search results for 'ROB'

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

BH00048

12400

Tabernacle of Unity, The; Tablet to Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Concerning the Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria

Lawh-i-Manikchi Sahib (Tablets to Manikchi Sahib); - Tabernacle of Unity (book)

الحمد لله الذی اظهر من الالف الاستقامه الکبری و بالباء شان الامتیاز بین الاشیاء... استدعای دیگر آنکه خدمت جناب صاحب یگانه سلام برسانید انشآءالله در این دار فانی بامری فائز شوند

Praise be to God Who hath manifested through the Alif the Most Great Steadfastness, and through the Bá the station of distinction between all things [3.5s]... ...In regard to what thou hast written concerning his honour the learned Sahib, upon him be the grace of God... And that which you have mentioned about Shalmaghani and what Shalmaghani has uttered in relation to this Supreme Manifestation of God

BRL_TBUP#2x, AVK2.067.06x, LHKM1.156x, AYI1.333x, YARP1.023x, UAB.022cx, MAS7.148x, AYI2.396x, SAAF.085x, SAAF.091x, SAAF.365x, ASAT1.277x, ASAT4.179x, ASAT5.251x, NSS.129-130x, DVB5.007-033

TBU#2x, BLO_PT#184x, KFPT#03.2x

Existence and nonexistence; preexistence; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Proclamation to the people of the world; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity; oneness of humanity

ROB3.433, LL#161, LL#174, LL#175

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

BH00050

5800

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913

هذا کتاب یجد منه الاشجار عرف الربیع و الابناء رآئحه الاب المشفق الکریم

This is a Book from which the trees inhale the fragrance of springtime, and from which the sons perceive the sweet perfume of their tender, bountiful Father [3.5s]... ...The beginning of all things is the knowledge of God, and the end of all things is strict observance of whatsoever hath been sent down

BLIB_Or15729.072, , BLIB_Or15737a.039, , BLIB_Or15738.016, , NLAI_22848:173, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p091r, , Majlis210461.117-119x, MKI4522.173,

BRL_DA#533, GWBP#063 p.084bx, GWBP#064 p.085x, AQA2#003 p.076, NNY.123-126x, QT105.1.165, ASAT4.085x, ASAT4.274x, TABN.028x, PYM.110bx, QUM.073.17x

GWB#063x, GWB#064x, GPB.102x, MHMD2.500x

G.H. Miller

Alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB1.048, LL#238, LL#451

BH00052

Suriy-i-Qamis

5750

Súriy-i-Qamís (Surah of the Robe)

ان یا اهل البقا فی الملا الاعلی اسمعوا ندآء الله عن هذا النسیم المتحرک فی هذا الهواء

O ye dwellers in the immortal realm on high! Hearken unto the Call of God from this stirring Breeze that moveth in this atmosphere [3.5s]... ...By the righteousness of God! These are the days in which God hath proved the hearts of the entire company of His Messengers and Prophets

BLIB_Or15723.059, , NLAI_BH1.356

BRL_DA#724, GWBP#008 p.015bx, AQA4#074 p.034, AQA4a.320, ASAT3.281x, OOL.B137

GWB#008x, ADJ.057x, ADJ.079x, GPB.003x, GPB.099x, GPB.377x, PDC.015x, HURQ.BH34

Proclamatory tablet taking in part the form of a conversation between the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh; announcing the return of the Báb in the person of Bahá’u’lláh; reproaching the Bábís for their denial; and directing one of the many named recipients to place the tablet, like the shirt of the biblical Joseph, upon his face.

Manifestation of God as sun; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.397, BKOG.246?, MMAH.150, GSH.049, LL#325

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

BH00058

Suriy-i-Hajj I (Shiraz)

5550

Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of the Báb (Suriy-i-Hajj)

Suriy-i-Hajj (Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of the Báb)

تلک آیات الله قد نزلت حینئذ عن قطب البقاء مقام الذی یطوفن فی حوله اهل سرادق

These are the verses of God which have been sent down in this hour from the Focal Point of eternity, that Station round which circle the dwellers of the pavilion [3.5s]... ...O Muhammad, when the fragrances of holiness have drawn thee unto them and turned thee unto the land of the All-Merciful that thou mayest discover the breezes of divine praise

INBA73:005, INBA83:049, BLIB_Or15723.168, , BLIB_Or15737.006,

AQA4#078 p.075, AVK4.120, GHA.039x, GHA.069ax, TSBT.093x, RHQM2.0809-834 (222) (137-151), ASAT2.113x, ASAT4.426x, ASAT5.029x, OOL.B119

RBB.154-162x, BLO_PT#118x, HURQ.BH53, GEN.371-380

Prescribes the rite of pilgrimage to the House of the Báb in Shiraz, codified later in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas as a sacred duty.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.240, BKOG.250, MMAH.152, GSH.082, LL#304

BH00062

5330

Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity; oneness of humanity; Wisdom [hikmat]

حمد محبوب امکان و مقصود عالمیان را لایق و سزا است که اولیای خود را موید فرمود

Praise be unto Him Who is the Best-Beloved of all possibility and the Goal of the peoples of the world, Who hath graciously confirmed His chosen ones [3.5s]... ...Say: O men! This is a matchless Day. Matchless must, likewise, be the tongue that celebrateth the praise of the Desire of all nations

BLIB_Or15733.050,

BRL_DA#640, GWBP#016 p.033x, MSHR3.155x

GWB#016x, ADJ.080x, WOB.194x

ROB2.417, LL#413

BH00064

Hurufat-i-'Alin (=Kalimat-i-'Uliya; the Exalted Letters)

5270

Bahá'u'lláh's Four Tablets to Maryam; Suffering of the Exalted Letters; Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh; Translation List

Musíbat-i-Hurúf-i-‘Állín (Suffering of the Exalted Letters)

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی کیف یتحرک القلم و یجری المداد بعد ما انقطعت نسائم

Pure and sanctified art Thou, O my God! How can the pen move and the ink flow after the breezes of loving-kindness have ceased

INBA36:281, BLIB_Or15714.157,

BRL_DA#035, AHM.217, BSHN.054, MHT1a.002, MHT2b.007x, TSBT.242, ASAT3.087x, OOL.B010a, OOL.B010b

BRL_APBH#01x, BLO_PT#015x, BLO_PT#090, HURQ.BH18x, ADMS#163x, JHT_B#005

A meditation on mortality, death, suffering, and theodicy, in remembrance of a cousin who had recently died.

Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB1.122, MMAH.216, GSH.025, LL#019, LL#272

BH00066

Lawh-i-Salman I

5230

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Days of Remembrance; Commentary on a Verse of Rumi; Commentary on a Verse of Rumi

Lawh-i-Salman I (Tablet to Salman I)

ای سلمان از شهر جان بنسایم قدس رحمن بر اهل اکوان و امکان مرور نما

O Salman! Pass through the realm of being and existence with holy breezes from the City of the Spirit, wafting with the fragrances of the All-Merciful [3.5s]... ...O Salmán! Say: O people! Tread ye in the path of the one true God and ponder the ways and words of Him Who is the Manifestation

INBA35:276, INBA73:118, BLIB_Or15722.001, , NLAI_BH3.110, BN_suppl.1754.047-059

BRL_DA#735, GWBP#021 p.040x, GWBP#148 p.204x, GWBP#154 p.212x, AVK1.026.05x, AVK2.078.12x, AVK3.303.06x, AVK3.418.16x, MJMM.128, ASAT4.100x, ASAT5.346x, YMM.322x, OOL.B076, AMB#37x

GWB#021x, GWB#148x, GWB#154x, DOR#37x, MNP.036-037x, ADJ.060x, ADJ.076-77x, ADJ.083x, ADJ.084x, GPB.169x, WOB.108x, WIND#128, HURQ.BH55

Laments the opposition of Mírzá Yaḥyá; contrasts the stations of belief and disbelief; considers and rejects various theories of the mystics concerning the relationship between God and creation; asserts that, the Godhead itself being unknowable, the means of access to the knowledge of God is through the channel of His prophets; and interprets a line of Rumi’s Mathnaví to the effect that the light of truth is one but that, cast through the glass of different souls, it takes on different tints and colours, which is both the cause of the denial of the religion of God and the source of conflict upon earth.

Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Development of capacity and readiness; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB2.283, ROB3.089, BLO_PT#023, MMAH.187, GSH.179, LL#232, LL#234

BH00069

Su'al va Javab (Questions and Answers)

5150

Consultation; Kitáb-i-Aqdas

Su'al va Javab (Questions and Answers, Kitáb-i-Aqdas)

سوال از عید اعظم جواب اول عید عصر ۱۳ ماه دوم از اشهر بیان است یوم اول و تاسع

Question: Concerning the Most Great Festival. Answer: Most Great Festival commenceth late in the afternoon of the thirteenth day

INBA63:001, INBA66:213

BRL_Su'al, AVK3.056.16x, AVK4.091x, AVK4.152.13x, AVK4.478ax, OOL.B178

BRL_CONSULT#07x, COC#0029x, COC#0172x, COC#0527x, COC#0821x, COC#1109-1115x, COC#1119x, LOG#0505x, LOG#0516x, LOG#0637x, LOG#0762x, LOG#0764x, LOG#1260x, LOG#1499x, NYR#137x

Compilation of answers and clarifications by Bahá’u’lláh to over one hundred questions regarding the laws of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas.

Business; financial; property matters; Grammar and orthography; Law of divorce; Law of fasting; Law of inheritance; Law of obligatory prayer; Laws of marriage and dowry; Parents and children; youth; families

ROB3.278, GPB.219, GSH.145, LL#279

BH00071

Suriy-i-Hajj II (Baghdad)

5070

Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of Bahá'u'lláh (Suriy-i-Hajj)

Suriy-i-Hajj (Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of Bahá'u'lláh)

فسبحان الذی نزل الایات بالحق و ینزل بامره کیف یشاء لا اله الا هو العزیز

Glorified be He Who hath sent down the verses in truth and doth send down through His command whatsoever He willeth. There is no God but Him, the Mighty [3.5s]... ...I beg Thy forgiveness, O Lord, with the entirety of my being—my tongue, my heart, my breath, my soul, my spirit, my body... It is incumbent on whomsoever desireth to turn to the most holy direction, to come into the presence of God, the Mighty, the Knowing, to hearken unto the call of God

INBA37:066, INBA66:012, BLIB_Or15723.194, , BLIB_Or15737.033,

BRL_DA#166, AQA4#084 p.192, ADM2#107 p.193x, AVK4.109, GHA.070x, DRD.009x, TSBT.077x, ASAT1.094x, ASAT2.109x, ASAT4.022x, ADH1.082x, OOL.B120

RBB.163-168x, BLO_PT#117x, HURQ.BH54, JHT_S#193x

Prescribes the rite of pilgrimage to the House of Bahá’u’lláh in Baghdad, codified later in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas as a sacred duty.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]; Inability of the Manifestation; Prophet to comprehend God; Law of pilgrimage; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for forgiveness; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ROB2.240, MMAH.152, GSH.083, LL#305

BH00076

Suriy-i-Ashab (=Lawh-i-Habib)

4960

Surah of the Companions

Suriy-i-Ashab or Lawh-i Habib (Surah of the Companions or Tablet for the Beloved One)

ح ب اسمع ندآء الله عن جهه العرش بایات مهیمن مقدم عظیم لعل تقلب بکلک الی

H.B. Give ear unto the divine summons from the precincts of the Throne, as We recite to thee the verses of God

INBA83:027b, BLIB_Or15723.031b,

AQA4#072b p.001, AQA4a.205, TZH4.354-360, MAS4.355ax, ASAT3.071x, OOL.B039, OOL.B107

WOB.108-109x, BLO_PT#094, HURQ.BH32

Proclamatory work playing a major role in the conversion of the followers of the Báb to the cause of Bahá’u’lláh, declaring His prophetic station to a number of receptive individuals while attesting that if it were revealed to humanity to an extent smaller than a needle’s eye, it would cause every mountain to crumble into dust.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of faith; power of the spirit; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB2.065, MMAH.151, GSH.075, LL#095, LL#293

BH00082

Lawh-i-'Andalib

4810

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

الحمد لله الذی سخر شمس البیان بقدرته و قمر البرهان بسلطانه الذی بامره طوی ما

Praise be to God Who, through His might, hath caused the Sun of Utterance to shine forth and, through His sovereignty, hath made manifest the Moon of Proof, He Who by His command hath rolled up that which [3.5s]

INBA39:001, BLIB_Or15698.002, , BLIB_Or15720.001, , BLIB_Or15740.001, , Majlis934.153-198

BRL_DA#078, AVK3.070.06x, AVK4.139.10x, AVK4.248.09x, IQT.002, GHA.191x, GHA.270x, ASAT1.073x, ASAT1.128x, ASAT4.288x, ASAT4.340x, NSS.204-205x

BRL_ATBH#22x

Call to action; Justice and wrath of God; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ROB4.083, LL#050

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

BH00095

4510

Prayers and Meditations

یومی از ایام نشسته بودم در امر الهی متحیر و در آنچه در ارض کاف و را ظاهر شده

One day, as I sat in contemplation, bewildered by the divine Cause and by that which had been made manifest in the land of Káf and Rá [3.5s]... ...My God, Thou Whom I adore and worship, Who art Most Powerful! I testify that no description by any created thing

INBA65:021bx, INBA30:079x, INBA81:015x, BLIB_Or15704.439, , NLAI_BH4.417-449

BRL_DA#692, PMP#153x, AHM.320x, DWNP_v5#09 p.002x, AQMJ1.142x, ASAT3.017x, ADH1.014x, AKHA_133BE #15 p.469x, AKHA_136BE #08 p.125x

PM#153x

Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God and human limitations

ROB3.044, LL#255

BH00108

Mathnavi-yi-Mubarak

4040

Mathnaviyí-i Mubárak; Mathnaví-yi Mubárak; Mathnaví of the Blessed One

Mathnaviyi-i Mubarak

ای حیات العرش خورشید وداد که جهان و امکان چه تو نوری نزاد گر نبودی خلق محجوب

You! Life-force of God's throne, compassion's sun, Time's universe has birthed no light like Yours! From seeing God, creation's eyes are barred

INBA30:131, OSAI I.MMSx, , MKA.06 Mil Yz A 2791 p14,

BRL_DA#272, MSNV, AQA3#070 p.160, DWNP_v4#07 p.038-039x, DWNP_v5#04 p.003x, TZH4.139-141x, HHA.058x, ASAT1.119x, ASAT4.015x, AHB_124BE #01 p.002x, AHB_130BE #03-04 p.130x, OOL.B089

GPB.099x, BLO_PT#055, BLO_PT#218, HURQ.BH28

Ahdieh (1), Ahdieh (2), unknown

Ecstatic poem in rhyming couplets, written during the journey to Istanbul and announcing the Day of God and the divine springtime but warning that it can only be perceived by those possessing a spiritual eye.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB2.029, MMAH.233, GSH.071, LL#270

BH00111

Kalimat-i-Firdawsiyyih (Words of Paradise)

4020

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

Kalimát-i-Firdawsíyyih (Words of Paradise)

یا مشارق العدل و الانصاف و مطالع الصدق و الالطاف ان المظلوم یبکی و یقول ینوح

O ye the embodiments of justice and equity and the manifestations of uprightness and of heavenly bounties!

INBA33:044x, BLIB_Or07851.049b, , BLIB_Or15692.025, , BLIB_Or15716.042.14x, , KB_262:042-062, CMB_F32.048, , OSAI_TC 2v-8r, , MKI4523.112, , BN_suppl.1753.023-037

ADM2#008 p.022x, AVK1.212.13x, AVK2.075.04x, AVK3.003.16x, AVK3.164.02x, AVK3.225.12x, AVK3.326.11x, AVK4.282bx, ZYN.147, ISH.112, UAB.007x, UAB.032bx, UAB.036cx, UAB.039cx, UAB.042cx, UAB.043ax, UAB.046ax, UAB.046dx, UAB.050cx, UAB.053ax, UAB.054ax, ADH1.056x, TBP#06, TUM.109-115x, OOL.B012

TB#06, LOG#0479x, LOG#0785x, ADJ.027-028x, GPB.217x2x, GPB.218x, GPB.219x, PDC.136x, PDC.151x, WOB.023x, WOB.149x, WOB.153x, SW_v01#04 p.021x, SW_v03#01 p.005x, SW_v03#02 p.007x, SW_v09#07 p.081x, SW_v11#18 p.297x, DWN_v3#01 p.009-010x, DWN_v5#04 p.002-003x, DWN_v5#05 p.002-003x, BLO_PT#201, BSC.146 #100-124x, BSC#144-146x, BSC#151-154x

D. E. Walker, Chicago Baha'i Community, C. Oja

Proclaims eleven ‘leaves of paradise’: the fear of God, the importance of religion, the golden rule, that rulers should possess good character and act in justice (in contrast to Muḥammad Sháh, whose deeds in particular are denounced), reward and punishment as the basis of order in the world, justice, the unity of mankind, the education of children, moderation, renouncing asceticism and monasticism, and forbidding religious strife and dissension.

Contention and conflict; Education of children; moral education; Monasticism; asceticism; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB4.214 et al, BKOG.382, MMAH.161, GSH.161, LL#024

BH00113

Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words - Persian)

3970

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Hidden Words

Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words)

ای صاحبان هوش و گوش اول سروش دوست این است ای بلبل معنوی جز در گلبن معانی جای

O ye people that have minds to know and ears to hear! The first call of the Beloved is this

INBA65:115, INBA36:383, INBA30:014, BLIB_Or15714.131c, , CMB_F33.001, , NLI.32p048v, BLIB_Or.08117, BLIB_Or.08685, CUL.X893.7.B111, Majlis210461.030-045, BN_suppl.1974.001

BRL_HWP, GWBP#042 p066ax, GWBP#104 p.136bx, ZYN.001, AHM.421, MJMM.373, BSHN.017x, MHT2b.036x, UAB.047dx, UAB.048ax, UAB.048bx, UAB.069ax, UAB.069bx, TZH4.223-224, NFF4.017, OOL.B013b

HWPE, GWB#042x, GWB#104x, LOG#0835x, ADJ.081x, BADM.155-156x, PDC.007x, PDC.148x, PDC.149x, WOB.059-060x, WOB.116x, WOB.201x, SW_v03#02 p.005x, SW_v05#10 p.150-151x, SW_v14#11 p.321x, BLO_PT#061

S. Toloui-Wallace (#1), S. Taefi (#1) [track 1], R. Johnston-Garvin (#1) [track 7], Baha'i Youth of Japan (#2), S. Taefi (#2) [track 2], L. Dely & M. Congo (#2), S. Toloui-Wallace (#3), K. Key (#3), A. Bridges (#3), L. Slott (#3), Rowshan (#3), SKY (#3), E. Mahony (#3), L. Dely (#3), S. Engle and J. White (#3), Delia Olam (#3), B. Vahdat (#3), Sanale & Xolani (#3), Nora, Sasha & Ann-Sofie (#3), NKAK (#3), Zannetta (#3) [track 10], A.E. Rahbin (#3), B. Silvestre (#3), R. Bennett (#3), S. Kouchekzadeh (#3), L. Dube (#3) [track 6], D. Hunt (#4), A. Youssefi (#4), Bass Adjustment (#4), S. Taefi (#4) [track 4], G.H. Miller (#4), Rowshan (#4) [track 6], Nabil and Karim (#4), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#4), N. Ma'ani (#4), A. Stephen (#4), A. Wood (#4), G. Besungu (#4), Ahdieh (#4), S. Parak (#4), A. Youssefi (#7), G.H. Miller (#7), S. Zahrai (#7), A.E. Rahbin (#7), B. Khademi (#7), G. and M. Smith (#7), S. Zein (#7), The Badasht Project (#8), A. Wensbo (#8), A. Bryan (#8), G.H. Miller (#9), A. Toufighian & A. Youssefi (#9), A. Wensbo (#10), L. Dube (#10) [track 18], S. Taefi (#10) [track 5], G.H. Miller (#11), S. Taefi (#11) [track 7], Naim, Miad & Justus (#11), Z. Rolle (#11), A. Bryan (#12), E. Mahony (#12), J. Sweeting & M. Weigert (#12), Chicago Baha'i Community (#12), MANA (#12), Meredith & Arman (#12), J. Cooper (#12), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#13), G.H. Miller (#13), S. and S. Toloui-Wallace (#14), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#14), MANA (#14), S. Esmaeili (#14), S. Peyman (#14), J. Cooper (#14), Rowshan (#16), A.E. Rahbin (#16), G.H. Miller (#16), L. Dely & M. Congo (#16), G.H. Miller (#18), O. Master (#19), S. Taefi (#20) [track 10], G.H. Miller (#21), Anis & Friends (#21), T. Ellis (#21), S. Taefi (#21) [track 8], R. Johnston-Garvin (#21) [track 6], E. Mahony (#21), N. Ma'ani (#22), D. Stevenson (#26), M. Kerr (#26), A.E. Rahbin (#26), J. Marks and S. Engle (#26), Chicago Baha'i Community (#26), Ashwin & Arhwin (#26), Temple of Light (#29), L. Dube (#30) [track 11], G.H. Miller (#31), TaliaSafa (#31), E. Mahony (#31), Turning Point (#31), S. Taefi (#31) [track 3], A. & M. Zemke (#31) [track 5], N. Ma'ani (#31), G.H. Miller (#32), TaliaSafa (#32), A. Wensbo (#32), MANA (#32), S. Trick (#32), S. and S. Toloui-Wallace (#33), A. Youssefi (#33), L. Dube (#34) [track 4], Carmel, Roya & Maryam (#35), A.E. Rahbin (#36), S. and S. Toloui-Wallace (#38), S. Toloui-Wallace (#38), F. Lionheart (#38), J. Cooper (#38), Seaon, Sasha & Sam (#38), S. Taefi (#38) [track 6], S. Bayan & S. Suggs (#38), L. Dely (#38), N. Hamilton (#38), B. Khademi (#39), A.E. Rahbin (#39), S. Toloui-Wallace (#40), Rasmus & Ann-Sofie (#40), Voices of Baha 2010 (#40), T. Ellis (#40), A Family Affair (#40), A. Youssefi (#40), The Badasht Project (#40), Refuge (#40), R. Peterson (#40) [track 8], Nabil and Karim (#40), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#40), J. Cooper (#40), S. Parak (#40), A. Youssefi (#40), N. Hamilton (#40), Kiskadee (#40), L. Dely (#40), Rasmus & Ann-Sofie (#40), L. Dely & M. Congo (#42), J. Cooper (#42), L. Dely & M. Congo (#44) [track 9], D. E. Walker (#44), S. Cleasby (#44), MANA (#44), M. Sparrow (#45), L. Dube (#63) [track 13], G.H. Miller (#64), G.H. Miller (#70), Bosch Bluegrass Band (#72), Arrayanes (#72) [track 8], A. Youssefi (#73), Friends from Mongolia (#73), N. D. Huening (#76), C. & L. Heggie (#80), K. Key (#80)

The Persian portion of His foremost ethical work, consisting of 82 aphorisms spoken in the voice of the Divine and declaring themselves to be the ‘inner essence’ of what was revealed to ‘the Prophets of old’, affirming the essential nobility and divinity of the human soul, prescribing its intimate communion with its Creator, proclaiming the oneness of the human race, and declaring our consequent responsibility to fellowship, love, fair-mindedness, and mutual aid for one another, especially the poor and downtrodden.

Begging; mendicancy; idleness and sloth; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Goodly deeds; actions; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Justice and wrath of God; Love of God; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Primordial Covenant; the day of alast; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Words vs deeds

ROB1.071 et al, BKOG.159 et al, GPB.140, MMAH.092, GSH.016, LL#025

BH00115

Qasidiy-i-'Izz-i-Varqa'iyyih (Ode of the Dove)

3950

Ode of the Dove; Baha'u'llah's Notes to His "Ode of the Dove"; Bahá'u'lláh's "Ode of the Dove"

Qasidiyyih-Varqaiyyih (Ode of the Dove)

اجذبتنی بوارق انوار طلعه لفروغها کل الشموس تخفت کان بروق الشمس من نور حسنها

A face flashing with light drew me to her; all the suns dimmed before her radiance

INBA36:419, INBA66:175x

BRL_DA#803, AQA3#071 p.196, TZH4.148x, MAS4.197, MAS8.039ax, RHQM2.0878-887 (299) (184-191), OOL.B092

GPB.118x, BLO_PT#017x, BLO_PT#059, JBS#29.3.43, HURQ.BH04

A lengthy poem composed in the style of a poem by Ibn-i-Fáriḍ, glorifying the spirit that had visited Him in the form of the Maid of Heaven, expatiating on His sufferings and His loneliness and affirming His determination to face any future calamities that might befall Him in the path of God.

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB1.062, ROB1.084, BKOG.118, BKOG.415, EBTB.098, MMAH.087, GSH.010, LL#274

BH00130

Lawh-i-Ahbab

3770

Lawh-i-Ahbab (Tablet of the Friends)

هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی اذا سمع الندا من شطر ربه الابهی قال بلی یا اله من

This is a Book from Our presence unto him who, when he heard the Call from the direction of his Most Glorious Lord, responded "Yea, verily, O my God!" [3.5s]... ...O Pen of Revelation! Call thou to mind the Baptizer. Say: The Day of baptism hath come. Blessed is the one who hath baptized himself with the baptism of God

INBA34:069, BLIB_Or11095#001,

AQA1#002, AVK4.476ax, MAS4.159x, ASAT3.071x, BCH.032x, PYK.031x, OOL.B022

ADMS#244, BTO#02x

Addresses various followers with words of advice and encouragement, calling them to be united, to be detached from the things of the world, and to promote the cause of God, and lamenting the Bábís and others who have rejected His message.

Call to action; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB3.258, GSH.187, LL#038

BH00134

Madinatu't-Tawhid (the City of Unity)

3720

Madínatu't-Tawhíd (City of Unity)

تلک آیات الکتاب فصلت آیاته بدعیا غیر ذی عوج علی آیات الله و هدی و نوری

These are the verses of the Book, whose signs have been set forth with wondrous originality, free from all crookedness, dwelling upon the signs of God, and serving as guidance and light [3.5s]... ...Beware, O believers in the Unity of God, lest ye be tempted to make any distinction between any of the Manifestations of His Cause

INBA36:199, BLIB_Or07852.046, , NLAI_BH3.074, PR03.251b13-254a15, PR19.017a-025b

BRL_DA#283, GWBP#024 p.046x, TZH4.225-227, MAS4.313, ASAT5.286x, MMUH#13x, MSBH5.443-444x, OOL.B088

GWB#024x, GPB.003x, PDC.011x, PDC.111x, HURQ.BH15, JHT_B#009

A theological discussion of the concept of divine unity from various perspectives: the unity of the divine Essence, of the divine attributes, of the divine Manifestations, of action, and of worship.

Absolute freedom; independence of God; Essential vs. actional attributes of God; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB1.109, MMAH.180, GSH.022, LL#151

BH00140

Lawh-i-Maqsud

3650

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

Lawh-i-Maqsud (Tablet of Maqsud)

حمد مقدس از ذکر و بیان حضرت معبود و مالک غیب و شهودی را لایق و سزاست که از

A praise which is exalted above every mention or description beseemeth the Adored One, the Possessor of all things… Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value… The Word is the master key for the whole world

BLIB_Or15696.091dx, , IOM.099, MKA.06 Mil Yz A 2791 p06,

GWBP#110 p.140x, GWBP#112 p.142x, GWBP#117 p.159x, GWBP#122 p.167x, ADM2#007 p.020x, AVK3.171.04x, AVK3.210.04x, AVK3.213.14x, AVK3.217.04x, AVK4.281.01x, AYI1.335x, DWNP_v5#01 p.002bx, UAB.010bx, UAB.011ax, UAB.013bx, UAB.024bx, UAB.026ax, UAB.028bx, UAB.030ax, UAB.033bx, UAB.037ax, UAB.039dx, UAB.040bx, UAB.041ax, UAB.045bx, UAB.050ax, UAB.050bx, UAB.051bx, UAB.052ax, UAB.053bx, DRD.011x, ASAT5.236x, ANDA#79 p.13x, TBP#11, MMUH#05x, OOL.B057

TB#11, GWB#110x, GWB#112x, GWB#117x, GWB#122x, ADJ.028ax, ADJ.088x, GPB.217x3x, GPB.218x5x, GPB.219x, PDC.186x, PDC.187x2x, PDC.190x, WOB.032x, WOB.041xx, WOB.198x, WOB.041x, WOB.162x, WOB.187x2x, WOB.198x2x, WOB.202-203x, DWN_v1#10-11 p.001-004, KSHK#20x

Morgane & Samy, E. Kelly, L. Harley

Relates various teachings as prerequisites to world peace: universal education; regarding one another as ‘the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch’; reward and punishment as pillars of world stability; rulers acting with justice and wisdom; the gathering of the nations to lay the foundations of the ‘Lesser Peace’; the adoption of a universal language and script; affirming that ‘the earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens’; not allowing religion to become the source of disunity; taking counsel together in all matters; promoting useful branches of knowledge; exercising moderation in all things; inculcating tolerance and righteousness; and having due regard for the power of human utterance, in particular the Word of God, which is the ‘master key for the whole world’.

Consultation; Education of children; moral education; Reward and punishment; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity; Universal language; Work as worship

ROB4.235 et al, MMAH.138, GSH.213, LL#162, LL#461

BH00144

Suriy-i-Bayan

3580

Suriy-i-Bayan (Tablet of Utterance)

ذکر اسم ربک عبده اذ دخل بقعه الفردوس مقر الذی استشرقت علیه انوار الوجه عن مشرق

The remembrance of the name of thy Lord by His servant, when he entered the Garden of Paradise, the seat whereupon shone forth the lights of the Face from the Dayspring [3.5s]... ...Say: Doth it beseem a man while claiming to be a follower of his Lord, the All-Merciful, he should yet in his heart do the very deeds of the Evil One?

INBA37:007, INBA83:203, BLIB_Or15702.254, , BLIB_Or15723.228, , BLIB_Or15737.069, , NLAI_BH2.280, Berlin1237#10, ALIB.folder18p001-018, Majlis934.115.09-125.01x

BRL_DA#736, GWBP#128 p.176x, GWBP#129 p.179x, GWBP#145 p.202ax, AQA4#080 p.108, AQA4a.392, AVK3.095.13x, AVK3.147.08x, AVK3.260.06x, GHA.428x, ASAT2.106x, PYK.032x, YFY.060x, OOL.B109

GWB#128x, GWB#129x, GWB#145x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.034x, TDH#037.1x, GPB.170x, GPB.376-377x, GPB.404x, MBW.038x, BSTW#037x, HURQ.BH39

D. E. Walker, MANA (1), MANA (2), C. Signori

Charges the recipient to teach the Cause of God in a state of detachment from the world and enkindlement with the love of God, summons the Maid of Heaven to come to the aid of whoever does so, and instructs him to carry the message to specific people and regions in Iran.

Assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Exhortations and counsels; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ROB2.397, GSH.198, LL#295

BH00149

3510

یا حبذا نامه رسید و عرف محبت محبوب عالمیان از او متضوع هر حرفش دفتری بود و هر

O how excellent! The letter arrived, perfumed with the fragrance of love for the Beloved of all worlds. Each letter thereof was as a volume, and every [3.5s]

INBA15:409, INBA26:412

AYI2.233x, AYI2.350x

Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity

ROB4.300, LL#192

BH00151

Lawh-i-Qina'

3480

Translation List; Tablet of the Veil (Lawh-i-Qina')

Lawh-i-Qina (Tablet of the Veil)

یکی از احبای الهی مکتوبی بیکی از علمای معروف نوشته و در آن مکتوب سوالات چندی

One of the loved ones of God wrote a letter to Ḥájí Muḥammad Karím Khán, in which he posed a number of questions...For twelve years We tarried in Baghdád. Much as We desired that a large gathering of divines and fair-minded men be convened

INBA38:165, INBA35:007, INBA90:044, BLIB_Or15698.190, , BLIB_Or15720.188, , BLIB_Or15740.144, , NLAI_BH2.320, NLAI_BH3.167, Majlis934.199-229, BN_suppl.1754.124-131

BRL_DA#719, AVK1.307.08x, AVK2.101.18x, AVK2.108.15x, AVK2.273.08x, AVK3.103.10x, AVK3.396.06x, IQT.190, MJMM.067, ASAT2.012x, ASAT3.279x, ASAT4.519x, ASAT4.520x, ASAT4.204x, ASAT5.174x, ASAT5.239x, TUM.050-051x, NSS.089-090x, NSS.190-199, OOL.B067

BKOG.148x, PDC.139x, HURQ.BH63x, ADMS#199

Sharply rebuts accusations, made by the leader of the Shaykhí school, of grammatical discrepancies in the writings of the Báb, asserting that divine revelation is not constrained by man-made rules, citing in support several examples from the Qur’an and challenging him with Bahá’u’lláh’s own prophetic claim.

Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Word of God is its own standard

ROB1.334, MMAH.137, GSH.176, LL#212

BH00155

Suriy-i-Ahzan

3410

Surah of Sorrows (Suriy-i-Ahzán); Days of Remembrance

Suriy-i-Ahzan (Surih of Sorrows)

ان یا سیاح الاحدیه سبح فی قلزم الکبریاء الذی ظهر باسمی الابهی و جرت علیه سفن

O thou who art the pilgrim of Divine Oneness! Swim thou in the ocean of grandeur which hath been manifested through My Most Glorious Name, whereon sail the barques [3.5s]... ...Would that thou wert standing at this moment before the Throne and couldst hear how the melodies of eternity

INBA37:085, BLIB_Or15694.494, , BLIB_Or15723.212, , BLIB_Or15737.052, , NLAI_BH2.125, NLAI_BH2.265, ALIB.folder18p034-047

BRL_DA#733, AQA4#086 p.221, AQA4a.075, ASAT5.351x, OOL.B103, AMB#39x

DOR#39x, LTDT.080x, BLO_PT#092

Expatiates on the sorrows experienced by Bahá’u’lláh and the Báb, taking in part the form of a mystical conversation between the two.

Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Suffering and imprisonment; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.397, MMAH.155, GSH.114, LL#289

BH00192

2940

جوهر حمد و بیان و ساذج شکر و تبیان بساط امنع اقدس مالک امکان را لایق و سزاست

The essence of praise and utterance, and the quintessence of thanksgiving and exposition, beseemeth and befitteth the most holy and most exalted court of the Lord of all possibility [3.5s]... ...God hath not blinked, nor will He ever blink His eyes at the tyranny of the oppressor

INBA28:229

BRL_DA#787, AVK2.181.09x, AVK3.402.09x, NANU_BH#08x, ASAT2.128x, ASAT3.269x, ASAT4.055x, ASAT4.206x, YMM.425x

GPB.224x

Justice and wrath of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Personal instructions; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB2.413, LL#210

BH00210

Lawh-i-Hadi - Re "He who knoweth himself..."

2770

He who knoweth his self hath known his Lord (Man 'arafa nafsahú faqad 'arafa Rabbahú); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Man ‘arafa nafsahú faqad ‘arafa Rabbahú (He who knoweth his self hath known his Lord); Lawh-i-Hadi (Tablet to Mírzá Hadi)

توحید بدیع مقدس از تحدید و عرفان موجودات ساحت عز حضرت لایزالی را لایق و سزا

How wondrous is the unity of the Living, the Ever-Abiding God—a unity which is exalted above all limitations, that transcendeth the comprehension of all created things! He hath, from everlasting, dwelt

INBA38:238, INBA36:409, INBA57:018b, BN_suppl.1754.059-064

BRL_DA#125, GWBP#073 p.096ax, GWBP#083 p.109x, GWBP#124 p.168bx, AVK1.061x, AVK1.180ax, AVK1.180bx, AVK1.187.06x, AVK1.242.05x, AVK1.307.02x, AVK2.077.13x, AVK3.398.09x, MJMM.346, DWNP_v6#05 p.003-004x, DRD.155, MAS4.026bx, MAS4.028x, ASAT1.185x, ASAT2.102x, ASAT4.292x, ASAT5.062x, ASAT5.251x, PYB#026 p.01x, PYB#221 p.03x, OOL.B160

GWB#073x, GWB#083x, GWB#124x, BLO_PT#040, WIND#112

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine attributes are within all things; every atom; Knowledge of self; Manifestation of God the only route to knowledge of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB3.063, LL#097

BH00223

Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom)

2680

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom)

کتاب انزله الرحمن من ملکوت البیان و انه لروح الحیوان لاهل الامکان تعالی الله

This is an Epistle which the All-Merciful hath sent down from the Kingdom of Utterance. It is truly a breath of life… Say: Magnified be Thy Name, O Lord my God!

INBA47:098, INBA90:001, INBA30:052, INBA81:024, BLIB_Or15729.106, , NLAI_22848:255, NLAI_BH3.142, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p133v, , Ghazi3072.045-093, UMich962.095-105, MKI4522.255, MKI4524.290, BN_suppl.1753.089-100

AQA2#006 p.130, ADM2#011 p.026x, AVK4.437bx, MJMM.037, RSBB.092, NSR_1993.047x, ASAT1.042-043x, ASAT1.190x, ASAT1.156x, ASAT5.213x, ASAT5.372x, ADH1.103x, TBP#09, OOL.B043

TB#09, BPRY.199x, PN_1900_heh p013, ADJ.025x, GPB.197x, PDC.186-187x, SW_v14#09 p.257x, BSC.189 #277-338

Arrayanes, Rafael, Efe, Sabria & Maarten, L. Dely & M. Congo [track 8], P. Held & C. Bahia [track 9], almunajat.com [item 23]

Calls on the people to observe a number of spiritual maxims; answers a question regarding the origin of creation; describes the Word of God as ‘the Cause which hath preceded the contingent world’; identifies nature with the operation of the Divine Will; mentions in positive terms some ancient philosophers, including Empedocles, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Balinus, and Hermes; states that the essence and fundamentals of philosophy have emanated from the Prophets; and asserts that a true philosopher would never deny God and His evidences.

Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Greek philosophers; Greek civilization; Heat and motion; Purpose; goal of creation; Special knowledge of the Manifestation of God; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God sanctified from time and place

ROB4.033 et al, BKOG.382, GPB.219, EBTB.115, MMAH.085, GSH.139, LL#116

BH00227

Ridvanu'l-Iqrar

2630

Ridvanu'l-Iqrar (Ridván of the Enthronement)

اقر الله بذاته لذاته بانه لا اله الا هو له الخلق و الامر و کل له خاضعون اقر

God taketh His seat [upon His celestial Throne] by virtue of His Essence which is operative through His Essence, for He, no God is there except Him… By God, O people! Mine eye weepeth, and the eye of Ali (the Bab) weepeth amongst the Concourse on high, and Mine heart crieth out

INBA47:050, INBA37:057, INBA83:092, BLIB_Or15723.146,

AQA4#083 p.180, AQA4a.042, MAS4.353x, OOL.B095

GPB.243x, GPB.250x, HURQ.BH27x

Dwells on the state of those who have rejected the truth and contrasts it with the state of those who have recognized and believed.

Adam; Adam and Eve; Call to action; Creation of the world; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Rejection, opposition and persecution

ROB2.397, MMAH.175, GSH.115, LL#277

Quoted by Abdu'l-Baha in MKT3.420 (AB00024). Merged with BH10413.

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

BH00244

2540

Changing Pronouns and Dropping 'Say' in Prayers

بجناب ذبیح علیه بهاء الله تکبیر مالانهایه برسانید عجبست که خبر ایشان نرسید

Convey unto his honor Dhabih, upon whom be the Glory of God, boundless greetings. Strange it is that no word hath been received from him [3.5s]... ...In some of the revealed prayers and supplications it is written, “and make him.” Is it considered interpolation if one recites, in a passsage of entreaty, "and make me"

INBA28:171, NLAI_BH4.053-062.03x

AVK2.318.17x, AVK4.028.13x, AVK4.267.10x, AVK4.439ax, MAS4.030x, MAS4.036x, ASAT4.030x, ASAT4.462x, ASAT5.054x, YIK.071-078

KSHK#08x

Empty learning; false spirituality; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity

ROB4.321, ROB3.200-201, LL#193, LL#372

BH00245

Commentary on a verse from Sa'di

2530

Commentary on a Verse of Sa'di (Tafsir-i Bayti az Sa'di); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Unrestrained as the Wind; Tafsir-i Bayti az Sadi (Commentary on a Verse of Sadi)

آنچه از معنی بیت در آیات الهی نازل و از افق سماء حقیقت مشرق همان تمام است و

The intent of the poet in these verses, "The Friend is closer to me that I am to myself

BLIB_Or11096#006, , BLIB_Or15722.022, , NLAI_BH3.097, BN_suppl.1754.042-047

BRL_DA#034, GWBP#093 p.122bx, GWBP#161 p.218x, AVK3.105.13x, AVK3.465.02x, KHSH01.054, MAS1.057x, ASAT1.035x, ASAT2.085x, ASAT2.114x, ASAT3.091x, ASAT5.094x, ASAT5.235x, UVM.101.07x

GWB#093x, GWB#161x, ADJ.050-051x, ADJ.060x, ADJ.077x2x, ADJ.060x5x, COF.120x, GPB.389x, WOB.103x, WOB.167x, WIND#133

B. Grover, MANA

Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Nearness and remoteness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Word of God and human limitations

ROB3.404, LL#335, LL#448, LL#457

BH00248

Suriy-i-'Ibad

2520

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Suriy-i-Ibad (Tablet of the Servants)

شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و انا کل له عابدون شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و انا کل

God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, and verily all are His worshippers. God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, and verily all [3.5s]... ...Contemplate with thine inward eye the chain of successive Revelations that hath linked the Manifestation of Adam

INBA47:077x, BLIB_Or15723.050, , BLIB_Or15738.006, , NLAI_BH1.312

BRL_DA#005x, GWBP#031 p.055bx, AQA4#073 p.023, AQA4a.244, ASAT4.307x, OOL.B124

BRL_APBH#12x, GWB#031x, GPB.151x5x, HURQ.BH31

S. Jaberi

Declares the continuity of Bahá’u’lláh’s prophetic claim with the ‘chain of successive Revelations that hath linked the Manifestation of Adam with that of the Báb’, relates the events of His banishment from Baghdad to Edirne, and delivers specific guidance to a number of followers named in the tablet.

Banishment to; life in Constantinople; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Exhortations and counsels; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB2.272, MMAH.154, GSH.112, LL#309

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

BH00251

2510

Meetings, Bahá'í; Institution of the Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, The

فصبر جمیل و الله المستعان علی ما یصفون یا حیدر قبل علی علیک بهائی و بهاء من

Patience is befitting, and God is the Help to be sought against that which they say. O Haydar-'Alí, upon thee be My glory and the glory of Him Who [3.5s]... ...By My life and My Cause! Round about whatever dwelling the friends of God may enter, and from which their cry shall rise as they praise and glorify the Lord

BLIB_Or15690.015, , BLIB_Or15728.140,

BRL_DA#227, COMP_MASHRIQP#07x, LHKM2.285

BRL_MEET.BH#02x, BRL_MASHRIQ#07x

MANA

Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Methods of teaching the Cause; Prayer for protection; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Suffering and imprisonment

ROB4.316x

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

Suriy-i-Rais (Tablet to Sultan Ali Pasha)

ان یا رئیس اسمع ندآء الله الملک المهیمن القیوم انه ینادی بین الارض و السماء

Hearken, O Chief, to the voice of God, the Sovereign, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. He, verily, calleth aloud between heaven and earth

INBA47:147, INBA34:081, BLIB_Or15735.129, , NLAI_BH2.354, Berlin1237#28, PR11.020b-026a, UMich962.130-132x

NRJ#2, AQA1#003, AVK4.453x, MJMM.087, ASAT3.048x, ASAT4.254x, ASAT5.230x, BCH.104x, YMM.269x, OOL.B070a

SLH#02, GPB.174x, GPB.179-180x, GPB.180x, GPB.181x2x, PDC.099x, PDC.120x, WOB.105-106x, WOB.178x, BLO_PT#194, BSC.088 #039x, BSC.224 #444-445x

Addresses ‘Álí Páshá, the Ottoman Prime Minister, as Bahá’u’lláh and His companions were being transferred from Adrianople to Gallipoli en route to ‘Akká; takes the minister to task for his abuse of power; predicts the downfall of Sulṭán ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz; announces that He has come to ‘quicken the world and unite all its peoples’; relates the circumstances of His expulsion from Edirne; and parenthetically answers a question from a follower about the origin and nature of the soul.

Chastisement and requital; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for nearness to God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Suffering and imprisonment; Existence; immortality of the human soul; The human soul; The human soul at midpoint of creation; the isthmus [barzakh]; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB2.411 et al, BKOG.259, MMAH.146, GSH.109, LL#326

BH00267

Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'am (the Tablet of All Food)

2370

Tablet of All Food (Lawh-i Kullu't-Ta'am)

Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'ám (Tablet of All Food)

الحمد لله مموج ابحر النور بالماء الناریه الالهیه و مهیج احرف الظهور بنقطه

Praise be to God Who hath caused Oceans of Light to surge in the Divine Fiery Water; excited the Letters of the Dispensation

INBA36:268, Berlin1237#20

BRL_DA#393, TZH4.132-135x, MAS4.265, RHQM2.0979-989 (416) (256-262), OOL.B052

GPB.118x2x, BLO_PT#108, HURQ.BH02

A commentary offering several allegorical interpretations of the Qur’anic verse ‘All food was allowed to the children of Israel’ (Qur’an 3:93).

Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Prayer for protection; Realms of being; three realms; five realms; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB1.050, BKOG.112, MMAH.127, GSH.008, LL#146

Revealed "in the year nine", see BRL_TTT#11

BH00269

Lawh-i-Ra'is

2370

Lawh-i-Rais (Tablet to Sultan Ali Pasha)

قلم اعلی میفرماید ای نفسیکه خود را اعلی الناس دیده و غلام الهی که چشم اهل ملا

The Pen of the Most High proclaimeth: O thou who hast imagined thyself to be the most exalted of men

INBA35:043, BLIB_Or11096#015, , BLIB_Or15698.302, , BLIB_Or15720.296, , BLIB_Or15740.230, , CMB_F31.030, , NLI.32p039v, PR11.066a-072a

NRJ#3, AVK1.333.04x, AVK2.287.11x, AVK3.052.07x, AVK4.455x, IQT.302, MJMM.102, UAB.058cx, DRD.043, ASAT3.015x, ASAT4.168x, ASAT4.419x, OOL.B070b

SLH#03, GPB.173x2x, GPB.187x3x, GPB.208x3x, PDC.073-074x, PDC.099x, PDC.099-100x, SW_v02#02 p.003-007x, BLO_PT#198, BSC.081 #038

Bahá’u’lláh’s second tablet to the Ottoman Prime Minister ‘Álí Páshá, denouncing him for his further act of cruelty in imprisoning Bahá’u’lláh and His followers in the citadel of ‘Akká, warning him of the ephemerality of his worldly power, relating the episode of a puppet show from Bahá’u’lláh’s own childhood which convinced Him of the fleeting nature of the trappings of the world, asking ‘Álí Páshá to comport himself with reason and justice, and reiterating a request for a brief audience with the Sultan.

Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ROB3.033 et al, BKOG.013, MMAH.148, GSH.121, LL#217

BH00271

Tafsir-i-Va'sh-Shams (Commentary on the Surih of the Sun)

2340

Commentary on the Surah of the Sun; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Tafsír-i-Suriy-i-Vash-Shams (Commentary on the Surih of the Sun)

الحمد لله الذی انطق ورقاء البیان علی افنان دوحه التبیان بفنون الالحان علی انه لا اله الا هو

Praise be to God, Who hath set the dove of eloquence, perched among the twigs of the tree of explanation, to weaving her divers melodies

INBA90:076, BLIB_Or15714.065, , NLAI_BH3.227, Berlin1237#01, MKI4524.278,

BRL_DA#710, GWBP#089 p.116bx, MJMM.001, DLS.107x, ASAT1.253x, ASAT2.171x, ASAT3.116x, ASAT4.205x, ASAT4.208x, ASAT4.366x, ASAT4.375x, ADH1.108x, OOL.B146

GWB#089x, BLO_PT#025, HURQ.BH78, ADMS#199n02x

W. Heath

Gives a detailed interpretation of a short surah of the Qur’an, relates several symbolic meanings of the word ‘sun’, and tells of the inexhaustible meanings of the Word of God, which are disclosed according to the capacity of the hearers and which must be understood according to both their outward and inward meanings.

Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Limits of language; Names and attributes of God; Outward and inward meanings; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB1.032, MMAH.102, GSH.209, LL#338

BH00279

Remembrance of the seven martyrs of Yazd

2280

Tablet to The Times of London; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Times (Tablet to the Times)

کنا ماشیا فی البیت و سامعا حدیث الارض اذا ارتفع الندآء من الفردوس الاعلی

We were walking in the House and hearing the discourse of the earth when the Call was raised from the Most Exalted Paradise [3.5s]... ...O 'Times', O thou endowed with the power of utterance! O dawning place of news! Spend an hour with the oppressed of Iran

INBA39:154

BRL_DA#375, MAS4.124cx, RHQM1.382-382 (461) (283-289), ASAT4.387x, MSBH2.171x, OOL.B169, OOL.B199

BRL_ATBH#08x, BLO_PT#195

Call to action; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB4.348, MMAH.144, LL#253

Includes the "Lawh-i-Times"

BH00287

Lawh-i-Baha

2190

Lawh-i-Bahá (Tablet of Glory)

ان یا امه الله ا تصبرین علی مقعدک بعد الذی کان قمیص الغلام محمرا بدم البغضاء

O Maidservant of God! Be patient under all circumstances and mindful of the fact that the robe of this Youth was dyed crimson with the blood of enmity betwixt earth and heaven

INBA35:070x, NLAI_BH1.269x

BRL_DA#703, AQA7#394-395 p.154, ASAT5.348x, OOL.B030a, OOL.B030b

HURQ.BH38

Identifies Himself and His sufferings with those of prophets past; compares Mírzá Yaḥyá to the biblical Balaam, who rejected Moses after having occupied an exalted station; and bids His own followers, the newly named ‘people of Bahá’, to enter the ‘ark of eternity’ upon the ‘crimson sea’.

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.179, ROB2.171, MMAH.119, GSH.040, LL#071

BH00295

Madinatu'r-Rida (the City of Radiant Acquiescence)

2180

Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá; City of Radiant Acquiescence (Lawh-i-Madinatu'r-Rida); Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Madinatur-Rida (City of Radiant Acquiescence)

ذکر رحمه الله عبده بالحق لیفتخر بذلک فی ملا العالین و یشکر ربه فی کل حین

Remind his servant of God's clemency in truth, that he might be honored thereby among the concourse of the worlds, and might give thanks to his lord at all times, insofar as God's bounties to him

INBA73:186

BRL_DA#282, AQA4a.135, AVK3.403.02x, ASAT4.015x, AKHA_124BE #11-12 p.bx, OOL.B087

BRL_ATBH#41x, WIND#138, BLO_sazedj#07x, HURQ.BH16x

Expounds various stages and degrees of contentment: contentment with God and His decree; with one’s own self, which requires detachment from the world; with one’s fellow believers, which implies humility in their presence; and with the vicissitudes of the world.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Prayer for forgiveness; Prayer for protection; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Symbolism of color and light; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ROB1.108, MMAH.191, GSH.036, LL#150

BH00306

Chihar Vadi (The Four Valleys)

2100

Call of the Divine Beloved

Chahar Vadi (Four Valleys)

ای ضیاء الحق حسام الدین راد که فلک و ارکان چه تو شاهی نزاد نمیدانم چرا

O light of truth and sword of faith And soul of generosity! No prince hath sky or earth begot

INBA36:334x, BLIB_Or15722.307, , NLI.32p092v

BRL_Chihar, AQA3#069 p.140, TZH4.153x, ASAT4.314x, MSHR2.109x, MSHR3.131x, OOL.B007

CDB#7, HURQ.BH13

M. Milne [track 7]

A mystical work elaborating four different but complementary paths of approach to the Divine: the way of ‘the self ’, ‘the intellect’, ‘love’, and ‘the throne of the inmost heart’.

Belief and denial; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Love of God; Mystical themes; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB1.104, BKOG.159, BKOG.163, MMAH.197, GSH.018, LL#014

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

BH00334

Suriy-i-Qalam

1970

Suriy-i-Qalam (Surih of the Pen)

ان یا قلم الاعلی ان اشهد فی نفسک بانه هو الله لا اله الا انا المهیمن القیوم

O Pen of the Most High! Bear thou witness, in thine own self, that verily He is God and that there is none other God but Me

INBA37:115, BLIB_Or15692.012, , BLIB_Or15706.001, , BLIB_Or15714.049, , BLIB_Or15725.239, , NLAI_BH1.083, NLAI_BH2.204

AQA4#089 p.258, SFI14.036-045n, TZH4.268-270, TSBT.124, ASAT1.111x, ASAT3.015x, ASAT3.136x, ASAT4.508x, OOL.B136, AMB#23

DOR#23, BLO_PT#095, HURQ.BH47

A celebration of the festival of Riḍván, taking the form of a series of apostrophes to His Pen, the denizens of earth and heaven, the concourse of monks, and the Maid of Heaven.

Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Monasticism; asceticism; Proclamation to Christians; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God the cause of creation

ROB2.397, SFI14.036-045, MMAH.159, GSH.192, LL#324

BH00336

Lawh-i-Burhan (= Lawh-i-Raqsha?)

1960

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

Lawh-i-Burhan (Tablet of the Proof)

قد احاطت اریاح البغضا سفینه البطحا بما اکتسبت ایدی الظالمین یا باقر قد افتیت

The winds of hatred have encompassed the Ark of Baṭḥá, by reason of that which the hands of the oppressors have wrought

INBA47:126, INBA35:119x, INBA90:026, INBA97:072, BLIB_Or15729.119, , NLAI_22848:289, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p150r, , UMich962.105-113, MKI4522.289,

AQA2#008 p.152, AVK3.110.07x, AVK4.284ax, AVK4.454bx, MJMM.053, NNY.245, RHQM2.0965-973 (399) (247-252), ASAT2.073x, ASAT3.250x, ASAT4.034x, ASAT4.052x, ASAT4.376x, LDR.217x, TBP#14, OOL.B035, OOL.B110

TB#14, BADM.173-174x, GPB.211x, GPB.218x, GPB.231x, GPB.232x3x, PDC.159x, WOB.179x

Condemns in fiery language two members of the Shiite clergy for their roles in the martyrdom of two prominent Bahá’ís, sets forth the spiritual prerequisites of the truly learned, and summons them to investigate the truth of Bahá’u’lláh’s cause by perusing His writings.

Chastisement and requital; Empty learning; false spirituality; Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment

ROB4.091 et al, GPB.219, MMAH.219, GSH.145, LL#081

BH00347

Lawh-i-Pap (Tablet to Pope Pius IX)

1900

Lawh-i-Pap (Tablet to Pope Pius IX)

ان یا پاپا ان اخرق الاحجاب قد اتی رب الارباب فی ظلل السحاب و قضی الامر من

O Pope! Rend the veils asunder. He Who is the Lord of Lords is come overshadowed with clouds, and the decree hath been fulfilled by God

INBA34:026, BLIB_Or15705.018, , CMB_F31.032, , PR11.026a-031a

NRJ#1a, AQA1#001a, RHQM1.141-142 (180) (106-106x), OOL.B065

SLH#01a, BSC.098 #041

Announces the return of Christ, ‘come down from Heaven even as He came down from it the first time’; warns of the ‘veils of human learning’ that threaten to obscure this truth; calls on the monks to come forth from their seclusion; summons the people of all religions to hasten unto the most great Ocean; asserts the power of His revelation to overcome all opposition; bids the Pope to abandon his worldly riches and adornments; and proclaims to the Christians that John the Baptist has reappeared in the person of the Báb while the promised Father foretold by Isaiah and the Comforter promised by Christ has appeared in the person of Bahá’u’lláh.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Monasticism; asceticism; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to Christians; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering; rejection of Christ; Suffering and imprisonment; Universal peace; world unity

ROB3.116, MMAH.166, MMAH.229, GSH.124, LL#208

Included in the Suriyi-Haykal.

BH00354

Suriy-i-Vafa (=Lawh-i-Vafa)

1870

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

Suriy-i-Vafa (Tablet to Vafa)

ان یا وفاء ان اشکر ربک بما ایدک علی امره و عرفک مظهر نفسه و اقامک علی ثناء ذکره

O Vafa! Render thanks unto thy Lord for having aided thee to embrace His Cause, enabled thee to recognize the Manifestation

INBA28:215, BLIB_Or15694.386, , Berlin1237#26, ALIB.folder18p103-109

GWBP#079 p.102x, AQA4#103 p.350, AQA4a.418, AVK1.119.07x, AVK1.276bx, AVK1.321.01x, LMA1.418 (253), MAS1.006x, MAS1.063x, ASAT5.300x, TBP#12, OOL.B140

TB#12, GWB#079x, WOB.138-139x, NYR#143

Exhorts the recipient to be the essence of faithfulness; asserts Bahá’u’lláh’s mystical identity with the Báb; answers questions about ‘the return’, the worlds of God, the ordinances of God, and paradise; and confirms that, as predicted during the time of His departure from ‘Iraq, the ‘birds of darkness’ have begun to stir.

Chastisement and requital; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Meaning; importance of dreams and visions; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Realms of being; three realms; five realms; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Return of the Manifestations of God

ROB4.205, GSH.190, LL#329

BH00358

Suriy-i-Dam

1850

Tablet of Blood (Súriy-i-Damm); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Suriy-i-Damm (Tablet of Blood)

ان یا محمد اسمع ندآء ربک عن هذا المقام الذی لن یصل الله ایدی الممکنات و لا

O Muhammad! Hearken unto the call of thy Lord from this Station whereunto the hands of all created things cannot attain [3.5s]... ...Adorn thyself with My virtues, in such wise that should anyone stretch forth the hand of oppression against thee, thou wouldst neither take notice nor contend with him.

INBA83:066, BLIB_Or15723.156,

BRL_DA#157, GWBP#039 p.064x, AQA4#075 p.059, AQA4a.001, TZH4.360-366, ASAT4.167x, ASAT5.200x, ASAT5.226x, OOL.B111

BRL_ATBH#61x, GWB#039x, WOB.118-119x, WOB.139x, BLO_PT#109, HURQ.BH42

Proclamatory work declaring the oneness of the Prophets through a vision of the words of the dying Imám Ḥusayn, who identifies his sufferings with those of Abraham, Moses, Joseph, John the Baptist, Jesus, the Báb, and Bahá’u’lláh.

Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Prophecy and fulfillment; Return of the Manifestations of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.236, MMAH.223, GSH.081, LL#296

Sometimes spelled as Súriy-i-Damm.

BH00386

Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words - Arabic)

1750

Bahá'í Scriptures; Hidden Words

Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words)

هذا ما نزل من جبروت العزه بلسان القدره و القوه علی النبیین من قبل و انا

This is that which hath descended from the realm of glory, uttered by the tongue of power and might, and revealed unto the Prophets of old.

INBA36:440, INBA30:002, BLIB_Or8901, BLIB_Or15714.147, , CMB_F33.033, , PR22.049b-056b, PR23.029a-033a, BLIB_Or.08685, CUL.X893.7.B111, UMich962.143-151

BRL_HWA, AVK3.161.16x, ZYN.040, MJMM.017, BSHN.013x, MHT2b.030x, MAS4.367bx, NSR_1993.053, NFF4.001, OOL.B013a

HWAE, LOG#0304x, GPB.140x, SW_v03#01 p.004+007x, SW_v03#02 p.004x, SW_v04#18 p.300x2x, SW_v14#10 p.289-290x, BSC.171 #175-262

L. Slott (#1), S. and S. Toloui-Wallace (#1), almunajat.com (#1) [item 2], D. Gundry (#1), E. Mahony (#1), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#1), Baha'i Youth of Japan (#1), Joel in Real Life (#1), The Daguerreotypes (#1), E. Kelly (#1), L. Dely (#1), Y. Mbazo & Friends (#1), Fleur & Tessa (#1), G.H. Miller (#1), S. Peyman (#1), S. Eblaghi and M. Weigert (#1), K. Porray (#1), R. Johnston-Garvin (#1) [track 6], D. Sylvester (#1), M. Levine (#2), Nicolas & Louis (#2), L. Dely (#2), A.E. Rahbin (#2), R. Peterson (#2) [track 6], A. Wensbo (#3), E. Mahony (#3), S. Sunderland (#3), S. Sunderland (#3), M. Levine (#3) [track 2], L. Dely (#3), Rowshan (#3) [track 8], P. Held & C. Bahia (#3) [track 2], A. Youssefi (#4), E. Lilian (#4), MANA (#4), S. Peyman (#4), J. Cooper (#4), L. Dely (#4), R. Peterson (#4) [track 4], Corinne & Riaz (#4), L. Dube (#4) [track 3], Ladjamaya (#4) [track 7], D. Gundry (#5), W. Heath (#5), E. Mahony and A. Youssefi (#5), Bass Adjustment (#5), Ine (#5), M. Weigert (#5), S. Engle and J. White (#5), S. Gomes (#5), T. Ellis (#5), K. Kuolga (#5), A. Mirra (#5), Rowshan (#5) [track 11], SKY (#5), KC Porter (#5), E. Kelly (#5), M. Levine (#5) [track 7], L. Dely (#5), K. Key (#5), A. Sperandeo (#5), A. Wood (#6), L. Slott (#6), Y. Mesbah (#6), L. Dely (#6), The Descendants (#6), The Joburg Baha'i Choir (#6), Honiara Baha'i Youth (#6), The Badasht Project (1) (#7), The Badasht Project (2) (#7), Nabil and Karim (#7), Matt McGrath (#7), T. Nosrat (#7), L. Dube (#7) [track 12], Ladjamaya (#8) [track 4], almunajat.com (#9) [item 1], E. Mahony (#9), D. Hunt (#9), N. Ma'ani (#9), S. Toloui-Wallace (#9), J. Raj (#9), MJ Cyr (#11), O. Devine (#11), Refuge (#11), L. Dely & M. Congo (#11), Oisin & Bahiyyih Devine (#11), A. Azad (#11), Ahdieh (#11), S. Taborn (#11), S. Sunderland (#11), The Descendants (#12), O. Devine (#12), B. Nakedi (#12), P. Held & C. Bahia (#12) [track 3], M.C. Santillana (#12), M. Levine (#12) [track 2], R. Lea (#13), P. Held & C. Bahia (#13) [track 4], Joel in Real Life (#13), A.E. Rahbin (#13), L. Dube (#13) [track 2], MJ Cyr (#14), S. Taefi (#14) [track 9], L. Slott (#14), SKY (#14), A.E. Rahbin (#14), L. Slott (#15), A. Youssefi (#15), L. Dely (#15), E. Mahony (#15), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#15), L. Dube (#15) [track 14], Chicago Baha'i Community (#15), M. Sparrow (#16), Honiara Baha'i Youth (#16), MANA (#16), S. Jaberi (#16), L. Dely & M. Congo (#16) [track 7], L. Slott (#17), E. Mahony (#17), E. Mahony, E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#17), E. Henrikson (#17), Mona, Dibo & Nachidah (#17), L. Dely & M. Congo (#17) [track 7], E. Lilian (#18), Rowshan (#19) [track 5], J. Heath (#19) [track 9], J. Heath (#19), D. Olam (#19) [track 11], T. Ellis (#19), Sabin & Leticia (#19), A. Youssefi (#20), TaliaSafa & Friends (#20), Ine (#21), M. Saraswati (#21), A. Youssefi (#22), G.H. Miller (#22), NKAK (#22), K. Porray (#22), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#22), Ann-Sofie & Shahram (#22), T. Ellis (#22), The Descendants (#22), Naseem, Michele & Yasmin (#22), Meredth & Arman (#22), E. Tarani (#22), R. Yazhari (#23), L. Dely (#23), L. Dely (#25) [track 5], L. Dube (#26) [track 17], L. Dely (#27), P. Held & C. Bahia (#29) [track 5], L. Slott (#31), jeph.ilosopher (#31), L. Dely (#31), K. Key (#31), A. Youssefi (#32), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#32), Roz, Amelia & Andre (#32), Ahdi (#32), P. Escobar (#33), N. Ma'ani (#33), Laura & Michael (#33), R. Peterson (#33) [track 5], L. Herrmann (#34), Gyenyame (#34), C. Zurek (#34), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#35), L. Dely (#35), S. & H. Fikri (#35), L. Dube (#35) [track 21], A. Tahirih R. Weiss (#36), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#36), J. Marks and S. Engle (#36), K. Porray (#36), Hayden, Alessia & Anis (#36), A. Youssefi (#38), T. Ellis (#38), E. Mahony (#39), Rowshan (#40), A.E. Rahbin (#40), M. Tokuma (#41), L. Dely & M. Congo (#41) [track 1], Calling Waiting Searching (#42), G.H. Miller (#42), L. Dube (#42) [track 19], S. Gomes (#42), E. Mahony (#43), Dawnbreaker Collective (#43), Heroes Teaching Conference (#43), M. Perez (#43), J. Duhart (#43), G.H. Miller (#44), L. Dely (#44), A.E. Rahbin (#44), L. Dube (#44) [track 8], Nabil and Karim (#46), R. Lea (#48), L.Slott (#48), Katie & Faizi (#48), L. Dely (#48), SKY (#48), L. Dube (#48) [track 15], HeartBeat Collective (#48), L. & L. Hosack (#48), S. Acevedo (#48), A. Youssefi (#50), E. Mahony (#50), K. and D. Eckert and A. Youssefi (#50), Leona and Larry (#51), The Baha'i Trio (#51), E. Lilian (#52), L. Dely & M. Congo (#52) [track 6], E. Mahony (#52), N.D. Huening (#52), C. Oja (#52), S. Skiti (#52), J. Heath (#53) [track 7], S. Toloui-Wallace (#55), M. Levine (#55) [track 3], W. Eng & N. Rajan (#55), Qurratul, Ruhiyyih & Verona (#55), O. Devine (#55), R. Orona (#55), T. Bradley (#55), J. Cooper (#55), Seaon & Saman (#55), D. Stevenson (#56), L. Dube (#57) [track 7], K. Porray (#58), K. Porray (#59), O. Devine (#59), Baha'i Youth of Japan (#59), QuiqueSaba (#59), Strong Steep (#59), Ladjamaya (#59) [track 2], Z. Affolter (#60), L. Dely (#60), L. Dube (#61) [track 10], unknown (#62), L. Dube (#62) [track 1], M. Cuvillier (#63), L. Dube (#63) [track 9], P. Held & C. Bahia (#64) [track 6], L. Dube (#66) [track 20], Ine (#66), W. Heath (#68), Chicago Baha'i Community (#68), P. Held & C. Bahia (#68) [track 7], D. E. Walker (#68), S. Jaberi (#68), C. Oja (#68), L. Harley (#68), D. Stevenson (#71), L. Dely (#71), L. Dube (#71) [track 16]

The Arabic portion of His foremost ethical work, consisting of 71 aphorisms spoken in the voice of the Divine and declaring themselves to be the ‘inner essence’ of what was revealed to ‘the Prophets of old’, affirming the essential nobility and divinity of the human soul, prescribing its intimate communion with its Creator, proclaiming the oneness of the human race, and declaring our consequent responsibility to fellowship, love, fair-mindedness, and mutual aid for one another, especially the poor and downtrodden.

Bringing oneself to account each day; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf]; God's love for His own Essence; Human reality created in the image of God; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Knowledge of self; Love of God; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Soul; spirit after death

ROB1.071 et al, BKOG.159 et al, GPB.140, MMAH.092, GSH.016, LL#025

BH00391

1740

ساذج ذکر و ثنا سلطان قدم و دارای عالم را سزاست که بیک تجلی از تجلیات انوار

The pure essence of praise and glorification befitteth the Sovereign of eternity and the Lord of all worlds, Who through but a single effulgence from among the effulgences of His light [3.5s]

INBA07:197, INBA19:124x, INBA32:114x, INBA57:079x, BLIB_Or11097#059, , BLIB_Or15710.282, , NLAI_BH4.202-209

NNY.005x, NNY.087-088x, NNY.144-150, MAS8.176x

Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prophecy and fulfillment

ROB4.073, ROB4.088a, LL#006, LL#263

BH00394

Sahifiy-i-Shattiyih (the Book of the Tigris)

1730

Tablet of the River [Tigris]; Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá

Shahifiy-i-Shattiyyih (Book of the River)

قد اکثرت القول فی ذلک ولکن الناس اکثرهم لایفقهون آنچه از ظهورات معجزات که

The people talk constantly about this subject, but most of them comprehend not. Of the miracles mentioned, those which are ascribed to this humble one are fabrications contrived by impostors

INBA36:316, INBA57:010, BLIB_Or15722.267, , BN_suppl.1754.139-143

BRL_DA#734, MAS4.142, RHQM1.285-291 (349) (209-213), OOL.B096

BLO_PT#137, BLO_sazedj#10x, JBS#9.3

Challenges the validity of miracles as proof and takes the coursing of the Tigris River as a central metaphor in a discussion of the irresistible power of the Cause of God, fate and predestination, and the root cause of dissension in the world.

Differences in human capacity; Miracles and their interpretation; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God is its own standard

ROB1.105, MMAH.228, GSH.024, LL#280

BH00395

Lawh-i-Sayyah (=Suratu'l-Widad)

1720

Lawh-i-Sayyah (Tablet of the Traveller)

ان یا علی فاشهد بانی ظهور الله فی جبروت البقاء و بطونه فی غیب العماء و جمال

O Ali! Bear thou witness that verily I am the Manifestation of God in the Kingdom of eternity, His concealment in the mystic realm of the divine cloud, and the Beauty [3.5s]... ...Upon Our arrival We were welcomed with banners of light, whereupon the Voice of the Spirit cried out saying

INBA36:052, INBA71:211

BRL_DA#396, RSBB.075, MUH3.258-262, OOL.B079

GPB.184x2x, HURQ.BH49

Declares Bahá’u’lláh’s messianic claim; urges the Bábís to embrace it; relates a mystical journey to different groups of people who, though outwardly pious, were veiled in various ways from recognizing the truth; and foretells His further exile to the ‘vale of Nabíl’, later interpreted as a reference to the city of ‘Akká.

Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.210, ROB3.013, BKOG.220, BKOG.245, MMAH.220, GSH.079, LL#236

BH00401

1710

خادم مسکین متحیر و متفکر که چه ذکر نماید و که را وصف کند و ستایش گوید حق جل

This lowly servant, bewildered and deep in thought, wondereth what to utter, whom to describe, and how to render praise unto the All-Glorious [3.5s]

INBA15:429, INBA26:433

AHM.068, GHA.017.11, GHA.032ax, TSBT.011, MSHR5.113-114x

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Power of prayer; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for forgiveness; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB4.299, LL#191, LL#230

BH00423

Lawh-i-Haqqu'n-Nas

1650

Bahá'u'lláh's Lawh-i Haqqu'n-Nas; Tablet on the Right of the People (Lawh-i haqq al-nas)

Lawh-i Haqqun-Nas (Tablet of the Right of the People)

الحمد لله الذی وفی بما اوحی علی کافة انبیائه و رسله و بشر الکل بایامه و منها یوم

Praise be to God Who fulfilled what He revealed to all His Prophets and Messengers and gave to all the tidings of His days

MAS7.119, VUJUD.102x

BLO_PT#016, BLO_PT#162, VUJUDE.189x

Answers a question about the execution of justice in the next world as a result of actions in this world, explaining that everything in this physical world has a metaphorical counterpart in each of the divine worlds, which guarantees the settling of accounts, and giving three illustrative examples.

Goodly deeds; actions; Islamic laws and jurisprudence; Meaning; importance of dreams and visions; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Soul; spirit after death; Two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization

ROB3.286, ROB3.296-297, LL#356

BH00431

Lawh-i-Ibna'

1630

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

تلک لآیات الله المهیمن القیوم الی الذینهم آمنوا بالله و آیاته و هم من فزع

These are the verses of God, the All-Protecting, the Self-Subsisting, unto them that have believed in God and His signs, and who are among those that are in terror [3.5s]... ...And now, concerning thy question regarding the creation of man. Know thou that all men have been created in the nature made by God

INBA35:063

BRL_DA#109, GWBP#077 p.101ax, RSBB.069, TZH5.148x, MAS1.065x, AHDW.010, YIK.050-054, OOL.B161

BRL_ATBH#38x, GWB#077x, GPB.242x, SW_v08#14 p.185x

Admonishes the believers not to deny Him, not to forget the Covenant established in the Bayán and in all the sacred Books, and not to contend with His verses. Answers three questions out of more than twenty that were asked: regarding the station of man -- that all were created in God's nature and have been assigned predetermined measures of capacities and capabilities, which manifest according to their individual efforts; regarding His own station, which is greater than the creation of the heavens and the earth; and regarding the station of His sons, one of whom which will be manifested "through the power of the true Faith".

Free will and predestination; fate; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Power of the Manifestation of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB2.259-260, LL#141, LL#384, LL#433

BH00433

Lawh-i-Abdu'l-Vahhab

1630

Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Abdu'l-Vahhab

حمد مقدس از ادراک و عقول بساط قدس حضرت قیومی را لایق و سزاست که بنفس خود من

Sanctified praise, transcending minds and understanding, befitteth the holy court of that Self-Subsisting Lord Who, through His own Self [3.5s]... ...O ‘Abdu’l Vaḥḥáb! May the glory of God, the Almighty, the Bountiful, rest upon thee. Incline thine ear

UMich962.156x, MKI4523.212, , BN_suppl.1753.059-063

BRL_DA#702, GWBP#081 p.105x, AVK1.120.02x, AVK3.303.13x, AVk3.463.01x, AVK4.284.11x, ISH.212, MJMM.160, RRT.143x, ASAT2.027x, ADH1.009x, OOL.B020

GWB#081x, LOG#0686x, SW_v06#19 p.165x, SW_v09#06 p.080x, SW_v14#02 p.038-039x, BSC.226 #446-452x, HURQ.BH71

Addresses a question on the soul and its continuance after death, alludes to the state of the souls in the next world while declaring that it cannot be adequately described, and declares that the whole truth of the matter has remained concealed for the sake of the protection of the human race.

Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Power of the Manifestation of God; Proofs for the existence; immortality of the soul; Soul; spirit after death; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB4.041, MMAH.145, GSH.176, LL#034

Shares with BH00070 a passage on the soul after death, beginning: "Know thou of a truth that the soul, after its separation from the body, will continue to progress until it attaineth the presence of God"

BH00454

Lawh-i-Huriyyih (Tablet of the Maiden)

1580

Tablet of the Maiden

Lawh-i-Huriyyih (Tablet of the Maiden)

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اذکرک حینئذ حین الذی استشرقت شمس الوهیتک عن افق سماء

Praise be unto Thee, O Lord, My God! I mention Thee at this moment when the Sun of Thy divinity is shining from the horizon of the Heaven

INBA48:036, INBA66:004, INBA92:001, BLIB_Or15714.058, , BLIB_Or15739.080,

AQA4#102 p.342, AQA4a.379, SFI16.008-012, ASAT3.134x, ASAT4.049x, OOL.B045

BLO_PT#133, HURQ.BH20

Describes a visionary encounter with the Maid of Heaven, who looks deeply within His soul and expires in sorrow upon perceiving the extent of His suffering.

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Mystical themes; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB1.125, ROB3.223, BKOG.167, MMAH.211, GSH.020, LL#118

BH00457

Lawh-i-Mubahilih

1580

Tablets concerning the Divine Test

Surat al-Mubahalah (Surah of the Divine Test)

هذا لوح قد فصل من لوح المحفوظ لیکون بنفسه هدایه و رحمه علی کل من فی السموات

This is a Tablet that hath been separated from the Preserved Tablet, that it might serve, of itself, as a guidance and mercy unto all who dwell in the heavens [3.5s]... ...O Muhammad! He Who is the Spirit hath, verily, issued from His habitation, and with Him have come forth the souls of God's chosen ones

BLIB_Or07852.089, , BLIB_Or15725.463, , NLAI_BH2.006

BRL_DA#153, TZH5.029n-044n, MAS4.278.18x, MAS7.243-244x, ASAT4.487x, SAM.208, PYK.006, YMM.338x, OOL.B060

GPB.168-169x, BLO_PT#199x

Praises the station of Quddús, one of the Báb’s first disciples and an early martyr, and relates the circumstances of the public challenge issued by Bahá’u’lláh to Mírzá Yaḥyá to take place in the mosque of Sultan Salim, at which the latter failed to present himself, which sealed the irreparable breach that had arisen between them.

Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Martyrs and martyrdom; Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB2.293, GPB.169, MMAH.168, LL#184

See also BH03710.

BH00466

1540

رشحات وحی از اوراق سدره منتهی باعانت نسیم اراده مالک اسماء بهیئت این کلمات

The dewdrops of revelation, aided by the breezes of the Will of the Lord of Names, have descended from the leaves of the Divine Lote-Tree in the form of these words [3.5s]... ...Indeed the laws of God are like unto the ocean and the children of men as fish

INBA35:140x, BLIB_Or15719.031, , Majlis934.092-108

AVK2.057.13x, AVK3.119.11x, AVK3.298.16x, UAB.031dx, MAS4.170x, KSHG.064-070, MSBH2.482-489

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity; Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Methods of teaching the Cause; Music and singing; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight; Wisdom [hikmat]

ROB3.279, LL#131

BH00472

Lawh-i-Ittihad

1530

Tablet of Unity; Tablet of Unity; Creative Word and the Meaning of Unity, The

Lawh-i-Ittihad (Tablet of Unity)

قد حضر لدی المظلوم کتاب احد من السادات الذین اقبلوا الی الله و سمعوا و اجابوا

The letter of one of the Sádát, they who have set themselves towards God and having heard the Call have answered their Lord, the All-Loving

BLIB_Or15738.055,

BRL_DA#707, AVK3.095.10x, AVK3.113.10x, AVK3.258.12x, AVK3.474.02x, AHM.388, UAB.048dx, KHSK.089-093, OOL.B048a

LOIR02.093, BLO_PT#027, BLO_PT#146, BLO_PT#147

Elucidates the subject of unity in different aspects: unity of religion, unity in speech, unity of deeds, unity in rank and station, unity of souls, and unity in material possessions.

Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; The power of words; of speech; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity in diversity; Wisdom [hikmat]

ROB4.191, MMAH.090, LL#129

BH00478

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Maryam

1510

Bahá'u'lláh's Four Tablets to Maryam

Ziyarat-Namih-i-Maryam (Tablet of Visitation for Maryam)

ان یا قلم الاعلی مااخذک السرور فی ایام ربک العلی الاعلی لتغن به علی افنان

O Pen of Glory! Thou hast never been seized with transports of joy during the days of Thy Lord, the Exalted, the Most High

INBA38:311, INBA48:052, INBA49:260, BLIB_Or15714.119, , BLIB_Or15739.108, , NLAI_BH2.336, Majlis210461.104-111

BRL_DA#568, TAHR.336-339, ASAT4.080x, AKHT1.093-094x, AKHT1.366, HYK.334x, OOL.B153

LTDT.298-299x, BLO_PT#015, HURQ.BH85

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for protection; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Visitation Tablets

ROB1.013, GSH.205, LL#348

Stephen Lambden states that this Tablet of Visitation was "apparently primarily written by Baha'u'llah for Tahirih and utilized also for various other eminent female Bahá'ís, including Maryam".

BH00505

Lawh-i-Aqdas (Tablet to the Christians)

1470

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

Lawh-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Tablet)

هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی مامنعته سبحات الاسماء عن الله فاطر الارض و السما

This is an Epistle from Our presence unto him whom the veils of names have failed to keep back from God

INBA34:100, BLIB_Or15735.163, , CMB_F32.085,

AQA1#006, SFI16.025, NSR_1993.024ax, ASAT1.168x, ASAT4.185x, HYK.163, TBP#02, OOL.B026

TB#02, COF.030ax, TDH#158.3x, GPB.210x8x, GPB.253x, GPB.396x, PDC.166x, PDC.166-167x, PDC.167-168x, PDC.168x, PDC.174x, WOB.078x, SW_v04#01 p.013, SW_v04#01 p.014-020, BSC.124 #049

Ahdieh

Announces to an unnamed Christian Bahá’u’lláh’s revelation as the fulfilment of Christian prophetic expectations, reproaches the Christians in general and the clergy in particular for failing to recognize it, asks them to consider how Christ was similarly rejected by the people of His day, and concludes with a series of beatitudes reminiscent of the Sermon on the Mount.

Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Monasticism; asceticism; Mosaic imagery; Proclamation to Christians; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB4.227 et al, BKOG.382, GPB.209, WOB.104, MMAH.165, GSH.164-168, LL#060

BH00508

1460

Huqúqu'lláh

این ایامیست که قلم و لسان جز بذکر شهدا ساکن نه و دوست نداشته و ندارد بذکری

These are the days wherein neither pen nor tongue findeth rest or desireth aught save the remembrance of the martyrs [3.5s]... ...Payments for the Huququ'llah cannot be handed over to every person. These words have been uttered by Him Who is the sovereign Truth

INBA28:516

BRL_DA#398, BRL_HUQUQP#087x

BRL_HUQUQ#087x, COC#1156x, LOG#1040x

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Law of Huququ'llah; Martyrs and martyrdom; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB4.089c, LL#006

BH00513

Suriy-i-Dhabih (= Lawh-i-Dhabih)

1450

Suriy-i-Dhabih (Tablets to Dhabih)

روحی و نفسی لک الفداء کتاب مبارک که بطراز حب محبوب عالمیان مزین بود این خادم

My spirit and soul be a sacrifice unto Thee! The blessed Book, which was adorned with the ornament of love for the Best-Beloved of all worlds, reached this servant [3.5s]... ...The Pen of Revelation, O Dhabih, hath, in most of the divinely-revealed Tablets, recorded these words

BLIB_Or11096#242x, , BLIB_Or15698.323, , BLIB_Or15720.315, , BLIB_Or15740.246x,

BRL_DA#141, GWBP#115 p.155, AVK3.269.13x, AVK3.270.08x, IQT.323, GHA.333x, ASAT1.131x, OOL.B112.1

GWB#115x, ADJ.024x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.077x, GPB.099x, PDC.119-120x

Summons the Bahá’ís to upright conduct, obedience to worldly authority, and high moral character and warns that the greatest harm that can be inflicted upon Bahá’u’lláh’s Cause is not His imprisonment and persecution but the misdeeds of those who claim to be His followers.

Bribery and corruption; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Obedience to and respect for government authority; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB2.412, LL#082, LL#297

BH00534

1400

الحمد لله الذی تفرد بالامر و توحد بالحکم و انزل من سماء الاحدیه حکم الحکمه و

All praise be unto God Who is single in His command and unique in His decree, and Who hath sent down from the heaven of oneness the precepts of wisdom [3.5s]... ...I beseech Thee, Who art the Lord of the entire creation and the Edifier of all that is come into being, by Him Who is the Revelator of the divine verses

BLIB_Or15727b.108,

ADM3#093 p.106x, AVK3.020.09x, AVK3.116.03x, NNY.150-152x, MAS8.106ax, AYI2.305x, RHQM1.430-430 (521x) (320x), ASAT3.210x, ASAT5.250x, YMM.425x

JHT_S#167x

Knowledge; recognition of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Wisdom [hikmat]

ROB4.089b, LL#006

BH00537

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Siyyidu'sh-Shuhada

1380

Tablet of Visitation for Imám Husayn (Lawh-i-Zíyárat-Namih-i-Imám Husayn); Translation List; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Ziyarat-Namih-i-Imam Husayn (Tablet of Visitation for Imam Husayn)

شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و الذی اتی انه هو الموعود فی الکتب و الصحف و

God testifieth that there is no God but Him! And He that hath appeared is the One promised in all the Books and sacred Scrolls…. Glory be unto Thee O my God, O Thou the Lord of Manifestation, Whose shed the glory of His effulgence upon the branch of Sinai!

INBA65:001, BLIB_Or15696.175bx, , BLIB_Or15714.112,

BRL_DA#158, ADM2#010 p.024x, MJMM.202, AYT.235, ASAT3.100x, DLH3.422x, OOL.B154

BRL_ATBH#59x, BLO_PT#149, ADMS#003x, JHT_S#173x

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Imam Husayn; Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for martyrs; Visitation Tablets

ROB3.303, MMAH.226, GSH.144, LL#347, LL#350

Tablet of Visitation for Imam Husayn.

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

BH00579

Lawh-i-Maryam

1300

Lawh-i-Maryam (Tablet to Maryam) Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh's Four Tablets to Maryam; Days of Remembrance

Lawh-i-Maryam (Tablet to Maryam)

ای مریم مظلومیتم مظلومیت اسم اولم را از لوح امکان محو نموده و از سحاب قضا

O Maryam! The wrongs which I suffer have blotted out the wrongs suffered by My First Name from the Tablet of creation.

INBA38:087, INBA28:386

BRL_DA#739, AYT.366, BSHN.046, MHT2b.044x, TZH4.138-139x, TZH4.159-161x, TZH4.261-262x, MAS4.329, RHQM2.0991-996 (430) (264-267), ANDA#05 p.02, OOL.B058c, AMB#31

DOR#31, BKOG.117x, LTDT.300x, GPB.118x, GPB.119x, GPB.120x, GPB.124x, GPB.125x, BLO_PT#015, BLO_PT#048

Recounts to one of His cousins Bahá’u’lláh’s banishment to Baghdad, His departure for Sulaymaniyah, the dispirited character of the Bábí community upon His return, and His efforts to instil new life into it; alludes to His still-hidden messianic secret and counsels purity of heart as a precondition to its recognition; and announces His withdrawal from the community.

Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ROB1.013, BKOG.117, MMAH.132, GSH.174, LL#164

BH00587

Lawh-i-Siyyid Mihdiy-i-Dahaji

1290

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

Lawh-i-Siyyid-i-Mihdiy-i-Dahaji (Tablet to Siyyid Mihdiy-i-Dahaji)

ان یا اسمی ان احمد الله بما جعلناک امطار الفضل لما زرعناه فی الاراضی الطیبه

O my Name! Yield thou praise unto God for having graciously chosen thee to be a shower of bounty for that which We have sown

BLIB_Or15710.097, , BLIB_Or15738.100, , Majlis934.133-147

BRL_DA#103, AVK3.468.12x, AVK3.470.15x, AVK4.480ax, ASAT5.206x, ASAT5.256x, TBP#13, OOL.B163

TB#13, GPB.216x

T. Ellis, L. Harley

Praises a prominent teacher of the Bahá’í Faith, declares that the complete victory of the Cause of God will be achieved through speech and utterance, and stipulates the prerequisites of effective speech: that it possess moderation and refinement, be delivered with tact and wisdom, and have penetrating influence, all of which require detachment and purity of heart on the part of the speaker.

Methods of teaching the Cause; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Stories; anecdotes; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The power of words; of speech

ROB4.236, LL#245

BH00597

Lawh-i-Ashraf

1270

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablet to Ashraf

Lawh-i Ashraf (Tablet to Ahsraf)

ان یا اشرف اسمع ما یلقیک لسان القدم و لاتکن من الغافلین و ان استماع نغمه من نغمات

O Ashraf, listen carefully to what the Tongue of the Eternal has to say. Any one of the melodies of your Lord would be sufficient to attract the hearts

INBA83:216, BLIB_Or15702.276, , NLAI_BH2.308, ALIB.folder18p167

BRL_DA#722, GWBP#052 p.075x, AVK3.088.11x, MJMM.211, ASAT1.123x, ASAT1.140x, ASAT2.065x, ASAT5.347x, OOL.B027

GWB#052x, BLO_PT#171

A summons to the recognition of Bahá’u’lláh, naming the proofs of His cause as His own self, His revelation, and His words, and admonishing the Bábís who had not yet embraced it.

Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Personal instructions; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.230, ROB2.120, GSH.186, LL#063

Quoted in the Lawh-i-Istintaq, BH00015.

BH00637

Lawh-i-Fitnih (Tablet of the Test)

1500

Lawh-i-Fitnih (Tablet of the Test)

ان یا فتنه البقا فانتظری فتنه الله المهیمن القیوم بانها سیاتیکم بالحق فها قد

O Enchantment of eternity! Await thou the Enchantment of God, the All-Protecting, the Self-Subsisting, for verily it shall come unto you with truth. Lo, it hath [3.5s]

INBA81:080x

BRL_DA#574, MAS4.261x, RHQM1.206-209 (262-265) (157-159x), YIA.567-569x, OOL.B037x

Foretells a coming period of tests and trials, which will encompass all created things and every atom of existence and lay violent hold on the peoples of the world.

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB1.128, MMAH.173, GSH.036, LL#087

BH00647

Lawh-i-Pisar-'Amm (Tablet to the Cousin)

1170

Tablet to the Cousin (Lawh-i-Pisar-'Amm); River of Life, The; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Pisar-Amm (Tablet to the Cousin)

ای پسر عم حمد کن خدا را که این نسبت کبری قطع نشد و سبقت گرفتی از جمیع

O son of My paternal uncle! Render praise unto God that the ties of this most great kinship have not been severed.

BLIB_Or03116.082, , BLIB_Or11096#019, , BLIB_Or15698.174, , BLIB_Or15720.171, , BLIB_Or15740.132, , Majlis934.308-318

BRL_DA#156, AVK3.110.02x, AVK3.189.12x, AVK3.368.06x, IQT.174, AYI1.339x, UAB.044ax, IQN.128x, ASAT4.503x, OOL.B066

BRL_ATBH#53x, ROL.050-051x

Praises the recipient, a paternal cousin, for his faithfulness; remonstrates with another relative for remaining distant, asking him whether it is better to die in his bed or in the path of God; and calls the people of a certain village not to grieve over their suffering and not to engage in rebellion and revolt but to eschew dissension and strife and to be characterized with divine attributes.

Fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf]; Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB3.216, MMAH.139, GSH.184, LL#209, LL#427

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.

BH00687

Qad Ihtaraqa'l-Mukhlisun (The Fire Tablet)

1120

Fire Tablet; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

Lawh-i-Qad-Ihtaraqal-Mukhlisun (Fire Tablet)

ان یا مهدی ان انظر من افق البدآء انوار وجه ربک العلی الابهی ثم استمع الندآء

Indeed the hearts of the sincere are consumed in the fire of separation: Where is the gleaming of the light of Thy Countenance, O Beloved of the worlds?

INBA33:147x, INBA30:124, INBA81:192, BLIB_Or11095#009, , BLIB_Or15738.124,

BRL_DA#335, AHM.169, TSBT.219, MAS4.236ax, NFF2.007x, ASAT1.064x, ASAT5.255x, ABMK.055, OOL.B091

BPRY.312, BLO_PT#036, BLO_PT#037, BSTW#411

Ahdieh, S. and S. Toloui-Wallace, B. Lisbeth, A. Yanch, Gyenyame, T. Ellis

Written in rhythmic prose and taking the form of a conversation between Bahá’u’lláh and God in verses reminiscent of the biblical Book of Job, Bahá’u’lláh calls to God in His suffering and in God’s apparent absence and receives God’s answer as to the wisdom of this suffering.

Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB3.226, BKOG.321, MMAH.115, GSH.188, LL#211

BH00698

Lawh-i-Manikchi Sahib

1110

Bahá'í Scriptures; Baha'u'llah's Tablet to Mánikchí Sáhib; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tabernacle of Unity, The

Lawh-i-Manikchi Sahib (Tablets to Manikchi Sahib); - Tabernacle of Unity (book)

ستایش بیننده پاینده را سزا است که بشبنمی از دریای بخشش خود آسمان هستی را بلند

Praise be to the all-perceiving, the ever-abiding Lord Who, from a dewdrop out of the ocean of His grace, hath reared the firmament of existence

INBA35:116, BLIB_Or15715.120b, , BLIB_Or15722.092, , BN_suppl.1753.118-123

BRL_TBUP#1, GWBP#106 p.138x, AVK3.095.19x, AVK3.104.08x, AVK3.169.06x, AVK3.205.03x, ZYN.236, MJMM.259, RSBB.175, YARP1.019, DWNP_v5#02-3 p.001-002x, UAB.021ax, UAB.027ax, UAB.032ax, UAB.035ax, UAB.046cx, DRD.002, DLS.301x, NVJ.030, ASAT1.009x, ASAT4.014x, ASAT4.131x, ASAT5.041x, PYB#066 p.03x, ADH1.009x, AKHA_109BE #01 p.002x, AKHA_119BE #08 p.ax, PYM.111ax, ANDA#79 p.12x, ANDA#79 p.16x, OOL.B056

TBU#1, GWB#106x, SW_v01#01 p.005, SW_v03#02 p.003, SW_v07#18 p.186, BLO_PT#019, BSC.130 #050

Parrish & Toppano, S. Toloui-Wallace, M. Sparrow, The Joburg Baha'i Choir, Sahar & Hoda

Addresses a number of theological questions by implying that the answers lie in the realm of action, in the process elucidating several central Bahá’í teachings: that the Manifestations should be regarded as ‘divine physicians’ prescribing the remedy from age to age in accordance with the disease, that the unity of mankind is the remedy for the ills of today, that one should be ‘anxiously concerned with the needs of the age’ in which one lives and centre one’s deliberations ‘on its exigencies and requirements’, and that words should be matched with deeds and that both should be motivated by purity of intention.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Procession; appearance of the Word from God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity; Words vs deeds

ROB3.270, GSH.174, LL#160, LL#176

BH00729

Lawh-i-Ghulamu'l-Khuld (Tablet of the Immortal Youth)

1070

Lawh-i-Ghulamul-Khuld (Tablet of the Immortal Youth)

قد فتحت ابواب الفردوس و طلع غلام القدس بسلطان مبین فیا بشری هذا غلام الخلد

Lo, the gates of Paradise were unlocked, and the hallowed Youth came forth bearing a serpent plain. Rejoice! This is the immortal Youth

INBA36:464, BLIB_Or15706.093, BLIB_Or15706.139, BLIB_Or15714.014,

AQA7#414 p.203, AYT.092, ASAT4.401x, AKHA_124BE #04-05 p.hx, OOL.B038, AMB#27

DOR#27, BLO_PT#127

Narrates in mystical language the appearance of the Immortal Youth (Bahá’u’lláh), whose beauty is compared to that of Joseph, who is unveiled by the Maid of Heaven and who summons His lovers unto Him.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love of God; Mystical themes; Pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God

ROB1.213, MMAH.125, GSH.032, LL#090

BH00746

Shikkar-Shikan Shavand

1050

Fire and Light; Tablet of Shikkar Shikan (Shikkar Shikkan Shavand); Tablet of Shikkar Shikan (Shikkar Shikkan Shavand); Tablet of Shikkar Shikan Shavand

Lawh-i-Shikkar Shikan (Tablet of Shikkar Shikan Shavand)

شکرشکن شوند همه طوطیان هند زین قند پارسی که به بنگاله میرود مکتوب آنجناب

Warblers, mellifluous-toned, all the parrots of Ind shall be, Because of this Pársí sugar-cone which to Bengal goes… They that yearn for the abode of the Beloved, they that circle round the sanctuary of the Desired One

INBA38:064, INBA36:351, INBA30:070, BLIB_Or15722.210, , BN_suppl.1753.102-106

BRL_DA#127, NANU_BH#11x, TZH4.242, DRD.147, RHQM1.575-577 (703) (431-433x), ASAT2.105x, ASAT3.105x, AKHA_119BE #09-10 p.ax, FBAH.134x, LDR.432x, NJB_v11#01 p.21-24, OOL.B099

BRL_FIRE_BH#06x, BLO_PT#120, BLO_PT#121, BKOG.149x

Poetically anticipates future opposition and lauds the constancy of the loved ones of God in the face of threats and persecutions.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB1.147, BKOG.149, BKOG.446, MMAH.209, GSH.031, LL#286

BH00759

Lawh-i-Naqus (=Subhanaka Ya Hu)

1040

Lawh-i-Naqus (Tablet of the Bell)

یا راهب الاحدیه اضرب علی الناقوس بما ظهر یوم الله و استوی جمال العز علی عرش

This is the garden of Paradise, wherein arise the anthems of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting; wherein ascend the soul-entrancing melodies

INBA36:466, BLIB_Or15706.083, , BLIB_Or15714.020,

AHM.141, AYT.100, NSR_1993.099, TSQA4.293, ABMK.040, OOL.B101, AMB#26, RMT.023

DOR#26, RBB.169-172, BLO_PT#122, BLO_PT#123, BLO_PT#124

Proclamatory tablet, with repeated refrain celebrating the name ‘He’, commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the declaration of the Báb.

God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Monasticism; asceticism; Nearness and remoteness; Prayer for detachment; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB2.018, EBTB.130, BKOG.206, MMAH.103, GSH.071, LL#288

BH00821

Tablet of the Divine Springtime

990

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

Lawh-i-Ridvan (Tablets of Ridvan)

ان یا قلم الاعلی قد اتی ربیع البیان بما تقرب عید الرحمن قم بین ملا الانشاء

The Divine Springtime is come, O Most Exalted Pen, for the Festival of the All-Merciful is fast approaching.

BLIB_Or15692.037, , BLIB_Or15706.061, , BLIB_Or15714.027,

GWBP#014 p.027, AYT.254, OOL.B203, AMB#06

GWB#014, DOR#06, ADJ.078x, GPB.154x3x, GPB.154-155x, WOB.206x

R. Yazhari (1), R. Yazhari (2), E. Mahony, TaliaSafa (1), TaliaSafa (2), B. Butler, Joel in Real Life, Joel in Real Life

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love of God; Proclamation to the people of the world; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB1.274, ROB2.397, BKOG.169, LL#221

BH00827

Lawh-i-Haft Pursish (Tablet of the Seven Questions)

990

Tabernacle of Unity, The

Lawh-i-Haft Pursish (Tablet of Seven Questions); - Tabernacle of Unity (book)

ستایش پاک یزدانرا سزاوار که از روشنی آفتاب بخشش جهانرا روشن نمود از با بحر

All praise be to the sanctified Lord Who hath illumined the world through the splendours of the Daystar of His grace.

BLIB_Or15712.229, , IOL, , MKI4523.231, , BN_suppl.1753.063-068

BRL_TBUP#3, AVK1.300x, AVK2.229.03x, ZYN.246, ISH.231, MJMM.240, YARP1.008, DWNP_v6#03 p.003x, UAB.034cx, DRD.065, TSBT.234bx, AQMJ1.110ax, ASAT1.039x, PYB#166 p.03x, ABMK.063, OOL.B040

TBU#3, GPB.211x, GPB.230x, PDC.126x, PDC.126-127x, BLO_PT#119

almunajat.com [item 29]

Briefly addresses a follower of Zoroastrian background, answering seven questions regarding the problem of conflicting religious claims, declaring that His religion is ‘the religion of forbearance’ and that it ‘embraceth all faiths and all religions’, and affirming ‘the reality of Paradise and Hell, for reward and punishment require their existence’.

Day of Resurrection; Judgement; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Existence; immortality of the human soul; The human soul; The human soul at midpoint of creation; the isthmus [barzakh]; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB3.272, BKOG.009, MMAH.221, GSH.172, LL#096, LL#257

BH00829

990

Tablet to Varqá Regarding the Prince and King of Martyrs (Lawh-i-Varqá dar barih-yi-Mahbubu wa Sultánu'sh-Shuhada)

Lawh-i-Varqa dar barih-yi-Mahbubu wa Sultanush-Shuhada (Tablet to Varqa regarding the King of Martyrs and Beloved of Martyrs)

یا ورقاء قد حضر العبد الحاضر و عرض ما فی کتابک انا وجدناه مراتا حاکیه عن

O Varqá! The Servant in Attendance attained My presence and mentioned what thou hadst written and We found thy letter a mirror reflecting thy love for the Beloved of the world

INBA97:052

NNY.184-188

EBTB.049-051, BLO_PT#197

Martyrs and martyrdom; Power of prayer; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ROB4.089, LL#264

BH00845

Suratu'llah

970

Surah of God

Súratu'lláh (Surah of God)

ان یا علی بعد نبیل اسمع ندآء ربک حین الذی یرید ان یخرج عن بینکم بما اکتسبت

O Muhammad-`Ali, hearken to this proclamation from thy Lord, at a time when He desireth to depart out from among ye by reason of what the hands of the oppressors have wrought

BLIB_Or15723.162, , BLIB_Or15737.001,

AQA4#076 p.068, AQA4a.016, ASAT2.111x, OOL.B102

BLO_PT#091, HURQ.BH25

Declares the divinity of His station, rebukes the followers of the Báb for plotting against Him, and announces His temporary retirement from the community.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment

ROB1.245, MMAH.153, GSH.060, LL#316

BH00846

970

Courtesy; culture [adab]; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Status of kings; future of monarchy; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Words vs deeds

ان یا نبیل الاعظم اسمع ما ینادیک به لسان القدم عن جبروت اسمه الاکرم و انه ینطق

Let thine ear be attentive, O Nabíl-i-A‘ẓam, to the Voice of the Ancient of Days, crying to thee from the Kingdom of His all-glorious Name.

INBA83:108, BLIB_Or15702.018, , ALIB.folder18p207

BRL_DA#772, GWBP#139 p.194, KHSH07.011

GWB#139, ADJ.025x, ADJ.060x

T. Ellis

ROB3.026, LL#198

BH00875

940

هذا کتاب من لدی القیوم لقوم یعلمون هل الذین اعرضوا علی شیء لا وربک المهیمن القیوم

This is a Book from before the Self-Subsisting unto those who possess understanding. Are they who have turned away possessed of aught? Nay, by thy Lord, the All-Subduing, the Self-Subsisting [3.5s]

INBA34:118, BLIB_Or11096#265x, , BLIB_Or15707.018, , BLIB_Or15735.192,

AQA1#011, AYBY.025b, HYK.192

Call to action; Personal instructions; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Word of God is its own standard

ROB3.179, LL#368

BH00889

920

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; Hospitality; Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement; Transcendence; unknowability of God

لک الحمد یا الهی بما جمعت احبائک فی عیدک الاعظم الذی فیه تجلیت باسمائک الحسنی

Praise be to Thee, O my God, for having gathered together Thy loved ones to celebrate Thy Most Great Festival

AYT.313, ASAT4.401x, OOL.B202, AMB#17

DOR#17, DAS.1915-04-29n

ROB3.053, LL#223

BH00934

Lawh-i-Tuqa

880

Lawhut-Tuqa (Tablet of Piety or the Fear of God)

فسبحان الذی نزل الایات بالحق من جبروت عز علیا و ینطق بالحق فی ملکوته الاعلی بلسانه

Glorified be He Who hath sent down the verses in truth from the heaven of transcendent might, and Who speaketh with truth in His most exalted Kingdom through His tongue [3.5s]... ...Among the people is he who opposes God publicly. If the verses of God are recited to him, his face grows dark and he returns to his people as one despised.

INBA83:100, BLIB_Or15702.001, , BLIB_Or15723.258, , BLIB_Or15737.102, , ALIB.folder18p204

BRL_DA#723, AQA7#509 p.347, OOL.B083

HURQ.BH50, KSHK#06x

Bids the people enter the ‘crimson Ark’, adorned with divine virtue; addresses the objections of those who reject the divine verses; and warns those who, like Mírzá Yaḥyá, denied the ‘Most Great Announcement’.

Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering; rejection of Christ; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.397, GPB.171, LL#254

BH00939

Suriy-i-Ghusn (Tablet of the Branch)

870

Bahá'í Scriptures; Days of Remembrance

Suriy-i-Ghusn (Tablet of the Branch)

اتی امر الله علی ظلل من البیان و المشرکون یومئذ فی عذاب عظیم قد نزلت جنود الوحی

The Cause of God hath come down upon the clouds of utterance, while they that have joined partners with Him are afflicted with a sore torment

INBA83:144ax, BLIB_Or03114.089r, , BLIB_Or15702.108, , ALIB.folder18p221

AQA4#098 p.331, AQA4a.424, AYT.360, HDQI.002, SFI08.012, MAS4.115, HHA.058x, RHQM1.596-600 (728) (447-449), AHDW.005, AHB_128BE #06-11 p.194x, ANDA#03 p.08-09, OOL.B118, AMB#29

DOR#29, GPB.177x, GPB.242x, WOB.135x, SW_v03#14 p.015, BLO_PT#125, BSC.255 #528-531

Announces the high station of Bahá’u’lláh’s son ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, titled Ghuṣn-i-A‘ẓam (‘the Greatest Branch’), foreshadowing His later appointment in the Kitáb-i-‘Ahd as successor to Bahá’u’lláh.

Condition of search; Methods of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.388, BKOG.250, EBTB.052, GSH.107, LL#303

BH00959

860

نامهای آنجناب هر یک بلحاظ مظلوم فائز و عرف توجه و خلوص و استقامت از هر حرفی

The letters of that honored one, each attained unto the presence of the Wronged One, and from every letter thereof wafted the fragrance of devotion, sincerity and steadfastness [3.5s]

INBA15:423, INBA26:426

YIA.101-102x

Greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Review of publications; Wisdom [hikmat]

ROB4.321, LL#102, LL#194

BH00970

Lawh-i-Laylatu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Sacred Night - Adrianople)

850

Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh Laylat al-Quds (Tablet of the Sacred Night, Edirne)

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی تشهد و تری کیف ابتلیت بین عبادک بعد الذی مااردت الا الخضوع

The Most Great Name beareth Me witness! How sad if any man were, in this Day, to rest his heart on the transitory things of this world!

INBA81:021x, BLIB_Or15698.213, , BLIB_Or15720.209, , BLIB_Or15740.162, , Majlis934.127-133x

BRL_DA#715, GWBP#147 p.203x, AVK2.027.04x, AVK3.240x, IQT.213, MJMM.227, HDQI.027ax, ASAT3.212x, ASAT4.015x, ASAT5.248x, ASAT5.284x, AHB_107BE #09 p.180x, AKHA_105BE #06 p.001x, AKHA_108BE #08 p.002x, OOL.B001bx

GWB#147x, ADJ.083x, SW_v07#19 p.191, SW_v10#01 p.001, BSC.133 #051x

Calls on His followers to be closely united and to associate with their neighbours ‘with faces joyous and beaming with light’.

Being a source of light; guidance; Call to unity; prohibition of disunity; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB2.164, ROB2.188, GSH.209, LL#147

Sometimes referred to in the plural, Alváḥ-i-Laylatu’l-Quds. Not to be confused with Inventory #BH00915.

BH00987

Salat-i-Kabir (Long Obligatory Prayer)

840

Prayers and Meditations; Long Obligatory Prayer; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

Obligatory prayer, Long

یا اله الاسماء و فاطر السماء اسئلک بمطالع غیبک العلی الابهی بان تجعل صلوتی

O Thou Who art the Lord of all names and the Maker of the heavens! I beseech Thee by them Who are the Day-Springs of Thine invisible Essence

PMP#183, AHM.070, TSBT.012x, NFQ.001, NFF1.003x, ABMK.001, OOL.B176c

PM#183, BPRY.007-016, BP1929.021x, BP1929.022x, BP1929.030x

The Friends in Bristol, Nabil and Karim, M. Perez, MANA, MANA, R. Peterson [track 1], S. Agbortoko & M. Weigert

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Law of obligatory prayer; Love of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB1.030, LL#230

BH01007

Az Bagh-i-Ilahi

820

Az-Bágh-i-Iláhí (From the Divine Garden)

از باغ الهی با سدره ناری آن تازه غلام آمد های های هذا جذب اللهی هذا خلع

Hailing from the godly garden, Invested with the Burning Bush, That fresh and novel Youth is come!

INBA19:037, INBA32:036, INBA36:457, NLI.32p158r

BRL_DA#281, MAS8.023x, OOL.B003

ADMS#115

Poem hailing the revelation of the Báb and the advent of the approaching Day of God, coming with the trumpet blast of the words ‘I am God!’, and shattering the idols of the past.

Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight

ROB1.218, MMAH.118, GSH.066, LL#010

BH01026

Lawh-i-Mallahu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Holy Mariner - Arabic)

810

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablet of the Holy Mariner; Tablet of the Holy Mariner; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

Lawh-i-Malláhu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Holy Mariner, Arabic)

یا ملاح القدس احضر سفینه البقاء فی الملا الاعلی فسبحان ربی الابهی ثم امسکها

O Holy Mariner! Bid thine ark of eternity appear before the Celestial Concourse, Glorified be my Lord, the All-Glorious!

BLIB_Or15692.001, , BLIB_Or15706.073, , BLIB_Or15714.039, , IOM.094, ROB1.000x

BRL_DA#079, AQA5#136 p.176, HDQI.043, MAS4.335, AKHA_117BE #09-10 p.ax, YMM.291x, OOL.B055a

BPRY.319, SW_v13#04 p.075, DWN_v3#05 p.031-034, BLO_PT#131, BLO_PT#132, BSC.251 #526, HURQ.BH21

L. Thoresen [track 4]

Relates two different versions of a mystical narrative of the launching of the ‘Crimson Ark’ of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant upon the ocean of glory and foreshadows that some within that Ark will stray and be cast out for desiring ‘to ascend unto that state which the Lord hath ordained to be above their stations’. (Arabic portion)

Crimson Ark; the Ark of God; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Suffering and imprisonment

ROB1.228, BKOG.154, GPB.147, MMAH.109, GSH.019, LL#155

BH01027

Lawh-i-Tabib

810

اینکه در باره انقلاب و اختلاف ایران مذکور نموده بودید هذا ما وعدنا به فی

That which thou didst mention concerning the upheaval and dissension in Persia - this is what We had promised in [3.5s]

BLIB_Or11096#257, , BLIB_Or15698.318, , BLIB_Or15720.311, , BLIB_Or15740.242, , NLI.32p135v

BRL_DA#135, AVK4.438x, AVK4.477dx, IQT.318, SFI03.157.19x, MAS4.034x, ASAT2.112x, ASAT4.051x

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Petitions to authorities; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB3.200, ROB3.201, ROB3.351-2, LL#371

BH01042

Lawh-i-Malik-i-Rus (Tablet to Czar Alexander II)

800

Lawh-i-Malik-i-Rus (Tablet to Alexander II)

ان یا ملک الروس ان استمع ندآء الله الملک القدوس ثم اقبل الی الفردوس مقر الذی

O Czar of Russia! Incline thine ear unto the voice of God, the King, the Holy, and turn thou unto Paradise

INBA34:041, BLIB_Or15705.028, , CMB_F31.037, , PR11.038b-040b

NRJ#1c, AQA1#001c, OOL.B054

SLH#01c, WOB.105x, BSC.094 #040

States cryptically that Bahá’u’lláh has answered a secret wish of the Czar; praises him for offering, through one of his ministers, aid to Bahá’u’lláh while in the dungeon of Tehran; calls on him to arise to become a champion of the Cause of God; declares that Bahá’u’lláh is the one ‘Whom the tongue of Isaiah hath extolled, the One with Whose name both the Torah and the Evangel were adorned’; and warns of the ephemerality of earthly possessions.

Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Status of kings; future of monarchy; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ROB3.118, MMAH.176, GSH.120, LL#154

BH01069

Lawh-i-Hawdaj (=Lawh-i-Samsun)

780

Lawh-i-Hawdaj (Tablet of the Howdah)

تلک آیات ظهرت فی خدر البقا و هودج القدس حین ورود اسم الاعظم عن شطر السبحان

These verses were revealed behind the Veil of Immortality, in the Howdah of Holiness, when the Most Great Name arrived

BRL_DA#728, LHKM1.012, SFI08.015, ASAT4.241x, AKHA_122BE #10 p.ax, AKHA_122BE #10 p.bx, OOL.B042, OOL.B078

GPB.157x2x, HURQ.BH29

Written upon Bahá’u’lláh’s arrival on the shores of the Black Sea en route to Istanbul, announcing the fulfilment of what was foretold in the ‘Tablet of the Holy Mariner’ a short time before, and warning of an impending ‘grievous and tormenting mischief ’ that would serve as the ‘divine touchstone’ separating truth from error.

Banishment to; life in Constantinople; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Power of the Manifestation of God; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB2.006, BKOG.195, GPB.157, MMAH.111, GSH.067, LL#115, LL#235

See howdah at wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdah.

BH01117

Lawh-i-Ism-i-Jud

750

Excellence in all Things

یا اسم جود علیک بهائی نامهای جناب سمندر که ارسال نموده عبد حاضر لدی المظلوم

O Ism-i-Júd! Upon thee be My Glory! The letters sent by his honor Samandar were presented before the Wronged One [3.5s]... ...It is incumbent upon the children to exert themselves to the utmost in acquiring the art of reading and writing.... Writing skills that will provide for urgent needs will be enough for some

MJAN.026, AYBY.067, GHA.089x, MAS7.129cx, MAS8.193x, SAM.204, PYM.214bx, TRZ1.081x

BRL_EXCEL#06x, COC#0006x, COC#0569x, COC#0771x

Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Education of children; moral education; Excellence; distinction; Praise and encouragement; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB3.091, LL#415

BH01120

Lawh-i-Napoleon I

750

First Tablet to Napoleon III (Lawh-i-Napulyun); Baha'u'llah's First Tablet to Napoleon III

Lawh-i-Napulyun (Tablets to Napoleon III)

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی انت تعلم بانی مااردت فی ذکر الا ذکرک و فی توجهی الی جهه

Glory be to Thee, O Lord my God! Thou art aware that nothing have I sought by making any mention, except a fitting mention of Thee

BRL_DA#706, ROBP2.388x

GPB.173x, PDC.082-083x, LOIR4.151, BLO_PT#014, BLO_PT#038x

Recounts the sufferings endured by Bahá’u’lláh and His followers; avows their innocence; reminds the Emperor of two pronouncements he had made on behalf of the oppressed and the helpless; and calls upon him to inquire into the condition of those who have been wronged, including Bahá’u’lláh and His fellow exiles.

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Petitions to authorities; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Suffering and imprisonment

ROB2.368, ROB2.337, ROB3.110, GSH.097, LL#199

BH01132

Suriy-i-Qadir

740

Surah of the Almighty (Surat al-Qadir)

Surat al-Qadir (Surah of the Almighty)

سبحان الذی قدر مقادیر کل شیء فی الواح عز محفوظا و خلق کل شیء علی شان لو یصفن

Praise be unto him, who foreordained for each thing its portion in mighty, preserved Tablets. He created all things in such a manner that, were they to purify themselves

INBA37:138, INBA83:115, BLIB_Or15702.032, , BLIB_Or15723.250, , BLIB_Or15737.094, , ALIB.folder18p211

AQA4#093 p.317, AQA4a.373, GSH.051, OOL.B134

WIND#157, HURQ.BH44

A meditation on the name of God ‘the Omnipotent’ and its pervasive influence in the world according to the capacities of things and, referring to the opposition of Mírzá Yaḥyá, calling the Bábís and the manifestations of worldly power to recognize Bahá’u’lláh.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Predictions and prophecies; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause

ROB1.119, MMAH.083, LL#322

BH01172

710

تعالی الذی نزل الایات من ملکوت کان بانوار العرش مضیئا و ینطق فی سدره الوحی

Exalted is He Who hath sent down the verses from the Kingdom that was illumined by the lights of the Throne, and Who speaketh from the Lote-Tree of Revelation [3.5s]

INBA34:121, BLIB_Or15707.025, , BLIB_Or15735.198,

AQA1#012, AVK4.475cx, ASAT3.022x, HYK.198

Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Presence of; reunion with God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ROB3.179, LL#369

BH01217

Lawh-i-Hirtik (Tablet to David Hardegg)

690

Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh; Lawh-i-Hirtík (Tablet to Hardegg)

Lawh-i-Hirtik (Tablet to Hardegg)

قد حضر کتابک المختوم لدی المظلوم و وجدنا منه عرف خلوصک لله المهیمن القیوم

Thy sealed letter hath reached the presence of this Wronged One, and from it We have inhaled the sweet savour of thy devotion to God

BRL_DA#546, LHKM3.215b, SFI11.011, ASAT4.232x, OOL.B044

BRL_ATBH#87, BBR.216-217, LOIR04.097, BLO_PT#177, HURQ.BH76

Briefly addresses the head of the German Templers of Haifa, calling him to consider with insight the ascendancy and sweetness of the word of God, the mysterious processes by which the abased become exalted and the exalted abased, and the lessons of the past; employs the science of letters and their numerical equivalents in explaining the significance of certain names; and affirms that He and the recipient are moved by the same divine spirit.

Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Mystery of the great reversal; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB3.028, MMAH.116, GSH.172, LL#117

BH01231

680

Lawh-i-Muhammad-`Alí I and II

ای محمد قبل علی بشنو ندای محبوب باوفا را که از شطر ابهی ندا میفرماید و

O Muhammad-'Ali! Hearken unto the call of thy faithful Beloved, Who from the Most Glorious Horizon doth proclaim and [3.5s]... ...I swear by the beauty of the Well-Beloved! This is the Mercy that hath encompassed the entire creation, the Day whereon the grace of God hath permeated and pervaded all things

INBA35:035, INBA74:097, BLIB_Or03116.106r, , BLIB_Or11096#033, , BLIB_Or15710.208, , BLIB_Or15722.151,

BRL_DA#767, GWBP#142 p.198x, ADM1#010 p.031x, AVK3.178.13x, RSBB.090, MAS4.110, ASAT5.167x, ADH1.029x

GWB#142x

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Prayer for forgiveness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ROB2.117, LL#186

BH01313

Lawh-i-Tibb (Tablet of Medicine)

650

Tablet to the Physician, or Tablet of Medicine (Lawh-i-Tibb); Tablet to a Physician (Lawh-i-Tibb); Prayers and Meditations; Tablet of Medicine (Lawh-i-Tibb); Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

Healing prayer, Short; Lawh-i-Tibb (Tablet to a Physician)

لسان القدم تنطق بما یکون غنیه الالبا عند غیبه الاطبا قل یا قوم لاتاکلوا... جمیع احبا را من قبل الله تکبیر

The Ancient Tongue speaks what which will satisfy the wise in the absence of doctors. O People, do not eat except when you are hungry… Thy name is my healing, O my God, and remembrance of Thee is my remedy

INBA35:004c, BLIB_Or07852.105, , BLIB_Or11096#233, , NLAI_BH1.138x, NLAI_BH2.365

BRL_DA#718, PMP#170x, AVK3.112.02x, AVK3.114.07x, MJMM.222, AQMJ1.006ax, MMJA.013x, OOL.B082

PM#170x, BPRY.096x, COC#1019x, COC#1020x, LOG#1003x, SW_v13#09 p.252, BLO_PT#114, BLO_PT#168, BP1929.031-032x, HURQ.BH64

S. Toloui-Wallace, A. Wensbo, E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown, A. Youssefi, The Badasht Project, L. Slott, A. Bryan, P. Escobar, D. Gundry, Nabilinho, A. McDonald, M. Sparrow, Baha'i Youth of Japan, Ann-Sofie & Rasmus, O. Gollmer, K. Bartlett, C. Bolton, M. Matouf, Yoshie & Aleksandar, M. Hadji & D. Czimek, J. Heath, M.C. Santillana, Honiara Baha'i Youth, N. Ma'ani, N Chiang, W. Heath, Soulrise Melodies, N. Hamilton, C. Signori, L. Robinson, G.H. Miller, Rowshan, K. Porray, Arrayanes, J. Heath [track 3], A. & M. Zemke [track 3], M. Levine [track 3], T. Ellis, Zannetta [track 5], Ladjamaya [track 12], almunajat.com [item 5], Ellie, Rose & Steve

Relates various items of medical and dietary advice—paraphrasing in part a chapter from Náṣíf al-Yázijí’s Majma‘u’l-Baḥrayn, a popular literary work of the time—and concludes with a prayer for healing.

Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Prayer for healing; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Wisdom [hikmat]

ROB3.358, MMAH.174, GSH.177, LL#252, LL#476

Advice follows closely (in different order) the content and wording of Nasif al-Yajizi, "Majma'ul-Bahrayn", ch. 30, p. 182, from line 10: Yaziji, Shaykh Nasif al - Majma' al-Bahrayn (also at archive.org).

BH01325

Lawh-i-Ru'ya (Tablet of the Vision)

640

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablet of the Vision; Tablet of Vision

Lawh-i-Ruya (Tablet of the Vision)

یا اسمی استمع ندائی من حول عرشی لیبلغک الی بحر ما له ساحل و ما بلغ قعره

O My Name! Give thou ear unto My Voice ringing from around the precincts of My Throne

INBA23:084b, BLIB_Or15729.133, , BLIB_Or15737a.073, , BLIB_Or15738.061, , NLAI_22848:324, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p166v, , MKI4522.324,

BRL_DA#730, AQA2#011 p.174, AYT.016, RHQM2.0973-975 (409) (252-253), ASAT3.135x, ASAT4.049x, ASAT4.403x, AKHA_123BE #04 p.ax, OOL.B074

GPB.221x2x, BLO_PT#143, BLO_PT#148, BSC.249 #525, HURQ.BH66

unknown

Recounts, in celebration of the anniversary of the birth of the Báb, a joyful vision of the Maid of Heaven as personification of the Holy Spirit, who embraces Him and addresses Him ecstatically and who bids Him leave ‘Akká and hasten to His ‘other dominions’.

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Mystical themes; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light

ROB3.223, BKOG.246, GSH.149, LL#226

BH01389

620

هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی استقام علی امر ربه و به زین ثوب الایقان و اخذه جذب

This is a Book from Our presence unto him who hath stood firm in the Cause of his Lord, who hath adorned himself with the robe of certitude, and whom divine attraction hath seized [3.5s]

INBA34:152, BLIB_Or15707.094, , BLIB_Or15735.255,

AQA1#028, ASAT4.153x, ASAT5.121x, HYK.255

Methods of teaching the Cause; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB3.199, LL#370

BH01403

Lawh-i-Salman II

610

Second Tablet of Salmán (Lawh-i-Salmán)

Lawh-i-Salman II (Tablet to Salman II)

ای سلمان در هر امور اقتدا بحق کن و بقضایای الهی راضی باش ملاحظه کن که این

O Salmán! Follow thou in all things the example of the One true God, and be content with whatsoever He ordaineth.

BLIB_Or11096#022, , BLIB_Or15710.001, , NLAI_BH2.208

BRL_DA#128, AVK1.135.12x, MJMM.124, BSHN.032x, MHT2b.060x, DRD.036, MAS4.167x, ASAT1.209x, ASAT4.315x, OOL.B077

PDC.115-116x, WIND#180, HURQ.BH56

Emphasizes the fleeting nature of this world, that those who remain occupied with it are heedless of this truth, and that one of the signs of the maturity of the world is that none will be found to bear the burden of kingship and its earthly cares.

Prayer for specific individuals; groups; Status of kings; future of monarchy; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ROB3.025, ROB3.157, MMAH.188, GSH.179, LL#233

BH01447

Subhana Rabbiya'l-A'la

600

Subḥána Rabbíya'l-A'lá (Praise to the Exalted Lord)

یا حرف البقاء البس نعلی الانقطاع ثم ارکب علی الرفرف الاعلی فسبحان من خلق

Letter of eternity, put on the bridal trousseau of detachment and walk upon the exalted brocade runner; praised be my Lord, the most high.

INBA15:355, INBA19:029, INBA26:359, INBA36:462, INBA81:139, BLIB_Or15706.102, , BLIB_Or15714.017, , NLAI_BH1.229

BRL_DA#250, GSH.061, ASAT3.092x, ASAT3.137x, ASAT4.021x, AKHA_124BE #02-03 p.hx, OOL.B100

WIND#144, HURQ.BH19

Celebrates, through a vision of the appearance and unveiling of the Maid of Heaven, the renewal of the mystic realm and portends future tests and difficulties.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; Transcending the material condition

ROB1.211, MMAH.201, LL#287

BH01484

580

جوهر الحمد علی هیئه من العباد ینادی فی بریه الاشتیاق یا اله الغیب و الشهود و

The essence of praise appeareth in the form of servants who cry out in the wilderness of longing: "O Thou God of the unseen and the seen!" [3.5s]... ...In these days the stay in the True House of Haram-i-Athar (the Purest Wife), upon her be all glory and loftiness

INBA31:014, BLIB_Or11097#046,

MAS4.354cx

LTDT.048-049x

Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Business; financial; property matters; Consolation and comfort; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Wisdom [hikmat]

ROB4.007, LL#055

BH01494

Suriy-i-Fu'ad (=Lawh-i-Fu'ad)

580

Summons of the Lord of Hosts

Lawh-i-Fuad (Tablet to Fuad Pasha)

ک ظ نادیناک عن وراء قلزم الکبریا علی الارض الحمرا من افق البلا انه لا اله

Káf. Ẓá’. We call unto thee from beyond the sea of grandeur, upon the crimson land, above the horizon of tribulation.

INBA34:128, BLIB_Or15707.040, , BLIB_Or15735.210,

NRJ#4, AQA1#015, AYBY.023b, MAS4.246x, RHQM1.592-594 (723) (444-445), ASAM.261-262, SAM.292, DLH2.186x, HYK.210, OOL.B117

SLH#04, GPB.208-209x, PDC.100x, BLO_PT#172

Details the divine justice that was meted out to the recently deceased Ottoman Prime Minister in consequence of his abuses of power and foretells the imminent downfall of his colleague, ‘Álí Páshá, as well as the overthrow of the Sultan himself.

Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of prayer; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB3.087 et al, MMAH.225, GSH.192, LL#088, LL#302

BH01615

540

قد ارسل الی حضرتک عریضه من قبل و تلک مره اخری لان کلما یتوجه الیک احد یشتعل

Verily I have sent unto thy presence a petition aforetime, and this is yet another, for whenever anyone turneth unto thee, they are set aflame [3.5s]... ...Blessed the palate that savoreth its sweetness, and the perceiving eye that recognizeth that which is treasured therein

INBA28:046

BRL_DA#113, AVK1.010bx, AVK1.010.10x

GPB.216x

Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Praise and encouragement; Review of publications; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Unity; oneness of humanity

ROB3.279, LL#098

BH01637

530

ان یا اسم الله اسمع نغمات الروح و لاتلتفت الی الذینهم کفروا بالله و آیاته و

O Name of God! Hearken unto the melodies of the Spirit and turn not unto them that have denied God and His signs [3.5s]

BLIB_Or03114.077, , BLIB_Or15725.110, , BLIB_Or15737.201,

LHKM1.026, NNY.131-132

Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB4.080, LL#006

BH01644

Lawh-i-Bulbulu'l-Firaq (Tablet of the Nightingale of Bereavement)

530

Tablet of Nightingale of Separation (Lawh-i-Bulbulu'l-Firáq)

Lawh-i-Bulbulul-Firaq (Tablet of Nightingale of Separation)

بلبل الفراق علی غصن الافاق ینادی هذا الفراق یا ملا الاشتیاق و طیر الوفا یتغن

The nightingale of separation, perched upon the branch of the horizon, calls out in grief, you who are filled with yearning

INBA38:063, INBA36:376b, INBA71:074b

AQA4#095 p.324x, AQA4a.363x, GSH.042, OOL.B034a, OOL.B034b

SW_v12#16 p.251, BLO_PT#115

Announces in sorrowful language His departure from Baghdad and reproaches those who had thus far failed to recognize Him.

Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Call to action; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB1.244, MMAH.079, LL#080

BH01678

520

ان یا علی ان اشهد فی نفسک بانه لا اله الا هو و ان الذی ظهر باسم علی قبل نبیل انه

O Ali! Bear thou witness in thine inmost heart that verily there is none other God but Him, and that He Who appeared bearing the name of Ali before Nabil, verily He [3.5s]

INBA83:191, BLIB_Or03114.088, , BLIB_Or15702.231, , ALIB.folder18p321

MAS4.175cx

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ROB3.194, LL#429

BH01774

Suriy-i-Hijr

500

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

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

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

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

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

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

ROB2.397, GSH.188, LL#308

BH01786

500

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

Tablet of visitation for Badi

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

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

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

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

BLO_sazedj#06

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

ROB3.179, ROB3.202, LL#032

BH01822

Lawh-i-Amr

490

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

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

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

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

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

GWB#067x

ROB2.161, LL#047

BH01924

460

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

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

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

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

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

GWB#017x, WOB.194x

ROB3.032, LL#453

BH01966

Hur-i-'Ujab (The Wondrous Maiden)

450

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

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

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

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

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

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

L. Slott, R. Yazhari

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

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

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

BH02000

Halih Halih ya Bisharat

440

Tablet of Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah O Glad Tidings (Lawh-i Halih, Halih, Halih yá Bisharát)

Lawh-i Halih, Halih, Halih ya Bisharat (Tablet of Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah O Glad Tidings)

حور بقا از فردوس اعلی آمد هله هله هله یا بشارت با چنگ و نوا هم با کاسه حمرا

The maid of eternity came from the Most Exalted Paradise: Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah O glad tidings!

INBA36:456

BRL_DA#253, HDQI.160, GSH.033, ANDA#18 p.03, OOL.B008

BLO_PT#111, HURQ.BH17

Ahdieh

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

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

ROB1.219, MMAH.143, LL#017

BH02022

Lawh-i-Ahmad (Arabic)

440

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

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

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

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

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

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

BPRY.307

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

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

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

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

BH02170

Lawh-i-Nuqtih

410

Lawh-i-Nuqtih (Tablet of the Point)

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

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

BRL_DA#737, LHKM1.020

ADMS#228

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

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

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

BH02194

400

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

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

BLIB_Or15719.025b,

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

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

ROB3.253, ROB3.258, LL#127

BH02198

Lawh-i-'Ashiq va Ma'shuq

400

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

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

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

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

INBA35:041, Majlis210461.046-048

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

GWB#151, DOR#21

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

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

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

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

BH02209

Lawh-i-Ard-i-Ba

400

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

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

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

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

INBA81:088x, BLIB_Or15727a.043,

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

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

almunajat.com [item 21], L. Slott

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

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

BH02301

390

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

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

INBA97:039, BLIB_Or15697.191,

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

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

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

BH02324

Lawh-i-Karmil (Tablet of Carmel)

380

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

Lawh-i-Karmil (Tablet of Carmel)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BH02329

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

380

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

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

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

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

MAS7.135, ASAT2.017x

ADMS#042

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

ROB2.348, LL#075

BH02524

350

Prayers and Meditations; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

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

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

BLIB_Or15716.062.03,

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

PM#092x, BPRY.220-222x

Niaz & Adrian

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

ROB3.390, LL#181

BH02563

Lawh-i-Rada'r-Ruh

350

Tablet to Rada'r-Rúh

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

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

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

INBA73:362, NLAI_BH1.510, NLAI_BH2.249

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

BLO_PT#189, BTO#11

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

ROB3.007-010, LL#197

BH02595

340

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

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

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

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

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

ROB4.087, LL#006

BH02781

320

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

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

NNY.135-136

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

ROB4.082a, LL#006

BH03230

Rashh-i-'Ama

280

Call of the Divine Beloved

Rashh-i-Ama (Sprinkling from the Cloud of Unknowing)

رشح عما از جذبه ما میریزد سر وفا از نغمه ما میریزد از باد صبا مشک خطا گشته

Tis from our rapture that the clouds of realms above are raining down; ’Tis from Our anthem that the mysteries of faith are raining down

INBA36:460, INBA30:165, OSAI I.MMS, , MKA.06 Mil Yz A 2791 p30b,

BRL_DA#709, SFI02.059, MAS4.184, TWQ.441x, YMM.224x, OOL.B093

CDB#1, BLO_PT#089, BLO_PT#135, HURQ.BH01

Ahdieh

Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Mystical themes; Poems and quotation from poetry; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light

ROB1.045, MMAH.077, LL#275

BH03380

270

کتاب انزله الرحمن لیقرب به من فی الامکان الی البحر الذی تموج باسمه العظیم من

This is a Tablet sent down by the Lord of mercy that the people of the world may be enabled to draw nigh unto this Ocean

ASAT1.167x, TBP#17k

TB#17k

Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Knowledge; recognition of God; Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB3.060?

BH03509

260

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

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

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

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

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

BRL_ATBH#66, ROB4.015, BLO_PT#129

Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Power of prayer

LL#070

BH03510

260

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

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

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

NNY.136-137

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

ROB4.082b, LL#006

BH03771

250

یا ورقتی یا امتی علیک بهائی لله الحمد موید شدی بر اقبال و اقرار و اعتراف

O My Leaf, O My handmaid! Upon thee be My glory. Praise be unto God, thou hast been aided to attain acceptance, recognition and acknowledgment [3.5s]

AQA5#097 p.112b

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB4.157

BH03843

Saqi az Ghayb-i-Baqa

240

Short Poem by "Darvísh" Muhammad, Bahá'u'lláh: Sáqí az ghayb-i baqá burqa' bar afkan az 'idhár, A

Saqi az Ghayb-i-Baqa (The Cup-bearer from the Eternal Unseen)

ساقی از غیب بقا برقع برافکن از عذار تا بنوشم خمر باقی از جمال کردگار آنچه در

Lift up the veil from Thy face, O Cup-Bearer of the hidden Realm of Immortality, That I may taste the wine of eternal life

INBA36:455a, INBA30:137, OSAI I.MMS,

BRL_DA#155, TZH4.141-142x, MAS4.209, RHQM1.350-351 (425) (258-259), OOL.B098

DB.137x, BLO_PT#087, HURQ.BH11

A brief ode alluding to His messianic secret and calling for purification of heart and commitment to love and sacrifice as conditions of the spiritual journey.

Christ; Christianity; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Mosaic imagery; Mystical themes; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ROB1.064, MMAH.164, GSH.065, LL#283

BH03890

240

ک ر ان استمع الندآء مره اخری من البقعه النورآء المقام الذی فیه ینطق مالک

O peoples of the world! Hearken once again unto the Call from the luminous Spot, the sacred Precinct wherein speaketh the Lord [3.5s]

INBA18:324b

ASAT4.052x

Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Suffering and imprisonment

ROB4.105?

BH04022

230

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

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

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

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

ROB4.053, LL#004

BH04396

210

ان یا علی قد بکی محمد رسول الله من ظلمک بما اتبعت الهوی و اعرضت عن الهدی

O Ali! Muhammad, the Messenger of God, hath indeed wept over thy wrongs, inasmuch as thou didst follow vain desires and turn aside from guidance [3.5s]

INBA34:289

AQA1#154, MAS4.360, ASAT4.388x, DLH3.571

Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ROB4.297

BH04644

200

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

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

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

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

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

ROB3.267-268, LL#001

BH04972

190

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

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

NLAI_BH1.340

RSBB.068a

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

ROB2.179, LL#002

BH05741

170

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

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

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

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

ROB2.127, LL#256

BH05905

170

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

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

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

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

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

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

ROB3.216, LL#179, LL#180

BH06685

150

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

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

INBA57:095a, BLIB_Or15730.072a,

NFR.178, NNY.184

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

ROB4.089a, LL#006

BH07046

140

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

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

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

HDQI.156, ANDA#46 p.03

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

ROB4.053, LL#004

BH08834

110

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

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

INBA92:405a

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

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

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

ROB3.213, LL#485

BH09280

Tablet to Badi' in Haifa

100

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

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

TSHA3.368

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

ROB3.184, LL#068

BH09810

Prayer for governments and rulers; Prayer for the spiritual progress of others; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Unity; oneness of humanity

تعلم یا الهی بانی ما اردت فی الملک الا اصلاح العالم و تهذیب نفوس الامم لعل

Thou knowest, O my God, that my sole aim on this earth hath been to rehabilitate the world and edify the souls of its peoples

ROB4.000

BRL_DA#342

ADMS#099

BH09983

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

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

BLIB_Or15697.155b,

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

ROB2.179, LL#002

BH10889

Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

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

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

INBA33:018a, INBA33:072b

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

BRL_APBH#16, BKOG.287

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

ROB3.021?, LL#478

BH11086

Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

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

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

INBA92:144a, ROB1.143x

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

BRL_APBH#07

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

ROB1.038, LL#156

BH11580

First Tablet to Ali Pasha

unknown

ROB2.058, LL#216

BH11581

First Tablet to Faris, in honor of Nabil

unknown

ROB3.007

BH11582

Lawh-i-Abdu'l-Majid

unknown

ROB4.084, LL#033

BH11583

Lawh-i-Abdu'r-Rahim

unknown

ROB3.060, LL#035

BH11588

Lawh-i-Haji Akhund (I) wa Jamal-i-Burujirdi

unknown

ROB3.425, LL#099

BH11589

Lawh-i-Haji Akhund (II)

unknown

ROB3.427, LL#100

BH11590

Lawh-i-Haji Muhammad Baqir I

unknown

ROB2.276, STOB.020, LL#108

BH11591

Lawh-i-Haji Muhammad Baqir II

unknown

ROB2.278, STOB.021a, LL#109

BH11594

Lawh-i-Salat

unknown

ROB4.299, LL#229

BH11596

Ziyarat-Namih for the martyrs of Zanjan

unknown

ROB2.229, LL#349

BH11597

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-'Abdu'r-Rasul

unknown

ROB2.333, LL#342

BH11598

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Haji Mulla Mihdiy-i-'Atri

unknown

ROB4.051, LL#346

BH11599

unknown

ROB3.235, LL#425

BH11600

unknown

ROB2.179, LL#002

BH11601

unknown

ROB3.021, LL#396

BHU0001

Panj Kanz (The Five Treasures)

1400