tag name Rashh-i-Ama (Sprinkling from the Cloud of Unknowing) type: Writings, Bahá'u'lláh web link bahai-library.com/tags/Rashh-i-Ama_(Sprinkling_from_the_Cloud_of_Unknowing) inventory # BH03230 related tags - Best known Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (Bahá'í World list); – Bahá'u'lláh, Poetry of; – Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of (1. Tehran); – Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of (before Declaration); – Call of the Divine Beloved (book); Maid of Heaven referring tags Ama (cloud) notes "... the poem known as “Rashḥ-i-‘Amá”, was written in 1852 in the Síyáh-Chál and is among the few He revealed while in His native land of Persia, and in verse. Bahá’u’lláh recounts: “During the days I lay in the prison of Ṭihrán, though the galling weight of the chains and the stench-filled air allowed Me but little sleep, still in those infrequent moments of slumber I felt as if something flowed from the crown of My head over My breast, even as a mighty torrent that precipitateth itself upon the earth from the summit of a lofty mountain. Every limb of My body would, as a result, be set afire. At such moments My tongue recited what no man could bear to hear.” The poetic reflection of that experience, as conveyed in Rashḥ-i-‘Amá, can perhaps never be adequately rendered into another language, yet the present translation is an initial attempt to impart a glimpse of its power and momentous themes..."
– The Call of the Divine Beloved, introduction
See also:
– Covenant Library Unified Index
– Brief commentary, as well as a translation by Stephen Lambden (offsite).
references en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashḥ-i-ʻAmá; bahaipedia.org/Rashḥ-i-'Amá; bahai9.com/wiki/Rashḥ-i-‘Amá; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/call-divine-beloved/3#874317698
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