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Tag: "Light"

tag name: Light type: Miscellaneous; Metaphors and allegories
web link: bahai-library.com/tags/Light
variations or
mis-spellings:
núr (نور); plural: anvár (انوار)
referring tags: Candles; Darkness; Enlightenment (spiritual); Fire; Forces of light and darkness; Illumination; Lamps; Light verse (Quran); Mirrors; Núr (light); Sun
Inventory subject: Being a source of light; guidance; Fire and light; fire and water; Light and darkness; Symbolism of color and light
bahaidata.org: Q5480   ·   Links to Bahá'í wikis (bahai9, bahaipedia, etc.)
references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=light

"Light" has been tagged in:

27 results from the Main Catalog

2 results from the Chronology

from the main catalog (27 results; expand)

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  1. 2025-12. Bahá'í House of Worship: Design, Construction and Community, by Joe Carter and Nooshfar Afnan: Review. Ann Boyles. — Examines the evolving Baha’i House of Worship as an emergent institution uniting architecture, com...
  2. 2025. Bahá'í Work as Worship, Prayer as Practice: Chapter 15. Deborah Clark Vance. — Religion is logical and progressive; it moves humanity closer to a unified world; human reality is o...
  3. 2024-08. Lawh-i-Hirtík (Tablet to Hardegg). Bahá'u'lláh, Bahá'í World Centre, trans. . — Authorized translation of Baha'u'llah's Tablet to Georg David Hardegg, co-founder of the German Temp...
  4. 2022. Architectures of Thinking, The. Jordi Vallverdu Segura, Josuke Nakano. — Sacred architectures play a role in shaping cognition — which results from the relationships betw...
  5. 2022. Qur'anic Kerygma: Epic, Apocalypse, and Typological Figuration. Todd Lawson. — Article contains no mention of the Babi or Baha'i Faiths, but includes themes of relevance to Baha'i...
  6. 2021. Cosmopolitan World of the Quran and Late Antique Humanism, The. Todd Lawson. — On the Qur'an's use of the themes of epic and apocalypse to reveal its most cherished sacred truths:...
  7. 2018/2025. Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks. Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'í World Centre, trans. . — 216 selections, last updated 2025.
  8. 2016. Fire and Light in the Báb's Tablet Proclaiming to be the Qá'im. Nader Saiedi.
  9. 2015-09. Persian Bayán: Thematic Analysis and Summary. Peter Terry. — A detailed overview of this lengthy text of The Bab, which outlines elements of Babi law, discussion...
  10. 2013. Celestial Fire: Bahá'u'lláh as the Messianic Theophany of the Divine Fire in Zoroastrianism. Farshid Kazemi. — Heat is used as a symbol of the dynamic nature of motion and existence, and in a tablet to the Zoroa...
  11. 2012. 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Encounter with Modernity during His Western Travels. Wendi Momen. — Abdu'l-Baha's responses to the West's technology and innovations on the one hand, vs. its archaic ra...
  12. 2011. Prophets of Mahabad, and Nature of Creation: The Two Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria. Susan Maneck. — Discussion of Baha’u’llah’s letters to Manakji Hataria as found in the Tabernacle of Unity, co...
  13. 2008. Gate of the Heart: Understanding the Writings of the Bab (contents and index only). Nader Saiedi. — A lengthy, detailed examination of the context, chronology, and content of the writings of the Bab. ...
  14. 2005. Tablet (Lawh) in Bahá'í Usage. Todd Lawson. — Meanings of the common Baha'i terms lawh (tablet), ketab (book), sahifa (treatise), resala (epistle)...
  15. 2004. Kaleidoscope: Some Aspects of Angelology, Light, the Divine Throne and Color Mysticism in Bábí and Bahá'í Scripture. Stephen Lambden. — Miscellaneous notes relating to religious cosmology, angelology, color and “throne” symbolism in...
  16. 2003-03-25. Concept of 'Light' in Iranian Religion, The. Moojan Momen.
  17. 1999-07. Tablet of the 'Light Verse' (Lawh-i-Áyiy-i-Núr), also known as Commentary on the Disconnected Letters: What on earth is a disconnected letter? Baha'u'llah's commentary. Alison Marshall. — The meaning of the Arabic letters alif, lam, mim, as explained in Baha'u'llah's tablet Tafsir hurufa...
  18. 1999. Tablet of the 'Light Verse' (Lawh-i-Áyiy-i-Núr), also known as Commentary on the Disconnected Letters: Wilmette Institute faculty notes. Stephen Lambden.
  19. 1996. Bahá'u'lláh's Teachings on Spiritual Reality. Paul Lample, comp. — The quest for spirituality, the spiritual life, material and spiritual reality, the progress of the ...
  20. 1991. Verse of Light, the Sadratu'l-Muntahá (Divine Lote Tree), and the Unfoldment of God's Plan, The. Shirley Macias. — Relationship of a key mystical Quranic verse, Súrih 24:35, to Baha'i theology; includes a brief com...
  21. 1989/1990. Immortality and the Human Soul: Lecture Series. Hooper Dunbar.
  22. 1982-2023. Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history. Encyclopaedia Iranica. — Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles.
  23. 1982. Effect of Revelation on Artistic Expression, The. Otto Donald Rogers. — The themes and processes of visual art are the same as those of constructive evolution: man as an in...
  24. 1982. These Perspicuous Verses: A passage from the Writings of Baha'u'llah. Robert W. McLaughlin. — Detailed study of a section from Ishraqat and Epistle to the Son of the Wolf.
  25. 1976. Function of Revelation in Artistic Expression, The. Otto Donald Rogers. — Overview of some Baha'i themes and how they are reflected in the making of art: man as an instrument...
  26. 1969. Message to the Indian and Eskimo Bahá'ís of the Western Hemisphere. Rúhíyyih Khánum. — Letter to Native American and Inuit believers, about the assurance given in the Baha'i Writings that...
  27. 1953-05-04. Vast, Majestic Process, A. Shoghi Effendi. — Passage outlining humanity’s progressive evolution through ten stages.

from the Chronology (2 results; expand)

  1. 1922-04-21 — The Shrines of Baha'u'llah and the Bab were electrically illuminated for the first time. [PP69] ...
  2. 1953-04-21 — Bahji was lit for the first time by 99 four-branched wrought iron lamp posts. [GBF32; PP89–90]
 
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