Tag: "Lawh-i-Napulyun (Tablets to Napoleon III)"

tag name	Lawh-i-Napulyun (Tablets to Napoleon III)	type:	Writings, Bahá'u'lláh
web link	bahai-library.com/tags/Lawh-i-Napulyun_(Tablets_to_Napoleon_III)
inventory #	BH01120; BH00259
related tags	- Best known Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (Bahá'í World list); – Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of (6. Edirne); – Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of (7. Akká and Bahjí); – Tablets to kings and rulers; Bells; Napoleon III; Suriy-i-Haykal (Surih of the Temple)
notes	Bahá'u'lláh wrote two Tablets to Napoleon III. The first Tablet had not been published in its original language until 2021, when the Bahá'í World Center published an authenticated typescript of the original Tablet on bahai.org/library, in the Persian version of "Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh" (Partial Inventory reference BRL_DA#706). See also: – Shoghi Effendi's comments in The Promised Day Is Come – Covenant Library Unified Index
selected quotations (authoritative sources)	These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts: "... Immediately upon His arrival in prison, He addressed an epistle to Napoleon which He sent through the French ambassador, the substance of which was: “Ask what crime We have committed to be confined in this prison.”13 Napoleon made no reply. Then a second epistle was issued, which is contained in the Súriy-i-Haykal, and which in substance says: “O Napoleon! Since thou hast failed to heed and answer My call, thou shalt lose Thy dominion and be reduced to naught.”14 This epistle was dispatched to Napoleon by post, through the care of César Catafago15 and, with the full knowledge of His companions in exile, the text of this address quickly reached all of Persia, for the Kitáb-i-Haykal was sent at that time to every corner of that land and this address was included therein. This took place in the year 1869, and as this Súriy-i-Haykal had been circulated throughout Persia and India, all the believers had it in their hands and were awaiting the outcome of this address. Not long after, in 1870, the fire of war was ignited between Germany and France, and although no one at the time anticipated the triumph of Germany, Napoleon was resoundingly defeated, surrendered to his enemies, and saw his glory changed into deepest abasement...." Note: 13 Bahá’u’lláh’s first Tablet to Napoleon III was revealed in Adrianople (see Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, trans. Shoghi Effendi [Wilmette, IL: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1988, 2001 printing], p. 45), which Bahá’u’lláh called the “remote prison”. Note: 14 Cf. Súriy-i-Haykal (Súrih of the Temple), ¶138. Note: 15 The son of the French consul in Syria who, according to Nabíl-i- A‘ẓam, was a follower of Bahá’u’lláh; see H. M. Balyuzi, Bahá’u’lláh: The King of Glory (Oxford: George Ronald, 1980), p. 320. – 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, Chapter 9, ¶16 (BSW 11.5.16; AB00029)
references	bahaipedia.org/Lawḥ-i-Nápulyún_I; bahai9.com/wiki/Lawh-i-Nápulyun_I; bahai9.com/wiki/Lawh-i-Nápulyun_II; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/summons-lord-hosts/5#157306287

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