tag name: God, Word of type: Philosophy; Religion, general web link: bahai-library.com/tags/God,_Word_of variations or mis-spellings: Creative Word; see original language words in the notes below related tags: - Manifestations of God; – Concepts, Religious; Creation; God; God, Names and attributes of; Spiritual reality; Tags with multiple Inventory subjects (selected) referring tags: Bahá'u'lláh, Revelation of; Balance (Book); Be and it is (phrase); Choice sealed wine; Elixir; God, Grace and bounty of; Huruf (letters); Interpretation; Lodestone; Logos; Memorization; Musk; Pen; Purity of heart, chastity of soul, and freedom of spirit; Reading the Writings; Recitation; Revelation Inventory subject: Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God; Word of God and human limitations; Word of God is its own standard; Word of God sanctified from time and place; Word of God the cause of creation; Challenging nature; abstruseness of the Word of God; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Procession; appearance of the Word from God; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of notes: "... Know thou, moreover, that the Word of God... is higher and far superior to that which the senses can perceive, for it is sanctified from any property or substance. It transcendeth the limitations of known elements and is exalted above all the essential and recognized substances. It became manifest without any syllable or sound and is none but the Command of God which pervadeth all created things. It hath never been withheld from the world of being. It is God’s all-pervasive grace, from which all grace doth emanate. It is an entity far removed above all that hath been and shall be..."
– Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, Lawḥ-i-Ḥikmat (Tablet of Wisdom), ¶10
"... The Word of God is the king of words and its pervasive influence is incalculable. It hath ever dominated and will continue to dominate the realm of being. The Great Being saith: The Word is the master key for the whole world, inasmuch as through its potency the doors of the hearts of men, which in reality are the doors of heaven, are unlocked... It is an ocean inexhaustible in riches, comprehending all things. Every thing which can be perceived is but an emanation therefrom..."
– Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, Lawḥ-i-Maqṣúd (Tablet of Maqṣúd), ¶32
"... The Word of God may be likened unto a sapling, whose roots have been implanted in the hearts of men. It is incumbent upon you to foster its growth through the living waters of wisdom, of sanctified and holy words, so that its root may become firmly fixed and its branches may spread out as high as the heavens and beyond..."
– Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, Lawḥ-i-Dunyá (Tablet of the World), ¶33
"The vitality of men’s belief in God is dying out in every land; nothing short of His wholesome medicine can ever restore it. The corrosion of ungodliness is eating into the vitals of human society; what else but the Elixir of His potent Revelation can cleanse and revive it? Is it within human power ... to effect in the constituent elements of any of the minute and indivisible particles of matter so complete a transformation as to transmute it into purest gold? ... The Force capable of such a transformation transcendeth the potency of the Elixir itself. The Word of God, alone, can claim the distinction of being endowed with the capacity required for so great and far-reaching a change."
– Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, XCIX (BH01234)
"... no sooner had the First Word proceeded, through the potency of Thy will and purpose, out of His mouth, and the First Call gone forth from His lips than the whole creation was revolutionized, and all that are in the heavens and all that are on earth were stirred to the depths. Through that Word the realities of all created things were shaken, were divided, separated, scattered, combined and reunited, disclosing, in both the contingent world and the heavenly kingdom, entities of a new creation, and revealing, in the unseen realms, the signs and tokens of Thy unity and oneness. Through that Call Thou didst announce unto all Thy servants the advent of Thy most great Revelation and the appearance of Thy most perfect Cause..."
– Bahá'u'lláh, Prayers and Meditations, no. 178 (BH00848)
"... The understanding of His words and the comprehension of the utterances of the Birds of Heaven are in no wise dependent upon human learning. They depend solely upon purity of heart, chastity of soul, and freedom of spirit..."
– Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude), ¶233
"The Word of God may be likened to the life-giving breezes of the divine springtime. When chanted in spiritual tones, it bestoweth the breath of life and granteth true salvation. It bringeth forth a garden of roses from the pure soil, and wafteth its musk-laden fragrance throughout the world."
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, from a Tablet—translated from the Persian, in compilation Prayer and Devotional Life, #5
"... ... In response to a question, ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá wrote: “The kingdom of peace, salvation, uprightness, and reconciliation is founded in the invisible world, and it will by degrees become manifest and apparent through the power of the Word of God!” As a result of consecrated human endeavor over decades, and indeed centuries, this spiritual reality is gradually expressed in physical form..."
– Universal House of Justice, letter dated 19 April 2001, to an individual
Terms in the original language that have been translated into English as the "Word of God" in authorized translations of the Bahá'í Writings:
kalimatu'lláh ( کلمة الله );
kalámu'lláh ( کلام الله );
kalamiy-i-iláhí ( کلمۀ الهی );
kalamiy-i-iláhíyyih ( کلمۀ الهیّه );
kalám-i-iláhí ( کلام الهی );
kalamih ( کلمه );
kalimatu'l-akbar ( کلمة الأکبر );
kalamiy-i-ḥaqq ( کلمۀ حقّ );
kalimát-i-rabbáníyyih ( کلمات ربّانیّه );
kalimatu'l-úlá ( کلمة الأولی );
áyát ( آیات );
áyátu'lláh ( آیات الله );
guftár-i-kirdigár ( گفتار کردگار );
dhikru'lláh ( ذکر الله );
qawl-i-khudá (قول خدا);
ḥarf-i-ḥaqq (حرف حقّ)
references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_God; bahai9.com/wiki/Word_of_God; bahaiquotes.com/subject/word-of-god; bahaiquotes.com/subject/creative-word-of-god; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q="Word of God"; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q="Creative Word"
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