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BH01333 640 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh حمد و ثنا متغمسین بحر تجرید را لایق و سزا که در ظلمت ایام و اعتساف انام The highest praise is due to them who have immersed themselves in the ocean of detachment—they who in the darkness of these times...Give a hearing ear, O people, to that which I, in truth, say unto you. The one true God, exalted be His glory, hath ever regarded BRL_DA#742, GWBP#102 p.135x, AVK3.268.08x, AVK4.283ax, MJMM.364, MAS8.121bx, SAAF.198-201, ASAT1.039-040x, ASAT4.084x, ASAT4.106x, ASAT4.373x, TISH.247-249 GWB#102x, PDC.120x, RIDA.176-179 Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Eulogies; reminiscences; Martyrs and martyrdom; Obedience to and respect for government authority; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness - - LL#163
BH01652 530 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh سبحان الله اظهر امره و انطق الاشیاء علی انه لا اله الا هو الحق علام الغیوب Glorified be God Who hath manifested His Cause and made all things speak forth that there is none other God but Him, the Truth, the Knower of things unseen [3.5s]... ...Happy is the man who will arise to serve My Cause, and glorify My beauteous Name. Take hold of My Book with the power of My might BRL_DA#679, GWBP#028 p.052x, AVK2.056.06x, MJMM.219, ASAT1.113x GWB#028x, WOB.172-173x Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of - - LL#435
BH02806 320 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh یا اله الرحمن و المقتدر علی الامکان تری عبادک و ارقائک الذین یصومون فی Thou seest, O God of Mercy, Thou Whose power pervadeth all created things, these servants of Thine, Thy thralls… Thou seest, O Lord, our suppliant hands… GWBP#138 p.192, AHM.110, TSBT.050, NFF5.031, OOL.B090.08 GWB#138 E. Mahony Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for fasting; Prayer for forgiveness - - LL#244, LL#271
BH03420 270 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity یا بدیع نوصیک بالصبر و السکون و الامانه التی کانت ودیعه الله بین خلقه طوبی Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor BRL_DA#655, GWBP#130 p.182x, AHB_117BE #12 p.371 GWB#130x, ADJ.025x, DWN_v3#01 p.009x, BSTW#401x Joel in Real Life, Soulrise Melodies, Soulrise Melodies, D. Desimone Exhortations and counsels; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life - - LL#069
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 - -
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
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
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
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 * -
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
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
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"
BH02224 400 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Translation List قلم اعلی این ایام بلسان پارسی تکلم میفرماید تا طایران هوای عرفان بیان رحمن را The Most Exalted Pen in these days speaketh in the Persian tongue, that the birds soaring in the atmosphere of divine knowledge may comprehend the utterance of the All-Merciful [3.5s]... ...Some have regarded it as lawful to infringe on the integrity of the substance of their neighbor, and have made light of the injunction of God INBA15:312, INBA35:170b, INBA26:316, BLIB_Or07852.092, , BLIB_Or15719.149c, , BN_suppl.1753.100-102 BRL_DA#662, GWBP#137 p.190x, LHKM3.372, UAB.047ex, MAS8.007bx, HYB.020 GWB#137x, COC#2041x, ADJ.023-024x, TRBP.003-004, ADMS#066x Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Suffering and imprisonment; Theft; seizing the properties of others - - LL#358
BH01507 570 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh ان یا حرف الحی لقد سمعت اذن الله ندآئک و لاحظت عین الله کتابک و ینادیک حینئذ عن O Letter of the Living! The ear of God hath heard thy cry, and His eyes have beheld thy written supplication. He is calling thee from His seat of glory INBA19:183, INBA32:166, INBA83:255, BLIB_Or03114.063r, , BLIB_Or15725.545, , BLIB_Or15737.180, , ALIB.folder18p284 BRL_DA#770, GWBP#135 p.187x GWB#135x Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Letters of the Living; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach - - LL#412
BH02874 310 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو العزیز المحبوب له الجود و الفضل یعطی من یشاء ما God witnesseth that there is no God but Him, the Gracious, the Best-Beloved. All grace and bounty are His. To whomsoever He will He giveth whatsoever is His wish INBA23:197b, INBA36:087a, INBA71:249 BRL_DA#782, GWBP#030 p.055ax GWB#030x Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Return of the Manifestations of God; Suffering; rejection of Christ - - LL#417
BH00354 Suriy-i-Vafa (=Lawh-i-Vafa) 1870 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas Suriy-i-Vafa (Tablet to Vafa) ان یا وفاء ان اشکر ربک بما ایدک علی امره و عرفک مظهر نفسه و اقامک علی ثناء ذکره O Vafa! Render thanks unto thy Lord for having aided thee to embrace His Cause, enabled thee to recognize the Manifestation INBA28:215, BLIB_Or15694.386, , Berlin1237#26, ALIB.folder18p103-109 GWBP#079 p.102x, AQA4#103 p.350, AQA4a.418, AVK1.119.07x, AVK1.276bx, AVK1.321.01x, LMA1.418 (253), MAS1.006x, MAS1.063x, ASAT5.300x, TBP#12, OOL.B140 TB#12, GWB#079x, WOB.138-139x, NYR#143 Exhorts the recipient to be the essence of faithfulness; asserts Bahá’u’lláh’s mystical identity with the Báb; answers questions about ‘the return’, the worlds of God, the ordinances of God, and paradise; and confirms that, as predicted during the time of His departure from ‘Iraq, the ‘birds of darkness’ have begun to stir. Chastisement and requital; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Meaning; importance of dreams and visions; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Realms of being; three realms; five realms; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Return of the Manifestations of God * * ROB4.205, GSH.190, LL#329
BH00739 Lawh-i-Sahab (Tablet of the Cloud) 1060 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablet of the Clouds (Lawḥ-i-Saḥáb), The Lawh-i-Sahab (Tablet of the Clouds) هذا کتاب من لدی الرحمن الی الذین اقبلوا الی قبله من فی السموات و الارضین This is a Book from before the Most Merciful unto those who have turned their faces towards Him Who is the Qiblih of all who dwell in the heavens and on earth [3.5s]... ...My captivity can bring on Me no shame. Nay, by My life, it conferreth on Me glory. That which can make Me ashamed is the conduct of such of My followers as profess to love Me INBA34:109, LEID.Or4970 item 10, , Majlis934.125.02-126.09x BRL_DA#073, GWBP#060 p.083ax, AQA1#008, MAS4.168ax, MAS4.364bx, MAS8.107bx, ASAT4.051x, ASAT4.132x, ANDA#72 p.03x, OOL.B075 GWB#060x, TN.042x, ADJ.032x, GPB.190x, PDC.135-136x, PDC.139x, WOB.105x, JHT_B#002 Proclamatory tablet mentioning Bahá’u’lláh’s recent summons to Náṣiru’d-Dín Sháh and Napoleon III, extolling the prophetic significance of the Holy Land and His banishment there, and exhorting His followers to proclaim His message with wisdom, deeds, and upright conduct, describing them as those who would pass through a valley of pure gold ‘aloof as a cloud’. Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Chastisement and requital; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Predictions and prophecies; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of * - MMAH.167, GSH.179, LL#228
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
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
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
BH01880 470 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh قل انا انزلنا من جهه العرش ماء البیان لینبت به من قلوبکم نبات الحکمه و Say: We have caused the rivers of Divine utterance to proceed out of Our throne, that the tender herbs of wisdom and understanding may spring forth INBA34:148, BLIB_Or15707.087, , BLIB_Or15735.249, GWBP#018 p.036, AQA1#026, HYK.249 GWB#018 Turning Point Apocalyptic imagery; Chastisement and requital; Imagery in the Qur'an; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God - - LL#402
BH01924 460 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh ص و النبا العظیم قد اتی الرحمن بسلطان مبین و وضع المیزان و حشر من علی الارض By Him Who is the Great Announcement! The All-Merciful is come invested with undoubted sovereignty. The Balance hath been appointed INBA34:150, BLIB_Or15707.090, , BLIB_Or15735.252, BRL_DA#659, GWBP#017 p.034x, AQA1#027, PYK.017, DLH1.048, HYK.252 GWB#017x, WOB.194x Apocalyptic imagery; Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Predictions and prophecies; Suffering and imprisonment - - ROB3.032, LL#453
BH02484 360 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی سلک سبیل الله الواضح المستقیم و تمسک بالعروه This is a Book from Our presence unto him who hath walked the path of God, manifest and straight, and held fast unto the cord [3.5s]... ...The Ancient Beauty hath consented to be bound with chains that mankind may be released from its bondage, and hath accepted to be made a prisoner INBA34:181, INBA84:170, INBA84:098b, INBA84:039, BLIB_Or15707.155, , BLIB_Or15735.306, BRL_DA#656, GWBP#045 p.071ax, AQA1#047, ASAT4.333x, HYK.036 GWB#045x Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Power of prayer; Praise and encouragement; Sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering - - LL#443
BH02628 340 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh Tablet about Ashrafs mother لا تجزعی من غربتک تالله لو تنظرین بعینی لتفدین نفسک فی سبیلی بما جعلک الله Grieve thou not in thine exile. By God! Wert thou to behold through Mine eyes, thou wouldst sacrifice thyself in My path, through that which God hath made thee to be [3.5s]... ...Call thou to mind the behavior of Ashraf’s mother, whose son laid down his life in the Land of Zá (Zanján). He, most certainly, is in the seat of truth INBA34:182 BRL_DA#074, GWBP#069 p.092x, AQA1#048, TISH.509-510 GWB#069x Consolation and comfort; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Kingdom of God [Malakut] - - LL#363
BH03249 280 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh قد اخذ المیثاق حین الاشراق من الذین آمنوا ان لا یعبدوا الا الله و لایفسدوا He verily hath taken the Covenant at the hour of dawning from them that have believed, that they should worship none but God and should not corrupt [3.5s]... ...I sorrow not for the burden of My imprisonment. Neither do I grieve over My abasement, or the tribulation I suffer at the hands of Mine enemies INBA34:204 BRL_DA#072, GWBP#046 p.071bx, AQA1#066 GWB#046x, ADJ.028ax, ADJ.032x Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Idle fancies; lust and passion; Power of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness - - LL#444
BH03550 260 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی اخذته نفحات آیات ربه الرحمن و فاز بانوار الهدی فی This is a Book from Our presence unto him whom the sweet-scented breezes of the verses of his Lord, the All-Merciful, have stirred, and who hath attained unto the lights of guidance in [3.5s]... ...The Pen of the Most High hath decreed and imposed upon every one the obligation to teach this Cause. INBA34:252, NLAI_BH2.195 BRL_DA#657, GWBP#144 p.201x, AQA1#113, ASAT4.126x GWB#144x, TDH#037.1x Gus, Emma & Edelo, D. Mantas, A.E. Rahbin Disregarding own capacity in teaching the Cause; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world - - LL#450
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
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
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
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
BH00259 Lawh-i-Napoleon II 2460 Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Summons of the Lord of Hosts Lawh-i-Napulyun (Tablets to Napoleon III) قل یا ملک الباریس نبأ القسیس بأن لا یدق النواقیس تالله الحق قد ظهر الناقوس O King of Paris! Tell the priests to ring the bells no longer. By God, the True One! The Most Mighty Bell hath appeared INBA34:033, BLIB_Or15705.022, , CMB_F31.034, , PR11.031a-038b NRJ#1b, GWBP#107 p.139ax, GWBP#158 p.215bx, AQA1#001b, AVK3.203.19x, AKHA_123BE #01-02 p.ax, OOL.B062 SLH#01b, GWB#107x, GWB#158x, WOB.203x, SW_v03#05 p.007x, DWN_v5#02-3 p.002-004x, DWN_v6#10 p.001bx, BSC.105 #042 W. Heath, Soulrise Melodies (1), Soulrise Melodies (2) Summons the Emperor to ‘tell the priests to ring the bells no longer’, announcing that He is the one promised by Christ; bids the monks to come forth from their seclusion; prophesies that his ‘kingdom shall be thrown into confusion’ and his empire ‘shall pass from [his] hands’ for ‘casting behind [his] back’ the first epistle from Bahá’u’lláh; recounts the sufferings of Bahá’u’lláh in His successive exiles; counsels the Emperor to watch over his subjects with justice; and instructs him, and the people of the world in general, to teach the Cause of God through the power of utterance, to be trustworthy, and to conceal the sins of others. Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness * * ROB3.110, BKOG.320, BKOG.392, MMAH.124, LL#200 Included in the Suriy-i-Haykal.
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.
BH00066 Lawh-i-Salman I 5230 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Days of Remembrance; Commentary on a Verse of Rumi; Commentary on a Verse of Rumi Lawh-i-Salman I (Tablet to Salman I) ای سلمان از شهر جان بنسایم قدس رحمن بر اهل اکوان و امکان مرور نما O Salman! Pass through the realm of being and existence with holy breezes from the City of the Spirit, wafting with the fragrances of the All-Merciful [3.5s]... ...O Salmán! Say: O people! Tread ye in the path of the one true God and ponder the ways and words of Him Who is the Manifestation INBA35:276, INBA73:118, BLIB_Or15722.001, , NLAI_BH3.110, BN_suppl.1754.047-059 BRL_DA#735, GWBP#021 p.040x, GWBP#148 p.204x, GWBP#154 p.212x, AVK1.026.05x, AVK2.078.12x, AVK3.303.06x, AVK3.418.16x, MJMM.128, ASAT4.100x, ASAT5.346x, YMM.322x, OOL.B076, AMB#37x GWB#021x, GWB#148x, GWB#154x, DOR#37x, MNP.036-037x, ADJ.060x, ADJ.076-77x, ADJ.083x, ADJ.084x, GPB.169x, WOB.108x, WIND#128, HURQ.BH55 Laments the opposition of Mírzá Yaḥyá; contrasts the stations of belief and disbelief; considers and rejects various theories of the mystics concerning the relationship between God and creation; asserts that, the Godhead itself being unknowable, the means of access to the knowledge of God is through the channel of His prophets; and interprets a line of Rumi’s Mathnaví to the effect that the light of truth is one but that, cast through the glass of different souls, it takes on different tints and colours, which is both the cause of the denial of the religion of God and the source of conflict upon earth. Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Development of capacity and readiness; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God * - ROB2.283, ROB3.089, BLO_PT#023, MMAH.187, GSH.179, LL#232, LL#234
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
BH01231 680 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh Lawh-i-Muhammad-`Alí I and II ای محمد قبل علی بشنو ندای محبوب باوفا را که از شطر ابهی ندا میفرماید و O Muhammad-'Ali! Hearken unto the call of thy faithful Beloved, Who from the Most Glorious Horizon doth proclaim and [3.5s]... ...I swear by the beauty of the Well-Beloved! This is the Mercy that hath encompassed the entire creation, the Day whereon the grace of God hath permeated and pervaded all things INBA35:035, INBA74:097, BLIB_Or03116.106r, , BLIB_Or11096#033, , BLIB_Or15710.208, , BLIB_Or15722.151, BRL_DA#767, GWBP#142 p.198x, ADM1#010 p.031x, AVK3.178.13x, RSBB.090, MAS4.110, ASAT5.167x, ADH1.029x GWB#142x Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Prayer for forgiveness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach - - ROB2.117, LL#186
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
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
BH00565 1330 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh هذا کتاب من لدی المظلوم الی من تمسک بالعلوم لعل یخرق حجاب الاکبر و یتوجه الی This is a Book from Him Who is Wronged unto him that hath clung to learning, that perchance he may rend asunder the most great veil and turn towards [3.5s]... ...Ponder awhile. What is it that prompted, in every Dispensation, the peoples of the earth to shun the Manifestation of the All-Merciful? INBA35:053, INBA66:110, BLIB_Or11096#007, , BLIB_Or15698.231, , BLIB_Or15720.228, , BLIB_Or15740.176, BRL_DA#666, GWBP#035 p.060x, ADM1#005 p.018x, IQT.231, AYI1.329x, MJMM.232, DWNP_v5#06 p.002-003x, UAB.002bx, ASAT3.074x, ASAT3.131x, ASAT4.146x, ASAT4.429x, YMM.404x, NSS.125x GWB#035x, JHT_S#100x Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Suffering; rejection of Christ; Suffering and imprisonment - - LL#377, LL#423
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
BH00413 1690 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh سبحان الذی اظهر نفسه کیف شاء و اراد فی حین ماادرکته افئده اولی الحجی و اعترض Glorified be He Who hath manifested His Self as He hath willed and desired, at a time when the hearts of them that are endowed with understanding could not comprehend Him and raised objection [3.5s]... ...Regard thou the one true God as One Who is apart from, and immeasurably exalted above, all created things. The whole universe reflecteth His glory INBA35:094, BLIB_Or11096#009, , BLIB_Or15698.143, , BLIB_Or15720.141, , BLIB_Or15740.110, , NLI.32p083v BRL_DA#597, GWBP#084 p.111ax, ADM1#006 p.021x, IQT.143, AYI1.337x, UAB.031ax, AQMJ1.181x, ASAT4.270x GWB#084x, SW_v02#05 p.015x, JHT_S#030x Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for steadfastness; obedience; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God - - LL#421
BH02747 320 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh ای بندگان سزاوار آنکه در این بهار جان‌فزا از باران نیسان یزدانی تازه و خرم O My servants! It behoveth you to refresh and revive your souls through the gracious favors which, in this Divine, this soul-stirring Springtime INBA35:110, BLIB_Or11096#059, , BLIB_Or15722.089, , CMB_F33.039, , NLI.32p009v, Majlis934.046-049 GWBP#085 p.111b, ZYN.283, AHM.308, MJMM.255, YARP1.013, DWNP_v1#02 p.001-002x, UAB.058bx, DRD.040, DRD.101, PYB#019 p.02 GWB#085, ADJ.081x All things are in motion; kinds of motion; Declaration of Baha'u'llah; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world; Life and death; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Satan; the Evil One; Selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of - - LL#072
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
BH00006 Lawh-i-Sarraj 26800 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh Lawh-i-Sarraj (Tablet to Sarraj) نامه آنجناب بین یدی العرش حاضر و بر مقر انه لایعرف بما سواه واصل و ما فیه Thy letter hath been made present before the Throne and hath reached the Seat of Him Who is known through naught else but Himself, and that which it contained [3.5s]... ...Shake off, O heedless ones, the slumber of negligence, that ye may behold the radiance which His glory hath spread through the world. INBA35:190, INBA73:198, INBA33:081bx, INBA76:001, PR19.072b-110b, BN_suppl.1754.075-124 BRL_DA#029, GWBP#050 p.073cx, GWBP#097 p.130ax, MAS4.046ax, MAS4.090bx, MAS4.100ax, MAS4.364ax, MAS4.350bx, MAS4.174bx, MAS7.004, ASAT4.271x, ASAT4.272x, ASAT4.487x, AKHA_122BE #04 p.?x, AKHA_137BE #08 p.ax, ANDA#05 p.06x, ANDA#69 p.05x, MSHR4.286x, YMM.468x, OOL.B201 BRL_ATBH#67x, BRL_ATBH#72x, BRL_ATBH#76x, BRL_ATBH#77x, GWB#050x, GWB#097x, LOG#0327x, ADJ.080x, GPB.098x, GPB.102x, GPB.171x, PDC.019-020x, WOB.063x2x, WOB.104x2x, WOB.107x, WOB.108x2x, BLO_PT#075x, HURQ.BH51 One of the longest works of Bahá’u’lláh, written in answer to questions regarding the enigma of the outwardly exalted station of Mírzá Yaḥyá and arguing, citing various statements of the Báb, that virtues become transmuted into vices when one turns away from the light of truth. Collection; ordering of the Sacred Writings; Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The power of words; of speech; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life - - ROB2.262 et al, MMAH.140, LL#242
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
BH00958 860 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh لم یزل نفحات قدسی از رضوان عنایت الهی در وزیدن بوده و لایزال روایح عز معنوی From time immemorial have the breezes of holiness wafted from the Paradise of divine favor, and unto eternity shall the fragrances of spiritual glory continue to be diffused [3.5s]... ...The purpose of God in creating man hath been, and will ever be, to enable him to know his Creator and to attain His Presence INBA36:080, INBA71:241 BRL_DA#130, GWBP#029 p.053x, AVK1.333.010x, MJMM.368, DRD.139, ASAT5.061x, ASAT5.262x, AKHA_134BE #18 p.691 GWB#029x, DWN_v3#12 p.031-032x Growth of the Cause; Knowledge; recognition of God; Nearness and remoteness; Power of the Manifestation of God; Purpose; goal of creation; Suffering and imprisonment - - LL#430
BH00144 Suriy-i-Bayan 3580 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh Suriy-i-Bayan (Tablet of Utterance) ذکر اسم ربک عبده اذ دخل بقعه الفردوس مقر الذی استشرقت علیه انوار الوجه عن مشرق The remembrance of the name of thy Lord by His servant, when he entered the Garden of Paradise, the seat whereupon shone forth the lights of the Face from the Dayspring [3.5s]... ...Say: Doth it beseem a man while claiming to be a follower of his Lord, the All-Merciful, he should yet in his heart do the very deeds of the Evil One? INBA37:007, INBA83:203, BLIB_Or15702.254, , BLIB_Or15723.228, , BLIB_Or15737.069, , NLAI_BH2.280, Berlin1237#10, ALIB.folder18p001-018, Majlis934.115.09-125.01x BRL_DA#736, GWBP#128 p.176x, GWBP#129 p.179x, GWBP#145 p.202ax, AQA4#080 p.108, AQA4a.392, AVK3.095.13x, AVK3.147.08x, AVK3.260.06x, GHA.428x, ASAT2.106x, PYK.032x, YFY.060x, OOL.B109 GWB#128x, GWB#129x, GWB#145x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.034x, TDH#037.1x, GPB.170x, GPB.376-377x, GPB.404x, MBW.038x, BSTW#037x, HURQ.BH39 D. E. Walker, MANA (1), MANA (2), C. Signori Charges the recipient to teach the Cause of God in a state of detachment from the world and enkindlement with the love of God, summons the Maid of Heaven to come to the aid of whoever does so, and instructs him to carry the message to specific people and regions in Iran. Assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Exhortations and counsels; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach * - ROB2.397, GSH.198, LL#295
BH00512 Lawh-i-Tawhid 1450 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Translation List Lawh-i-Tawhid (Tablet of Divine Unity) حمد مقدس از عرفان ممکنات و منزه از ادراک مدرکات ملیک عز بی مثالی را سزا است Praise be to God, the All-Possessing, the King of incomparable glory, a praise which is immeasurably above INBA38:012, INBA65:167, INBA35:058b, INBA36:396, NLI.32p020v, PR23.039b-041b BRL_DA#716, GWBP#026 p.047bx, AVK1.113b.02x, AVK2.013.17x, AVK2.072.02x, ZYN.056, MJMM.307, DWNP_v1#01 p.003-007, UAB.006bx, UAB.008ax, DLS.070x, ASAT2.104x, AHB_109BE #07 p.002x, PYM.335-341, OOL.B081 GWB#026x, WOB.113x2x, ADMS#013 Discourse on the transcendence of God, Whose signs have pervaded the entire creation and Who is known only through His Manifestations, Who appear from age to age and call the people to recognize His cause as one would recognize a friend: that is, by his own self and not by the garments he may be wearing on any given day. Creation of the world; Manifestation of God as mirror; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God * - GSH.184, LL#250
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 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 * - GSH.171, LL#265, LL#395
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

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