"Warblers, mellifluous-toned, all the parrots of Ind shall be,The above verse from the Persian poet Hafiz is the opening line of Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet known as the Tablet of Shikkar-shikan which are the opening words of the above poem. The late Bahá'í scholar Mr. Habíb Taherzadeh in collaboration with a committee of scholars has made a translation of a portion of this Tablet which is published in Volume 18 of The Bahá'í World: 1979-1983 (Bahá'í World Centre Publications, 1986, p. 11). The original Persian, of course, has an unmatched beauty and power which is very difficult, if not impossible, to translate into English.
Because of this Parsi sugar-cone which to Bengal goes"
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