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| BH03835 | 240 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | ذکر من لدنا لمن طار بذکر هذا الذکر فی هوآء الذی تطیر فیه طیور الفردوس و تمر | A remembrance from Our presence unto one who hath soared, through mention of this Remembrance, in the atmosphere wherein the birds of Paradise do wing their flight and pass [3.5s]... ...Know thou of a certainty that the Unseen can in no wise incarnate His Essence and reveal it unto men. He is, and hath ever been, immensely exalted | BLIB_Or11095#319, | BRL_DA#537, GWBP#020 p.039x | GWB#020x | Essential distinction of Manifestation of God from others; Identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God; Manifestation of God as mediator; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | LL#359 | |||||
| BH03941 | 240 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | یا ایها الناظر الی الوجه اسمع ندائی و لاتضطرب عما ورد علی احباء الله و امنائه | O thou who gazest upon the Countenance! Hear thou My call, and be thou not perturbed by that which hath befallen the loved ones of God and His trusted servants [3.5s]... ...The generations that have gone on before you—whither are they fled? And those round whom in life circled the fairest and the loveliest of the land, where now are they? | INBA34:272 | BRL_DA#658, GWBP#123 p.168ax, AQA1#135 | GWB#123x | Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | LL#398 | |||||
| BH03960 | 240 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | یا نعمه الله از برای نعمت مراتب لانهایه بوده و خواهد بود در کتاب پروردگار تو | Know thou that, according to what thy Lord, the Lord of all men, hath decreed in His Book, the favors vouchsafed by Him unto mankind | BLIB_Or15715.244b, | GWBP#095 p.127, AQA5#037 p.051, UAB.033ax, AKHA_121BE #11-12 p.a, ANDA#58 p.03 | GWB#095 | Knowledge; recognition of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | LL#399 | |||||
| BH04596 | 210 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | یا معشر العلماء اتقوا الله ثم انصفوا فی امر هذا الامی الذی شهدت له کتب الله | Lay not aside the fear of God, O ye the learned of the world, and judge fairly the Cause of this unlettered One | INBA51:186b, KB_620:179-180 | GWBP#044 p.070, LHKM3.339, YFY.264-265 | GWB#044 | Call to action; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | LL#410 | |||||
| BH04607 | 1180 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | احمد و اشکر من جعلنی فائزا بنفحات بیانکم اسبح و اقدس من جعلنی مهتزا بظهورات | I praise and give thanks unto Him Who hath caused me to be enraptured by the sweet fragrances of Thy utterance. I glorify and sanctify Him Who hath made me to be stirred by the manifestations [3.5s]... ...The world is in travail, and its agitation waxeth day by day. Its face is turned towards waywardness and unbelief. | BRL_DA#744, GWBP#061 p.083bx, AVK4.472x, ASAT1.021x, PYB#264 p.06x, AHB_133BE #01-02 p.003x, PYM.273x | GWB#061x, LOG#0422x, ADJ.082x, GPB.217x2x, PDC.004x, PDC.190x, WOB.033x, WOB.046x, WOB.181x, DWN_v1#07 p.001x | - | - | ||||||||
| BH04631 | 200 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | امریکه لم یزل و لایزال مقصود نبیین و غایه رجای مرسلین بوده باراده مطلقه و | The Revelation which, from time immemorial, hath been acclaimed as the Purpose and Promise of all the Prophets of God | BLIB_Or15715.254a, | BRL_DA#790, GWBP#003 p.012ax, OOL.B175 | GWB#003x, ADJ.078x | Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Prophecy and fulfillment; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Thankfulness; gratitude | - | - | LL#258 | |||||
| BH04818 | 200 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Muhammad-`Alí I and II | کتاب نزل بالحق لقوم یفقهون و یامر الناس بالعدل و التقی و یمنعهم عن البغی و | A Book sent down in truth unto men of insight! It biddeth the people to observe justice and to work righteousness | INBA34:290 | GWBP#141 p.197, AQA1#155 | GWB#141, ADJ.032x | Call to action; Exhortations and counsels; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | LL#187 | ||||
| BH04829 | 200 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; River of Life, The | مقصود از کتابهای آسمانی و آیات الهی آنکه مردمان بادابی تربیت شوند که سبب | The purpose underlaying the revelation of every heavenly Book, nay, of every divinely-revealed verse | INBA57:087a, INBA41:155bx, BLIB_Or07852.111b, , BLIB_Or15710.296a, | GWBP#101 p.134x, AVK3.001.06, MJMM.304x, DWNP_v5#01 p.001-002, UAB.023ax, DRD.001x, RRT.005x, DAUD.01x, AHB_109BE #05 p.020, AHB_134BE #03-04 p.068, AKHA_133BE #09 p.199, AKHA_136BE #07 p.110 | GWB#101x, ROL.009 | Call to action; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Purpose of religion in the world (personal and social); Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures | - | - | LL#431 | |||||
| BH05002 | 190 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Muhammad-`Alí I and II | ای محمد قبل علی طوبی لک بما زینت قلبک بطراز حب ربک العزیز الحمید هر نفسیکه | O Muhammad-'Ali! Great is the blessedness awaiting thee, inasmuch as thou hast adorned thine heart with the ornament of the love of thy Lord | BLIB_Or03116.086r.12, , BLIB_Or11096#127, , BLIB_Or15710.212a, | GWBP#140 p.196 | GWB#140 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power of the Manifestation of God; Praise and encouragement; Prophecy and fulfillment; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | LL#187 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| BH05241 | 190 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | یا ورقتی بگوش جان ندای رحمن را بشنو از سجن اعظم بتو توجه نموده و ترا بذکر | O My Leaf! With the ear of thy soul hearken thou unto the Call of the All-Merciful, Who hath turned towards thee from the Most Great Prison and maketh mention of thee [3.5s]... ...Know thou that every hearing ear, if kept pure and undefiled, must, at all times and from every direction, hearken to the voice that uttereth these holy words | INBA51:312, BLIB_Or15715.338b, | BRL_DA#743, GWBP#165 p.222ax, LHKM3.296 | GWB#165x | Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | LL#387 | |||||
| BH05544 | 180 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | هذا کتاب من لدی المظلوم الی الذی اتخذ الی الرحمن سبیلا لیاخذه عن نفسه و یجذبه | This is the Book from the Wronged One unto him who hath chosen for himself a path unto the All-Merciful, that it may seize him from his self and draw him nigh [3.5s]... ...Blessed art thou, O My servant, inasmuch as thou hast recognized the Truth, and withdrawn from him who repudiated the All-Merciful | INBA34:315, BLIB_Or15707.170, , BLIB_Or15735.319, | BRL_DA#766, GWBP#143 p.200x, AQA1#188, HYK.319 | GWB#143x, PDC.027x, WOB.161-162x | Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for nearness to God; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | LL#434 | |||||
| BH06328 | 160 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | وجه حق از افق اعلی باهل بها توجه نموده میفرماید در جمیع احوال بانچه سبب | He Who is the Eternal Truth hath, from the Dayspring of Glory, directed His eyes towards the people of Bahá | INBA35:292, INBA81:164, BN_suppl.1753.126-126 | BRL_DA#651, GWBP#156 p.214, LHKM3.382, KSHG.146-147, PYB#112-113 p.49, AHB_125BE #05-06 p.118, AKHA_133BE #06 p.a | GWB#156, PDC.187x | Francesco & Lorenzo, B. Weber | Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Education of children; moral education; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity in diversity | - | - | LL#403 | ||||
| BH06706 | 150 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | کتاب الهی ظاهر و کلمه ناطق ولکن نفوسیکه باو متمسک و سبب و علت انتشار گردند | The Book of God is wide open, and His Word is summoning mankind unto Him. No more than a mere handful, however, hath been found willing to cleave to His Cause | BRL_DA#796, GWBP#092 p.122ax | GWB#092x | Call to action; Consultation; Exhortations and counsels; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||
| BH06839 | 1150 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | یا زین علیک بهائی و عنایتی مکتوب شما و اسم کریم علیه بهائی را عبد حاضر لدی العرش | O Zayn, upon whom rest My glory and loving-kindness! the servant in attendance before the Throne hath received thy letter and the name of the honored one, upon whom rest My glory [3.5s]... ...All praise be to God Who hath adorned the world with an ornament, and arrayed it with a vesture, of which it can be despoiled by no earthly power | BRL_DA#653, GWBP#163 p.219bx, AVK3.409.17x, AVK4.266.07x, MAS8.046x, ASAT4.092ax, ASAT4.388x, ASAT5.257x | GWB#163x | Consultation; Order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | LL#365, LL#449 | ||||||
| BH07535 | 130 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | انشاء ??لله در کل احیان از رحیق حیوان بیاشامید و بذکر محبوب عالمیان مشغول | God willing, may ye at all times drink from the life-giving waters and be engaged in remembrance of the Best-Beloved of the worlds [3.5s]... ...The ordinances of God have been sent down from the heaven of His most august Revelation. All must diligently observe them | BLIB_Or15710.163, , BLIB_Or15722.131, | BRL_DA#664, GWBP#133 p.185x, UAB.021cx, AYI2.049x, AYI2.195, PYB#187 p.03 | GWB#133x | Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Living waters; water of life; Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | LL#455 | |||||
| BH07594 | 130 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | حضرت رحمن انسانرا بینا و شنوا خلق فرموده اگرچه بعضی او را عالم اصغر | The All-Merciful hath conferred upon man the faculty of vision, and endowed him with the power of hearing | BLIB_Or15715.254b, | BRL_DA#797, GWBP#162 p.219ax | GWB#162x | Microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar]; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | LL#440 | |||||
| BH09299 | 100 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | ای محبوب روحی در دل دمیدی و قرار از من اخذ نمودی و بعد مابین مشرکین و مغلین | O My Well-Beloved! Thou hast breathed Thy Breath into Me, and divorced Me from Mine own Self. | GWBP#040 p.065a | GWB#040 | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; God's love for His own Essence; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | LL#392 | ||||||
| BH09970 | 90 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | قل یا قوم لاتخافوا من سطوه الذینهم ظلموا و اشرکوا ان استقیموا علی الامر ثم ... قل اذا جآء النصر کل یدعون الایمان و یدخلون فی امر الله | Say: O people, fear not the dominion of them that have oppressed and associated partners with God. Be ye steadfast in His Cause, then [3.5s]... ...When the victory arriveth, every man shall profess himself as believer and shall hasten to the shelter of God’s Faith | BLIB_Or15725.388a, | BRL_DA#798, GWBP#150 p.205bx | GWB#150x | Call to action; Consolation and comfort; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | LL#458 | |||||
| BH10163 | 170 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | یا غلام قبل حسین مخصوص جمیع اسامی مذکوره در نامه آیات بدیعه منیعه نازل | O Ghulam Qabl-Ḥusayn! For all the names mentioned in the letter, have We caused to be sent down verses wondrous and sublime [3.5s]... ...This is the Day in which God’s most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace | BRL_DA#649, GWBP#004 p.012bx | GWB#004x, WOB.161x | Gus & Emma, C. Zein, MANA, Soulrise Melodies, S. Sunderland (1), S. Sunderland (2), S. Scriven | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Unity of thought and belief | - | - | LL#089 | |||||
| BH00245 | Commentary on a verse from Sa'di | 2530 | Commentary on a Verse of Sa'di (Tafsir-i Bayti az Sa'di); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Unrestrained as the Wind; Tafsir-i Bayti az Sadi (Commentary on a Verse of Sadi) | آنچه از معنی بیت در آیات الهی نازل و از افق سماء حقیقت مشرق همان تمام است و | The intent of the poet in these verses, "The Friend is closer to me that I am to myself | BLIB_Or11096#006, , BLIB_Or15722.022, , NLAI_BH3.097, BN_suppl.1754.042-047 | BRL_DA#034, GWBP#093 p.122bx, GWBP#161 p.218x, AVK3.105.13x, AVK3.465.02x, KHSH01.054, MAS1.057x, ASAT1.035x, ASAT2.085x, ASAT2.114x, ASAT3.091x, ASAT5.094x, ASAT5.235x, UVM.101.07x | GWB#093x, GWB#161x, ADJ.050-051x, ADJ.060x, ADJ.077x2x, ADJ.060x5x, COF.120x, GPB.389x, WOB.103x, WOB.167x, WIND#133 | B. Grover, MANA | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Nearness and remoteness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Word of God and human limitations | - | - | ROB3.404, LL#335, LL#448, LL#457 | ||
| BH00718 | Lawh-i-'Ali | 1090 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-'Ali (Tablet to 'Ali) | یا علی از یومی که لوح معهود که به صیحه و ساعه و صور نامیده شده ارسال گشت مشرکین | O Ali! From the day when that promised Tablet - which hath been designated as the Cry, the Hour and the Trumpet - was dispatched, the ungodly [3.5s]... ...The voice of the Divine Herald, proceeding out of the throne of God, declareth: O ye My loved ones! Suffer not the hem of My sacred vesture | BLIB_Or11096#260, , BLIB_Or15698.290, , BLIB_Or15710.051, , BLIB_Or15720.286x, , BLIB_Or15740.222x, , Majlis934.273-281 | BRL_DA#136, GWBP#100 p.132x, AVK3.473.02x, IQT.290, ASAT4.264x, OOL.B164 | GWB#100x, LOG#0419x, ADJ.025x2x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.059x, MBW.117x, WOB.163x | Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf]; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Work as worship | - | - | LL#045 | |||
| 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 | ||||
| BH03564 | Lawh-i-Ard-i-Ta | 260 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | یا ارض الطاء یاد آر هنگامی را که مقر عرش بودی و انوارش از در و دیوارت ظاهر | Call thou to remembrance, O Land of Ṭa (Ṭihrán), the former days in which thy Lord had made thee the seat of His throne, and had enveloped thee with the effulgence of His glory | INBA66:106b, BLIB_Or15730.090a, , NLAI_BH1.081 | GWBP#055 p.077bx, RHQM1.072-073x (092) (053-054), ASAT1.071-072x, TSHA3.011, PYM.110ax, LDR.322, OOL.B167 | GWB#055x, LTDT.270x | Eulogies; reminiscences; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement; Prophecy and fulfillment; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Shrines and Holy places | - | - | MUH1.0034, LL#062 | ||||
| BH00210 | Lawh-i-Hadi - Re "He who knoweth himself..." | 2770 | He who knoweth his self hath known his Lord (Man 'arafa nafsahú faqad 'arafa Rabbahú); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Man ‘arafa nafsahú faqad ‘arafa Rabbahú (He who knoweth his self hath known his Lord); Lawh-i-Hadi (Tablet to Mírzá Hadi) | توحید بدیع مقدس از تحدید و عرفان موجودات ساحت عز حضرت لایزالی را لایق و سزا | How wondrous is the unity of the Living, the Ever-Abiding God—a unity which is exalted above all limitations, that transcendeth the comprehension of all created things! He hath, from everlasting, dwelt | INBA38:238, INBA36:409, INBA57:018b, BN_suppl.1754.059-064 | BRL_DA#125, GWBP#073 p.096ax, GWBP#083 p.109x, GWBP#124 p.168bx, AVK1.061x, AVK1.180ax, AVK1.180bx, AVK1.187.06x, AVK1.242.05x, AVK1.307.02x, AVK2.077.13x, AVK3.398.09x, MJMM.346, DWNP_v6#05 p.003-004x, DRD.155, MAS4.026bx, MAS4.028x, ASAT1.185x, ASAT2.102x, ASAT4.292x, ASAT5.062x, ASAT5.251x, PYB#026 p.01x, PYB#221 p.03x, OOL.B160 | GWB#073x, GWB#083x, GWB#124x, BLO_PT#040, WIND#112 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine attributes are within all things; every atom; Knowledge of self; Manifestation of God the only route to knowledge of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ROB3.063, LL#097 | |||
| BH09648 | Lawh-i-Husayn 2 | 120 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Husayn 2 (Tablet to Husayn 2) | یا حسین بعضی از احزاب ارض منتظر ظهور حسینی بودند چه که از قبل اصفیای حق جل جلاله | O Husayn! Certain parties among the peoples of the earth were expectant of the appearance of a Husayn, inasmuch as aforetime the chosen ones of God, exalted be His glory, had spoken thereof [3.5s]... ...O Ḥusayn! Consider the eagerness with which certain peoples and nations have anticipated the return of Imám Ḥusayn, whose coming, after the appearance of the Qá’im | BRL_DA#740, GWBP#009 p.016a, OOL.B046bx | GWB#009, ADJ.077x | Prophecy and fulfillment; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God | * | - | |||||
| BH00627 | Lawh-i-Ibrahim | 1220 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | ان یا ایها السائل فاعلم بان حضر بین یدینا کتاب من الذی اشتعل بنار الله و وجدنا فیه | O thou who dost inquire! Know thou that there hath appeared before Us a letter from one who hath been enkindled with the fire of God, and therein We found [3.5s]... ...It hath been decreed by Us that the Word of God and all the potentialities thereof shall be manifested unto men in strict conformity with such conditions | INBA83:279, Berlin1237#23, ALIB.folder18p181 | BRL_DA#746, GWBP#033 p.057ax, GWBP#038 p.063x, GWBP#127 p.175x, MAS8.171x | GWB#033x, GWB#038x, GWB#127x, PDC.194x, WOB.059x, WOB.117x, WOB.164x | Growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Prayer for forgiveness; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | LL#125, LL#142, LL#404 | ||||
| BH05684 | Lawh-i-Ittihad(?) | 170 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | ای احزاب مختلفه باتحاد توجه نمائید و بنور اتفاق منور گردید لوجه الله در مقری | O contending peoples and kindreds of the earth! Set your faces towards unity, and let the radiance | BLIB_Or15690.160b, , BLIB_Or15716.138c, , BLIB_Or15728.048b, , BN_suppl.1753.123-124 | BRL_DA#708, GWBP#111 p.141, AVK4.276x.08, LHKM3.379a, AHM.407, MJMM.284, HDQI.042, DWNP_v5#01 p.002a, UAB.035b, DRD.063, MAS4.367c, AKHA_121BE #02-03 p.a, ANDA#16 p.05, OOL.B048b | GWB#111 | Call to unity; prohibition of disunity; Exhortations and counsels; Oneness; unity of religion; Unity; oneness of humanity | * | - | MMAH.090, GSH.187, LL#190 | ||||
| BH01624 | Lawh-i-Rida | 2400 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Rida (Tablet to Rida) | بروحی و کینونتی لک الفدآء یا حبّذا بما فزت بکتابک الّذی کان رأسه مزیّناً باکلیل ذکر ربّنا | By My spirit and essence, may I be a sacrifice unto Thee! How excellent it is that thou hast attained unto thy letter, whose apex was adorned with the crown of the remembrance of our Lord! [3.5s]... ...That which thou hast heard concerning Abraham, the Friend of the All-Merciful, is the truth, and no doubt is there about it. | BLIB_Or11096#234x, , BLIB_Or15722.034x, , BN_suppl.1754.143-144x | BRL_DA#682a, GWBP#032 p.056x, AVK2.160.20x, AVK2.196.11x, AVK3.117.05x, MJMM.330x, MAS1.075x, ASAT1.037x, ASAT1.142x, ASAT2.036x, ASAT3.008x, ASAT3.082x, ASAT3.268x, BCH.032x, TABN.215bx | GWB#032x | Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | - | - | LL#220 | |||
| BH01194 | Lawh-i-Zaynu'l-Muqarrabin 2 | 700 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | یا ایها الناظر الی وجهی و الشارب کاس عنایتی و کوب رحمتی و افضالی و الساکن فی | O thou who gazest upon My countenance and hast quaffed the chalice of My loving-kindness and the cup of My mercy and bounty, and who dwellest in [3.5s]... ...Call thou to mind that which hath been revealed unto Mihdí, Our servant, in the first year of Our banishment to the Land of Mystery (Adrianople) | INBA34:125, BLIB_Or15707.035, , BLIB_Or15735.206, | BRL_DA#711, GWBP#058 p.081ax, AQA1#014, ASAT4.048x, ASAT5.354x, HYK.206, MSBH5.453ax, OOL.B085b | GWB#058x, BADM.099-100x, BADM.165x, GPB.110x2x, GPB.357x, GPB.360x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Prophecy and fulfillment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | * | - | GSH.180, LL#373 | ||||
| BH00972 | Lawh-i-Zaynu'l-Muqarrabin 3 | 850 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | کتابت لدی الوجه حاضر آنچه مسطور مذکور آمد و شنیده شد انشاء الله همیشه ایام | Thy letter hath been presented before Our countenance, and that which was inscribed therein hath been mentioned and heard. God willing, may all thy days [3.5s]... ...And now concerning thy question whether human souls continue to be conscious one of another after their separation from the body | INBA66:115, BLIB_Or11096#021, , BLIB_Or15698.226, , BLIB_Or15720.222, , BLIB_Or15740.172, | BRL_DA#539, GWBP#086 p.113x, AVK1.278.02x, IQT.226, YARP1.055a, MAS1.071x, OOL.B085c | GWB#086x, PNAK.86 | Christ; Christianity; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Recompense; reward for belief; right action; Soul; spirit after death; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | LL#438 | ||||
| BH07865 | Suriy-i-Dhabih 3 | 130 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Suriy-i-Dhabih (Tablets to Dhabih) | هذا کتاب من الله الی التی آمنت بربها و کانت من القانتات ان لاتعبدی الا الله… تالله لو لم یکن مخالفًا بما نزل فی الألواح لقبّلتُ ید الّذی یسفک دمی | This is a Book from God unto her who hath believed in her Lord and was numbered among the devoutly obedient women, that she worship none save God [3.5s]... ...God is my witness! Had it not been in conflict with that which the Tablets of God have decreed, I would have gladly kissed the hands of whosoever attempted to shed my blood | BLIB_Or15725.329a, | BRL_DA#566, GWBP#048 p.073ax, OOL.B112.3x | GWB#048x | Consolation and comfort; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Eulogies; reminiscences; Power of prayer; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | * | - | LL#408 | |||
| BH01591 | Suriy-i-Dhabih 4 | 550 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Suriy-i-Dhabih (Tablets to Dhabih) | قلم الامر یقول الملک یومئذ لله لسان القدره یقول السلطنه یومئذ لله ورقاء العماء علی | The Pen of Revelation exclaimeth: “On this Day the Kingdom is God’s!” The Tongue of Power is calling: “On this Day all sovereignty is, in very deed, with God!” | INBA83:270, BLIB_Or15725.561, , NLAI_BH1.445 | BRL_DA#543, GWBP#015 p.031x, OOL.B112.4x | GWB#015x, GPB.155x | Call to action; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | LL#385 | |||
| BH11250 | Suriy-i-Dhabih 5 | 160 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Suriy-i-Dhabih (Tablets to Dhabih) | ان یا غلام اسمع ندآء هذا الغلام عن جهة العرش لیجذبک ندآء الرّحمن الی رضوانه | O servant! Hearken unto the call of this Youth from the precincts of the Throne, that the melody of the All-Merciful may draw thee to His paradise [3.5s]... ...Know verily that whenever this Youth turneth His eyes towards His own self, he findeth it the most insignificant of all creation. | BRL_DA#668, GWBP#049 p.073bx, OOL.B112.5x | GWB#049x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God | * | - | LL#454 | ||||
| BH00821 | Tablet of the Divine Springtime | 990 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Days of Remembrance | Lawh-i-Ridvan (Tablets of Ridvan) | ان یا قلم الاعلی قد اتی ربیع البیان بما تقرب عید الرحمن قم بین ملا الانشاء | The Divine Springtime is come, O Most Exalted Pen, for the Festival of the All-Merciful is fast approaching. | BLIB_Or15692.037, , BLIB_Or15706.061, , BLIB_Or15714.027, | GWBP#014 p.027, AYT.254, OOL.B203, AMB#06 | GWB#014, DOR#06, ADJ.078x, GPB.154x3x, GPB.154-155x, WOB.206x | R. Yazhari (1), R. Yazhari (2), E. Mahony, TaliaSafa (1), TaliaSafa (2), B. Butler, Joel in Real Life, Joel in Real Life | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love of God; Proclamation to the people of the world; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ROB1.274, ROB2.397, BKOG.169, LL#221 | ||
| BH01536 | Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Bayt (Lawh-i-Hajj Baghdad) | 570 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Translation List | یا ایها الناظر الی المنظر الاکبر اسمع ندآء جمال القدم من شطر سجنه الاعظم | O thou who gazest upon the Most Great Scene! Hearken unto the call of the Ancient Beauty from the direction of His Most Great Prison [3.5s]... ...When thou art departed out of the court of My presence, O Muḥammad, direct thy steps towards My House (Baghdád House), and visit it on behalf of thy Lord | INBA34:136, INBA49:283, BLIB_Or15707.058, , BLIB_Or15735.225, , NLAI_BH1.007x | BRL_DA#712, GWBP#057 p.079x, AQA1#019, AHM.097, TSBT.090, RHQM2.0805-807 (214) (133-134x), ASAT2.111x, HYK.255, OOL.B152 | GWB#057x, GPB.110x9x, GPB.149x2x, GPB.360x, MBW.168x, PDC.026x, ADMS#107 | Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Rejection, opposition and persecution; Shrines and Holy places; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | MMAH.206, GSH.206, LL#114, LL#345 | Tablet to be recited when making pilgrimage to Bahá'u'lláh's House in Baghdad | |||
| 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. | |
| BH00134 | Madinatu't-Tawhid (the City of Unity) | 3720 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Madínatu't-Tawhíd (City of Unity) | تلک آیات الکتاب فصلت آیاته بدعیا غیر ذی عوج علی آیات الله و هدی و نوری | These are the verses of the Book, whose signs have been set forth with wondrous originality, free from all crookedness, dwelling upon the signs of God, and serving as guidance and light [3.5s]... ...Beware, O believers in the Unity of God, lest ye be tempted to make any distinction between any of the Manifestations of His Cause | INBA36:199, BLIB_Or07852.046, , NLAI_BH3.074, PR03.251b13-254a15, PR19.017a-025b | BRL_DA#283, GWBP#024 p.046x, TZH4.225-227, MAS4.313, ASAT5.286x, MMUH#13x, MSBH5.443-444x, OOL.B088 | GWB#024x, GPB.003x, PDC.011x, PDC.111x, HURQ.BH15, JHT_B#009 | A theological discussion of the concept of divine unity from various perspectives: the unity of the divine Essence, of the divine attributes, of the divine Manifestations, of action, and of worship. | Absolute freedom; independence of God; Essential vs. actional attributes of God; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB1.109, MMAH.180, GSH.022, LL#151 | ||
| 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) | ستایش بیننده پاینده را سزا است که بشبنمی از دریای بخشش خود آسمان هستی را بلند | Praise be to the all-perceiving, the ever-abiding Lord Who, from a dewdrop out of the ocean of His grace, hath reared the firmament of existence | INBA35:116, BLIB_Or15715.120b, , BLIB_Or15722.092, , BN_suppl.1753.118-123 | BRL_TBUP#1, GWBP#106 p.138x, AVK3.095.19x, AVK3.104.08x, AVK3.169.06x, AVK3.205.03x, ZYN.236, MJMM.259, RSBB.175, YARP1.019, DWNP_v5#02-3 p.001-002x, UAB.021ax, UAB.027ax, UAB.032ax, UAB.035ax, UAB.046cx, DRD.002, DLS.301x, NVJ.030, ASAT1.009x, ASAT4.014x, ASAT4.131x, ASAT5.041x, PYB#066 p.03x, ADH1.009x, AKHA_109BE #01 p.002x, AKHA_119BE #08 p.ax, PYM.111ax, ANDA#79 p.12x, ANDA#79 p.16x, OOL.B056 | TBU#1, GWB#106x, SW_v01#01 p.005, SW_v03#02 p.003, SW_v07#18 p.186, BLO_PT#019, BSC.130 #050 | Parrish & Toppano, S. Toloui-Wallace, M. Sparrow, The Joburg Baha'i Choir, Sahar & Hoda | Addresses a number of theological questions by implying that the answers lie in the realm of action, in the process elucidating several central Bahá’í teachings: that the Manifestations should be regarded as ‘divine physicians’ prescribing the remedy from age to age in accordance with the disease, that the unity of mankind is the remedy for the ills of today, that one should be ‘anxiously concerned with the needs of the age’ in which one lives and centre one’s deliberations ‘on its exigencies and requirements’, and that words should be matched with deeds and that both should be motivated by purity of intention. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Procession; appearance of the Word from God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity; Words vs deeds | * | * | ROB3.270, GSH.174, LL#160, LL#176 | |
| 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" | |
| BH00060 | Lawh-i-Abdu'r-Razzaq | 5390 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; River of Life, The; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh; Lawh-i-Abdu'r-Razzáq | Lawh-i-Abdu'r-Razzáq | مکتوب آنجناب بمنظر اکبر وارد و از قمیص کلماتش نفحات حب مالک اسما و صفات | Thy letter hath attained unto the Most Great Horizon, and from the garment of its words wafted the sweet-scented fragrance of love for the Lord of Names and Attributes [3.5s]... ...As to thy question concerning the origin of creation. Know assuredly that God’s creation hath existed from eternity, and will continue to exist forever… Thou hast asked Me whether man, as apart from the Prophets of God… | INBA38:144, BLIB_Or15698.044, , BLIB_Or15720.046, , BLIB_Or15740.038, , NLAI_BH3.047, BN_suppl.1754.021-030 | BRL_DA#030, GWBP#078 p.101bx, GWBP#080 p.103x, GWBP#087 p.114x, AVK1.113ax, AVK1.213.04x, AVK1.222.10x, AVK1.272x, AVK2.042.10x, AVK2.073.12x, IQT.044, RSBB.104, MAS4.174ax, ASAT1.013x, ASAT2.019x, ASAT2.103x, ASAT4.317x, ASAT4.296x, ASAT4.530x, ASAT5.270x, ASAT5.355x, OOL.B021 | BRL_ATBH#75x, GWB#078x, GWB#080x, GWB#087x, ROL.016-021x, BSC.228 #453-459x, HURQ.BH57x, HURQ.BH58x | Addresses some misconceptions of the Bábís and answers questions concerning the origin of creation, the soul after death, and the absence of historical records prior to Adam. | Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Creation of the world; Eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Soul; spirit after death; Universal language; Word of God and human limitations | * | - | LL#036, LL#411 | ||
| BH02198 | Lawh-i-'Ashiq va Ma'shuq | 400 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Days of Remembrance | Lawh-i-Ashiq va Mashuq (Tablet of the Lover and the Beloved) | ای بلبلان الهی از خارستان ذلت بگلستان معنوی بشتابید و ای یاران ترابی قصد | Release yourselves, O nightingales of God, from the thorns and brambles of wretchedness and misery | INBA35:041, Majlis210461.046-048 | GWBP#151 p.205c, MJMM.334, AYT.319, DWNP_v4#11-12 p.059-060, UAB.059c.11x, DRD.029x, PYB#019 p.01, AHB_104BE #06 p.003, AHB_118BE #02 p.031, AKHA_120BE #02-03 p.b, AKHA_130BE #03 p.a, AKHA_133BE #11 p.252, AKHA_134BE #03 p.105, AKHA_135BE #02 p.25, ANDA#02 p.02, MSBH6.406x, OOL.B028, AMB#21 | GWB#151, DOR#21 | R. Lea, KC Porter, TaliaSafa, Mona, Sasha & Sam, Eduke | Addresses the ‘nightingales of God’, announcing the blooming of a ‘new flower’ in the ‘rose-garden of changeless splendour’, calling them to detach themselves from the world and to taste ‘the abandonment of enraptured love’, and warning them of the fleeting nature of their opportunity. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Love of God; Manifestation of God as sun; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | * | * | ROB2.241, MMAH.136, GSH.176, LL#064 | |
| BH00431 | Lawh-i-Ibna' | 1630 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | تلک لآیات الله المهیمن القیوم الی الذینهم آمنوا بالله و آیاته و هم من فزع | These are the verses of God, the All-Protecting, the Self-Subsisting, unto them that have believed in God and His signs, and who are among those that are in terror [3.5s]... ...And now, concerning thy question regarding the creation of man. Know thou that all men have been created in the nature made by God | INBA35:063 | BRL_DA#109, GWBP#077 p.101ax, RSBB.069, TZH5.148x, MAS1.065x, AHDW.010, YIK.050-054, OOL.B161 | BRL_ATBH#38x, GWB#077x, GPB.242x, SW_v08#14 p.185x | Admonishes the believers not to deny Him, not to forget the Covenant established in the Bayán and in all the sacred Books, and not to contend with His verses. Answers three questions out of more than twenty that were asked: regarding the station of man -- that all were created in God's nature and have been assigned predetermined measures of capacities and capabilities, which manifest according to their individual efforts; regarding His own station, which is greater than the creation of the heavens and the earth; and regarding the station of His sons, one of whom which will be manifested "through the power of the true Faith". | Free will and predestination; fate; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Power of the Manifestation of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ROB2.259-260, LL#141, LL#384, LL#433 | |||
| BH01034 | Lawh-i-Jamal-i-Burujirdi | 810 | Tablet to Jamal-i-Burujirdi (Lawh-i-Jamál-i-Burujirdí); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Jamal-i-Burujirdi (Tablets to Jamal-i-Burujirdi) | قوله تعالی بحر وحی که در قلم اعلی مستور است بصورت اینکلمات ترشح فرموده ای | The Ocean of Divine Revelation which is hidden within the Supreme Pen hath sprinkled forth in the form of these Words: O Jamal! Thou didst arrive in the Most Holy Presence and attain the Most Great Vision | INBA35:039, BLIB_Or15698.218, , BLIB_Or15720.214, , BLIB_Or15740.166, , Majlis210461.017-020 | BRL_DA#713, GWBP#005 p.013x, AVK2.031.11x, AVK3.141.08x, AVK3.181.08x, AVK3.243.06x, AVK3.465.14x, IQT.218, GHA.445.10x, MAS8.048ax, AKHA_118BE #08-09 p.ax, AKHA_122BE #07-08 p.bx, ANDA#49 p.04x, OOL.B049a | GWB#005x, ADJ.060x, ADJ.077x, BLO_PT#181, HURQ.BH60 | D. E. Walker, L. Slott | Advises the recipient to practice love, humility, and detachment when engaging people with different views since souls are created in different states of understanding; gives an example of two valid yet opposing positions regarding the relationship of the Manifestations to God; and states that ‘the whole duty of man in this Day is to attain that share of the flood of grace which God poureth forth for him’, advising that the ‘largeness or smallness of the receptacle’ should not be considered. | Contention and conflict; Differences in human capacity; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity in diversity | * | - | GSH.183, LL#130 | |
| BH00049 | Lawh-i-Nasir | 5960 | Tablet to Hájí Muhammad-Nasír-i-Qazvíní (Lawh-i-Hájí Muhammad-Nasír-i-Qazvíní); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Nasir or Lawh-i-Hájí Muhammad-Nasír-i-Qazvíní (Tablet to Hájí Muhammad-Nasir-i-Qazvini) | قلم اعلی لازال بر اسم احبای خود متحرک و جاری و آنی از فیوضات لابدایات خود | The Pen of the Most High hath never ceased to make mention of the names of His loved ones…. All praise be unto Thee, O Lord, in that Thou hast sent down from the heaven of Thy bounty that whereby the worlds are purified | INBA73:144, CMB_F22, , PR19.061b-069b, PR23.052b-060b, BN_suppl.1754.064-075 | BRL_DA#032, GWBP#053 p.076x, GWBP#075 p.097x, ADM2#106 p.191x, AVK1.019.01x, AVK1.150x, AVK2.016.15x, AVK2.075.20x, AVK2.116.03x, AVK3.313.15x, AVK3.407.08x, AVK4.141.02x, MJMM.166, RSBB.152, TZH4.121x, MAS4.160bx, DLS.506x, ASAT1.032x, ASAT1.123x, ASAT1.154x, ASAT2.058x, ASAT2.101x, ASAT2.191x, ASAT3.009x, ASAT3.093x, ASAT3.203x, ASAT3.217x, ASAT4.006x, ASAT4.008x, ASAT4.372x, ASAT5.224x, ADH1.083x, YMM.340x, OOL.B063 | BRL_ATBH#74x, GWB#053x, GWB#075x, COC#1651x, COC#1652x, ADJ.057x, GPB.171x, GPB.377x, WOB.106x, BLO_PT#176, HURQ.BH52, JHT_S#092x | Affirms the ceaselessness of divine grace and guidance, which brings forth fruit provided the seed is cast upon fertile soil; asserts the continuity of His mission with those of Jesus, Muhammad, and the Báb; clarifies the position of Mírzá Yaḥyá as nominal figurehead; exposes the latter’s attempt to take Bahá’u’lláh’s life; and affirms that ‘every man hath been, and will continue to be, able of himself to appreciate the Beauty of God’. | Chastisement and requital; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar]; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB2.245 et al, MMAH.193, GSH.173, LL#201 | ||
| BH00662 | Lawh-i-Malikah Victoria (Tablet to Queen Victoria) | 1150 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Summons of the Lord of Hosts | Lawh-i-Malikih (Tablet to Queen Victoria) | یا ایتها الملکه فی اللوندره ان استمعی ندآء ربک مالک البریه من السدره الالهیه | O Queen in London! Incline thine ear unto the voice of thy Lord, the Lord of all mankind, calling from the Divine Lote-Tree | INBA34:044, BLIB_Or15705.029, , PR11.040b-043b | NRJ#1d, GWBP#119 p.162x, GWBP#120 p.164x, AQA1#001d, DLH2.176x, OOL.B053 | SLH#01d, GWB#119x, GWB#120x, WOB.039-040x, WOB.040x, WOB.162x2x, SW_v14#10 p.296, DWN_v5#01 p.004x, BLO_PT#188, BSC.111 #045 | B. Parmar | Announces the fulfilment of ‘all that hath been mentioned in the Gospel’; praises the Queen for forbidding the trading in slaves and for entrusting ‘the reins of counsel into the hands of the representatives of the people’; calls the elected representatives of the people in every land to take counsel together for the sake of mankind; ordains that ‘the mightiest instrument for the healing of all the world is the union of all its peoples in one universal Cause, one common Faith’; and instructs the kings of the earth to cease burdening their subjects with their own wanton expenditures, to be reconciled among themselves, and to enforce a common peace by joining forces against any who would take up arms against another. | Prayer for governments and rulers; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Status of kings; future of monarchy; Suffering and imprisonment; The Lesser Peace and the Most Great Peace; Unity of thought and belief; Universal peace; world unity | * | * | ROB3.123, MMAH.177, GSH.130, LL#153 | Included in the Suriy-i-Haykal. |
| 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 | * | * | 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 | |
| BH02324 | Lawh-i-Karmil (Tablet of Carmel) | 380 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas | Lawh-i-Karmil (Tablet of Carmel) | حبذا هذا الیوم المبارک الذی لا تعادله القرون و الاعصار حبذا هذا الیوم اذ | All glory be to this Day, the Day in which the fragrances of mercy have been wafted over all created things | GWBP#011 p.018, RHQM2.0976-977 (412) (254-255), ASAT5.027x, PYB#041 p.04, AHB_110BE #17-18 p.340, ANDA#06 p.01, TBP#01, NJB_v06#05 p.6, OOL.B051 | TB#01, DAS.1914-01-02, GWB#011, TDH#064.3x, TDH#064.6x, GPB.219x, GPB.277-278x, GPB.278x, WOB.105x, SW_v14#05 p.149 | J. Murday, Ahdieh, NIKNAK, Mea, almunajat.com [items 42-43] | Brief proclamatory tablet, revealed during a visit to Mount Carmel, taking the form of a joyful dialogue between Bahá’u’lláh and the sacred mountain and promising that ‘Ere long will God sail His Ark upon thee, and will manifest the people of Bahá who have been mentioned in the Book of Names’, words that have been taken as the charter for the establishment of the Bahá’í World Centre in Haifa. | Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Presence of; reunion with God; Proclamation to Jews; Shrines and Holy places | - | * | ROB4.351, ROB4.423, BKOG.375, GPB.219, GPB.345, MMAH.081, GSH.147, LL#137 | ||
| 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. | |
| 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 |
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