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| 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 |
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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 |
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| BH00002 |
Kitab-i-Iqan (The Book of Certitude) |
36200 |
Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Kitáb-i-Íqán; Tablet of the True Seeker" from the Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude), The |
Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Tablet of the True Seeker |
الباب المذکور فی بیان ان العباد لن یصلن الی شاطی بحر العرفان الا بالانقطاع |
No man shall attain the shores of the ocean of true understanding except he be detached from all that is in heaven and on earth.... Verily He Who is the Daystar of Truth and Revealer of the Supreme Being holdeth, for all time, undisputed sovereignty…. But, O my brother, when a true seeker determineth to take the step of search… |
BLIB_Or03116.078-127, , BLIB_Or15696.076cx, , CMB_F58, CMB_F59, IOL.440, IOM.092-093, SOAS ms.46696, CUL.X893.7.B111, BN_suppl.1400 |
BRL_IqanP, GWBP#013 p.020x, GWBP#019 p.038x, GWBP#022 p.041x, GWBP#090 p.117x, GWBP#091 p.119x, GWBP#125 p.170x, TZH4.214-223x, OOL.B017 |
IQAN, GWB#013x, GWB#019x, GWB#022x, GWB#090x, GWB#091x, GWB#125x, GPB.006x, GPB.007x, GPB.022x, GPB.023x, GPB.050x2x, GPB.057x2x, GPB.058x2x, GPB.079x, GPB.079-080x, GPB.098-099x, GPB.118-119x, GPB.119-120x, GPB.120x, GPB.126x, GPB.141x, GPB.175x, GPB.176x2x, PDC.020x, PDC.129x, PDC.129-130x, PDC.130x, PDC.130-131x, PDC.133x2x, PDC.138x, PDC.151x, PDC.162x2x, PDC.163x, PDC.176x, PDC.179x4x, WOB.024-025x, WOB.058x, WOB.062ax, WOB.113x, WOB.113-114x, WOB.114-115x, WOB.115x, WOB.115-116x, WOB.124x, WOB.124-125x, WOB.125x4x, WOB.125-126x, WOB.166x, SW_v03#01 p.003x, SW_v07#16 p.163-164x, BLO_PT#020, BSC.003 #001-035x |
R. Dupras (¶1), L. Manifold (¶1), Savva, Danika, Lauren, Adeeb & Jeremy (¶1), Ahdieh (¶64), Mathilde (¶65), R. Peterson (¶107) [track 3], E. Mahony (¶151), Eswatini Baha'i Choir (¶213), Soulrise Melodies (¶214), K. Key (¶214), S. Toloui-Wallace (¶216) |
Bahá’u’lláh’s preeminent doctrinal work as well as His second longest, answering four questions from an uncle of the Báb regarding prophetic expectation and fulfilment, affirming the essential unity of the prophets of God while simultaneously acknowledging the distinctiveness of their persons and missions, expounding the concept of progressive revelations from God that are renewed about every thousand years, summarizing the spiritual prerequisites of the seekers on the spiritual path, clarifying the central role in that path of the independent investigation of reality, condemning the clergy for their role in the rejection of the prophets from age to age, and emphasizing, through a commentary on certain verses of the gospels, the need for a symbolic as opposed to a literal understanding of sacred scriptures. |
Abraham; Isaac; Ishmael; Belief and denial; Christ; Christianity; Christian rejection of Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Dissimulation [taqiyyih]; concealment or denial of Faith; Exhortations and counsels; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people; Knowledge; recognition of God; Law of obligatory prayer; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Literal interpretation; Living waters; water of life; Manifestation of God as mediator; Manifestation of God as sun; Moses; Noah; Oneness; unity of religion; Power of the Manifestation of God; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Quotation from or interpretation of the Bible; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Return of Christ; second coming of Christ; Return of the Manifestations of God; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Seal of the Prophets; Spiritual springtime; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life |
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LAC.113-174, ROB1.153 et al, BKOG.165, GPB.138, GPB.172, EBTB.121, EBTB.221, EBTB.227, MMAH.071, GSH.013, LL#029, LL#278 |
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| BH03062 |
Lawh-i-Amvaj (Tablet of the Waves) |
290 |
Trustworthiness; Tablet of the Waves (Lawh-i-Amvaj) |
Lawh-i-Amvaj (Tablet of the Waves) |
امروز ام الکتاب امام وجوه احزاب ذکر مبدا و ماب میفرماید فی الحقیقه ایام |
The Mother Book is standing in this Day before the gaze of all the peoples and kindreds of the earth, magnifying the glory of Him |
PR05.042a-044b, BN_suppl.1753.075-076 |
BRL_DA#132, COMP_TRUSTP#01x, MJMM.362, DWNP_v1#10-11 p.001-002x, DRD.184, AKHA_123BE #09 p.a, OOL.B024 |
BRL_TRUST#01x, COC#2013x, BLO_PT#144, HURQ.BH69 |
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Brief tablet declaring that the ocean of utterance has surged with four ‘waves’: shining the light of unity over the whole earth, being clothed in the garment of trustworthiness, establishing the transcendence of God, and casting away the causes of abasement and embracing that which leads to exaltation. |
Prayer for protection; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity; oneness of humanity |
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GSH.186, LL#049 |
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| BH00512 |
Lawh-i-Tawhid |
1450 |
Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Translation List |
Lawh-i-Tawhid (Tablet of Divine Unity) |
حمد مقدس از عرفان ممکنات و منزه از ادراک مدرکات ملیک عز بی مثالی را سزا است |
Praise be to God, the All-Possessing, the King of incomparable glory, a praise which is immeasurably above |
INBA38:012, INBA65:167, INBA35:058b, INBA36:396, NLI.32p020v, PR23.039b-041b |
BRL_DA#716, GWBP#026 p.047bx, AVK1.113b.02x, AVK2.013.17x, AVK2.072.02x, ZYN.056, MJMM.307, DWNP_v1#01 p.003-007, UAB.006bx, UAB.008ax, DLS.070x, ASAT2.104x, AHB_109BE #07 p.002x, PYM.335-341, OOL.B081 |
GWB#026x, WOB.113x2x, ADMS#013 |
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Discourse on the transcendence of God, Whose signs have pervaded the entire creation and Who is known only through His Manifestations, Who appear from age to age and call the people to recognize His cause as one would recognize a friend: that is, by his own self and not by the garments he may be wearing on any given day. |
Creation of the world; Manifestation of God as mirror; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God |
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GSH.184, LL#250 |
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| BH01034 |
Lawh-i-Jamal-i-Burujirdi |
810 |
Tablet to Jamal-i-Burujirdi (Lawh-i-Jamál-i-Burujirdí); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh |
Lawh-i-Jamal-i-Burujirdi (Tablets to Jamal-i-Burujirdi) |
قوله تعالی بحر وحی که در قلم اعلی مستور است بصورت اینکلمات ترشح فرموده ای |
The Ocean of Divine Revelation which is hidden within the Supreme Pen hath sprinkled forth in the form of these Words: O Jamal! Thou didst arrive in the Most Holy Presence and attain the Most Great Vision |
INBA35:039, BLIB_Or15698.218, , BLIB_Or15720.214, , BLIB_Or15740.166, , Majlis210461.017-020 |
BRL_DA#713, GWBP#005 p.013x, AVK2.031.11x, AVK3.141.08x, AVK3.181.08x, AVK3.243.06x, AVK3.465.14x, IQT.218, GHA.445.10x, MAS8.048ax, AKHA_118BE #08-09 p.ax, AKHA_122BE #07-08 p.bx, ANDA#49 p.04x, OOL.B049a |
GWB#005x, ADJ.060x, ADJ.077x, BLO_PT#181, HURQ.BH60 |
D. E. Walker, L. Slott |
Advises the recipient to practice love, humility, and detachment when engaging people with different views since souls are created in different states of understanding; gives an example of two valid yet opposing positions regarding the relationship of the Manifestations to God; and states that ‘the whole duty of man in this Day is to attain that share of the flood of grace which God poureth forth for him’, advising that the ‘largeness or smallness of the receptacle’ should not be considered. |
Contention and conflict; Differences in human capacity; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity in diversity |
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GSH.183, LL#130 |
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| BH01850 |
Lawh-i-Shaykh Fani |
480 |
Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh |
Lawh-i-Shaykh Fání (Tablet to Shaykh Fání) |
قلم اعلی من فی الانشا را ندا میفرماید و بحق واحد هدایت مینماید ای شیخ فانی حمد کن |
The Most Exalted Pen calleth unto all who dwell in creation and guideth them unto the One True God. O mortal elder! Render thou praise [3.5s]... ...He is indeed a true believer in the unity of God who, in this Day, will regard Him as One immeasurably exalted above all the comparisons and likenesses with which men have compared Him |
BLIB_Or03116.111r, , BLIB_Or11096#041, , NLI.32p132r, Majlis934.031-036 |
BRL_DA#704, GWBP#160 p.217x, AVK1.175ax, OOL.B080 |
GWB#160x |
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Stresses the importance of distinguishing the transcendent reality of God from the signs of God in the world, taking as an example the subject of mystical self-surrender (faná’) and eternal union (baqá’) with God, which should be understood as the act of complete renunciation of worldly desire and not the elevation of the individual will to that of God. |
Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Empty learning; false spirituality; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Law of fasting; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Transcendence; unknowability of God |
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GSH.177, LL#240 |
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| BH00258 |
Lawh-i-Yusuf |
2460 |
Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablet of Joseph (Lawh-i Yusuf); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Resurrection and the World to Come |
Lawh-i-Yusuf (Tablet of Joseph) |
تلک آیات الله قد نزلت بالحق عن جهه ایمن العرش و جعلها الله هدی و ذکری للعالمین... ای یوسف حجّتم بر کلّ من فی السّموات و الارض... انّا قد جعلنا میقاتاً لکم فاذا تمّت المیقات |
These are the verses of God which have verily been sent down in truth from the right hand of the Throne, and which God hath made a guidance and a remembrance unto all the worlds [3.5s]... ...We have a fixed time for you, O people. If ye fail, at the appointed hour, to turn towards God, He, verily, will lay violent hold on you |
INBA38:139, BLIB_Or15694.465, , ALIB.folder18p199, NLI.32p030vx |
BRL_DA#532, GWBP#108 p.139bx, AVK1.279.19x, RSBB.181, GHA.255x, UAB.031cx, MAS4.019bx, MAS8.013x, AYI2.248x, AYI2.250x, ASAT4.378x, OOL.B084b |
GWB#108x, LOG#1982x, PDC.007x, WOB.201x, SW_v02#03 p.003x, BLO_PT#113, BSC.199 #339-372, KSHK#28x |
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Emphasizes the importance of detachment as prerequisite to the recognition of spiritual truth and explains the meaning of ‘paradise’, ‘hellfire’, ‘resurrection’, and similar terms. |
Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God and human limitations |
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GSH.171, LL#265, LL#395 |
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| BB00403 |
Kitabu’l-Ahmad |
380 |
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی یمن علی ما یشاء من عباده و انه لا اله الا هو ذو الفضل العظیم و اثنی علی محمد صلی الله علیه و اله بما اثناه الله فی قدم الذات و ذروة الصفات |
Praise be to God Who bestoweth His bounty upon whomsoever He willeth among His servants. Verily, there is none other God but Him, the Possessor of infinite grace. And I extol Muhammad—upon Him and His kindred be the blessings of God—with such praise wherewith God hath lauded Him in the eternity of His Essence and the summit of His attributes [3.5s] |
PR07.031v-032r, CMB_F21.133.09-134.19#23, , BYC_collect3.024-025 |
TZH3.460.14-461.16 |
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Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Personal instructions; Prayer for specific individuals; groups |
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BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095, SRC.204 |
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| BB00220 |
Answer to Haji Muhammad |
910 |
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تمحص قلوب عباده بما نزل علیهم من آیات کتابه انه لا اله الا هو العزیز الحکیم و انا ذا فی موقفی هذا اشهد ان لا اله الا الله |
Praise be to God Who doth test and purify the hearts of His servants through that which He hath revealed unto them of the verses of His Book. Verily, there is no God but Him, the Mighty, the All-Wise. And I, in this My station, do testify that there is no God but God [3.5s]... …I have read your letter and informed myself of what you mentioned In it. I had heard from your companion about the dissension in the holy land [Karbala] |
PR07.038r-039r, CMB_F21.108.12-110.19#16, |
TZH3.332.06-333.02 |
MESSIAH.232x |
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Contention and conflict; House of Justice; Tahirih [Qurratu'l-'Ayn]; Transcendence; unknowability of God |
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BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095, SRC.096 |
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| BB00030 |
Answer to 25 questions of Mulla Ahmad |
6700 |
Gate of the Heart |
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بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک لک الملک و الملکوت و لک العز و الجبروت و لک القدرة و اللاهوت و لک القوة و الیاقوت و لک السلطنة و الناسوت تحیی و تمیت ثم تمیت و تحیی و انک انت حی لا تموت و ملک لا تزول و سلطان لا تحول و فرد لا تفوت ... علی کلشیء قدیرا لاشهدنک و کلشیء |
Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee that verily Thou art God, and that there is none other God but Thee, alone, without peer. Thine is the Kingdom and the Dominion, Thine the Glory and the Power, Thine the Might and the Empyrean, Thine the Strength and the Brilliance, Thine the Sovereignty and the human realm. Thou givest life and causest death, then bringest death and givest life, and verily Thou art the Ever-Living Who dieth not, the King Who passeth not away, the Sovereign Who changeth not, the Single One Who vanisheth not... powerful over all things. I testify, and all things testify [3.5s]... ...Should a man be endued with knowledge, and behold Thy [God’s] divine verses revealed during earlier times |
CMB_F21.196.06-223.18#31, , MKI4494.065 |
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BAPT.005x, GOH.093-094x |
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Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God |
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BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209 |
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| BB00003 |
Kitab-i-Asma' (Book of Names) |
>500000 |
Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Gate of the Heart; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] |
Kitáb-i-Asma (Book of Names); Tablet of the Báb to the Sherif of Mecca |
الباب الاول من الواحد الاول ... بسم الله الاسمم الاسمم. لا اله الا هو الأرشد الأرشد قل الله ارشد فوق کل ذا ارشاد لن يقدر ان يمتنع عن مليک سلطان ارشاده |
God, no God is there save Him., the Supremely Guided (al-arshad), the Supremely Guided (al-arshad). Say: God proffers a Guidance (arshad) beyond every possessor of Guidance (irshad)…. O Lord! Enable all the peoples of the earth to gain admittance |
INBA60:156-166x, INBA64:025.10-030.01x, INBA82:060-066x, INBA_6002C, INBA29, PR02.069v01-069v20x, PR03.150v08-151v11x, PR24.069r-072vx, PR30.001-344, CMB_F16x, CMB_F18x, CMB_F23.171v04-174r04 (58)x, , CMB_F17x, CMB_F19x, BLIB_Or5278, BLIB_Or5481, BLIB_Or5869, BLIB_Or6255, BN_5806, BN_5807, BN_6141, BN_6142, BLIB_Or5487-5490, , MKI4491, MKI4492, MKI4493, IOL (12:1-18)x, IOM.091-092x, HBH_asma, BYC_asma |
MANU.039-045x, TZH2.006x, SWBP#07 (p.018-024x), SWBP#11 (p.092-106x), SWBP#15 (p.109-110x), SWBP#28 (p.121-122x), SWBP#31 (p.124-125x), SWBP#32 (p.125-125(a)x), SWBP#33 (p.125-125(b)x), SWBP#47 (p.136-136x), OOL.A008 |
SWB#07 (p.029-037x), SWB#11 (p.129-149x), SWB#15 (p.155-155x), SWB#29 (p.172-172x), SWB#32 (p.176(a)x), SWB#33 (p.176(b)x), SWB#34 (p.177(a)x), SWB#48 (p.191-191x), BPRY.081x, BPRY.234x, GOH.passim (see index), HURQ.BB58x |
E. Mahony, A. Bryan, G.H. Miller, K. Key |
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Absolute freedom; independence of God; Business; financial; property matters; Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Courtesy; culture [adab]; Cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds; Divine attributes are within all things; every atom; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Essential distinction of Manifestation of God from others; Excellence; distinction; Exhortations and counsels; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; God's attributes require the existence of objects; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; God as immanent vs. transcendent reality; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God; Importance of reading the Sacred Writings; Justice and wrath of God; Knowledge; recognition of God; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Literature; drama; humanities; the arts; Manifestation of God as mediator; Manifestation of God as mirror; Martyrs and martyrdom; Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Oneness; unity of religion; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of prayer; Power of the Manifestation of God; Prayer for martyrs; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Predictions and prophecies; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings; Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God; Proclamation to Muslims; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Proofs for the existence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Recompense; reward for belief; right action; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Relativity of religious truth; Return of the Manifestations of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Thankfulness; gratitude; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud]; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God and human limitations; Words vs deeds |
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BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, AHDA.447.7, MMAH.065, SRC.091-092, SRC.188, GOH.036 and passim |
Note that the Partial Inventory states that the word count is more than 500,000 words. |
| 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 |
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ROB4.236, LL#245 |
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| 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 |
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ROB4.235 et al, MMAH.138, GSH.213, LL#162, LL#461 |
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| 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 |
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ROB4.214 et al, BKOG.382, MMAH.161, GSH.161, LL#024 |
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| 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 |
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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] |
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ROB4.191, MMAH.090, LL#129 |
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| 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 |
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ROB4.168 et al, BKOG.382, EBTB.062, GSH.158, LL#340 |
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| BH00033 |
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7090 |
Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh |
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الحمد لله الذی توحه بالکلام و تفرد بالبیان الذی خضعت بحور المعانی عندما |
Praise be unto Him Who hath adorned Himself with utterance and Who alone possesseth expression, He before Whom the oceans of inner meanings have bowed down whensoever [3.5s]... ...He it is Who in the Old Testament hath been named Jehovah, Who in the Gospel hath been designated as the Spirit of Truth… the task of executing the laws, the ordinances and statutes that have been sent down in the Book hath been delegated unto the men of the divine Houses of Justice [rijal-i-buyut-i-'adliyyih-yi-ilahiyyih]... It is beloved of God that all should speak in Arabic, which is the richest and vastest of all languages |
INBA31:022 |
BRL_DA#225, AQA7#393 p.114, AVK3.219.08x, AVK3.228.05x, AVK4.272x.01, AVK4.278x.07, DWNP_v1#05 p.001-003x, UAB.041bx, UAB.054bx, NFQ.005-008x, MAS4.175ax, GSH.210-213x, ASAT5.108x, AKHA_106BE #09 p.002x, AKHA_111BE #10-12 p.002x, AKHA_135BE #07 p.141x, NJB_v14#07 p.224x, YMM.305x, OOL.B177x, LFLN.012x |
BRL_ATBH#37x, LTDT.052-053x, WOB.104x, SW_v14#07 p.224x, HURQ.BH70x, STYLE.032-033x, ADMS#331ax |
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Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; The Bayan, its laws and their abrogation; Universal language; Word of God and human limitations |
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ROB4.159, LL#273, LL#418 |
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| BH00534 |
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1400 |
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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 |
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Knowledge; recognition of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Wisdom [hikmat] |
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ROB4.089b, LL#006 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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" |
| 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 |
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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 |
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ROB3.404, LL#335, LL#448, LL#457 |
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| 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 |
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ROB3.272, BKOG.009, MMAH.221, GSH.172, LL#096, LL#257 |
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| 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 |
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ROB3.270, GSH.174, LL#160, LL#176 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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ROB3.258, GSH.187, LL#038 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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- |
ROB3.223, BKOG.246, GSH.149, LL#226 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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- |
ROB3.216, MMAH.139, GSH.184, LL#209, LL#427 |
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| BH01172 |
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710 |
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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 |
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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 |
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- |
ROB3.179, LL#369 |
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| BH00875 |
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940 |
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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 |
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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 |
|
| BH00007 |
Suriy-i-Haykal (Surih of the Temple) |
20670 |
Bahá'í Scriptures; Summons of the Lord of Hosts; Original Text of the Súriy-i-Haykal, The |
Suriy-i-Haykal (Surih of the Temple) |
سبحان الذی نزل الایات لقوم یفقهون سبحان الذی ینزل الایات لقوم یشعرون سبحان |
Glorified is He Who hath revealed His verses to those who understand. Glorified is He Who sendeth down His verses to those who perceive. |
INBA34:001, BLIB_Or15705.001, , BLIB_Or15735.002, , IOM.099 |
NRJ#1, AQA1#001, AQA4#090 p.268, HYK.002, YMM.153x, OOL.B121 |
SLH#01, COC#0301x, COC#1648x, ADJ.080-081x, ADJ.085ax, ADJ.085x, COF.101bx, GPB.099x2x, GPB.101x3x, GPB.101-102x, GPB.102x, GPB.106x, GPB.143x, GPB.173x2x, GPB.174x, GPB.186x, GPB.206x4x, GPB.207x11x, GPB.207-208x, GPB.208x2x, GPB.209x6x, GPB.210x2x, GPB.211x, GPB.226x, GPB.227x3x, GPB.245x, GPB.331x, PDC.007x, PDC.020x, PDC.042-043x, PDC.046x, PDC.046-047x, PDC.047x2x, PDC.047-048x, PDC.048x, PDC.048-049x, PDC.049x2x, PDC.049-050x, PDC.050x4x, PDC.050-051x, PDC.051x3x, PDC.051-052x, PDC.052x2x, PDC.052-053x, PDC.053x, PDC.054x, PDC.055x2x, PDC.055-057x, PDC.057x, PDC.057-058x, PDC.065-067x, PDC.067x2x, PDC.067-068x, PDC.068x3x, PDC.073x, PDC.075x, PDC.078x, PDC.081x3x, PDC.085x6x, PDC.090x3x, PDC.106-107x, PDC.107x, PDC.119x, PDC.136-137x, PDC.138x, PDC.144-145x, PDC.161-162x, PDC.166x, PDC.168-169x, PDC.169x, PDC.173-174x, PDC.181-182x, PDC.196x, WOB.104x, WOB.107x, WOB.108x, WOB.109x3x, WOB.109-110x, WOB.110x, WOB.117x, WOB.138x, WOB.163x, WOB.169x, WOB.192x, WOB.192x, BLO_PT#140, BSC.209 #392-434 |
G. Major and T. Sutton, L. Manifold and P. Weber |
The centrepiece of His proclamatory works, originally written in Edirne and recast in ‘Akká, in which Bahá’u’lláh as the embodiment of the promised new Temple is called forth by the Holy Spirit and symbolically raised up limb by limb, with the mission of each part being assigned and sent forth into the world in fulfilment of the prophecy of the Old Testament (Zechariah 6:12). In its final form, it includes His epistles to Pope Pius IX, Emperor Napoleon III, Czar Alexander II, Queen Victoria, and Náṣiru’d-Dín Sháh. |
Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Growth of the Cause; High station of the true believer; Holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God; Imam Husayn; Innateness; early self-awareness of the Manifestations of God; Justice and wrath of God; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Names and attributes of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Primordial Covenant; the day of alast; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Thankfulness; gratitude; The concourse on high; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The ephemeral and the eternal; The power of example; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness |
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ROB3.133, JRAS.292-309, MMAH.179, GSH.131, LL#306 |
Epistles to the kings and rulers included in the composite Suriy-i-Haykal have their own catalog entries. |
| 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 |
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* |
ROB3.123, MMAH.177, GSH.130, LL#153 |
Included in the Suriy-i-Haykal. |
| BH01042 |
Lawh-i-Malik-i-Rus (Tablet to Czar Alexander II) |
800 |
Bahá'í Scriptures; Summons of the Lord of Hosts |
Lawh-i-Malik-i-Rus (Tablet to Alexander II) |
ان یا ملک الروس ان استمع ندآء الله الملک القدوس ثم اقبل الی الفردوس مقر الذی |
O Czar of Russia! Incline thine ear unto the voice of God, the King, the Holy, and turn thou unto Paradise |
INBA34:041, BLIB_Or15705.028, , CMB_F31.037, , PR11.038b-040b |
NRJ#1c, AQA1#001c, OOL.B054 |
SLH#01c, WOB.105x, BSC.094 #040 |
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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 |
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* |
ROB3.118, MMAH.176, GSH.120, LL#154 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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BRL_DA#546, LHKM3.215b, SFI11.011, ASAT4.232x, OOL.B044 |
BRL_ATBH#87, BBR.216-217, LOIR04.097, BLO_PT#177, HURQ.BH76 |
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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 |
|
| BH00260 |
Suriy-i-Ra'is |
2450 |
Bahá'í Scriptures; Summons of the Lord of Hosts |
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 |
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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 |
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ROB2.411 et al, BKOG.259, MMAH.146, GSH.109, LL#326 |
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| BH00934 |
Lawh-i-Tuqa |
880 |
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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 |
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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 |
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- |
ROB2.397, GPB.171, LL#254 |
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| BH00021 |
Suriy-i-Muluk |
8150 |
Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Summons of the Lord of Hosts; Days of Remembrance |
Suriy-i-Muluk (Surih to the Kings) |
هذا کتاب من هذا العبد الذی سمی بالحسین فی ملکوت الاسما الی ملوک الارض کله |
This is a Tablet from this Servant, who is called Ḥusayn in the kingdom of names, to the concourse of the kings of the earth. |
INBA71:123, BLIB_Or15723.001, , IOM.098-099, PR11.043b-064a, PR19.048a-061b, PR23.016a-029b |
NRJ#5, GWBP#065 p.086x, GWBP#066 p.087x, GWBP#113 p.143x, GWBP#114 p.150x, GWBP#116 p.158x, GWBP#118 p.160x, RSBB.040, TZH4.328-353, BCH.008x, PYB#129 p.03x, OOL.B131, AMB#36x |
SLH#05, GWB#065x, GWB#066x, GWB#113x, GWB#114x, GWB#116x, GWB#118x, DOR#36x, LOG#1615x, COF.138-139x, GPB.161x4x, GPB.171x, GPB.172x7x, GPB.175x4x, GPB.210x, GPB.230x2x, PDC.007x, PDC.020x, PDC.027-028x, PDC.033-034x, PDC.034x, PDC.034-035x, PDC.035x2x, PDC.035-038x, PDC.038-039x, PDC.043-044x, PDC.060x, PDC.060-062x, PDC.062x, PDC.062-063x, PDC.063-064x, PDC.098x4x, PDC.098-099x, PDC.114-115x, PDC.143x, PDC.146-147x, PDC.182x, WOB.108x, WOB.174x, WOB.177x3x, WOB.177-178x, WOB.178x |
E. Mahony |
His most momentous proclamatory work, though not yet divulging the totality of His messianic claim, in which He counsels and chastises, in turn, the entire company of the kings of the earth, the kings of Christendom, the French Ambassador in Constantinople, the ministers of the Ottoman Sultan, the inhabitants of Istanbul, the Sultan himself, the Persian Ambassador to the Sultan, the people of Persia, the divines and wise men of Constantinople, and the philosophers of the world. |
Chastisement and requital; Justice and wrath of God; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment |
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ROB2.301 et al, BKOG.207, BKOG.213, BKOG.330, GPB.171, MMAH.158, GSH.090, LL#319 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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ROB2.293, GPB.169, MMAH.168, LL#184 |
See also BH03710. |
| BH00431 |
Lawh-i-Ibna' |
1630 |
Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh |
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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 |
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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 |
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ROB2.259-260, LL#141, LL#384, LL#433 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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ROB2.245 et al, MMAH.193, GSH.173, LL#201 |
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| 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 |
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ROB2.241, MMAH.136, GSH.176, LL#064 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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ROB2.240, MMAH.152, GSH.083, LL#305 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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ROB2.240, BKOG.250, MMAH.152, GSH.082, LL#304 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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ROB2.236, MMAH.223, GSH.081, LL#296 |
Sometimes spelled as Súriy-i-Damm. |
| BH00032 |
Lawh-i-Ruh |
7220 |
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Lawḥ-i-Rúh (Tablet of the Spirit) |
فسبحان الذی فی قبضته ملکوت ملک الآیات یصرفها کیف یشآء بأمر |
Glorified be He in Whose grasp lieth the dominion of the realm of verses, Who directeth them as He pleaseth through His command [3.5s] |
INBA37:018, INBA83:073, BLIB_Or15723.082, , PR23.001b-015b |
AQA4#081 p.123, AQA4a.150, ASAT1.276x, OOL.B073 |
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Refutes certain claims of Mírzá Yaḥyá; asserts the magnitude of Bahá’u’lláh’s own station, whose full transformative power remains, out of wisdom, as yet undivulged; and foretells the ultimate triumph of His cause. |
Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Oneness; unity of religion; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of |
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ROB2.181, ROB2.260, MMAH.185, GSH.085, LL#224 |
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| BH00287 |
Lawh-i-Baha |
2190 |
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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 |
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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 |
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ROB2.179, ROB2.171, MMAH.119, GSH.040, LL#071 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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ROB2.065, MMAH.151, GSH.075, LL#095, LL#293 |
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| 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 |
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ROB2.029, MMAH.233, GSH.071, LL#270 |
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| BH01069 |
Lawh-i-Hawdaj (=Lawh-i-Samsun) |
780 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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ROB2.006, BKOG.195, GPB.157, MMAH.111, GSH.067, LL#115, LL#235 |
See howdah at wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdah. |
| 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 |
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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 |
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ROB1.137, MMAH.207, LL#321 |
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| BH00134 |
Madinatu't-Tawhid (the City of Unity) |
3720 |
Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh |
Madínatu't-Tawhíd (City of Unity) |
تلک آیات الکتاب فصلت آیاته بدعیا غیر ذی عوج علی آیات الله و هدی و نوری |
These are the verses of the Book, whose signs have been set forth with wondrous originality, free from all crookedness, dwelling upon the signs of God, and serving as guidance and light [3.5s]... ...Beware, O believers in the Unity of God, lest ye be tempted to make any distinction between any of the Manifestations of His Cause |
INBA36:199, BLIB_Or07852.046, , NLAI_BH3.074, PR03.251b13-254a15, PR19.017a-025b |
BRL_DA#283, GWBP#024 p.046x, TZH4.225-227, MAS4.313, ASAT5.286x, MMUH#13x, MSBH5.443-444x, OOL.B088 |
GWB#024x, GPB.003x, PDC.011x, PDC.111x, HURQ.BH15, JHT_B#009 |
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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 |
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ROB1.109, MMAH.180, GSH.022, LL#151 |
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