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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. | |
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 | |
ABU0462 | The Sixth Principle—Means of Existence: Words spoken on 1911-11-14 in Paris | 560 | Paris Talks | امروز مختصر صحبت میدارم از جمله اساس بهاء الله تعدیل معیشت است طبقات ناس | Among the most important principles of the Teaching of Baha'o'llah is the equalization of the means of living among men. | AMK.212-215, AVK4.336x, KHF.251, KHAB.172 (183), KHTB1.170, KHTP.121 | LOG#1866x, PT#46 p.156, SW_v03#02 p.005-006 | Greek philosophers; Greek civilization; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Maintainance of degrees in society; The economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving; Wealth inequality and its moderation | - | - | ||||||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | |||||
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 | ||||||
ABU3665 | Words spoken on 1913-06-23 in Port Said | 550 | در زمانیکه حکومت مستبد ناقضین مانع اشکالات داخلی و خارجی حاضر در بحبوحه | At a time when the government ruled with tyranny, the Covenant-breakers were a hindrance, and problems both internal and external were present—it was in the midst of all this turmoil that I built the Shrine of the Bab | BRL_DAK#0772 | ADMS#256 | Crucifixion; ascension of Christ; The Christian clergy; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||
BH00031 | Suriy-i-Nush | 7310 | Surih of Admonition (Suratu'l-Nus'h); Days of Remembrance | Suriy-i-Nush (Surih of Counsel) | فسبحان الذی نزل الایات بالحق علی النبیین و المرسلین و ینزل حینئذ علی ما کان | Glorified be He Who hath sent down the verses in truth unto the Prophets and Messengers, and Who doth now send down what hath ever been [3.5s]... ...Announce unto My servants the advent of the One Who came unto them with the power of truth bearing the name of ‘Alí | INBA47:171, INBA36:242, INBA73:181.09x, INBA83:001, PR19.034b-048b | BRL_DA#727, AVK2.228.08x, TZH4.200-202x, LMA1.350 (209), MAS4.135x, ASAT3.024x, YMM.152x, OOL.B133, AMB#35x | DOR#35x, GPB.141x6x, BLO_PT#097, NYR#145x | A lengthy work recounting the stories of the prophets of God and their rejection by the people and clergy of their day, and exhorting the people of this day not to reject ‘Him Whom God shall make manifest’ upon His appearance. | Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Noah; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Stories; anecdotes; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | ROB1.137, MMAH.207, LL#321 | ||
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 | |
BH01822 | Lawh-i-Amr | 490 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | 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 | 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 | - | - | ROB2.161, LL#047 | ||||
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. | |
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 | ||
BH00144 | Suriy-i-Bayan | 3580 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Suriy-i-Bayan (Tablet of Utterance) | ذکر اسم ربک عبده اذ دخل بقعه الفردوس مقر الذی استشرقت علیه انوار الوجه عن مشرق | The remembrance of the name of thy Lord by His servant, when he entered the Garden of Paradise, the seat whereupon shone forth the lights of the Face from the Dayspring [3.5s]... ...Say: Doth it beseem a man while claiming to be a follower of his Lord, the All-Merciful, he should yet in his heart do the very deeds of the Evil One? | INBA37:007, INBA83:203, BLIB_Or15702.254, , BLIB_Or15723.228, , BLIB_Or15737.069, , NLAI_BH2.280, Berlin1237#10, ALIB.folder18p001-018, Majlis934.115.09-125.01x | BRL_DA#736, GWBP#128 p.176x, GWBP#129 p.179x, GWBP#145 p.202ax, AQA4#080 p.108, AQA4a.392, AVK3.095.13x, AVK3.147.08x, AVK3.260.06x, GHA.428x, ASAT2.106x, PYK.032x, YFY.060x, OOL.B109 | GWB#128x, GWB#129x, GWB#145x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.034x, TDH#037.1x, GPB.170x, GPB.376-377x, GPB.404x, MBW.038x, BSTW#037x, HURQ.BH39 | D. E. Walker, MANA (1), MANA (2), C. Signori | Charges the recipient to teach the Cause of God in a state of detachment from the world and enkindlement with the love of God, summons the Maid of Heaven to come to the aid of whoever does so, and instructs him to carry the message to specific people and regions in Iran. | Assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Exhortations and counsels; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | * | - | ROB2.397, GSH.198, LL#295 | |
BH01165 | 720 | Prayers and Meditations | قد خجل البهاء بما وجدک خجلا فی ایامه و اضطرب البهاء بما وجدک مضطربا بما فات... سبحانک یا الهی یا الهی و النّابض فی قلبی تعلم و تری | Baha' hath felt shame at finding thee ashamed in His days, and Baha' hath been perturbed at finding thee perturbed at what hath passed [3.5s]... ...Lauded be Thy name, O Thou Who art my God and throbbest within my heart! Thou art well aware and dost witness | BRL_DA#688, PMP#044x, NFR.001 | PM#044x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Evanescence and eternality; fana and baqa; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||
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 | ||||
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" | |
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 | |
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 | ||
AB00212 | 800 | سبحانک اللهم یا الهی انی اتوجه الیک بوجه ناظر الی ملکوت رحمانیتک و قلب خافق | Glorified art Thou, O my God! I turn my face unto Thee with a countenance fixed upon the Kingdom of Thy mercy and a throbbing heart [3.5s] | INBA16:141 | BRL_DAK#0515, PYK.288 | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for the departed; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
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 | ||
BH05162 | 190 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی زین بطراز رحمه ربه العزیز الحکیم و انطقه جذب | This is a Book from Our presence unto him whom We have adorned with the robe of the mercy of his Lord, the Mighty, the All-Wise, and caused him to speak through rapture [3.5s]... ...They that have forsaken their country for the purpose of teaching Our Cause—these shall the Faithful Spirit strengthen through its power | INBA34:302 | BRL_DA#678, GWBP#157 p.215ax, AQA1#170, GHA.259ax, AKHA_124BE #04-05 p.j, YFY.077-078 | GWB#157x, COC#1904x, ADJ.051x, ADJ.060x4x, ADJ.060-61x, ADJ.068x, GPB.377x, GPB.389x, MBW.038x | Claudia & Jornt | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | LL#428 | ||||
BH01231 | 680 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | 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 | ||||
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 | |||
BH00994 | Suriy-i-Ism | 830 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá | Suriy-i-Ism | ان یا اسمی اسمع ندآء الله عن مطلع کل اللسان بانی انا الله ربک و رب کل شیء و | O My Name! Hearken unto the Call of God from the Dawning-Place of every tongue: "Verily, I am God, thy Lord and the Lord of all things." [3.5s]... ...Say: Deliver your souls, O people, from the bondage of self, and purify them from all attachment to anything besides Me… Intone, O My servant, the verses of God | INBA83:124, BLIB_Or15702.051, , ALIB.folder18p214 | BRL_DA#721, GWBP#136 p.189x, AVK2.168.20x, MAS4.026ax, MAS4.045x, MAS8.120bx, ASAT1.242x, ASAT4.156x, PYK.018, OOL.B125 | GWB#136x, ADJ.025x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.032x, BLO_sazedj#12x, HURQ.BH37 | MJ Cyr, L. Slott, Seals & Crofts, MANA, Soulrise Melodies, Soulrise Melodies, L. Dely & M. Congo, K. Key, Sheyda Peyman, Ina Nes | Calls the recipient to cast all names and designations behind him and announce the joyful tidings; states that between God and the creatures there is a ladder with three steps: this world, the hereafter, and ‘the Kingdom of Names’; calls the people to deliver their souls from ‘the bondage of self ’; invites the recipient to ‘intone the verses of God’, promising that the sweetness of their melody will cause ‘the heart of every righteous man to throb’; and counsels the people to truthfulness, generosity, and purity of heart. | Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | LL#143, LL#310 | |
BH00052 | Suriy-i-Qamis | 5750 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Súriy-i-Qamís (Surah of the Robe) | ان یا اهل البقا فی الملا الاعلی اسمعوا ندآء الله عن هذا النسیم المتحرک فی هذا الهواء | O ye dwellers in the immortal realm on high! Hearken unto the Call of God from this stirring Breeze that moveth in this atmosphere [3.5s]... ...By the righteousness of God! These are the days in which God hath proved the hearts of the entire company of His Messengers and Prophets | BLIB_Or15723.059, , NLAI_BH1.356 | BRL_DA#724, GWBP#008 p.015bx, AQA4#074 p.034, AQA4a.320, ASAT3.281x, OOL.B137 | GWB#008x, ADJ.057x, ADJ.079x, GPB.003x, GPB.099x, GPB.377x, PDC.015x, HURQ.BH34 | Proclamatory tablet taking in part the form of a conversation between the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh; announcing the return of the Báb in the person of Bahá’u’lláh; reproaching the Bábís for their denial; and directing one of the many named recipients to place the tablet, like the shirt of the biblical Joseph, upon his face. | Manifestation of God as sun; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | ROB2.397, BKOG.246?, MMAH.150, GSH.049, LL#325 | ||
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 | ||||
BH00034 | Suriy-i-Sabr (=Lawh-i-Ayyub) | 7050 | Tablet of Patience, or Tablet of Job (Súrih-i-Sabr or Lawh-i-Ayyúb); Tablet of Patience, or Tablet of Job (Súrih-i-Sabr or Lawh-i-Ayyúb) | Surih-i-Sabr or Lawh-i-Ayyub (Tablet of Patience or Tablet of Job) | ذکر الله فی مدینه الصبر عبده ایوبا اذ آویناه فی ظل شجره القدس فی فواده و اشهدناه | This is the remembrance of God in the City of Patience regarding Job, Our servant, Whom We sheltered under the shade of that Holy Tree planted in His heart | INBA36:173, INBA73:082, Berlin1237#08 | BRL_DA#726, AYT.262, LMA1.379 (228), MAS4.282, ASAT5.246x, ASAT5.309x, ASAT5.247x, FBAH.160x, OOL.B138 | WOB.116x, BLO_PT#116, HURQ.BH23, NYR#144 | Major work, written on the first day of Riḍván as He was departing Baghdad, praising the Bábís of the Nayriz upheaval of 1850 and in particular their leader, Siyyid Yaḥyáy-i-Dárábí (Vaḥíd), recounting their sufferings and condemning their persecutors; describes the sufferings of the biblical Job, comparing them to those of the recipient of the tablet, who played a key role in supporting the defenders at Nayríz; commends fortitude and patience in the face of suffering; foretells the coming of ‘the birds of darkness’; and proclaims the continuity of divine revelation. | Consolation and comfort; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Stories; anecdotes; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | - | ROB1.263, BKOG.131, BKOG.195, MMAH.203, GSH.055, LL#327 | ||
AB03273 | 210 | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | شخص محترما تالیف شما بشارت غنی را مطالعه نمودم فی الحقیقه آراء سدیدی در آن | O respected personage! I have read your work, The Gospel of Wealth, and noted therein truly apposite and sound recommendations | MMK1#079 p.111, AVK3.258.03x, NJB_v12#04 p.094 | SWAB#079, LOG#1863x, DAS.1913-01-10 | Charitable associations; humanitarian activities; The economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving; Wealth inequality and its moderation | - | - | |||||||
BH01924 | 460 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | 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 | Apocalyptic imagery; Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Predictions and prophecies; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ROB3.032, LL#453 | |||||
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 | |||
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 | ||
BH02170 | Lawh-i-Nuqtih | 410 | Translation List | 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 | |||
BH00501 | Lawh-i-Karim | 1470 | Trustworthiness; Translation List | Lawh-i-Karim (Tablets to Karim) | ای کریم انشاء الله بعنایت کریم در ظل سدره رب العالمین مستریح باشی و بفیوضات | O Karím! God grant that, through the bounty of the Most Generous [Karím], thou art reposing beneath the shade of the Tree of the Lord of all worlds...It behoveth ye all so to adorn your inner and outer beings that, robed in trustworthiness… O my loved ones! Ye are the world's spiritual physicians | INBA35:030, INBA51:389, BLIB_Or11096#016, , BLIB_Or15698.164, , BLIB_Or15720.161, , BLIB_Or15740.125, , NLI.32p126r, Majlis210461.011-017 | BRL_DA#738, COMP_TRUSTP#28x, ADM1#007 p.025x, AVK3.002.01x, AVK3.385.15x, IQT.164, MAS4.157bx | BRL_TRUST#27x, BW_v02p062x, COC#2039x, ADMS#207, JHT_S#018x | States that, while some are able to recognize the truth the moment they encounter it, most stand in need of a teacher; explains that some can be taught with words, others by deeds and actions, and still others by the example of a saintly character; emphasizes the importance of the latter; asserts that the purpose of His revelation is not to enforce outward ordinances but to enable people to manifest divine perfections and to achieve that which their minds can readily embrace; and condemns some of the fanciful theories about the Promised One held by certain Muslims. | Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Methods of teaching the Cause; Outward and inward meanings; Power of prayer; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | GSH.175 | ||
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. | |
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. | |||
BH00062 | 5330 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | 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 | 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] | - | - | ROB2.417, LL#413 | |||||
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 | |||
BH00846 | 970 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | 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 | 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 | - | - | ROB3.026, LL#198 | ||||
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 | ||
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). |
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 | ||
ABU0001 | Words to Mr Pinchot and others, spoken on 1912-06-04 | 3400 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Mahmúd's Diary | امیدواریم در مجلس شما مائده آسمانی بخوریم آن بالتمامه مطابق مذاق ماست زیرا | We hope that in this gathering we shall partake of the heavenly table… The solution of this problem is one of the fundamental principles of his holiness BAHA’O’LLAH | BRL_DAK#0644, AVK4.335x, AVK4.340bx, AVK4.466x, KHF.265, KHAB.290 (300), KHTB2.110 | BSC.340 #666-670x, FWU.038x, SW_v07#09 p.077-079+081-084, SW_v08#01 p.007x, SW_v09#07 p.086-087x, SW_v13#09 p.231x, SW_v13#12 p.324x, SW_v14#02 p.036x, SW_v16#03 p.456-457x, SW_v16#11 p.706x, STAB#128, STAB#140 | Consultation; Elections; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Stories; anecdotes; The economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving; Unity; oneness of humanity; War and peace | - | - | MHMD1.120 | |||||
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 | ||
BH00001 | Kitab-i-Aqdas (The Most Holy Book) | 10520 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Kitáb-i-Aqdas; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Synopsis and Codification of the Laws and Ordinances of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas; Kitáb-i-Aqdas Research Tools | Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book) | ان اول ما کتب الله علی العباد عرفان مشرق وحیه و مطلع امره الذی کان مقام | The first duty prescribed by God for His servants is the recognition of Him Who is the Dayspring of His Revelation and the Fountain of His laws | INBA43:069, BLIB_Or02820.001, , BLIB_Or15691.001, , BLIB_Or15729.002, , BLIB_Or15737a.001, , CMB_F29, CMB_F30, CMB_F31, IOM.095-096, NLAI_22848:006, LEID.Or4969x, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p001v, CUL.X893.7.B11, MKI4522.002, , BN_6397 | BRL_AqdasA, GWBP#037 p.062bx, GWBP#056 p.078x, GWBP#070 p.093x, GWBP#071 p.094x, GWBP#072 p.095x, GWBP#098 p.130bx, GWBP#105 p.137x, GWBP#155 p.213x, GWBP#159 p.216x, GWBP#166 p.222bx, ROB3.000x, OOL.B015 | AQDS, GWB#037x, GWB#056x, GWB#070x, GWB#071x, GWB#072x, GWB#098x, GWB#105x, GWB#155x, GWB#159x, GWB#166x, BADM.016x, BADM.021ax, COF.018-019x, TDH#082x, TDH#158.3x, GPB.102x2x, GPB.112x, GPB.154x, GPB.170x2x, GPB.176x, GPB.195x, GPB.206x6x, GPB.207x3x, GPB.208x5x, GPB.209x5x, GPB.211x, GPB.214x7x, GPB.215x15x, GPB.215-216x, GPB.216x, GPB.225x, GPB.226x4x, GPB.230-231x, GPB.231x, GPB.242x, GPB.254x, GPB.325x, GPB.331-332x, GPB.376x, GPB.390x, GPB.395-396x, GPB.396x, MBW.166x, MBW.168x, PDC.040x, PDC.040-042x, PDC.042x, PDC.058-059x, PDC.059x, PDC.059-060x, PDC.064-065x, PDC.092x, PDC.092-093x, PDC.095x, PDC.100x, PDC.118-119x, PDC.121x, PDC.133-134x, PDC.134-135x, PDC.161x, PDC.187x, WOB.105x, WOB.109x, WOB.146x, WOB.132x, WOB.134x, WOB.162x, WOB.171-172x, WOB.172x, WOB.176x, SW_v01#05 p.009x, SW_v14#04 p.112 (et al)x, DWN_v1#02 p.002-003x, DWN_v2#09 p.069-070x, BLO_PT#045, BLO_PT#056, BSC.110 #043-044+046x, BSC.156 #138-139x, BSC.262 #547x | unknown (¶1-190), Soulrise Melodies (¶4), S. and S. Toloui-Wallace (¶11), E. Mahony (¶11), Soulrise Melodies (¶16), W. Heath (¶31), Soulrise Melodies (¶33), unknown (¶38), S. Jaberi (¶38), T. Nosrat (¶51), J. Mohajer (¶51), Soulrise Melodies (¶74), G.H. Miller (¶91), E. Mahony (¶182), Sophie, Siria and Ashkan (¶182), Bahareh & Scott (¶182), J. Crone (¶182), B. Khademi (¶182), MANA (¶182), Leona and Larry (¶182) | The ‘mother book’ of the Bahá’í Dispensation, announcing to the kings of the earth the promulgation of the ‘Most Great Law’; formally ordaining the institution of the House of Justice; prescribing the obligatory prayers; designating the time and period of fasting; formulating laws surrounding marriage and inheritance; ordaining the institution of the Mashriqu’l-Adhkár (houses of worship); establishing the Nineteen Day Feasts; abolishing the institution of priesthood; and specifying punishments for murder, arson, adultery, and theft. Apart from these laws, He reminds his followers of the twin duties of recognition and obedience; exhorts them to fellowship with the adherents of all religions; warns them to guard against fanaticism, sedition, pride, dispute, and contention; enjoins on them cleanliness, truthfulness, chastity, hospitality, fidelity, courtesy, forbearance, justice, and fairness; and counsels them to be ‘even as the fingers of one hand and the limbs of one body’. | Alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium; Begging; mendicancy; idleness and sloth; Call to action; Cleanliness and refinement; Confession of sins; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; House of Justice; House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]; Idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others; Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.; Law of burial and cremation; Law of fasting; Law of Huququ'llah; Law of inheritance; Law of obligatory prayer; Law of pilgrimage; Law of repetition; recitation of the Greatest Name; Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Laws of marriage and dowry; Love of God; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Moderation; frugality; simplicity; Monasticism; asceticism; Murder; causing physical harm; Nineteen-Day Feast; Parents and children; youth; families; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for women; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Bayan, its laws and their abrogation; Theft; seizing the properties of others; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Twin duties of recognition and obedience; Unchastity and adultery; Words vs deeds; Work as worship | * | * | LAC.213-257, ROB3.275 et al, BKOG.351 et al, GPB.206 et al, EBTB.155, EBTB.189, MMAH.199, GSH.133, LL#027 | |
BB00633 | 20 | Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | بسم الله البر العطوف. اللهم یا سبوح یا قدوس یا حنان یا منان فرج لنا بالفضل و الاحسان انک انت الرحمن المنان | O Lord, my God! O Thou the Most Lauded, the Most Holy, the Most Tender, the Most Bountiful! Remove our difficulties by Thy grace and bounty. Thou art, verily, the All-Merciful, the All-Bountiful | NSR_1993.005 | BRL_APBH#24, ADMS#056, KSHK#21, KSHK.BWB | Bass Adjustment, L. Robinson, Zannetta [track 9], unknown (1), unknown (2) | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Prayer for tests and difficulties | - | - | ||||||
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 | ||
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 | |
BH00130 | Lawh-i-Ahbab | 3770 | Translation List | 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 | ||
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 |
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