1. 2017. Days of Remembrance: Selections from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh for Bahá'í Holy Days. Bahá'u'lláh. Forty-five selections revealed for, or relating to, nine Bahá’í Holy Days. Compilations.
2. 1999. Tablet of Ridván (Lawh-i-Ridván): Wilmette Institute faculty notes. Duane Troxel, Juan Cole, Stephen Lambden. Study.
3. 1999. Tablet of Ridván (Lawh-i-Ridván): Tablet study outline. Jonah Winters. Study.
4. 1995. Ridvan. John Walbridge. Two versions of a short article about the 12-day Bahá'í festival. Encyclopedia.

1. 1863-04-22 —
   Thirty–one days after Naw-Rúz, which in this year fell on 22 March, Bahá'u'lláh left His house for the last time and walked to the Najíbíyyih Garden, afterward known as the Garden of Ridván (Paradise). This garden was on an island in the Tigris River and belonged to the governor of Baghdad, Najib Pásha. The river has since changed its course and the island is now a park on the north bank of the Tigris. [RoB1p237-282; Commentaries on Three Major Tablets by John Kolstoe p15]
   • See BKG168, GPB149, RB1:260–1 and SA234–5 for details of His walk.
   • For the first time, He wore a tall táj as a symbol of His station. [BBD221; BKG176; GPB152]
   • Bahá'u'lláh entered the Garden just as the call to afternoon prayer was being made. [GPB149; RB1:261]
   • On this day Bahá'u'lláh declared His mission to a few of His disciples. [RB1:260, 262]
   • On the afternoon of Bahá'u'lláh's arrival at the Garden He revealed the Lawh-i-Ayyúb (Tablet of Job) (also known as the Súriy-i-Sabr (Súrat of Patience), Madínatu's-Sabr (City of Patience) and Súrat Ayyúb for Hájí Muhammad-i-Taqíy-i-Nayrízí whom He surnamed Ayyúb (Job). He was a veteran of the battle of Nayríz. The Tablet praised Vahíd and the believers of Nayríz. [SA239; Tablet of Patience (Surih Íabr): Declaration of Bahá'u'lláh and Selected Topics by Foad Seddigh]
   • He also revealed the Tablet of Ridván, an Arabic tablet beginning with "He is seated upon this luminous throne.... [SA239]
   • ...and Húr-i-'Ujáb (The Wondrous Maiden). [SA239]
   • ...as well as Qad atá Rabí'u'l-Bayán, ...The Divine Springtime is come.... [SA240]
   • and an Arabic Tablet that begins...When the gladness of God seized all else. [SA240]
   • 'Of the exact circumstances … we, alas, are but scantily informed.' [BKG173; GPB153]
   • For such details as are known, see BKG173–5 and GPB153. iiiii
   • For the import of the event, see BKG169–73; G27–35; GBP153–5.
   • This initiated the holy day of the First Day of Ridván, to be celebrated on 21 April. [BBD196]
   • This marked the end of the dispensation of the Báb and of the first epoch of the Heroic or Apostolic Age of the Bahá'í dispensation. [BBD72, 79]
   On the same day Bahá'u'lláh made three important statements to His followers:
   1. He forbade the use of the sword.
   2. He stated that no other Manifestations will appear before one thousand years. This was later reiterated in the Kitáb-i-Badí' and in The Kitáb-i-Aqdas.
   3. He stated that, as from that moment, all the names and attributes of God were manifested within all created things, implying the advent of a new Day. [RB1:278–80]

   During the 12 days in the Ridván Garden Bahá'u'lláh confided to 'Abdu'l-Bahá that He was 'Him Whom God shall make manifest'. [CH82]

   • See CH82–3 for the effect of this announcement on 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
2. 1865-12-31 —
   Prior to and during the crisis that was to follow, Bahá'u'lláh began revealing Tablets at a prodigious rate. From about this time until approximately June, 1867 when He transferred His residence to the house of 'Izzat Áqá, Bahá'u'lláh had revealed the following Tablets among numerous others:
   • The Lawḥ-i-Nuqṭih (The Tablet of the Point)
   • The Lawḥ-i-Aḥmad-i-Arabí (The Tablet of Ahmad, Arabic), revealed in honour of Ahmad of Yazd.
   • The Súriy-i-Aṣḥáb (Tablet of the Companions) addressed to Mírzá Áqáyi-Muníb. [BW19p584]
     • Introduction to the Tablet of Ashab by Juan Cole
     • . (Leiden List says "Cole: Winter about 1866; Lambden: circa 1964")
     • The Lawḥ-i-Sayyáḥ (Tablet of the Traveller) (Note there are several Tablets with this name revealed at different times to different recipients.)
     • The Súriy-i-Damm (The Tablet of Blood) addressed to Nabíl-i-A'zam. [N&N27]
     • The Súriy-i-Ḥajj (Tablet of Pilgrimage) for pilgrimage to the House of the Báb
     • The Lawḥu'r-Rúḥ (Tablet of the Spirit)
     • The Lawḥu'r-Riḍván
     • The Lawḥu't-Tuqá (The Tablet of Piety or the Fear of God)
       [GPB171; N&N23-29; BW13p1061-1062]
     • Súriy-i-Amr (Surih of Command) (Leiden list suggests late 1865 - early 1866]

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