1. 2025-10. Qiblih in Bahá'í Thought and Comparative Perspective, The. Omid Ghaemmaghami, Shahin Vafai. Examines the theological, symbolic, and historical significance of the Qiblih in Bahá’í thought, situating it within Jewish, Zoroastrian, Christian, and Islamic comparative perspectives.
2. 2020. Tablet of Patience, or Tablet of Job (Súrih-i-Sabr or Lawh-i-Ayyúb). Bahá'u'lláh, Khazeh Fananapazir, trans, Dalton Garis, ed. . A notable, and lengthy, tablet from 1863. Translation includes many footnotes, including for all the Qur’anic references found in the Tablet, as well as a short introduction to the Prophet Job offered by the Rev. C. I. Scofield.
3. 2020. Sourate de la Patience (Tablette de Job). Bahá'u'lláh, Pierre Daoust, trans. . Tablette de Bahá’u’lláh, Traduction française provisoire.
4. 2017/2019. Declaration or Deflection?: An Exploration of the Intent of the Surih-i-Sabr, or Lawh-i-Ayyub. Karen Anne Webb. Does Bahá’u’lláh declare Himself to be the Promised One foretold by the Báb in the Surah of Patience/Job?
5. 2014. Tablet of Patience (Surih Sabr): Declaration of Bahá'u'lláh and Selected Topics. Foad Seddigh. This significant Tablet from Ridvan 1863 covers the Seal of the Prophets, appearance and presence of God, resurrection, and the Qayyum al-Asma. Includes context of Bahá'u'lláh's life and troubles during this period.
6. 2014. Text and Context in the Bahá'í Heroic Age. Nader Saiedi. A series of 12 talks by Nader Saiedi exploring Bahá'í history, key writings, and the need for scholarly study, translation, and contextual analysis of Bahá'í texts.
7. 1997-04-21. Tablet of Patience, or Tablet of Job (Súrih-i-Sabr or Lawh-i-Ayyúb). Bahá'u'lláh, Khazeh Fananapazir, trans. . A notable, and lengthy, tablet from 1863.

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.

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