all items by Bahá'u'lláh, details

Bahá’u’lláh’s lengthiest tablet to any monarch, delivered in person to the Shah at the cost of the messenger’s life, urging the Shah to judge His cause fairly; disavowing any designs on worldly power; detailing the injustices He and His followers had suffered over the course of successive banishments; calling the clergy to account for their role in His rejection; and, citing the rejection of Jesus and Muhammad by the people of their day, urging the Shah to consider the possibility of the appearance of a new Manifestation of God in this day.

Call to action; Justice and wrath of God; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Rendering assistance to God; victory [nusrat]; Special knowledge of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ROB2.337 et al, BKOG.309 et al, MMAH.113, GSH.102, LL#248

BH03255

Lawh-i-Siyyid Muhammad ibn Vahid

280

Arabic

Translation List

قد فتح باب البیان و ظهر غلام المعانی و کان فی یده الیمنی کاس من سلسبیل رحمه

Lo! The portal of utterance is flung open, and the Youth of inner meaning is come. In His right hand, He beareth a chalice

BLIB_Or11095#187,

AQA4#104 p.358, AQA4a.132, LMA1.348 (208)

ADMS#028

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa]; Power of the Manifestation of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

LL#247

BH00587

Lawh-i-Siyyid Mihdiy-i-Dahaji

1290

mixed

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

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

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

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

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

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

TB#13, GPB.216x

T. Ellis, L. Harley

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

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

ROB4.236, LL#245

BH00415

Lawh-i-Sirr al-Tankis

1690

mixed

مطالب مذکوره در ساحت اقدس معروض افتاد هذا ما نزل من سمآء الأمر قد سمعنا ما نادیت به الله بما علمک من قبل... و اما در فقرهٴ عباراتی که منسوب بجناب شیخ احمد احسائی

The matters mentioned were presented to the Most Holy Court, and this is what hath been sent down from the heaven of Command: We have heard that which thou didst call upon God concerning what He taught thee aforetime... And as for the phrases attributed to Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsá'í [3.5s]

BLIB_Or11096#253x, , BLIB_Or15722.035, , NLI.32p144rx

ADM2#095 p.176x, MAS1.012x, MAS4.276x, ASAT4.088x, ASAT5.065x, NSS.098x

ADMS#199n77x

Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Personal instructions; Petitions to authorities; Praise and encouragement; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation

LL#243

BH01850

Lawh-i-Shaykh Fani

480

mixed

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Shaykh Fání (Tablet to Shaykh Fání)

قلم اعلی من فی الانشا را ندا میفرماید و بحق واحد هدایت مینماید ای شیخ فانی حمد کن

The Most Exalted Pen calleth unto all who dwell in creation and guideth them unto the One True God. O mortal elder! Render thou praise [3.5s]... ...He is indeed a true believer in the unity of God who, in this Day, will regard Him as One immeasurably exalted above all the comparisons and likenesses with which men have compared Him

BLIB_Or03116.111r, , BLIB_Or11096#041, , NLI.32p132r, Majlis934.031-036

BRL_DA#704, GWBP#160 p.217x, AVK1.175ax, OOL.B080

GWB#160x

Stresses the importance of distinguishing the transcendent reality of God from the signs of God in the world, taking as an example the subject of mystical self-surrender (faná’) and eternal union (baqá’) with God, which should be understood as the act of complete renunciation of worldly desire and not the elevation of the individual will to that of God.

Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Empty learning; false spirituality; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Law of fasting; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Transcendence; unknowability of God

GSH.177, LL#240

BH11595

Lawh-i-Shaykh Abdu'l-Husayn

unknown

LEID.Or4970 item 9,

LL#239

BH00395

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

1720

Arabic

Lawh-i-Sayyah (Tablet of the Traveller)

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

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

INBA36:052, INBA71:211

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

GPB.184x2x, HURQ.BH49

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

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

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

BH00006

Lawh-i-Sarraj

26800

mixed

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

BH01403

Lawh-i-Salman II

610

mixed

Second Tablet of Salmán (Lawh-i-Salmán)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BH00066

Lawh-i-Salman I

5230

mixed

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

BH11594

Lawh-i-Salat

unknown

ROB4.299, LL#229

BH00739

Lawh-i-Sahab (Tablet of the Cloud)

1060

Arabic

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

BH00032

Lawh-i-Ruh

7220

Arabic

Lawḥ-i-Rúh (Tablet of the Spirit)

فسبحان الذی فی قبضته ملکوت ملک الآیات یصرفها کیف یشآء بأمر

Glorified be He in Whose grasp lieth the dominion of the realm of verses, Who directeth them as He pleaseth through His command [3.5s]

INBA37:018, INBA83:073, BLIB_Or15723.082, , PR23.001b-015b

AQA4#081 p.123, AQA4a.150, ASAT1.276x, OOL.B073

Refutes certain claims of Mírzá Yaḥyá; asserts the magnitude of Bahá’u’lláh’s own station, whose full transformative power remains, out of wisdom, as yet undivulged; and foretells the ultimate triumph of His cause.

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Oneness; unity of religion; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.181, ROB2.260, MMAH.185, GSH.085, LL#224

BH01325

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

640

Arabic

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

Lawh-i-Ruya (Tablet of the Vision)

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

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

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

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

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

unknown

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

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

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

BH01624

Lawh-i-Rida

2400

mixed

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

BH01865

Lawh-i-Rasul

470

Persian

Days of Remembrance

Lawh-i-Rasul (Tablet to Rasul)

ان یا رسول اگر از شمس سماء معنی پرسی در کسوف حسد مکسوف و مغطوء و اگر از قمر

O Rasúl! Shouldst thou ask concerning the Sun of the heaven of inner meaning, know that it hath been eclipsed by the clouds of envy

INBA38:257

NANU_BH#10x, ASAT4.013x, AMB#30, QUM.029

DOR#30

Identifies Himself, through His sufferings, with the prophets of the past and announces His intention to take leave of both friend and foe.

Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Love of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment

MMAH.107, GSH.181, LL#219

BH00921

Lawh-i-Raqsha

890

Arabic

ذکر من لدنا لمن اقبل و سمع ندآء الله المهیمن القیوم و اجاب مولیه فی یوم فیه

A remembrance from Our presence unto him who hath turned and hearkened unto the Call of God, the All-Compelling, the Self-Subsisting, and who hath answered his Lord on this Day wherein [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15713.014,

NNY.235-236x, MAS4.107x, OOL.B071

Details the divine justice and wrath that was visited upon the two individuals mentioned in the Lawḥ-i-Burhán and offers remembrance and praise for several of His followers.

Call to action; Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment

LL#218

BH04606

Lawh-i-Ram

200

Arabic

اتقوا الله یا ملا الارض و لاتظنوا فیما اذکرناه فی اللوح باسم الرام رام الذی

Fear ye God, O people of the earth, and think not that the wine We have mentioned in Our Tablet is the wine which men drink

INBA81:049

AVK3.041.06x, GHA.429a.01-03x, MUH3.276-277, ASAT4.003x, AKHA_122BE #09 p.a, OOL.B186

COC#1785

Alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light

BH00475

Lawh-i-Rafi'(?)

1520

mixed

حمد مقدس از لسان و بیان مالک الملکی را لایق و سزاست که بمفتاح بیان ابواب

Sanctified praise, through tongue and utterance, befitteth the Lord of all sovereignty, Who by the key of expression hath opened the doors [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15717.090,

NSS.105x

Call to action; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#215

BH02563

Lawh-i-Rada'r-Ruh

350

Arabic

Tablet to Rada'r-Rúh

Lawh-i-Radar-Ruh (Tablet to Radar-Ruh)

یا ایها الناظر الی الوجه اسمع ندآء من سجن مره بعد اخری فی سبیل الله ربک و رب

O Thou who hast fixed his gaze upon the (divine) Countenance! Hearken unto the Call of Him Who hath suffered imprisonment, time after time, in the path of God

INBA73:362, NLAI_BH1.510, NLAI_BH2.249

SFI16.036-037, MUH3.026-027, ASAT1.051x, DLH3.472

BLO_PT#189, BTO#11

Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB3.007-010, LL#197

BH00269

Lawh-i-Ra'is

2370

Persian

Bahá'í Scriptures; Summons of the Lord of Hosts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BH07301

Lawh-i-Quds 7

140

Arabic

Translation List

هذا لوح القدس قد رقم فیه من قلم قدس بدیع آیات الله الملک المتعالی العزیز

This is the Tablet of holiness; upon it hath been written, by a Pen sacred and wondrous, the verses of God, the King, the Transcendent, the Almighty

BLIB_Or15694.627c, , ALIB.folder18p486

ADMS#230

Chastisement and requital; High station of the true believer; Personal instructions; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God

BH05173

Lawh-i-Quds 6

190

Arabic

Translation List

هذا لوح القدس قد فصلناه من ام البیان و ارسلناه الی من آمن بالله ربه الرحمن

This is the Tablet of holiness; We have expounded it from the Mother Book and sent it unto the one who hath believed in the Lord his God

INBA18:211, NLAI_BH1.074

BRL_DA#417

ADMS#229

Consolation and comfort; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times

BH04852

Lawh-i-Quds 4

200

Arabic

Translation List

هذا لوح القدس من لدنا الی الذی امن و هدی و فیه ذکر ما یقربه الی الله العلی

This is the Tablet of holiness from Us to him who hath believed and been guided aright, and therein is mentioned what will draw him nigh unto God

BLIB_Or15725.308a, , NLAI_BH2.044

ADMS#227

Chastisement and requital; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Realms of being; three realms; five realms; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Twin Manifestations

BH04551

Lawh-i-Quds 3

210

Arabic

Translation List

هذا لوح القدس قد نزل بالحق من لدن عزیز حکیم یستنشق منه الموحدون رایحه الرحمن

This is the Tablet of holiness; it hath been sent down, through the power of truth, by Him Who is the Almighty, the All-Wise

INBA34:261b, NLAI_BH1.015

AQA1#123, AKHA_124BE #06 p.b, OOL.B068c

ADMS#226

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love of God; Nearness and remoteness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Suffering and imprisonment

BH02800

Lawh-i-Quds 2

320

Arabic

Translation List

هذا لوح القدس نزل من جبروت الامر لمن وجد عرف القمیص من شطر التقدیس و اقبل

This is the Tablet of holiness; it was sent down, from the realm of revelation, unto him who hath discovered the fragrance of the garment wafting from the direction of sanctity

INBA34:199

AQA1#062, OOL.B068b

ADMS#225

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

BH01394

Lawh-i-Quds 1 (Lawh-i-A'rabi)

620

Arabic

Tablet of Holiness

Lawh-i-Quds (Tablets of Holiness); Lawh-i-Quds or Lawh-i-A'rabi (Tablet of Holiness)

یا اعرابی ثم یا احبائی ثم یا اصفیائی ثم یا جنودی ثم یا ظهوری اسمعوا ندائی ان

My Arabs, My Loved ones, My friends, My legions, My manifestation! Hearken unto My call, if ye be among them with ears to hear

INBA36:149, INBA71:320, BLIB_Or15696.169,

BRL_DA#362, AQA4#096 p.325, AQA4a.070, OOL.B068a

BLO_PT#112, JHT_B#008

Contention and conflict; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Exhortations and counsels; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God

MMAH.171, LL#213

BH00203

Lawh-i-Quds 1

2800

mixed

Translation List

Lawh-i-Quds (Tablets of Holiness)

هذا لوح القدس یذکر فیه ما یشتعل به فی قلوب العباد نارا لعل یحترق بها کل الحجبات

This is the Tablet of Holiness; in it is mentioned what will kindle a flame in the hearts of the servants, that haply it may burn away every veil and allusion

INBA51:224b, INBA57:031, BLIB_Or15694.420, , KB_620:217-228, ALIB.folder18p255x

BRL_DA#099, SFI08.019b, MAS1.060x, AADA.061-073, ASAT1.130x, ASAT5.350x

ADMS#224

A call to the recognition of Bahá’u’lláh, affirming the continuity of His mission with the Báb’s, investigating the cause of the rejection of prophets past, and refuting the counter-claim of Mírzá Yaḥyá.

Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering; rejection of Christ; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God

BH00151

Lawh-i-Qina'

3480

mixed

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

Lawh-i-Qina (Tablet of the Veil)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BH00647

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

1170

mixed

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

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

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

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

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

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

BRL_ATBH#53x, ROL.050-051x

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

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

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

BH00347

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

1900

Arabic

Bahá'í Scriptures; Summons of the Lord of Hosts

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

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

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

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

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

SLH#01a, BSC.098 #041

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

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

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

Included in the Suriyi-Haykal.

BH02170

Lawh-i-Nuqtih

410

Arabic

Translation List

Lawh-i-Nuqtih (Tablet of the Point)

هذا لوح القدس قد جعل الله مقامه مقام النقطه کما ان من النقطه فصلت کل الحروفات

This is the Tablet of holiness; upon it hath God conferred the station of the point, just as it is through the point that every letter and word is made distinct

BRL_DA#737, LHKM1.020

ADMS#228

Proclaims itself as occupying the station of the point, differentiating all that has been revealed from all eternity to all eternity, in the same way that the point differentiates letters and words.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Word of God the cause of creation

ROB2.397, BKOG.220, BKOG.245, LL#206

BH00049

Lawh-i-Nasir

5960

mixed

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

BH00759

Lawh-i-Naqus (=Subhanaka Ya Hu)

1040

Arabic

Days of Remembrance

Lawh-i-Naqus (Tablet of the Bell)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BH00259

Lawh-i-Napoleon II

2460

Arabic

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.

BH01120

Lawh-i-Napoleon I

750

mixed

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

Lawh-i-Napulyun (Tablets to Napoleon III)

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

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

BRL_DA#706, ROBP2.388x

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

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

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

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

BH04298

Lawh-i-Mustatab

220

Arabic

هذا کتاب نزل من لدن عزیز وهاب لمن خضع و اناب اذ اتی الرب علی السحاب انه لرب

This is a Book sent down from the presence of the Mighty, the All-Bountiful, unto him who hath bowed down and turned unto God when the Lord came upon the clouds. Verily, He is the Lord [3.5s]

INBA44:109b, INBA34:275, BLIB_Or15696.123b,

AQA1#138, AKHA_124BE #08 p.j

Chastisement and requital; Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement

BH07650

Lawh-i-Munajat

130

Arabic

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی ادعوک بالدعاء الذی دعیت به من لسان رسلک و صفوتک و اسئلک

Magnified be Thy Name, O Lord my God, I supplicate unto Thee with that supplication with which Thou wert implored by the tongue of Thy Messengers

INBA48:189, INBA49:051, BLIB_Or15739.326, , PR05.044b-044a

AQMJ1.045, ANDA#70 p.23

KFPT#05

Greatest Name; Law of repetition; recitation of the Greatest Name; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for morning; Prayer for steadfastness; obedience

BH00097

Lawh-i-Mulla Abdur-Rahim

4350

mixed

معروض میدارد این عبد فانی که مکتوب آنجناب واصل شد و از بدایع کلمات و جواهر

This evanescent servant submitteth that thy letter was received, and from the wondrous words and gems [3.5s]

SFI03.011

Belief and denial; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Oneness; unity of religion; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Regarding the receptivity of the hearer in teaching the Cause; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Stories; anecdotes; Wisdom [hikmat]

MMAH.186

BH00457

Lawh-i-Mubahilih

1580

Arabic

Tablets concerning the Divine Test

Surat al-Mubahalah (Surah of the Divine Test)

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

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

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

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

GPB.168-169x, BLO_PT#199x

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

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

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

See also BH03710.

BH09452

Lawh-i-Mizan

100

Arabic

قد اتت الساعه و نفخ فی الصور و المیزان ینادی انا الممیز العلیم ابین و اظهر

The Hour hath come, and the Trumpet hath been sounded, and the Balance proclaimeth: "I am the All-Distinguishing, the All-Knowing, manifest and evident!" [3.5s]

INBA19:072b, INBA32:067a

Apocalyptic imagery; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Suffering and imprisonment

BH02950

Lawh-i-Mihraban

300

Persian

Epistle to Mihrabán (Lawh-i-Mihrabán); Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Mihraban (Epistle to Mihraban)

ای مهربان دوستی از دوستان یادت نمود یادت نمودیم امروز آنچه دیده می شود گواهی

O Mihrábán! One of the friends hath evoked thy remembrance; thus have We remembered thee.

INBA66:118, BLIB_Or15690.295, , BLIB_Or15699.120, , BLIB_Or15715.199b, , BLIB_Or15722.097, , MKI4523.285, , BN_suppl.1753.068-069

BRL_DA#124, ZYN.257, ISH.285, AHM.303, YARP1.017, UAB.052bx, DRD.173, AHB_120BE #10 p.360, AKHA_119BE #05-06 p.a

BRL_ATBH#64, BW_v01p037x, BW_v02p057x, BW_v18p967, BLO_PT#033x

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Knowledge; recognition of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; True liberty; freedom; Two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight

LL#172

BH02918

Lawh-i-Mazindaran

310

Persian

یا اسمی یا ایها الناظر الى شمس ظهورى اهل میم و الف را در لوح ذکر

O My Name! O thou who gazest upon the Sun of My Manifestation! Make mention in the Tablet of the people of M and A [3.5s]

INBA73:045, BLIB_Or15738.181.15,

Praise and encouragement; Prayer for steadfastness; obedience; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

BH01010

Lawh-i-Mawlud

820

Arabic

Days of Remembrance; Countenance of the Blessed Beauty in the Mirror of Mawlúd Tablets, The

Lawh-i-Mawlud (Tablet of the Birth)

ان یا ملا الغیب و الشهود ان افرحوا فی انفسکم ثم استبشروا فی ذواتکم بما ظهر

O concourse of the seen and the unseen! Rejoice with exceeding gladness in your hearts and souls, for the night hath come for the harvesting of the ages

INBA08:622

AYT.048, MAS4.343, RHQM1.578-578 (706) (433x), OOL.B059, OOL.B206, AMB#42

DOR#42

R. Yazhari

Tablet in honour of the birthday of Bahá’u’lláh, celebrating ‘the harvesting of the ages and the gathering up of past cycles’ and announcing the dawning of the morn of divine revelation.

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Transcendence; unknowability of God

GSH.174

BH03019

Lawh-i-Maryam 2

300

Persian

Bahá'u'lláh's Four Tablets to Maryam

Maryama Isiy-i-Jan (Tablet for Maryam on Sorrow and Love)

مریما عیسی جان بلامکان عروج نمود قفس وجود از طیر محمود خالی ماند بلبل قدم

O Maryam! Exchange thy sorrow for happiness and drink thy sadness from the cup of joy. Shouldst thou desire to enter the path of search, thou must needs be patient

INBA38:031

BRL_DA#584, NANU_BH#12x, BSHN.037, MHT2b.061, AHB_122BE #03 p.092, AKHT1.092x, MSHR4.308, OOL.B058b

LTDT.304x, BLO_PT#015

Acquiescence and resignation; contentment; Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Knowledge; recognition of God; Pain of love; love as veil; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

BH05897

Lawh-i-Maryam 1

170

mixed

مریما مهدی با یک قبضه صمدی و یک دکله محمد علی واصل و عاید بغداد شد مع خبرهای

O Mary! Mahdi arrived in Baghdad with one holy sword-hilt and one knife of Muhammad-'Ali, bearing tidings [3.5s]... ...What is causing thy sadness and why art thou sorrowful? Hast thou ever heard of the ocean shedding tears in separation from a river or the sun fearing the pursuit of a star?

INBA38:046, INBA36:378

OOL.B058a

LTDT.303x

Consolation and comfort; Continual renewal of creation; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

BH00579

Lawh-i-Maryam

1300

mixed

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

Lawh-i-Maryam (Tablet to Maryam)

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

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

INBA38:087, INBA28:386

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

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

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

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

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

BH00140

Lawh-i-Maqsud

3650

mixed

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

Lawh-i-Maqsud (Tablet of Maqsud)

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

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

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

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

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

Morgane & Samy, E. Kelly, L. Harley

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

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

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

BH00698

Lawh-i-Manikchi Sahib

1110

Persian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BH01355

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

630

Persian

Tablet of the Holy Mariner; Tablet of the Holy Mariner

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

چون اهل فلک الهی باذن ملاح قدسی در سفینه قدمی باسمی از اسما تشبث نموده بر بحر

Whilst the dwellers in the divine Ark, by the permission of the Holy Mariner, held fast unto one name amongst all names in the ancient Ark and sailed upon the ocean of names, they passed the grades of worldly limitation

INBA36:437, BLIB_Or15696.107c, , BLIB_Or15706.126, , BLIB_Or15714.043, , BLIB_Or15722.315,

BRL_DA#729, AQA5#137 p.181, MAS4.339, YADG.049-050, AHB_107BE #19 p.002x, YMM.291x, OOL.B055b

BLO_PT#131, BLO_PT#132, HURQ.BH22

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

Love of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

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