1. 2023. Áqá Buzurg, Entitled Badí "The Wonderful". Boris Handal. Áqá Buzurg and Bahá'u'lláh's Lawh-i-Sultán; Tablet to Badí from Bahá'u'lláh; the Pride of the Martyrs of the Bahá'í Faith; excerpts from the Lawh-i-Sultán. Essays.
2. 2017-03-04. Tablet of the Clouds (Lawḥ-i-Saḥáb), The. Bahá'u'lláh, Joshua Hall, trans. . Proclaims Bahá’u’lláh’s divine authority, challenges religious leaders, emphasizes detachment, warns of worldly decay, and recounts His hardships and messages to rulers. Translations.
3. 2009/2011. Where the Future Nests: 19th Century Babi and Bahá'í Photography. Negar Mottahedeh. Audio.
4. 2009-2011. Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá. Peyman Sazedj. Twenty-four translations from 2009, 2010, and 2011 copied from the defunct website peyman.sazedj.org. Translations.
5. 1995. Badí` Khurasani. Moojan Momen. Short biography of Badi, a Bahá'í renowned for his bravery and devotion. Encyclopedia.
6. 1993/2001. Badi, Áqá Buzurg. Richard Francis. Life of "the Pride of the Martyrs." Biographies.
7. 1985. Unrestrained as the Wind: A Life Dedicated to Bahá'u'lláh. National Youth Committee, comp. Compilation of quotations on topics of especial interest to Bahá'í youth. Compilations-NSA.
8. 1985. El Concurso en Lo Alto: La Vida de Once Distinguidos Personajes de la Edad Heroica de la Fe. Boris Handal. Biographies of eleven important Baha’i personages of the Heroic Age of the Bahá'í Faith: Mulla Ḥusayn, Vahid, Quddus, Mulla Sadiq, Shaykh Salman, Nabil-i-A’zam, Asiyih Khanum, Mirza Mihdi, Badi, and Varqa and Ruhu’llah. Books.
9. 1985. Eminent Baha'is in the Time of Bahá'u'lláh. Hasan M. Balyuzi. Link to book (offsite). Books.
10. 1973-04-21. Three Momentous Years of the Heroic Age. Adib Taherzadeh. A look at the extraordinary period of Revelation immediately after Bahá’u’lláh’s imprisonment in Akká. Articles.
11. 1947. یادگار جشن پنجاهمین سال تاسیس محفل مقدس بهائیان طهران 55-103 (Commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Bahá'í Assembly of Tehran B.E. 55-103). Author unknown. Booklet and collection of historical photographs published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Local Spiritual Assembly of Tihran, published B.E. 103 (1947). Includes partial English translation (2022). Books.

1. 1852-00-00 — Birth of Aqa Buzurg Khurasani (Badí'), Apostle of Bahá'u'lláh, in Mashhad.
2. 1869-00-00 —
   The 17-year-old Áqá Buzurg-i-Níshápúrí, Badí`, arrived in `Akká having walked from Mosul. He was able to enter the city unsuspected. [BKG297; RB3:178]
   • He was still wearing the simple clothes of a water bearer. [BKG297]
   • For the story of his life, see BKG294–297 and RB3:176–179.
   • For his transformation see RB3:179–182.
   Badí` saw `Abdu'l-Bahá in a mosque and was able to write a note to Him. The same night Badí` entered the citadel and went into the presence of Bahá'u'lláh. He met Bahá'u'lláh twice. [BKG297; RW3:179]
   • Badí` asked Bahá'u'lláh for the honour of delivering the Tablet to the Sháh and Bahá'u'lláh bestowed it on him. [BKG297; RB3:182]
   • The journey to Tehran took four months; he traveled alone. [BKG298]
   • For the story of the journey see BKG297–300 and RB3:184.
   • For the Tablet of Bahá'u'lláh to Badí` see BKG299 and RB3:175–176.
   • Regarding the tablet to the Sháh

     "Bahá'u'lláh's lengthiest epistle to any single sovereign" -- Lawḥ-i-Sulṭán, (the Tablet to Náṣiri'd-Dín Sháh) Of the various writings that make up the Súriy-i-Haykal, one requires particular mention. The Lawḥ-i-Sulṭán, the Tablet to Náṣiri'd-Dín Sháh, Bahá'u'lláh's lengthiest epistle to any single sovereign, was revealed in the weeks immediately preceding His final banishment to 'Akká. It was eventually delivered to the monarch by Badí', a youth of seventeen, who had entreated Bahá'u'lláh for the honour of rendering some service. His efforts won him the crown of martyrdom and immortalized his name. The Tablet contains the celebrated passage describing the circumstances in which the divine call was communicated to Bahá'u'lláh and the effect it produced. Here, too, we find His unequivocal offer to meet with the Muslim clergy, in the presence of the Sháh, and to provide whatever proofs of the new Revelation they might consider to be definitive, a test of spiritual integrity significantly failed by those who claimed to be the authoritative trustees of the message of the Qur'án. [The Universal House of Justice (Introduction to 'The Summons of the Lord of Hosts')]

   • See Three Momentous Years in The Bahá'í World for the story of Badí.
3. 1869-07-00 —
   Badí` delivered the Tablet of Bahá'u'lláh to the Sháh. He was tortured and executed. [BBRXXXIX; BKG300; BW18:383; RB3:184–6]
   • For details of his torture and martyrdom see BKG300, 304–7 and RB3:186–91.
   • For the account of the French Minister in Tihrán see BBR254–5.
   • He is given the title Fakhru'sh-Shuhadá' (Pride of Martyrs). [BKG300]
   • Shoghi Effendi listed him among the Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW3:80–1]
   • For the effect on Bahá'u'lláh of the martyrdom of Badí` see BKG300 and GPB199.
   • See also BKG293–314; GPB199, RB3:172–203; TN589

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