.5s] | PR03.043r-043r | Da'iras and haykals; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Education of children; moral education; Impossibility of true worship of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00110 | 1700 | الله اقدس بسم الله الاله ذی الالهین. قل اللهم انک انت سبحان السموات و الارض وما بینهما والهان من فی جبروت الامر والخلق و مادونهما تخلق ما تشاء بامرک انک کنت علی | Say: O God! Verily Thou art the Glory of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever lieth between them, and the God of all who dwell within the dominions of command and creation and whatsoever is other than them. Thou createst whatsoever Thou willest by Thy command. Verily Thou art [3.5s] | PR03.081v24-083v23, PR13.073r-079r, CMB_F23.141r11-143v12x (47), , CMB_F20.020v13-024r17x, , BYC_tablets.083.03-090.10x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for praise and gratitude; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00113 | 1600 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی اشرق ما الاح به جواهر المادیات و اذن له بان یستشرق اذا استنطق و افاق من دون سبب و لا حکم من اهل المیثاق | Praise be to God Who hath caused to shine forth that whereby the essences of material things were illumined, and granted it leave to radiate when called to utterance, and to dawn forth without cause or decree [3.5s] | PR03.054v04-056r17, MKI4499.001 | Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.; Rebellion and sedition; disobedience; Visitation Tablets | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00116 | 1600 | بسم الله الاهدی الاهدی. سبحان الله الذی الاله ذی الالهین سبحان الله الربب ذی الربابین سبحان الله الاحد ذی الاحادین سبحان الله الوحد ذی الوحادین | Glorified be God, the God above all gods! Glorified be God, the Lord of all lords! Glorified be God, the One above all that is one! Glorified be God, the Single above all that is single [3.5s] | PR03.086v22-088r24 | He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00119 | Letter to Mirza Hasan-‘Ali, uncle of the Bab | 1600 | Gate of the Heart; Divine Proof and the Challenge of Revelation | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. قبله محترم دام عزکم تلاوت آیات کریمه را نموده ولی چه بسیار عجب است که اهل بصیرت ... والسلام خیرالکلام والحمد | O revered uncle, may thy glory endure! I have perused thy kind letter; yet how passing strange it is that the people of insight... Peace be upon the best of utterances, and praise be to [3.5s]... ...This lowly One hath completed the Commentary on the Súrih of Joseph in forty days, during which I wrote parts thereof each day | INBA91:170.11-180.06, PR04.200r05-204r11 | TZH3.283.09-286.11x | GOH.124x, MNP.002x | Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Independent investigation of truth; reality; Literal interpretation; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||
| BB00120 | Ziyaratu’l-Hajja | 1500 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اذا دخلت البقعة المبارکة صل فی الحجرة الصغیرة قرب البئر المعطلة .... اشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شریک له کما شهد ذاته بذاته بانه لا الله الا هو العزیز الحکیم | When thou enterest the blessed spot, offer thy prayers in the small chamber near the abandoned well... I testify that there is no God but God, alone, without peer, even as His Own Self hath testified unto His Own Self that there is none other God but Him, the Almighty, the All-Wise [3.5s] | PR03.050r11-051v19, MKI4499.012, AEWB.171-180, | Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Visitation Tablets | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00121 | Prayer for Hajj Isma'il | 1500 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی خلقنی بامره ثم رزقنی بفضله ثم اطعمنی من جوع لا اله الا هو العزیز الحکیم یا الهی کیف ادعوک و ان منتهی دعائی یرجع الی نفسی شاکیاً من قبیح ما عملت | Praise be to God Who created me by His command, then sustained me through His bounty, and nourished me in my hunger. There is none other God but Him, the Almighty, the All-Wise. O my God! How can I call upon Thee when the uttermost end of my prayer returneth unto mine own self, bewailing the unseemly deeds I have wrought [3.5s] | PR03.068v25-070v08, MKI4511.038r-047r, BYC_jabar.169.14-173.19, BYC_collect3.102-111 | HNMJ.136-150 | Chastisement and requital; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Impossibility of true worship of God; Justice and wrath of God; Love of God; Prayer for praise and gratitude; Presence of; reunion with God | - | - | |||||||
| BB00122 | Khutba on the suffering of Imam Husayn, at sea | 1500 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد شهد لذاتیته بالاحدیة القدیمة لما علم بان الحسین یشهد لنفسه بنفسه | Praise be to God, Who hath testified unto His Own Being through His Ancient Unity, inasmuch as He knew that Husayn beareth witness unto His Self through His Self [3.5s] | INBA91:073.10-081.02, INBA_5006C:317-320, , PR04.164r05-168r14 | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Imam Husayn; Martyrs and martyrdom; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#06.08, SRC.063, SRC.187 | |||||||
| BB00123 | Answer to Mulla Javad-i-Qazvini | 1500 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اللهم انی افتتح الکتاب بذکرک و ثنآء نفسک لا اله الا انت و لا یعلم احد کیف انت الا انت | O God! I commence this Book with Thy remembrance and praise of Thine own Self. There is no God but Thee, and none knoweth how Thou art save Thee [3.5s] | INBA91:102.03-111.02, PR04.195r02-200r04 | God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for specific individuals; groups; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00124 | Reply to Mirza hadi Qazvini and Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali Qazvini | 1500 | Tablet of the Báb to Hádí and Muḥammad ʿAlí Qazvíní | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی کیف ادعوک و انت تعلم سری و کیف لا اقول ما خطر علی قلبی و انت امرتنی بالدعاء و وعدت المتکبرین کلمة العذاب فی کتابک | Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! How can I call upon Thee when Thou knowest mine inmost secrets, and how can I refrain from uttering that which hath stirred within my heart when Thou hast commanded me to pray and hast decreed for the proud the word of chastisement in Thy Book [3.5s] | INBA91:130.10-139.03, INBA_5019C:305-308, , PR04.032v15-036r10 | Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#12.08, SRC.191 | ||||||
| BB00128 | Kitab al-Fihrist (Book of the index) | 1400 | Autobibliography in the Writings of the Báb; Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. المر ذلک الکتاب ذکر من الله فی حکم عبد بدیع و انه للکتاب قد نزلت من لدن بقیة الله امام حق قدیم | Alif. Lám. Mím. Rá. This is the Book, a Remembrance from God concerning a wondrous servant, and verily it is the Book sent down from the presence of the Remnant of God, the True Imam [3.5s]... ...And this is a Book which was sent down from God containing a directive from a wondrous servant. It is indeed a Book which hath come down from the Remnant of God | INBA_5019C:285-293, , INBA_6007C.339-348, INBA_4011C.062-069, , PR04.001r03-006v11, Berlin3655.001v-007r | ASAT4.527x | MNP.091-095x, HURQ.BB46x, LOIR06.051ff | Events in the life and ministry of the Bab; Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih] | - | - | FHR#04, AHDA.444.3, SRC.043, SRC.050-052, SRC.065, SRC.188, GOH.022, GOH.032 | ||||
| BB00131 | 1400 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحانک اللهم کیف اذکرنک ایای و لاسبحنک بتسبیحی ایاک و ان اعلی ما یتعارج به المخلصون | Glorified art Thou, O my God! How can I make mention of Thee through my praise of Thee, or extol Thee through my glorification of Thee? For even the most exalted heights to which the sincere can ascend [3.5s] | PR03.089r01-090r25, CMB_F14.021v04-026r02, , MKI4511.064v-072v, BYC_collect3.130-137 | Absolute freedom; independence of God; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Prayer for forgiveness; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | JRAS.454, BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, SRC.195 | ||||||||
| BB00140 | Answer to Mulla Rajab-‘Ali | 1300 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی یتفضل علی من یشآء تذکره و یشکره علی جزاء ثنائه بما وعد فی کتابه فله الحمد حمدا لیشهد له بما شهد له نفسه | Praise be to God Who graciously bestoweth His remembrance upon whomsoever He willeth, and rewardeth with gratitude those who praise Him, even as He hath promised in His Book. Unto Him be all praise - praise that testifieth to that which He hath testified of His own Self [3.5s] | PR07.036v-038r, CMB_F21.120.18-126.08#19, | Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Mystical themes; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209 | |||||||
| BB00149 | 1300 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدن علیک یومئذ اول شهر البدیع شهرالصاد عندک بما قد شهدت علی نفسک بانک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لاشریک لک | Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I bear witness unto Thee on this day, the first of the wondrous month, the month of Ṣád in Thy presence, even as Thou hast borne witness concerning Thine own Self that Thou art God, there is no God but Thee, alone, without partner [3.5s] | PR03.001v10-003r02, MKI4511.001-008a | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for specific individuals; groups; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00151 | Tafsir-i-Hadith-i-Haqiqat (Commentary on the Tradition of Truth) | 1300 | Gate of the Heart | Tafsír-i-Hadith-i-Haqíqat (Commentary on the Tradition of Truth) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. و هو ان کمیل بن زیاد النخعی اردنه علی علیه السلام یوماً علی ناقته فقال کمیل یا مولای ما الحقیقة قال مالک | And it came to pass that Kumayl ibn Ziyad an-Nakha'i approached 'Alí - peace be upon him - one day as he rode upon his she-camel, and Kumayl asked: "O my master, what is Truth?" He said [3.5s]... ...thou must know that Kumayl’s response reflecteth his condition; for he was not attired with the vesture of utter servitude | INBA14:462-468, INBA53:063-068, INBA67:148-155, INBA_4011C:127-134, , INBA_6006C:074-077, , INBA_6010C:458-464, , PR07.064r-065v | AADA.014 | GOH.134x, GOH.165-168x, GOH.194x, GOH.251x, HURQ.BB44x | Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Knowledge; recognition of God; Presence of; reunion with God; Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | AHDA.459.18, MMAH.055, SRC.072, SRC.199, GOH.077, GOH.164 | |||
| BB00152 | Prayer in reply to al-'Alawiyya (Tahirih) | 1300 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. یا من له العزة و الجمال و العظمة و الجلال لا اله الا هو الکبیر المتعال شهد الله لذاته قبل کل شیء | O Thou Who art possessed of glory and beauty, of grandeur and majesty! There is no God but Him, the Most Great, the Most Exalted. God beareth witness unto His Own Self before all else [3.5s] | INBA91:145.06-152.10, PR04.029v08-032v13 | Identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God; Manifestation of God as mirror; Muhammad; Islam; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for forgiveness; Prayer for protection; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#12.02 | |||||||
| BB00154 | Answer to Mulla Asadu’llah-i-Qazvini | 1200 | Epistle of the Báb to Mullá Asadu'lláh Qazvíní, The | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابتدع الابداع لا من ابداع قبله و اخترع الاختراع لا من اختراع بعده ثم جعل القدر | Praised be to God Who originated the Formative Genesis (ibtida` al-ibda`), not from any prior formative genesis | PR07.040v-042v, CMB_F21.115.18-120.16#18, | TZH3.013.02-016.11 | HURQ.BB27x | Creation of the world; Degrees of faith; certitude; Free will and predestination; fate; Knowledge; recognition of God; Meditation; Miracles and their interpretation; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095 | ||||
| BB00155 | Alfayn: Al-Khutbata’l-Makhtum bi-Ta’bir’n-num | 1200 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الاستنطاق فی الواح کتاب الافتراق طراز الاشتقاق التی عینت | Praise be to God Who hath made the ornament of utterance in the Tablets of the Book of Separation to be the ornament of derivation that was ordained [3.5s] | INBA98:027.11-033.03, PR02.160r01-161r23, CMB_F21.003.13-008.19#02, , CMB_F23.160r01-162v01 (55), , Berlin3655.092r-095r, BYC_jabar.163.02-165.07 | Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Mystical themes; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Symbolism of color and light; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209 | |||||||
| BB00156 | Sahifiy-i-Mu'tamid (ad-Dawlah) | 1200 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الواح کتاب الابداع طرز الالف القائم بین الحرفین لیلوح علی هیاکل الاشراف بما لاح من نور صبح الازل ملأ به کل الافاق والصلوة علی النقطة الاولیة التی بوجودها اضاء کل .... | Praise be to God Who hath made the ornament of the Tablets of the Book of Creation after the pattern of the upright Alif standing betwixt two letters, that it might shine forth upon the temples of the noble ones through that which hath dawned from the light of the Primal Morn, wherewith He hath flooded the horizons. And blessings be upon the Primal Point, through Whose existence [3.5s] | PR02.139r27-140v13 | Creation of the world; Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Impossibility of true worship of God; Prayer for forgiveness; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00157 | Reply to Mulla Ja'far-i-Shubbar | 1200 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی شهد لذاته بذاته الا اله الا هو العلی العظیم اللهم انی اشهدک فی ذلک الکتاب بما تحب لنفسک من اهل الابداع | All praise be to God Who hath testified through His Own Self unto His Self that there is none other God but Him, the Most Exalted, the Most Great. O my God! I bear witness before Thee in this Book unto that which Thou lovest for Thyself among the people of creation [3.5s] | INBA91:161.11-168.06, INBA_5019C:315-318, , PR04.023r13-026v02 | Dissimulation [taqiyyih]; concealment or denial of Faith; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Manifestation of God does not act of own volition; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#12.10, SRC.191 | |||||||
| BB00158 | Answer to Mirza Muhammad Yazdi | 1200 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الواحد الاحد الفرد الذی لا اله الا هو العلی العظیم والصلوة من الله علی محمد و اوصیائه کماهو اهله انه هو العلی الحکیم در حاشیه شبیه خط مبارک | Praise be to God, the One, the Single, the Peerless, beside Whom there is no God, the Most High, the Most Great. May the blessings of God rest upon Muhammad and His chosen ones, as befitteth His grace, for verily He is the Most High, the All-Wise [3.5s] | INBA14:452-459, INBA67:160-165, INBA_4011C:149-156, , INBA_6006C:083-085, , PR07.069v-072r | Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power of prayer; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings; Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | SRC.192? | |||||||
| BB00159 | Prayer for Shaykh Muhammad Rida | 1200 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اللهم انت الله فاطر السموات و الارض و جاعل اللیل والنهار لا اله الا انت رب العالمین یا الهی کیف تحرک شفتای بذکرک کان مملوة قلبی بالعجز والقصاری من ثنائک | O Lord, Thou art God, Fashioner of the heavens and the earth, and Maker of night and day. There is no God but Thee, Lord of all worlds. O my God! How can my lips move in remembrance of Thee when my heart is filled with utter powerlessness to praise Thee [3.5s] | PR03.071r10-072r18, MKI4511.047v-053v, BYC_jabar.165.08-168.06, BYC_collect3.088-093, BYC_collect3.111-116 | Chastisement and requital; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00165 | Sharh-i-Du’a’-i-Sabah I | 1200 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع کل الذرات الموجودات بامره لا من شیء لتدلعن السن کل الممکنات | Praised be to God Who originated the essences of all the atoms of the realms of existence through His Logos-Command and not by means of anything other than Him | INBA14:400-409, INBA40:155-162, INBA53:411-419, INBA67:219-228, INBA_6010C:398-407, , PR02.179r08-181r20 | TZH3.027x | HURQ.BB39x | Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | MMAH.020, SRC.079, SRC.193 | |||||
| BB00171 | Du’a’a’l-Qur’an | 1200 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. یا الهی کیف اذکرنک علی ما قد خلقتنی و جعلتنی من عندک مرآتاً حیث قد خلقت فی کل شیء سبحانک اللهم ان اشکرنک علی ما جعلتنی من آبائک الکبری او ما قد جعلتنی اسمائک الحسنی .... | O my God! How can I make mention of Thee, when Thou hast created me and made me from Thy presence a mirror wherein Thou hast created in all things? Glorified art Thou, O Lord! That I should render thanks unto Thee for having made me one of Thy greatest signs, or for having made me one of Thy most beauteous names [3.5s] | PR03.003r04-004r16, MKI4511.008a-014b | Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; The Imamate; the Caliphate; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00172 | Prayer in reply to Mulla 'Abdu'l-Khaliq [Yazdi] | 1200 | Tablet of the Báb Addressed to Mullá 'Abdu'l-Kháliq Yazdí | Tablet to Mullá 'Abdu'l-Kháliq Yazdí | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. یا من له الحمد و العزة و ماسواه من خشیته یشفقون یا الهی اشهد لدیک فی ذلک الکتاب بما تشهد لنفسک قبل کل شیء لا اله الا انت وحدک لاشریک لک | O Thou to Whom belongeth all praise and glory, before Whom all else tremble in awe! O my God, I testify before Thee in this Book to that which Thou didst testify concerning Thine own Self before all things: Verily, there is none other God but Thee, alone, without peer [3.5s] | INBA91:094.12-102.01, PR04.026v04-029v05 | AHDA.183 | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#12.03 | ||||
| BB00174 | Tafsir-i-Almavadda fi’l-Qurba | 1100 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی افرغنی لمشاهدة قمص طلعة حضرة ظهوره فی وسط الجبال و الهمنی | Praise be to God Who hath granted Me to behold the garments of His Manifestation's countenance amidst the mountains and hath inspired Me [3.5s] | PR07.042v-044r, CMB_F21.138.03-143.04#25, | TZH3.053.12-054.15x | Nearness and remoteness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095 | ||||||
| BB00182 | Du’a’a’l-Vahhabiyya | 1100 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اللهم انی اشهدک بشهادتک لنفسک انک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک لم تزل کنت علی حالة الازل لمن یعرفک کما انت انت احد | O God! I testify, through Thy testimony unto Thyself, that verily Thou art God, and there is none other God but Thee. Thou art alone, peerless, unchanging, and eternal, in Thine everlasting state, unto those who recognize Thee as Thou art. Indeed, Thou art the One and the Incomparable [4o] | PR03.046r12-047r10, PR04.205v02-207v13, MKI4499.007, MKI4511.024r-029v, BYC_collect3.126-130 | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Impossibility of true worship of God; Justice and wrath of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00186 | Answer to Haji Mulla Mihdi-i-Rashti, on grammar | 1100 | Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحان الذی یبدع ما یشاء بامره و اذا اراد لشیء فقیل ان یقول له کن فیکون لموجود الحمد لله الذی تجلی للجوهریات بنور طلعته اللازلیه | Glorified be He Who createth whatsoever He willeth through His command, and when He desireth a thing for it to be, He but saith unto it "Be!" and it is. Praise be unto God Who hath revealed Himself unto all essences through the light of His pre-existent Countenance [3.5s] | PR07.039r-040v, CMB_F21.111.02-115.15#17, | Grammar and orthography; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Monasticism; asceticism; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, GOH.206 | ||||||
| BB00194 | Fi Javabi’l-Mujadala va’l-Mubahalah | 1000 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. احمدک اللهم یا الهی بما انت اهله و اشهدک اللهم یا مولائی بما انت تستحقه بانک | I praise Thee, O my God, as befitteth Thine excellence, and I bear witness before Thee, O my Lord, as beseemeth Thy glory [3.5s] | INBA91:182.12-188.12, PR04.010v08-013v02 | Humility; meekness; lowliness; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00195 | Khutbah fi Ard-i-Sad (insha'uha fi balad as-sad) | 1000 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی شهد لذاته بذاته بانه لا الله الا هو الحق فی ازل الازال و انه هو کائن بمثل ما کان فیما یحدث من الازمان و لا له تغیر فی شأن و لا انتقال انقطعة الاسماء عن ساحة قرب حضرته | All praise be to God Who hath testified through His Own Self unto His Self that there is none other God but Him, the True One, from all eternity, and verily He remaineth even as He hath ever been throughout all times to come, subject neither to change in station nor alteration. All names are far removed from the court of His nearness [3.5s] | INBA40:198-202, INBA67:190-194, PR02.141r16-142r12, CMB_F23.076r05-078v07 (16), , Berlin3655.124r-126r | God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Proofs for the existence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00196 | Reply to Mulla Ibrahim Mahallati | 1000 | Tablet of the Báb Revealed in Response to the Inquiry of Mullá Ibrāhím Maḥallātí | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد عرف الخلق آیاته المودعة فی عز حقایقهم و ما خلق فی الافاق بغیر | Praise be to God, Who hath acquainted all created things with His signs deposited in the glory of their own selves and that which He hath fashioned in the horizons [3.5s] | INBA91:139.05-145.04, INBA_5019C:308-311, , PR04.020v05-023r12 | God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#12.09, FHR#03.20, SRC.191 | ||||||
| BB00202 | Ziyarat-i-‘Ashura | 980 | بسم الله الرقیب القریب. فاذا استقرت علی ذالک السریر الاحمر و اشربت ماء الخمر فی کأس القدر … سلام الله الفرد الاحد الواحد الصمد المتکبر المعتمد و سلام اول ذکره فی عالم الابد | If thou didst recline upon that crimson throne and drink of the wine from the cup of destiny... Peace be upon God, the Single, the One, the Alone, the Self-Subsisting, the Most Great, the All-Sufficient, and peace be upon the First to be mentioned in the realm of eternity [3.5s] | PR03.056r19-057v03 | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Imam Husayn; Justice and wrath of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00205 | Khutba writen near the staging post of al-Safra 1 | 960 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد عرف ذاته بذاته و لا یعلم احد کیف هو الا هو لا اله الا هو قد انشأ | Praise be to God Who hath known His Own Self through His Self, and none knoweth His Reality save Him. There is no God but Him [3.5s] | INBA91:036.08-041.10, INBA_5006C:320-322, , INBA_5019C:324-326, , PR04.040v06-043v03 | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#06.07?, SRC.063, SRC.187 | |||||||
| BB00210 | Testamentary disposition, addressed to Azal | 940 | Tablet of the Báb Lawh-i-Vasaya, "Will and Testament"; Titles of Mírzá Yahyá; Will and Testament; Epistle of the Báb to Azal | Lawh-i-Vasaya | بسم الله الازل الازل. اننی انا الله لا اله الا انا الوحاد الوحید اننی انا الله لا اله الا انا الاحاد الاحید اننی انا الله لا اله الا انا الصماد الصمید ... ان یا اسم الازل فاشهد علی الله لا اله الا انا العزیز المحبوب ثم اشهد | Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the One, the Unique. Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the Single, the Peerless. Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the All-Sufficing, the Everlasting... O Name of Eternity! Bear thou witness that there is no God but Me, the Mighty, the Best-Beloved [3.5s]... …O name of Azal, testify that there is no God but I, the dearest beloved. Then testify that there is no God but you, the victorious and permanent. Say, God created what He created from the time of beginning that has no beginning and | INBA64:095.01-102.09x, INBA_6007C.465-471, PR03.084r24-085v13, CMB_F23.174r06-176v02 (59)x, , HBH_vasayax, BYC_vesayatx | LOIR08.387, HURQ.BB61x, BLO_PT#211 | He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | MSBR.206-207x | ||||
| BB00214 | Fi Bayani’l-I’tiqad | 930 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی یهدی من یشاء و یضل من یشاء و الیه کل الخلق یرجعون و ان الصلوة علی محمد رسول الله و اوصیائه الذین قد جعلهم الله ائمة الدین و ارکان اهل الیقین ... و بعد لما سمعت ان بعض الناس قد عرضوا بمحضر حضرة العالی | Praise be to God, Who guideth whom He willeth and leadeth astray whom He willeth, and unto Whom all created things shall return. And blessings rest upon Muhammad, the Apostle of God, and His chosen ones, whom God hath made the Imams of the Faith and the pillars of them that are assured... And further, when I heard that certain ones had made representations in the presence of [3.5s] | INBA14:385-390, INBA40:133-136, INBA69:411-416, INBA_6010C:383-388, , PR02.130v24-131v26, CMB_F21.089.01-093.01#11, , BYC_collect4.017-020, BYC_three.092-097 | ESCH.393, TZH2.082-084 | Events in the life and ministry of the Bab; Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.; Muhammad; Islam; Names and attributes of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.077, SRC.193 | ||||||
| BB00219 | Bayan dar Jabr wa Tafwid (fi bayan-i-mas'alati'l-Qadar) | 920 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. قال الله تعالی الذی خلق فسوی والذی قدر فهدی و قال الصادق لا جبر و لا تفویض بل امر بین الامرین فاعلم ان هذه المسئله لما سد الله معرفته عن العقول والنفوس والارواح | God spoke forth Who created all that is other than Him and thus foreordained and proffered guidance. And [likewise] al-Ṣādiq said when God blocked the gnosis of this matter | INBA14:479-483, INBA53:053-056, INBA67:134-138, INBA_4011C:110-115, , INBA_5006C:375-377, , INBA_6004C:192-195, , INBA_6006C:067-069, , INBA_6010C:473-477, , PR07.059v-061r | ASAT4.473x | HURQ.BB41x | Free will and predestination; fate; Limits of the intellect; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; The Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im | - | - | MMAH.018, SRC.073, SRC.184 | |||||
| BB00220 | Answer to Haji Muhammad | 910 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تمحص قلوب عباده بما نزل علیهم من آیات کتابه انه لا اله الا هو العزیز الحکیم و انا ذا فی موقفی هذا اشهد ان لا اله الا الله | Praise be to God Who doth test and purify the hearts of His servants through that which He hath revealed unto them of the verses of His Book. Verily, there is no God but Him, the Mighty, the All-Wise. And I, in this My station, do testify that there is no God but God [3.5s]... …I have read your letter and informed myself of what you mentioned In it. I had heard from your companion about the dissension in the holy land [Karbala] | PR07.038r-039r, CMB_F21.108.12-110.19#16, | TZH3.332.06-333.02 | MESSIAH.232x | Contention and conflict; House of Justice; Tahirih [Qurratu'l-'Ayn]; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095, SRC.096 | |||||
| BB00226 | Answer to Sayyid Ahmad-i-Aqazadih | 900 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی نزل الکتاب علی من یشآء من عباده لیبعث یوم الحساب فاشهد الله فی وسط الجبال موقف | Praise be to God Who hath sent down the Book upon whomsoever He willeth among His servants, that they might be raised up on the Day of Reckoning. I bear witness unto God, from amidst the mountains [3.5s] | PR07.029r-030v, CMB_F21.127.07-131.05#21, , BYC_collect3.002-008 | God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Permission for visit; pilgrimage; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209 | |||||||
| BB00237 | Fi Tafsir-i-Kalimiy-i-Aqul (Commentary on a statement of Siyyid Kazim) | 860 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. قال مولانا علی علیه السلام فی خطبة الطتنجیه علی قائلها الاف الثناء والتحیة الحمد لله الذی فتق الاجواء ... بسم الله والحمد لله افتتح بالله فی شرح سر من الکلمة التی شرحها کلمة الحق روحی | Our Master [Imam] `Alī said (upon him be peace) in the Khuṭbat al-Tutunjiyya (“Sermon of the Gulf”) according to his statement expressive of a thousand degrees of praise | INBA67:125-129, INBA_4011C:171-176, , INBA_5006C:343-345, , INBA_6004C:204-207, , PR07.077r-078r | NSS.069-071 | HURQ.BB18x | Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Mystical themes; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | AHDA.458.09, SRC.073, SRC.198 | |||||
| BB00239 | Fi ‘ilmi’s-Sarf va’n-Nahv (Treatise on grammar) | 830 | Grammar of the Divine, A; Gate of the Heart | Risala fi al-nahw wa al-sarf (A Treatise on Grammar) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تجلى على الانسان بالنقطة المنفصلة المتحرکه عن مطلع البیان و الحمد لله | Praise be to God Who hath revealed Himself unto man by the detached and moving Point from the Dayspring of utterance, and praise be to God [3.5s]... ...Verily, the noun is the attribute of the thing as it is in its own station…. But the verb referreth to the movement of that thing, and is the source of both noun and preposition | INBA67:121-125, PR07.076r-077r, AEWB.207-212, | GOH.205-206x, MNP.064-066, BLO_PT#039 | Grammar and orthography; Language and the structure of reality; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light | - | - | SRC.073, GOH.205 | ||||
| BB00240 | Introduction to the Tafsir-i-Suratu'l-Baqara | 830 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تجلی للممکنات بطراز النقطة المنفصلة عن لجة الابداع لها بها الیها جلت و علت قبل ما اخترعت | Praise be to God Who hath revealed Himself unto all contingent beings through the ornament of the Point, which was separated from the depths of creation - unto it, through it, and toward it - exalted was it and transcendent before aught came into being [3.5s] | INBA86:065-069, INBA98:023.11-027.07, PR40.001v-003r | Accounts of dreams and visions; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Eulogies; reminiscences; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Symbolism of color and light; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00242 | Kitabu’l-Huzn | 820 | هو الاجود الاوهب الالطف الاکرم ... بسم الله الاجود الاجود .... انی انا الله لا اله ا لا انا الأجود الأجود شهد الله الخ ان یا جواد فلتقمص نفسک ثم کل شئ قمیص الحزن | Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the Most Bountiful, the Most Bountiful. God doth testify… O Thou Bountiful One, thou shalt clothe thyself, and then all things, in the garment of grief [3.5s] | PR03.156v01-157r13x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Return of the Manifestations of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God and human limitations | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00244 | Bayan fi 'Ilm al-Jawamid wa'l-Mushtaqat | 810 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد تفرد اولیآئه بالمحامد العظمآء و توحد ابوابه فی علم الجوامد الکبریآء الذی قد نعت | Praise be to God Who hath singled out His chosen ones by sublime glorification and hath unified His gates in the knowledge of supreme grandeur [3.5s] | INBA67:130-134, INBA_5006C:350-352, , INBA_6006C:081-083, , PR07.068v-069v | Day of Resurrection; Judgement; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Mystical themes; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | SRC.073, SRC.184 | |||||||
| BB00249 | Bayan 'illati Tahrimi'l-Maharim | 800 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اشهد الله کشهادته لنفسه ان لا اله الا هو و هو العزیز الحکیم و اشهد لمحمد و احبائه سلام الله علیهم کما شاءالله | I bear witness before God, even as He beareth witness unto His Own Self, that there is none other God but Him, and He is the Mighty, the All-Wise. And I bear witness unto Muhammad and His loved ones - the peace of God be upon them - as God hath willed [3.5s] | INBA14:499-502, INBA67:165-169, INBA_4011C:159-163, , INBA_5006C:352, , INBA_6006C:087?, , INBA_6010C:493-496, , PR07.072r-073r, AEWB.212-216, | HURQ.BB09x | Creation of the world; Islamic laws and jurisprudence; Law of divorce; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation | - | - | SRC.072, SRC.184 | ||||||
| BB00261 | Li-Qa’im | 760 | سبحانک ان لا اله الا انت انک رب العالمین سبحانک اللهم انک انت خالق السموات و الارض و ما بینهما بامرک لا من شیء و انک انت فاطر کل شیء | Glorified art Thou! There is no God but Thee; verily, Thou art the Lord of all worlds. Glorified art Thou, O my God! Thou art, in truth, the Creator of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever lieth between them by Thy command, from nothingness, and Thou art the Fashioner of all [3.5s] | PR03.078v28-79v16, BYC_collect3.084-088 | Creation of the world; Petitions to authorities; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00265 | Khutbah fi'l-Bakarih (hin julusihi 'ala'l-safinah al-saghirah) | 740 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد ارفع عبده من البلد المقام علی السفینة الصغیره الی الفلک المسخر فوق الماء من قبل طلوع خط البیضاء من احق السوداء | Praise be unto Him Who hath raised His servant from the settled place, upon the small vessel, unto the ark that saileth upon the waters, ere the rising of the white line from the black horizon [3.5s] | INBA_5006C:339-340?, , PR04.038r13-040v03 | - | - | FHR#06.07?, SRC.242 | ||||||||
| BB00270 | Li-Ismi’llahi’n-Nazi’ | 720 | بسم الله الاحفظ الاحفظ. الحمد لله الذی لا اله الا هو الاحفظ الاحفظ و انما البهاء من الله علی من یظهره الله ثم ادلائه لم یزل و یزال | Praise be to God, beside Whom there is none other worthy of worship, the supreme Guardian, the ultimate Protector. Verily, the divine splendour is from God upon Him Whom God shall make manifest and upon His chosen ones throughout eternity [4o] | PR03.079v26-080v14, PR13.066v-069r | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00274 | Du’a’a’l-Huzn | 720 | بسم الله الفرد المعتمد. هو العزیز لم ادریا الهی بایذنب اخرجتنی | He is the All-Glorious! I know not, O my God, for what sin Thou hast cast me out [3.5s] | PR03.201v18-202r25 | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for victory and requital; triumph of the Cause; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00281 | Li-Khalaf | 700 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. تنزیل من کتاب ربک فی حکم عبد بعید و انه لکتاب لا ریب فیه قد نزل من لدن امام مبین وانه لهو الحق فی السموات و الارض لا یعزب من علمه شیء و انه لعلی کل شیء شهید انا نحن قد نزلنا کتابا من قبل | A revelation from the Book of thy Lord concerning a distant servant. Verily it is a Book wherein there is no doubt, sent down from the presence of a manifest Guide. And verily He is the Truth in the heavens and on earth; naught escapeth His knowledge, and He is witness over all things. We, verily, have sent down a Book before [3.5s] | PR04.013v03-015v11 | - | - | FHR#03.17, AHDA.461.11 | ||||||||
| BB00294 | 660 | بسم الله الاعظم الاعظم. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک لک الملک و الملکوت و لک العز و الجبروت و لک القدرة و اللاهوت و لک القوة و الیاقوت و لک السلطنة و الناسوت و لک العزة و الجلال و لک الطلعة و الجمال و لک الوجهة و الکمال و لک المثل و الامثال و لک المواقع و الاجلال و الک العظمة و الاستقلال و الک الکبریاء و الاستجلال و لک العزة و الامتناع و لک القوة و الارتفاع ... لم تزل کنت الها واحدا | Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee that verily Thou art God, and that there is none other God but Thee, alone, without peer. Thine is the Kingdom and the Dominion, Thine the Glory and the Power, Thine the Might and the Empyrean, Thine the Strength and the Brilliance, Thine the Sovereignty and the human realm, Thine the Glory and the Majesty, Thine the Splendor and the Beauty, Thine the Countenance and the Perfection, Thine the Symbol and the Similitudes, Thine the Stations and the Reverence, Thine the Grandeur and the Independence, Thine the Supremacy and the Exaltation, Thine the Glory and the Invincibility, Thine the Power and the Transcendence... Thou hast ever been one God [3.5s] | PR03.044v06-045r16, CMB_F23.093v08-095r17 (20), , MKI4511.017r-020v, BYC_tablets.001.02-002.17x | MANU.048-050 | Absolute freedom; independence of God; 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; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00297 | Risala fi's-Suluk (Epistle on the Spiritual Path I) | 650 | Báb's Epistle on the Spiritual Journey towards God, The; Gate of the Heart | Risala fis-Suluk I and II (Journey towards God) | استقم یا سائل التقی فی مقام التوحید قال الله تعالى الذین قالوا ربنا الله ثم استقاموا تتنزل | Be steadfast, O seeker of piety, in the station of affirming the divine unity. As God, exalted be He, has said | INBA14:486-489, INBA53:058-061, INBA67:145-148, PR04.052r08-054r12, PR07.063r-064r, HBH_suluktr (=INBMC6006) | ASAT4.158-159x, AVK2.231.07 | LOIR03.049-058 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Four pillars; Knowledge; recognition of God; Knowledge of self; Love of God; Oneness; unity of religion; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcending the material condition; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | NSS.019-020, AHDA.449.3, MMAH.043, SRC.044, GOH.030, GOH.301 | |||
| BB00300 | Ziyarat li’n-Nuqta | 630 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اشهد ان لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک کما قد شهدت لنفسک من دون ان یعرف حکم ذالک احد من خلقک انک انت الله الکبیر المتعال | I bear witness that there is no God but Thee, alone without partner, even as Thou didst testify unto Thine Own Self, ere any among Thy creation could grasp the decree thereof. Verily, Thou art God, the Most Great, the Most Exalted [3.5s] | PR03.053r17-053v23 | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00305 | 610 | بسم الله الالهم الالهم. الحمد لله الذی لا اله الا هو الالهم الالهم و انما البهاء من الله علی الواحد الاول و من | Praise be to God, beside Whom there is no other god, the Most Divine, the Most Divine, and verily all glory floweth from God unto the first Vahid [3.5s] | PR03.149v05-150r18 | He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Word of God and human limitations | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00307 | Tafsir-i-Hadith al-Jariyya | 610 | Báb's Mystical Commentary on the Hadith of the Maid (Hadith al-Jāriyyah) and the Knowledge of the Unseen, The | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. فاقول مستغنیاً بالله فی تفسیر بعض حدیث المروی فی الکافی فی ذکر علم الغیب عن سدیر | I shall, relying on God and in the manner befitting His guidance, offer an interpretation of the tradition recorded in Al-Kafi concerning the knowledge of the unseen as narrated by Sudair [4o] | INBA14:496-499, INBA67:157-160, INBA_4011C:176-179, , INBA_5006C:373-375, , INBA_6004C:189-192, , INBA_6010C:490-493, , PR04.100v01-102r08, PR07.074v-075v, AEWB.230-233, | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Outward and inward meanings; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | AHDA.456.07, MMAH.052, SRC.057, SRC.199 | ||||||
| BB00309 | Khutbih Qabl az Dibajiy-i-Sahifih | 600 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله المتوحد فی الکبریآء و المتعظم فی الثنآء و المتفرد فی الانشاء والمتعالی فی البهاء ..... و بمثل ذلک فلیکتب قل یا اهل المشعرین فاتوا برهانکم ان کنتم صادقین والحمد لله رب العالمین | Praise be to God Who standeth alone in grandeur, Who is glorified in praise, Who is single in creation, and Who is transcendent in splendor... And thus let it be written: Say: O ye dwellers of the two sanctuaries, bring forth your proof if ye be of the truthful ones. And praise be to God, the Lord of the worlds [3.5s] | PR04.054r15-056v14 | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00313 | Answer to one of the believers | 590 | Báb's Epistle of Consolation and Counsel to a Beloved Follower, The | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی نزل المجرة لسطوع طلوع شمس الرحمة لیدلعن کل الالسن فی تلک الطلعات الصماء الدهماء العمیاء بثناء طلعة حضرة الربوبیة فی صورة الانزعیه والنور الالهیه | Praise be to God Who hath sent down the starry expanse for the dawning splendor of the Sun of Mercy, that every tongue might be moved, amidst these deaf, dark and sightless manifestations, to extol the Countenance of Divine Lordship in its most glorious form and celestial light [3.5s] | INBA98:020.10-023.07, PR02.166r02-166v12, CMB_F21.001.01-003.11#01, , Berlin3655.114v-116r | Love of God; Power of prayer; Praise and encouragement; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209 | ||||||
| BB00314 | Kitabu’l-Karim | 590 | هو الاکبر بسم الله الاکرم الاکرم. الله لا اله الا هو الأکرم الأکرم و إنما البهاء من الله على الواحد الأعظم | God, no God is there but Him, the Most Bountiful, the Most Bountiful! And verily all glory proceedeth from God upon the Most Great One [3.5s] | PR03.136v18-137r25 | Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00317 | 590 | هو الباقی فی کل حین و قبل حین و بعد حین. شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو العزیز المحبوب و لمن اقبل الله یحب فواده بانه لهو المرهوب لاهل | God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, the Mighty, the Best-Beloved. And unto him who turneth toward God doth He kindle love within his heart, for verily He is the All-Feared unto [3.5s] | PR03.142r14-142v20 | - | - | ||||||||||
| BB00318 | as-Silsilatu'th-Thamaniyya | 590 | Inquiry and Revelation | بسم الله البدیع الذی لا اله الا هو العزیز الحکیم. و لقد ورد الی الیوم کتاب من عبدالله عبدالجلیل فاعلم یا ایهاالواقف علی خط القیم در حاشیه شبیه خط مبارک | Verily, there hath come unto me this day a letter from 'Abdu'llah 'Abdu'l-Jalil. Know thou, O thou who art acquainted with the sacred script, that in the margin there appeareth that which resembleth the blessed handwriting [3.5s] | INBA14:503-506, INBA67:169-172, INBA69:434-437, INBA_4011C:156-159, , INBA_5006C:365-367, , INBA_6004C:198-200, , INBA_6006C:085-087, , PR07.071v-072r, AEWB.217-221, | NSS.073-075 | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Outward and inward meanings; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | SRC.192x2 | |||||
| BB00321 | Tafsir-i-Hadith-i-'Ashura | 570 | Báb's Commentary on the Ḥadíth Every Day is ʿĀshūrāʾ, The | ما معنی الحدیث کل یوم عاشورا هذا لم اره فی محل و لا سمعته من العلما حتی ایقن | What is the meaning of the saying, "Every day is Ashura"? I have neither found it in any authoritative source nor heard it from the learned, until I became certain [4o] | INBA14:494-496, INBA67:141-143, INBA_4011C:118-121, , INBA_6006C:070-072, , INBA_6010C:488-490, , PR07.061v-062v | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Imam Husayn; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Martyrs and martyrdom; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | SRC.073, SRC.200 | ||||||
| BB00324 | Letter in reply to four questions | 560 | Báb's Epistle Revealed in Isfahán in Response to Four Questions, The | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی نزل الامر فی الکتاب للذین اتبعوا امرالله بالحق فان اولئک هم الصادقون و بعد قد نزل کتابک فی ارض الصاد و اطلعت بخطابک فاعلم فیما سئلت من معنی یوم القیامه | Praise be to God Who hath sent down the Command in the Book unto them that follow the Cause of God in truth, for these are the sincere ones. Thy letter hath reached the Land of Ṣád and I have understood thy message. Know thou, then, concerning that which thou didst inquire about the meaning of the Day of Resurrection [3.5s] | INBA53:398-400, PR02.200v04-201r04, Berlin3655.122v-124r | Chastisement and requital; Day of Resurrection; Judgement; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance | - | - | SRC.081, SRC.195 | ||||||
| BB00325 | Bayan al-Taqarub wa Taba'ud | 560 | بسم الله الاقوم الاقوم - یا القدیم الاقوم. الذی لا اله الا هو العظیم الادوم شاءالله ان ینشاء سر اسم الاعظم فی هذا اللوح المعظم للرجال ....... لا تخف و لا تحزن فانا مع المحسنین و لمثل هذا فلنجری العاملین والحمد لله رب العالمین | He is God, the Most Great, the Ever-Enduring! God hath willed to manifest the mystery of the Most Great Name in this most exalted Tablet unto men... Fear not, neither be thou grieved, for verily We are with the doers of good, and thus shall they that strive be requited. All praise be unto God, the Lord of all worlds [3.5s] | INBA14:459-462, INBA53:077-079, INBA67:179-181, INBA_4011C:141-145, , INBA_5006C:348-350, , INBA_6004C:187-189, , INBA_6006C:080-081, , INBA_6010C:455-458, , PR07.067v-068v, AEWB.226-230, | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Nearness and remoteness; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | SRC.073, SRC.184 | |||||||
| BB00326 | 560 | بسم الله الاعظم الاعظم. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء بانک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک لک الملک و الملکوت و لک العز و الجبروت و لک القدرة و اللاهوت و لک القوة و الیاقوت و لک السلطنة و الناسوت و لک العزة و الجلال و لک الطلعة و الجمال و لک الکأس و البشقاب | Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee that Thou art God, and there is no God but Thee, alone, without partner. Thine is the Kingdom and the Dominion, Thine the Glory and the Power, Thine the Might and the Empyrean, Thine the Strength and the Brilliance, Thine the Sovereignty and the human realm, Thine the Glory and the Grandeur, Thine the Countenance and the Beauty, Thine the Chalice and the Cup [3.5s] | PR03.086r16-086v21 | The Bayan, its laws and their abrogation; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00327 | Sahifiy-i-Mu’tamad | 560 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. یا من له العزة و الوحدة و الجلال و العظمة فسبحانک و تعالیت لما اعلم ان لا سبیل لی بوصفک فاسئلک بحقک ان تصلی علی محمد و آل محمد ظهورات کینونیات اللاهوت و دلالات الملک و الملکوت | O Thou Who art possessed of Glory, Unity, Majesty and Grandeur! Glorified and exalted art Thou above that which I know, for I have no way to describe Thee. I beseech Thee, by Thy truth, to bless Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, the Manifestations of the divine Essences and the Signs of sovereignty in both the visible and celestial realms [3.5s] | PR02.140v15-141r14 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00331 | Prayer for Siyyid Husayn | 550 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. یا الهی انت الذی شهدت لنفسک بنفسک بانک انت الله لا الله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک لم تزل کنت بلا وجود شیئ معک و لا تزال انک کائن بمثل ما کنت .... | O my God! Thou art He Who hath testified of Thine own Self, through Thine own Self, that verily Thou art God, and that there is no God but Thee, alone, without peer. Thou hast ever existed when naught existed beside Thee, and Thou wilt forever remain as Thou hast been [3.5s] | PR02.132r24-133r06 | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00332 | Ziyarat-i-Shah-'Abdu'l-'Azim | 540 | Visitation Tablet for Sháh ‘Abdu’l-‘Aẓím | هو المعبود المحمود المقصود. السلام علی من اختصه الله بمحمد حبیبه الذی استخلصه من بحبوحة القدم علی سائر الممکنات والسلام علی من اصطفاه الله بعلی ولیه الذی اصطنعه لنفسه و جعله مهیمناً علی کل الموجودات | Peace be upon him whom God hath singled out through Muhammad, His Beloved, Whom He chose from the inmost realm of pre-existence above all created beings; and peace be upon him whom God hath chosen through 'Alí, His Friend, Whom He fashioned for His own Self and made supreme over all existence [3.5s] | PR03.053v25-054v03 | AHDA.260, OOL.A011 | Imam Husayn; Law of pilgrimage; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Imamate; the Caliphate | - | - | MMAH.055 | |||||
| BB00334 | Letter to ‘Abdu’l-Karim Qazvini | 540 | باسم اسمی از اسماء بر هامش آن ذکر شده اسم ازل للثمره الازلیه و الوحید الالهیه و الطلعه الابدیه فی | In the name of that One Whose name among names is recorded in its margin as the Pre-existent One, for that Eternal Fruit, that Divine Unity, and that Everlasting Countenance (?) [3.5s] | PR03.138r14-138v17 | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00335 | 540 | انت انت لا الله الا انت. بالله الله الاله الاله یا الهی و ربی اشهدک فکل شیء بانک انت الله لا اله الا انت لک الملک و الملکوت و لک العز والجبروت | By God, by God, O my God and my Lord! I bear witness, as doth every created thing, that Thou art God, there is no God but Thee. Thine is the sovereignty and the Kingdom, and Thine the glory and celestial might [3.5s] | PR03.079r21-079v24, PR13.064v-066v, MKI4511.075v-078v | - | - | ||||||||||
| BB00336 | Letter to Mulla Husayn II (from Shiraz) | 540 | Epistle of the Báb to Mullá Ḥusayn Bushrú'í, Revealed at Bushíhr, An | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. شهد الله لعبده فی ذلک الکتاب انه قد آمن بالله و آیاته و کان علی صراط حق مبین و ذلک الکتاب ذکر من بقیة الله لمن اراد ان یؤمن بآیات ربه و یتبع امره و کان من الساجدین | God testifieth in this Book unto His servant that he hath believed in God and His signs, and hath remained steadfast upon a path of manifest truth. And this Book is a remembrance from the Remnant of God for whosoever desireth to believe in the signs of his Lord and follow His command, and be numbered among those who prostrate themselves [3.5s] | INBA91:001.02-003.12, INBA_5019C:318-319, , PR04.006v13-008r12 | TZH3.140.06-140.18x | Chastisement and requital; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | FHR#03.01, SRC.191 | |||||
| BB00337 | Ziyarat | 530 | بسم الله تعالی اذا اردت زیارة احد من ائمة العدل اتبع.... اشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شریک له کما شهد ذاته لذاته ان لا اله الا هو العزیز الحکیم و اشهد ان محمدا عبدک الذی استخلصته لنفسک و اصطنعته لولایتک | I bear witness that there is no God but God, alone and without partner, even as His own Self hath testified unto His own Self that there is no God but Him, the Mighty, the All-Wise. And I bear witness that Muhammad is Thy servant, whom Thou hast singled out for Thyself and chosen for Thy Cause [3.5s] | PR03.057v13-058r20, MKI4499.018 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00341 | Du'a Tawassul | 520 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ینزل ما یشاء بامره سبحانه و تعالی عما یصفون یا الهی کیف اثنی علیک بعد علمی بقطع الکل عن عرفانک و کیف لا ادعوک و ان فؤادی لم تستقر الا بذکرک | Praise be unto God Who sends down whatsoever He Willeth through a command on His part. Praise be He and Exalted be He above whatsoever they do assert | INBA64:013.12-017.10, PR02.053r01-053r29, PR03.128v21-129r23, BYC_jabar.168.07-169.13 | KHSH6.008 | HURQ.BB37 | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for assistance; intercession; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||
| BB00342 | Fi’s-Sighari va’l-Kibar | 520 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحان الذی یبدع ما فی السموات و ما فی الارض بامره ثم الذین آمنوا بالله و آیاته فاولئک هم الیه یحشرون | Glorified be He Who createth, by His command, whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is on earth; then they who have believed in God and His signs shall be gathered unto Him [3.5s] | PR07.030v-031v, CMB_F21.131.07-133.07#22, , BYC_collect3.021-024 | Humility; meekness; lowliness; Mystical themes; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209 | |||||||
| BB00344 | Tafsir-i-Hadith-i-Nahnu Wajhu'llah | 520 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم ما تفسیر قوله علیه السلام نحن وجه الله. فاعلم ان عرباً من العرباء من اهل البادیه سئل عن علی ع عن وجه الله فی قوله | And know thou that an Arab among the Arabs of the Bedouin people asked [Imam] `Alī about the Wajh Allāh (the Face of God) as indicated in His statement: "So wherever you turn there is the Face of God!" | INBA14:489-491, INBA53:056-058, INBA67:138-140, INBA_4011C:115-118, , INBA_6004C:195-197, , INBA_6006C:069-070, , PR07.061r-061v | HURQ.BB40x | God as immanent vs. transcendent reality; Manifestation of God as mediator; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | AHDA.459.17, SRC.072, SRC.200 | ||||||
| BB00345 | 520 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. و السلام على عباد الله المخلصین فیا ایها السآئل قد سمعت کل ما کتبت الی فی کتابک | Peace be upon God's sincere servants! O thou who inquireth, verily I have heard all that thou didst write unto Me in thy letter [3.5s] | INBA91:189.02-192.01, PR04.008v15-010v07 | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Outward and inward meanings; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00346 | Tafsir-i-Ayat fi Surati'n-Nur | 510 | Gate of the Heart | بسم الله البدیع الذی لا اله الا هو. افتتح سر البیان لاظهار ما جعله الله فی الکیان بالوجود .... و بمثل هذا فلیعمل العاملون و لا حول و لا قوة الا بالله العلی العظیم والحمد لله رب العالمین | The secret of utterance hath been unlocked to manifest that which God hath ordained in the realm of existence.... Even thus must the doers of deeds endeavour, and there is no power nor strength save in God, the Most High, the Most Great, and praise be to God, the Lord of all the worlds [3.5s]... ...Naught is seen in Me in in the station of My heart save God alone, which is the manifestation of Lordship from God | INBA14:491-494, INBA53:075-077, INBA67:155-157, INBA_4011C:134-137, , INBA_5006C:345-347, , INBA_6006C:077-078, , INBA_6010C:485-488, , PR07.065v-066v | GOH.094x, GOH.103x | Inmost heart [fu'ad]; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Knowledge; recognition of God; Nearness and remoteness; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | AHDA.458.15, SRC.072, SRC.198 | |||||
| BB00349 | Ziyarat li-Hurufi’l-‘isma | 500 | بسم الله الملک الحق المبین. و ان اعلی جواهر جوهریة و اعلی طرائز طرزیة التی اشرقت و الاحت ثم اشرقت و ضیائت من ساحة | Verily, the most exalted of essences and the loftiest of ornaments, which first dawned and then shone resplendently, casting its radiance from the precincts.. [4o] | PR02.078r08-079r02x, PR03.051v21-052v20x | Manifestation of God as mediator; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for protection; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00354 | Risala fi'l-Tasdid | 470 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اعلم ثبت الله قدمیک علی الصراط ان الله سبحانه تعالی غنی کامل و ان مصنوعه حین ما اصنع جری القلم و قدرها القدر علی کماله بحیث لانقص فیه ..... | Know thou—may God make firm thy footsteps upon the Path—that God, glorified and exalted be He, is the All-Sufficient and Perfect One, and that His creation, from the moment He fashioned it, when the Pen moved and destiny ordained it to its perfection, was such that no imperfection could be found therein [3.5s] | INBA14:483-486, INBA53:061-063, INBA67:143-145, INBA_4011C:121-123, , INBA_6004C:207-209, , INBA_6006C:072-073, , INBA_6010C:477-480, , PR07.062v-063r | ASAT5.237x | Adam; Adam and Eve; Perfection; imperfection of nature; Power of the Manifestation of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion | - | - | SRC.045, SRC.192, SRC.196 | ||||||
| BB00361 | 460 | هو الاعظم الاقدم الاکرم. شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو له الملک و الملکوت ثم العز و الجبروت ثم القدرة و اللاهوت ثم القوة و الیاقوت ثم السلطنة و الناسوت یحیی و یمیت ثم یمیت و یحیی و انه هو حی لا یموت و ملک لا یزول و عدل لا یجور و سلطان لا تحول و فرد لا یفوت عن قبضته من شیء لا فی السموات و لا فی الارض و لا ما بینهما یخلق ما یشاء بامره انه کان علی کلشیء قدیرا الحمد لله علی ما اشرق | God testifieth that there is none other God but Him. His is the Kingdom and the Dominion, and then the Glory and the Power, and then the Might and the Empyrean, and then the Strength and the Brilliance, and then the Sovereignty and the human realm. He giveth life and causeth death, then causeth death and giveth life, and verily He is the Ever-Living Who dieth not, and the King Who passeth not away, and the Just One Who wrongeth not, and the Sovereign Who changeth not, and the Single One from Whose grasp nothing escapeth, whether in the heavens or on the earth or whatever lieth between them. He createth whatsoever He willeth by His command. Verily, He hath power over all things. Praise be to God for that which hath shone forth [3.5s] | PR03.140r05-140v03 | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00364 | Fi Bayani Lawhi’l-Mahfuz (Letter on the Preserved Tablet) (part II) | 460 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. و قد سئلک السائل عن اللوح الحفیظ اعلمه بما قد علمک الله المحیط و ها انا ذا القیت الیک من رشحات تلک الالواح المستضیئه | The questioner hath assuredly asked thee about al-lawḥ al-maḥfūẓ ("The Preserved Tablet"). Inform him then according to what God, the All-Encompassing, hath taught thee [the Bāb] | INBA67:174-176, INBA_4011C:139-141, , INBA_6004C:202-204, , INBA_6006C:079-080, , PR07.067r-067v | HURQ.BB07x | Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Law of cause and effect; Seven stages of creation; The cross and the trinity | - | - | SRC.190, SRC.192x2 | ||||||
| BB00370 | 450 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم بسم الله الفرد المحیط. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء حین الذی کنت عندک حرف الباء عدد الاعداد فی العشرات قلت | Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee at that moment when in Thy presence the letter Bá [3.5s] | PR03.157v17-158r09, BYC_tablets.003.01-003.08x | - | - | ||||||||||
| BB00371 | 450 | بسم الله الاعظم الاعظم. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت منزل الاغیاث من لجج جودک و مرسل الامطار من طمطام یم فضلک | Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee that verily Thou art God, and that there is none other God but Thee, Who sendeth down succor from the deeps of Thy bounty and raineth down from the fathomless ocean of Thy grace [3.5s] | PR03.045v10-046r10, CMB_F23.095r18-096v04 (21), , MKI4511.022v-029r, BYC_collect3.043-045 | MANU.050-051 | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for the Babis; people of the Bayan; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00373 | 450 | بسم الله الابیر الابیر. قل تعززت بالله الواحد القهار | Say: I have been strengthened through God, the One, the All-Compelling [3.5s] | PR03.150v04-151r06 | Da'iras and haykals; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria) | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00375 | 440 | بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. یا مولانا الاکرم قد نزل علی کتابکم من قبل و من بعد... نوشته جان قبل الله با خال رسیده بان مکار و انچه | O my most gracious Master! Your Book was sent down unto me both before and after... the missive, sealed before God, hath reached that crafty one, and that which [3.5s] | PR03.141v13-142r13 | Consolation and comfort; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for spiritual recognition | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00380 | Du’a’-i-Salavat-i-Fatimih | 420 | بسم الله المتعالی المنیع. سبحانک اللهم انک انت فاطر السموات و الارض و جاعل الامر والخلق لم یزل لم یکن لک شبه و لا مثل و لا کفو و لا عدل و لا قرین فسبحانک من ان یرتقی الی جو هواء قدسک اعلی جواهر الممکنات | Glorified art Thou, O my God! Verily Thou art the Maker of the heavens and the earth and the Ordainer of both command and creation. Never hath there been any like unto Thee, nor any equal, nor any peer, nor any companion. Glorified art Thou! The most exalted essences of contingent beings can never ascend to the atmosphere of Thy sanctity [3.5s] | INBA58:099.12-101.11, PR03.074v08-075r03, BYC_collect3.066-068 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for praise and gratitude; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00386 | Du’a’-i-Salavat-i-Muhammad | 410 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم بسم الله المتعالی المنیع. سبحانک اللهم انک انت فاطر السموات و الارض و ما بینهما قد خلقت محمد صلواتک علیه بامرک و اصطفیته لعهدک و اصطنعه لذکرک و استخلصته لولایتک | Glorified art Thou, O my God! Verily Thou art the Maker of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever lieth between them. Through Thy command didst Thou create Muhammad—Thy blessings rest upon Him—and didst choose Him for Thy Covenant, and fashion Him for Thy remembrance, and single Him out for Thy Cause [3.5s] | INBA58:095.09-097.12, PR03.073v20-074r14, BYC_collect3.062-063 | Absolute freedom; independence of God; Muhammad; Islam; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00395 | Du’a’-i-Salavat-i-Husayn | 400 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحانک اللهم انک انت نورالسموات و الارض و ما بینهما لم یزل کنت الهاً واحداً احداً فرداً صمداً حیاً قیوماً مااتخذت لنفسک صاحبة ولا ولداً | Glorified art Thou, O my God! Verily, Thou art the Light of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever lieth between them. From time immemorial Thou hast been one God, single, peerless, eternal, ever-living, self-subsisting. Thou hast taken neither consort nor offspring unto Thyself [3.5s] | INBA58:103.02-104.12, PR03.075r21-075v13, BYC_collect3.070-072 | Imam Husayn; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for martyrs; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00400 | Ziyarat-i-Siyyid-i-Marhum | 390 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم هوالملیک المقتدر المختار. جوهر طراز طرز من تطریز طرائز اطراز مجرد حضرت الکافور علیک یا جوهر حضرة الابداع | O essence of the most exalted ornament among the adorning patterns of the pure essence of Camphor! Upon thee, O essence of the court of creation [3.5s] | PR03.052v21-053r15 | Eulogies; reminiscences; Martyrs and martyrdom; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00403 | Kitabu’l-Ahmad | 380 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی یمن علی ما یشاء من عباده و انه لا اله الا هو ذو الفضل العظیم و اثنی علی محمد صلی الله علیه و اله بما اثناه الله فی قدم الذات و ذروة الصفات | Praise be to God Who bestoweth His bounty upon whomsoever He willeth among His servants. Verily, there is none other God but Him, the Possessor of infinite grace. And I extol Muhammad—upon Him and His kindred be the blessings of God—with such praise wherewith God hath lauded Him in the eternity of His Essence and the summit of His attributes [3.5s] | PR07.031v-032r, CMB_F21.133.09-134.19#23, , BYC_collect3.024-025 | TZH3.460.14-461.16 | Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Personal instructions; Prayer for specific individuals; groups | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095, SRC.204 | ||||||
| BB00404 | Du’a’-i-Salavat-i-‘Ali | 380 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی انک انت فاطر السموات و الارض و ما بینهما لم تزل کنت قاهراً علی کل شیء و ظاهراً فوق کل شیء و قائماً علی کل شیء و قادراً علی کل شیء و مهیمناً علی کل شیء | Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! Thou art, verily, the Creator of the heavens and earth and whatsoever lieth between them. Thou hast ever been supreme over all things, manifest above all things, standing over all things, powerful over all things, and dominant over all things [3.5s] | INBA58:097.14-099.10, PR03.074r16-074v06, BYC_collect3.065-066 | The Imamate; the Caliphate | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00416 | Fi Mas’alati’l-Bada’ (Letter on the alteration of the Divine Will) (part I) | 360 | بسم الله المنشأ العلیم الذی لا اله الا هو العزیز الحکیم. قد ابتدء باختراع الکلمات فی ثبات اهل السبحات | Verily hath begun the fashioning of words in establishing those who dwell in the realms of divine glory [3.5s] | INBA67:172-174, INBA_4011C:137-139, , INBA_6004C:200-202, , INBA_6006C:078-079, , PR07.066v-067r, AEWB.221-226, | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | MMAH.057, SRC.190, SRC.192x2 | |||||||
| BB00419 | Ziyarat Hadrat-i-Rida | 350 | هو الله المتکبر الفرد العلی الاظهر الاعلی. اشهد الله ربک رب السموات رب الارض رب العالمین بانک انت امام عدل مبین قد اصطفاک الله | I bear witness before God, thy Lord, the Lord of the heavens, the Lord of the earth, the Lord of all worlds, that thou art verily the manifest and just Leader whom God hath chosen [3.5s] | PR04.102r10-103r11 | Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for forgiveness; Prayer for justice and fairmindedness | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00421 | Fi ‘ilmi’l-Huruf va’l-Iksir (Letter on gematria and alchemy) | 350 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. و اما السئوال عن علم الحروف فخذ من رأس کل عشرة حرف الاول و احسب علی الاول عنصر النار | As to thy question regarding the science of letters, know that from each set of ten letters, take the first, and reckon the first as representing the element of fire [4o]... ...And now as regards thy question about the Elixir: Know thou that God did not create anything except that He deposited within it a "letter" of the Elixir in accordance with its level of being | INBA67:203-204, INBA_6004C:213-215, , PR07.074r-074v, AEWB.234-236, | HURQ.BB17x | Alchemy; the elixir; Four elements; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision | - | - | SRC.190, SRC.192 | ||||||
| BB00422 | 350 | هو الله. و سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شی حین الذی کنت عندک معروفا بالقصاری و ناظرا بالقضایا و بانک انت الله | Glorified art Thou, O my God! I bear witness unto Thee, and all things bear witness, at this moment wherein I stood before Thee, known for my shortcomings and beholding Thy decrees, that Thou art God [3.5s] | PR03.210v19-211r11 | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for morning; Prayer for victory and requital; triumph of the Cause; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00427 | Du’a’-i-Salavat-i-Sadiq | 340 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی انک انت فاطر السموات و الارض و ما بینهما جاعل الملائکة رسلاً اولی اجنحة مثنی و ثلث و رباع | Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! Thou art, verily, the Creator of the heavens and earth and whatsoever lieth between them. Thou hast fashioned the angels as messengers, endowed with wings, two, three, and fourfold [4o] | INBA58:107.15-109.08, PR03.076r24-076v16, BYC_collect3.075-077 | Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00431 | Introduction to the Sahifih Makhzunih | 330 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی لا اله الا هو العلی الکبیر یا ایها الحبیب اکتب من ایدی من لیل المجیب حجة الله الاکبر | Praise be to God, beside Whom there is none other god, the Most High, the Most Great. O beloved one! Write from these hands, from the night of the All-Responding One [3.5s] | PR04.057r01-058r04 | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00432 | 330 | بسمه العلی الاعلی. اللهم لک الحمد لا الله الا هو سامع الدعاء و دائم العطاء و واسع الآلاء و مالک الاسماء اللهم لک الحمد لا الله الا هو مرسل الالواح و محرک الرواح | O God, unto Thee be praise! There is no God but He, the Hearer of prayer, the Ever-Bestowing, the All-Bountiful, the Lord of Names. O God, unto Thee be praise! There is no God but He, the Sender of Tablets, the Mover of winds [3.5s] | INBA_6009C:227-231, , PR03.045r18-045v08, CMB_F14.004v02-005v02, , MKI4500.120r-120v, MKI4511.020v-022v, BYC_tablets.017.09-018.09 | Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God | - | - | JRAS.454, BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, SRC.195 | ||||||||
| BB00435 | Du’a’-i-Salavat-i-Rida’ | 330 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحانک اللهم انک انت فاطر السموات و الارض و ما بینهما قد اخترعت ما قد اخترعت بانشائک و قد ابدعت ما قد ابدعت باحداثک | Glorified art Thou, O my God! Verily Thou art the Maker of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever lieth between them. Through Thy creative power hast Thou brought into being all that Thou hast fashioned, and through Thy generative act hast Thou originated all that Thou hast created [3.5s] | INBA58:111.01-112.10, PR03.077r08-077r26, BYC_collect3.078-080 | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for specific individuals; groups | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00436 | Letter to the first word | 330 | هو انت. هذا کتاب من الله المهیمن القیوم الی الکلمة الاولی ان اشهد انه لا اله الا انا العزیز المحبوب قل للذین هم یتبعون امرالله | This is a Book from God, the All-Encompassing, the Self-Subsisting, unto the Primal Word: Bear thou witness that there is none other God but Me, the Mighty, the Best-Beloved. Say unto those who follow the Command of God [3.5s] | PR03.141r22-141v12 | QISM.036 | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||
| BB00438 | Du’a’-i-Salavat-i-‘Askari | 320 | Exalted Prayer of the Báb for Imām Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, The | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحانک اللهم انک انت اله کل الهة فی ملکوت الارض والسموات و انک انت رب کل الارباب فی ملکوت الاسماء والصفات لم تزل کنت کائناً قبل کل شیء | Glorified art Thou, O my God! Verily Thou art the God of all gods in the kingdoms of earth and heaven, and Thou art the Lord of all lords in the realms of names and attributes. From time immemorial Thou hast existed before all things [3.5s] | INBA58:115.11-117.06, PR03.078r07-078r27, BYC_collect3.083-084 | Absolute freedom; independence of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for specific individuals; groups; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||
| BB00444 | Du’a’-i-Salavat-i-Naqi | 310 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحانک اللهم انک انت مبدع السموات و الارض و ما بینهما تقدر خلق کل شیء کیف تشاء عما تشاء و تصور خلق کل شیء کیف یرید بما ترید | Glorified art Thou, O my God! Verily, Thou art the Creator of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever lieth between them. Thou dost ordain the creation of all things as Thou willest, howsoever Thou pleasest, and Thou dost fashion the creation of all things according to Thy desire [3.5s] | INBA58:114.02-115.09, PR03.077v17-078r06, BYC_collect3.081-082 | Absolute freedom; independence of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00445 | Fi Hukmi ‘Ilmi’l-Huruf (musajja'ih) | 300 | Tablet of the Letters (Ḥurūfāt) Revealed by the Báb, The | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تجلى على الآیات بانفسها و على الابواب بالالف القآئم فی مظاهرها و على السموات | Praise be to God Who hath revealed Himself through the signs in their very essence, and through the Gates by the upright Alif in their manifestations, and through the heavens [3.5s] | INBA67:204-206, PR07.073v-074r | HURQ.BB36 | Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria) | - | - | ||||||
| BB00449 | Du’a’-i-Salavat-i-Baqir | 300 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحانک اللهم انک انت بدیع السموات و الارض ذوالقوة و البهآء و ذوالعزة والضیآء و ذوالعظمة | Glorified art Thou, O my God! Verily Thou art the Creator of the heavens and the earth, the Lord of might and splendor, of majesty and radiance [3.5s] | INBA58:106.07-107.13, PR03.076r05-076r23, BYC_collect3.073-075 | Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.; Prayer for specific individuals; groups; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00450 | Du’a’-i-Salavat-i-Javad | 300 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحانک اللهم انک انت مبدع السموات و الارض و ما بینهما و مقدرما فی ملکوت الامر والخلق دونهما لم تزل کنت الهاً واحداً احداً فرداً صمداً حیاً قیوماً | Glorified art Thou, O my God! Verily, Thou art the Creator of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever lieth between them, and the Ordainer of all that existeth in the realms of command and creation [and of whatever is] other than them. From time immemorial Thou hast been one God, Single, Alone, Self-Subsisting, the Ever-Living [3.5s] | INBA58:112.11-114.01, PR03.077r28-077v16, BYC_collect3.080-081 | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00451 | Du’a’-i-Salavat-i-Kazim | 300 | سبحانک اللهم انک انت مجلی کل شیء بنورک و مجذب کل شیء بلحظات قربک لاسئلنک من ظهورات | Glorified art Thou, O my God! Verily, Thou art the One Who illumineth all things by Thy light and draweth all things nigh through the glances of Thy nearness [3.5s] | INBA58:109.09-110.16, PR03.076v17-077r07, BYC_collect3.077-078 | Prayer for specific individuals; groups; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00452 | Du’a’-i-Salavat-i-Hasan | 300 | سبحانک اللهم یا الهی انک انت محبوبی فی ملکوت الامر والخلق و مقصودی فی جمیع مظاهر البدع و الامر ماعبدت الا ایاک | Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! Thou art verily my Beloved in the kingdoms of command and creation, and my sole Desire throughout all manifestations of creation and decree. None have I worshipped but Thee alone [3.5s] | INBA58:101.12-103.01, PR03.075r04-075r19, BYC_collect3.068-070 | Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00453 | Du’a’-i-Salavat-i-‘Ali Ibn-i-Husayn | 300 | بسم الله المتقدس المنیع. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی کیف استعرجن الی جو هواء قدسک و استصعدن الی بساط فضل انسک و استصفن | Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! How can I ascend unto the atmosphere of Thy holy presence, and soar upward to the threshold of intimate fellowship with Thee, and attain unto purity [3.5s] | INBA58:104.14-106.05, PR03.075v15-076r04, BYC_collect3.077-073 | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for specific individuals; groups; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00455 | Tafsir-i-Suratu'l-Fatiha (prefixed to Tafsir-i-Suratu'l-Baqarah) | 300 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. هذه السورة المبارکة عندالله سبعة آیات محکمات الآیة الاولی کتاب محمد صلی الله علیه و آله و فقد جعل الله فیها احکام وجوده مما لا بدایة و لا نهایة و هی جنة الفردوس ... | This blessed Surah, in the presence of God, consisteth of seven inviolable verses, the first verse being the Book of Muhammad - peace and blessings of God rest upon Him and His family - wherein God hath ordained the laws of His existence, having neither beginning nor end, and it is the Garden of Paradise [3.5s] | INBA69:156-157, PR02.001v07-001v19, PR40.002, CMB_F08, , BLIB_Or5276, BLIB_Or5277 | Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; The Imamate; the Caliphate | - | - | MSBR.200-201 | |||||||
| BB00456 | 300 | هو الحق لا اله الا هو و کل له ساجدون. یا اسم الله الکریم علیک بهاء الله الملک القدیم اجزاء بعد السلام | O Name of God, the All-Bountiful! Upon thee be the glory of God, the Ancient King. I proceed after salutations [3.5s] | PR03.148v14-149r03 | Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Predictions and prophecies; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00467 | Hirz fi’s-Sijn | 280 | هو العلی الاعلی بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحان الذی یعلم ما فی السموات و ما فی الارض ثم الذین امنوا و استقاموا علی الصراط فاولئک هم الی الله یحشرون و انهم الفائزون | Glorified be He Who knoweth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is on the earth. And those who have believed and remained steadfast upon the Path—these shall be gathered unto God, and they are the triumphant [3.5s] | PR03.157r15-157r27, MKI4511.072v-074r, BYC_collect3.041-042 | Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Prayer for protection; Recompense; reward for belief; right action; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00475 | 270 | سبحانک اللهم انک انت ملاک السموات و الارض و ما بینهما لتؤتین الملک من تشاء و لتنزعن عمن تشاء و لتعزن من تشاء و لتذلن من تشاء من یشاء و لتتفرن من یشاء | Glorified art Thou, O my God! Verily, Thou art the Sovereign of the heavens and of the earth and of whatsoever lieth between them. Thou bestowest sovereignty upon whomsoever Thou willest, and from whomsoever Thou willest Thou takest it away. Thou exaltest whomsoever Thou willest, and Thou abasest whomsoever Thou willest, and Thou forgivest whom Thou willest [3.5s] | PR03.083v24-084r11, PR13.079r-080r | - | - | ||||||||||
| BB00482 | 260 | 238 الله اظهر. شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو له الملک و الملکوت ثم العز و الجبروت ثم القدرة و اللاهوت ثم القوة و الیاقوت ثم السلطنة و الناسوت یحیی و یمیت ثم یمیت و یحیی و انه هو حی لا یموت و ملک لا یزول و عدل لا یجور و سلطان لا تحول و فرد لا یفوت عن قبضته من شیء لا فی السموات و لا فی الارض و لا ما بینهما یخلق ما یشاء بامره انه کان علی کلشیء قدیرا و بعد ان باسباح | God testifieth that there is none other God but Him. His is the Kingdom and the Dominion, and then the Glory and the Power, and then the Might and the Empyrean, and then the Strength and the Brilliance, and then the Sovereignty and the human realm. He giveth life and causeth death, then causeth death and giveth life, and verily He is the Ever-Living Who dieth not, and the King Who passeth not away, and the Just One Who wrongeth not, and the Sovereign Who changeth not, and the Single One from Whose grasp nothing escapeth, whether in the heavens or on the earth or whatever lieth between them. He createth whatsoever He willeth by His command. Verily, He hath power over all things. [3.5s] | PR03.081v14-081v23, PR13.072v-073r | Composure; tranquillity; serenity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00493 | Prayer for the hajj, for Mirza Muhammad 'Ali Qazvini | 230 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اشهد ان لا اله الا هو و اشهد لمحمد و علی و فاطمه و الحسن و الحسین و علی و محمد و جعفر | I bear witness that there is no God but Him, and I testify unto Muhammad and 'Alí and Fáṭimih and Ḥasan and Ḥusayn and 'Alí and Muhammad and Ja'far [3.5s] | INBA67:176-177, PR07.074v-074v | Chastisement and requital; Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | SRC.190 | |||||||
| BB00494 | Hirz fi’s-sijn li-Sayyid Hasan | 230 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع ما فی السموات و ما فی الارض بامره ثم الذین آمنوا بالله و آیاته اولئک هم علی الله یعرضون و ان الذین امنوا ثم صبروا فی ایام الله | Praise be to God Who hath brought into being, through His command, whatsoever is in the heavens and on the earth, and beyond them they who have believed in God and His signs - these verily shall be brought into His presence. They that have believed and persevered in the days of God [3.5s] | INBA64:159.09-161.02, PR03.157v01-157v14, MKI4511.074r-075v, BYC_collect3.042-043 | High station of the true believer; Prayer for victory and requital; triumph of the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00498 | Khutbata’l-Baladiyya | 220 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله المتوحد فی الکبریاء والمتفرد فی الآلاء الذی قد ارفع السماء للعماء و قد انشأ السناء للذرالبقاء | Praise be to God Who standeth alone in grandeur and is singular in His bestowals, Who hath raised up the heavens unto the celestial realm and hath brought forth resplendent light [3.5s] | INBA67:129-130, PR07.075v-076r | Prayer for spiritual recognition; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00501 | 220 | هو الاکبر الارفع الاظهر الامنع الاعلی. سبحان الذی یسجد له من فی السموات و الارض و ما بینهما و انه لهو العزیز الحکیم و لقد علمنا مانزل فی الکتاب و انا کنا شاهدین و ان ما قد فصل | Glorified be He before Whom bow down in adoration whatsoever is in the heavens and on earth and whatsoever lieth between them, and verily He is the Mighty, the All-Wise. We have indeed known that which was sent down in the Book, and We were truly among those who bore witness [3.5s] | PR03.148v01-148v14 | - | - | ||||||||||
| BB00504 | 210 | بسم الله النصار. سبحانک اللهم انی اسئلک باسمک یا لالف الاب و باء البیان و تاء التواب | Glorified art Thou, O my God! I beseech Thee by Thy Name—O Thou Who art the Alif of the Father, and the Bá of the Bayán, and the Tá of the All-Forgiving [3.5s] | PR03.213r27-213v08 | Justice and wrath of God; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00511 | Letter concerning the Nubuwwat al-Khassa | 200 | هو العزیز. تقدس فؤاد خلیلی بان اشیر الله فی الکتاب باعلی جوهریات الحقائق و اجلی عبادات الرقایق لان کلما یلوح بالاشراق و یظهر فی الآفاق من اشارات اهل المیثاق و شئونات اهل الوفاق | It is with sanctity that the heart of Khalil is uplifted, as it hath been alluded in the divine Book, with the loftiest gems of truths and the most resplendent forms of devotion. For whatsoever appears with radiance and becomes manifest in the horizons, are indeed the signs of those who abide by the Covenant and the qualities of the people of unity [4o] | PR02.132r12-132r23 | Celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Mystical themes; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00514 | 190 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اللهم انت الله المعبود مالک الخیر و الجود و انت الرب المودود واجد کل موجود و مفقود | O Thou my God! Thou art the Adored One, the Lord of beneficence and bounty. Thou art the Beloved Lord, the Possessor of all things visible and invisible [3.5s] | PR04.205r01-205v14 | Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.; The Imamate; the Caliphate | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00515 | Letter concerning the Nubuwwat al-Khassa | 190 | هو العزیز. حمد و ثناء ذات اقدسی را سزاوار است که لم یزل بوجود کینونیت ذات اقدس خود بوده وموجودی در ساحت قدس او با او مذکور نبوده و لایزال | Praise and glory befit that Most Sacred Being, Who from time immemorial hath existed through the reality of His own Most Holy Essence, and in Whose sanctuary of sanctity no created thing hath ever been mentioned beside Him, and Who will [3.5s] | PR02.131v28-132r10 | Petitions to authorities; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00516 | Letter to Mulla Husayn V | 190 | Epistle of the Báb to Mullá Ḥusayn Bushrú'í from al-Mukhā, An | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحان الذی قد نزل الروح علی قلبک لتکونن من المنذرین ان اتبع مایلقی الیک من کتاب کریم و لقد ارسلنا من قبل الیک | Glorified be He Who hath caused the Spirit to descend upon thy heart, that thou mayest be numbered among the warners. Follow thou what is revealed unto thee from this glorious Book, for verily We did send it aforetime unto thee [3.5s] | INBA91:059.10-060.10, PR04.008r14-008v13 | Justice and wrath of God; Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Personal instructions; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | FHR#03.01 | ||||||
| BB00521 | Answer to Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali | 180 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی یمن علی من یشاء بذکره و انه لا اله الا هو العزیز الحکیم یا الهی کیف ادعوک و انک تری ... و ان ما سئلت من حکم الطاهرة علی الارض الم??دسة فقد اذنت لها من قبل بالخروج لما تقع بها الفتنه هنالک | Praise be to God, Who bestoweth His remembrance upon whomsoever He willeth. Verily, there is none other God but Him, the Mighty, the Wise. O my God, how shall I call upon Thee, seeing Thou art the All-Seeing One... As for that which thou hast asked concerning the matter of Tahirih in the sacred land, permission was granted her aforetime to depart when turmoil arose therein [4o] | PR07.030v-030v, BYC_collect3.008-009 | TZH3.331.15-332.05 | Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||
| BB00523 | Li’l-Khalil | 180 | الله اکبر تکبیراً کبیرا. اننی انا الله لا اله الا انا کنت من اول الذی لا اول له کباناً دائماً اننی انا الله لا الله لا الله الا انا لاکون الی آخر الذی لا آخر له کباناً دائماً ان یا اسم الرحیم | Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me. I have existed from the beginning that hath no beginning as an eternal Being. Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, and I shall endure unto the end that hath no end as an eternal Being. O Name of the All-Merciful [3.5s] | PR03.085v14-085v21, PR20.083, CMB_F23.176v03-176v14 (60), | MANU.037-038 | He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Infinity and eternity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||
| BB00524 | Answer to Mirza Muhammad 'Ali Qazvini | 180 | Epistle of the Báb in Reply to Mírzá Muḥammad-`Alí Qazvíní | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. فاعلم یا اخ الجلیل و اثبت قدمیک علی صراط الله الجمیل و اعرف ان الله سبحانه ما خلق شیئا | Know thou, O noble brother! Plant thy feet firmly upon the beauteous path of God, and know that God, glorified be He, created naught [3.5s] | INBA67:177-178, INBA_4011C:163-164, , PR07.073r-073v | Consolation and comfort; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | SRC.192 | ||||||
| BB00527 | Li-Sulayman Khan | 180 | الله اعز بسم الله الرفیع ذی الرفاعین. قل الله ارفع فوق کل ذی ارفاع لمن یقدر ان یمتنع عن سلیط سلطان ارفاعه من احد لا فی السموات و لا فی الارض و لا ما بینهما | Say: God is most exalted above all that are exalted. None in the heavens or on earth or whatsoever lieth between them hath power to resist His supreme ascendancy [3.5s] | PR03.084r12-084r23 | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00528 | Letter to Mulla 'Abdu'l-Karim Qazvini | 170 | Epistle of the Báb to Mullá ʿAbdu'l-Karím Qazvíní on Mirzá Yahyá, An | الله اکرم. بسم الله الکرم ذی الکارمین بسم الله الکرم ذی الکرما قد بهجتنی ان یا اسمی فی المرآت الازلیه حیث قد حکی الله عن ربه | In the name of God, the Most Bountiful, the Lord of Grace, in the name of God, the Possessor of Generosity, the Source of Munificence. Verily, it rejoiceth me, O My name, that thou art mirrored in the eternal tablets, wherein God hath recounted the mysteries of His Lord [4o] | PR03.081r28-081v08, PR13.071v-072r, CMB_F23.126r12-126v08 (25), , BYC_tablets.054.01-054.10 | QISM.010 | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | JRAS.476, MSBR.206-207, SRC.096 | |||||
| BB00532 | Tawqi'a Aqa Siyyid Husayn | 170 | هو الملک المقدس. سبحان الله الربب ذی الربابین له الامثال العلیا یسبح له ما فی السموات | Glorified be God, the Lord of lords, unto Whom belong the most exalted similitudes! All in the heavens sing His praise [3.5s] | PR03.080v21-081r02, PR13.069r-069v | MANU.037-037 | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00539 | 160 | بسم الله الاتقن الاتقن. الحمد لله الذی قد استعلی بعلوه فوق کل الممکنات و استرفع بارتفاعه فوق کل الموجودات و استمنع بامتناعه فوق کل الکائنات و استسلط باستسلاطه | Praise be to God, Who hath exalted Himself in His transcendence above all contingent beings, Who hath raised Himself through His loftiness above all created things, Who hath made Himself inaccessible through His inscrutability to all existing things, and Who hath asserted His sovereignty [3.5s] | PR03.150r20-150v03 | Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00542 | 160 | هو الله العزیز. سبحان الله الحافی الشافی سبحان الله الکافی الوافی سبحان الله الصافی النافی سبحان الله المکفی المکتفی | Glorified be God, the Preserver, the Healer; exalted is He, the Sufficient, the Fulfiller; glorified is He, the Pure, the Disposer; magnified is He, the Sustainer, the Self-Sufficient [4o] | PR03.211v12-211v19 | - | - | ||||||||||
| BB00550 | Letter to Him Whom God shall make manifest | 150 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb | Tablets of the Báb to Bahá'u'lláh | هو الابهی. الله لا اله الا هو العزیز المحبوب له ما فی السموات و ما فی الارض و ما بینهما و هو المهیمن القیوم | He is God, no God is there but Him, the Almighty, the Best Beloved. All that are in the heavens and on the earth and whatever lieth between them are His. | PR20.100, MKI4500.128r-128v | QISM.020, SWBP#02 (p.002-003) | SWB#02 (p.006-008) | L. Slott | He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan | - | - | SRC.096 | ||
| BB00564 | Answer to Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali Nahri va Rafiqih | 140 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد تجلی للعباد بنور عزته المتشعشعة من وجه الجلال بلا مثل و لا شبه فی حکم الفؤاد و لا الجلال | Praise be to God who was revealed to the servants by the light of His glory radiating from the face of majesty, with no peer or likeness in the station of the inmost heart nor the concealed beauty | INBA91:152.12-153.08, PR04.194v08-194v16, MKI4499.124a | KSHK.BWB | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||
| BB00567 | Letter to Mirza Asadu'llah Dayyan | 130 | الله ادین بسم الدین ذی الدیانین …. قد نظرت الی الواح ابد بما قد طرز من انوار تجلی افقه جل و عز فلله الحمد کما هو اهله و مستحقه | God is the Most Great Judge! In the name of God, the judgment, master of all judges. In the name of God, the judgement, master of all who judge. You have looked at the tablets of abad [seven in abjad?], which has been ornamented with the lights | PR03.081r21-081r27, PR13.071r-071v, BYC_tablets.054.12-055.01 | QISM.010 | KSHK.BWB | Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | SRC.096 | |||||
| BB00571 | Letter to the wife of the Báb, from Masqat | 120 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اقرء کتاب ربک الذی لا اله الا هو قد نزل باذنه من لدن علی حمید و انه فی حکم الکتاب | Read the book of your Lord God, there is no other god but Him. It descended by His permission from Ali, the Praiseworthy. Verily, the path of God in the heavens and the earth is in the decree of the book | INBA58:170.04-171.04, INBA91:051.11-052.06, PR04.194v01-194v10 | KSHK.BWB | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Procession; appearance of the Word from God | - | - | FHR#03.08 | ||||||
| BB00573 | 120 | الله عظيم الله اعظم. بسم الله العظم ذی العاظمین بسم الله العظم ذی العظماء والحمد لله علی ما اشرق من انوار صبح الازل و اطراز ذکر الاول کما هو اهله و مستحقه | In the name of God, greatness possessing all who are great. In the name of God, greatness possessing all the great ones. Praise be to God for what has shown forth from the lights of the morn of eternity | PR03.081r08-081r15, PR13.070r-070v | KSHK.BWB | The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00574 | Ziyarat Imam Husayn (Siyyidu'sh-Shuhada) | 120 | هو العلی المتکبر الاعلی. سلام الله الواحد الاحد علیک یا سلطان العادل المحبوب و ملیک الفاضل المرهوب و علی محمد و علی و فاطمه والحسن والائمة و علیک | The peace of God, the One, the Single, be upon thee, O just and beloved Sovereign, O noble and awe-inspiring King, and upon Muhammad and 'Alí and Fáṭimih and Ḥasan and the Imáms, and upon thee [3.5s] | PR02.078r01-078r06x, PR03.057v05-057v12x | KSHK.BWB | Eulogies; reminiscences; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Visitation Tablets | - | - | AHDA.462.02z | ||||||
| BB00579 | Prayer for Mulla Hasan | 120 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. یا ایها الحبیب قف علی باب المجیب و اتکل علی الله ربی و ربک الذی لا الله الا هو السمیع العلیم | O loved one! Stand at the door of the One Who Answers, and trust in God, my Lord and your Lord. There is no God but Him, the Hearing, the Knowing | INBA67:178-178, INBA_4011C:164-165, , PR04.051v01-051v05, PR07.073r-073r | KSHK.BWB | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of prayer; Prayer for protection; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | SRC.192 | ||||||
| BB00580 | Letter to Mulla Hasan Bajistani | 120 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. یا ایها السآئل فاعلم ان الله لا یحکم بمرض لنفس الا بما قدمت ایدیه من الخطایا و ذلک ما کانت | O questioner! Know that God does not decree disease for a soul unless it is for the errors its hands have wrought. That is naught but a penance for its sins | INBA67:176-176, INBA_4011C:165-166, , PR07.074v-074v | HBAB.502x, ASAT3.097 | KSHK.BWB | Bringing oneself to account each day; Effort; striving; Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Mindfulness; concentration; focus; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | SRC.190 | |||||
| BB00586 | Khatt li’sh-Shaykh Rafi’-i-Rashti | 100 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. تبارک الذی ینزل علی من یشاء و روح الامر ان ابشروا لا تخلف فان الله ربک لغفور شکور و انه لا اله الا هو قد نزل الکتاب لامره | Bless Him who sends down the spirit of command on whom He will. Verily, rejoice and do not fear. God, your Lord, is both forgiving and thankful | PR03.043r15-043r18 | KSHK.BWB | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | FHR#03.14 | ||||||
| BB00598 | 80 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الله نور السموات و الارض مثل نوره کمشکوة فیها المصباح المصباح المصباح المصباح فی بلوره فوق بلوره البلورة تکاد من فیها مثل ما یضیء | God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The likeness of His light is as a niche wherein is a lamp, a lamp, a lamp, enclosed in crystal upon crystal. The crystal well-nigh shineth of itself [3.5s] | PR03.047r12-047r22, BYC_collect3.064-064 | KSHK.BWB | He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Word of God and human limitations | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00600 | 80 | بسم الله الرفع ذی الرفاعین. بالله الله الرفع ذی الارفاع قل اللهم انک انت رفاع السموات و الارض و ما بینهما ثم کل القادرین قل اللهم انک انت | In the name of God the exalting, master of those who exalt through God. God the exalting, master of the exalting. Say: Praise be God! Verily You exalt the heavens and the earth and whatsoever lies between them | PR03.081r03-081r07, PR13.070r | KSHK.BWB | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00602 | 80 | سبحان الله الاله ذی الالاهین له الاسماء الحسنی یسبح له ما فی السموات و الارض و ما بینهما انا کل له عابدون ان یا حسین قد طلع مطلع الالوهیة باسم الاول الحسین | Praise be God, the god possessing two gods. To Him belongs the beautiful names. That which is in the heavens, and the earth, and whatsoever lies between them praises Him | PR03.080v15-080v20, PR13.069r | KSHK.BWB | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00603 | Letter to Qahir | 80 | الله اکبر. شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو له الملک و الملکوت ثم العز و الجبروت ثم القدرة و اللاهوت ثم القوة و الیاقوت ثم السلطنة و الناسوت یحیی و یمیت ثم یمیت و یحیی و انه هو حی لا یموت و ملک لا یزول و عدل لا یجور و سلطان لا تحول و فرد لا یفوت عن قبضته من شیء لا فی السموات و لا فی الارض و لا ما بینهما یخلق ما یشاء بامره انه کان علی کلشیء قدیرا | God testifieth that there is none other God but Him. His is the Kingdom and the Dominion, and then the Glory and the Power, and then the Might and the Empyrean, and then the Strength and the Brilliance, and then the Sovereignty and the human realm. He giveth life and causeth death, then causeth death and giveth life, and verily He is the Ever-Living Who dieth not, and the King Who passeth not away, and the Just One Who wrongeth not, and the Sovereign Who changeth not, and the Single One from Whose grasp nothing escapeth, whether in the heavens or on the earth or whatever lieth between them. He createth whatsoever He willeth by His command. Verily, He hath power over all things. [3.5s] | PR03.081v09-081v13, PR13.072r-072v | KSHK.BWB | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00604 | 80 | قل اللهم انک انت نصار السموات و الارض و ما بینهما لتؤتین النصر من تشاء و لینزعن النصر عمن یشاء | Say: O my God, verily you are the Helper of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever lies between them. You give aid to whom you will and take aid from whom you will | PR03.085v25-085v28 | KSHK.BWB | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00607 | 70 | بسم الله الاصبر الاصبر ذوالعز والبقا. حضور معظمه جده و والده و خاله سید ١٤ و منتظرین ذکر میشود که الحمد لله علی ظهور انه کلها والله ولی و ولیکن افوض امری الی الله و هو خیر الناصرین و ان البها من کتاب الله علی کل المؤمنین و کل | The fourteen holy personages of his grandfather, his father, and his paternal uncle the sayyid and those who await the Remembrance say: Praised be God for all of His manifestations | PR03.086r12-086r15 | KSHK.BWB | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00609 | Li-Siyyid Husayn-i-Turshizi | 60 | هو. بسم الله الظهر ذی الظهرین بسم الله البطن ذی البطانین بسم الله القدر ذی القدارین بسم الله العلم ذی العلامین بسم الله السلط ذی السلطاء بسم الله الحکم ذی الحکماء ... | In the name of God the manifest, master of all who are manifest. In the name of God the mighty, master of all who are mighty. In the name of God the hidden, master of all who are hidden | PR03.081r16-081r20, PR13.070v-071r | KSHK.BWB | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00614 | Li’th-Thamara | 60 | الله اکبر تکبیرا کبیرا. هذا کتاب من عند الله المهیمن القیوم الی الله المهیمن القیوم قل کل من الله مبدئون ... هذا کتاب من علی قبل ملل ذکرالله للعالمین الی من یقول اسمه اسم الوحید ذکرالله للعالمین | God is the Most Great, Great is He! This is a book from God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting to God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. Say: All are originated by God | PR03.086r01-086r03, PR03.088r25-088r28, CMB_F23.141r03-141r07 (46), , CMB_F20.020v05-020v08, , BYC_tablets.082.12-082.15 | NQK.ld, MANU.038-038, QISM.001 | KSHK.BWB | Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | SRC.096 | |||||
| BB00615 | 60 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم هو العلی العظیم بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. یا واحد یا احد یا فرد یا صمد یا من لم یتخذ لنفسه | O God! O Single One! O Unique One! O Peerless One! O Eternal One! O He who takes for Himself neither lord nor offspring! You are the One among many, the Hope | PR04.204v15-204v19 | KSHK.BWB | Prayer for healing | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00625 | Letter to Mulla 'Abd al-Karim Qazvini | 40 | الله اکبر تکبیرا کبیرا. ان یا کریم قد وهبناک واحداْ من حق واحد الاول لتحفظن کل ما نزل من عند الله و لتبلغن الى اسم الوحيد ولتسئلن عمن يکتب آيات الله ما انتم مراد الله لا تعلمون | God is the Most Great, Great is He! O Karim! We have endowed you with a wahid from God | PR03.086r04-086r09, CMB_F23.141r08-141r10 (46r), , CMB_F20.020v10-020v12, , BYC_tablets.082.16-083.01 | QISM.002 | KSHK.BWB | - | - | SRC.096 | ||||||
| BB00626 | 40 | ان یا اسم النبیل ثم العلی فلتسلمن على من فی بیت الحق و لتراقبن أموراهن أن لا تشهد من حزن و لا لأحد | O name of Nabil Ali! Give greetings to those who are in the house of truth and keep watch over their affairs | PR03.086r10-086r11 | KSHK.BWB | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00629 | Li’l-Anis | 30 | الله خیر مونس و انیس تکبیر بثمره ازلیه رسانیده و آنچه در هر حال سزاوار است بعون الله و قوته بوده باشید بقعه شاه عبدالعظیم ارض نیکو است بواسطه قرب وحید و حفیظ والله خیرالحافظین | God, the Best Friend and Companion, is Great. He has come with an eternal fruit | PR03.085v22-085v24, CMB_F23.177r01-177r03 (61), | KSHK.BWB | Consolation and comfort; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | JRAS.481?, MSBR.206-207 | ||||||
| BH00006 | Lawh-i-Sarraj | 26800 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Sarraj (Tablet to Sarraj) | نامه آنجناب بین یدی العرش حاضر و بر مقر انه لایعرف بما سواه واصل و ما فیه | Thy letter hath been made present before the Throne and hath reached the Seat of Him Who is known through naught else but Himself, and that which it contained [3.5s]... ...Shake off, O heedless ones, the slumber of negligence, that ye may behold the radiance which His glory hath spread through the world. | INBA35:190, INBA73:198, INBA33:081bx, INBA76:001, PR19.072b-110b, BN_suppl.1754.075-124 | BRL_DA#029, GWBP#050 p.073cx, GWBP#097 p.130ax, MAS4.046ax, MAS4.090bx, MAS4.100ax, MAS4.364ax, MAS4.350bx, MAS4.174bx, MAS7.004, ASAT4.271x, ASAT4.272x, ASAT4.487x, AKHA_122BE #04 p.?x, AKHA_137BE #08 p.ax, ANDA#05 p.06x, ANDA#69 p.05x, MSHR4.286x, YMM.468x, OOL.B201 | BRL_ATBH#67x, BRL_ATBH#72x, BRL_ATBH#76x, BRL_ATBH#77x, GWB#050x, GWB#097x, LOG#0327x, ADJ.080x, GPB.098x, GPB.102x, GPB.171x, PDC.019-020x, WOB.063x2x, WOB.104x2x, WOB.107x, WOB.108x2x, BLO_PT#075x, HURQ.BH51 | One of the longest works of Bahá’u’lláh, written in answer to questions regarding the enigma of the outwardly exalted station of Mírzá Yaḥyá and arguing, citing various statements of the Báb, that virtues become transmuted into vices when one turns away from the light of truth. | Collection; ordering of the Sacred Writings; Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The power of words; of speech; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ROB2.262 et al, MMAH.140, LL#242 | ||
| BH00011 | 11650 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb | حمد مقدس از السن ممکنات و منزه از ذکر موجودات ساحت قدس سلطان قدمی را سزا است | Sanctified praise, transcendent above the tongues of all created things and hallowed beyond the mention of all beings, befitteth the sacred court of the Ancient King [3.5s]... ...Praise be to Thee, O Lord, my Best Beloved! Make me steadfast in Thy Cause and grant that I may be reckoned among those | INBA38:192, INBA66:131x, INBA77:013, PR23.051b-052ax, BN_suppl.1754.001-021 | AQMJ2.146x, UVM.072.15x, UVM.082.15x | SWB#72 (p.215-216x) | Chastisement and requital; Differences between the Manifestations; station of distinction; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||
| BH00012 | Javahiru'l-Asrar (Gems of Divine Mysteries) | 10360 | Gems of Divine Mysteries; Pen of Glory, The | 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 | |
| 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? | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||||
| BH00038 | Lawh-i-Sultan | 6890 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Summons of the Lord of Hosts | 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 | |
| BH00047 | Haft Vadi (The Seven Valleys) | 6100 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Call of the Divine Beloved | Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys) | الحمد لله الذی اظهر الوجود من العدم و رقم علی لوح الانسان من اسرار القدم و | Praise be to God Who hath made being to come forth from nothingness; graven upon the tablet of man a measure of the mysteries of His eternity | INBA35:293, INBA33:101, BLIB_Or03116.067, , NLI.32p061r, PR19.024b-032b | BRL_Haft, AQA3#068 p.092, AVK1.320x, TZH4.151-153x, YMM.310x, OOL.B006 | CDB#2, BSC.159 #164-174, HURQ.BH12 | MJ Cyr (1), MJ Cyr (2), TaliaSafa & Friends, Rachel, Ethan & Ilia, E. Sabariego, G. Burriston & P. Kay, Ine, Ine, MANA, N. Hamilton, A.E. Rahbin, Gyenyame, E. Kelly, T. Ellis, M. Levine, P. Marin, J. Luckey [track 1], L. Dely & M. Congo, T. Francis | His most important mystical composition, patterned in part after Faríd’u’d-Dín ‘Aṭṭár’s Manṭiqu’l-Ṭayr (‘The Conference of the Birds’), describing seven stages in the path of the spiritual wayfarers—‘search’, ‘love’, ‘knowledge’, ‘unity’, ‘contentment’, ‘wonderment’, and ‘true poverty and absolute nothingness’—and revealing that the source of conflict upon earth can be traced to the wayfarers’ lack of awareness of the relative truths to be found within each of these stages. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Love as fire; Love of God; Microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar]; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud]; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | * | ROB1.096, BKOG.139, BKOG.159-161, GPB.140, MMAH.096, GSH.017, LL#016 | |
| BH00049 | Lawh-i-Nasir | 5960 | Tablet to Hájí Muhammad-Nasír-i-Qazvíní (Lawh-i-Hájí Muhammad-Nasír-i-Qazvíní); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Nasir or Lawh-i-Hájí Muhammad-Nasír-i-Qazvíní (Tablet to Hájí Muhammad-Nasir-i-Qazvini) | قلم اعلی لازال بر اسم احبای خود متحرک و جاری و آنی از فیوضات لابدایات خود | The Pen of the Most High hath never ceased to make mention of the names of His loved ones…. All praise be unto Thee, O Lord, in that Thou hast sent down from the heaven of Thy bounty that whereby the worlds are purified | INBA73:144, CMB_F22, , PR19.061b-069b, PR23.052b-060b, BN_suppl.1754.064-075 | BRL_DA#032, GWBP#053 p.076x, GWBP#075 p.097x, ADM2#106 p.191x, AVK1.019.01x, AVK1.150x, AVK2.016.15x, AVK2.075.20x, AVK2.116.03x, AVK3.313.15x, AVK3.407.08x, AVK4.141.02x, MJMM.166, RSBB.152, TZH4.121x, MAS4.160bx, DLS.506x, ASAT1.032x, ASAT1.123x, ASAT1.154x, ASAT2.058x, ASAT2.101x, ASAT2.191x, ASAT3.009x, ASAT3.093x, ASAT3.203x, ASAT3.217x, ASAT4.006x, ASAT4.008x, ASAT4.372x, ASAT5.224x, ADH1.083x, YMM.340x, OOL.B063 | BRL_ATBH#74x, GWB#053x, GWB#075x, COC#1651x, COC#1652x, ADJ.057x, GPB.171x, GPB.377x, WOB.106x, BLO_PT#176, HURQ.BH52, JHT_S#092x | Affirms the ceaselessness of divine grace and guidance, which brings forth fruit provided the seed is cast upon fertile soil; asserts the continuity of His mission with those of Jesus, Muhammad, and the Báb; clarifies the position of Mírzá Yaḥyá as nominal figurehead; exposes the latter’s attempt to take Bahá’u’lláh’s life; and affirms that ‘every man hath been, and will continue to be, able of himself to appreciate the Beauty of God’. | Chastisement and requital; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar]; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB2.245 et al, MMAH.193, GSH.173, LL#201 | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||||
| BH00134 | Madinatu't-Tawhid (the City of Unity) | 3720 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Madínatu't-Tawhíd (City of Unity) | تلک آیات الکتاب فصلت آیاته بدعیا غیر ذی عوج علی آیات الله و هدی و نوری | These are the verses of the Book, whose signs have been set forth with wondrous originality, free from all crookedness, dwelling upon the signs of God, and serving as guidance and light [3.5s]... ...Beware, O believers in the Unity of God, lest ye be tempted to make any distinction between any of the Manifestations of His Cause | INBA36:199, BLIB_Or07852.046, , NLAI_BH3.074, PR03.251b13-254a15, PR19.017a-025b | BRL_DA#283, GWBP#024 p.046x, TZH4.225-227, MAS4.313, ASAT5.286x, MMUH#13x, MSBH5.443-444x, OOL.B088 | GWB#024x, GPB.003x, PDC.011x, PDC.111x, HURQ.BH15, JHT_B#009 | A theological discussion of the concept of divine unity from various perspectives: the unity of the divine Essence, of the divine attributes, of the divine Manifestations, of action, and of worship. | Absolute freedom; independence of God; Essential vs. actional attributes of God; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB1.109, MMAH.180, GSH.022, LL#151 | ||
| BH00181 | Khutbiy-i-Salavat | 3080 | Twelve Table Talks Given by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in 'Akká | الحمد لله الذی قد اظهر الطلعه بالجذبات و لقد اغن الورقه بالسر السطر من ورآء | Praise be unto God Who hath manifested the Countenance through rapturous attractions and hath enriched the Leaf with the hidden mystery inscribed beyond [3.5s] | PR22.058a-072a | Extols the Cause of the Báb and encourages His followers to seek out and turn to the ‘countenance of light’. | Chastisement and requital; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Prophecy and fulfillment; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRL_TTT#11.8 | Revealed 'in the year nine', see BRL_TTT#11; see also Tanbihu'l-Na'imin p.36. | ||||
| BH00232 | 2610 | جوهر تسبیح و ساذج تقدیس سلطان بدیع منیع قیومی را سزاست که از رشحات طفحات | The essence of glorification and purest sanctity beseemeth the wondrous, exalted and Self-Subsisting Sovereign, Who from the outpourings [3.5s] | INBA36:365, BLIB_Or15722.256, , PR23.048b-050b | BRL_DA#033, TZH4.143bx, MSHR4.198x, YMM.321x | Humility; meekness; lowliness; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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. |
| BH00260 | Suriy-i-Ra'is | 2450 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Summons of the Lord of Hosts; Extract from the Súriy-i-Ra'ís about the Nature of the Soul | Suriy-i-Ra'ís (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 | ||
| BH00269 | Lawh-i-Ra'is | 2370 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Summons of the Lord of Hosts | 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| BH00347 | Lawh-i-Pap (Tablet to Pope Pius IX) | 1900 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Summons of the Lord of Hosts | 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. | |
| BH00377 | 1790 | سپاس بیقیاس بساط قدس ملک سبوح لایزالی را سزا است که از پرتو جمال خویش شمس آفریده و از | Immeasurable praise befitteth the holy court of the Ever-Living, All-Glorious King, Who, through the effulgence of His Beauty, hath brought forth the sun and from [3.5s] | PR23.036b-039b | Human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within; Moses; Muhammad; Islam; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Nearness and remoteness; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BH00386 | Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words - Arabic) | 1750 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Hidden Words; 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| BH00648 | 1170 | حمد بیحد طراز بساط مقدس لایزالی را سزاست که لم یزل و لایزال آفتاب قدس طلعت خویش بر افئده ساکنان رفرف لاهوت تابان داشته و شمس قمیص وجهه خود را بر ارواح سالکان طمطام جبروت رخشان گردانیده | Boundless praise beseemeth the sacred and everlasting Threshold, Who hath, from time immemorial unto eternity, caused the Sun of Holiness to shine resplendent upon the hearts of them that dwell in the sublime realms of the celestial Kingdom, and hath made the Sun of His Countenance to radiate upon the souls of them that traverse the depths of His Dominion [3.5s] | PR23.034b-036b | Creation of the world; Exhortations and counsels; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | |||||||||
| 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. |
| 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. | |
| BH00730 | 1070 | هذا کتاب من العبد الی الذینهم آمنوا بالله و آیاته و کانوا من الذینهم بایات الله لمهتدین | This is an epistle from the servant unto them that have believed in God and His signs, and were among those who are guided by His verses [3.5s] | BLIB_Or03114.001rx, , NLAI_BH2.316, PR03.256a21-257a28 | ASAT2.055x | Consolation and comfort; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00783 | 1020 | هذا کتاب من هذا المفتقر الذی یدعو کل من فی السموات و الارض الی ربه العزیز | This is a Book from this lowly one who summoneth all them that dwell in the heavens and on earth unto His Lord, the Mighty [3.5s] | INBA18:267, INBA51:625, PR03.254a19-256a18 | BRL_DA#251, LHKM3.008 | Chastisement and requital; Day of Resurrection; Judgement; Imagery in the Qur'an; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Word of God the cause of creation | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00784 | 1020 | هذا کتاب ینطق بالحق و جعله الله آیه ظهوره و سلطان امره بین السموات و الارض و | This Book speaketh with truth, and God hath made it a sign of His Revelation and the sovereign authority of His Cause between the heavens and the earth [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15725.115, , PR23.045b-046a | BRL_DA#571, LHKM1.032, YMM.224x | Chastisement and requital; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01023 | 810 | ان یا حبیب انا ارسلنا الیک من قبل الواحا و فیها ما یغنی العالمین جمیعا و | O Friend! We have, in times past, sent unto thee Tablets wherein lieth that which would suffice all the peoples of the world [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15725.399, , PR23.046a-048b | BRL_DA#561, LHKM1.041 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power of the Manifestation of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment; The power of words; of speech | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01042 | Lawh-i-Malik-i-Rus (Tablet to Czar Alexander II) | 800 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Summons of the Lord of Hosts | 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 | ||
| BH01281 | 660 | Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá | ان یا هاجر ان اهجری عن کل النفوس و لاتهجری عن حب ربک الذی کان علی العالمین | O Hájar! Be thou an emigrant in the love of God, that is, flee from all that dwell on earth and abide secure beneath the shade of the Tree of Divine love | NLAI_BH2.262, PR23.050b-050a | HDQI.078, MAS8.010, LMA1.418x, ASAT5.300x, YFY.072-074 | BLO_sazedj#05x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love of God; Nearness and remoteness; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||
| BH01525 | Lawh-i-Baytu'l-'Adl | 570 | Local Spiritual Assembly, The; Social Action | قد کتب علی کل مدینه بان یجعلوا فیها بیت العدل و یجتمع فیه النفوس علی عدد البهاء | Addressing the nations, the Ancient Beauty ordaineth that in every city in the world a house be established in the name of justice wherein shall gather pure and steadfast souls to the number of the Most Great Name | INBA35:037, BLIB_Or15722.053, , PR05.007a-009a, Majlis934.026-031, BN_suppl.1753.076-078 | BRL_DA#228, LHKM2.068, GHA.214x, UAB.011dx, PYB#203 p.03x, AHB_120BE #03-06 p.001, AKHA_087BE #05 p.001, PYM.130x | BRL_SOCIAL#012x, BRL_LSA#02x, BRL_LSA#15x, BW_v25p021-022x, COC#0562x, COC#1356x, COC#1368x, COC#1369x, LOG#0007x, LOG#0156x | Consultation; Education of children; moral education; Excellence; distinction; High station of learning; House of Justice; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||
| BH01803 | 490 | ان یا نجف قبل علی اسمع ندآء ربک عن جنه الایمن من العرش و کن عن نغمات القدس | O Najaf, who was before 'Alí, hearken unto the Call of thy Lord from the right side of the divine Paradise of the Throne, and be thou enraptured by the holy melodies [3.5s] | NLAI_BH1.405, PR23.015a-016b | High station of the true believer; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||||||
| BH07650 | Lawh-i-Munajat | 130 | سبحانک اللهم یا الهی ادعوک بالدعاء الذی دعیت به من لسان رسلک و صفوتک و اسئلک | Magnified be Thy Name, O Lord my God, I supplicate unto Thee with that supplication with which Thou wert implored by the tongue of Thy Messengers | INBA48:189, INBA49:051, BLIB_Or15739.326, , PR05.044b-044a | AQMJ1.045, ANDA#70 p.23 | KFPT#05 | Greatest Name; Law of repetition; recitation of the Greatest Name; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for morning; Prayer for steadfastness; obedience | - | - | ||||||
| BH07875 | 130 | هذا کتاب ینطق بالحق و فیه سطر اسرار العلم و الحکمة لعل الناس فی ایام الروح یتذکرون | This is a Book that speaketh with truth, and therein are inscribed the mysteries of knowledge and wisdom, that perchance the people in the days of the Spirit may be mindful [3.5s] | PR03.258b01-257b08 | Being a source of light; guidance; Human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - |
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