Partial inventory: all items held at Bahá'í Library Online, details

R. Grammer & G. Watson [track 8]

ای بنات و ابناء ملکوت هر چند در اکثر ایالات و مدائن متحده الحمد لله نفحات الله

O ye daughters and sons of the Kingdom! Although in most of the states and cities

MKT3.013, ANDA#71 p.06, FRTB.046

TDP#05, ADJ.055x, ADJ.057-058x, COF.012ax, BSC.523 #980, SW_v07#10 p.089-090, SW_v09#14 p.168

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual transformation, @growth of the Cause, @universal peace; world unity, @call to action, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

UDP.037

AB00210

Tablet of the Divine Plan (Western states II)

800

mixed

Bahá'í Scriptures; Bahá'í Prayers; Tablets of the Divine Plan

ای یاران و اماء رحمن مختارین ملکوت خطه مبارکه کالیفورنیا نهایت مشابهت بارض

O ye friends and the maidservants of the Merciful, the chosen ones of the Kingdom! The blessed state of California... O God! O God! This is a broken-winged bird and his flight is very slow

MKT3.049, RRT.147, ADH2.105x, ADH2_3#01 p.140x, MJMJ1.014x, MMG2#060 p.064x, MJH.062x, FRTB.082

TDP#12, BPRY.216-217x, BSC.520 #979, SW_v10#10 p.198-200, BSTW#012x

W. Heath, G. Sky, Nabil and Karim, D. Stollar, D. E. Walker, Strong Steep, C. Zein, R. Grammer & G. Watson [track 7], A. & M. Zemke [track 2]

@prayer for teaching, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @call to action

UDP.031

AB00936

Tablet of the Divine Plan (Western states I)

400

mixed

Bahá'í Scriptures; Bahá'í Prayers; Tablets of the Divine Plan

ای ابناء و بنات ملکوت شب و روز جز یاد یاران و دعای خیر در حق ایشان و طلب تایید

O ye sons and daughters of the Kingdom! Day and night I have no other occupation

MKT3.010, FRTB.043

TDP#04, BSC.518 #978, SW_v07#10 p.088-089, SW_v07#10 p.085, SW_v09#14 p.160

@growth of the Cause, @predictions and prophecies, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @call to action, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

UDP.029

AB00184

Tablet of the Divine Plan (Central states II)

840

mixed

ای احبای قدیم و یاران ندیم در قرآن عظیم میفرماید یختص برحمه من یشاء این

O ye old believers and intimate friends! God says in the great Qur'an... These twelve Central states of the United States... O Lord, my God! Praise and thanksgiving be unto Thee for Thou hast guided me to the highway

MKT3.045, AHB.110BE #06-07 p.102, RRT.146x, ADH2.110x, ADH2_3#04 p.144x, MMG2#208 p.236x, MJH.063x, FRTB.078

TDP#11, BPRY.215-216x, TDH#158.5x, COF.031x2x, COF.069x, COF.121x, GPB.254-255x, GPB.351x, GPB.397x, BSC.515 #977, SW_v10#07 p.124-126

R. Grammer & G. Watson [track 6]

@House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

UDP.023

AB01130

Tablet of the Divine Plan (Central states I)

370

mixed

Savva, Danika, Lauren & Jeremy

ای نفوس آسمانی ای محافل روحانی ای مجامع ربانی هر چند مدتیست که در تحریر

O he heavenly souls, O ye spiritual assemblies, O ye lordly meetings! For some time past correspondence has been delayed

MKT3.008, FRTB.041

TDP#03, BSC.514 #976, SW_v07#10 p.091, SW_v09#14 p.167-168

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

UDP.022

AB00209

Tablet of the Divine Plan (Southern states II)

800

mixed

Bahá'í Scriptures; Bahá'í Prayers; Tablets of the Divine Plan

ای نفوس مبارکه محترمه فلاسفه قرون اولی و علماء قرون وسطی و فلاسفه قرون اخیره

O ye blessed, respected souls! The philosophers of the ancients, the thinkers... O my God! O my God! Thou seest me in my lowliness and weakness

MKT3.041, DUR1.577x, RRT.146x, ADH2.112x, ADH2_3#05 p.145x, MJMJ1.017x, MMG2#062 p.066x, MJH.064bx, FRTB.074

TDP#10, BPRY.214-215x, BSC.511 #975, SW_v10#06 p.100-102

K. Key, T. Nosrat, Heroes Teaching Conference, Y. Mesbah, Sasha, Saeon and Sam

@prayer for teaching, @growth of the Cause, @love and unity, @call to action, @station of the Manifestation of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

UDP.013

AB01505

Tablet of the Divine Plan (Southern states I)

320

mixed

R. Grammer & G. Watson [track 5]

ای منادیان بملکوت الله چند روز پیش بان یاران الهی نامه نگاشته گشت ولی چون این

O ye heralds of the Kingdom of God! A few days ago an epistle was written

MKT3.006, AKHA_121BE #01 p.j, AKHA_134BE #01 p.8, AHB.119BE #01 p.000, FRTB.038

TDP#02, ADJ.062x, BSC.510 #974, SW_v07#10 p.090, SW_v09#14 p.166-167

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

UDP.012

AB00241

Tablet of the Divine Plan (Northeastern states II)

750

mixed

Bahá'í Scriptures; Bahá'í Prayers; Tablets of the Divine Plan

ای دوستان حقیقی جمیع اقالیم در نزد حق اقلیم واحد است و جمیع مدائن و قری یکسان

O ye real friends! All countries, in the estimation of the True One are but one country and all the cities and villages... O Thou kind Lord! Praise be unto Thee that Thou hast shown us the highway of guidance

MKT3.037, DWNP_v5#09 p.001-002x, DUR1.027x, ANDA#79 p.05x, MJMJ1.102x, MMG2#075 p.082x, MJH.044x, FRTB.070, NJB_v10#10 p.204x

TDP#09, BPRY.212-214x, ADJ.006x, COF.027-028x, COF.035x2x, GPB.254x, GPB.396x, TDH#158.5x, WOB.053x, WOB.077x, BSC.507 #973, SW_v10#04 p.069-071

R. Grammer & G. Watson [track 4], Ladjamaya [track 8]

@spiritual transformation, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @prayer for teaching, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

UDP.007

AB00956

Tablet of the Divine Plan (Northeastern states I)

400

mixed

Tablets of the Divine Plan

ای منادیان آسمانی ایام نوروز است همیشه بیاد آن یاران مهربان هستم و از درگاه

O ye heavenly heralds! These are the days of Naurooz. I am always thinking of those kind

MKT3.003, AHB.120BE #01 p.01, FRTB.036, NJB_v10#10 p.204

TDP#01, ADJ.057x, BSC.505 #972, SW_v07#10 p.087-088, SW_v09#14 p.159-160

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual transformation, @growth of the Cause, @disregarding individual capacity; weakness

UDP.005

BH00012

Javahiru'l-Asrar (Gems of Divine Mysteries)

10360

Arabic

Gems of Divine Mysteries

Javáhiru'l-Asrár (Gems of Divine Mysteries)

یا ایها السالک فی سبل العدل و الناظر الی طلعه الفضل قد بلغ کتابک و عرفت سوالک

O thou who treadest the path of justice and beholdest the countenance of mercy! Thine epistle was received, thy question was noted

INBA46:001, INBA66:036, INBA99:001, PR07.015b-029b, LEID.Or4970.1-26, UMich968.041-052x

BRL_Jawahir, AQA3#067 p.004, TZH4.189-190x, TZH4.190-191x, TZH4.191x, ANDA#21 p.04x, OOL.B157

GDM

D. Stevenson (¶110)

A lengthy commentary in answer to a question on the fulfilment of prophetic expectations in unexpected ways, describing the difficulties encountered in understanding sacred scriptures, offering keys to their symbolic interpretation with reference to a passage in the Gospels, and describing in a manner similar to ‘the Seven Valleys’ the stages traversed by the spiritual wayfarers.

@Jabulqa and Jabarsa, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @mystical themes, @oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud], @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @prophecy and fulfillment

LOC.062-066, ROB1.151, MMAH.195, GSH.027, LL#023

BH00001

Kitab-i-Aqdas (The Most Holy Book)

10520

Arabic

Bahá'í Scriptures; Kitáb-i-Aqdas; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Synopsis and Codification of the Laws and Ordinances of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas; Kitáb-i-Aqdas Research Tools

Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book)

ان اول ما کتب الله علی العباد عرفان مشرق وحیه و مطلع امره الذی کان مقام

The first duty prescribed by God for His servants is the recognition of Him Who is the Dayspring of His Revelation and the Fountain of His laws

INBA43:069, BLIB_Or02820.001, , BLIB_Or15691.001, , BLIB_Or15729.002, , BLIB_Or15737a.001, , CMB_F29, CMB_F30, CMB_F31, IOM.095-096, NLAI_22848:006, LEID.Or4969x, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p001v, CUL.X893.7.B11, MKI4522.002, , BN_6397

BRL_AqdasA, GWBP#037 p.062bx, GWBP#056 p.078x, GWBP#070 p.093x, GWBP#071 p.094x, GWBP#072 p.095x, GWBP#098 p.130bx, GWBP#105 p.137x, GWBP#155 p.213x, GWBP#159 p.216x, GWBP#166 p.222bx, ROB3.000x, OOL.B015

AQDS, GWB#037x, GWB#056x, GWB#070x, GWB#071x, GWB#072x, GWB#098x, GWB#105x, GWB#155x, GWB#159x, GWB#166x, BADM.016x, BADM.021ax, COF.018-019x, TDH#082x, TDH#158.3x, GPB.102x2x, GPB.112x, GPB.154x, GPB.170x2x, GPB.176x, GPB.195x, GPB.206x6x, GPB.207x3x, GPB.208x5x, GPB.209x5x, GPB.211x, GPB.214x7x, GPB.215x15x, GPB.215-216x, GPB.216x, GPB.225x, GPB.226x4x, GPB.230-231x, GPB.231x, GPB.242x, GPB.254x, GPB.325x, GPB.331-332x, GPB.376x, GPB.390x, GPB.395-396x, GPB.396x, MBW.166x, MBW.168x, PDC.040x, PDC.040-042x, PDC.042x, PDC.058-059x, PDC.059x, PDC.059-060x, PDC.064-065x, PDC.092x, PDC.092-093x, PDC.095x, PDC.100x, PDC.118-119x, PDC.121x, PDC.133-134x, PDC.134-135x, PDC.161x, PDC.187x, WOB.105x, WOB.109x, WOB.146x, WOB.132x, WOB.134x, WOB.162x, WOB.171-172x, WOB.172x, WOB.176x, SW_v01#05 p.009x, SW_v14#04 p.112 (et al)x, DWN_v1#02 p.002-003x, DWN_v2#09 p.069-070x, BLO_PT#045, BLO_PT#056, BSC.110 #043-044+046x, BSC.156 #138-139x, BSC.262 #547x

unknown (¶1-190), Soulrise Melodies (¶4), S. and S. Toloui-Wallace (¶11), E. Mahony (¶11), Soulrise Melodies (¶16), W. Heath (¶31), Soulrise Melodies (¶33), unknown (¶38), S. Jaberi (¶38), T. Nosrat (¶51), J. Mohajer (¶51), Soulrise Melodies (¶74), G.H. Miller (¶91), E. Mahony (¶182), Sophie, Siria and Ashkan (¶182), Bahareh & Scott (¶182), J. Crone (¶182), B. Khademi (¶182), MANA (¶182), Leona and Larry (¶182)

The ‘mother book’ of the Bahá’í Dispensation, announcing to the kings of the earth the promulgation of the ‘Most Great Law’; formally ordaining the institution of the House of Justice; prescribing the obligatory prayers; designating the time and period of fasting; formulating laws surrounding marriage and inheritance; ordaining the institution of the Mashriqu’l-Adhkár (houses of worship); establishing the Nineteen Day Feasts; abolishing the institution of priesthood; and specifying punishments for murder, arson, adultery, and theft. Apart from these laws, He reminds his followers of the twin duties of recognition and obedience; exhorts them to fellowship with the adherents of all religions; warns them to guard against fanaticism, sedition, pride, dispute, and contention; enjoins on them cleanliness, truthfulness, chastity, hospitality, fidelity, courtesy, forbearance, justice, and fairness; and counsels them to be ‘even as the fingers of one hand and the limbs of one body’.

@law of inheritance, @law of fasting, @laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, @law of obligatory prayer, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @cleanliness and refinement, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @theft; seizing the properties of others, @House of Justice, @monasticism; asceticism, @proclamation to divines; to religious leaders, @twin duties of recognition and obedience, @words vs deeds, @infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat], @laws of marriage and dowry, @false claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations, @Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @law of Huququ'llah, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @law of burial and cremation, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @call to action, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @work as worship, @prayers (general or uncategorized), @alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium, @the Bayan, its laws and their abrogation, @law of repetition; recitation of the Greatest Name, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @love of God, @prayer for women, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @law of pilgrimage, @confession of sins, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @Nineteen-Day Feast, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc., @parents and children; youth; families, @idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others, @murder; causing physical harm, @unchastity and adultery, @begging; mendicancy; idleness and sloth, @duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations, @moderation; frugality; simplicity, @praise and encouragement

LAC.213-257, ROB3.275 et al, BKOG.351 et al, GPB.206 et al, EBTB.155, EBTB.189, MMAH.199, GSH.133, LL#027

BH00004

Kitab-i-Badi'

84700

Persian

Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Kitáb-i-Badi (Wondrous Book)

مکتوبت که مشعر بر بعض روایات غیرمحققه و اخبارات غیرصادقه بود باین عبد فانی

Thy letter, containing certain unsubstantiated accounts and false reports, was received by this servant. On the one hand, it opened the portals of joy… By God! The relationship between the Revelation of the Primal Point (the Bab) and this most wondrous, this most glorious Revelation is identical to that of the Revelation of John, son of Zechariah (John the Baptist), and the Spirit of God (Jesus)

BLIB_Or15709.001,

BADI, BADIZ, AVK3.009.10x, AVK3.147.12x, AVK3.254.12x, AVK3.457.03x, KHSH08.005x, TZH4.238-239x, MAS4.121x, MAS8.039b.15x, TSQA4.052x, ASAT2.102x, AKHA_137BE #06 p.081x, ANDA#10 p.66x, ANDA#72 p.29x, ANDA#73 p.49x, ANDA#55 p.03x, ANDA#58 p.65x, HYK.267x, HYK.283x, HYK.343x, MSHR3.274x, OOL.B016

BRL_ATBH#54x, BRL_ATBH#56x, BRL_ATBH#57x, LTDT.024-025x, LTDT.055x, COC#1016x, LOG#1004x, COF.101x3x, TDH#158.18x, GPB.028x, GPB.092x, GPB.147x, WOB.124x, BLO_sazedj#13x, ADMS#057x, ADMS#182x, BTO#10x, ADMS#298x, ADMS#300x

Bahá’u’lláh’s trenchant apologia of His claims, by far His longest single work, written in the voice of one of His supporters, emphasizing the importance of recognizing the truth through the eye of the heart and refuting seven specific accusations levelled by a certain follower of Mírzá Yaḥyá. The answers emphasize the importance of ‘He Whom God shall make manifest’ in the writings of the Báb, declare Bahá’u’lláh’s claim to be the fulfilment of that promise, assert that the relationship between the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh is the same as that between John the Baptist and Jesus Christ, and warn the questioner of the wrath of God.

@corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @suffering and imprisonment, @chastisement and requital, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @prophecy and fulfillment, @literal interpretation, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @Word of God is its own standard, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @belief and denial, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @alteration of the divine will [bada], @empty learning; false spirituality, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah, @the Bayan, its laws and their abrogation, @Manifestation of God the only route to knowledge of God, @blind imitation [taqlid], @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @false claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations, @prayer for forgiveness, @Word of God and human limitations, @defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @outward and inward meanings, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @contention and conflict, @presence of; reunion with God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @the power of words; of speech, @unity; oneness of humanity, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @power of the Manifestation of God, @spiritual transformation, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @spiritual springtime, @Seal of the Prophets, @exhortations and counsels, @call to unity; prohibition of disunity, @words vs deeds

LAC.175-210, ROB2.370 et al, BKOG.124, BKOG.245, BKOG.257, GSH.097, LL#028

BH00002

Kitab-i-Iqan (The Book of Certitude)

36200

mixed

Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Kitáb-i-Íqán; Tablet of the True Seeker" from the Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude), The

Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Tablet of the True Seeker

الباب المذکور فی بیان ان العباد لن یصلن الی شاطی بحر العرفان الا بالانقطاع

No man shall attain the shores of the ocean of true understanding except he be detached from all that is in heaven and on earth.... Verily He Who is the Daystar of Truth and Revealer of the Supreme Being holdeth, for all time, undisputed sovereignty…. But, O my brother, when a true seeker determineth to take the step of search…

BLIB_Or03116.078-127, , BLIB_Or15696.076cx, , CMB_F58, CMB_F59, IOL.440, IOM.092-093, SOAS ms.46696, CUL.X893.7.B111, BN_suppl.1400

BRL_IqanP, GWBP#013 p.020x, GWBP#019 p.038x, GWBP#022 p.041x, GWBP#090 p.117x, GWBP#091 p.119x, GWBP#125 p.170x, TZH4.214-223x, OOL.B017

IQAN, GWB#013x, GWB#019x, GWB#022x, GWB#090x, GWB#091x, GWB#125x, GPB.006x, GPB.007x, GPB.022x, GPB.023x, GPB.050x2x, GPB.057x2x, GPB.058x2x, GPB.079x, GPB.079-080x, GPB.098-099x, GPB.118-119x, GPB.119-120x, GPB.120x, GPB.126x, GPB.141x, GPB.175x, GPB.176x2x, PDC.020x, PDC.129x, PDC.129-130x, PDC.130x, PDC.130-131x, PDC.133x2x, PDC.138x, PDC.151x, PDC.162x2x, PDC.163x, PDC.176x, PDC.179x4x, WOB.024-025x, WOB.058x, WOB.062ax, WOB.113x, WOB.113-114x, WOB.114-115x, WOB.115x, WOB.115-116x, WOB.124x, WOB.124-125x, WOB.125x4x, WOB.125-126x, WOB.166x, SW_v03#01 p.003x, SW_v07#16 p.163-164x, BLO_PT#020, BSC.003 #001-035x

R. Dupras (¶1), L. Manifold (¶1), Savva, Danika, Lauren, Adeeb & Jeremy (¶1), Ahdieh (¶64), Mathilde (¶65), R. Peterson (¶107) [track 3], E. Mahony (¶151), Eswatini Baha'i Choir (¶213), Soulrise Melodies (¶214), K. Key (¶214), S. Toloui-Wallace (¶216)

Bahá’u’lláh’s preeminent doctrinal work as well as His second longest, answering four questions from an uncle of the Báb regarding prophetic expectation and fulfilment, affirming the essential unity of the prophets of God while simultaneously acknowledging the distinctiveness of their persons and missions, expounding the concept of progressive revelations from God that are renewed about every thousand years, summarizing the spiritual prerequisites of the seekers on the spiritual path, clarifying the central role in that path of the independent investigation of reality, condemning the clergy for their role in the rejection of the prophets from age to age, and emphasizing, through a commentary on certain verses of the gospels, the need for a symbolic as opposed to a literal understanding of sacred scriptures.

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @Seal of the Prophets, @Manifestation of God as sun, @power of the Manifestation of God, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @suffering and imprisonment, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @literal interpretation, @knowledge; recognition of God, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @Christ; Christianity, @Moses, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @return of Christ; second coming of Christ, @spiritual transformation, @Noah, @symbolism, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @return of the Manifestations of God, @oneness; unity of religion, @Christian rejection of Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @Manifestation of God as mediator, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @spiritual springtime, @living waters; water of life, @exhortations and counsels, @prophecy and fulfillment, @station of the Manifestation of God, @dissimulation [taqiyyih]; concealment or denial of Faith, @belief and denial, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @light and darkness, @law of obligatory prayer, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others, @Abraham; Isaac; Ishmael, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @the power of words; of speech

LAC.113-174, ROB1.153 et al, BKOG.165, GPB.138, GPB.172, EBTB.121, EBTB.221, EBTB.227, MMAH.071, GSH.013, LL#029, LL#278

BH08650

110

Arabic

الهی الهی هذه امه من امائک و ورقه من اوراقک قد وجدت عرف ظهورک و شهدت بما شهد

O my God, O my God! This is a handmaiden from among Thy handmaidens and a leaf from among Thy leaves who hath inhaled the fragrance of Thy Manifestation and hath testified to that which was testified [3.5s]

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @prayer for women, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @prayer for spiritual recognition

NYR#166x

BH00532

Suriy-i-Ismuna'l-Mursil

1410

Arabic

هذا کتاب من لدی البهاء الی من اقر بالله و اعترف بسلطانه ثم استقر علی مقر قدس رفیع

This is the Book from the presence of Bahá unto him who hath acknowledged God and recognized His sovereignty, and hath moreover attained unto a seat of celestial sanctity [3.5s]... ...Among them is the King of Persia, who suspended Him Who is the Temple of the Cause in the air, and put Him to death with such cruelty

INBA37:133, INBA83:118, BLIB_Or15702.037, , BLIB_Or15723.253, , BLIB_Or15737.097, , ALIB.folder18p142-147

BRL_DA#731, AQA4#092 p.311, OOL.B126

PDC.111-112x

A meditation on the name of God, ‘the Sender’, and its various present and future manifestations in the world, from the Messengers of God, to individuals such as couriers who may be unaware of their role in propagating the divine message, to the Bábí and Bahá’í kings of the future, to the newly designated ‘people of Bahá’—His own followers, upon whom lies the responsibility of delivering the message to others.

@categories of Prophets (major; minor; village), @suffering and imprisonment, @the power of words; of speech, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

GSH.201, LL#311

BH00885

Lawh-i-Javad

920

mixed

ای حبیب جان و محبوب روانم آیا سکون اختیار نموده و جمال مختار مابین اشرار... ای جواد سلطان ایجاد میفرماید ای جواد سیف لسانرا

O beloved of My soul and cherished of My spirit! Hast thou chosen repose whilst the Beauty of the All-Glorious dwelleth amidst the wicked? O Javád, the Sovereign Lord of creation declareth: O Javád, unsheathe the sword of thy tongue [3.5s]

INBA38:082, NLI.32p036vx, Majlis934.058-069x

MAS8.012x

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @call to action, @suffering and imprisonment, @the power of words; of speech, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @rendering assistance to God; victory [nusrat]

GSH.197

BH04263

Lawh-i-Kitab-i-Sidq

220

Arabic

کتاب الصدق نزل بالحق من لدن عالم خبیر انه لرسول الصدق الی البلاد لیذکر الناس

The Book of Truth hath been sent down in truth from the presence of One Who is All-Knowing, All-Informed. Verily, it is the Messenger of Truth unto all lands, that it may remind the peoples [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15696.011a, , BLIB_Or15734.2.056,

AVK3.145.06x, GHA.331x, AHB_131BE #07-08 p.002, OOL.B165

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @Manifestation of God as sun

GSH.188

BH00870

Lawh-i-Anta'l-Kafi (Long Healing Prayer)

940

Arabic

Bahá'í Prayers; Long Healing Prayer, The

Healing prayer, Long

بک یا علی بک یا وفی بک یا بهی انت الکافی و انت الشافی و انت الباقی یا باقی بک

I call on Thee O Exalted One, O Faithful One, O Glorious One! Thou the Sufficing, Thou the Healing, Thou the Abiding, O Thou Abiding One!

INBA36:448, NLAI_BH_AB.103

BRL_DA#075, AHM.183, TSBT.207, NFF2.017x, ABMK.048, OOL.B025

BPRY.102, BLO_PT#053

Ahdieh, L. Thoresen [track 5], The Badasht Project, A. Youssefi (1), A. Youssefi (2), A.Youssefi (3), E. Mahony, Gyenyame, K. Rushdy, N. Ward, unknown, C. Frith

Prayer for healing, rhyming and with repeated refrain, invoking various names of God for the curing of disease and the alleviation of distress.

@prayer for healing, @power of prayer, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @prayer for protection

GSH.186, LL#052

BH03062

Lawh-i-Amvaj (Tablet of the Waves)

290

mixed

Trustworthiness; Tablet of the Waves (Lawh-i-Amvaj)

Lawh-i-Amvaj (Tablet of the Waves)

امروز ام الکتاب امام وجوه احزاب ذکر مبدا و ماب میفرماید فی الحقیقه ایام

The Mother Book is standing in this Day before the gaze of all the peoples and kindreds of the earth, magnifying the glory of Him

PR05.042a-044b, BN_suppl.1753.075-076

BRL_DA#132, COMP_TRUSTP#01x, MJMM.362, DWNP_v1#10-11 p.001-002x, DRD.184, AKHA_123BE #09 p.a, OOL.B024

BRL_TRUST#01x, COC#2013x, BLO_PT#144, HURQ.BH69

Brief tablet declaring that the ocean of utterance has surged with four ‘waves’: shining the light of unity over the whole earth, being clothed in the garment of trustworthiness, establishing the transcendence of God, and casting away the causes of abasement and embracing that which leads to exaltation.

@prayer for protection, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @unity; oneness of humanity, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

GSH.186, LL#049

BH02169

Lawh-i-Baqa

410

Arabic

هذا لوح البقا من لدی البهاء الی الذی فاز بعرفان الله و شرب کوثر الحیوان من

This is the Tablet of Eternity which cometh from the All-Glorious unto he who hath attained the deep knowledge of God and did drink of the Kawthar of Life

INBA34:160, BLIB_Or15707.112, , BLIB_Or15735.270, , NLAI_BH1.005

AQA1#033, AVK4.437ax, HYK.270, OOL.B031

HURQ.BH68

Brief tablet assuring the recipient of a lofty station in the world to come and counselling him to detachment and service to the Cause of God.

@call to action, @chastisement and requital, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @rendering assistance to God; victory [nusrat]

GSH.185, LL#076

BH00512

Lawh-i-Tawhid

1450

mixed

Lawh-i-Tawhid (Tablet of Divine Unity)

حمد مقدس از عرفان ممکنات و منزه از ادراک مدرکات ملیک عز بی مثالی را سزا است

Praise be to God, the All-Possessing, the King of incomparable glory, a praise which is immeasurably above

INBA38:012, INBA65:167, INBA35:058b, INBA36:396, NLI.32p020v, PR23.039b-041b

BRL_DA#716, GWBP#026 p.047bx, AVK1.113b.02x, AVK2.013.17x, AVK2.072.02x, ZYN.056, MJMM.307, DWNP_v1#01 p.003-007, UAB.006bx, UAB.008ax, DLS.070x, ASAT2.104x, AHB_109BE #07 p.002x, PYM.335-341, OOL.B081

GWB#026x, WOB.113x2x, ADMS#013

Discourse on the transcendence of God, Whose signs have pervaded the entire creation and Who is known only through His Manifestations, Who appear from age to age and call the people to recognize His cause as one would recognize a friend: that is, by his own self and not by the garments he may be wearing on any given day.

@spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @creation of the world, @Manifestation of God as mirror

GSH.184, LL#250

BH01034

Lawh-i-Jamal-i-Burujirdi

810

Persian

Tablet to Jamal-i-Burujirdi (Lawh-i-Jamál-i-Burujirdí); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Jamal-i-Burujirdi (Tablets to Jamal-i-Burujirdi)

قوله تعالی بحر وحی که در قلم اعلی مستور است بصورت اینکلمات ترشح فرموده ای

The Ocean of Divine Revelation which is hidden within the Supreme Pen hath sprinkled forth in the form of these Words: O Jamal! Thou didst arrive in the Most Holy Presence and attain the Most Great Vision

INBA35:039, BLIB_Or15698.218, , BLIB_Or15720.214, , BLIB_Or15740.166, , Majlis210461.017-020

BRL_DA#713, GWBP#005 p.013x, AVK2.031.11x, AVK3.141.08x, AVK3.181.08x, AVK3.243.06x, AVK3.465.14x, IQT.218, GHA.445.10x, MAS8.048ax, AKHA_118BE #08-09 p.ax, AKHA_122BE #07-08 p.bx, ANDA#49 p.04x, OOL.B049a

GWB#005x, ADJ.060x, ADJ.077x, BLO_PT#181, HURQ.BH60

D. E. Walker, L. Slott

Advises the recipient to practice love, humility, and detachment when engaging people with different views since souls are created in different states of understanding; gives an example of two valid yet opposing positions regarding the relationship of the Manifestations to God; and states that ‘the whole duty of man in this Day is to attain that share of the flood of grace which God poureth forth for him’, advising that the ‘largeness or smallness of the receptacle’ should not be considered.

@contention and conflict, @unity in diversity, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @love and unity, @differences in human capacity

GSH.183, LL#130

BH01068

Lawh-i-Husayn

780

Persian

Lawh-i-Husayn (Tablet to Husayn)

ای حسین بذکر الله مانوس شو و از دونش غافل چه که ذکرش انیسی است بی نفاق

O Ḥusayn! Commune with the remembrance of God and become oblivious of all but Him, inasmuch as His mention is an intimate free of hypocrisy and a most agreeable confidant

BLIB_Or15722.061, , Majlis934.070-076

BRL_DA#131, DRD.132, MAS4.104x, AHB_134BE #03-04 p.006x

ADMS#080

R. Fahandezh

Calls the recipient to commune intimately with God; warns that whatever is concealed in people’s inmost hearts will be revealed in this day; compares all creation to mirrors which reflect the light of the Sun of Truth to the extent that they turn to it; proclaims the purifying and healing agency of the love of God; and observes that the prophets of God would never have subjected themselves to such persecutions if human life ended with this physical one.

@love of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @suffering and imprisonment, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @spiritual transformation, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world

GSH.183, LL#119

BH01194

Lawh-i-Zaynu'l-Muqarrabin 2

700

Arabic

یا ایها الناظر الی وجهی و الشارب کاس عنایتی و کوب رحمتی و افضالی و الساکن فی

O thou who gazest upon My countenance and hast quaffed the chalice of My loving-kindness and the cup of My mercy and bounty, and who dwellest in [3.5s]... ...Call thou to mind that which hath been revealed unto Mihdí, Our servant, in the first year of Our banishment to the Land of Mystery (Adrianople)

INBA34:125, BLIB_Or15707.035, , BLIB_Or15735.206,

BRL_DA#711, GWBP#058 p.081ax, AQA1#014, ASAT4.048x, ASAT5.354x, HYK.206, MSBH5.453ax, OOL.B085b

GWB#058x, BADM.099-100x, BADM.165x, GPB.110x2x, GPB.357x, GPB.360x

@prophecy and fulfillment, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

GSH.180, LL#373

BH04372

Lawh-i-Zaynu'l-Muqarrabin 1

210

mixed

الیوم اعظم امور ثبوت بر امر الله بوده و هست چه که شیاطین از جمیع اشطار ظاهر

That which is of paramount importance in this day is steadfastness in the Cause of God, for fiendish souls have manifested from every side

INBA71:337

BRL_DA#164, MJMM.337, DRD.182, ASAT1.050x, AKHA_123BE #08 p.a, OOL.B085a

ADMS#213

@divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @firmness in the Covenant, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

GSH.180, LL#266

BH01850

Lawh-i-Shaykh Fani

480

mixed

Lawh-i-Shaykh Fání (Tablet to Shaykh Fání)

قلم اعلی من فی الانشا را ندا میفرماید و بحق واحد هدایت مینماید ای شیخ فانی حمد کن

The Most Exalted Pen calleth unto all who dwell in creation and guideth them unto the One True God. O mortal elder! Render thou praise [3.5s]... ...He is indeed a true believer in the unity of God who, in this Day, will regard Him as One immeasurably exalted above all the comparisons and likenesses with which men have compared Him

BLIB_Or03116.111r, , BLIB_Or11096#041, , NLI.32p132r, Majlis934.031-036

BRL_DA#704, GWBP#160 p.217x, AVK1.175ax, OOL.B080

GWB#160x

Stresses the importance of distinguishing the transcendent reality of God from the signs of God in the world, taking as an example the subject of mystical self-surrender (faná’) and eternal union (baqá’) with God, which should be understood as the act of complete renunciation of worldly desire and not the elevation of the individual will to that of God.

@law of fasting, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @empty learning; false spirituality

GSH.177, LL#240

BH00501

Lawh-i-Karim

1470

mixed

Trustworthiness

Lawh-i-Karim (Tablets to Karim)

ای کریم انشاء الله بعنایت کریم در ظل سدره رب العالمین مستریح باشی و بفیوضات

O Karím! God grant that, through the bounty of the Most Generous [Karím], thou art reposing beneath the shade of the Tree of the Lord of all worlds...It behoveth ye all so to adorn your inner and outer beings that, robed in trustworthiness… O my loved ones! Ye are the world's spiritual physicians

INBA35:030, INBA51:389, BLIB_Or11096#016, , BLIB_Or15698.164, , BLIB_Or15720.161, , BLIB_Or15740.125, , NLI.32p126r, Majlis210461.011-017

BRL_DA#738, COMP_TRUSTP#28x, ADM1#007 p.025x, AVK3.002.01x, AVK3.385.15x, IQT.164, MAS4.157bx

BRL_TRUST#27x, BW_v02p062x, COC#2039x, ADMS#207, JHT_S#018x

States that, while some are able to recognize the truth the moment they encounter it, most stand in need of a teacher; explains that some can be taught with words, others by deeds and actions, and still others by the example of a saintly character; emphasizes the importance of the latter; asserts that the purpose of His revelation is not to enforce outward ordinances but to enable people to manifest divine perfections and to achieve that which their minds can readily embrace; and condemns some of the fanciful theories about the Promised One held by certain Muslims.

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @outward and inward meanings, @methods of teaching the Cause, @power of prayer, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God

GSH.175

BH01010

Lawh-i-Mawlud

820

Arabic

Days of Remembrance; Countenance of the Blessed Beauty in the Mirror of Mawlúd Tablets, The

Lawh-i-Mawlud (Tablet of the Birth)

ان یا ملا الغیب و الشهود ان افرحوا فی انفسکم ثم استبشروا فی ذواتکم بما ظهر

O concourse of the seen and the unseen! Rejoice with exceeding gladness in your hearts and souls, for the night hath come for the harvesting of the ages

INBA08:622

AYT.048, MAS4.343, RHQM1.578-578 (706) (433x), OOL.B059, OOL.B206, AMB#42

DOR#42

R. Yazhari

Tablet in honour of the birthday of Bahá’u’lláh, celebrating ‘the harvesting of the ages and the gathering up of past cycles’ and announcing the dawning of the morn of divine revelation.

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity

GSH.174

BH00258

Lawh-i-Yusuf

2460

mixed

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablet of Joseph (Lawh-i Yusuf); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Resurrection and the World to Come

Lawh-i-Yusuf (Tablet of Joseph)

تلک آیات الله قد نزلت بالحق عن جهه ایمن العرش و جعلها الله هدی و ذکری للعالمین... ای یوسف حجّتم بر کلّ من فی السّموات و الارض... انّا قد جعلنا میقاتاً لکم فاذا تمّت المیقات

These are the verses of God which have verily been sent down in truth from the right hand of the Throne, and which God hath made a guidance and a remembrance unto all the worlds [3.5s]... ...We have a fixed time for you, O people. If ye fail, at the appointed hour, to turn towards God, He, verily, will lay violent hold on you

INBA38:139, BLIB_Or15694.465, , ALIB.folder18p199, NLI.32p030vx

BRL_DA#532, GWBP#108 p.139bx, AVK1.279.19x, RSBB.181, GHA.255x, UAB.031cx, MAS4.019bx, MAS8.013x, AYI2.248x, AYI2.250x, ASAT4.378x, OOL.B084b

GWB#108x, LOG#1982x, PDC.007x, WOB.201x, SW_v02#03 p.003x, BLO_PT#113, BSC.199 #339-372, KSHK#28x

Emphasizes the importance of detachment as prerequisite to the recognition of spiritual truth and explains the meaning of ‘paradise’, ‘hellfire’, ‘resurrection’, and similar terms.

@heaven and paradise; heaven and hell, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @Word of God and human limitations

GSH.171, LL#265, LL#395

BH11573

Arabic

یا من تشبه بهیکلی...

O thou whose temple beareth resemblance to Mine!

EBTB.059x

GSH.109x

BH00132

Commentary on the Dala'il-i-Sab'ih of the Bab

3750

mixed

قد فتح ختم رحیق المختوم باسمی القیوم طوبی لقوم یعرفون انه لکوثر الرحمن ...قوله جل و عز از جمله ادلاء متقنه علم کل شیء است

The seal of the Choice Wine hath been broken through My Name, the Self-Subsisting. Blessed are they that recognize it as the Kawthar of the All-Merciful... His Word - exalted and glorious be He - is among the most perfect proofs of the knowledge of all things [3.5s]

INBA33:001x, BLIB_Or11095#033x, , BLIB_Or11096#011x, , BLIB_Or15722.107x, , NLAI_BH3.222x, BN_suppl.1754.037-042x

GHA.042x, ASAT5.276x

@meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @prophecy and fulfillment, @Word of God is its own standard

DB.304-305, SRC.089, LL#178

BB00039

Risala Furu' al-'Adliyya (Epistle of Justice: Branches)

5500

Arabic

Sahifiy-i-Furu-i-Adliyyih (Epistle of Justice: Branches)

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. و لقد فرض الله علی الناس قبل الصلوة بعضاً من الاحکام و هی ان الله لا یکلف لاحد الا دون قوته و ما یجبر علی احد لشیء

God hath enjoined upon mankind certain ordinances prior to the act of prayer, and among them is His decree that He imposeth no burden upon any soul beyond its capacity, nor is anyone to be compelled in any matter [4o]

INBA_3006C:148-182, , INBA_5010C:082-166, , INBA_6011C:081-120, , PR02.077v01-077v28, MKI4499.020, AEWB.141-145,

HBAB.798, OOL.A021a, OOL.A021b

@law of obligatory prayer, @law of Huququ'llah, @holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God, @Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc., @laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, @business; financial; property matters, @justice and wrath of God

DB.208x, AHDA.448.1, MMAH.044, SRC.068-071, SRC.196, SRC.203, GOH.033

BB00014

Tafsir-i-Nubuvvat-i-Khassih (Treatise on Specific Prophethood)

15400

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الواح کتاب الاذن طراز النقطة التی عینت بعد ما شیئت

Praise be to God who made the ornament of the Tablets the Book of Authorization which is the ornament of the Point singled out after such was willed and decreed [by God]

INBA14:321-384, INBA40:081-132, INBA_6010C:311-382, , INBA_4011C.001-060, INBA_4012C.013-076, PR02.115v05-130v22, CMB_F23.169v02-171v02 (57)x, , HBH_nubuwwah (=INBA14), BYC_nubuva, BYC_nubuva2, BYC_three.016-092

ESCH.357, OOL.A020

GOH.091x, HURQ.BB50x, GPB.014-015x

@station of the Manifestation of God, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @symbolism, @prophecy and fulfillment, @knowledge; recognition of God, @power of the Manifestation of God, @the Imamate; the Caliphate, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @Muhammad; Islam, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @innateness; early self-awareness of the Manifestations of God, @impossibility of true worship of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @self-description of God; God's self-remembrance

DB.202x, AHDA.448.9, MMAH.042, SRC.076, SRC.196, GOH.034, GOH.199

BB00010

Tafsir-i-Surah wa'l-'Asr (Commentary on the Surah of the Afternoon)

22000

Arabic

Tafsir-i-Suriy-i-Va'l-'Asr (Commentary on the Surih of the Afternoon)

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تجلی للممکنات بظهور آثار ابداعه فی ملکوت الامر والخلق لیتلالئن جوهریات حقائق الموجودات بتلئلأ آیات اللاهوت و یتلجلجن کینونیات مجردات آیات الجبروت بتلجلج ظهورات آیات الملکوت

Praised be to God Who divuged Himself before all realms of Existence through the tokens of His wondrous directives in the Kingdoms of Command and Creation. This to the end that He might illuminate the Essences

INBA14:105-208, INBA40:006-080, INBA69:021-119, INBA_6010C:095-198, , INBA_7009C:005-130, , CMB_F09.001=4005C, , BLIB_Or5112, , BN_6531, HBH_asr, BYC_asr

AADA.138-139x, AVK2.012.04x, MHA.142x, OOL.A007

GOH.060-061x, MNP.049x, HURQ.BB10x

@divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @the Imamate; the Caliphate, @station of the Manifestation of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

DB.201x, BRHL.59, MSBR.202-203, AHDA.455.04, MMAH.066, SRC.076, SRC.202, GOH.034, GOH.115

BB00562

Khasa'il-i Sab'ih (Treatise of the Seven Directives)

140

Arabic

Dhasail-i-Sabih (Seven Qualifications)

الامر الاول من الشعائر السبعة هو حمل الدائرة المنیعة المبارکة و الثانی منها ترک الغلیان

The first command of the seven religious practices is to carry the blessed, protective circle. The second of them is to abandon the water pipe.

HBAB.765, AHDA.099, OOL.A022

GOH.300, HURQ.BB16x, KSHK#02, KSHK.BWB

@Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc., @Imam Husayn

DB.143, MMAH.052, SRC.061-062, SRC.186, GOH.300

BB00090

Tafsir-i-Hadith-i-Kuntu Kanz (Commentary on the Tradition of the Hidden Treasure)

2000

Arabic

بسم الل الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد تعالی بعلو کبریائیته عن علو اعلی جوهر المجردات و تعظم بذاتیة ازلیته

Praise be to God, Who hath ascended, in the loftiness of His grandeur, above the loftiest essences of the spirit, and hath, by virtue of His eternal essence, manifested His transcendent majesty [4o]

SFI10.057-062

@seven stages of creation, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @Manifestation of God as mediator, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @Muhammad; Islam, @the Imamate; the Caliphate, @names and attributes of God, @impossibility of true worship of God

SFI10.038

BB00623

Arabic

Bahá'í Prayers; Selections from the Writings of the Báb

هل من مفرج غیر الله قل سبحان الله هو الله کل عباد له و کل بامره قائمون

Is there any remover of difficulties save God? Say: Praised be God! He is God! All are His servants and all abide by His bidding!

Majlis210461.117b

NSR.005, AVK4.061, SWBP#75 (p.156-156)

SWB#75 (p.217(b)), BPRY.226, GPB.119

S. and S. Toloui-Wallace, Baha'i Youth in Jordan, S. Toloui-Wallace, L. Slott, The Humming Birds, P. Escobar, A. Youssefi, D. Gundry, The Descendants, E. Mahony, E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown, Refuge, T. Nosrat, S. Trick, Charisse et al, Isis, Sheida & Sama, B. Butler, Ladjamaya, B. Parmar, Mathieu, J. Corrie, Alda, Elina & Annika, The Licata Brothers, E. Sabariego & S. Dely, MANA, M. Stamper, M. Levine [track 5], S. Engle and J. White, J. Heath [track 6], J. Heath [track 10], L. Dely & M. Congo [track 5], KC Porter, C. Frith, Zannetta [track 6], Ladjamaya [track 14], almunajat.com [item 2], S. Peyman, A. Haynes & Z. Rolle, Charisse & Laetitia, Nakhjavani & Gaone, E. Amaya

@prayer for protection, @servitude; submission to God; repentance

SFI09.263

BB00054

Letter to Mirza Hasan Vaqay’-Nigar

3300

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع ما فی السموات و الارض بامره و اقام الکل بحکمه لیعرف کل الموجودات فی مقام عرفان طلعة الذات و آیات ظهورات الصفات

Praise be to God Who hath brought into being, through His command, whatsoever is in the heavens and on earth, and hath established all things through His wisdom, that every created thing might attain unto the station of recognition of the Countenance of His Essence and the signs of the manifestations of His attributes [3.5s]

INBA40:180-192, INBA53:385-398, INBA67:085-100, PR02.175r27-179r06, CMB_F28.7.06,

ASAT4.368x

BAPT.002x, HURQ.BB51x

@free will and predestination; fate, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @names and attributes of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

BRHL.68, MSBR.208-209, MMAH.032, SRC.079, SRC.194

BB00470

Epistle to Muhammad Shah 2 (to Haji Mirza Aqasi?)

270

Persian

Tablets of the Báb to Muhammad Shah

بسمه تبارک و تعالی. الحمد لله الذی یمن علی من یشاء بحکمه سبحانه و تعالی عما یصفون الله یعلم خداوند شاهد است بر حال من و کفی به شهیدا که ذنبی متحمل نشده ام که باعث چنین حکمی شده باشد

Praise be to God Who bestoweth wisdom upon whomsoever He willeth, and glorified be He above all that they ascribe unto Him. God knoweth, and the Lord beareth witness - and sufficient is He as witness - that I have committed no transgression warranting such a decree [3.5s]

ASAT2.189x, HNU.220-221, TZH2.139-140, AHDA.262, OOL.A023.2

@detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @suffering and imprisonment, @station of the Manifestation of God

BRHL.68, MSBR.208-209, AHDA.460.08, SRC.064, SRC.193

BB00137

Sahifiy-i-Radaviyyih (Epistle of Rida')

1300

Arabic

Autobibliography in the Writings of the Báb; Excerpts from the Risáliy-i-Dhahabiyyih; Gate of the Heart

Risaliy-i-Dhahabiyyih

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی خلق الماء بسر الانشا و اقام العرش علی الماء بشان الامضا و انزل الایات من عالم العما

Praise be to God Who hath created the water by the mystery of construction, hath established the throne upon the water by the modality of execution

CMB_F28.6.1-2, , BYC_radawiya

MHA.141-142x, TZH3.290x, AHDA.473-474x fn2, OOL.A013

BAPT.003-005x, MNP.057-058x, MNP.097-100, HURQ.BB21x, LOIR06.059ff, BLO_PT#012x, BLO_PT#034x

@authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @essential vs. actional attributes of God, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @the Imamate; the Caliphate

BRHL.68, MSBR.208-209, AHDA.449.2, AHDA.452.3, MMAH.046, MMAH.048, SRC.053-055, SRC.207, GOH.023, GOH.032, GOH.131, GOH.379fn35

Includes the Khutbiy-i-Dhikriyyih as chapter 1.

BB00032

Tafsir al-Hamd

5900

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله المتقدس عن جوهر نعت الموجودات و المتعالی عن مجرد وصف الممکنات و المتکبر عن ذکر کافور اللکینونیات ... قد علمت قد ذکرت ما ذکرت فی ذکر ورقة الطاهرة و ما للناس والاخذ من تلک الثمرة الجنیه قد رکنها ربها لنفسها

Praise be to God, Who is sanctified above the essence of all created things' attributes, exalted beyond mere description by contingent beings, and magnified above mention of the camphor of existences... Indeed thou hast known and made mention of that which thou didst mention concerning the pure Leaf, and what have people to do with partaking of that hidden fruit which her Lord hath reserved for her [3.5s]... ...When it [the Point] appeared there was [also] manifest that which is Unseen, namely, the letter alif

INBA14:005-038, INBA69:120-155, INBA_5019C:084-129, , INBA_6010C:005-041, , Berlin3655.060r-075r, HBH_hamd (=INBA69)

ASAT1.205x, ASAT4.115-120, TZH2.176x

RBB.101-104, HURQ.BB04x

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @names and attributes of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @da'iras and haykals, @prayer for tests and difficulties

BRHL.64, AHDA.458.11?, MMAH.015, SRC.064, SRC.199, GOH.330

BB00045

Tafsir-i-Hadithi Abu Lubaydi Makhzumi or Tafsir-i-Hurufat al-Muqatta'ih

4200

Arabic

Tablet to Mullá Muhammad Báqir-i Tabrízí; Gate of the Heart

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الواح الاختراع اسرار الابداع التی عینت قبل ما شیئت و اقضت

Praise be to God Who hath made the ornament of the Tablets of origination to be the mysteries of creation, which were ordained ere they were brought into being [3.5s]... ...Verily, the appearance of the day of Muhammad, the Apostle of God, the blessings of God rest upon Him and His kin

INBA98:033.06-048.13, PR02.048v02-052v27, CMB_F21.009.02-026.16#03, , Berlin3655.095v-105r

GOH.109x

@predictions and prophecies, @pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient, @symbolism, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @prophecy and fulfillment, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @personal instructions

BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, MMAH.021

BB00403

Kitabu’l-Ahmad

380

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی یمن علی ما یشاء من عباده و انه لا اله الا هو ذو الفضل العظیم و اثنی علی محمد صلی الله علیه و اله بما اثناه الله فی قدم الذات و ذروة الصفات

Praise be to God Who bestoweth His bounty upon whomsoever He willeth among His servants. Verily, there is none other God but Him, the Possessor of infinite grace. And I extol Muhammad—upon Him and His kindred be the blessings of God—with such praise wherewith God hath lauded Him in the eternity of His Essence and the summit of His attributes [3.5s]

PR07.031v-032r, CMB_F21.133.09-134.19#23, , BYC_collect3.024-025

TZH3.460.14-461.16

@prayer for specific individuals; groups, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @consolation and comfort, @personal instructions

BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095, SRC.204

BB00220

Answer to Haji Muhammad

910

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تمحص قلوب عباده بما نزل علیهم من آیات کتابه انه لا اله الا هو العزیز الحکیم و انا ذا فی موقفی هذا اشهد ان لا اله الا الله

Praise be to God Who doth test and purify the hearts of His servants through that which He hath revealed unto them of the verses of His Book. Verily, there is no God but Him, the Mighty, the All-Wise. And I, in this My station, do testify that there is no God but God [3.5s]... …I have read your letter and informed myself of what you mentioned In it. I had heard from your companion about the dissension in the holy land [Karbala]

PR07.038r-039r, CMB_F21.108.12-110.19#16,

TZH3.332.06-333.02

MESSIAH.232x

@Tahirih [Qurratu'l-'Ayn], @transcendence; unknowability of God, @House of Justice, @contention and conflict

BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095, SRC.096

BB00078

Letter to Mulla Baqir Tabrizi (Chihriq) Tafsir hadith "شمس التی تلک الشموس فی ظهوره"

2500

mixed

Tablet to Mulla Muhammad Baqir-i Tabrizi

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. الحمد لله الذی لا اله الا هو العزیز المحبوب و انما البهاء من الله عز ذکره علی من یظهره الله جل امره و من یخلق بامره و لا یری فیه الا ماقد تجلی الله له بقوله علی انه لا اله الا هو المهیمن القیوم

Praised be to God, no god is there except Him, the Mighty, the Beloved One. The Splendour which cometh from God — exalted be His Remembrance — be upon Him Whom God shall make manifest

CMB_F21.035.18-044.13#05, , BYC_pray.099.01-105.02

KSHG.439, AYT.169, TZH3.020.04-022.21x

GOH.241x, GOH.249x, GOH.290x, GOH.351-353x, GOH.372-374x, HURQ.BB57x, GPB.030x, BLO_PT#185x

@He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah, @names and attributes of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @station of the Manifestation of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095, GOH.036

BB00154

Answer to Mulla Asadu’llah-i-Qazvini

1200

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابتدع الابداع لا من ابداع قبله و اخترع الاختراع لا من اختراع بعده ثم جعل القدر

Praised be to God Who originated the Formative Genesis (ibtida` al-ibda`), not from any prior formative genesis

PR07.040v-042v, CMB_F21.115.18-120.16#18,

TZH3.013.02-016.11

HURQ.BB27x

@proofs of the Manifestations of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @free will and predestination; fate, @miracles and their interpretation, @knowledge; recognition of God, @degrees of faith; certitude, @creation of the world, @meditation

BB00067

Answer to Shaykh Nasiru'd-Din Karbila'i

2700

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم بسمه العلی الاعلی الاعظم الاکبر الارفع الاظهر. حمداً لمن استوی علی عرش فردانیته و تقدس بقدس قدوس کبریائیته

Praise be unto Him Who is established upon the throne of His singleness, and Who hath sanctified Himself with the holiness of His exalted divinity [3.5s]... ...As for what thou did ask regarding the clarification of the issue of pre-existence and the origination of things. There is no doubt that the pre-existence of the eternal Divine Essence

PR02.060r08-063r10, CMB_F21.065.17-077.06#09,

HURQ.BB38x

@eternal archetypes [a'yan-i-thabitah], @transcendence; unknowability of God, @creation of the world, @eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity

BB00291

Letter to Tahirih (Maku)

660

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی یبدع ما یشاء بفضله سبحانه و تعالی عما یصفون اللهم انی اشهدک و من لدیک

Praise be to God Who createth whatsoever He willeth through His grace, and glorified and exalted be He above all that they describe. O God! I bear witness before Thee [3.5s]

CMB_F21.135.02-138.01#24,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]

BB00174

Tafsir-i-Almavadda fi’l-Qurba

1100

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی افرغنی لمشاهدة قمص طلعة حضرة ظهوره فی وسط الجبال و الهمنی

Praise be to God Who hath granted Me to behold the garments of His Manifestation's countenance amidst the mountains and hath inspired Me [3.5s]

PR07.042v-044r, CMB_F21.138.03-143.04#25,

TZH3.053.12-054.15x

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @the Imamate; the Caliphate, @nearness and remoteness

BB00383

Answer to the son of Mulla ‘Ali-i-Nuri (Kayfiyyata’l-Mi’raj)

410

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تجلی للممکنات بظهور المشیة لها بها لیعرفن کل الممکنات

Praise be to God Who hath manifested Himself within and through existing realities by virtue of the theophany of His Divine Will

INBA14:390-392, INBA40:197-198, INBA53:402-404, INBA69:416-418, INBA_6010C:388-390, , CMB_F21.104.19-106.11#14, , Berlin3655.120v-121v

ESCH.397

HURQ.BB13x

@realms of being; three realms; five realms, @limits of the intellect, @station of the Manifestation of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.080, SRC.194

BB00173

Fi Istifhamat al-Qur'an

1100

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع جوهریات ذوات اهل الانشاء لا من شیئ بامره لیعرفه کل من فی ملکوت الارض والسموات

Praise be to God Who hath brought forth, through His Command, the essential realities of created beings out of nothingness, that all within the kingdom of earth and heaven might know Him [3.5s]

INBA14:395-400, INBA40:192-196, INBA53:406-411, INBA67:273-279, INBA_6010C:393-398, , CMB_F21.100.03-104.17#13, , Berlin3655.118r-120v

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @essential vs. actional attributes of God

BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.079, SRC.194

BB00366

Sharh-i-Hadith-i-ma min fi’lin yaf’alahu’l-‘abd

450

Arabic

Brief Discussion of the Primal Will in the Bahá'í Writings; Gate of the Heart

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع ما فی السموات و الارض بامره ثم الذین آمنوا بالله و آیاته فاولئک هم الی الله یحشرون اما بعد قد اطلعت بما

Praise be to God Who hath brought into being, through His command, whatsoever is in the heavens and on earth, and beyond them those who have believed in God and His signs - these shall verily be gathered unto Him. To continue: I have perused that which [3.5s]... ...For, verily, when a thing is made mention of, it becometh invested with the station of existence, for it is impossible for the thing to exist except through the station of essence

INBA14:392-394, INBA40:162-164, INBA53:404-406, INBA_6010C:390-392, , CMB_F21.106.13-108.09#15, , Berlin3655.121v-122v

GOH.203x

@free will and predestination; fate, @law of cause and effect, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @existence and nonexistence; preexistence, @primordial Covenant; the day of alast, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.079, SRC.194

BB00064

Tablet to Mirza Sa'id Ardistani on Basitatu'l-Haqiqah, qadim wa hadith

2700

Arabic

Tablet to Mirza Sa'id

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع فی کینونیات الخلق آیات ظهور قدرته لیعرفوه کل الموجودات بما تجلی لهم بهم ... و ان ما ذکرت فی بیان القدم والحدوث و ان الذی اردت حبک بانه

All praise be to God, Who hath created the signs of the manifestations of His might in the inmost reality of the creatures, that all beings may recognize Him… The third question thou didst pose is about the meaning of the saying of the philosophers who say: 'From one naught can be created by one.'

INBA14:418-432, INBA40:144-154, INBA53:419-431, INBA67:259-273, INBA69:419-433, INBA_6010C:416-430, , CMB_F21.077.08-088.18#11, , Berlin3655.086r-092r, BYC_three.001-016, AEWB.189-207,

SFI05.014-019

GOH.044, GOH.065x, GOH.095-096x, GOH.190-191x, GOH.194-198x, GOH.201-202x, BSB4:2 p22-27x

@essential vs. actional attributes of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @seven stages of creation, @creation of the world, @necessary and possible being, @unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud]

BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.078, SRC.193, GOH.034

BB00114

Tafsiri-i-Hadith-i-‘Allamani Akhi Rasulu’llah

1600

Arabic

Selections from the Bahá'í Writings and from Shaykh Ahmad on the Seven Stages of Creation; Gate of the Heart

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی الهم من فی السموات و الارض حکمه لئلا یحتجب احد عن ظهور نور طلعته

Praise be to God, the God of all who are in heaven and on earth, Who hath decreed that no one should be veiled from the effulgence

INBA14:410-417, INBA40:137-143, INBA53:068-075, INBA67:195-203, INBA_6010C:408-415, , CMB_F21.093.03-100.01#12,

ASAT4.367x

GOH.214x, BLO_PT#079.1.3x, BLO_PT#079.1.7

@The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @station of the Manifestation of God

BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.078, SRC.193, GOH.247

BB00214

Fi Bayani’l-I’tiqad

930

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی یهدی من یشاء و یضل من یشاء و الیه کل الخلق یرجعون و ان الصلوة علی محمد رسول الله و اوصیائه الذین قد جعلهم الله ائمة الدین و ارکان اهل الیقین ... و بعد لما سمعت ان بعض الناس قد عرضوا بمحضر حضرة العالی

Praise be to God, Who guideth whom He willeth and leadeth astray whom He willeth, and unto Whom all created things shall return. And blessings rest upon Muhammad, the Apostle of God, and His chosen ones, whom God hath made the Imams of the Faith and the pillars of them that are assured... And further, when I heard that certain ones had made representations in the presence of [3.5s]

INBA14:385-390, INBA40:133-136, INBA69:411-416, INBA_6010C:383-388, , PR02.130v24-131v26, CMB_F21.089.01-093.01#11, , BYC_collect4.017-020, BYC_three.092-097

ESCH.393, TZH2.082-084

@proofs of the Manifestations of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @events in the life and ministry of the Bab, @Muhammad; Islam, @names and attributes of God, @Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.

BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.077, SRC.193

BB00186

Answer to Haji Mulla Mihdi-i-Rashti, on grammar

1100

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحان الذی یبدع ما یشاء بامره و اذا اراد لشیء فقیل ان یقول له کن فیکون لموجود الحمد لله الذی تجلی للجوهریات بنور طلعته اللازلیه

Glorified be He Who createth whatsoever He willeth through His command, and when He desireth a thing for it to be, He but saith unto it "Be!" and it is. Praise be unto God Who hath revealed Himself unto all essences through the light of His pre-existent Countenance [3.5s]

PR07.039r-040v, CMB_F21.111.02-115.15#17,

@the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @grammar and orthography, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @monasticism; asceticism, @humility; meekness; lowliness

BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, GOH.206

BB00046

Tafsir-i-Ayati'n-Nur (Commentary on the Verse of Light)

4200

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم بسم الله المتعالی المنیع. الحمد لله الذی خلق کل شیء بامره و قدر مقادیر کل شیء بقوله اذ انه هو الحق به یخلق ما خلق و یبدع ما بدع لا راد و لا مره و لا مرد لتقدیره

Praised be to God Who created all things through His Command and decreed the measure of all things through His Utterance, `Wherefore is He, verily, is the Ultimate Reality (al-ḥaqq)'

PR02.063r12-063r19x, PR07.044r-049v, CMB_F21.155.17-171.08#27,

HURQ.BB12x

@oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @prophecy and fulfillment, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, AHDA.458.15, MMAH.005

BB00061

Sharh-i-Du’a'-i-Sabah II

2800

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع ما فی السموات و الارض بامره و یحکم بین الکل بالقسط فی یوم الذی فیه کل الی الله یحشرون

Praise be to God Who hath brought into being, through His command, whatsoever is in the heavens and on earth, and Who judgeth between all with justice on the Day whereon all shall be gathered unto God [3.5s]... ...Know thou that each letter thereof [the Morning Prayer of Imám ‘Alí] pertaineth to seven stations that were enjoined by the Imám to Jábir in reference to true recognition

INBA_4012C.096-109, , PR07.032r-036r, CMB_F21.143.06-155.14#26, , BYC_collect3.026-041

GOH.117x

@the state of prayer; dynamics of prayer, @seven stages of creation, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @spiritual transformation, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @knowledge; recognition of God, @the Imamate; the Caliphate

BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, AHDA.458.13, MMAH.020, SRC.098, SRC.199

BB00047

Tafsir-i-Vav-i-Va’s-Safat I

3900

Arabic

بسم الله العلی الاعلی الاعظم. سبحان الذی بیده ملکوت کل شیء لا اله الا هو الواحد المتکبر القائم القدوس الرفیع العزیز المنیع شهد الله لنفسه بالله لا اله الا هو الفرد الحی

Glorified be He in Whose Hands lie the kingdoms of all things. There is none other God but Him, the One, the Most Great, the Self-Subsisting, the Most Holy, the Most Exalted, the Almighty, the Impregnable. God hath testified unto His Own Self, by God, that there is none other God but Him, the Single, the Ever-Living [3.5s]... ...For verily God hath created, in the furthermost oceans of plurality, beyond the Alif, countless numerical letters according to His will

CMB_F21.044.16-060.17#06,

GOH.106-107x, GOH.356x, HURQ.BB06x

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @names and attributes of God, @angels, @mystical themes, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria)

BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, AHDA.458.1, GOH.387fn63

BB00351

Da’irat’il-Hirz

480

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم بسم الله الرفیع المکین. حمداً لمن خلق الکل علی هیکل محبته و عرف الکل ملک ارادته لئلا یحتجب احد عن طلعة محبوبه و لا یبعد شیء عن مقام قرب مقصوده

Praise be unto Him who hath fashioned all creation in the form of His love and made them aware of the kingdom of His will, so that none might be veiled from the countenance of their Beloved, nor anything be removed from the station of nearness to His purpose [4o]

CMB_F21.063.17-065.15#08,

@pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @da'iras and haykals, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, AHDA.457.08, MMAH.017

BB00155

Alfayn: Al-Khutbata’l-Makhtum bi-Ta’bir’n-num

1200

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الاستنطاق فی الواح کتاب الافتراق طراز الاشتقاق التی عینت

Praise be to God Who hath made the ornament of utterance in the Tablets of the Book of Separation to be the ornament of derivation that was ordained [3.5s]

INBA98:027.11-033.03, PR02.160r01-161r23, CMB_F21.003.13-008.19#02, , CMB_F23.160r01-162v01 (55), , Berlin3655.092r-095r, BYC_jabar.163.02-165.07

@the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @mystical themes, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @symbolism of color and light, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

BB00030

Answer to 25 questions of Mulla Ahmad

6700

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک لک الملک و الملکوت و لک العز و الجبروت و لک القدرة و اللاهوت و لک القوة و الیاقوت و لک السلطنة و الناسوت تحیی و تمیت ثم تمیت و تحیی و انک انت حی لا تموت و ملک لا تزول و سلطان لا تحول و فرد لا تفوت ... علی کلشیء قدیرا لاشهدنک و کلشیء

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee that verily Thou art God, and that there is none other God but Thee, alone, without peer. Thine is the Kingdom and the Dominion, Thine the Glory and the Power, Thine the Might and the Empyrean, Thine the Strength and the Brilliance, Thine the Sovereignty and the human realm. Thou givest life and causest death, then bringest death and givest life, and verily Thou art the Ever-Living Who dieth not, the King Who passeth not away, the Sovereign Who changeth not, the Single One Who vanisheth not... powerful over all things. I testify, and all things testify [3.5s]... ...Should a man be endued with knowledge, and behold Thy [God’s] divine verses revealed during earlier times

CMB_F21.196.06-223.18#31, , MKI4494.065

BAPT.005x, GOH.093-094x

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @self-concealment of the Manifestation of God, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @suffering and imprisonment

BB00043

Answer to Kitabi’l-Adyan

4500

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک لک الملک و الملکوت و لک العز و الجبروت و لک القوة و اللاهوت و لک القدرة و الیاقوت و لک السلطنة و الناسوت و لک العزة و الجلال و لک الوجهة و الکمال و لک الطلعة و الجمال و لک الرحمة و الفضال و لک السطوة و العدال و لک المثل و الأمثال و لک المواقع و الإجلال و لک القوَة و الفعال و لک المثل و الأمثال و لک العظمة و الکبریاء

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee that verily Thou art God, and that there is none other God but Thee, alone, without peer. Thine is the Kingdom and the Dominion, Thine the Glory and the Power, Thine the Strength and the Empyrean, Thine the Might and the Brilliance, Thine the Sovereignty and the human realm, Thine the Glory and the Majesty, Thine the Countenance and the Perfection, Thine the Splendor and the Beauty, Thine the Mercy and the Bounty, Thine the Authority and the Justice, Thine the Symbol and the Similitudes, Thine the Stations and the Reverence, Thine the Power and the Action, Thine the Example and the Exemplars, Thine the Grandeur and the Majesty [3.5s]

CMB_F21.171.10-189.11#28, , MKI4515.055v-074v

@station of the Manifestation of God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @names and attributes of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion

BB00140

Answer to Mulla Rajab-‘Ali

1300

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی یتفضل علی من یشآء تذکره و یشکره علی جزاء ثنائه بما وعد فی کتابه فله الحمد حمدا لیشهد له بما شهد له نفسه

Praise be to God Who graciously bestoweth His remembrance upon whomsoever He willeth, and rewardeth with gratitude those who praise Him, even as He hath promised in His Book. Unto Him be all praise - praise that testifieth to that which He hath testified of His own Self [3.5s]

PR07.036v-038r, CMB_F21.120.18-126.08#19,

@family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @mystical themes, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]

BB00313

Answer to one of the believers

590

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی نزل المجرة لسطوع طلوع شمس الرحمة لیدلعن کل الالسن فی تلک الطلعات الصماء الدهماء العمیاء بثناء طلعة حضرة الربوبیة فی صورة الانزعیه والنور الالهیه

Praise be to God Who hath sent down the starry expanse for the dawning splendor of the Sun of Mercy, that every tongue might be moved, amidst these deaf, dark and sightless manifestations, to extol the Countenance of Divine Lordship in its most glorious form and celestial light [3.5s]

INBA98:020.10-023.07, PR02.166r02-166v12, CMB_F21.001.01-003.11#01, , Berlin3655.114v-116r

@praise and encouragement, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @power of prayer, @love of God

BB00226

Answer to Sayyid Ahmad-i-Aqazadih

900

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی نزل الکتاب علی من یشآء من عباده لیبعث یوم الحساب فاشهد الله فی وسط الجبال موقف

Praise be to God Who hath sent down the Book upon whomsoever He willeth among His servants, that they might be raised up on the Day of Reckoning. I bear witness unto God, from amidst the mountains [3.5s]

PR07.029r-030v, CMB_F21.127.07-131.05#21, , BYC_collect3.002-008

@permission for visit; pilgrimage, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @station of the Manifestation of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]

BB00519

Answer to Siyyid Ahmad Aqa-Zadih

190

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. یا صغیر السن یا رطب البدن یا قریب العهد من شرب اللبن الحمد لله الذی انشاء ما فی السموات و الارض بامره

O thou who art young in years, tender of body, and freshly weaned from thy mother's milk! Praise be to God, who hath, through His command, brought into being whatsoever is in the heavens and the earth [4o]

CMB_F21.126.10-127.04#20, , BYC_collect3.001-002

MUH1.0671-0672, NSS.082b

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @prayer for steadfastness; obedience, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation

BB00342

Fi’s-Sighari va’l-Kibar

520

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحان الذی یبدع ما فی السموات و ما فی الارض بامره ثم الذین آمنوا بالله و آیاته فاولئک هم الیه یحشرون

Glorified be He Who createth, by His command, whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is on earth; then they who have believed in God and His signs shall be gathered unto Him [3.5s]

PR07.030v-031v, CMB_F21.131.07-133.07#22, , BYC_collect3.021-024

@station of the Manifestation of God, @mystical themes, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

BB00271

Hadith on 'the Land of Paradise'

720

Arabic

بسم الله الاعظم الاعظم. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک لک الملک و الملکوت و لک العز و الجبروت و لک القدرة و اللاهوت و لک القوة و الیاقوت و لک السلطنة و الناسوت و لک العزة و الجلال و لک الطلعة و الجمال و لک الوجهة و الکمال و لک المثل و الامثال و لک المواقع و الاجلال و لک العزة و الامتناع و لک القوة و الارتفاع ... لم تزل کنت الها واحدا

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee that verily Thou art God, and that there is none other God but Thee, alone, without peer. Thine is the Kingdom and the Dominion, Thine the Glory and the Power, Thine the Might and the Empyrean, Thine the Strength and the Brilliance, Thine the Sovereignty and the human realm, Thine the Glory and the Majesty, Thine the Splendor and the Beauty, Thine the Countenance and the Perfection, Thine the Symbol and the Similitudes, Thine the Stations and the Reverence, Thine the Glory and the Invincibility, Thine the Power and the Transcendence... Ever hast Thou been One God [3.5s]

CMB_F21.192.16-196.04#30,

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @absolute freedom; independence of God, @heaven and paradise; heaven and hell, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God

BB00089

Letter to Jinab-i-Haji Siyyid Javad Karbala'i

2000

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الواح صبح الازل طراز الالف القائم بین البائین فلاحت و اضائت بعد ما بدعت قبل ما اخترعت

Praise be to God Who hath made the ornament of the Tablets of the Morn of Eternity to be as the Alif standing betwixt two Bás, resplendent and illumining after it was originated, ere it was fashioned [3.5s]

INBA98:150.07-158.13, PR02.161r25-163v22, CMB_F21.026.18-035.16#04, , Berlin3655.105v-110v

ASAT3.054-055x, NSS.059-064

@defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @symbolism, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God

BB00286

Tafsir hadith "یکتمنه عن غیر اهله"

680

Arabic

بسم الله الاعظم الاعظم. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک لک الملک و الملکوت و لک العز و الجبروت و لک القدرة و اللاهوت و لک القوة و الیاقوت و لک السلطنة و الناسوت و لک العزة و الجلال و لک الطلعة و الجمال و لک الوجهة و الکمال و لک المثل و الامثال و لک المواقع و الاجلال و الک العظمة و الاستقلال و الک الکبریاء و الاستجلال و لک العزة و الامتناع و لک القوة و الارتفاع ... لم تزل کنت الها واحدا

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee that verily Thou art God, and that there is none other God but Thee, alone, without peer. Thine is the Kingdom and the Dominion, Thine the Glory and the Power, Thine the Might and the Empyrean, Thine the Strength and the Brilliance, Thine the Sovereignty and the human realm, Thine the Glory and the Majesty, Thine the Splendor and the Beauty, Thine the Countenance and the Perfection, Thine the Symbol and the Similitudes, Thine the Stations and the Reverence, Thine the Grandeur and the Independence, Thine the Supremacy and the Exaltation, Thine the Glory and the Invincibility, Thine the Power and the Transcendence... Thou hast ever been one God [3.5s]

CMB_F21.189.14-192-12#29, , MKI4494.061

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @absolute freedom; independence of God, @creation of the world

BB00288

Tafsir-i-Vav-i-Va’s-Safat II

670

Arabic

بسم الله العلی الاعلی العظیم. سبحان الذی بیده ملکوت کل شیء و انه لا اله الا هو الواحد المتکبرالمنان و ان لله ملک السموات و الارض

Glorified be He in Whose Hands lie the dominion of all things. There is no God but Him, the One, the All-Compelling, the All-Bountiful. Verily unto God belongeth the sovereignty of the heavens and of the earth [3.5s]

CMB_F21.060.19-063.15#07,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @the Imamate; the Caliphate

Bahá'í Prayers; Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Gate of the Heart

BB00003

Kitab-i-Asma' (Book of Names)

>500000

Arabic

Kitáb-i-Asma (Book of Names); Tablet of the Báb to the Sherif of Mecca

الباب الاول من الواحد الاول ... بسم الله الاسمم الاسمم. لا اله الا هو الأرشد الأرشد قل الله ارشد فوق کل ذا ارشاد لن يقدر ان يمتنع عن مليک سلطان ارشاده

God, no God is there save Him., the Supremely Guided (al-arshad), the Supremely Guided (al-arshad). Say: God proffers a Guidance (arshad) beyond every possessor of Guidance (irshad)…. O Lord! Enable all the peoples of the earth to gain admittance

INBA60:156-166x, INBA64:025.10-030.01x, INBA82:060-066x, INBA_6002C, INBA29, PR02.069v01-069v20x, PR03.150v08-151v11x, PR24.069r-072vx, PR30.001-344, CMB_F16x, CMB_F18x, CMB_F23.171v04-174r04 (58)x, , CMB_F17x, CMB_F19x, BLIB_Or5278, BLIB_Or5481, BLIB_Or5869, BLIB_Or6255, BN_5806, BN_5807, BN_6141, BN_6142, BLIB_Or5487-5490, , MKI4491, MKI4492, MKI4493, IOL (12:1-18)x, IOM.091-092x, HBH_asma, BYC_asma

MANU.039-045x, TZH2.006x, SWBP#07 (p.018-024x), SWBP#11 (p.092-106x), SWBP#15 (p.109-110x), SWBP#28 (p.121-122x), SWBP#31 (p.124-125x), SWBP#32 (p.125-125(a)x), SWBP#33 (p.125-125(b)x), SWBP#47 (p.136-136x), OOL.A008

SWB#07 (p.029-037x), SWB#11 (p.129-149x), SWB#15 (p.155-155x), SWB#29 (p.172-172x), SWB#32 (p.176(a)x), SWB#33 (p.176(b)x), SWB#34 (p.177(a)x), SWB#48 (p.191-191x), BPRY.081x, BPRY.234x, GOH.passim (see index), HURQ.BB58x

E. Mahony, A. Bryan, G.H. Miller, K. Key

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah, @chastisement and requital, @prophecy and fulfillment, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @justice and wrath of God, @absolute freedom; independence of God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @Word of God and human limitations, @spiritual transformation, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @divine attributes are within all things; every atom, @modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation, @proclamation to Muslims, @proclamation to people of the Bayan, @the state of prayer; dynamics of prayer, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @prayer for martyrs, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @Manifestation of God as mediator, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @God's attributes require the existence of objects, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @suffering and imprisonment, @call to action, @return of the Manifestations of God, @excellence; distinction, @heaven and paradise; heaven and hell, @prayers (general or uncategorized), @order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir], @oneness; unity of religion, @power of the Manifestation of God, @importance of reading the Sacred Writings, @identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God, @courtesy; culture [adab], @recompense; reward for belief; right action, @The Holy Spirit, @power of prayer, @business; financial; property matters, @literature; drama; humanities; the arts, @relativity of religious truth, @preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings, @essential distinction of Manifestation of God from others, @thankfulness; gratitude, @martyrs and martyrdom, @exhortations and counsels, @light and darkness, @Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God, @God as immanent vs. transcendent reality, @words vs deeds, @unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud], @proofs for the existence of God, @predictions and prophecies, @cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God

BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, AHDA.447.7, MMAH.065, SRC.091-092, SRC.188, GOH.036 and passim

Note that the Partial Inventory states that the word count is more than 500,000 words.

BB00005

Panj Sha'n (Book of the Five Modes)

98000

mixed

Kitáb-i-Panj Sha'n, Book of Five Qualification; Kitab-i-Panj Sha'n; Reflection on the Theory of Alchemy as Explained in the Bahá'í Writings, A; Gate of the Heart

Kitáb-i-Panj Shan (Book of Five Modes); Lawh-i-Hurufat (Tablet of the Letters)

بسم الله الائله الائله. اننی انا الله لا اله الا انا الائله الائله بسم الله الاله الاله بالله الله الاله الاله بسم الله الموله الموله

Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the Most High, the Most High. In the Name of God, the Divine One, the Divine One. By God, the Divine One, the Divine One. In the Name of God, the Lord Supreme [3.5s]... ...God has not created anything without creating a trace of the elixir within it

INBA01:001-088x, INBA64:085.02-094.05x, INBA82:002-016x, INBA82:066-078x, INBA_6007C.494-541x, PR02.053v07-060r04x, PR02.069r01-075r17x, PR02.154r01-159v28x, PR03.040v05-042v06x, PR03.089v26-136r16x, PR03.241v07-245r27, CMB_F23.002v04-076r03x, , CMB_F15, CMB_F25.3, BLIB_Or5612, BLIB_Or6680, BN_6143, BN_6518 p.002v, MKI4488.134r-315rx, , KB_panj, HBH_panjshan, HBH_panjshan2, BYC_collect3.045-062x, BYC_panj

PANJx, MAS7.114-18x, RBB.098-100x, RBB.109x, MBA.203-209x, MBA.276-293x, MBA.301x, MBA.314-326x, AHDA.467x?, OOL.A012, OOL.A019x

RBB.015-016x, GOH.174-178x, GOH.184-185x, GOH.393fn17x, GOH.191x, GOH.245x, GOH.292x, GOH.348-349x, GOH.368x, MNP.220-222x, HURQ.BB59x, BLO_PT#046x, BLO_alchemy

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @station of the Manifestation of God, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @names and attributes of God, @oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @essential vs. actional attributes of God, @Manifestation of God as mediator, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God, @return of the Manifestations of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat], @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah, @absolute freedom; independence of God, @Adam; Adam and Eve, @prophecy and fulfillment, @prayers (general or uncategorized), @presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God, @alchemy; the elixir, @oneness; unity of religion, @divine attributes are within all things; every atom, @light and darkness, @call to action, @unity in diversity, @predictions and prophecies, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @Perfect Man [insan-i-kamil], @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @blind imitation [taqlid], @purpose of religion in the world (personal and social), @Word of God and human limitations, @obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God, @symbolism of color and light, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @chastisement and requital, @exhortations and counsels, @creation of the world, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @belief and denial, @symbolism, @da'iras and haykals

BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, AHDA.446.6, AHDA.459.01x, MMAH.038, MMAH.062, SRC.088-090, SRC.093-095, SRC.189, SRC.190, SRC.281, GOH.036

Last part is known as the Lawh-i-Hurufat

BB00076

Tasbih-i-Fatimih

2500

Arabic

بسم الله العلی العظیم. اسبح سبحان الذی لا یعلم جوهو وجود کیف هو و لا مجرد موجود این

Glorified be He whose essential Reality none knoweth, and whose pure Being none can fathom [3.5s]

INBA98:176.16-186.10, CMB_F09.088=4005C, , BLIB_Or5112, , HBH_tasbih

HURQ.BB32x

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @impossibility of true worship of God, @chastisement and requital, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @Night of Power (Laylat al-Qadr)

BRHL.59, MSBR.202-203

BH00003

Kitab-i-'Ahd (Book of the Covenant)

920

Persian

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Days of Remembrance

Will and Testament of Bahá'u'lláh; Kitáb-i-Ahd (Book of the Covenant)

اگر افق اعلی از زخرف دنیا خالیست ولکن در خزائن توکل و تفویض از برای وراث

Although the Realm of Glory hath none of the vanities of the world, yet within the treasury of trust and resignation

INBA65:101, BLIB_Or15261, , CMB_F25.8,

AVK3.066.10x, AVK3.210.02x, AVK3.424.03x, AHM.410, MJMM.399, AYT.355, DWNP_v4#04 p.021, DWNP_v2#03-4 p.025-027x, UAB.036ax, DRD.176, AYI2.076x, AYI2.275x, RHQM2.0918-921 (350) (214-216), TBP#15, OOL.B014, AMB#32

TB#15, DOR#32, PUP.382x, GPB.028x, GPB.238x, GPB.239x8x, GPB.240x7x, GPB.242x, GPB.314x, WOB.134x, SW_v03#14 p.006-007+010, SW_v04#14 p.238, SW_v05#15 p.229, SW_v07#16 p.153, SW_v07#18 p.188, SW_v09#12 p.138x, SW_v09#13 p.150, BSC.259 #532-546

A. Youssefi

Bahá’u’lláh’s last will and testament, appointing ‘Abdu’l-Bahá as His successor by summoning ‘the Aghṣán, the Afnán and My Kindred to turn, one and all, their faces towards the Most Mighty Branch’; categorically forbidding contention and conflict; and cautioning lest the means of order and unity that He brought into the world should become the cause of confusion and discord.

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @unity; oneness of humanity, @piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa], @status of kings; future of monarchy, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @contention and conflict, @religion as source of love and unity

ROB4.419 et al, BKOG.420, MMAH.213, GSH.150, BSR_v19p03, LL#026

BH00005

Lawh-i-Ibn-i-Dhi'b (Epistle to the Son of the Wolf)

28200

mixed

Bahá'í Scriptures; Bahá'í Prayers; Epistle to the Son of the Wolf

Lawh-i-Ibn-i-Dhib (Epistle to the Son of the Wolf)

الحمد لله الباقی بلا فناء و الدائم بلا زوال و القائم بلا انتقال المهیمن

Praise be to God, the Eternal that perisheth not, the Everlasting that declineth not, the Self-Subsisting that altereth not.... O God, my God! Attire mine head with the crown of justice... Thou seest me, O my Lord, with my face turned towards the heaven

BLIB_Or15708.001, , BLIB_Or15721.001, , BLIB_Or15726.082x,

BRL_ESWP, AQA6#237 p.136x, TZH4.114-115x, YMM.306x, OOL.B047

ESW, BPRY.075x, ADJ.028ax2x, ADJ.077x, COF.101ax, TDH#158.20, GPB.071x, GPB.071-072x, GPB.097x3x, GPB.101x2x, GPB.102x2x, GPB.114x2x, GPB.124x, GPB.125x, GPB.133x, GPB.137x, GPB.184x9x, GPB.194x2x, GPB.217x2x, GPB.218x3x, PDC.015-016x, PDC.017x, PDC.082x, PDC.117-118x, PDC.118x2x, PDC.125-126x, PDC.141-142x, PDC.142x, PDC.142-143x, PDC.148x, PDC.162x, PDC.181x, PDC.184-185x, PDC.187x, WOB.186x, SW_v01#18 p.004-005x, SW_v05#15 p.226x, BSC.118 #048x, HURQ.BH74x

L. Thoresen [track 2], Charisse et al, Smith & Dragoman, E. Mahony, Baha'i Youth of Japan, Y. Mbazo & the Durban Baha'i Choir, A. Rae, Taraz, Nthabiseng & Page, MANA, S. Toloui-Wallace, S. Jaberi, Arman & Gloria, Steve & Atosa

His last major work and His third longest, calling on its recipient, a leading mujtahid, to repent of his role in the oppression and massacre of the Bahá’ís, quoting some of the most celebrated passages from His own writings, and adducing proofs establishing the validity of His cause.

@incarceration of Baha'u'llah in Siyah Chal, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @prayer for praise and gratitude, @banishment to; life in Baghdad, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @empty learning; false spirituality, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @high station of learning, @station of the Manifestation of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization, @universal peace; world unity, @prayer for forgiveness, @teachings as spirit of the age, @oneness; unity of religion, @status of kings; future of monarchy, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @contention and conflict, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @martyrs and martyrdom, @war and peace, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @being a source of light; guidance, @unity; oneness of humanity, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @knowledge; recognition of God, @spiritual warfare; struggle, @the power of words; of speech, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @knowledge of self, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God, @the golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others, @Manifestation of God does not act of own volition, @theft; seizing the properties of others, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God, @Shrines and Holy places, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @chastity and purity, @collection; ordering of the Sacred Writings, @teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause, @idle fancies; lust and passion, @dissimulation [taqiyyih]; concealment or denial of Faith, @fanaticism and hatred, @prayers (general or uncategorized), @rebellion and sedition; disobedience, @piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa], @humility; meekness; lowliness, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @East and West; communication between East and West

ROB4.368 et al, BKOG.382, GPB.219, GPB.238, EBTB.147, MMAH.122, MMAH.129, GSH.148, LL#124

BH02324

Lawh-i-Karmil (Tablet of Carmel)

380

Arabic

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Lawh-i-Karmil (Tablet of Carmel)

حبذا هذا الیوم المبارک الذی لا تعادله القرون و الاعصار حبذا هذا الیوم اذ

All glory be to this Day, the Day in which the fragrances of mercy have been wafted over all created things

GWBP#011 p.018, RHQM2.0976-977 (412) (254-255), ASAT5.027x, PYB#041 p.04, AHB_110BE #17-18 p.340, ANDA#06 p.01, TBP#01, NJB_v06#05 p.6, OOL.B051

TB#01, DAS.1914-01-02, GWB#011, TDH#064.3x, TDH#064.6x, GPB.219x, GPB.277-278x, GPB.278x, WOB.105x, SW_v14#05 p.149

J. Murday, Ahdieh, NIKNAK, Mea, almunajat.com [items 42-43]

Brief proclamatory tablet, revealed during a visit to Mount Carmel, taking the form of a joyful dialogue between Bahá’u’lláh and the sacred mountain and promising that ‘Ere long will God sail His Ark upon thee, and will manifest the people of Bahá who have been mentioned in the Book of Names’, words that have been taken as the charter for the establishment of the Bahá’í World Centre in Haifa.

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @Shrines and Holy places, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @presence of; reunion with God, @proclamation to Jews

ROB4.351, ROB4.423, BKOG.375, GPB.219, GPB.345, MMAH.081, GSH.147, LL#137

BH00279

Remembrance of the seven martyrs of Yazd

2280

mixed

Tablet to The Times of London; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Times (Tablet to the Times)

کنا ماشیا فی البیت و سامعا حدیث الارض اذا ارتفع الندآء من الفردوس الاعلی

We were walking in the House and hearing the discourse of the earth when the Call was raised from the Most Exalted Paradise [3.5s]... ...O 'Times', O thou endowed with the power of utterance! O dawning place of news! Spend an hour with the oppressed of Iran

INBA39:154

BRL_DA#375, MAS4.124cx, RHQM1.382-382 (461) (283-289), ASAT4.387x, MSBH2.171x, OOL.B169, OOL.B199

BRL_ATBH#08x, BLO_PT#195

@martyrs and martyrdom, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @call to action

ROB4.348, MMAH.144, LL#253

Includes the "Lawh-i-Times"

BH00238

Lawh-i-Dunya (Tablet of the World)

2590

mixed

Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Lawh-i-Dunya (Tablet of the World)

حمد و ثنا سلطان مبین را لایق و سزاست که سجن متین را بحضور حضرت علی قبل اکبر

Praise and thanksgiving beseem the Lord of manifest dominion Who hath adorned the mighty prison… The betterment of the world can be accomplished

INBA89:190x, BLIB_Or07851.066a, , BLIB_Or15696.107bx, , BLIB_Or15716.198x, , PR05.009a-020a, Majlis934.001-026, BN_suppl.1753.078-089

GWBP#043 p.066bx, AVK1.021.02x, AVK3.063.14x, AVK3.161.09x, AVK3.203.15x, AVk3.459.04x, AVK4.239.06x, AVK4.255.05x, AVK4.280x, ZYN.212, MJMM.285, AQMJ2.151x, AQMJ2.152x, UAB.051cx, DRD.084, MAS4.120ax, ASAT3.039x, ASAT4.387x, ASAT5.067x, AHB_107BE #03 p.046x, ADH1.080x, SAM.235x, TBP#07, OOL.B036

TB#07, GWB#043x, ADJ.024x, ADJ.024-025x, ADJ.028x, ADJ.077x, GPB.232x, PDC.196x, PDC.199x, WOB.107x2x, WOB.198x, SW_v09#07 p.082x, SW_v14#06 p.179x, DWN_v3#01 p.009x, DWN_v5#01 p.003-004x, DWN_v6#06-7 p.001-002x, BLO_PT#201, BSC.138 #055-069x

T. Price, T. Ellis, A. Tahirih R. Weiss, MANA, Soulrise Melodies, S. Jaberi

Reiterates many of Bahá’u’lláh’s central social teachings, such as renunciation of self and promoting the good of the entire human race; achieving the betterment of the world ‘through pure and goodly deeds, through commendable and seemly conduct’; consorting with all religions in friendliness and fellowship; avoiding contention and conflict; observing courtesy; promoting the ‘Lesser Peace’; adopting a universal language; championing the universal education of children; and recognizing the importance of agriculture.

@lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @love and unity, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @House of Justice, @unity in diversity, @call to action

ROB4.329 et al, BKOG.382, BKOG.399, BKOG.410, BKOG.454, MMAH.131, GSH.168, LL#083

BH00244

2540

mixed

Changing Pronouns and Dropping 'Say' in Prayers

بجناب ذبیح علیه بهاء الله تکبیر مالانهایه برسانید عجبست که خبر ایشان نرسید

Convey unto his honor Dhabih, upon whom be the Glory of God, boundless greetings. Strange it is that no word hath been received from him [3.5s]... ...In some of the revealed prayers and supplications it is written, “and make him.” Is it considered interpolation if one recites, in a passsage of entreaty, "and make me"

INBA28:171, NLAI_BH4.053-062.03x

AVK2.318.17x, AVK4.028.13x, AVK4.267.10x, AVK4.439ax, MAS4.030x, MAS4.036x, ASAT4.030x, ASAT4.462x, ASAT5.054x, YIK.071-078

KSHK#08x

@empty learning; false spirituality, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @suffering and imprisonment, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @unity; oneness of humanity, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB4.321, ROB3.200-201, LL#193, LL#372

BH00959

860

mixed

نامهای آنجناب هر یک بلحاظ مظلوم فائز و عرف توجه و خلوص و استقامت از هر حرفی

The letters of that honored one, each attained unto the presence of the Wronged One, and from every letter thereof wafted the fragrance of devotion, sincerity and steadfastness [3.5s]

INBA15:423, INBA26:426

YIA.101-102x

@review of publications, @wisdom [hikmat], @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world

ROB4.321, LL#102, LL#194

BH00251

2510

mixed

Meetings, Bahá'í; Institution of the Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, The

فصبر جمیل و الله المستعان علی ما یصفون یا حیدر قبل علی علیک بهائی و بهاء من

Patience is befitting, and God is the Help to be sought against that which they say. O Haydar-'Alí, upon thee be My glory and the glory of Him Who [3.5s]... ...By My life and My Cause! Round about whatever dwelling the friends of God may enter, and from which their cry shall rise as they praise and glorify the Lord

BLIB_Or15690.015, , BLIB_Or15728.140,

BRL_DA#227, COMP_MASHRIQP#07x, LHKM2.285

BRL_MEET.BH#02x, BRL_MASHRIQ#07x

MANA

@methods of teaching the Cause, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @prayer for protection, @suffering and imprisonment, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution

ROB4.316x

BH00149

3510

mixed

یا حبذا نامه رسید و عرف محبت محبوب عالمیان از او متضوع هر حرفش دفتری بود و هر

O how excellent! The letter arrived, perfumed with the fragrance of love for the Beloved of all worlds. Each letter thereof was as a volume, and every [3.5s]

INBA15:409, INBA26:412

AYI2.233x, AYI2.350x

@unity; oneness of humanity, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @praise and encouragement, @spiritual transformation

ROB4.300, LL#192

BH11594

Lawh-i-Salat

unknown

ROB4.299, LL#229

BH00401

1710

mixed

خادم مسکین متحیر و متفکر که چه ذکر نماید و که را وصف کند و ستایش گوید حق جل

This lowly servant, bewildered and deep in thought, wondereth what to utter, whom to describe, and how to render praise unto the All-Glorious [3.5s]

INBA15:429, INBA26:433

AHM.068, GHA.017.11, GHA.032ax, TSBT.011, MSHR5.113-114x

@prayer for forgiveness, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @power of prayer, @the state of prayer; dynamics of prayer, @praise and encouragement, @transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB4.299, LL#191, LL#230

BH04396

210

Arabic

ان یا علی قد بکی محمد رسول الله من ظلمک بما اتبعت الهوی و اعرضت عن الهدی

O Ali! Muhammad, the Messenger of God, hath indeed wept over thy wrongs, inasmuch as thou didst follow vain desires and turn aside from guidance [3.5s]

INBA34:289

AQA1#154, MAS4.360, ASAT4.388x, DLH3.571

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @chastisement and requital, @martyrs and martyrdom, @call to action

ROB4.297

BH02209

Lawh-i-Ard-i-Ba

400

mixed

Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Lawh-i-Ard-i-Ba (Tablet of the Land of Ba)

حمدا لمن تشرف ارض الباء بقدوم من طاف حوله الاسماء بذلک بشرت الذرات کل

Praise be to Him Who hath honoured the Land of Bá through the presence of Him round Whom all names revolve.

INBA81:088x, BLIB_Or15727a.043,

AHM.107x, HDQI.005x, AHDW.009x, ASAT4.413x, AHB_128BE #06-11 p.196x, TBP#16x, OOL.B166x

TB#16x, GPB.243x, WOB.136x, SW_v04#14 p.239x, SW_v08#14 p.185x

almunajat.com [item 21], L. Slott

@prayer for specific individuals; groups, @consolation and comfort, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @humility; meekness; lowliness

ROB4.240, BKOG.378, YMM.151, LL#061

BH00587

Lawh-i-Siyyid Mihdiy-i-Dahaji

1290

mixed

Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Lawh-i-Siyyid-i-Mihdiy-i-Dahaji (Tablet to Siyyid Mihdiy-i-Dahaji)

ان یا اسمی ان احمد الله بما جعلناک امطار الفضل لما زرعناه فی الاراضی الطیبه

O my Name! Yield thou praise unto God for having graciously chosen thee to be a shower of bounty for that which We have sown

BLIB_Or15710.097, , BLIB_Or15738.100, , Majlis934.133-147

BRL_DA#103, AVK3.468.12x, AVK3.470.15x, AVK4.480ax, ASAT5.206x, ASAT5.256x, TBP#13, OOL.B163

TB#13, GPB.216x

T. Ellis, L. Harley

Praises a prominent teacher of the Bahá’í Faith, declares that the complete victory of the Cause of God will be achieved through speech and utterance, and stipulates the prerequisites of effective speech: that it possess moderation and refinement, be delivered with tact and wisdom, and have penetrating influence, all of which require detachment and purity of heart on the part of the speaker.

@stories; anecdotes, @methods of teaching the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @the power of words; of speech, @praise and encouragement, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB4.236, LL#245

BH00140

Lawh-i-Maqsud

3650

mixed

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Lawh-i-Maqsud (Tablet of Maqsud)

حمد مقدس از ذکر و بیان حضرت معبود و مالک غیب و شهودی را لایق و سزاست که از

A praise which is exalted above every mention or description beseemeth the Adored One, the Possessor of all things… Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value… The Word is the master key for the whole world

BLIB_Or15696.091dx, , IOM.099, MKA.06 Mil Yz A 2791 p06,

GWBP#110 p.140x, GWBP#112 p.142x, GWBP#117 p.159x, GWBP#122 p.167x, ADM2#007 p.020x, AVK3.171.04x, AVK3.210.04x, AVK3.213.14x, AVK3.217.04x, AVK4.281.01x, AYI1.335x, DWNP_v5#01 p.002bx, UAB.010bx, UAB.011ax, UAB.013bx, UAB.024bx, UAB.026ax, UAB.028bx, UAB.030ax, UAB.033bx, UAB.037ax, UAB.039dx, UAB.040bx, UAB.041ax, UAB.045bx, UAB.050ax, UAB.050bx, UAB.051bx, UAB.052ax, UAB.053bx, DRD.011x, ASAT5.236x, ANDA#79 p.13x, TBP#11, MMUH#05x, OOL.B057

TB#11, GWB#110x, GWB#112x, GWB#117x, GWB#122x, ADJ.028ax, ADJ.088x, GPB.217x3x, GPB.218x5x, GPB.219x, PDC.186x, PDC.187x2x, PDC.190x, WOB.032x, WOB.041xx, WOB.198x, WOB.041x, WOB.162x, WOB.187x2x, WOB.198x2x, WOB.202-203x, DWN_v1#10-11 p.001-004, KSHK#20x

Morgane & Samy, E. Kelly, L. Harley

Relates various teachings as prerequisites to world peace: universal education; regarding one another as ‘the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch’; reward and punishment as pillars of world stability; rulers acting with justice and wisdom; the gathering of the nations to lay the foundations of the ‘Lesser Peace’; the adoption of a universal language and script; affirming that ‘the earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens’; not allowing religion to become the source of disunity; taking counsel together in all matters; promoting useful branches of knowledge; exercising moderation in all things; inculcating tolerance and righteousness; and having due regard for the power of human utterance, in particular the Word of God, which is the ‘master key for the whole world’.

@the power of words; of speech, @universal language, @education of children; moral education, @reward and punishment, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @unity; oneness of humanity, @consultation, @work as worship

ROB4.235 et al, MMAH.138, GSH.213, LL#162, LL#461

BH00505

Lawh-i-Aqdas (Tablet to the Christians)

1470

Arabic

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Lawh-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Tablet)

هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی مامنعته سبحات الاسماء عن الله فاطر الارض و السما

This is an Epistle from Our presence unto him whom the veils of names have failed to keep back from God

INBA34:100, BLIB_Or15735.163, , CMB_F32.085,

AQA1#006, SFI16.025, NSR_1993.024ax, ASAT1.168x, ASAT4.185x, HYK.163, TBP#02, OOL.B026

TB#02, COF.030ax, TDH#158.3x, GPB.210x8x, GPB.253x, GPB.396x, PDC.166x, PDC.166-167x, PDC.167-168x, PDC.168x, PDC.174x, WOB.078x, SW_v04#01 p.013, SW_v04#01 p.014-020, BSC.124 #049

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Announces to an unnamed Christian Bahá’u’lláh’s revelation as the fulfilment of Christian prophetic expectations, reproaches the Christians in general and the clergy in particular for failing to recognize it, asks them to consider how Christ was similarly rejected by the people of His day, and concludes with a series of beatitudes reminiscent of the Sermon on the Mount.

@monasticism; asceticism, @proclamation to Christians, @spiritual transformation, @knowledge; recognition of God, @Mosaic imagery, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @call to action, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB4.227 et al, BKOG.382, GPB.209, WOB.104, MMAH.165, GSH.164-168, LL#060

BH00111

Kalimat-i-Firdawsiyyih (Words of Paradise)

4020

mixed

Kalimát-i-Firdawsíyyih (Words of Paradise)

یا مشارق العدل و الانصاف و مطالع الصدق و الالطاف ان المظلوم یبکی و یقول ینوح

O ye the embodiments of justice and equity and the manifestations of uprightness and of heavenly bounties!

INBA33:044x, BLIB_Or07851.049b, , BLIB_Or15692.025, , BLIB_Or15716.042.14x, , KB_262:042-062, CMB_F32.048, , OSAI_TC 2v-8r, , MKI4523.112, , BN_suppl.1753.023-037

ADM2#008 p.022x, AVK1.212.13x, AVK2.075.04x, AVK3.003.16x, AVK3.164.02x, AVK3.225.12x, AVK3.326.11x, AVK4.282bx, ZYN.147, ISH.112, UAB.007x, UAB.032bx, UAB.036cx, UAB.039cx, UAB.042cx, UAB.043ax, UAB.046ax, UAB.046dx, UAB.050cx, UAB.053ax, UAB.054ax, ADH1.056x, TBP#06, TUM.109-115x, OOL.B012

TB#06, LOG#0479x, LOG#0785x, ADJ.027-028x, GPB.217x2x, GPB.218x, GPB.219x, PDC.136x, PDC.151x, WOB.023x, WOB.149x, WOB.153x, SW_v01#04 p.021x, SW_v03#01 p.005x, SW_v03#02 p.007x, SW_v09#07 p.081x, SW_v11#18 p.297x, DWN_v3#01 p.009-010x, DWN_v5#04 p.002-003x, DWN_v5#05 p.002-003x, BLO_PT#201, BSC.146 #100-124x, BSC#144-146x, BSC#151-154x

D. E. Walker, Chicago Baha'i Community, C. Oja

Proclaims eleven ‘leaves of paradise’: the fear of God, the importance of religion, the golden rule, that rulers should possess good character and act in justice (in contrast to Muḥammad Sháh, whose deeds in particular are denounced), reward and punishment as the basis of order in the world, justice, the unity of mankind, the education of children, moderation, renouncing asceticism and monasticism, and forbidding religious strife and dissension.

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @education of children; moral education, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @contention and conflict, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @unity; oneness of humanity, @monasticism; asceticism, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

ROB4.214 et al, BKOG.382, MMAH.161, GSH.161, LL#024

BH00354

Suriy-i-Vafa (=Lawh-i-Vafa)

1870

mixed

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Suriy-i-Vafa (Tablet to Vafa)

ان یا وفاء ان اشکر ربک بما ایدک علی امره و عرفک مظهر نفسه و اقامک علی ثناء ذکره

O Vafa! Render thanks unto thy Lord for having aided thee to embrace His Cause, enabled thee to recognize the Manifestation

INBA28:215, BLIB_Or15694.386, , Berlin1237#26, ALIB.folder18p103-109

GWBP#079 p.102x, AQA4#103 p.350, AQA4a.418, AVK1.119.07x, AVK1.276bx, AVK1.321.01x, LMA1.418 (253), MAS1.006x, MAS1.063x, ASAT5.300x, TBP#12, OOL.B140

TB#12, GWB#079x, WOB.138-139x, NYR#143

Exhorts the recipient to be the essence of faithfulness; asserts Bahá’u’lláh’s mystical identity with the Báb; answers questions about ‘the return’, the worlds of God, the ordinances of God, and paradise; and confirms that, as predicted during the time of His departure from ‘Iraq, the ‘birds of darkness’ have begun to stir.

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @heaven and paradise; heaven and hell, @return of the Manifestations of God, @meaning; importance of dreams and visions, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @chastisement and requital, @realms of being; three realms; five realms, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity

ROB4.205, GSH.190, LL#329

BH00472

Lawh-i-Ittihad

1530

mixed

Tablet of Unity; Tablet of Unity; Creative Word and the Meaning of Unity, The

Lawh-i-Ittihad (Tablet of Unity)

قد حضر لدی المظلوم کتاب احد من السادات الذین اقبلوا الی الله و سمعوا و اجابوا

The letter of one of the Sádát, they who have set themselves towards God and having heard the Call have answered their Lord, the All-Loving

BLIB_Or15738.055,

BRL_DA#707, AVK3.095.10x, AVK3.113.10x, AVK3.258.12x, AVK3.474.02x, AHM.388, UAB.048dx, KHSK.089-093, OOL.B048a

LOIR02.093, BLO_PT#027, BLO_PT#146, BLO_PT#147

Elucidates the subject of unity in different aspects: unity of religion, unity in speech, unity of deeds, unity in rank and station, unity of souls, and unity in material possessions.

@unity; oneness of humanity, @the power of words; of speech, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @wisdom [hikmat], @unity in diversity

ROB4.191, MMAH.090, LL#129

BH00308

Tarazat (Ornaments)

2100

mixed

Bahá'í Scriptures; Bahá'í Prayers; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Tarazat (Ornaments)

حمد و ثنا مالک اسما و فاطر سما را لایق و سزاست که امواج بحر ظهورش امام وجوه

Praise and glory beseem the Lord of Names and the Creator of the heavens, He, the waves of Whose ocean of Revelation surge… Glory be unto Thee, O Lord of the world

BLIB_Or07851.002a, , KB_262:063-074, CMB_F32.064, , PR05.020a-030b, OSAI_TC 20v-25r, MKA.06 Mil Yz A 2791 p01, , MKI4523.147, , BN_suppl.1753.046-054

ZYN.182, ISH.147, UAB.045cx, UAB.045dx, UAB.047ax, TBP#04, TUM.087-091x, OOL.B148

TB#04, BPRY.197x, ADJ.024x, GPB.218-219x, SW_v03#03 p.003x, SW_v08#02 p.027x, BLO_PT#201, BSC.137 #053-054x, BSC#092-099x, BNE.155x

J. Michel

Proclaims six ‘ornaments’: knowledge of self and acquiring a useful profession, fellowship with all religions, possessing a good character, truthfulness and trustworthiness, preserving the station of craftsmanship, and the importance of acquiring knowledge and of fairness in newspaper reporting.

@limits of the intellect, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @praise and encouragement, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ROB4.168 et al, BKOG.382, EBTB.062, GSH.158, LL#340

BH00033

7090

mixed

Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

الحمد لله الذی توحه بالکلام و تفرد بالبیان الذی خضعت بحور المعانی عندما

Praise be unto Him Who hath adorned Himself with utterance and Who alone possesseth expression, He before Whom the oceans of inner meanings have bowed down whensoever [3.5s]... ...He it is Who in the Old Testament hath been named Jehovah, Who in the Gospel hath been designated as the Spirit of Truth… the task of executing the laws, the ordinances and statutes that have been sent down in the Book hath been delegated unto the men of the divine Houses of Justice [rijal-i-buyut-i-'adliyyih-yi-ilahiyyih]... It is beloved of God that all should speak in Arabic, which is the richest and vastest of all languages

INBA31:022

BRL_DA#225, AQA7#393 p.114, AVK3.219.08x, AVK3.228.05x, AVK4.272x.01, AVK4.278x.07, DWNP_v1#05 p.001-003x, UAB.041bx, UAB.054bx, NFQ.005-008x, MAS4.175ax, GSH.210-213x, ASAT5.108x, AKHA_106BE #09 p.002x, AKHA_111BE #10-12 p.002x, AKHA_135BE #07 p.141x, NJB_v14#07 p.224x, YMM.305x, OOL.B177x, LFLN.012x

BRL_ATBH#37x, LTDT.052-053x, WOB.104x, SW_v14#07 p.224x, HURQ.BH70x, STYLE.032-033x, ADMS#331ax

@universal language, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @Word of God and human limitations, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @the Bayan, its laws and their abrogation

ROB4.159, LL#273, LL#418

BH03771

250

mixed

یا ورقتی یا امتی علیک بهائی لله الحمد موید شدی بر اقبال و اقرار و اعتراف

O My Leaf, O My handmaid! Upon thee be My glory. Praise be unto God, thou hast been aided to attain acceptance, recognition and acknowledgment [3.5s]

AQA5#097 p.112b

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

ROB4.157

BH00053

Ishraqat (Splendours)

5740

mixed

Bahá'í Scriptures; Bahá'í Prayers; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Lawh-i-Ishraqat (Tablet of Splendors)

الحمد لله الذی تفرد بالعظمه و القدره و الجمال و توحد بالعزه و القوه و الجلال و

Praise be unto God, incomparable in majesty, power and beauty, peerless in glory, might and grandeur… I magnify Thy Name, O my God, and offer thanksgiving

BLIB_Or07851.016b, , KB_262:002-032, CMB_F32.002, , PR05.030b-037a, OSAI_TC 8r-20v, MKI4523.050, , BN_suppl.1753.001-023

AVK2.273.14x, AVK3.157.10x, AVK3.203.11x, ZYN.092, ISH.050, GHA.202x, UAB.024ax, UAB.025x, UAB.037bx, UAB.042bx, UAB.043bx, UAB.057dx, ASAT4.057x, ASAT4.250x, TBP#08, TUM.076-080x, OOL.B011

TB#08, BPRY.183x, LOG#0578x, ADJ.028ax, COF.095ax, GPB.057x, GPB.208x, GPB.217x, GPB.218x3x, GPB.219x, PDC.185x, WOB.041x, WOB.186-187x, SW_v08#10 p.123x, SW_v09#07 p.081x, SW_v11#17 p.286x, DWN_v2#07 p.051-054x, DWN_v5#01 p.005x, DWN_v6#10 p.001ax, BSC.236 #497-523

almunajat.com [item 36]

Explains the meaning of the ‘most great infallibility’ and the nature of the authority of the Manifestations of God, proclaims the fulfilment of prophetic expectations derived from various passages in the Qur’an, recalls a vision of the personified virtue of trustworthiness, and proclaims nine ‘splendours’: religion as source of order in the world; the promotion of the ‘Lesser Peace’ by the rulers of the world; the commandments of God as source of life to the world; the importance of praiseworthy deeds and upright character; the conferral of government positions based on merit; union and concord among all people, which can be achieved by establishing a universal language; the importance of parenthood and the education of children; entrusting administrative affairs to the trustees of the House of Justice; and religion as the most potent instrument for establishing unity in the world.

@honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @business; financial; property matters, @infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat], @justice and mercy, @education of children; moral education, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @oneness; unity of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @House of Justice

ROB4.146 et al, BKOG.382, EBTB.062, MMAH.215, GSH.154, LL#022, LL#334, LL#397

BH00668

Tajalliyat (Effulgences)

1140

mixed

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Tajalliyat (Effulgences)

شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و الذی اتی انه هو السر المکنون و الرمز المخزون و

God testifieth that there is none other God but Him and that He Who hath appeared is the Hidden Mystery

BLIB_Or07851.011b, , CMB_F32.077, , PR05.038b-042a, OSAI_TC 29v-32r, MKI4523.198, , BN_suppl.1753.054-059

ZYN.201, ISH.198, UAB.040ax, TBP#05, TUM.098-102x, OOL.B147

TB#05, LOG#1881x, GPB.215x3x, GPB.218x3x, BLO_PT#201, BSC.153 #125-137x

Emphasizes the importance of belief in the Divine Manifestation and proclaims four ‘effulgences’: the knowledge of God and recognition of His Prophet, steadfastness in the Cause of God, acquiring useful knowledge, and refuting accusations that Bahá’u’lláh had claimed the station of the Godhead.

@high station of learning, @laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, @suffering and imprisonment, @station of the Manifestation of God, @free will and predestination; fate, @knowledge; recognition of God, @Manifestation of God as mediator, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB4.118, EBTB.062, MMAH.101, GSH.159, LL#339

ROB4.124 mentions revelation writing having been sent to recipient.

BH03890

240

mixed

ک ر ان استمع الندآء مره اخری من البقعه النورآء المقام الذی فیه ینطق مالک

O peoples of the world! Hearken once again unto the Call from the luminous Spot, the sacred Precinct wherein speaketh the Lord [3.5s]

INBA18:324b

ASAT4.052x

@suffering and imprisonment, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ROB4.105?

BH00336

Lawh-i-Burhan (= Lawh-i-Raqsha?)

1960

Arabic

Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Lawh-i-Burhan (Tablet of the Proof)

قد احاطت اریاح البغضا سفینه البطحا بما اکتسبت ایدی الظالمین یا باقر قد افتیت

The winds of hatred have encompassed the Ark of Baṭḥá, by reason of that which the hands of the oppressors have wrought

INBA47:126, INBA35:119x, INBA90:026, INBA97:072, BLIB_Or15729.119, , NLAI_22848:289, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p150r, , UMich962.105-113, MKI4522.289,

AQA2#008 p.152, AVK3.110.07x, AVK4.284ax, AVK4.454bx, MJMM.053, NNY.245, RHQM2.0965-973 (399) (247-252), ASAT2.073x, ASAT3.250x, ASAT4.034x, ASAT4.052x, ASAT4.376x, LDR.217x, TBP#14, OOL.B035, OOL.B110

TB#14, BADM.173-174x, GPB.211x, GPB.218x, GPB.231x, GPB.232x3x, PDC.159x, WOB.179x

Condemns in fiery language two members of the Shiite clergy for their roles in the martyrdom of two prominent Bahá’ís, sets forth the spiritual prerequisites of the truly learned, and summons them to investigate the truth of Bahá’u’lláh’s cause by perusing His writings.

@suffering and imprisonment, @empty learning; false spirituality, @proclamation to divines; to religious leaders, @chastisement and requital, @rejection, opposition and persecution

ROB4.091 et al, GPB.219, MMAH.219, GSH.145, LL#081

BH00508

1460

mixed

Huqúqu'lláh

این ایامیست که قلم و لسان جز بذکر شهدا ساکن نه و دوست نداشته و ندارد بذکری

These are the days wherein neither pen nor tongue findeth rest or desireth aught save the remembrance of the martyrs [3.5s]... ...Payments for the Huququ'llah cannot be handed over to every person. These words have been uttered by Him Who is the sovereign Truth

INBA28:516

BRL_DA#398, BRL_HUQUQP#087x

BRL_HUQUQ#087x, COC#1156x, LOG#1040x

@honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @martyrs and martyrdom, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @law of Huququ'llah, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice

ROB4.089c, LL#006

BH00534

1400

mixed

الحمد لله الذی تفرد بالامر و توحد بالحکم و انزل من سماء الاحدیه حکم الحکمه و

All praise be unto God Who is single in His command and unique in His decree, and Who hath sent down from the heaven of oneness the precepts of wisdom [3.5s]... ...I beseech Thee, Who art the Lord of the entire creation and the Edifier of all that is come into being, by Him Who is the Revelator of the divine verses

BLIB_Or15727b.108,

ADM3#093 p.106x, AVK3.020.09x, AVK3.116.03x, NNY.150-152x, MAS8.106ax, AYI2.305x, RHQM1.430-430 (521x) (320x), ASAT3.210x, ASAT5.250x, YMM.425x

JHT_S#167x

@martyrs and martyrdom, @knowledge; recognition of God, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @wisdom [hikmat], @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice

ROB4.089b, LL#006

BH06685

150

Arabic

قل سبحانک اللهم یا اله الاشیاء و خالق الاسماء اسئلک بالاسم الذی به کسرت

Say: Glorified art Thou, O my God, O Lord of all things and Creator of all names! I beseech Thee by the Name through which Thou didst shatter [3.5s]

INBA57:095a, BLIB_Or15730.072a,

NFR.178, NNY.184

@divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @prayers (general or uncategorized), @prayer for steadfastness; obedience

ROB4.089a, LL#006

BH00829

990

mixed

Tablet to Varqá Regarding the Prince and King of Martyrs (Lawh-i-Varqá dar barih-yi-Mahbubu wa Sultánu'sh-Shuhada)

Lawh-i-Varqa dar barih-yi-Mahbubu wa Sultanush-Shuhada (Tablet to Varqa regarding the King of Martyrs and Beloved of Martyrs)

یا ورقاء قد حضر العبد الحاضر و عرض ما فی کتابک انا وجدناه مراتا حاکیه عن

O Varqá! The Servant in Attendance attained My presence and mentioned what thou hadst written and We found thy letter a mirror reflecting thy love for the Beloved of the world

INBA97:052

NNY.184-188

EBTB.049-051, BLO_PT#197

@martyrs and martyrdom, @suffering and imprisonment, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @power of prayer, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ROB4.089, LL#264

BH02301

390

mixed

یا سمندر لعمرک قد تجددت مصیبه محمد رسول الله فی الجنه العلیا و رزیه البتول

O Samandar! By thy life! The calamity of Muhammad, the Apostle of God, hath been renewed in the Most Exalted Paradise, and likewise the tribulation of the Pure One [3.5s]

INBA97:039, BLIB_Or15697.191,

AYBY.044b, NNY.169-171, SAM.180, TRZ1.074a, LDR.152x

@Imam Husayn, @martyrs and martyrdom, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @imagery in the Qur'an, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB4.088b, LL#006, LL#241

BH02595

340

mixed

بحر معانی از مطلع فم مشیت رحمانی بصورت این کلمات تجلی فرموده و غیوم اوهام

The ocean of meanings hath shone forth from the Dawning-Place of the Mouth of the All-Merciful Will in the form of these words, and the clouds of vain imaginings [3.5s]

INBA35:152, INBA57:075, BLIB_Or15719.058b,

NNY.138-140, RHQM1.503-504 (617) (378x), PYB#024 p.01

@martyrs and martyrdom, @knowledge; recognition of God, @spiritual transformation, @wisdom [hikmat], @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @rejection, opposition and persecution

ROB4.087, LL#006

BH11582

Lawh-i-Abdu'l-Majid

unknown

ROB4.084, LL#033

BH00082

Lawh-i-'Andalib

4810

mixed

Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

الحمد لله الذی سخر شمس البیان بقدرته و قمر البرهان بسلطانه الذی بامره طوی ما

Praise be to God Who, through His might, hath caused the Sun of Utterance to shine forth and, through His sovereignty, hath made manifest the Moon of Proof, He Who by His command hath rolled up that which [3.5s]

INBA39:001, BLIB_Or15698.002, , BLIB_Or15720.001, , BLIB_Or15740.001, , Majlis934.153-198

BRL_DA#078, AVK3.070.06x, AVK4.139.10x, AVK4.248.09x, IQT.002, GHA.191x, GHA.270x, ASAT1.073x, ASAT1.128x, ASAT4.288x, ASAT4.340x, NSS.204-205x

BRL_ATBH#22x

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @praise and encouragement, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @justice and wrath of God, @call to action

ROB4.083, LL#050

BH03510

260

mixed

طبیبی در این ایام که هواهای نفسانیه بعضی را از عدل و انصاف و ما نزل فی

O Physician! In these days when carnal desires have caused some to stray from justice and equity and from that which hath been revealed [3.5s]

INBA35:154, BLIB_Or15710.207, , BLIB_Or15719.158b, , BLIB_Or15722.150,

NNY.136-137

@obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God, @exhortations and counsels, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @contention and conflict, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

ROB4.082b, LL#006

BH02781

320

Arabic

فسبحانک اللهم یا الهی ان هذا عبدک الذی اخذه حرارت حبک و جذبات عشقک و هبت علیه

Glorified art Thou, O my God! This is Thy servant whom the heat of Thy love hath seized and the raptures of Thy divine passion have overtaken [3.5s]

NNY.135-136

@spiritual transformation, @love of God, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God

ROB4.082a, LL#006

BH01637

530

Arabic

ان یا اسم الله اسمع نغمات الروح و لاتلتفت الی الذینهم کفروا بالله و آیاته و

O Name of God! Hearken unto the melodies of the Spirit and turn not unto them that have denied God and His signs [3.5s]

BLIB_Or03114.077, , BLIB_Or15725.110, , BLIB_Or15737.201,

LHKM1.026, NNY.131-132

@progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih

ROB4.080, LL#006

BH00391

1740

mixed

ساذج ذکر و ثنا سلطان قدم و دارای عالم را سزاست که بیک تجلی از تجلیات انوار

The pure essence of praise and glorification befitteth the Sovereign of eternity and the Lord of all worlds, Who through but a single effulgence from among the effulgences of His light [3.5s]

INBA07:197, INBA19:124x, INBA32:114x, INBA57:079x, BLIB_Or11097#059, , BLIB_Or15710.282, , NLAI_BH4.202-209

NNY.005x, NNY.087-088x, NNY.144-150, MAS8.176x

@martyrs and martyrdom, @prophecy and fulfillment, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ROB4.073, ROB4.088a, LL#006, LL#263

BH04022

230

Arabic

ذکر من لدنا لمن آمن بالله فی یوم فیه ظهر الفزع الاکبر و اتی مالک القدر

A Remembrance from Our presence unto him who hath believed in God on the Day whereon the supreme Terror was made manifest and the Lord of Destiny appeared [3.5s]

INBA19:127b, INBA32:118a, BLIB_Or15696.011c, , BLIB_Or15734.2.058,

@detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @suffering and imprisonment, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @martyrs and martyrdom, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

ROB4.053, LL#004

BH07046

140

mixed

در جمیع الواح عباد الله را باخلاق مرضیه و اعمال پسندیده وصیت نمودیم و قلم

In all the Tablets have We counselled the servants of God concerning virtuous character and praiseworthy deeds, and the Pen [3.5s]

INBA19:127a, INBA32:117, BLIB_Or15697.117, , BLIB_Or15710.292b,

HDQI.156, ANDA#46 p.03

@exhortations and counsels, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @unity; oneness of humanity, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world

ROB4.053, LL#004

BH11598

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Haji Mulla Mihdiy-i-'Atri

unknown

ROB4.051, LL#346

BH00433

Lawh-i-Abdu'l-Vahhab

1630

mixed

Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Abdu'l-Vahhab

حمد مقدس از ادراک و عقول بساط قدس حضرت قیومی را لایق و سزاست که بنفس خود من

Sanctified praise, transcending minds and understanding, befitteth the holy court of that Self-Subsisting Lord Who, through His own Self [3.5s]... ...O ‘Abdu’l Vaḥḥáb! May the glory of God, the Almighty, the Bountiful, rest upon thee. Incline thine ear

UMich962.156x, MKI4523.212, , BN_suppl.1753.059-063

BRL_DA#702, GWBP#081 p.105x, AVK1.120.02x, AVK3.303.13x, AVk3.463.01x, AVK4.284.11x, ISH.212, MJMM.160, RRT.143x, ASAT2.027x, ADH1.009x, OOL.B020

GWB#081x, LOG#0686x, SW_v06#19 p.165x, SW_v09#06 p.080x, SW_v14#02 p.038-039x, BSC.226 #446-452x, HURQ.BH71

Addresses a question on the soul and its continuance after death, alludes to the state of the souls in the next world while declaring that it cannot be adequately described, and declares that the whole truth of the matter has remained concealed for the sake of the protection of the human race.

@proofs for the existence; immortality of the soul, @soul; spirit after death, @power of the Manifestation of God, @heaven and paradise; heaven and hell, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @suffering and imprisonment, @transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB4.041, MMAH.145, GSH.176, LL#034

Shares with BH00070 a passage on the soul after death, beginning: "Know thou of a truth that the soul, after its separation from the body, will continue to progress until it attaineth the presence of God"

BH00223

Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom)

2680

Arabic

Bahá'í Scriptures; Bahá'í Prayers; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom)

کتاب انزله الرحمن من ملکوت البیان و انه لروح الحیوان لاهل الامکان تعالی الله

This is an Epistle which the All-Merciful hath sent down from the Kingdom of Utterance. It is truly a breath of life… Say: Magnified be Thy Name, O Lord my God!

INBA47:098, INBA90:001, INBA30:052, INBA81:024, BLIB_Or15729.106, , NLAI_22848:255, NLAI_BH3.142, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p133v, , Ghazi3072.045-093, UMich962.095-105, MKI4522.255, MKI4524.290, BN_suppl.1753.089-100

AQA2#006 p.130, ADM2#011 p.026x, AVK4.437bx, MJMM.037, RSBB.092, NSR_1993.047x, ASAT1.042-043x, ASAT1.190x, ASAT1.156x, ASAT5.213x, ASAT5.372x, ADH1.103x, TBP#09, OOL.B043

TB#09, BPRY.199x, PN_1900_heh p013, ADJ.025x, GPB.197x, PDC.186-187x, SW_v14#09 p.257x, BSC.189 #277-338

Arrayanes, Rafael, Efe, Sabria & Maarten, L. Dely & M. Congo [track 8], P. Held & C. Bahia [track 9], almunajat.com [item 23]

Calls on the people to observe a number of spiritual maxims; answers a question regarding the origin of creation; describes the Word of God as ‘the Cause which hath preceded the contingent world’; identifies nature with the operation of the Divine Will; mentions in positive terms some ancient philosophers, including Empedocles, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Balinus, and Hermes; states that the essence and fundamentals of philosophy have emanated from the Prophets; and asserts that a true philosopher would never deny God and His evidences.

@Greek philosophers; Greek civilization, @Word of God sanctified from time and place, @special knowledge of the Manifestation of God, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @heat and motion, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @purpose; goal of creation, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB4.033 et al, BKOG.382, GPB.219, EBTB.115, MMAH.085, GSH.139, LL#116

BH00010

13180

mixed

الحمد للّه الذی تفرد بالمحبة و توحد بالوداد انه لمولی العباد و مالک الایجاد

Praise be unto Him Who is unique in His love and singular in His affection; verily, He is the Lord of all beings and the Sovereign of creation [3.5s]... ...The companions of God are, in this day, the lump that must leaven the peoples of the world. They must show forth such trustworthiness, such truthfulness and perseverance, such deeds and character that all mankind may profit by their example

INBA28:049, INBA22:307, INBA45:049, BLIB_Or15713.144x, , Majlis210461.120x

BRL_DA#084, AVK3.148.06x, ASAT5.263x, AKHA_129BE #18 p.ax

COC#0768x, COC#2040x, ADJ.023x, ADJ.079x2x

@praise and encouragement, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @goodly deeds; actions, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB4.023?, LL#112

BH01484

580

mixed

جوهر الحمد علی هیئه من العباد ینادی فی بریه الاشتیاق یا اله الغیب و الشهود و

The essence of praise appeareth in the form of servants who cry out in the wilderness of longing: "O Thou God of the unseen and the seen!" [3.5s]... ...In these days the stay in the True House of Haram-i-Athar (the Purest Wife), upon her be all glory and loftiness

INBA31:014, BLIB_Or11097#046,

MAS4.354cx

LTDT.048-049x

@wisdom [hikmat], @business; financial; property matters, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @consolation and comfort

ROB4.007, LL#055

BH00048

12400

mixed

Tabernacle of Unity, The; Tablet to Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Concerning the Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria

Lawh-i-Manikchi Sahib (Tablets to Manikchi Sahib); - Tabernacle of Unity (book)

الحمد لله الذی اظهر من الالف الاستقامه الکبری و بالباء شان الامتیاز بین الاشیاء... استدعای دیگر آنکه خدمت جناب صاحب یگانه سلام برسانید انشآءالله در این دار فانی بامری فائز شوند

Praise be to God Who hath manifested through the Alif the Most Great Steadfastness, and through the Bá the station of distinction between all things [3.5s]... ...In regard to what thou hast written concerning his honour the learned Sahib, upon him be the grace of God... And that which you have mentioned about Shalmaghani and what Shalmaghani has uttered in relation to this Supreme Manifestation of God

BRL_TBUP#2x, AVK2.067.06x, LHKM1.156x, AYI1.333x, YARP1.023x, UAB.022cx, MAS7.148x, AYI2.396x, SAAF.085x, SAAF.091x, SAAF.365x, ASAT1.277x, ASAT4.179x, ASAT5.251x, NSS.129-130x, DVB5.007-033

TBU#2x, BLO_PT#184x, KFPT#03.2x

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @proclamation to the people of the world, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @existence and nonexistence; preexistence, @station of the Manifestation of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @unity; oneness of humanity, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @power of the Manifestation of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ROB3.433, LL#161, LL#174, LL#175

BH11589

Lawh-i-Haji Akhund (II)

unknown

ROB3.427, LL#100

BH11588

Lawh-i-Haji Akhund (I) wa Jamal-i-Burujirdi

unknown

ROB3.425, LL#099

BH00245

Commentary on a verse from Sa'di

2530

mixed

Commentary on a Verse of Sa'di (Tafsir-i Bayti az Sa'di); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Unrestrained as the Wind; Tafsir-i Bayti az Sadi (Commentary on a Verse of Sadi)

آنچه از معنی بیت در آیات الهی نازل و از افق سماء حقیقت مشرق همان تمام است و

The intent of the poet in these verses, "The Friend is closer to me that I am to myself

BLIB_Or11096#006, , BLIB_Or15722.022, , NLAI_BH3.097, BN_suppl.1754.042-047

BRL_DA#034, GWBP#093 p.122bx, GWBP#161 p.218x, AVK3.105.13x, AVK3.465.02x, KHSH01.054, MAS1.057x, ASAT1.035x, ASAT2.085x, ASAT2.114x, ASAT3.091x, ASAT5.094x, ASAT5.235x, UVM.101.07x

GWB#093x, GWB#161x, ADJ.050-051x, ADJ.060x, ADJ.077x2x, ADJ.060x5x, COF.120x, GPB.389x, WOB.103x, WOB.167x, WIND#133

B. Grover, MANA

@interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @nearness and remoteness, @Word of God and human limitations, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ROB3.404, LL#335, LL#448, LL#457

BH02524

350

mixed

Bahá'í Prayers; Tablet to the Physician, or Tablet of Medicine (Lawh-i-Tibb); Tablet to a Physician (Lawh-i-Tibb); Prayers and Meditations; Tablet of Medicine (Lawh-i-Tibb)

ح س علیک بهاء الله رب العالمین لازال نامه های آنجناب که بعبد حاضر ارسال نمودند... سبحانک یا الهی لو لا البلایا فی سبیلک

Upon thee be the Glory of God, the Lord of all worlds! The letters which thou didst dispatch to this servant have never ceased to arrive [3.5s]... ...Glory to Thee, O my God! But for the tribulations which are sustained in Thy path, how could Thy true lovers be recognized

BLIB_Or15716.062.03,

BRL_DA#693, PMP#092x, ADH1.007x

PM#092x, BPRY.220-222x

Niaz & Adrian

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @call to action, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @acquiescence and resignation; contentment, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice

ROB3.390, LL#181

BH01313

Lawh-i-Tibb (Tablet of Medicine)

650

mixed

Healing prayer, Short; Lawh-i-Tibb (Tablet to a Physician)

لسان القدم تنطق بما یکون غنیه الالبا عند غیبه الاطبا قل یا قوم لاتاکلوا... جمیع احبا را من قبل الله تکبیر

The Ancient Tongue speaks what which will satisfy the wise in the absence of doctors. O People, do not eat except when you are hungry… Thy name is my healing, O my God, and remembrance of Thee is my remedy

INBA35:004c, BLIB_Or07852.105, , BLIB_Or11096#233, , NLAI_BH1.138x, NLAI_BH2.365

BRL_DA#718, PMP#170x, AVK3.112.02x, AVK3.114.07x, MJMM.222, AQMJ1.006ax, MMJA.013x, OOL.B082

PM#170x, BPRY.096x, COC#1019x, COC#1020x, LOG#1003x, SW_v13#09 p.252, BLO_PT#114, BLO_PT#168, BP1929.031-032x, HURQ.BH64

S. Toloui-Wallace, A. Wensbo, E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown, A. Youssefi, The Badasht Project, L. Slott, A. Bryan, P. Escobar, D. Gundry, Nabilinho, A. McDonald, M. Sparrow, Baha'i Youth of Japan, Ann-Sofie & Rasmus, O. Gollmer, K. Bartlett, C. Bolton, M. Matouf, Yoshie & Aleksandar, M. Hadji & D. Czimek, J. Heath, M.C. Santillana, Honiara Baha'i Youth, N. Ma'ani, N Chiang, W. Heath, Soulrise Melodies, N. Hamilton, C. Signori, L. Robinson, G.H. Miller, Rowshan, K. Porray, Arrayanes, J. Heath [track 3], A. & M. Zemke [track 3], M. Levine [track 3], T. Ellis, Zannetta [track 5], Ladjamaya [track 12], almunajat.com [item 5], Ellie, Rose & Steve

Relates various items of medical and dietary advice—paraphrasing in part a chapter from Náṣíf al-Yázijí’s Majma‘u’l-Baḥrayn, a popular literary work of the time—and concludes with a prayer for healing.

@health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @wisdom [hikmat], @service to others; to the Cause of God, @prayer for healing

ROB3.358, MMAH.174, GSH.177, LL#252, LL#476

Advice follows closely (in different order) the content and wording of Nasif al-Yajizi, "Majma'ul-Bahrayn", ch. 30, p. 182, from line 10: Yaziji, Shaykh Nasif al - Majma' al-Bahrayn (also at archive.org).

BH00537

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Siyyidu'sh-Shuhada

1380

Arabic

Tablet of Visitation for Imám Husayn (Lawh-i-Zíyárat-Namih-i-Imám Husayn); Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Ziyarat-Namih-i-Imam Husayn (Tablet of Visitation for Imam Husayn)

شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و الذی اتی انه هو الموعود فی الکتب و الصحف و

God testifieth that there is no God but Him! And He that hath appeared is the One promised in all the Books and sacred Scrolls…. Glory be unto Thee O my God, O Thou the Lord of Manifestation, Whose shed the glory of His effulgence upon the branch of Sinai!

INBA65:001, BLIB_Or15696.175bx, , BLIB_Or15714.112,

BRL_DA#158, ADM2#010 p.024x, MJMM.202, AYT.235, ASAT3.100x, DLH3.422x, OOL.B154

BRL_ATBH#59x, BLO_PT#149, ADMS#003x, JHT_S#173x

@martyrs and martyrdom, @prayer for martyrs, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @Imam Husayn, @visitation Tablets

ROB3.303, MMAH.226, GSH.144, LL#347, LL#350

Tablet of Visitation for Imam Husayn.

BH00423

Lawh-i-Haqqu'n-Nas

1650

Arabic

Bahá'u'lláh's Lawh-i Haqqu'n-Nas; Tablet on the Right of the People (Lawh-i haqq al-nas)

Lawh-i Haqqun-Nas (Tablet of the Right of the People)

الحمد لله الذی وفی بما اوحی علی کافة انبیائه و رسله و بشر الکل بایامه و منها یوم

Praise be to God Who fulfilled what He revealed to all His Prophets and Messengers and gave to all the tidings of His days

MAS7.119, VUJUD.102x

BLO_PT#016, BLO_PT#162, VUJUDE.189x

Answers a question about the execution of justice in the next world as a result of actions in this world, explaining that everything in this physical world has a metaphorical counterpart in each of the divine worlds, which guarantees the settling of accounts, and giving three illustrative examples.

@two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @goodly deeds; actions, @soul; spirit after death, @Islamic laws and jurisprudence, @meaning; importance of dreams and visions, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture

ROB3.286, ROB3.296-297, LL#356

BH01615

540

mixed

قد ارسل الی حضرتک عریضه من قبل و تلک مره اخری لان کلما یتوجه الیک احد یشتعل

Verily I have sent unto thy presence a petition aforetime, and this is yet another, for whenever anyone turneth unto thee, they are set aflame [3.5s]... ...Blessed the palate that savoreth its sweetness, and the perceiving eye that recognizeth that which is treasured therein

INBA28:046

BRL_DA#113, AVK1.010bx, AVK1.010.10x

GPB.216x

@praise and encouragement, @review of publications, @laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, @unity; oneness of humanity, @service to others; to the Cause of God

ROB3.279, LL#098

BH00466

1540

mixed

رشحات وحی از اوراق سدره منتهی باعانت نسیم اراده مالک اسماء بهیئت این کلمات

The dewdrops of revelation, aided by the breezes of the Will of the Lord of Names, have descended from the leaves of the Divine Lote-Tree in the form of these words [3.5s]... ...Indeed the laws of God are like unto the ocean and the children of men as fish

INBA35:140x, BLIB_Or15719.031, , Majlis934.092-108

AVK2.057.13x, AVK3.119.11x, AVK3.298.16x, UAB.031dx, MAS4.170x, KSHG.064-070, MSBH2.482-489

@infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat], @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight, @growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @wisdom [hikmat], @music and singing, @methods of teaching the Cause, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @suffering and imprisonment

ROB3.279, LL#131

BH00069

Su'al va Javab (Questions and Answers)

5150

Persian

Consultation; Kitáb-i-Aqdas

Su'al va Javab (Questions and Answers, Kitáb-i-Aqdas)

سوال از عید اعظم جواب اول عید عصر ۱۳ ماه دوم از اشهر بیان است یوم اول و تاسع

Question: Concerning the Most Great Festival. Answer: Most Great Festival commenceth late in the afternoon of the thirteenth day

INBA63:001, INBA66:213

BRL_Su'al, AVK3.056.16x, AVK4.091x, AVK4.152.13x, AVK4.478ax, OOL.B178

BRL_CONSULT#07x, COC#0029x, COC#0172x, COC#0527x, COC#0821x, COC#1109-1115x, COC#1119x, LOG#0505x, LOG#0516x, LOG#0637x, LOG#0762x, LOG#0764x, LOG#1260x, LOG#1499x, NYR#137x

Compilation of answers and clarifications by Bahá’u’lláh to over one hundred questions regarding the laws of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas.

@grammar and orthography, @law of inheritance, @law of divorce, @law of fasting, @parents and children; youth; families, @laws of marriage and dowry, @business; financial; property matters, @law of obligatory prayer

ROB3.278, GPB.219, GSH.145, LL#279

BH00827

Lawh-i-Haft Pursish (Tablet of the Seven Questions)

990

mixed

Tabernacle of Unity, The

Lawh-i-Haft Pursish (Tablet of Seven Questions); - Tabernacle of Unity (book)

ستایش پاک یزدانرا سزاوار که از روشنی آفتاب بخشش جهانرا روشن نمود از با بحر

All praise be to the sanctified Lord Who hath illumined the world through the splendours of the Daystar of His grace.

BLIB_Or15712.229, , IOL, , MKI4523.231, , BN_suppl.1753.063-068

BRL_TBUP#3, AVK1.300x, AVK2.229.03x, ZYN.246, ISH.231, MJMM.240, YARP1.008, DWNP_v6#03 p.003x, UAB.034cx, DRD.065, TSBT.234bx, AQMJ1.110ax, ASAT1.039x, PYB#166 p.03x, ABMK.063, OOL.B040

TBU#3, GPB.211x, GPB.230x, PDC.126x, PDC.126-127x, BLO_PT#119

almunajat.com [item 29]

Briefly addresses a follower of Zoroastrian background, answering seven questions regarding the problem of conflicting religious claims, declaring that His religion is ‘the religion of forbearance’ and that it ‘embraceth all faiths and all religions’, and affirming ‘the reality of Paradise and Hell, for reward and punishment require their existence’.

@day of Resurrection; Judgement, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @heaven and paradise; heaven and hell, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @the human soul

ROB3.272, BKOG.009, MMAH.221, GSH.172, LL#096, LL#257

BH00698

Lawh-i-Manikchi Sahib

1110

Persian

Bahá'í Scriptures; Baha'u'llah's Tablet to Mánikchí Sáhib; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tabernacle of Unity, The

Lawh-i-Manikchi Sahib (Tablets to Manikchi Sahib); - Tabernacle of Unity (book)

ستایش بیننده پاینده را سزا است که بشبنمی از دریای بخشش خود آسمان هستی را بلند

Praise be to the all-perceiving, the ever-abiding Lord Who, from a dewdrop out of the ocean of His grace, hath reared the firmament of existence

INBA35:116, BLIB_Or15715.120b, , BLIB_Or15722.092, , BN_suppl.1753.118-123

BRL_TBUP#1, GWBP#106 p.138x, AVK3.095.19x, AVK3.104.08x, AVK3.169.06x, AVK3.205.03x, ZYN.236, MJMM.259, RSBB.175, YARP1.019, DWNP_v5#02-3 p.001-002x, UAB.021ax, UAB.027ax, UAB.032ax, UAB.035ax, UAB.046cx, DRD.002, DLS.301x, NVJ.030, ASAT1.009x, ASAT4.014x, ASAT4.131x, ASAT5.041x, PYB#066 p.03x, ADH1.009x, AKHA_109BE #01 p.002x, AKHA_119BE #08 p.ax, PYM.111ax, ANDA#79 p.12x, ANDA#79 p.16x, OOL.B056

TBU#1, GWB#106x, SW_v01#01 p.005, SW_v03#02 p.003, SW_v07#18 p.186, BLO_PT#019, BSC.130 #050

Parrish & Toppano, S. Toloui-Wallace, M. Sparrow, The Joburg Baha'i Choir, Sahar & Hoda

Addresses a number of theological questions by implying that the answers lie in the realm of action, in the process elucidating several central Bahá’í teachings: that the Manifestations should be regarded as ‘divine physicians’ prescribing the remedy from age to age in accordance with the disease, that the unity of mankind is the remedy for the ills of today, that one should be ‘anxiously concerned with the needs of the age’ in which one lives and centre one’s deliberations ‘on its exigencies and requirements’, and that words should be matched with deeds and that both should be motivated by purity of intention.

@detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @procession; appearance of the Word from God, @words vs deeds, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual transformation

ROB3.270, GSH.174, LL#160, LL#176

BH04644

200

Arabic

ان یا حکیم کن محکما فی امر ربک بحیث لایحرکک عواصف التی تمر عن شطر الظالمین

O Hakim! Be thou steadfast in the Cause of thy Lord, such that the tempests that blow from the direction of the oppressors move thee not [3.5s]

INBA73:357b, NLAI_BH1.505, NLAI_BH2.245

AQA7#404 p.188, PYK.397, ANDA#33 p.43

@suffering and imprisonment, @chastisement and requital, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @consolation and comfort

ROB3.267-268, LL#001

BH00130

Lawh-i-Ahbab

3770

Arabic

Lawh-i-Ahbab (Tablet of the Friends)

هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی اذا سمع الندا من شطر ربه الابهی قال بلی یا اله من

This is a Book from Our presence unto him who, when he heard the Call from the direction of his Most Glorious Lord, responded "Yea, verily, O my God!" [3.5s]... ...O Pen of Revelation! Call thou to mind the Baptizer. Say: The Day of baptism hath come. Blessed is the one who hath baptized himself with the baptism of God

INBA34:069, BLIB_Or11095#001,

AQA1#002, AVK4.476ax, MAS4.159x, ASAT3.071x, BCH.032x, PYK.031x, OOL.B022

ADMS#244, BTO#02x

Addresses various followers with words of advice and encouragement, calling them to be united, to be detached from the things of the world, and to promote the cause of God, and lamenting the Bábís and others who have rejected His message.

@proclamation to people of the Bayan, @call to action, @station of the Manifestation of God, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

ROB3.258, GSH.187, LL#038

BH02194

400

mixed

ان یا اسمنا الاصدق قد شربت رحیق اللقاء اذ کان مالک الاسماء فی الزورآء و مره

O Our Name, the Most Truthful! Thou didst quaff the choice wine of reunion when the Lord of Names was in Zawrá [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15719.025b,

MJAN.048, MAS4.362, AKHA_121BE #10 p.a, PYK.029

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @presence of; reunion with God, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ROB3.253, ROB3.258, LL#127

BH11599

unknown

ROB3.235, LL#425

BH00018

Commentary on the Fire Tablet

8330

mixed

الحمد لله الذی اظهر بسلطانه ما اراد و زین الیوم بنسبته الیه و سمیه فی کتب السماء

Praise be unto Him Who hath, through His sovereignty, manifested whatsoever He hath willed, and Who hath adorned this Day through its connection with His Name, as recorded in the Books of Heaven [3.5s]... ...One day during My childhood, I set out intending to visit the grandmother of the Most Great Branch at a time when she was the wife of Mirza Isma'il-i-Vazir

INBA39:090, MKI4523.002,

BRL_DA#221, AVK2.061.04x, AVK4.436x, ISH.002, UAB.034ax, ASAT1.134x, ASAT5.109x, ASAT5.252x, ADH1.051x, LDR.077x, MSHR2.087x, YIA.119-120x

LTDT.088x, GPB.209x

@suffering and imprisonment, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @Word of God is its own standard, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @spiritual foundations of true knowledge, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB3.230, LL#382

BH00687

Qad Ihtaraqa'l-Mukhlisun (The Fire Tablet)

1120

Arabic

Bahá'í Prayers; Fire Tablet

Lawh-i-Qad-Ihtaraqal-Mukhlisun (Fire Tablet)

ان یا مهدی ان انظر من افق البدآء انوار وجه ربک العلی الابهی ثم استمع الندآء

Indeed the hearts of the sincere are consumed in the fire of separation: Where is the gleaming of the light of Thy Countenance, O Beloved of the worlds?

INBA33:147x, INBA30:124, INBA81:192, BLIB_Or11095#009, , BLIB_Or15738.124,

BRL_DA#335, AHM.169, TSBT.219, MAS4.236ax, NFF2.007x, ASAT1.064x, ASAT5.255x, ABMK.055, OOL.B091

BPRY.312, BLO_PT#036, BLO_PT#037, BSTW#411

Ahdieh, S. and S. Toloui-Wallace, B. Lisbeth, A. Yanch, Gyenyame, T. Ellis

Written in rhythmic prose and taking the form of a conversation between Bahá’u’lláh and God in verses reminiscent of the biblical Book of Job, Bahá’u’lláh calls to God in His suffering and in God’s apparent absence and receives God’s answer as to the wisdom of this suffering.

@expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @suffering and imprisonment, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity

ROB3.226, BKOG.321, MMAH.115, GSH.188, LL#211

BH01325

Lawh-i-Ru'ya (Tablet of the Vision)

640

Arabic

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablet of the Vision; Tablet of Vision

Lawh-i-Ruya (Tablet of the Vision)

یا اسمی استمع ندائی من حول عرشی لیبلغک الی بحر ما له ساحل و ما بلغ قعره

O My Name! Give thou ear unto My Voice ringing from around the precincts of My Throne

INBA23:084b, BLIB_Or15729.133, , BLIB_Or15737a.073, , BLIB_Or15738.061, , NLAI_22848:324, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p166v, , MKI4522.324,

BRL_DA#730, AQA2#011 p.174, AYT.016, RHQM2.0973-975 (409) (252-253), ASAT3.135x, ASAT4.049x, ASAT4.403x, AKHA_123BE #04 p.ax, OOL.B074

GPB.221x2x, BLO_PT#143, BLO_PT#148, BSC.249 #525, HURQ.BH66

unknown

Recounts, in celebration of the anniversary of the birth of the Báb, a joyful vision of the Maid of Heaven as personification of the Holy Spirit, who embraces Him and addresses Him ecstatically and who bids Him leave ‘Akká and hasten to His ‘other dominions’.

@mystical themes, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @symbolism, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ROB3.223, BKOG.246, GSH.149, LL#226

BH00647

Lawh-i-Pisar-'Amm (Tablet to the Cousin)

1170

mixed

Tablet to the Cousin (Lawh-i-Pisar-'Amm); River of Life, The; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Pisar-Amm (Tablet to the Cousin)

ای پسر عم حمد کن خدا را که این نسبت کبری قطع نشد و سبقت گرفتی از جمیع

O son of My paternal uncle! Render praise unto God that the ties of this most great kinship have not been severed.

BLIB_Or03116.082, , BLIB_Or11096#019, , BLIB_Or15698.174, , BLIB_Or15720.171, , BLIB_Or15740.132, , Majlis934.308-318

BRL_DA#156, AVK3.110.02x, AVK3.189.12x, AVK3.368.06x, IQT.174, AYI1.339x, UAB.044ax, IQN.128x, ASAT4.503x, OOL.B066

BRL_ATBH#53x, ROL.050-051x

Praises the recipient, a paternal cousin, for his faithfulness; remonstrates with another relative for remaining distant, asking him whether it is better to die in his bed or in the path of God; and calls the people of a certain village not to grieve over their suffering and not to engage in rebellion and revolt but to eschew dissension and strife and to be characterized with divine attributes.

@martyrs and martyrdom, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @praise and encouragement, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @suffering and imprisonment, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf]

ROB3.216, MMAH.139, GSH.184, LL#209, LL#427

BH05905

170

Arabic

هذا حین فیه یغسلون الابن امام الوجه بعد الذی فدیناه فی السجن الاعظم

At this very moment My son is being washed before My face, after Our having sacrificed him in the Most Great Prison

INBA65:071x, BLIB_Or11095#128, , NLAI_BH1.532

BRL_DA#248, BSHN.039, MHT2b.063, MAS4.108x, RHQM2.0788-789 (204) (125-126x), ASAT4.083x, AHB_127BE #03-04 p.068, AKHA_120BE #04 p.b, FBAH.226

TDH#064.9x, GPB.188x, GPB.348x

@expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @consolation and comfort, @martyrs and martyrdom, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB3.216, LL#179, LL#180

BH08834

110

Arabic

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی ترانی بین ایدی الاعدا و الابن محمرا بدمه امام وجهک یا من

Glorified art Thou, O Lord, my God! Thou seest me in the hands of Thine enemies

INBA92:405a

BRL_DA#265, NFR.171, ASAT4.416x, FBAH.227

TDH#064.11x, GPB.188x, JHT_S#194

@sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world, @unity; oneness of humanity, @suffering and imprisonment

ROB3.213, LL#485

BH01027

Lawh-i-Tabib

810

mixed

اینکه در باره انقلاب و اختلاف ایران مذکور نموده بودید هذا ما وعدنا به فی

That which thou didst mention concerning the upheaval and dissension in Persia - this is what We had promised in [3.5s]

BLIB_Or11096#257, , BLIB_Or15698.318, , BLIB_Or15720.311, , BLIB_Or15740.242, , NLI.32p135v

BRL_DA#135, AVK4.438x, AVK4.477dx, IQT.318, SFI03.157.19x, MAS4.034x, ASAT2.112x, ASAT4.051x

@detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @petitions to authorities, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB3.200, ROB3.201, ROB3.351-2, LL#371

BH01389

620

mixed

هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی استقام علی امر ربه و به زین ثوب الایقان و اخذه جذب

This is a Book from Our presence unto him who hath stood firm in the Cause of his Lord, who hath adorned himself with the robe of certitude, and whom divine attraction hath seized [3.5s]

INBA34:152, BLIB_Or15707.094, , BLIB_Or15735.255,

AQA1#028, ASAT4.153x, ASAT5.121x, HYK.255

@methods of teaching the Cause, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @praise and encouragement, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB3.199, LL#370

BH01678

520

Arabic

ان یا علی ان اشهد فی نفسک بانه لا اله الا هو و ان الذی ظهر باسم علی قبل نبیل انه

O Ali! Bear thou witness in thine inmost heart that verily there is none other God but Him, and that He Who appeared bearing the name of Ali before Nabil, verily He [3.5s]

INBA83:191, BLIB_Or03114.088, , BLIB_Or15702.231, , ALIB.folder18p321

MAS4.175cx

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @station of the Manifestation of God, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

ROB3.194, LL#429

BH09280

Tablet to Badi' in Haifa

100

Persian

ای بدیع وقت آنست که قمیص بدعی در بر نمائی و خلعت جدیدی در تن کنی

O Peerless One! The time hath come for Thee to don a wondrous raiment and clothe Thyself with a new garment [3.5s]

TSHA3.368

@spiritual transformation, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @love of God, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ROB3.184, LL#068

BH00008

Commentary ln the Lawh-i-Ra'is, the martyrdom of Badi', and other subjects

18700

mixed

الحمد لله الذی وفی بالوعد و انزل الموعود من سماء مشیته و اظهر ما کان مسطورا... اول نور ظهر و اشرق و لاح و ابرق

Praise be unto God Who hath fulfilled His promise and sent down the Promised One from the heaven of His Will, making manifest that which was inscribed... The first Light hath appeared, shone forth, gleamed and flashed [3.5s]

BLIB_Or07852.004, , BLIB_Or15714.089x, , BLIB_Or15733.117x, , Majlis210461.093-095x

AVK2.244.08x, AYI1.259x, MAS7.174-255, BALM.006x, ASAT4.082x, AKHA_130BE #11 p.ax, TSHA3.375x, TSHA3.399x, MSBH4.534-535x

@prophecy and fulfillment, @predictions and prophecies, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @praise and encouragement

ROB3.179, ROB3.251, LL#357, LL#367

BH01786

500

Arabic

Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá

Tablet of visitation for Badi

هذا کتاب نزل بالحق و فیه یذکر ما یلوح به وجه الامر بین الارضین و السموات قل

This is a Book sent down in truth in remembrance of that which hath caused the face of the Cause of God to unveil its splendor betwixt earth and heaven

INBA34:138, BLIB_Or11095#003, , BLIB_Or15707.062, , BLIB_Or15735.228, , LEID.Or4970.64v-66r,

BRL_DA#082, AQA1#020, ASAT4.081x, AKHA_124BE #02-03 p.jx, TSHA3.380, HYK.229, LDR.412

BLO_sazedj#06

@martyrs and martyrdom, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @praise and encouragement, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB3.179, ROB3.202, LL#032

BH01172

710

Arabic

تعالی الذی نزل الایات من ملکوت کان بانوار العرش مضیئا و ینطق فی سدره الوحی

Exalted is He Who hath sent down the verses from the Kingdom that was illumined by the lights of the Throne, and Who speaketh from the Lote-Tree of Revelation [3.5s]

INBA34:121, BLIB_Or15707.025, , BLIB_Or15735.198,

AQA1#012, AVK4.475cx, ASAT3.022x, HYK.198

@spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @call to action, @spiritual transformation, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @presence of; reunion with God, @chastisement and requital

ROB3.179, LL#369

BH00875

940

mixed

هذا کتاب من لدی القیوم لقوم یعلمون هل الذین اعرضوا علی شیء لا وربک المهیمن القیوم

This is a Book from before the Self-Subsisting unto those who possess understanding. Are they who have turned away possessed of aught? Nay, by thy Lord, the All-Subduing, the Self-Subsisting [3.5s]

INBA34:118, BLIB_Or11096#265x, , BLIB_Or15707.018, , BLIB_Or15735.192,

AQA1#011, AYBY.025b, HYK.192

@proofs of the Manifestations of God, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @personal instructions, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @Word of God is its own standard, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @call to action

ROB3.179, LL#368

BH00007

Suriy-i-Haykal (Surih of the Temple)

20670

Arabic

Bahá'í Scriptures; Summons of the Lord of Hosts; Original Text of the Súriy-i-Haykal, The

Suriy-i-Haykal (Surih of the Temple)

سبحان الذی نزل الایات لقوم یفقهون سبحان الذی ینزل الایات لقوم یشعرون سبحان

Glorified is He Who hath revealed His verses to those who understand. Glorified is He Who sendeth down His verses to those who perceive.

INBA34:001, BLIB_Or15705.001, , BLIB_Or15735.002, , IOM.099

NRJ#1, AQA1#001, AQA4#090 p.268, HYK.002, YMM.153x, OOL.B121

SLH#01, COC#0301x, COC#1648x, ADJ.080-081x, ADJ.085ax, ADJ.085x, COF.101bx, GPB.099x2x, GPB.101x3x, GPB.101-102x, GPB.102x, GPB.106x, GPB.143x, GPB.173x2x, GPB.174x, GPB.186x, GPB.206x4x, GPB.207x11x, GPB.207-208x, GPB.208x2x, GPB.209x6x, GPB.210x2x, GPB.211x, GPB.226x, GPB.227x3x, GPB.245x, GPB.331x, PDC.007x, PDC.020x, PDC.042-043x, PDC.046x, PDC.046-047x, PDC.047x2x, PDC.047-048x, PDC.048x, PDC.048-049x, PDC.049x2x, PDC.049-050x, PDC.050x4x, PDC.050-051x, PDC.051x3x, PDC.051-052x, PDC.052x2x, PDC.052-053x, PDC.053x, PDC.054x, PDC.055x2x, PDC.055-057x, PDC.057x, PDC.057-058x, PDC.065-067x, PDC.067x2x, PDC.067-068x, PDC.068x3x, PDC.073x, PDC.075x, PDC.078x, PDC.081x3x, PDC.085x6x, PDC.090x3x, PDC.106-107x, PDC.107x, PDC.119x, PDC.136-137x, PDC.138x, PDC.144-145x, PDC.161-162x, PDC.166x, PDC.168-169x, PDC.169x, PDC.173-174x, PDC.181-182x, PDC.196x, WOB.104x, WOB.107x, WOB.108x, WOB.109x3x, WOB.109-110x, WOB.110x, WOB.117x, WOB.138x, WOB.163x, WOB.169x, WOB.192x, WOB.192x, BLO_PT#140, BSC.209 #392-434

G. Major and T. Sutton, L. Manifold and P. Weber

The centrepiece of His proclamatory works, originally written in Edirne and recast in ‘Akká, in which Bahá’u’lláh as the embodiment of the promised new Temple is called forth by the Holy Spirit and symbolically raised up limb by limb, with the mission of each part being assigned and sent forth into the world in fulfilment of the prophecy of the Old Testament (Zechariah 6:12). In its final form, it includes His epistles to Pope Pius IX, Emperor Napoleon III, Czar Alexander II, Queen Victoria, and Náṣiru’d-Dín Sháh.

@the ephemeral and the eternal, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @suffering and imprisonment, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @station of the Manifestation of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @chastisement and requital, @proclamation to people of the Bayan, @banishment to; life in 'Akka, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @innateness; early self-awareness of the Manifestations of God, @the power of words; of speech, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @call to action, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @names and attributes of God, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @the concourse on high, @high station of the true believer, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @growth of the Cause, @the power of example, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God, @primordial Covenant; the day of alast, @justice and wrath of God, @Imam Husayn, @thankfulness; gratitude

ROB3.133, JRAS.292-309, MMAH.179, GSH.131, LL#306

Epistles to the kings and rulers included in the composite Suriy-i-Haykal have their own catalog entries.

BH00662

Lawh-i-Malikah Victoria (Tablet to Queen Victoria)

1150

Arabic

Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Summons of the Lord of Hosts

Lawh-i-Malikih (Tablet to Queen Victoria)

یا ایتها الملکه فی اللوندره ان استمعی ندآء ربک مالک البریه من السدره الالهیه

O Queen in London! Incline thine ear unto the voice of thy Lord, the Lord of all mankind, calling from the Divine Lote-Tree

INBA34:044, BLIB_Or15705.029, , PR11.040b-043b

NRJ#1d, GWBP#119 p.162x, GWBP#120 p.164x, AQA1#001d, DLH2.176x, OOL.B053

SLH#01d, GWB#119x, GWB#120x, WOB.039-040x, WOB.040x, WOB.162x2x, SW_v14#10 p.296, DWN_v5#01 p.004x, BLO_PT#188, BSC.111 #045

B. Parmar

Announces the fulfilment of ‘all that hath been mentioned in the Gospel’; praises the Queen for forbidding the trading in slaves and for entrusting ‘the reins of counsel into the hands of the representatives of the people’; calls the elected representatives of the people in every land to take counsel together for the sake of mankind; ordains that ‘the mightiest instrument for the healing of all the world is the union of all its peoples in one universal Cause, one common Faith’; and instructs the kings of the earth to cease burdening their subjects with their own wanton expenditures, to be reconciled among themselves, and to enforce a common peace by joining forces against any who would take up arms against another.

@status of kings; future of monarchy, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @prayer for governments and rulers, @the Lesser Peace and the Most Great Peace, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @universal peace; world unity, @unity of thought and belief

ROB3.123, MMAH.177, GSH.130, LL#153

Included in the Suriy-i-Haykal.

BH01042

Lawh-i-Malik-i-Rus (Tablet to Czar Alexander II)

800

Arabic

Lawh-i-Malik-i-Rus (Tablet to Alexander II)

ان یا ملک الروس ان استمع ندآء الله الملک القدوس ثم اقبل الی الفردوس مقر الذی

O Czar of Russia! Incline thine ear unto the voice of God, the King, the Holy, and turn thou unto Paradise

INBA34:041, BLIB_Or15705.028, , CMB_F31.037, , PR11.038b-040b

NRJ#1c, AQA1#001c, OOL.B054

SLH#01c, WOB.105x, BSC.094 #040

States cryptically that Bahá’u’lláh has answered a secret wish of the Czar; praises him for offering, through one of his ministers, aid to Bahá’u’lláh while in the dungeon of Tehran; calls on him to arise to become a champion of the Cause of God; declares that Bahá’u’lláh is the one ‘Whom the tongue of Isaiah hath extolled, the One with Whose name both the Torah and the Evangel were adorned’; and warns of the ephemerality of earthly possessions.

@transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @suffering and imprisonment, @status of kings; future of monarchy, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ROB3.118, MMAH.176, GSH.120, LL#154

BH00347

Lawh-i-Pap (Tablet to Pope Pius IX)

1900

Arabic

Lawh-i-Pap (Tablet to Pope Pius IX)

ان یا پاپا ان اخرق الاحجاب قد اتی رب الارباب فی ظلل السحاب و قضی الامر من

O Pope! Rend the veils asunder. He Who is the Lord of Lords is come overshadowed with clouds, and the decree hath been fulfilled by God

INBA34:026, BLIB_Or15705.018, , CMB_F31.032, , PR11.026a-031a

NRJ#1a, AQA1#001a, RHQM1.141-142 (180) (106-106x), OOL.B065

SLH#01a, BSC.098 #041

Announces the return of Christ, ‘come down from Heaven even as He came down from it the first time’; warns of the ‘veils of human learning’ that threaten to obscure this truth; calls on the monks to come forth from their seclusion; summons the people of all religions to hasten unto the most great Ocean; asserts the power of His revelation to overcome all opposition; bids the Pope to abandon his worldly riches and adornments; and proclaims to the Christians that John the Baptist has reappeared in the person of the Báb while the promised Father foretold by Isaiah and the Comforter promised by Christ has appeared in the person of Bahá’u’lláh.

@proclamation to Christians, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @suffering and imprisonment, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @monasticism; asceticism, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @universal peace; world unity

ROB3.116, MMAH.166, MMAH.229, GSH.124, LL#208

Included in the Suriyi-Haykal.

BH00259

Lawh-i-Napoleon II

2460

Arabic

Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Summons of the Lord of Hosts

Lawh-i-Napulyun (Tablets to Napoleon III)

قل یا ملک الباریس نبأ القسیس بأن لا یدق النواقیس تالله الحق قد ظهر الناقوس

O King of Paris! Tell the priests to ring the bells no longer. By God, the True One! The Most Mighty Bell hath appeared

INBA34:033, BLIB_Or15705.022, , CMB_F31.034, , PR11.031a-038b

NRJ#1b, GWBP#107 p.139ax, GWBP#158 p.215bx, AQA1#001b, AVK3.203.19x, AKHA_123BE #01-02 p.ax, OOL.B062

SLH#01b, GWB#107x, GWB#158x, WOB.203x, SW_v03#05 p.007x, DWN_v5#02-3 p.002-004x, DWN_v6#10 p.001bx, BSC.105 #042

W. Heath, Soulrise Melodies (1), Soulrise Melodies (2)

Summons the Emperor to ‘tell the priests to ring the bells no longer’, announcing that He is the one promised by Christ; bids the monks to come forth from their seclusion; prophesies that his ‘kingdom shall be thrown into confusion’ and his empire ‘shall pass from [his] hands’ for ‘casting behind [his] back’ the first epistle from Bahá’u’lláh; recounts the sufferings of Bahá’u’lláh in His successive exiles; counsels the Emperor to watch over his subjects with justice; and instructs him, and the people of the world in general, to teach the Cause of God through the power of utterance, to be trustworthy, and to conceal the sins of others.

@transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @chastisement and requital, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @call to action

ROB3.110, BKOG.320, BKOG.392, MMAH.124, LL#200

Included in the Suriy-i-Haykal.

BH01117

Lawh-i-Ism-i-Jud

750

mixed

Excellence in all Things

یا اسم جود علیک بهائی نامهای جناب سمندر که ارسال نموده عبد حاضر لدی المظلوم

O Ism-i-Júd! Upon thee be My Glory! The letters sent by his honor Samandar were presented before the Wronged One [3.5s]... ...It is incumbent upon the children to exert themselves to the utmost in acquiring the art of reading and writing.... Writing skills that will provide for urgent needs will be enough for some

MJAN.026, AYBY.067, GHA.089x, MAS7.129cx, MAS8.193x, SAM.204, PYM.214bx, TRZ1.081x

BRL_EXCEL#06x, COC#0006x, COC#0569x, COC#0771x

@praise and encouragement, @education of children; moral education, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @excellence; distinction, @service to others; to the Cause of God

ROB3.091, LL#415

BH01494

Suriy-i-Fu'ad (=Lawh-i-Fu'ad)

580

Arabic

Summons of the Lord of Hosts

Lawh-i-Fuad (Tablet to Fuad Pasha)

ک ظ نادیناک عن وراء قلزم الکبریا علی الارض الحمرا من افق البلا انه لا اله

Káf. Ẓá’. We call unto thee from beyond the sea of grandeur, upon the crimson land, above the horizon of tribulation.

INBA34:128, BLIB_Or15707.040, , BLIB_Or15735.210,

NRJ#4, AQA1#015, AYBY.023b, MAS4.246x, RHQM1.592-594 (723) (444-445), ASAM.261-262, SAM.292, DLH2.186x, HYK.210, OOL.B117

SLH#04, GPB.208-209x, PDC.100x, BLO_PT#172

Details the divine justice that was meted out to the recently deceased Ottoman Prime Minister in consequence of his abuses of power and foretells the imminent downfall of his colleague, ‘Álí Páshá, as well as the overthrow of the Sultan himself.

@chastisement and requital, @justice and wrath of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @call to action, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @power of prayer

ROB3.087 et al, MMAH.225, GSH.192, LL#088, LL#302

BH00210

Lawh-i-Hadi - Re "He who knoweth himself..."

2770

mixed

He who knoweth his self hath known his Lord (Man 'arafa nafsahú faqad 'arafa Rabbahú); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Man ‘arafa nafsahú faqad ‘arafa Rabbahú (He who knoweth his self hath known his Lord); Lawh-i-Hadi (Tablet to Mírzá Hadi)

توحید بدیع مقدس از تحدید و عرفان موجودات ساحت عز حضرت لایزالی را لایق و سزا

How wondrous is the unity of the Living, the Ever-Abiding God—a unity which is exalted above all limitations, that transcendeth the comprehension of all created things! He hath, from everlasting, dwelt

INBA38:238, INBA36:409, INBA57:018b, BN_suppl.1754.059-064

BRL_DA#125, GWBP#073 p.096ax, GWBP#083 p.109x, GWBP#124 p.168bx, AVK1.061x, AVK1.180ax, AVK1.180bx, AVK1.187.06x, AVK1.242.05x, AVK1.307.02x, AVK2.077.13x, AVK3.398.09x, MJMM.346, DWNP_v6#05 p.003-004x, DRD.155, MAS4.026bx, MAS4.028x, ASAT1.185x, ASAT2.102x, ASAT4.292x, ASAT5.062x, ASAT5.251x, PYB#026 p.01x, PYB#221 p.03x, OOL.B160

GWB#073x, GWB#083x, GWB#124x, BLO_PT#040, WIND#112

@knowledge of self, @Manifestation of God the only route to knowledge of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @divine attributes are within all things; every atom, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB3.063, LL#097

BH11583

Lawh-i-Abdu'r-Rahim

unknown

ROB3.060, LL#035

BH03380

270

Arabic

کتاب انزله الرحمن لیقرب به من فی الامکان الی البحر الذی تموج باسمه العظیم من

This is a Tablet sent down by the Lord of mercy that the people of the world may be enabled to draw nigh unto this Ocean

ASAT1.167x, TBP#17k

TB#17k

@laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, @knowledge; recognition of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @firmness in the Covenant

ROB3.060?

BH00889

920

mixed

لک الحمد یا الهی بما جمعت احبائک فی عیدک الاعظم الذی فیه تجلیت باسمائک الحسنی

Praise be to Thee, O my God, for having gathered together Thy loved ones to celebrate Thy Most Great Festival

AYT.313, ASAT4.401x, OOL.B202, AMB#17

DOR#17, DAS.1915-04-29n

@martyrs and martyrdom, @praise and encouragement, @Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @hospitality

ROB3.053, LL#223

BH00095

4510

mixed

یومی از ایام نشسته بودم در امر الهی متحیر و در آنچه در ارض کاف و را ظاهر شده

One day, as I sat in contemplation, bewildered by the divine Cause and by that which had been made manifest in the land of Káf and Rá [3.5s]... ...My God, Thou Whom I adore and worship, Who art Most Powerful! I testify that no description by any created thing

INBA65:021bx, INBA30:079x, INBA81:015x, BLIB_Or15704.439, , NLAI_BH4.417-449

BRL_DA#692, PMP#153x, AHM.320x, DWNP_v5#09 p.002x, AQMJ1.142x, ASAT3.017x, ADH1.014x, AKHA_133BE #15 p.469x, AKHA_136BE #08 p.125x

PM#153x

@rejection by the people of the Bayan, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @Word of God and human limitations, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @proofs of the Manifestations of God

ROB3.044, LL#255

BH00269

Lawh-i-Ra'is

2370

Persian

Lawh-i-Rais (Tablet to Sultan Ali Pasha)

قلم اعلی میفرماید ای نفسیکه خود را اعلی الناس دیده و غلام الهی که چشم اهل ملا

The Pen of the Most High proclaimeth: O thou who hast imagined thyself to be the most exalted of men

INBA35:043, BLIB_Or11096#015, , BLIB_Or15698.302, , BLIB_Or15720.296, , BLIB_Or15740.230, , CMB_F31.030, , NLI.32p039v, PR11.066a-072a

NRJ#3, AVK1.333.04x, AVK2.287.11x, AVK3.052.07x, AVK4.455x, IQT.302, MJMM.102, UAB.058cx, DRD.043, ASAT3.015x, ASAT4.168x, ASAT4.419x, OOL.B070b

SLH#03, GPB.173x2x, GPB.187x3x, GPB.208x3x, PDC.073-074x, PDC.099x, PDC.099-100x, SW_v02#02 p.003-007x, BLO_PT#198, BSC.081 #038

Bahá’u’lláh’s second tablet to the Ottoman Prime Minister ‘Álí Páshá, denouncing him for his further act of cruelty in imprisoning Bahá’u’lláh and His followers in the citadel of ‘Akká, warning him of the ephemerality of his worldly power, relating the episode of a puppet show from Bahá’u’lláh’s own childhood which convinced Him of the fleeting nature of the trappings of the world, asking ‘Álí Páshá to comport himself with reason and justice, and reiterating a request for a brief audience with the Sultan.

@suffering and imprisonment, @banishment to; life in 'Akka, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @justice and wrath of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ROB3.033 et al, BKOG.013, MMAH.148, GSH.121, LL#217

BH01924

460

Arabic

Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh; Lawh-i-Hirtík (Tablet to Hardegg)

ص و النبا العظیم قد اتی الرحمن بسلطان مبین و وضع المیزان و حشر من علی الارض

By Him Who is the Great Announcement! The All-Merciful is come invested with undoubted sovereignty. The Balance hath been appointed

INBA34:150, BLIB_Or15707.090, , BLIB_Or15735.252,

BRL_DA#659, GWBP#017 p.034x, AQA1#027, PYK.017, DLH1.048, HYK.252

GWB#017x, WOB.194x

@apocalyptic imagery, @chastisement and requital, @suffering and imprisonment, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @call to action, @predictions and prophecies

ROB3.032, LL#453

BH01217

Lawh-i-Hirtik (Tablet to David Hardegg)

690

mixed

Lawh-i-Hirtik (Tablet to Hardegg)

قد حضر کتابک المختوم لدی المظلوم و وجدنا منه عرف خلوصک لله المهیمن القیوم

Thy sealed letter hath reached the presence of this Wronged One, and from it We have inhaled the sweet savour of thy devotion to God

BRL_DA#546, LHKM3.215b, SFI11.011, ASAT4.232x, OOL.B044

BRL_ATBH#87, BBR.216-217, LOIR04.097, BLO_PT#177, HURQ.BH76

Briefly addresses the head of the German Templers of Haifa, calling him to consider with insight the ascendancy and sweetness of the word of God, the mysterious processes by which the abased become exalted and the exalted abased, and the lessons of the past; employs the science of letters and their numerical equivalents in explaining the significance of certain names; and affirms that He and the recipient are moved by the same divine spirit.

@multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @mystery of the great reversal, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @suffering and imprisonment, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ROB3.028, MMAH.116, GSH.172, LL#117

BH00846

970

Arabic

Second Tablet of Salmán (Lawh-i-Salmán)

ان یا نبیل الاعظم اسمع ما ینادیک به لسان القدم عن جبروت اسمه الاکرم و انه ینطق

Let thine ear be attentive, O Nabíl-i-A‘ẓam, to the Voice of the Ancient of Days, crying to thee from the Kingdom of His all-glorious Name.

INBA83:108, BLIB_Or15702.018, , ALIB.folder18p207

BRL_DA#772, GWBP#139 p.194, KHSH07.011

GWB#139, ADJ.025x, ADJ.060x

T. Ellis

@words vs deeds, @status of kings; future of monarchy, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @courtesy; culture [adab], @holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God, @spiritual transformation, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ROB3.026, LL#198

BH01403

Lawh-i-Salman II

610

mixed

Lawh-i-Salman II (Tablet to Salman II)

ای سلمان در هر امور اقتدا بحق کن و بقضایای الهی راضی باش ملاحظه کن که این

O Salmán! Follow thou in all things the example of the One true God, and be content with whatsoever He ordaineth.

BLIB_Or11096#022, , BLIB_Or15710.001, , NLAI_BH2.208

BRL_DA#128, AVK1.135.12x, MJMM.124, BSHN.032x, MHT2b.060x, DRD.036, MAS4.167x, ASAT1.209x, ASAT4.315x, OOL.B077

PDC.115-116x, WIND#180, HURQ.BH56

Emphasizes the fleeting nature of this world, that those who remain occupied with it are heedless of this truth, and that one of the signs of the maturity of the world is that none will be found to bear the burden of kingship and its earthly cares.

@transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @status of kings; future of monarchy, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @prayer for specific individuals; groups

ROB3.025, ROB3.157, MMAH.188, GSH.179, LL#233

BH11601

unknown

ROB3.021, LL#396

BH10889

Arabic

Lawh-i-Radar-Ruh (Tablet to Radar-Ruh)

ولو ان سوء حالی یا الهی استحقنی لسیاطک و عذابک ولکن حسن عطوفتک و مواهبک

Although this evil state in which I am, O my God, maketh me deserving of Thy wrath and punishment, Thy good pleasure and Thy bounties demand Thy forgiveness

INBA33:018a, INBA33:072b

BRL_DA#142, LHKM3.385a, AQMJ1.032a, ADH1.102

BRL_APBH#16, BKOG.287

@forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @prayer for protection, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @justice and wrath of God

ROB3.021?, LL#478

BH11581

First Tablet to Faris, in honor of Nabil

unknown

ROB3.007

BH02563

Lawh-i-Rada'r-Ruh

350

Arabic

Tablet to Rada'r-Rúh

یا ایها الناظر الی الوجه اسمع ندآء من سجن مره بعد اخری فی سبیل الله ربک و رب

O Thou who hast fixed his gaze upon the (divine) Countenance! Hearken unto the Call of Him Who hath suffered imprisonment, time after time, in the path of God

INBA73:362, NLAI_BH1.510, NLAI_BH2.249

SFI16.036-037, MUH3.026-027, ASAT1.051x, DLH3.472

BLO_PT#189, BTO#11

@spiritual transformation, @suffering and imprisonment, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @The Holy Spirit

ROB3.007-010, LL#197

BH00062

5330

mixed

حمد محبوب امکان و مقصود عالمیان را لایق و سزا است که اولیای خود را موید فرمود

Praise be unto Him Who is the Best-Beloved of all possibility and the Goal of the peoples of the world, Who hath graciously confirmed His chosen ones [3.5s]... ...Say: O men! This is a matchless Day. Matchless must, likewise, be the tongue that celebrateth the praise of the Desire of all nations

BLIB_Or15733.050,

BRL_DA#640, GWBP#016 p.033x, MSHR3.155x

GWB#016x, ADJ.080x, WOB.194x

@acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @wisdom [hikmat], @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @unity; oneness of humanity, @praise and encouragement

ROB2.417, LL#413

BH00192

2940

mixed

جوهر حمد و بیان و ساذج شکر و تبیان بساط امنع اقدس مالک امکان را لایق و سزاست

The essence of praise and utterance, and the quintessence of thanksgiving and exposition, beseemeth and befitteth the most holy and most exalted court of the Lord of all possibility [3.5s]... ...God hath not blinked, nor will He ever blink His eyes at the tyranny of the oppressor

INBA28:229

BRL_DA#787, AVK2.181.09x, AVK3.402.09x, NANU_BH#08x, ASAT2.128x, ASAT3.269x, ASAT4.055x, ASAT4.206x, YMM.425x

GPB.224x

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @martyrs and martyrdom, @justice and wrath of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @personal instructions, @praise and encouragement

ROB2.413, LL#210

BH00513

Suriy-i-Dhabih (= Lawh-i-Dhabih)

1450

mixed

روحی و نفسی لک الفداء کتاب مبارک که بطراز حب محبوب عالمیان مزین بود این خادم

My spirit and soul be a sacrifice unto Thee! The blessed Book, which was adorned with the ornament of love for the Best-Beloved of all worlds, reached this servant [3.5s]... ...The Pen of Revelation, O Dhabih, hath, in most of the divinely-revealed Tablets, recorded these words

BLIB_Or11096#242x, , BLIB_Or15698.323, , BLIB_Or15720.315, , BLIB_Or15740.246x,

BRL_DA#141, GWBP#115 p.155, AVK3.269.13x, AVK3.270.08x, IQT.323, GHA.333x, ASAT1.131x, OOL.B112.1

GWB#115x, ADJ.024x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.077x, GPB.099x, PDC.119-120x

Summons the Bahá’ís to upright conduct, obedience to worldly authority, and high moral character and warns that the greatest harm that can be inflicted upon Bahá’u’lláh’s Cause is not His imprisonment and persecution but the misdeeds of those who claim to be His followers.

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @false claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @bribery and corruption, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @praise and encouragement, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @servitude; submission to God; repentance

ROB2.412, LL#082, LL#297

BH00260

Suriy-i-Ra'is

2450

Arabic

Suriy-i-Rais (Tablet to Sultan Ali Pasha)

ان یا رئیس اسمع ندآء الله الملک المهیمن القیوم انه ینادی بین الارض و السماء

Hearken, O Chief, to the voice of God, the Sovereign, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. He, verily, calleth aloud between heaven and earth

INBA47:147, INBA34:081, BLIB_Or15735.129, , NLAI_BH2.354, Berlin1237#28, PR11.020b-026a, UMich962.130-132x

NRJ#2, AQA1#003, AVK4.453x, MJMM.087, ASAT3.048x, ASAT4.254x, ASAT5.230x, BCH.104x, YMM.269x, OOL.B070a

SLH#02, GPB.174x, GPB.179-180x, GPB.180x, GPB.181x2x, PDC.099x, PDC.120x, WOB.105-106x, WOB.178x, BLO_PT#194, BSC.088 #039x, BSC.224 #444-445x

Addresses ‘Álí Páshá, the Ottoman Prime Minister, as Bahá’u’lláh and His companions were being transferred from Adrianople to Gallipoli en route to ‘Akká; takes the minister to task for his abuse of power; predicts the downfall of Sulṭán ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz; announces that He has come to ‘quicken the world and unite all its peoples’; relates the circumstances of His expulsion from Edirne; and parenthetically answers a question from a follower about the origin and nature of the soul.

@prophecy and fulfillment, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @martyrs and martyrdom, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @suffering and imprisonment, @prayer for nearness to God, @the human soul, @chastisement and requital, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ROB2.411 et al, BKOG.259, MMAH.146, GSH.109, LL#326

BH00144

Suriy-i-Bayan

3580

Arabic

Suriy-i-Bayan (Tablet of Utterance)

ذکر اسم ربک عبده اذ دخل بقعه الفردوس مقر الذی استشرقت علیه انوار الوجه عن مشرق

The remembrance of the name of thy Lord by His servant, when he entered the Garden of Paradise, the seat whereupon shone forth the lights of the Face from the Dayspring [3.5s]... ...Say: Doth it beseem a man while claiming to be a follower of his Lord, the All-Merciful, he should yet in his heart do the very deeds of the Evil One?

INBA37:007, INBA83:203, BLIB_Or15702.254, , BLIB_Or15723.228, , BLIB_Or15737.069, , NLAI_BH2.280, Berlin1237#10, ALIB.folder18p001-018, Majlis934.115.09-125.01x

BRL_DA#736, GWBP#128 p.176x, GWBP#129 p.179x, GWBP#145 p.202ax, AQA4#080 p.108, AQA4a.392, AVK3.095.13x, AVK3.147.08x, AVK3.260.06x, GHA.428x, ASAT2.106x, PYK.032x, YFY.060x, OOL.B109

GWB#128x, GWB#129x, GWB#145x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.034x, TDH#037.1x, GPB.170x, GPB.376-377x, GPB.404x, MBW.038x, BSTW#037x, HURQ.BH39

D. E. Walker, MANA (1), MANA (2), C. Signori

Charges the recipient to teach the Cause of God in a state of detachment from the world and enkindlement with the love of God, summons the Maid of Heaven to come to the aid of whoever does so, and instructs him to carry the message to specific people and regions in Iran.

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @suffering and imprisonment, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @exhortations and counsels, @assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick

ROB2.397, GSH.198, LL#295

BH01774

Suriy-i-Hijr

500

Arabic

فسبحان الذی خرق حجبات الممکنات بسلطانه و خلق السموات بامره و انزل من مکفهرات

Glorified be He Who hath rent asunder the veils of all contingent beings through His sovereignty, and hath fashioned the heavens by His command, and hath caused to descend from the darkening clouds [3.5s]

INBA37:001, BLIB_Or15723.166, , BLIB_Or15737.004,

AQA4#077 p.072, AQA4a.024, ASAT5.262x, OOL.B123

Announces His withdrawal from the community and His sorrow at the state of affairs that made this action necessary.

@suffering and imprisonment, @proclamation to the people of the world, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @personal instructions, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB2.397, GSH.188, LL#308

BH00334

Suriy-i-Qalam

1970

Arabic

Suriy-i-Qalam (Surih of the Pen)

ان یا قلم الاعلی ان اشهد فی نفسک بانه هو الله لا اله الا انا المهیمن القیوم

O Pen of the Most High! Bear thou witness, in thine own self, that verily He is God and that there is none other God but Me

INBA37:115, BLIB_Or15692.012, , BLIB_Or15706.001, , BLIB_Or15714.049, , BLIB_Or15725.239, , NLAI_BH1.083, NLAI_BH2.204

AQA4#089 p.258, SFI14.036-045n, TZH4.268-270, TSBT.124, ASAT1.111x, ASAT3.015x, ASAT3.136x, ASAT4.508x, OOL.B136, AMB#23

DOR#23, BLO_PT#095, HURQ.BH47

A celebration of the festival of Riḍván, taking the form of a series of apostrophes to His Pen, the denizens of earth and heaven, the concourse of monks, and the Maid of Heaven.

@symbolism, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @proclamation to Christians, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @proclamation to people of the Bayan, @monasticism; asceticism, @Word of God the cause of creation, @transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB2.397, SFI14.036-045, MMAH.159, GSH.192, LL#324

BH00227

Ridvanu'l-Iqrar

2630

Arabic

اقر الله بذاته لذاته بانه لا اله الا هو له الخلق و الامر و کل له خاضعون اقر

God taketh His seat [upon His celestial Throne] by virtue of His Essence which is operative through His Essence, for He, no God is there except Him… By God, O people! Mine eye weepeth, and the eye of Ali (the Bab) weepeth amongst the Concourse on high, and Mine heart crieth out

INBA47:050, INBA37:057, INBA83:092, BLIB_Or15723.146,

AQA4#083 p.180, AQA4a.042, MAS4.353x, OOL.B095

GPB.243x, GPB.250x, HURQ.BH27x

Dwells on the state of those who have rejected the truth and contrasts it with the state of those who have recognized and believed.

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @Adam; Adam and Eve, @creation of the world, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @call to action, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis

ROB2.397, MMAH.175, GSH.115, LL#277

Quoted by Abdu'l-Baha in MKT3.420 (AB00024). Merged with BH10413.

BH00155

Suriy-i-Ahzan

3410

Arabic

Surah of Sorrows (Suriy-i-Ahzán); Days of Remembrance

Suriy-i-Ahzan (Surih of Sorrows)

ان یا سیاح الاحدیه سبح فی قلزم الکبریاء الذی ظهر باسمی الابهی و جرت علیه سفن

O thou who art the pilgrim of Divine Oneness! Swim thou in the ocean of grandeur which hath been manifested through My Most Glorious Name, whereon sail the barques [3.5s]... ...Would that thou wert standing at this moment before the Throne and couldst hear how the melodies of eternity

INBA37:085, BLIB_Or15694.494, , BLIB_Or15723.212, , BLIB_Or15737.052, , NLAI_BH2.125, NLAI_BH2.265, ALIB.folder18p034-047

BRL_DA#733, AQA4#086 p.221, AQA4a.075, ASAT5.351x, OOL.B103, AMB#39x

DOR#39x, LTDT.080x, BLO_PT#092

Expatiates on the sorrows experienced by Bahá’u’lláh and the Báb, taking in part the form of a mystical conversation between the two.

@symbolism, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @suffering and imprisonment, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.397, MMAH.155, GSH.114, LL#289

BH00934

Lawh-i-Tuqa

880

Arabic

Lawhut-Tuqa (Tablet of Piety or the Fear of God)

فسبحان الذی نزل الایات بالحق من جبروت عز علیا و ینطق بالحق فی ملکوته الاعلی بلسانه

Glorified be He Who hath sent down the verses in truth from the heaven of transcendent might, and Who speaketh with truth in His most exalted Kingdom through His tongue [3.5s]... ...Among the people is he who opposes God publicly. If the verses of God are recited to him, his face grows dark and he returns to his people as one despised.

INBA83:100, BLIB_Or15702.001, , BLIB_Or15723.258, , BLIB_Or15737.102, , ALIB.folder18p204

BRL_DA#723, AQA7#509 p.347, OOL.B083

HURQ.BH50, KSHK#06x

Bids the people enter the ‘crimson Ark’, adorned with divine virtue; addresses the objections of those who reject the divine verses; and warns those who, like Mírzá Yaḥyá, denied the ‘Most Great Announcement’.

@chastisement and requital, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @rejection, opposition and persecution

ROB2.397, GPB.171, LL#254

BH00052

Suriy-i-Qamis

5750

Arabic

Súriy-i-Qamís (Surah of the Robe)

ان یا اهل البقا فی الملا الاعلی اسمعوا ندآء الله عن هذا النسیم المتحرک فی هذا الهواء

O ye dwellers in the immortal realm on high! Hearken unto the Call of God from this stirring Breeze that moveth in this atmosphere [3.5s]... ...By the righteousness of God! These are the days in which God hath proved the hearts of the entire company of His Messengers and Prophets

BLIB_Or15723.059, , NLAI_BH1.356

BRL_DA#724, GWBP#008 p.015bx, AQA4#074 p.034, AQA4a.320, ASAT3.281x, OOL.B137

GWB#008x, ADJ.057x, ADJ.079x, GPB.003x, GPB.099x, GPB.377x, PDC.015x, HURQ.BH34

Proclamatory tablet taking in part the form of a conversation between the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh; announcing the return of the Báb in the person of Bahá’u’lláh; reproaching the Bábís for their denial; and directing one of the many named recipients to place the tablet, like the shirt of the biblical Joseph, upon his face.

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @Manifestation of God as sun, @suffering and imprisonment, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ROB2.397, BKOG.246?, MMAH.150, GSH.049, LL#325

BH02170

Lawh-i-Nuqtih

410

Arabic

Lawh-i-Nuqtih (Tablet of the Point)

هذا لوح القدس قد جعل الله مقامه مقام النقطه کما ان من النقطه فصلت کل الحروفات

This is the Tablet of holiness; upon it hath God conferred the station of the point, just as it is through the point that every letter and word is made distinct

BRL_DA#737, LHKM1.020

ADMS#228

Proclaims itself as occupying the station of the point, differentiating all that has been revealed from all eternity to all eternity, in the same way that the point differentiates letters and words.

@Word of God the cause of creation, @superiority; incomparability of the Word of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.397, BKOG.220, BKOG.245, LL#206

BH00939

Suriy-i-Ghusn (Tablet of the Branch)

870

Arabic

Bahá'í Scriptures; Days of Remembrance

Suriy-i-Ghusn (Tablet of the Branch)

اتی امر الله علی ظلل من البیان و المشرکون یومئذ فی عذاب عظیم قد نزلت جنود الوحی

The Cause of God hath come down upon the clouds of utterance, while they that have joined partners with Him are afflicted with a sore torment

INBA83:144ax, BLIB_Or03114.089r, , BLIB_Or15702.108, , ALIB.folder18p221

AQA4#098 p.331, AQA4a.424, AYT.360, HDQI.002, SFI08.012, MAS4.115, HHA.058x, RHQM1.596-600 (728) (447-449), AHDW.005, AHB_128BE #06-11 p.194x, ANDA#03 p.08-09, OOL.B118, AMB#29

DOR#29, GPB.177x, GPB.242x, WOB.135x, SW_v03#14 p.015, BLO_PT#125, BSC.255 #528-531

Announces the high station of Bahá’u’lláh’s son ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, titled Ghuṣn-i-A‘ẓam (‘the Greatest Branch’), foreshadowing His later appointment in the Kitáb-i-‘Ahd as successor to Bahá’u’lláh.

@methods of teaching the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @condition of search, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.388, BKOG.250, EBTB.052, GSH.107, LL#303

BH01120

Lawh-i-Napoleon I

750

mixed

First Tablet to Napoleon III (Lawh-i-Napulyun); Baha'u'llah's First Tablet to Napoleon III

Lawh-i-Napulyun (Tablets to Napoleon III)

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی انت تعلم بانی مااردت فی ذکر الا ذکرک و فی توجهی الی جهه

Glory be to Thee, O Lord my God! Thou art aware that nothing have I sought by making any mention, except a fitting mention of Thee

BRL_DA#706, ROBP2.388x

GPB.173x, PDC.082-083x, LOIR4.151, BLO_PT#014, BLO_PT#038x

Recounts the sufferings endured by Bahá’u’lláh and His followers; avows their innocence; reminds the Emperor of two pronouncements he had made on behalf of the oppressed and the helpless; and calls upon him to inquire into the condition of those who have been wronged, including Bahá’u’lláh and His fellow exiles.

@suffering and imprisonment, @martyrs and martyrdom, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @petitions to authorities

ROB2.368, ROB2.337, ROB3.110, GSH.097, LL#199

BH02329

Lawh-i-Babu'l-Ata [Lawh-i-Banu-Qurayzih]

380

mixed

Lawh-i-Bábu’l-ʻAtá (or Lawh-i-Banú-Qurayzih)

ذرات کائنات شاهد و حقائق ممکنات گواه که این عبد از ظهور و اظهار امر مقصودی جز

The atoms of every contingent being and the realities of all created things bear witness that this Servant.... When I was but a child, this Wronged One read an account of the invasion of the Banú-Qurayẓih recorded in a book attributed to the late Mullá Báqir Majlisí.

INBA81:158, BLIB_Or15695.037, , BLIB_Or15724.101,

MAS7.135, ASAT2.017x

ADMS#042

@early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah, @personal instructions, @episodes from the early history of Islam, @purpose of religion in the world (personal and social), @unity; oneness of humanity, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God

ROB2.348, LL#075

BH00038

Lawh-i-Sultan

6890

mixed

Lawh-i-Sultan (Tablet to Nasirid-Din Shah)

یا ملک الارض اسمع ندآء هذا المملوک انی عبد آمنت بالله و آیاته و فدیت نفسی فی

O King of the Earth! Hearken unto the call of this Vassal: Verily, I am a Servant Who hath believed in God

INBA34:047, BLIB_Or03115.001, , BLIB_Or15705.032, , CMB_F31.022, , NLAI_BH2.367, NLI.32p100r, PR11.001b-020b, LEID.Or4970 item 7, LEID.Or8685

NRJ#1e, AQA1#001e, UAB.022ax, FBAH.215x, DLH2.154x, OOL.B018

SLH#01e, BLO_PT#186, BLO_PT#187, BSC.068 #037, BP1929.036x

almunajat.com [item 22], S. Jaberi

Bahá’u’lláh’s lengthiest tablet to any monarch, delivered in person to the Shah at the cost of the messenger’s life, urging the Shah to judge His cause fairly; disavowing any designs on worldly power; detailing the injustices He and His followers had suffered over the course of successive banishments; calling the clergy to account for their role in His rejection; and, citing the rejection of Jesus and Muhammad by the people of their day, urging the Shah to consider the possibility of the appearance of a new Manifestation of God in this day.

@rendering assistance to God; victory [nusrat], @suffering and imprisonment, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @justice and wrath of God, @special knowledge of the Manifestation of God, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @call to action, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @power of the Manifestation of God

ROB2.337 et al, BKOG.309 et al, MMAH.113, GSH.102, LL#248

BH11597

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-'Abdu'r-Rasul

unknown

ROB2.333, LL#342

BH00021

Suriy-i-Muluk

8150

Arabic

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Summons of the Lord of Hosts; Days of Remembrance

Suriy-i-Muluk (Surih to the Kings)

هذا کتاب من هذا العبد الذی سمی بالحسین فی ملکوت الاسما الی ملوک الارض کله

This is a Tablet from this Servant, who is called Ḥusayn in the kingdom of names, to the concourse of the kings of the earth.

INBA71:123, BLIB_Or15723.001, , IOM.098-099, PR11.043b-064a, PR19.048a-061b, PR23.016a-029b

NRJ#5, GWBP#065 p.086x, GWBP#066 p.087x, GWBP#113 p.143x, GWBP#114 p.150x, GWBP#116 p.158x, GWBP#118 p.160x, RSBB.040, TZH4.328-353, BCH.008x, PYB#129 p.03x, OOL.B131, AMB#36x

SLH#05, GWB#065x, GWB#066x, GWB#113x, GWB#114x, GWB#116x, GWB#118x, DOR#36x, LOG#1615x, COF.138-139x, GPB.161x4x, GPB.171x, GPB.172x7x, GPB.175x4x, GPB.210x, GPB.230x2x, PDC.007x, PDC.020x, PDC.027-028x, PDC.033-034x, PDC.034x, PDC.034-035x, PDC.035x2x, PDC.035-038x, PDC.038-039x, PDC.043-044x, PDC.060x, PDC.060-062x, PDC.062x, PDC.062-063x, PDC.063-064x, PDC.098x4x, PDC.098-099x, PDC.114-115x, PDC.143x, PDC.146-147x, PDC.182x, WOB.108x, WOB.174x, WOB.177x3x, WOB.177-178x, WOB.178x

E. Mahony

His most momentous proclamatory work, though not yet divulging the totality of His messianic claim, in which He counsels and chastises, in turn, the entire company of the kings of the earth, the kings of Christendom, the French Ambassador in Constantinople, the ministers of the Ottoman Sultan, the inhabitants of Istanbul, the Sultan himself, the Persian Ambassador to the Sultan, the people of Persia, the divines and wise men of Constantinople, and the philosophers of the world.

@proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @justice and wrath of God, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @proclamation to divines; to religious leaders, @suffering and imprisonment, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @chastisement and requital

ROB2.301 et al, BKOG.207, BKOG.213, BKOG.330, GPB.171, MMAH.158, GSH.090, LL#319

BH00457

Lawh-i-Mubahilih

1580

Arabic

Tablets concerning the Divine Test

Surat al-Mubahalah (Surah of the Divine Test)

هذا لوح قد فصل من لوح المحفوظ لیکون بنفسه هدایه و رحمه علی کل من فی السموات

This is a Tablet that hath been separated from the Preserved Tablet, that it might serve, of itself, as a guidance and mercy unto all who dwell in the heavens [3.5s]... ...O Muhammad! He Who is the Spirit hath, verily, issued from His habitation, and with Him have come forth the souls of God's chosen ones

BLIB_Or07852.089, , BLIB_Or15725.463, , NLAI_BH2.006

BRL_DA#153, TZH5.029n-044n, MAS4.278.18x, MAS7.243-244x, ASAT4.487x, SAM.208, PYK.006, YMM.338x, OOL.B060

GPB.168-169x, BLO_PT#199x

Praises the station of Quddús, one of the Báb’s first disciples and an early martyr, and relates the circumstances of the public challenge issued by Bahá’u’lláh to Mírzá Yaḥyá to take place in the mosque of Sultan Salim, at which the latter failed to present himself, which sealed the irreparable breach that had arisen between them.

@proclamation to divines; to religious leaders, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @martyrs and martyrdom

ROB2.293, GPB.169, MMAH.168, LL#184

See also BH03710.

BH00066

Lawh-i-Salman I

5230

mixed

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Days of Remembrance; Commentary on a Verse of Rumi; Commentary on a Verse of Rumi

Lawh-i-Salman I (Tablet to Salman I)

ای سلمان از شهر جان بنسایم قدس رحمن بر اهل اکوان و امکان مرور نما

O Salman! Pass through the realm of being and existence with holy breezes from the City of the Spirit, wafting with the fragrances of the All-Merciful [3.5s]... ...O Salmán! Say: O people! Tread ye in the path of the one true God and ponder the ways and words of Him Who is the Manifestation

INBA35:276, INBA73:118, BLIB_Or15722.001, , NLAI_BH3.110, BN_suppl.1754.047-059

BRL_DA#735, GWBP#021 p.040x, GWBP#148 p.204x, GWBP#154 p.212x, AVK1.026.05x, AVK2.078.12x, AVK3.303.06x, AVK3.418.16x, MJMM.128, ASAT4.100x, ASAT5.346x, YMM.322x, OOL.B076, AMB#37x

GWB#021x, GWB#148x, GWB#154x, DOR#37x, MNP.036-037x, ADJ.060x, ADJ.076-77x, ADJ.083x, ADJ.084x, GPB.169x, WOB.108x, WIND#128, HURQ.BH55

Laments the opposition of Mírzá Yaḥyá; contrasts the stations of belief and disbelief; considers and rejects various theories of the mystics concerning the relationship between God and creation; asserts that, the Godhead itself being unknowable, the means of access to the knowledge of God is through the channel of His prophets; and interprets a line of Rumi’s Mathnaví to the effect that the light of truth is one but that, cast through the glass of different souls, it takes on different tints and colours, which is both the cause of the denial of the religion of God and the source of conflict upon earth.

@multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @suffering and imprisonment, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @chastisement and requital, @call to action, @development of capacity and readiness

ROB2.283, ROB3.089, BLO_PT#023, MMAH.187, GSH.179, LL#232, LL#234

BH11591

Lawh-i-Haji Muhammad Baqir II

unknown

ROB2.278, STOB.021a, LL#109

BH11590

Lawh-i-Haji Muhammad Baqir I

unknown

ROB2.276, STOB.020, LL#108

BH00248

Suriy-i-'Ibad

2520

Arabic

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Suriy-i-Ibad (Tablet of the Servants)

شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و انا کل له عابدون شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و انا کل

God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, and verily all are His worshippers. God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, and verily all [3.5s]... ...Contemplate with thine inward eye the chain of successive Revelations that hath linked the Manifestation of Adam

INBA47:077x, BLIB_Or15723.050, , BLIB_Or15738.006, , NLAI_BH1.312

BRL_DA#005x, GWBP#031 p.055bx, AQA4#073 p.023, AQA4a.244, ASAT4.307x, OOL.B124

BRL_APBH#12x, GWB#031x, GPB.151x5x, HURQ.BH31

S. Jaberi

Declares the continuity of Bahá’u’lláh’s prophetic claim with the ‘chain of successive Revelations that hath linked the Manifestation of Adam with that of the Báb’, relates the events of His banishment from Baghdad to Edirne, and delivers specific guidance to a number of followers named in the tablet.

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @banishment to; life in Constantinople, @exhortations and counsels, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @self-concealment of the Manifestation of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

ROB2.272, MMAH.154, GSH.112, LL#309

BH00006

Lawh-i-Sarraj

26800

mixed

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Sarraj (Tablet to Sarraj)

نامه آنجناب بین یدی العرش حاضر و بر مقر انه لایعرف بما سواه واصل و ما فیه

Thy letter hath been made present before the Throne and hath reached the Seat of Him Who is known through naught else but Himself, and that which it contained [3.5s]... ...Shake off, O heedless ones, the slumber of negligence, that ye may behold the radiance which His glory hath spread through the world.

INBA35:190, INBA73:198, INBA33:081bx, INBA76:001, PR19.072b-110b, BN_suppl.1754.075-124

BRL_DA#029, GWBP#050 p.073cx, GWBP#097 p.130ax, MAS4.046ax, MAS4.090bx, MAS4.100ax, MAS4.364ax, MAS4.350bx, MAS4.174bx, MAS7.004, ASAT4.271x, ASAT4.272x, ASAT4.487x, AKHA_122BE #04 p.?x, AKHA_137BE #08 p.ax, ANDA#05 p.06x, ANDA#69 p.05x, MSHR4.286x, YMM.468x, OOL.B201

BRL_ATBH#67x, BRL_ATBH#72x, BRL_ATBH#76x, BRL_ATBH#77x, GWB#050x, GWB#097x, LOG#0327x, ADJ.080x, GPB.098x, GPB.102x, GPB.171x, PDC.019-020x, WOB.063x2x, WOB.104x2x, WOB.107x, WOB.108x2x, BLO_PT#075x, HURQ.BH51

One of the longest works of Bahá’u’lláh, written in answer to questions regarding the enigma of the outwardly exalted station of Mírzá Yaḥyá and arguing, citing various statements of the Báb, that virtues become transmuted into vices when one turns away from the light of truth.

@infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat], @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual transformation, @collection; ordering of the Sacred Writings, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @the power of words; of speech, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @power of the Manifestation of God

ROB2.262 et al, MMAH.140, LL#242

BH00431

Lawh-i-Ibna'

1630

Arabic

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

تلک لآیات الله المهیمن القیوم الی الذینهم آمنوا بالله و آیاته و هم من فزع

These are the verses of God, the All-Protecting, the Self-Subsisting, unto them that have believed in God and His signs, and who are among those that are in terror [3.5s]... ...And now, concerning thy question regarding the creation of man. Know thou that all men have been created in the nature made by God

INBA35:063

BRL_DA#109, GWBP#077 p.101ax, RSBB.069, TZH5.148x, MAS1.065x, AHDW.010, YIK.050-054, OOL.B161

BRL_ATBH#38x, GWB#077x, GPB.242x, SW_v08#14 p.185x

Admonishes the believers not to deny Him, not to forget the Covenant established in the Bayán and in all the sacred Books, and not to contend with His verses. Answers three questions out of more than twenty that were asked: regarding the station of man -- that all were created in God's nature and have been assigned predetermined measures of capacities and capabilities, which manifest according to their individual efforts; regarding His own station, which is greater than the creation of the heavens and the earth; and regarding the station of His sons, one of whom which will be manifested "through the power of the true Faith".

@free will and predestination; fate, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @power of the Manifestation of God, @rejection by the people of the Bayan

ROB2.259-260, LL#141, LL#384, LL#433

BH00049

Lawh-i-Nasir

5960

mixed

Tablet to Hájí Muhammad-Nasír-i-Qazvíní (Lawh-i-Hájí Muhammad-Nasír-i-Qazvíní); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Nasir or Lawh-i-Hájí Muhammad-Nasír-i-Qazvíní (Tablet to Hájí Muhammad-Nasir-i-Qazvini)

قلم اعلی لازال بر اسم احبای خود متحرک و جاری و آنی از فیوضات لابدایات خود

The Pen of the Most High hath never ceased to make mention of the names of His loved ones…. All praise be unto Thee, O Lord, in that Thou hast sent down from the heaven of Thy bounty that whereby the worlds are purified

INBA73:144, CMB_F22, , PR19.061b-069b, PR23.052b-060b, BN_suppl.1754.064-075

BRL_DA#032, GWBP#053 p.076x, GWBP#075 p.097x, ADM2#106 p.191x, AVK1.019.01x, AVK1.150x, AVK2.016.15x, AVK2.075.20x, AVK2.116.03x, AVK3.313.15x, AVK3.407.08x, AVK4.141.02x, MJMM.166, RSBB.152, TZH4.121x, MAS4.160bx, DLS.506x, ASAT1.032x, ASAT1.123x, ASAT1.154x, ASAT2.058x, ASAT2.101x, ASAT2.191x, ASAT3.009x, ASAT3.093x, ASAT3.203x, ASAT3.217x, ASAT4.006x, ASAT4.008x, ASAT4.372x, ASAT5.224x, ADH1.083x, YMM.340x, OOL.B063

BRL_ATBH#74x, GWB#053x, GWB#075x, COC#1651x, COC#1652x, ADJ.057x, GPB.171x, GPB.377x, WOB.106x, BLO_PT#176, HURQ.BH52, JHT_S#092x

Affirms the ceaselessness of divine grace and guidance, which brings forth fruit provided the seed is cast upon fertile soil; asserts the continuity of His mission with those of Jesus, Muhammad, and the Báb; clarifies the position of Mírzá Yaḥyá as nominal figurehead; exposes the latter’s attempt to take Bahá’u’lláh’s life; and affirms that ‘every man hath been, and will continue to be, able of himself to appreciate the Beauty of God’.

@chastisement and requital, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @proclamation to people of the Bayan, @microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar], @station of the Manifestation of God, @praise and encouragement, @suffering and imprisonment, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB2.245 et al, MMAH.193, GSH.173, LL#201

BH02198

Lawh-i-'Ashiq va Ma'shuq

400

Persian

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Days of Remembrance

Lawh-i-Ashiq va Mashuq (Tablet of the Lover and the Beloved)

ای بلبلان الهی از خارستان ذلت بگلستان معنوی بشتابید و ای یاران ترابی قصد

Release yourselves, O nightingales of God, from the thorns and brambles of wretchedness and misery

INBA35:041, Majlis210461.046-048

GWBP#151 p.205c, MJMM.334, AYT.319, DWNP_v4#11-12 p.059-060, UAB.059c.11x, DRD.029x, PYB#019 p.01, AHB_104BE #06 p.003, AHB_118BE #02 p.031, AKHA_120BE #02-03 p.b, AKHA_130BE #03 p.a, AKHA_133BE #11 p.252, AKHA_134BE #03 p.105, AKHA_135BE #02 p.25, ANDA#02 p.02, MSBH6.406x, OOL.B028, AMB#21

GWB#151, DOR#21

R. Lea, KC Porter, TaliaSafa, Mona, Sasha & Sam, Eduke

Addresses the ‘nightingales of God’, announcing the blooming of a ‘new flower’ in the ‘rose-garden of changeless splendour’, calling them to detach themselves from the world and to taste ‘the abandonment of enraptured love’, and warning them of the fleeting nature of their opportunity.

@transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @spiritual transformation, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @love of God, @Manifestation of God as sun

ROB2.241, MMAH.136, GSH.176, LL#064

BH00071

Suriy-i-Hajj II (Baghdad)

5070

Arabic

Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of Bahá'u'lláh (Suriy-i-Hajj)

Suriy-i-Hajj (Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of Bahá'u'lláh)

فسبحان الذی نزل الایات بالحق و ینزل بامره کیف یشاء لا اله الا هو العزیز

Glorified be He Who hath sent down the verses in truth and doth send down through His command whatsoever He willeth. There is no God but Him, the Mighty [3.5s]... ...I beg Thy forgiveness, O Lord, with the entirety of my being—my tongue, my heart, my breath, my soul, my spirit, my body... It is incumbent on whomsoever desireth to turn to the most holy direction, to come into the presence of God, the Mighty, the Knowing, to hearken unto the call of God

INBA37:066, INBA66:012, BLIB_Or15723.194, , BLIB_Or15737.033,

BRL_DA#166, AQA4#084 p.192, ADM2#107 p.193x, AVK4.109, GHA.070x, DRD.009x, TSBT.077x, ASAT1.094x, ASAT2.109x, ASAT4.022x, ADH1.082x, OOL.B120

RBB.163-168x, BLO_PT#117x, HURQ.BH54, JHT_S#193x

Prescribes the rite of pilgrimage to the House of Bahá’u’lláh in Baghdad, codified later in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas as a sacred duty.

@prayer for forgiveness, @law of pilgrimage, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @spiritual transformation, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @inability of the Manifestation; Prophet to comprehend God

ROB2.240, MMAH.152, GSH.083, LL#305

BH00058

Suriy-i-Hajj I (Shiraz)

5550

Arabic

Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of the Báb (Suriy-i-Hajj)

Suriy-i-Hajj (Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of the Báb)

تلک آیات الله قد نزلت حینئذ عن قطب البقاء مقام الذی یطوفن فی حوله اهل سرادق

These are the verses of God which have been sent down in this hour from the Focal Point of eternity, that Station round which circle the dwellers of the pavilion [3.5s]... ...O Muhammad, when the fragrances of holiness have drawn thee unto them and turned thee unto the land of the All-Merciful that thou mayest discover the breezes of divine praise

INBA73:005, INBA83:049, BLIB_Or15723.168, , BLIB_Or15737.006,

AQA4#078 p.075, AVK4.120, GHA.039x, GHA.069ax, TSBT.093x, RHQM2.0809-834 (222) (137-151), ASAT2.113x, ASAT4.426x, ASAT5.029x, OOL.B119

RBB.154-162x, BLO_PT#118x, HURQ.BH53, GEN.371-380

Prescribes the rite of pilgrimage to the House of the Báb in Shiraz, codified later in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas as a sacred duty.

@suffering and imprisonment, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

ROB2.240, BKOG.250, MMAH.152, GSH.082, LL#304

BH00358

Suriy-i-Dam

1850

Arabic

Tablet of Blood (Súriy-i-Damm); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Suriy-i-Damm (Tablet of Blood)

ان یا محمد اسمع ندآء ربک عن هذا المقام الذی لن یصل الله ایدی الممکنات و لا

O Muhammad! Hearken unto the call of thy Lord from this Station whereunto the hands of all created things cannot attain [3.5s]... ...Adorn thyself with My virtues, in such wise that should anyone stretch forth the hand of oppression against thee, thou wouldst neither take notice nor contend with him.

INBA83:066, BLIB_Or15723.156,

BRL_DA#157, GWBP#039 p.064x, AQA4#075 p.059, AQA4a.001, TZH4.360-366, ASAT4.167x, ASAT5.200x, ASAT5.226x, OOL.B111

BRL_ATBH#61x, GWB#039x, WOB.118-119x, WOB.139x, BLO_PT#109, HURQ.BH42

Proclamatory work declaring the oneness of the Prophets through a vision of the words of the dying Imám Ḥusayn, who identifies his sufferings with those of Abraham, Moses, Joseph, John the Baptist, Jesus, the Báb, and Bahá’u’lláh.

@suffering and imprisonment, @call to action, @prophecy and fulfillment, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @return of the Manifestations of God, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @the power of words; of speech

ROB2.236, MMAH.223, GSH.081, LL#296

Sometimes spelled as Súriy-i-Damm.

BH00597

Lawh-i-Ashraf

1270

Arabic

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablet to Ashraf

Lawh-i Ashraf (Tablet to Ahsraf)

ان یا اشرف اسمع ما یلقیک لسان القدم و لاتکن من الغافلین و ان استماع نغمه من نغمات

O Ashraf, listen carefully to what the Tongue of the Eternal has to say. Any one of the melodies of your Lord would be sufficient to attract the hearts

INBA83:216, BLIB_Or15702.276, , NLAI_BH2.308, ALIB.folder18p167

BRL_DA#722, GWBP#052 p.075x, AVK3.088.11x, MJMM.211, ASAT1.123x, ASAT1.140x, ASAT2.065x, ASAT5.347x, OOL.B027

GWB#052x, BLO_PT#171

A summons to the recognition of Bahá’u’lláh, naming the proofs of His cause as His own self, His revelation, and His words, and admonishing the Bábís who had not yet embraced it.

@proofs of the Manifestations of God, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @praise and encouragement, @proclamation to people of the Bayan, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @personal instructions, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

ROB2.230, ROB2.120, GSH.186, LL#063

Quoted in the Lawh-i-Istintaq, BH00015.

BH11596

Ziyarat-Namih for the martyrs of Zanjan

unknown

ROB2.229, LL#349

BH00395

Lawh-i-Sayyah (=Suratu'l-Widad)

1720

Arabic

Lawh-i-Sayyah (Tablet of the Traveller)

ان یا علی فاشهد بانی ظهور الله فی جبروت البقاء و بطونه فی غیب العماء و جمال

O Ali! Bear thou witness that verily I am the Manifestation of God in the Kingdom of eternity, His concealment in the mystic realm of the divine cloud, and the Beauty [3.5s]... ...Upon Our arrival We were welcomed with banners of light, whereupon the Voice of the Spirit cried out saying

INBA36:052, INBA71:211

BRL_DA#396, RSBB.075, MUH3.258-262, OOL.B079

GPB.184x2x, HURQ.BH49

Declares Bahá’u’lláh’s messianic claim; urges the Bábís to embrace it; relates a mystical journey to different groups of people who, though outwardly pious, were veiled in various ways from recognizing the truth; and foretells His further exile to the ‘vale of Nabíl’, later interpreted as a reference to the city of ‘Akká.

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @spiritual transformation, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @station of the Manifestation of God, @self-concealment of the Manifestation of God, @banishment to; life in 'Akka

ROB2.210, ROB3.013, BKOG.220, BKOG.245, MMAH.220, GSH.079, LL#236

BH00032

Lawh-i-Ruh

7220

Arabic

Lawḥ-i-Rúh (Tablet of the Spirit)

فسبحان الذی فی قبضته ملکوت ملک الآیات یصرفها کیف یشآء بأمر

Glorified be He in Whose grasp lieth the dominion of the realm of verses, Who directeth them as He pleaseth through His command [3.5s]

INBA37:018, INBA83:073, BLIB_Or15723.082, , PR23.001b-015b

AQA4#081 p.123, AQA4a.150, ASAT1.276x, OOL.B073

Refutes certain claims of Mírzá Yaḥyá; asserts the magnitude of Bahá’u’lláh’s own station, whose full transformative power remains, out of wisdom, as yet undivulged; and foretells the ultimate triumph of His cause.

@suffering and imprisonment, @proclamation to people of the Bayan, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @oneness; unity of religion

ROB2.181, ROB2.260, MMAH.185, GSH.085, LL#224

BH00287

Lawh-i-Baha

2190

mixed

Lawh-i-Bahá (Tablet of Glory)

ان یا امه الله ا تصبرین علی مقعدک بعد الذی کان قمیص الغلام محمرا بدم البغضاء

O Maidservant of God! Be patient under all circumstances and mindful of the fact that the robe of this Youth was dyed crimson with the blood of enmity betwixt earth and heaven

INBA35:070x, NLAI_BH1.269x

BRL_DA#703, AQA7#394-395 p.154, ASAT5.348x, OOL.B030a, OOL.B030b

HURQ.BH38

Identifies Himself and His sufferings with those of prophets past; compares Mírzá Yaḥyá to the biblical Balaam, who rejected Moses after having occupied an exalted station; and bids His own followers, the newly named ‘people of Bahá’, to enter the ‘ark of eternity’ upon the ‘crimson sea’.

@suffering and imprisonment, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @proclamation to people of the Bayan, @martyrs and martyrdom

ROB2.179, ROB2.171, MMAH.119, GSH.040, LL#071

BH04972

190

Arabic

ان یا امه الله اسمعی ندآء الله عن هذا الغصن الذی کان علی وادی القدس عن یمین

O handmaid of God! Hearken unto the Call of God from this Branch that standeth in the holy vale upon the right hand [3.5s]

NLAI_BH1.340

RSBB.068a

@station of the Manifestation of God

ROB2.179, LL#002

BH09983

Arabic

کتاب انزله المحبوب لیشتعل به قلوب الذین نبذوا اهوائهم و اخذوا ما امروا به من

The Book which the Beloved hath sent down, that thereby may be kindled the hearts of them that have cast aside their desires and taken hold of that which they were commanded [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15697.155b,

@praise and encouragement, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause

ROB2.179, LL#002

BH11600

unknown

ROB2.179, LL#002

BH00970

Lawh-i-Laylatu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Sacred Night - Adrianople)

850

mixed

Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh Laylat al-Quds (Tablet of the Sacred Night, Edirne)

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی تشهد و تری کیف ابتلیت بین عبادک بعد الذی مااردت الا الخضوع

The Most Great Name beareth Me witness! How sad if any man were, in this Day, to rest his heart on the transitory things of this world!

INBA81:021x, BLIB_Or15698.213, , BLIB_Or15720.209, , BLIB_Or15740.162, , Majlis934.127-133x

BRL_DA#715, GWBP#147 p.203x, AVK2.027.04x, AVK3.240x, IQT.213, MJMM.227, HDQI.027ax, ASAT3.212x, ASAT4.015x, ASAT5.248x, ASAT5.284x, AHB_107BE #09 p.180x, AKHA_105BE #06 p.001x, AKHA_108BE #08 p.002x, OOL.B001bx

GWB#147x, ADJ.083x, SW_v07#19 p.191, SW_v10#01 p.001, BSC.133 #051x

Calls on His followers to be closely united and to associate with their neighbours ‘with faces joyous and beaming with light’.

@love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @call to unity; prohibition of disunity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @being a source of light; guidance, @human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB2.164, ROB2.188, GSH.209, LL#147

Sometimes referred to in the plural, Alváḥ-i-Laylatu’l-Quds. Not to be confused with Inventory #BH00915.

BH01822

Lawh-i-Amr

490

Arabic

Suriy-i-Amr (Surih of Command)

هذا لوح الامر قد نزل من لدن مالک القدر لیقرب الناس الی المنظر الاکبر هذا المقام

This is the Tablet of Command which hath been sent down from the presence of the Lord of Destiny, that it may draw mankind nigh unto the Most Great Vision, this exalted station [3.5s]... ...There hath appeared in this Revelation what hath never appeared before. As to the infidels that have witnessed what hath been manifested

INBA34:145, BLIB_Or15707.079, , BLIB_Or15735.242, , NLAI_BH3.157

BRL_DA#660, GWBP#067 p.090x, AQA1#024, AVK2.274.04x, SFI13.017, ASAT1.207x, TISH.276-278, FBAH.143, DLH2.218, HYK.242, LDR.430x

GWB#067x

@service to others; to the Cause of God, @suffering and imprisonment, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @Word of God and human limitations, @power of the Manifestation of God, @proofs of the Manifestations of God

ROB2.161, LL#047

BH00084

Suriy-i-Amr

4760

Arabic

سبحان الذی خلق الخلق بأمره و ابدع خلق کلشیء اقرب من ان یحصی ان انتم تعلمون

Glorified be He Who hath created all beings through His command and brought forth the creation of all things in ways beyond reckoning, were ye to comprehend [3.5s]

INBA36:001, INBA71:155, INBA81:108, BLIB_Or07852.093, , BLIB_Or15723.109, , PR19.069b-072bx, PR23.060b-063bx, ROB2.000x

BRL_DA#725, NANU_BH#17x, RSBB.026, RSBB.030, RSBB.033, SFI13.019, ASAT4.303x, ASAT4.326x, YIA.549-553x, OOL.B105

Major proclamatory work formalizing Bahá’u’lláh’s claim to divine messengership, read aloud at His instruction to Mírzá Yaḥyá and written partly in the voice of God and partly in the voice of Bahá’u’lláh, describing the rivers of paradise and apostrophizing earth and heaven, the trees and clouds, the lands of ‘Iraq and Rumelia, and the followers of the Báb.

@expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @heaven and paradise; heaven and hell, @suffering and imprisonment, @chastisement and requital, @proclamation to people of the Bayan

ROB2.161, BKOG.230, MMAH.141, GSH.073, LL#291

BHU0001

Panj Kanz (The Five Treasures)

1400

Persian

Panj Kanz (Five Treasures)

کنز اول قومی در بیرونی بیت قدَم میزدند وبرخی از شاهزادگان ایران حضور داشتند

Dost thou know what sort of person is worthy of hearing My words and is fit to enter My presence?

TZH4.255-259x, PKNZ, DHU.049x, ANDA#40 p.10, OOL.B156

SW_v16#02 p.431x, ADMS#017

@mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @fellowship with the wayward and ungodly, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @divine attributes are within all things; every atom

ROB2.140-143x, MMAH.162, LL#207

BH00249

Lawh-i-Ahmad (Persian)

2510

Persian

Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Provisional Translation of the Persian Tablet of Ahmad

Lawh-i-Ahmad (Tablet of Ahmad (Persian))

اینست بدایع نصایح الهی که بلسان قدرت در مکمن عظمت و مقعد قدس رفعت خود میفرماید پس بگوش

O banished and faithful friend! Quench the thirst of heedlessness with the sanctified waters of My grace

INBA38:018, INBA65:185, INBA35:073, INBA36:401, NLI.32p145r, PR23.041b-045b, Majlis210461.020-030, BN_suppl.1753.106-115

BRL_DA#126, GWBP#152 p.207x, GWBP#153 p.208x, AVK1.021.09x, ZYN.070, MJMM.315, DRD.114, MAS8.038bx, ASAT5.106x, PYM.012x, OOL.B023b

GWB#152x, GWB#153x, ADJ.081x, ADJ.082x, PDC.024-025x, SW_v07#06 p.044x, SW_v07#16 p.152x, SW_v14#02 p.040x, BLO_PT#073, BSC.223 #435-443

L. Slott, A. Youssefi (1), A. Youssefi (2), E. Mahony (1), E. Mahony (2), E. Mahony (3), A. Bryan, Samira & Sara, MANA, Soulrise Melodies (1), Soulrise Melodies (2), A.E. Rahbin, E. Kelly, K. Porray, M. Levine [track 7]

Sets forth the conditions of spiritual search, with purity of heart being foremost; compares His revelation to that of an ocean which yields up its pearls in proportion to the eagerness of the search; and proclaims that ‘this fathomless and surging ocean is near, astonishingly near, unto you’.

@transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @knowledge of self, @spiritual transformation, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB2.137, BKOG.157, BKOG.223, BKOG.245, MMAH.184, LL#041

BH05741

170

Arabic

ذکر من لدنا للتی آمنت بربها و کانت من القانتات فی لوح عظیم اذا اشرقت شمس

A remembrance from Our presence unto her who hath believed in her Lord and was among the devoted ones, in a mighty Tablet, when the sun shone forth [3.5s]

MAS4.365bx, MUH3.031, OOL.B185

@praise and encouragement, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @love of God, @chastisement and requital, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God

ROB2.127, LL#256

BH01231

680

mixed

Lawh-i-Muhammad-`Alí I and II

ای محمد قبل علی بشنو ندای محبوب باوفا را که از شطر ابهی ندا میفرماید و

O Muhammad-'Ali! Hearken unto the call of thy faithful Beloved, Who from the Most Glorious Horizon doth proclaim and [3.5s]... ...I swear by the beauty of the Well-Beloved! This is the Mercy that hath encompassed the entire creation, the Day whereon the grace of God hath permeated and pervaded all things

INBA35:035, INBA74:097, BLIB_Or03116.106r, , BLIB_Or11096#033, , BLIB_Or15710.208, , BLIB_Or15722.151,

BRL_DA#767, GWBP#142 p.198x, ADM1#010 p.031x, AVK3.178.13x, RSBB.090, MAS4.110, ASAT5.167x, ADH1.029x

GWB#142x

@prayer for forgiveness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

ROB2.117, LL#186

BH02022

Lawh-i-Ahmad (Arabic)

440

Arabic

Bahá'í Prayers; Tablet of Ahmad, Arabic (Lawh-i-Ahmad); Tablet of Ahmad (Arabic)

Lawh-i-Ahmad (Tablet of Ahmad (Arabic))

هذه ورقه الفردوس تغنی علی افنان سدره البقا بالحان قدس ملیح و یبشر المخلصین

Lo, the Nightingale of Paradise singeth upon the twigs of the Tree of Eternity, with holy and sweet melodies

INBA19:001, INBA32:002, INBA36:041, INBA71:199, INBA30:076, BN_suppl.1974.067

BRL_DA#197, AHM.193, RSBB.007, SFI17.008, TZH4.302, TSBT.215, NSR_1993.025, NFF1.016, BSHA.032, ASAT5.103x, ABMK.052, OOL.B023a

BPRY.307

Ahdieh, L. Slott, G.H. Miller, Seals & Crofts, L. Bergsmo & S. Vadeghani, R. Lehmer-Chang, MANA, N. Hamilton, R. Grammer [track 2], L. Dely, L. Dely & M. Congo, KC Porter, Ladjamaya [track 15], almunajat.com [item 19], F. Dehghan & M. Weigert

Brief words of consolation and encouragement to its recipient, affirming the prophetic station of the Báb, exhorting steadfastness, and assuring the resolution of difficulties and the removal of afflictions to the one who chants it.

@suffering and imprisonment, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @power of prayer, @recompense; reward for belief; right action, @Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha

ROB2.107, MMAH.183, GSH.074, LL#040

BH00076

Suriy-i-Ashab (=Lawh-i-Habib)

4960

Arabic

Surah of the Companions

Suriy-i-Ashab or Lawh-i Habib (Surah of the Companions or Tablet for the Beloved One)

ح ب اسمع ندآء الله عن جهه العرش بایات مهیمن مقدم عظیم لعل تقلب بکلک الی

H.B. Give ear unto the divine summons from the precincts of the Throne, as We recite to thee the verses of God

INBA83:027b, BLIB_Or15723.031b,

AQA4#072b p.001, AQA4a.205, TZH4.354-360, MAS4.355ax, ASAT3.071x, OOL.B039, OOL.B107

WOB.108-109x, BLO_PT#094, HURQ.BH32

Proclamatory work playing a major role in the conversion of the followers of the Báb to the cause of Bahá’u’lláh, declaring His prophetic station to a number of receptive individuals while attesting that if it were revealed to humanity to an extent smaller than a needle’s eye, it would cause every mountain to crumble into dust.

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @power of faith; power of the spirit, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ROB2.065, MMAH.151, GSH.075, LL#095, LL#293

BH11580

First Tablet to Ali Pasha

unknown

ROB2.058, LL#216

BH00108

Mathnavi-yi-Mubarak

4040

Persian

Mathnaviyí-i Mubárak; Mathnaví-yi Mubárak; Mathnaví of the Blessed One

Mathnaviyi-i Mubarak

ای حیات العرش خورشید وداد که جهان و امکان چه تو نوری نزاد گر نبودی خلق محجوب

You! Life-force of God's throne, compassion's sun, Time's universe has birthed no light like Yours! From seeing God, creation's eyes are barred

INBA30:131, OSAI I.MMSx, , MKA.06 Mil Yz A 2791 p14,

BRL_DA#272, MSNV, AQA3#070 p.160, DWNP_v4#07 p.038-039x, DWNP_v5#04 p.003x, TZH4.139-141x, HHA.058x, ASAT1.119x, ASAT4.015x, AHB_124BE #01 p.002x, AHB_130BE #03-04 p.130x, OOL.B089

GPB.099x, BLO_PT#055, BLO_PT#218, HURQ.BH28

Ahdieh (1), Ahdieh (2), unknown

Ecstatic poem in rhyming couplets, written during the journey to Istanbul and announcing the Day of God and the divine springtime but warning that it can only be perceived by those possessing a spiritual eye.

@walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @spiritual transformation, @love of God, @symbolism, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @suffering and imprisonment, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ROB2.029, MMAH.233, GSH.071, LL#270

BH00759

Lawh-i-Naqus (=Subhanaka Ya Hu)

1040

Arabic

Lawh-i-Naqus (Tablet of the Bell)

یا راهب الاحدیه اضرب علی الناقوس بما ظهر یوم الله و استوی جمال العز علی عرش

This is the garden of Paradise, wherein arise the anthems of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting; wherein ascend the soul-entrancing melodies

INBA36:466, BLIB_Or15706.083, , BLIB_Or15714.020,

AHM.141, AYT.100, NSR_1993.099, TSQA4.293, ABMK.040, OOL.B101, AMB#26, RMT.023

DOR#26, RBB.169-172, BLO_PT#122, BLO_PT#123, BLO_PT#124

Proclamatory tablet, with repeated refrain celebrating the name ‘He’, commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the declaration of the Báb.

@heaven and paradise; heaven and hell, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @monasticism; asceticism, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @nearness and remoteness, @prayer for detachment, @Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha

ROB2.018, EBTB.130, BKOG.206, MMAH.103, GSH.071, LL#288

BH01069

Lawh-i-Hawdaj (=Lawh-i-Samsun)

780

Arabic

Lawh-i-Hawdaj (Tablet of the Howdah)

تلک آیات ظهرت فی خدر البقا و هودج القدس حین ورود اسم الاعظم عن شطر السبحان

These verses were revealed behind the Veil of Immortality, in the Howdah of Holiness, when the Most Great Name arrived

BRL_DA#728, LHKM1.012, SFI08.015, ASAT4.241x, AKHA_122BE #10 p.ax, AKHA_122BE #10 p.bx, OOL.B042, OOL.B078

GPB.157x2x, HURQ.BH29

Written upon Bahá’u’lláh’s arrival on the shores of the Black Sea en route to Istanbul, announcing the fulfilment of what was foretold in the ‘Tablet of the Holy Mariner’ a short time before, and warning of an impending ‘grievous and tormenting mischief ’ that would serve as the ‘divine touchstone’ separating truth from error.

@power of the Manifestation of God, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @banishment to; life in Constantinople

ROB2.006, BKOG.195, GPB.157, MMAH.111, GSH.067, LL#115, LL#235

See howdah at wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdah.

BH00151

Lawh-i-Qina'

3480

mixed

Tablet of the Veil (Lawh-i-Qina')

Lawh-i-Qina (Tablet of the Veil)

یکی از احبای الهی مکتوبی بیکی از علمای معروف نوشته و در آن مکتوب سوالات چندی

One of the loved ones of God wrote a letter to Ḥájí Muḥammad Karím Khán, in which he posed a number of questions...For twelve years We tarried in Baghdád. Much as We desired that a large gathering of divines and fair-minded men be convened

INBA38:165, INBA35:007, INBA90:044, BLIB_Or15698.190, , BLIB_Or15720.188, , BLIB_Or15740.144, , NLAI_BH2.320, NLAI_BH3.167, Majlis934.199-229, BN_suppl.1754.124-131

BRL_DA#719, AVK1.307.08x, AVK2.101.18x, AVK2.108.15x, AVK2.273.08x, AVK3.103.10x, AVK3.396.06x, IQT.190, MJMM.067, ASAT2.012x, ASAT3.279x, ASAT4.519x, ASAT4.520x, ASAT4.204x, ASAT5.174x, ASAT5.239x, TUM.050-051x, NSS.089-090x, NSS.190-199, OOL.B067

BKOG.148x, PDC.139x, HURQ.BH63x, ADMS#199

Sharply rebuts accusations, made by the leader of the Shaykhí school, of grammatical discrepancies in the writings of the Báb, asserting that divine revelation is not constrained by man-made rules, citing in support several examples from the Qur’an and challenging him with Bahá’u’lláh’s own prophetic claim.

@Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @Word of God is its own standard

ROB1.334, MMAH.137, GSH.176, LL#212

BH00030

7400

mixed

Tablet of Ridván (Lawh-i-Ridván); Days of Remembrance

Lawh-i-Ridvan (Tablets of Ridvan)

حمد مقدس از حقیقت و مجاز حضرت بینیازیرا لایق و سزاست که از نقطه چهار رکن

Sanctified praise, transcending reality and metaphor, beseemeth and befitteth the Most Exalted Lord, Who from the Point hath fashioned the four pillars [3.5s]... ...On the first day that the Ancient Beauty ascended His Most Great Throne in the garden named Riḍván, the Tongue of Glory gave utterance to three blessed words.

INBA44:205

AVK3.456.09x, MAS8.064x, ASAT4.022x, BCH.041x, AMB#09x

DOR#09x

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @station of the Manifestation of God, @power of the Manifestation of God

ROB1.278, LL#333

BH00821

Tablet of the Divine Springtime

990

Arabic

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Days of Remembrance

Lawh-i-Ridvan (Tablets of Ridvan)

ان یا قلم الاعلی قد اتی ربیع البیان بما تقرب عید الرحمن قم بین ملا الانشاء

The Divine Springtime is come, O Most Exalted Pen, for the Festival of the All-Merciful is fast approaching.

BLIB_Or15692.037, , BLIB_Or15706.061, , BLIB_Or15714.027,

GWBP#014 p.027, AYT.254, OOL.B203, AMB#06

GWB#014, DOR#06, ADJ.078x, GPB.154x3x, GPB.154-155x, WOB.206x

R. Yazhari (1), R. Yazhari (2), E. Mahony, TaliaSafa (1), TaliaSafa (2), B. Butler, Joel in Real Life, Joel in Real Life

@love of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual transformation, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @proclamation to the people of the world, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ROB1.274, ROB2.397, BKOG.169, LL#221

BH00034

Suriy-i-Sabr (=Lawh-i-Ayyub)

7050

Arabic

Tablet of Patience, or Tablet of Job (Súrih-i-Sabr or Lawh-i-Ayyúb); Tablet of Patience, or Tablet of Job (Súrih-i-Sabr or Lawh-i-Ayyúb)

Surih-i-Sabr or Lawh-i-Ayyub (Tablet of Patience or Tablet of Job)

ذکر الله فی مدینه الصبر عبده ایوبا اذ آویناه فی ظل شجره القدس فی فواده و اشهدناه

This is the remembrance of God in the City of Patience regarding Job, Our servant, Whom We sheltered under the shade of that Holy Tree planted in His heart

INBA36:173, INBA73:082, Berlin1237#08

BRL_DA#726, AYT.262, LMA1.379 (228), MAS4.282, ASAT5.246x, ASAT5.309x, ASAT5.247x, FBAH.160x, OOL.B138

WOB.116x, BLO_PT#116, HURQ.BH23, NYR#144

Major work, written on the first day of Riḍván as He was departing Baghdad, praising the Bábís of the Nayriz upheaval of 1850 and in particular their leader, Siyyid Yaḥyáy-i-Dárábí (Vaḥíd), recounting their sufferings and condemning their persecutors; describes the sufferings of the biblical Job, comparing them to those of the recipient of the tablet, who played a key role in supporting the defenders at Nayríz; commends fortitude and patience in the face of suffering; foretells the coming of ‘the birds of darkness’; and proclaims the continuity of divine revelation.

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @stories; anecdotes, @consolation and comfort, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB1.263, BKOG.131, BKOG.195, MMAH.203, GSH.055, LL#327

BH00845

Suratu'llah

970

Arabic

Surah of God

Súratu'lláh (Surah of God)

ان یا علی بعد نبیل اسمع ندآء ربک حین الذی یرید ان یخرج عن بینکم بما اکتسبت

O Muhammad-`Ali, hearken to this proclamation from thy Lord, at a time when He desireth to depart out from among ye by reason of what the hands of the oppressors have wrought

BLIB_Or15723.162, , BLIB_Or15737.001,

AQA4#076 p.068, AQA4a.016, ASAT2.111x, OOL.B102

BLO_PT#091, HURQ.BH25

Declares the divinity of His station, rebukes the followers of the Báb for plotting against Him, and announces His temporary retirement from the community.

@suffering and imprisonment, @self-concealment of the Manifestation of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @proclamation to people of the Bayan

ROB1.245, MMAH.153, GSH.060, LL#316

BH01644

Lawh-i-Bulbulu'l-Firaq (Tablet of the Nightingale of Bereavement)

530

mixed

Tablet of Nightingale of Separation (Lawh-i-Bulbulu'l-Firáq)

Lawh-i-Bulbulul-Firaq (Tablet of Nightingale of Separation)

بلبل الفراق علی غصن الافاق ینادی هذا الفراق یا ملا الاشتیاق و طیر الوفا یتغن

The nightingale of separation, perched upon the branch of the horizon, calls out in grief, you who are filled with yearning

INBA38:063, INBA36:376b, INBA71:074b

AQA4#095 p.324x, AQA4a.363x, GSH.042, OOL.B034a, OOL.B034b

SW_v12#16 p.251, BLO_PT#115

Announces in sorrowful language His departure from Baghdad and reproaches those who had thus far failed to recognize Him.

@banishment to; life in Baghdad, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @call to action, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @symbolism, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ROB1.244, MMAH.079, LL#080

BH01026

Lawh-i-Mallahu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Holy Mariner - Arabic)

810

Arabic

Bahá'í Scriptures; Bahá'í Prayers; Tablet of the Holy Mariner; Tablet of the Holy Mariner

Lawh-i-Malláhu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Holy Mariner, Arabic)

یا ملاح القدس احضر سفینه البقاء فی الملا الاعلی فسبحان ربی الابهی ثم امسکها

O Holy Mariner! Bid thine ark of eternity appear before the Celestial Concourse, Glorified be my Lord, the All-Glorious!

BLIB_Or15692.001, , BLIB_Or15706.073, , BLIB_Or15714.039, , IOM.094, ROB1.000x

BRL_DA#079, AQA5#136 p.176, HDQI.043, MAS4.335, AKHA_117BE #09-10 p.ax, YMM.291x, OOL.B055a

BPRY.319, SW_v13#04 p.075, DWN_v3#05 p.031-034, BLO_PT#131, BLO_PT#132, BSC.251 #526, HURQ.BH21

L. Thoresen [track 4]

Relates two different versions of a mystical narrative of the launching of the ‘Crimson Ark’ of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant upon the ocean of glory and foreshadows that some within that Ark will stray and be cast out for desiring ‘to ascend unto that state which the Lord hath ordained to be above their stations’. (Arabic portion)

@spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God, @Crimson Ark; the Ark of God, @suffering and imprisonment, @Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

ROB1.228, BKOG.154, GPB.147, MMAH.109, GSH.019, LL#155

BH02000

Halih Halih ya Bisharat

440

Persian

Tablet of Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah O Glad Tidings (Lawh-i Halih, Halih, Halih yá Bisharát)

Lawh-i Halih, Halih, Halih ya Bisharat (Tablet of Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah O Glad Tidings)

حور بقا از فردوس اعلی آمد هله هله هله یا بشارت با چنگ و نوا هم با کاسه حمرا

The maid of eternity came from the Most Exalted Paradise: Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah O glad tidings!

INBA36:456

BRL_DA#253, HDQI.160, GSH.033, ANDA#18 p.03, OOL.B008

BLO_PT#111, HURQ.BH17

Ecstatic poem celebrating the descent of the Maid of Heaven, who brings both life and death to her lovers.

@symbolism, @mystical themes, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @poems and quotation from poetry, @love of God

ROB1.219, MMAH.143, LL#017

BH01966

Hur-i-'Ujab (The Wondrous Maiden)

450

Arabic

Hur-i-Ujab (Tablet of the Wondrous Maiden)

قد طلع جمال القدس عن خلف الحجاب و ان هذا لشیء عجاب و انصعقت الارواح من نار

The hallowed Beauty shone resplendent from behind the veil. How wondrous a thing, how wondrous indeed!

INBA47:245b, INBA36:463a, BLIB_Or15706.122, , BLIB_Or15714.025,

AHM.153, AYT.251, AHB_120BE #03-06 p.001, OOL.B009, AMB#12

DOR#12, RBB.132-133, BLO_PT#145

L. Slott, R. Yazhari

Ecstatic poem announcing the appearance and unveiling of the Maid of Heaven, her announcement to the people of the world, their rejection of her summons, and her return in sorrow to her abode.

@symbolism, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @mystical themes, @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision

ROB1.218, ROB1.211, MMAH.134, MMAH.232, LL#018, LL#042

BH01007

Az Bagh-i-Ilahi

820

mixed

Az-Bágh-i-Iláhí (From the Divine Garden)

از باغ الهی با سدره ناری آن تازه غلام آمد های های هذا جذب اللهی هذا خلع

Hailing from the godly garden, Invested with the Burning Bush, That fresh and novel Youth is come!

INBA19:037, INBA32:036, INBA36:457, NLI.32p158r

BRL_DA#281, MAS8.023x, OOL.B003

ADMS#115

Poem hailing the revelation of the Báb and the advent of the approaching Day of God, coming with the trumpet blast of the words ‘I am God!’, and shattering the idols of the past.

@detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight, @chastisement and requital, @call to action

ROB1.218, MMAH.118, GSH.066, LL#010

BH00729

Lawh-i-Ghulamu'l-Khuld (Tablet of the Immortal Youth)

1070

mixed

Lawh-i-Ghulamul-Khuld (Tablet of the Immortal Youth)

قد فتحت ابواب الفردوس و طلع غلام القدس بسلطان مبین فیا بشری هذا غلام الخلد

Lo, the gates of Paradise were unlocked, and the hallowed Youth came forth bearing a serpent plain. Rejoice! This is the immortal Youth

INBA36:464, BLIB_Or15706.093, BLIB_Or15706.139, BLIB_Or15714.014,

AQA7#414 p.203, AYT.092, ASAT4.401x, AKHA_124BE #04-05 p.hx, OOL.B038, AMB#27

DOR#27, BLO_PT#127

Narrates in mystical language the appearance of the Immortal Youth (Bahá’u’lláh), whose beauty is compared to that of Joseph, who is unveiled by the Maid of Heaven and who summons His lovers unto Him.

@the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @symbolism, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @mystical themes, @pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient, @spiritual transformation, @love of God

ROB1.213, MMAH.125, GSH.032, LL#090

BH01447

Subhana Rabbiya'l-A'la

600

Arabic

Subḥána Rabbíya'l-A'lá (Praise to the Exalted Lord)

یا حرف البقاء البس نعلی الانقطاع ثم ارکب علی الرفرف الاعلی فسبحان من خلق

Letter of eternity, put on the bridal trousseau of detachment and walk upon the exalted brocade runner; praised be my Lord, the most high.

INBA15:355, INBA19:029, INBA26:359, INBA36:462, INBA81:139, BLIB_Or15706.102, , BLIB_Or15714.017, , NLAI_BH1.229

BRL_DA#250, GSH.061, ASAT3.092x, ASAT3.137x, ASAT4.021x, AKHA_124BE #02-03 p.hx, OOL.B100

WIND#144, HURQ.BH19

Celebrates, through a vision of the appearance and unveiling of the Maid of Heaven, the renewal of the mystic realm and portends future tests and difficulties.

@spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @transcending the material condition, @The Holy Spirit, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ROB1.211, MMAH.201, LL#287

BH00746

Shikkar-Shikan Shavand

1050

mixed

Fire and Light; Tablet of Shikkar Shikan (Shikkar Shikkan Shavand); Tablet of Shikkar Shikan (Shikkar Shikkan Shavand); Tablet of Shikkar Shikan Shavand

Lawh-i-Shikkar Shikan (Tablet of Shikkar Shikan Shavand)

شکرشکن شوند همه طوطیان هند زین قند پارسی که به بنگاله میرود مکتوب آنجناب

Warblers, mellifluous-toned, all the parrots of Ind shall be, Because of this Pársí sugar-cone which to Bengal goes… They that yearn for the abode of the Beloved, they that circle round the sanctuary of the Desired One

INBA38:064, INBA36:351, INBA30:070, BLIB_Or15722.210, , BN_suppl.1753.102-106

BRL_DA#127, NANU_BH#11x, TZH4.242, DRD.147, RHQM1.575-577 (703) (431-433x), ASAT2.105x, ASAT3.105x, AKHA_119BE #09-10 p.ax, FBAH.134x, LDR.432x, NJB_v11#01 p.21-24, OOL.B099

BRL_FIRE_BH#06x, BLO_PT#120, BLO_PT#121, BKOG.149x

Poetically anticipates future opposition and lauds the constancy of the loved ones of God in the face of threats and persecutions.

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @suffering and imprisonment, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice

ROB1.147, BKOG.149, BKOG.446, MMAH.209, GSH.031, LL#286

BH00031

Suriy-i-Nush

7310

Arabic

Surih of Admonition (Suratu'l-Nus'h); Days of Remembrance

Suriy-i-Nush (Surih of Counsel)

فسبحان الذی نزل الایات بالحق علی النبیین و المرسلین و ینزل حینئذ علی ما کان

Glorified be He Who hath sent down the verses in truth unto the Prophets and Messengers, and Who doth now send down what hath ever been [3.5s]... ...Announce unto My servants the advent of the One Who came unto them with the power of truth bearing the name of ‘Alí

INBA47:171, INBA36:242, INBA73:181.09x, INBA83:001, PR19.034b-048b

BRL_DA#727, AVK2.228.08x, TZH4.200-202x, LMA1.350 (209), MAS4.135x, ASAT3.024x, YMM.152x, OOL.B133, AMB#35x

DOR#35x, GPB.141x6x, BLO_PT#097, NYR#145x

A lengthy work recounting the stories of the prophets of God and their rejection by the people and clergy of their day, and exhorting the people of this day not to reject ‘Him Whom God shall make manifest’ upon His appearance.

@Noah, @stories; anecdotes, @suffering and imprisonment, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God

ROB1.137, MMAH.207, LL#321

BH00637

Lawh-i-Fitnih (Tablet of the Test)

1500

mixed

Lawh-i-Fitnih (Tablet of the Test)

ان یا فتنه البقا فانتظری فتنه الله المهیمن القیوم بانها سیاتیکم بالحق فها قد

O Enchantment of eternity! Await thou the Enchantment of God, the All-Protecting, the Self-Subsisting, for verily it shall come unto you with truth. Lo, it hath [3.5s]

INBA81:080x

BRL_DA#574, MAS4.261x, RHQM1.206-209 (262-265) (157-159x), YIA.567-569x, OOL.B037x

Foretells a coming period of tests and trials, which will encompass all created things and every atom of existence and lay violent hold on the peoples of the world.

@forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision

ROB1.128, MMAH.173, GSH.036, LL#087

BH00454

Lawh-i-Huriyyih (Tablet of the Maiden)

1580

Arabic

Tablet of the Maiden

Lawh-i-Huriyyih (Tablet of the Maiden)

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اذکرک حینئذ حین الذی استشرقت شمس الوهیتک عن افق سماء

Praise be unto Thee, O Lord, My God! I mention Thee at this moment when the Sun of Thy divinity is shining from the horizon of the Heaven

INBA48:036, INBA66:004, INBA92:001, BLIB_Or15714.058, , BLIB_Or15739.080,

AQA4#102 p.342, AQA4a.379, SFI16.008-012, ASAT3.134x, ASAT4.049x, OOL.B045

BLO_PT#133, HURQ.BH20

Describes a visionary encounter with the Maid of Heaven, who looks deeply within His soul and expires in sorrow upon perceiving the extent of His suffering.

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @symbolism, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @mystical themes

ROB1.125, ROB3.223, BKOG.167, MMAH.211, GSH.020, LL#118

BH00020

Tafsir-i-Hurufat-i-Muqatta'ih (Commentary on the Disconnected Letters) = Lawh-i-Ayat-i-Nur (Tablet of the Verse of Light)

8280

Arabic

Tablet of the 'Light Verse' (Lawh-i-Áyiy-i-Núr), also known as Commentary on the Disconnected Letters; Tablet of the 'Light Verse' (Lawh-i-Áyiy-i-Núr), also known as Commentary on the Disconnected Letters; Lawh-i-Hikmat

Lawh-i-Ayat-i-Nur or Tafsir-i-Hurufat-i-Muqatta'ih (Tablet of the Verse of Light or Commentary on the Disconnected Letters)

الحمد لله الذی خلق الحروفات فی عوالم العما خلف سرادقات القدس فی رفارف الاسنی

Praise be to God who created the letters in the worlds of the divine Cloud beyond the pavilions of holiness… Know that the first tokens brought into existence by the pre-existent Cause in the worlds of creation are the four elements… Strive therefore to recognize amongst the primary substances those things which are in equilibrium

INBA08:587, INBA36:212, NLAI_BH2.141x, NLAI_BH3.003x, Berlin1237#19, PR19.002b-017b

MAS4.049, ASAT3.090x, ASAT4.068x, ANDA#19 p.32x, OOL.B029, OOL.B145

BLO_failayn, HURQ.BH08x, BTO#04x, ADMS#199n84x

An extensive commentary on the famous ‘verse of light’ in the Qur’an (24:35) and on the origin and meaning of the enigmatic letters heading many of its surahs, which Bahá’u’lláh relates to different aspects of the person and revelation of the Báb, to the mystical science of letters and numbers, and to stages in the alchemical craft.

@four elements, @alchemy; the elixir, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria)

ROB1.125, MMAH.099, GSH.021, GSH.045, LL#337, LL#391, LL#405?

BH00064

Hurufat-i-'Alin (=Kalimat-i-'Uliya; the Exalted Letters)

5270

mixed

Bahá'u'lláh's Four Tablets to Maryam; Suffering of the Exalted Letters; Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Musíbat-i-Hurúf-i-‘Állín (Suffering of the Exalted Letters)

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی کیف یتحرک القلم و یجری المداد بعد ما انقطعت نسائم

Pure and sanctified art Thou, O my God! How can the pen move and the ink flow after the breezes of loving-kindness have ceased

INBA36:281, BLIB_Or15714.157,

BRL_DA#035, AHM.217, BSHN.054, MHT1a.002, MHT2b.007x, TSBT.242, ASAT3.087x, OOL.B010a, OOL.B010b

BRL_APBH#01x, BLO_PT#015x, BLO_PT#090, HURQ.BH18x, ADMS#163x, JHT_B#005

A meditation on mortality, death, suffering, and theodicy, in remembrance of a cousin who had recently died.

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @consolation and comfort, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB1.122, MMAH.216, GSH.025, LL#019, LL#272

BH01132

Suriy-i-Qadir

740

Arabic

Surah of the Almighty (Surat al-Qadir)

Surat al-Qadir (Surah of the Almighty)

سبحان الذی قدر مقادیر کل شیء فی الواح عز محفوظا و خلق کل شیء علی شان لو یصفن

Praise be unto him, who foreordained for each thing its portion in mighty, preserved Tablets. He created all things in such a manner that, were they to purify themselves

INBA37:138, INBA83:115, BLIB_Or15702.032, , BLIB_Or15723.250, , BLIB_Or15737.094, , ALIB.folder18p211

AQA4#093 p.317, AQA4a.373, GSH.051, OOL.B134

WIND#157, HURQ.BH44

A meditation on the name of God ‘the Omnipotent’ and its pervasive influence in the world according to the capacities of things and, referring to the opposition of Mírzá Yaḥyá, calling the Bábís and the manifestations of worldly power to recognize Bahá’u’lláh.

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @predictions and prophecies, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause

ROB1.119, MMAH.083, LL#322

BH00134

Madinatu't-Tawhid (the City of Unity)

3720

Arabic

Madínatu't-Tawhíd (City of Unity)

تلک آیات الکتاب فصلت آیاته بدعیا غیر ذی عوج علی آیات الله و هدی و نوری

These are the verses of the Book, whose signs have been set forth with wondrous originality, free from all crookedness, dwelling upon the signs of God, and serving as guidance and light [3.5s]... ...Beware, O believers in the Unity of God, lest ye be tempted to make any distinction between any of the Manifestations of His Cause

INBA36:199, BLIB_Or07852.046, , NLAI_BH3.074, PR03.251b13-254a15, PR19.017a-025b

BRL_DA#283, GWBP#024 p.046x, TZH4.225-227, MAS4.313, ASAT5.286x, MMUH#13x, MSBH5.443-444x, OOL.B088

GWB#024x, GPB.003x, PDC.011x, PDC.111x, HURQ.BH15, JHT_B#009

A theological discussion of the concept of divine unity from various perspectives: the unity of the divine Essence, of the divine attributes, of the divine Manifestations, of action, and of worship.

@God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @essential vs. actional attributes of God, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @station of the Manifestation of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @absolute freedom; independence of God

ROB1.109, MMAH.180, GSH.022, LL#151

BH00295

Madinatu'r-Rida (the City of Radiant Acquiescence)

2180

Arabic

Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá; City of Radiant Acquiescence (Lawh-i-Madinatu'r-Rida); Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Madinatur-Rida (City of Radiant Acquiescence)

ذکر رحمه الله عبده بالحق لیفتخر بذلک فی ملا العالین و یشکر ربه فی کل حین

Remind his servant of God's clemency in truth, that he might be honored thereby among the concourse of the worlds, and might give thanks to his lord at all times, insofar as God's bounties to him

INBA73:186

BRL_DA#282, AQA4a.135, AVK3.403.02x, ASAT4.015x, AKHA_124BE #11-12 p.bx, OOL.B087

BRL_ATBH#41x, WIND#138, BLO_sazedj#07x, HURQ.BH16x

Expounds various stages and degrees of contentment: contentment with God and His decree; with one’s own self, which requires detachment from the world; with one’s fellow believers, which implies humility in their presence; and with the vicissitudes of the world.

@expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @prayer for forgiveness, @symbolism of color and light, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @prayer for protection, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God

ROB1.108, MMAH.191, GSH.036, LL#150

BH00394

Sahifiy-i-Shattiyih (the Book of the Tigris)

1730

mixed

Tablet of the River [Tigris]; Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá

Shahifiy-i-Shattiyyih (Book of the River)

قد اکثرت القول فی ذلک ولکن الناس اکثرهم لایفقهون آنچه از ظهورات معجزات که

The people talk constantly about this subject, but most of them comprehend not. Of the miracles mentioned, those which are ascribed to this humble one are fabrications contrived by impostors

INBA36:316, INBA57:010, BLIB_Or15722.267, , BN_suppl.1754.139-143

BRL_DA#734, MAS4.142, RHQM1.285-291 (349) (209-213), OOL.B096

BLO_PT#137, BLO_sazedj#10x, JBS#9.3

Challenges the validity of miracles as proof and takes the coursing of the Tigris River as a central metaphor in a discussion of the irresistible power of the Cause of God, fate and predestination, and the root cause of dissension in the world.

@miracles and their interpretation, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @Word of God is its own standard, @spiritual transformation, @differences in human capacity, @symbolism, @transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB1.105, MMAH.228, GSH.024, LL#280

BH00306

Chihar Vadi (The Four Valleys)

2100

Persian

Call of the Divine Beloved

Chahar Vadi (Four Valleys)

ای ضیاء الحق حسام الدین راد که فلک و ارکان چه تو شاهی نزاد نمیدانم چرا

O light of truth and sword of faith And soul of generosity! No prince hath sky or earth begot

INBA36:334x, BLIB_Or15722.307, , NLI.32p092v

BRL_Chihar, AQA3#069 p.140, TZH4.153x, ASAT4.314x, MSHR2.109x, MSHR3.131x, OOL.B007

CDB#7, HURQ.BH13

M. Milne [track 7]

A mystical work elaborating four different but complementary paths of approach to the Divine: the way of ‘the self ’, ‘the intellect’, ‘love’, and ‘the throne of the inmost heart’.

@walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @love of God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @mystical themes, @belief and denial

ROB1.104, BKOG.159, BKOG.163, MMAH.197, GSH.018, LL#014

BH00047

Haft Vadi (The Seven Valleys)

6100

Persian

Bahá'í Scriptures; Call of the Divine Beloved

Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys)

الحمد لله الذی اظهر الوجود من العدم و رقم علی لوح الانسان من اسرار القدم و

Praise be to God Who hath made being to come forth from nothingness; graven upon the tablet of man a measure of the mysteries of His eternity

INBA35:293, INBA33:101, BLIB_Or03116.067, , NLI.32p061r, PR19.024b-032b

BRL_Haft, AQA3#068 p.092, AVK1.320x, TZH4.151-153x, YMM.310x, OOL.B006

CDB#2, BSC.159 #164-174, HURQ.BH12

MJ Cyr (1), MJ Cyr (2), TaliaSafa & Friends, Rachel, Ethan & Ilia, E. Sabariego, G. Burriston & P. Kay, Ine, Ine, MANA, N. Hamilton, A.E. Rahbin, Gyenyame, E. Kelly, T. Ellis, M. Levine, P. Marin, J. Luckey [track 1], L. Dely & M. Congo, T. Francis

His most important mystical composition, patterned in part after Faríd’u’d-Dín ‘Aṭṭár’s Manṭiqu’l-Ṭayr (‘The Conference of the Birds’), describing seven stages in the path of the spiritual wayfarers—‘search’, ‘love’, ‘knowledge’, ‘unity’, ‘contentment’, ‘wonderment’, and ‘true poverty and absolute nothingness’—and revealing that the source of conflict upon earth can be traced to the wayfarers’ lack of awareness of the relative truths to be found within each of these stages.

@love as fire, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud], @knowledge; recognition of God, @love of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar], @transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB1.096, BKOG.139, BKOG.159-161, GPB.140, MMAH.096, GSH.017, LL#016

BH00386

Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words - Arabic)

1750

Arabic

Bahá'í Scriptures; Hidden Words

Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words)

هذا ما نزل من جبروت العزه بلسان القدره و القوه علی النبیین من قبل و انا

This is that which hath descended from the realm of glory, uttered by the tongue of power and might, and revealed unto the Prophets of old.

INBA36:440, INBA30:002, BLIB_Or8901, BLIB_Or15714.147, , CMB_F33.033, , PR22.049b-056b, PR23.029a-033a, BLIB_Or.08685, CUL.X893.7.B111, UMich962.143-151

BRL_HWA, AVK3.161.16x, ZYN.040, MJMM.017, BSHN.013x, MHT2b.030x, MAS4.367bx, NSR_1993.053, NFF4.001, OOL.B013a

HWAE, LOG#0304x, GPB.140x, SW_v03#01 p.004+007x, SW_v03#02 p.004x, SW_v04#18 p.300x2x, SW_v14#10 p.289-290x, BSC.171 #175-262

L. Slott (#1), S. and S. Toloui-Wallace (#1), almunajat.com (#1) [item 2], D. Gundry (#1), E. Mahony (#1), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#1), Baha'i Youth of Japan (#1), Joel in Real Life (#1), The Daguerreotypes (#1), E. Kelly (#1), L. Dely (#1), Y. Mbazo & Friends (#1), Fleur & Tessa (#1), G.H. Miller (#1), S. Peyman (#1), S. Eblaghi and M. Weigert (#1), K. Porray (#1), R. Johnston-Garvin (#1) [track 6], D. Sylvester (#1), M. Levine (#2), Nicolas & Louis (#2), L. Dely (#2), A.E. Rahbin (#2), R. Peterson (#2) [track 6], A. Wensbo (#3), E. Mahony (#3), S. Sunderland (#3), S. Sunderland (#3), M. Levine (#3) [track 2], L. Dely (#3), Rowshan (#3) [track 8], P. Held & C. Bahia (#3) [track 2], A. Youssefi (#4), E. Lilian (#4), MANA (#4), S. Peyman (#4), J. Cooper (#4), L. Dely (#4), R. Peterson (#4) [track 4], Corinne & Riaz (#4), L. Dube (#4) [track 3], Ladjamaya (#4) [track 7], D. Gundry (#5), W. Heath (#5), E. Mahony and A. Youssefi (#5), Bass Adjustment (#5), Ine (#5), M. Weigert (#5), S. Engle and J. White (#5), S. Gomes (#5), T. Ellis (#5), K. Kuolga (#5), A. Mirra (#5), Rowshan (#5) [track 11], SKY (#5), KC Porter (#5), E. Kelly (#5), M. Levine (#5) [track 7], L. Dely (#5), K. Key (#5), A. Sperandeo (#5), A. Wood (#6), L. Slott (#6), Y. Mesbah (#6), L. Dely (#6), The Descendants (#6), The Joburg Baha'i Choir (#6), Honiara Baha'i Youth (#6), The Badasht Project (1) (#7), The Badasht Project (2) (#7), Nabil and Karim (#7), Matt McGrath (#7), T. Nosrat (#7), L. Dube (#7) [track 12], Ladjamaya (#8) [track 4], almunajat.com (#9) [item 1], E. Mahony (#9), D. Hunt (#9), N. Ma'ani (#9), S. Toloui-Wallace (#9), J. Raj (#9), MJ Cyr (#11), O. Devine (#11), Refuge (#11), L. Dely & M. Congo (#11), Oisin & Bahiyyih Devine (#11), A. Azad (#11), Ahdieh (#11), S. Taborn (#11), S. Sunderland (#11), The Descendants (#12), O. Devine (#12), B. Nakedi (#12), P. Held & C. Bahia (#12) [track 3], M.C. Santillana (#12), M. Levine (#12) [track 2], R. Lea (#13), P. Held & C. Bahia (#13) [track 4], Joel in Real Life (#13), A.E. Rahbin (#13), L. Dube (#13) [track 2], MJ Cyr (#14), S. Taefi (#14) [track 9], L. Slott (#14), SKY (#14), A.E. Rahbin (#14), L. Slott (#15), A. Youssefi (#15), L. Dely (#15), E. Mahony (#15), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#15), L. Dube (#15) [track 14], Chicago Baha'i Community (#15), M. Sparrow (#16), Honiara Baha'i Youth (#16), MANA (#16), S. Jaberi (#16), L. Dely & M. Congo (#16) [track 7], L. Slott (#17), E. Mahony (#17), E. Mahony, E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#17), E. Henrikson (#17), Mona, Dibo & Nachidah (#17), L. Dely & M. Congo (#17) [track 7], E. Lilian (#18), Rowshan (#19) [track 5], J. Heath (#19) [track 9], J. Heath (#19), D. Olam (#19) [track 11], T. Ellis (#19), Sabin & Leticia (#19), A. Youssefi (#20), TaliaSafa & Friends (#20), Ine (#21), M. Saraswati (#21), A. Youssefi (#22), G.H. Miller (#22), NKAK (#22), K. Porray (#22), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#22), Ann-Sofie & Shahram (#22), T. Ellis (#22), The Descendants (#22), Naseem, Michele & Yasmin (#22), Meredth & Arman (#22), E. Tarani (#22), R. Yazhari (#23), L. Dely (#23), L. Dely (#25) [track 5], L. Dube (#26) [track 17], L. Dely (#27), P. Held & C. Bahia (#29) [track 5], L. Slott (#31), jeph.ilosopher (#31), L. Dely (#31), K. Key (#31), A. Youssefi (#32), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#32), Roz, Amelia & Andre (#32), Ahdi (#32), P. Escobar (#33), N. Ma'ani (#33), Laura & Michael (#33), R. Peterson (#33) [track 5], L. Herrmann (#34), Gyenyame (#34), C. Zurek (#34), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#35), L. Dely (#35), S. & H. Fikri (#35), L. Dube (#35) [track 21], A. Tahirih R. Weiss (#36), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#36), J. Marks and S. Engle (#36), K. Porray (#36), Hayden, Alessia & Anis (#36), A. Youssefi (#38), T. Ellis (#38), E. Mahony (#39), Rowshan (#40), A.E. Rahbin (#40), M. Tokuma (#41), L. Dely & M. Congo (#41) [track 1], Calling Waiting Searching (#42), G.H. Miller (#42), L. Dube (#42) [track 19], S. Gomes (#42), E. Mahony (#43), Dawnbreaker Collective (#43), Heroes Teaching Conference (#43), M. Perez (#43), J. Duhart (#43), G.H. Miller (#44), L. Dely (#44), A.E. Rahbin (#44), L. Dube (#44) [track 8], Nabil and Karim (#46), R. Lea (#48), L.Slott (#48), Katie & Faizi (#48), L. Dely (#48), SKY (#48), L. Dube (#48) [track 15], HeartBeat Collective (#48), L. & L. Hosack (#48), S. Acevedo (#48), A. Youssefi (#50), E. Mahony (#50), K. and D. Eckert and A. Youssefi (#50), Leona and Larry (#51), The Baha'i Trio (#51), E. Lilian (#52), L. Dely & M. Congo (#52) [track 6], E. Mahony (#52), N.D. Huening (#52), C. Oja (#52), S. Skiti (#52), J. Heath (#53) [track 7], S. Toloui-Wallace (#55), M. Levine (#55) [track 3], W. Eng & N. Rajan (#55), Qurratul, Ruhiyyih & Verona (#55), O. Devine (#55), R. Orona (#55), T. Bradley (#55), J. Cooper (#55), Seaon & Saman (#55), D. Stevenson (#56), L. Dube (#57) [track 7], K. Porray (#58), K. Porray (#59), O. Devine (#59), Baha'i Youth of Japan (#59), QuiqueSaba (#59), Strong Steep (#59), Ladjamaya (#59) [track 2], Z. Affolter (#60), L. Dely (#60), L. Dube (#61) [track 10], unknown (#62), L. Dube (#62) [track 1], M. Cuvillier (#63), L. Dube (#63) [track 9], P. Held & C. Bahia (#64) [track 6], L. Dube (#66) [track 20], Ine (#66), W. Heath (#68), Chicago Baha'i Community (#68), P. Held & C. Bahia (#68) [track 7], D. E. Walker (#68), S. Jaberi (#68), C. Oja (#68), L. Harley (#68), D. Stevenson (#71), L. Dely (#71), L. Dube (#71) [track 16]

The Arabic portion of His foremost ethical work, consisting of 71 aphorisms spoken in the voice of the Divine and declaring themselves to be the ‘inner essence’ of what was revealed to ‘the Prophets of old’, affirming the essential nobility and divinity of the human soul, prescribing its intimate communion with its Creator, proclaiming the oneness of the human race, and declaring our consequent responsibility to fellowship, love, fair-mindedness, and mutual aid for one another, especially the poor and downtrodden.

@love of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf], @humility; meekness; lowliness, @human reality created in the image of God, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @God's love for His own Essence, @bringing oneself to account each day, @soul; spirit after death, @knowledge of self

ROB1.071 et al, BKOG.159 et al, GPB.140, MMAH.092, GSH.016, LL#025

BH00113

Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words - Persian)

3970

Persian

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Hidden Words

Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words)

ای صاحبان هوش و گوش اول سروش دوست این است ای بلبل معنوی جز در گلبن معانی جای

O ye people that have minds to know and ears to hear! The first call of the Beloved is this

INBA65:115, INBA36:383, INBA30:014, BLIB_Or15714.131c, , CMB_F33.001, , NLI.32p048v, BLIB_Or.08117, BLIB_Or.08685, CUL.X893.7.B111, Majlis210461.030-045, BN_suppl.1974.001

BRL_HWP, GWBP#042 p066ax, GWBP#104 p.136bx, ZYN.001, AHM.421, MJMM.373, BSHN.017x, MHT2b.036x, UAB.047dx, UAB.048ax, UAB.048bx, UAB.069ax, UAB.069bx, TZH4.223-224, NFF4.017, OOL.B013b

HWPE, GWB#042x, GWB#104x, LOG#0835x, ADJ.081x, BADM.155-156x, PDC.007x, PDC.148x, PDC.149x, WOB.059-060x, WOB.116x, WOB.201x, SW_v03#02 p.005x, SW_v05#10 p.150-151x, SW_v14#11 p.321x, BLO_PT#061

S. Toloui-Wallace (#1), S. Taefi (#1) [track 1], R. Johnston-Garvin (#1) [track 7], Baha'i Youth of Japan (#2), S. Taefi (#2) [track 2], L. Dely & M. Congo (#2), S. Toloui-Wallace (#3), K. Key (#3), A. Bridges (#3), L. Slott (#3), Rowshan (#3), SKY (#3), E. Mahony (#3), L. Dely (#3), S. Engle and J. White (#3), Delia Olam (#3), B. Vahdat (#3), Sanale & Xolani (#3), Nora, Sasha & Ann-Sofie (#3), NKAK (#3), Zannetta (#3) [track 10], A.E. Rahbin (#3), B. Silvestre (#3), R. Bennett (#3), S. Kouchekzadeh (#3), L. Dube (#3) [track 6], D. Hunt (#4), A. Youssefi (#4), Bass Adjustment (#4), S. Taefi (#4) [track 4], G.H. Miller (#4), Rowshan (#4) [track 6], Nabil and Karim (#4), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#4), N. Ma'ani (#4), A. Stephen (#4), A. Wood (#4), G. Besungu (#4), Ahdieh (#4), S. Parak (#4), A. Youssefi (#7), G.H. Miller (#7), S. Zahrai (#7), A.E. Rahbin (#7), B. Khademi (#7), G. and M. Smith (#7), S. Zein (#7), The Badasht Project (#8), A. Wensbo (#8), A. Bryan (#8), G.H. Miller (#9), A. Toufighian & A. Youssefi (#9), A. Wensbo (#10), L. Dube (#10) [track 18], S. Taefi (#10) [track 5], G.H. Miller (#11), S. Taefi (#11) [track 7], Naim, Miad & Justus (#11), Z. Rolle (#11), A. Bryan (#12), E. Mahony (#12), J. Sweeting & M. Weigert (#12), Chicago Baha'i Community (#12), MANA (#12), Meredith & Arman (#12), J. Cooper (#12), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#13), G.H. Miller (#13), S. and S. Toloui-Wallace (#14), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#14), MANA (#14), S. Esmaeili (#14), S. Peyman (#14), J. Cooper (#14), Rowshan (#16), A.E. Rahbin (#16), G.H. Miller (#16), L. Dely & M. Congo (#16), G.H. Miller (#18), O. Master (#19), S. Taefi (#20) [track 10], G.H. Miller (#21), Anis & Friends (#21), T. Ellis (#21), S. Taefi (#21) [track 8], R. Johnston-Garvin (#21) [track 6], E. Mahony (#21), N. Ma'ani (#22), D. Stevenson (#26), M. Kerr (#26), A.E. Rahbin (#26), J. Marks and S. Engle (#26), Chicago Baha'i Community (#26), Ashwin & Arhwin (#26), Temple of Light (#29), L. Dube (#30) [track 11], G.H. Miller (#31), TaliaSafa (#31), E. Mahony (#31), Turning Point (#31), S. Taefi (#31) [track 3], A. & M. Zemke (#31) [track 5], N. Ma'ani (#31), G.H. Miller (#32), TaliaSafa (#32), A. Wensbo (#32), MANA (#32), S. Trick (#32), S. and S. Toloui-Wallace (#33), A. Youssefi (#33), L. Dube (#34) [track 4], Carmel, Roya & Maryam (#35), A.E. Rahbin (#36), S. and S. Toloui-Wallace (#38), S. Toloui-Wallace (#38), F. Lionheart (#38), J. Cooper (#38), Seaon, Sasha & Sam (#38), S. Taefi (#38) [track 6], S. Bayan & S. Suggs (#38), L. Dely (#38), N. Hamilton (#38), B. Khademi (#39), A.E. Rahbin (#39), S. Toloui-Wallace (#40), Rasmus & Ann-Sofie (#40), Voices of Baha 2010 (#40), T. Ellis (#40), A Family Affair (#40), A. Youssefi (#40), The Badasht Project (#40), Refuge (#40), R. Peterson (#40) [track 8], Nabil and Karim (#40), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#40), J. Cooper (#40), S. Parak (#40), A. Youssefi (#40), N. Hamilton (#40), Kiskadee (#40), L. Dely (#40), Rasmus & Ann-Sofie (#40), L. Dely & M. Congo (#42), J. Cooper (#42), L. Dely & M. Congo (#44) [track 9], D. E. Walker (#44), S. Cleasby (#44), MANA (#44), M. Sparrow (#45), L. Dube (#63) [track 13], G.H. Miller (#64), G.H. Miller (#70), Bosch Bluegrass Band (#72), Arrayanes (#72) [track 8], A. Youssefi (#73), Friends from Mongolia (#73), N. D. Huening (#76), C. & L. Heggie (#80), K. Key (#80)

The Persian portion of His foremost ethical work, consisting of 82 aphorisms spoken in the voice of the Divine and declaring themselves to be the ‘inner essence’ of what was revealed to ‘the Prophets of old’, affirming the essential nobility and divinity of the human soul, prescribing its intimate communion with its Creator, proclaiming the oneness of the human race, and declaring our consequent responsibility to fellowship, love, fair-mindedness, and mutual aid for one another, especially the poor and downtrodden.

@primordial Covenant; the day of alast, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @goodly deeds; actions, @words vs deeds, @justice and wrath of God, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @love of God, @begging; mendicancy; idleness and sloth, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge

ROB1.071 et al, BKOG.159 et al, GPB.140, MMAH.092, GSH.016, LL#025

BH03843

Saqi az Ghayb-i-Baqa

240

Persian

Short Poem by "Darvísh" Muhammad, Bahá'u'lláh: Sáqí az ghayb-i baqá burqa' bar afkan az 'idhár, A

Saqi az Ghayb-i-Baqa (The Cup-bearer from the Eternal Unseen)

ساقی از غیب بقا برقع برافکن از عذار تا بنوشم خمر باقی از جمال کردگار آنچه در

Lift up the veil from Thy face, O Cup-Bearer of the hidden Realm of Immortality, That I may taste the wine of eternal life

INBA36:455a, INBA30:137, OSAI I.MMS,

BRL_DA#155, TZH4.141-142x, MAS4.209, RHQM1.350-351 (425) (258-259), OOL.B098

DB.137x, BLO_PT#087, HURQ.BH11

A brief ode alluding to His messianic secret and calling for purification of heart and commitment to love and sacrifice as conditions of the spiritual journey.

@spiritual transformation, @Christ; Christianity, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @mystical themes, @Mosaic imagery

ROB1.064, MMAH.164, GSH.065, LL#283

BH00115

Qasidiy-i-'Izz-i-Varqa'iyyih (Ode of the Dove)

3950

Arabic

Ode of the Dove; Baha'u'llah's Notes to His "Ode of the Dove"; Bahá'u'lláh's "Ode of the Dove"

Qasidiyyih-Varqaiyyih (Ode of the Dove)

اجذبتنی بوارق انوار طلعه لفروغها کل الشموس تخفت کان بروق الشمس من نور حسنها

A face flashing with light drew me to her; all the suns dimmed before her radiance

INBA36:419, INBA66:175x

BRL_DA#803, AQA3#071 p.196, TZH4.148x, MAS4.197, MAS8.039ax, RHQM2.0878-887 (299) (184-191), OOL.B092

GPB.118x, BLO_PT#017x, BLO_PT#059, JBS#29.3.43, HURQ.BH04

A lengthy poem composed in the style of a poem by Ibn-i-Fáriḍ, glorifying the spirit that had visited Him in the form of the Maid of Heaven, expatiating on His sufferings and His loneliness and affirming His determination to face any future calamities that might befall Him in the path of God.

@walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @suffering and imprisonment, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @station of the Manifestation of God, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB1.062, ROB1.084, BKOG.118, BKOG.415, EBTB.098, MMAH.087, GSH.010, LL#274

BH00267

Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'am (the Tablet of All Food)

2370

Arabic

Tablet of All Food (Lawh-i Kullu't-Ta'am)

Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'ám (Tablet of All Food)

الحمد لله مموج ابحر النور بالماء الناریه الالهیه و مهیج احرف الظهور بنقطه

Praise be to God Who hath caused Oceans of Light to surge in the Divine Fiery Water; excited the Letters of the Dispensation

INBA36:268, Berlin1237#20

BRL_DA#393, TZH4.132-135x, MAS4.265, RHQM2.0979-989 (416) (256-262), OOL.B052

GPB.118x2x, BLO_PT#108, HURQ.BH02

A commentary offering several allegorical interpretations of the Qur’anic verse ‘All food was allowed to the children of Israel’ (Qur’an 3:93).

@divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @realms of being; three realms; five realms, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @prayer for protection, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture

ROB1.050, BKOG.112, MMAH.127, GSH.008, LL#146

Revealed "in the year nine", see BRL_TTT#11

BH00050

5800

Arabic

Call of the Divine Beloved

هذا کتاب یجد منه الاشجار عرف الربیع و الابناء رآئحه الاب المشفق الکریم

This is a Book from which the trees inhale the fragrance of springtime, and from which the sons perceive the sweet perfume of their tender, bountiful Father [3.5s]... ...The beginning of all things is the knowledge of God, and the end of all things is strict observance of whatsoever hath been sent down

BLIB_Or15729.072, , BLIB_Or15737a.039, , BLIB_Or15738.016, , NLAI_22848:173, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p091r, , Majlis210461.117-119x, MKI4522.173,

BRL_DA#533, GWBP#063 p.084bx, GWBP#064 p.085x, AQA2#003 p.076, NNY.123-126x, QT105.1.165, ASAT4.085x, ASAT4.274x, TABN.028x, PYM.110bx, QUM.073.17x

GWB#063x, GWB#064x, GPB.102x, MHMD2.500x

G.H. Miller

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @proclamation to people of the Bayan, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @martyrs and martyrdom, @alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium

ROB1.048, LL#238, LL#451

BH03230

Rashh-i-'Ama

280

Persian

Rashh-i-Ama (Sprinkling from the Cloud of Unknowing)

رشح عما از جذبه ما میریزد سر وفا از نغمه ما میریزد از باد صبا مشک خطا گشته

Tis from our rapture that the clouds of realms above are raining down; ’Tis from Our anthem that the mysteries of faith are raining down

INBA36:460, INBA30:165, OSAI I.MMS, , MKA.06 Mil Yz A 2791 p30b,

BRL_DA#709, SFI02.059, MAS4.184, TWQ.441x, YMM.224x, OOL.B093

CDB#1, BLO_PT#089, BLO_PT#135, HURQ.BH01

@symbolism, @poems and quotation from poetry, @mystical themes, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity

ROB1.045, MMAH.077, LL#275

BH11086

Arabic

Commentary on the Surah of the Sun; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

فسبحانک اللهم باسمک الاعلی فی سرادق الابهی و بکلمتک العلیا فی جبروت الاسنی

Praise be unto Thee, O Lord my God! I beseech Thee by Thy Most Exalted Name in the Tabernacle of effulgent splendour

INBA92:144a, ROB1.143x

BRL_DA#041, AQMJ2.116a, MSBH5.335

BRL_APBH#07

@prayer for protection, @praise and encouragement, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ROB1.038, LL#156

BH00271

Tafsir-i-Va'sh-Shams (Commentary on the Surih of the Sun)

2340

Arabic

Tafsír-i-Suriy-i-Vash-Shams (Commentary on the Surih of the Sun)

الحمد لله الذی انطق ورقاء البیان علی افنان دوحه التبیان بفنون الالحان علی انه لا اله الا هو

Praise be to God, Who hath set the dove of eloquence, perched among the twigs of the tree of explanation, to weaving her divers melodies

INBA90:076, BLIB_Or15714.065, , NLAI_BH3.227, Berlin1237#01, MKI4524.278,

BRL_DA#710, GWBP#089 p.116bx, MJMM.001, DLS.107x, ASAT1.253x, ASAT2.171x, ASAT3.116x, ASAT4.205x, ASAT4.208x, ASAT4.366x, ASAT4.375x, ADH1.108x, OOL.B146

GWB#089x, BLO_PT#025, HURQ.BH78, ADMS#199n02x

W. Heath

Gives a detailed interpretation of a short surah of the Qur’an, relates several symbolic meanings of the word ‘sun’, and tells of the inexhaustible meanings of the Word of God, which are disclosed according to the capacity of the hearers and which must be understood according to both their outward and inward meanings.

@interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @limits of language, @names and attributes of God, @outward and inward meanings, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @station of the Manifestation of God

ROB1.032, MMAH.102, GSH.209, LL#338

BH00987

Salat-i-Kabir (Long Obligatory Prayer)

840

Arabic

Bahá'í Prayers; Prayers and Meditations; Long Obligatory Prayer

Obligatory prayer, Long

یا اله الاسماء و فاطر السماء اسئلک بمطالع غیبک العلی الابهی بان تجعل صلوتی

O Thou Who art the Lord of all names and the Maker of the heavens! I beseech Thee by them Who are the Day-Springs of Thine invisible Essence

PMP#183, AHM.070, TSBT.012x, NFQ.001, NFF1.003x, ABMK.001, OOL.B176c

PM#183, BPRY.007-016, BP1929.021x, BP1929.022x, BP1929.030x

The Friends in Bristol, Nabil and Karim, M. Perez, MANA, MANA, R. Peterson [track 1], S. Agbortoko & M. Weigert

@law of obligatory prayer, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @love of God

ROB1.030, LL#230

BH00478

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Maryam

1510

Arabic

Bahá'u'lláh's Four Tablets to Maryam

Ziyarat-Namih-i-Maryam (Tablet of Visitation for Maryam)

ان یا قلم الاعلی مااخذک السرور فی ایام ربک العلی الاعلی لتغن به علی افنان

O Pen of Glory! Thou hast never been seized with transports of joy during the days of Thy Lord, the Exalted, the Most High

INBA38:311, INBA48:052, INBA49:260, BLIB_Or15714.119, , BLIB_Or15739.108, , NLAI_BH2.336, Majlis210461.104-111

BRL_DA#568, TAHR.336-339, ASAT4.080x, AKHT1.093-094x, AKHT1.366, HYK.334x, OOL.B153

LTDT.298-299x, BLO_PT#015, HURQ.BH85

@eulogies; reminiscences, @martyrs and martyrdom, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @prayer for protection, @love of God, @visitation Tablets

ROB1.013, GSH.205, LL#348

Stephen Lambden states that this Tablet of Visitation was "apparently primarily written by Baha'u'llah for Tahirih and utilized also for various other eminent female Bahá'ís, including Maryam".

BH00579

Lawh-i-Maryam

1300

mixed

Lawh-i-Maryam (Tablet to Maryam) Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh's Four Tablets to Maryam; Days of Remembrance

Lawh-i-Maryam (Tablet to Maryam)

ای مریم مظلومیتم مظلومیت اسم اولم را از لوح امکان محو نموده و از سحاب قضا

O Maryam! The wrongs which I suffer have blotted out the wrongs suffered by My First Name from the Tablet of creation.

INBA38:087, INBA28:386

BRL_DA#739, AYT.366, BSHN.046, MHT2b.044x, TZH4.138-139x, TZH4.159-161x, TZH4.261-262x, MAS4.329, RHQM2.0991-996 (430) (264-267), ANDA#05 p.02, OOL.B058c, AMB#31

DOR#31, BKOG.117x, LTDT.300x, GPB.118x, GPB.119x, GPB.120x, GPB.124x, GPB.125x, BLO_PT#015, BLO_PT#048

Recounts to one of His cousins Bahá’u’lláh’s banishment to Baghdad, His departure for Sulaymaniyah, the dispirited character of the Bábí community upon His return, and His efforts to instil new life into it; alludes to His still-hidden messianic secret and counsels purity of heart as a precondition to its recognition; and announces His withdrawal from the community.

@Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @suffering and imprisonment

ROB1.013, BKOG.117, MMAH.132, GSH.174, LL#164

BB00126

Tawqi'a haykal

520

Arabic

Star Tablet of the Bab, The; Haykal or "Star Tablet" Written in the Báb's Own Hand

Tawqi'a haykal (Star Tablet of the Báb)

و لله ملکوت ملک السموات و الارض و ما بینهما لن یعجزه من شی لا فی السموات ولا فی الارض

And to God belongs the kingdom of the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them. There is no deficiency in Him regarding aught

BLIB_Or6887

AHDA.467

BLO_star, AHDA.460.02a

AB00003

Maqaliy-i-Shakhs Sayyah (A Traveller's Narrative)

22000

Persian

Traveller's Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb, A; Traveler's Narrative, A

Travelers Narrative, A (book)

در خصوص شخص معروف بباب و حقیقت احوال اینطائفه روایات مختلفه و تفاصیل

Touching the individual known as the Bab and the true nature of this sect diverse tales are on the tongues

CMB_F56, IOM.100-101

TNP, AVK3.203.01x, AVK3.210.12, AVK3.214.06x, AVK3.223.01x, AVK3.286.11x, AVK3.473.16x, OOL.C021

TN, GPB.055x, GPB.066x, GPB.075x, GPB.113x, GPB.133x2x, GPB.143x, GPB.159x5x, GPB.197x, GPB.201x, TDH#158.18x, STAB#116

"The ablest and most valuable presentation of the early history of the Faith and of its tenets." (Shoghi Effendi) Recounts events in the life of the Bab and in the lives of His followers and illustrates the character of the Baha'í revelation with numerous quotations from Baha'u'llah's Writings.

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @events in the life and ministry of the Bab, @suffering and imprisonment, @martyrdom of the Bab, @defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @the Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im, @empty learning; false spirituality, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @petitions to authorities, @growth of the Cause, @Declaration; advent of the Bab, @status of kings; future of monarchy, @martyrs and martyrdom, @grammatical and other discrepancies in the Sacred Writings, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @power of the Manifestation of God, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @Letters of the Living, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]

PN_1919 p023

BB00004

Kitab-i-Jaza' (Book of the Reckoning)

>100000

Arabic

Bahá'í Prayers; Selections from the Writings of the Báb

فلتسبحن الله فی دین الحق تسبیحاً عظیماً. سبحان الذی فی قبضته ملکوت یاقوتیات السموات و الارض وما بینهما فلتسبحن الله فی دین الحق تسبیحاً عظیماً... شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو قل کل له عابدون شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو قل کل له ساجدون

Glorified be He in Whose grasp lieth the dominion of the ruby-like realms of the heavens and of the earth and whatsoever lieth between them. Therefore glorify ye God in the true Faith with mighty glorification. God beareth witness that there is none other God but Him. Say: All are His worshippers. God beareth witness that there is none other God but Him. Say: All bow down before Him [3.5s]... ...God testifieth that there is none other God but Him. His are the kingdoms in the heavens and on the earth and all that is between them

PR09.001-274x, PR40.099v-204vx, CMB_F23.190r10-199r12 (65)x, , MKI4488.029r-133vx, MKI4500.001-119vx, MKI4517, BYC_misc-a.001-203x, BYC_jazax, BYC_misc-b.130a05-162a03x

TZH3.070.12-072.21x, SWBP#13 (p.108-109x), SWBP#14 (p.109-109x), SWBP#49 (p.136-137x)

SWB#13 (p.153-154x), SWB#14 (p.154-155x), SWB#50 (p.192-193x), BPRY.231-232x

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @heaven and paradise; heaven and hell, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @absolute freedom; independence of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @symbolism of color and light, @day of Resurrection; Judgement, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @symbolism, @He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah, @Word of God the cause of creation, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @chastisement and requital, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @prophecy and fulfillment, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @spiritual transformation, @station of the Manifestation of God, @love of God, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @Greatest Name, @the Imamate; the Caliphate, @praise and encouragement, @light and darkness, @prayer for protection, @personal instructions, @call to action, @power of prayer, @prayer for praise and gratitude, @return of the Manifestations of God, @power of the Manifestation of God, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @martyrs and martyrdom, @the Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @exhortations and counsels, @cleanliness and refinement, @predictions and prophecies, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient, @creation of the world, @the state of prayer; dynamics of prayer, @duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations, @angels, @prayer for parents, @continual renewal of creation, @Imam 'Ali, @soul; spirit after death, @acquiescence and resignation; contentment, @purpose; goal of creation, @rendering assistance to God; victory [nusrat], @limits of the intellect, @unity in diversity, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @events in the life and ministry of the Bab, @God as immanent vs. transcendent reality, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @collection; ordering of the Sacred Writings, @modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God, @Declaration; advent of the Bab, @fire and light; fire and water, @the first and the last; the seen and the hidden, @primordial Covenant; the day of alast, @Muhammad; Islam, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @Letters of the Living, @prayer for nearness to God, @superiority; incomparability of the Word of God, @Word of God and human limitations, @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @firmness in the Covenant, @knowledge; recognition of God, @outward and inward meanings, @power of love, @false claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam, @knowledge of self, @free will and predestination; fate, @life and death, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness, @laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, @thankfulness; gratitude, @the golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others

JRAS.482, MSBR.206-207, SRC.095, SRC.102

BB00629

Li’l-Anis

Persian

الله خیر مونس و انیس تکبیر بثمره ازلیه رسانیده و آنچه در هر حال سزاوار است بعون الله و قوته بوده باشید بقعه شاه عبدالعظیم ارض نیکو است بواسطه قرب وحید و حفیظ والله خیرالحافظین

God, the Best Friend and Companion, is Great. He has come with an eternal fruit

PR03.085v22-085v24, CMB_F23.177r01-177r03 (61),

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @consolation and comfort

JRAS.481?, MSBR.206-207

BB00063

Kitab al-Hujja II

2800

Arabic

بسم الله المقتدر المقتدر. هذا کتاب من عند نقطة البیان عند الله و حجته للعالمین جمیعاً الی من قد جعل الله ذکر اسمه و ذکر اسم حجته و جعله من عند حجته حجة علی العالمین جمیعاً

This is a Book from the Point of the Bayan, Who standeth in the presence of God and is His Proof unto all the worlds, addressed unto him whom God hath made the mention of His Name and the mention of His Proof, and hath made him, through His Proof, a proof unto all the worlds [3.5s]

CMB_F23.082r19-089v05 (18), , BYC_hujjat

@return of the Manifestations of God, @Muhammad; Islam, @rejection of Muhammad, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @power of the Manifestation of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @station of the Manifestation of God

JRAS.477, MSBR.206-207

BB00528

Letter to Mulla 'Abdu'l-Karim Qazvini

170

mixed

الله اکرم. بسم الله الکرم ذی الکارمین بسم الله الکرم ذی الکرما قد بهجتنی ان یا اسمی فی المرآت الازلیه حیث قد حکی الله عن ربه

In the name of God, the Most Bountiful, the Lord of Grace, in the name of God, the Possessor of Generosity, the Source of Munificence. Verily, it rejoiceth me, O My name, that thou art mirrored in the eternal tablets, wherein God hath recounted the mysteries of His Lord [4o]

PR03.081r28-081v08, PR13.071v-072r, CMB_F23.126r12-126v08 (25), , BYC_tablets.054.01-054.10

QISM.010

@preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

JRAS.476, MSBR.206-207, SRC.096

BB00053

Ziyarat

3400

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لم یکن لی قلب اقدر ان اذکرک و لا فؤاد ان اسبحک و لا روح ان اقدسک و لا نفس ان اوحدک و قد ذاب کلی بما قد قضیت و ان لک الامر و الخلق

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I have no heart wherewith to remember Thee, nor soul wherewith to praise Thee, nor spirit wherewith to sanctify Thee, nor being wherewith to proclaim Thy unity. All that I am hath melted away through what Thou hast ordained, and unto Thee belongeth both command and creation [3.5s]

PR02.082v19-085v28, CMB_F23.098v06-107r06 (23), , BYC_tablets.003.11-017.08

MANU.054-064

@martyrs and martyrdom, @visitation Tablets, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @prayer for martyrs, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]

JRAS.474, MSBR.206-207

BB00227

Du’a’ li’n-Nuri’l-Ahmar

900

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. اللهم انی اسئلک عن الوهیتک باعظمها و کل الوهیتک عظمه عندک

O God! I beseech Thee by Thy Divinity in its most glorious manifestation, and all Thy divinity is glorious in Thy sight [3.5s]

CMB_F14.233r10-236v05,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @angels, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God

JRAS.462, BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207

BB00254

Du’a’ li’n-Nuri’l-Abyad

790

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاسئلنک من اسمائک باعظمها و کل اسمائک عظمیه عندک ثم فی ام الکتاب

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I beseech Thee by the mightiest of Thy Names, though all Thy Names are mighty in Thy sight and in the Mother Book [3.5s]

CMB_F14.223r04-225v09,

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @prayers (general or uncategorized), @prayer for the Babis; people of the Bayan, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @angels

BB00181

Du’a’ li’n-Nuri’l-Akhdar

1100

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. اللهم انی اسئلک من ابدیتک بتابدها و کل ابدیتک متابدة عندک ثم فی ام الکتاب اللهم انی اسئلک بابدیتک کلها

O God! I beseech Thee by Thine Eternity in its perpetuity, and verily all Thine eternity is everlasting in Thy presence and in the Mother Book. O my God! I beseech Thee by Thine eternity in its entirety [3.5s]

CMB_F14.229v01-233r09,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

BB00212

Du’a’ li’n-Nuri’l-Asfar

940

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاسئلنک من الوهیتک باعظمها او کل الوهیتک عظیمه عندک ثم فی ام الکتاب

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I beseech Thee by that which is most exalted in Thy Divinity, though verily all Thy Divinity is supremely great in Thy sight and in the Mother Book [3.5s]

CMB_F14.225v10-229r10,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @absolute freedom; independence of God

BB00417

Du’a’ li’sh-Shajarati’l-Ula va man i’sta'zalla fi zillih

360

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. لتصلین اللهم رب علی شجرة وحدانیتک و لتنزلن اللهم علیها ما ینبغی لعلو جودک و ملیک عز صمدانیتک

O Lord, my God! Shower Thy blessings upon the Tree of Thy Unity, and rain down upon it that which befitteth the loftiness of Thy bounty and the sovereignty of Thy divine Oneness [3.5s]

CMB_F14.213v04-214v05,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @Letters of the Living, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @prayer for praise and gratitude

BB00130

Munajat li-Hadrat va man ma’ahu

1400

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم انک انت لم تزل کنت الهاً واحداً احداً صمداً فرداً حیاً قیوماً دائماً ابداً متعمداً مااتخذت لنفسک صاحبة و لا ولداً

Glorified art Thou, O my God! Verily, Thou hast ever been One God, Single, Alone, Self-Subsisting, Living, Self-Sustaining, Everlasting, Eternal, and hast taken unto Thyself neither consort nor son [3.5s]

CMB_F14.214v06-219r09,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @names and attributes of God, @absolute freedom; independence of God, @impossibility of true worship of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @station of the Manifestation of God

BB00188

Prayer for Siyyid Husayn

1100

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم لاشهدنک و کل شیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک لک الملک و الملکوت و لک العزة و الجبروت و لک القوة و اللاهوت و لک السلطنة و الناسوت

Glorified art Thou, O my God! I and all things bear witness that verily Thou art God, and that there is none other God but Thee, alone, without peer. Thine is the Kingdom and the Dominion, Thine the Glory and the Power, Thine the Might and the Empyrean, Thine the Sovereignty and the human realm [3.5s]

CMB_F14.219r10-223r02,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @justice and wrath of God, @station of the Manifestation of God

BB00250

Ziyarat for the first to believe, on the night of 'Id al-Fitr

800

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحانک اللهم ربنا الرحمن اللهم صل علی ذات حروف السبع ثم حروف الحی من عندک و انزل اللهم حینئذ لیلة الجمعه علی شجرة وحدانیتک

Glorified art Thou, O our Lord, the All-Merciful! O God, bestow Thy blessings upon the Essence of the Seven Letters, then upon the Letters of the Living from Thy presence, and cause to descend, O God, at this hour of Friday night, upon the Tree of Thy Oneness [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.143-147, CMB_F14.201v01-203v10,

@chastisement and requital, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

JRAS.460, BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, SRC.099, SRC.210

BB00071

Ziyarat for the Point and his Letters of the Living

2700

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. فاذا اردت زیارة النقطة او احد من حروف الحی فلتلطفن نفسک حق التلطف بحیث لو یحیط علمک بان فى جسدك شعر ازيد الّا ينبغى لك حينئذٍ و لتلبسن اطهر لباسك

If thou desirest to visit the Point or any of the Letters of the Living, thou must needs purify thyself with utmost refinement, such that shouldst thou become aware of but a single wayward hair upon thy body, it beseemeth thee not at that moment; and thou must don thy purest attire [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.201-211, CMB_F14.194r03-201r05,

@cleanliness and refinement, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

JRAS.460, BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, SRC.099, SRC.210

BB00599

Du’a’ fihi ismu’l-A’zam

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. اللهم انی اسئلک باسمک یا الله یا رب یا رحمن یا منیع یا قدوس یا هو یا عزیز یا محبوب یا قاهر یا ظاهر یا فرد یا ممتنع یا مهیمن یا قیوم یا قائم

O God! I beseech Thee by Thy Name, O God, O Lord, O Most Merciful, O Inaccessible, O Most Holy, O He, O Mighty One, O Best-Beloved, O All-Compelling, O Manifest, O Single, O Inaccessible, O All-Subduing, O Self-Subsisting [3.5s]

CMB_F14.201r07-201r10,

@prayer for spiritual recognition, @day of Resurrection; Judgement

JRAS.460, BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207

BB00058

Ziyarat li-Avvali man aman

3000

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک لک الملک و الملکوت و لک العز و الجبروت و لک القدرة و اللاهوت و لک القوة و الیاقوت و لک السلطنة و الناسوت یحیی و یمیت ... علی کل شیء قدیرا فلاشهدنک و کل شیء

CMB_F14.204r01-213v02,

@martyrs and martyrdom, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @human reality created in the image of God, @human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within

JRAS.460, BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207

BB00125

Ziyarat for the letter mim

1500

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء فی هذه اللیلة التی قد عظمتها و جللتها و فضلتها و عززتها و کرمتها علی مادونها بجودک ثم لطفک و کرمک ثم فضلک و وهابیتک

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee in this night which Thou hast magnified and exalted, which Thou hast preferred and honored and made noble above all else through Thy bounty, then through Thy grace and generosity, then through Thy favor and beneficence [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.137-143, CMB_F14.180r03-185r06,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @chastisement and requital, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @prayer for victory and requital; triumph of the Cause

JRAS.459, BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, SRC.099, SRC.210

BB00178

Du’a’ ‘ala’n-Nafy

1100

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. اللهم انی اسئلک بازلیتک التی انها هی مرتفعة فوق کل شیء ان تبدلن کل ذات الف

O God! I beseech Thee, by Thine eternity which transcendeth all else, to transform every possessor of the letter Alif [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.276-282, CMB_F14.185r07-189r05,

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @fire and light; fire and water

BB00190

Du’a’ li-avvali man amana bi’llah va man qad sa’ida bihi ila’llah

1100

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت الواحد الاحد الصمد الفرد الحی القیوم المعتمد الذی لم تلد و لم تولد و لم یکون لک کفو و لا عدل و لا شبه و لا قرین

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee that verily Thou art God, and that there is none other God but Thee, the One, the Single, the Self-Subsisting, the Alone, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting, the All-Sufficient, Who hath neither begotten nor been begotten, and unto Whom there is no peer, nor equal, nor likeness, nor partner [3.5s]

CMB_F14.162v03-166r04,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @absolute freedom; independence of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @impossibility of true worship of God, @heaven and paradise; heaven and hell

BB00127

Du’a’ li’l-Ithbat

1400

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. اللهم انی اسئلک بالوهیتک التی انها هی ممتنعة فوق کل شیء ان نحفظن و تغنین کل ذات الف ینسب الی شجرة الاثبات بقدرتک علی کل شیء

O God! I beseech Thee, by Thy Divinity which is exalted above all things, to preserve and enrich every soul possessing the letter Alif that is related to the Tree of Affirmation, through Thy power over all things [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.282-288, CMB_F14.189r07-194r01,

@progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

BB00109

Du’ayi Laylatu aula min Shahri’llah

1700

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی هذه لیلة قد عظمتها و شرفتها و جللتها و جملتها و قدستها بما قد نسبتها الی نفسک و اطلعت فیها آیة

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! This is a night which Thou hast magnified, honored, exalted, beautified and sanctified through having associated it with Thine own Self, and wherein Thou didst cause a sign to appear [3.5s]

CMB_F14.166r05-171v04,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @Night of Power (Laylat al-Qadr), @Manifestation of God as mediator

BB00163

Du’ayi Layliy-i-thaniyyih

1200

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. اللهم انی اسئلک ببهاء ضیاء علاء رضاء ربوبیتک و جلال و جمال کمال فعال سبوحیتک

O God! I beseech Thee by the splendor, the radiance, the sublimity and the good-pleasure of Thy Lordship, and by the majesty, beauty and perfection of Thy sanctified glory [3.5s]

CMB_F14.174v08-178v04,

@absolute freedom; independence of God, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

Selections from the Writings of the Báb

BB00201

Du’ayi Sahar likulli laylin min shahri’llah

990

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. یا من یقبل من یقبله نقطة البیان و یا من یرد من یرده نقطة البیان و یا من ینظر الی ما ینظر الیه نقطة البیان

O thou who acceptest whomsoever the Point of the Bayan doth accept, and O thou who rejectest whomsoever the Point of the Bayan doth reject, and O thou who beholdest whatsoever the Point of the Bayan doth behold [3.5s]... ...Do Thou ordain for me, O Lord, every good thing Thou hast created or wilt create, and shield me from whatever evil Thou abhorrest

CMB_F14.171v05-174v07,

SWBP#44 (p.133-134x)

SWB#45 (p.187-188x)

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @attaining good pleasure of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

BB00391

Du’ayi Sahar-i-mukhtasar

400

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. اللهم انی اسئلک بک لا شیء عندک عدلک و لاکفوک و لاشبهک و لاقرینک و لامثالک مستشهدا علی ما اشهدتنی و کل شیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت

O God! I beseech Thee by Thy Self -- for naught before Thee can equal Thy justice, none can be Thy peer, none can bear resemblance unto Thee, none can be joined with Thee, and none can be likened unto Thee -- bearing witness unto that which Thou hast caused me to witness, and all things likewise bear witness, that verily Thou art God, there is no God but Thee [3.5s]

CMB_F14.178v05-180r01,

@station of the Manifestation of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @absolute freedom; independence of God

BB00148

Du’a’ ‘ala’n-Nafy

1300

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاسئلنک باولیتک التی انها هی مرتفعة

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I beseech Thee by Thy FIrstness, which verily is exalted [3.5s]

CMB_F14.144v04-148v09,

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @prayer for protection

BB00189

Du’a’ ‘ala’n-Nafyi’n-Nafy

1100

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء بما قد خلقت کل شیء له علی انه لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee that Thou didst create all things unto Him, that there is none other God but Thee, alone, without peer [3.5s]

CMB_F14.148v10-152v01,

@meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

BB00256

Du’a’ fi avvali kulli laylin min shahri’llah

780

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. اللهم انی اسئلک یا لا اله الا انت ببهاء لا اله الا انت اذ لا اله الا انت ان تصلین علی حرف الباء بما انت علیه من بها لا اله الا انت انک کنت ذا فضل عظیما

O God! I beseech Thee, O Thou besides Whom there is none other God, by the splendor of "There is no God but Thee"—when there is none other God but Thee—to shower Thy blessings upon the Letter B through that glory which is Thine—There is no God but Thee! Verily, Thou art the Lord of surpassing bounty [3.5s]

CMB_F14.156r10-158v03,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @prayer for praise and gratitude, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @Manifestation of God as sun

BB00192

Du’a’ li-Ithbati’l-ithbat

1100

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء علی ما استشهدتنی علیه من شهادة ان لا اله الا انت و ان حروف الواحد اقرب اسمائک الیک فی کتابک

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto that whereunto Thou hast called me to testify - that there is none other God but Thee, and that the Letters of Unity [Vahid] are Thy Names nearest unto Thee in Thy Book [3.5s]

CMB_F14.152v03-156r08,

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @absolute freedom; independence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

Selections from the Writings of the Báb

BB00169

Du’a’ li'lladhina ‘araju

1200

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لم تزل انک انت خالق کل شیء و رازقه و ممیت کل شیء و محییه لم تزل کنت الهاً واحداً احداً صمداً فرداً حیاً قیوماً حکماً عدلاً قدوساً دائماً ابداً معتمداً

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! Thou hast ever been the Creator and Provider of all things, the One Who causeth all things to die and giveth them life. From time immemorial Thou hast been one God, Single, Unique, Self-Subsisting, Ever-Living, All-Compelling, All-Wise, Just, Most Holy, Eternal, Everlasting [3.5s]... ...How numerous the souls raised to life who were exposed to dire humiliation in Thy Path for exalting Thy Word

CMB_F14.158v05-162v01,

SWBP#45 (p.134-134x)

SWB#46 (p.188-189x)

@importance of prayer, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @servitude; submission to God; repentance

BB00144

Du’a’ li’l-Ithbat

1300

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. اللهم انی اسئلک باولیتک التی انها هی ممتنعة فوق کل شیء ان تنصرن کل ذات الف ینسب الی شجرة الاثبات

O God! I beseech Thee by Thy Firstness, which verily transcendeth all things, to grant victory unto every being possessing the letter Alif that is related to the Tree of Affirmation [3.5s]

CMB_F14.140r10-144v02,

@transcendence; unknowability of God

BB00083

Ziyarat for Friday and Thursday nights

2300

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. و اذا کنت لیلة الجمعه او یومها بین یدی نقطة البیان او احد من مظاهر الحی

And when thou findest thyself, on the eve of Friday or during its day, in the presence of the Point of the Bayán or any one of the Manifestations of the Living One [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.030-040, CMB_F14.114r05-121v01,

@spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @cleanliness and refinement, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

JRAS.457, BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, SRC.099, SRC.210

BB00133

Ziyarat for the first to believe, on Thursday night

1400

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء فی هذه اللیلة لیلة الجمعة التی تنظر فیها الی داعیک فی البیان

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee in this night - the night of Friday - wherein Thou gazest upon him who calleth unto Thee [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.046-052, CMB_F14.110r03-114r03,

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @Muhammad; Islam, @Word of God and human limitations, @He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah, @the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab

JRAS.457, BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, SRC.099, SRC.210

BB00103

Ziyarat for the martyrs

1800

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. انما البهاء من الله الذی لا اله الا هو علی فوادک و فواد من فی فوادک و علی روحک و من فی روحک... قدوس قدوس قدوس انما البهاء من الله

The glory from God, no other God is there but He, rest upon thy heart and the heart of whomsoever is in thy heart, and upon thy spirit and the spirit of whomsoever is in thy spirit

INBA64:001.04-013.08, INBA_6007C.130-137, CMB_F14.104v04-110r01,

TSHA1.412-414, MANU.082-088, TZH3.424.20-426.02x

RBB.105-106x, BLO_PT#150

@justice and wrath of God, @prayer for praise and gratitude, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @power of prayer

JRAS.457, BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, SRC.099, SRC.210

BB00221

910

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. اللهم صل علی ذات حروف السبع ثم حروف الاولی بالملک و الملکوت اللهم صل علی ذات حروف السبع ثم حروف الاولی بالعز والجبروت

O God! Bestow Thy blessings upon Him of the Seven Letters, then upon the Letters of the First in earthly sovereignty and heavenly dominion. O God! Bestow Thy blessings upon Him of the Seven Letters, then upon the Letters of the First, in might and sovereign power [3.5s]

CMB_F14.121v02-124r09,

@praise and encouragement, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @martyrs and martyrdom, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

BB00283

700

Arabic

CMB_F14.102v04-104v02,

@prophecy and fulfillment, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @Word of God and human limitations, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @divine attributes are within all things; every atom

BB00117

Du’a’ ‘ala’l-Abavayn min’ar’Rabb

1600

Arabic

بسم الله الارضی الارضی. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک لک الملک و الملکوت و لک العز و الجبروت و لک القدرة و اللاهوت و لک القوة و الیاقوت و لک السلطنة و الناسوت و لک العزة و الجلال و لک الطلعة و الکمال و لک الوجهة و الجمال و لک المثل و لاامثال

CMB_F14.124r10-129r08,

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @absolute freedom; independence of God, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @thankfulness; gratitude, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God

BB00141

Du’a’ ‘ala’n-Nafy

1300

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. اللهم اسئلک باخریتک التی انها هی مرتفعة فوق کل شیء ان تخذلن کل ذات الف ینسب الی شجرة النفی

O God, I beseech Thee by Thy lastness, exalted above all else, to abase every soul that cleaveth unto the tree of denial [4o]

INBA_6007C.085-090, CMB_F14.136r05-140r08,

@belief and denial, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @heaven and paradise; heaven and hell, @transcendence; unknowability of God

BB00177

Du’a’ li-Ithbati’l-ithbat

1100

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. اللهم انی اسئلک بابدیتک التی انها هی مرتفعة فوق کل شیء ان توجدن شجرة الاثبات و ما ینسب الیها

O God! I beseech Thee, by Thine eternity which transcendeth every created thing, to bring forth the Tree of Affirmation and all that pertaineth thereunto [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.080-084, CMB_F14.132r10-136r03,

@transcendence; unknowability of God

BB00208

Li-Validay man yaktub bayna yadi’llah

950

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الامنع. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک لک الملک و الملکوت و لک العز و الجبروت و لک القدرة و اللاهوت و لک القوة و الیاقوت و لک السلطنة و الناسوت و لک العزة و الجلال و لک الطلعة و الجمال و لک الوجهة و الکمال و لک الرحمة و الفضال و لک السطوة و العدال ... علی کلشیء قدیرا و سبحانک اللهم یا الهی تقدست

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee that verily Thou art God, and that there is none other God but Thee, alone, without peer. Thine is the Kingdom and the Dominion, Thine the Glory and the Power, Thine the Might and the Empyrean, Thine the Strength and the Brilliance, Thine the Sovereignty and the human realm, Thine the Glory and the Majesty, Thine the Splendor and the Beauty, Thine the Countenance and the Perfection, Thine the Mercy and the Bounty, Thine the Dominion and the Justice... over all things powerful art Thou. Glorified art Thou, O my God! Holy art Thou [3.5s]

CMB_F14.129r09-132r09,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @absolute freedom; independence of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @prayer for the departed, @soul; spirit after death

BB00311

Ziyarat for the fifth to be martyred among the Letters of the Living

600

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک یا الهی و ربی و محبوبی و مقصودی کیف ابتدئن بذکرک و ثنائک

Glorified art Thou, O my God, my Lord, my Beloved, and my Heart's Desire! How can I begin to make mention of Thee and offer Thy praise [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.124-126, CMB_F14.097r06-099r01,

@God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @purpose; goal of creation

BB00179

Ziyarat for the first to be martyred among the Letters of the Living

1100

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اللهم انی اسئلک باسمک یا الله یا رحمن یا رحیم یا رب یا مالک یا محیط یا قدیر یا علیم

O God! I beseech Thee by Thy Name, O God, O Compassionate One, O Merciful One, O Lord, O Sovereign, O All-Encompassing, O Almighty, O All-Knowing! [4o]

INBA_6007C.112-116, CMB_F14.088v05-091v09,

@justice and wrath of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

BB00338

Ziyarat for the fourth to be martyred among the Letters of the Living

530

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم انک انت فاطر السموات و الارض عالم الغیب و الشهادة لن یغرب من علمک من شیء لا فی السموات و لا فی الارض و لا ما بینهما و لا یعجک من شیء لا فی ملکوت الامر و لا الخلق و لا ما دونهما لم تزل کنت الها واحدا احدا فردا

Glorified art Thou, O my God! Verily Thou art the Maker of the heavens and the earth, the Knower of the seen and the unseen. Nothing escapeth Thy knowledge, whether in the heavens or on earth or betwixt them, nor can aught confound Thee in the kingdoms of command and creation or in whatsoever lieth beyond them. From time immemorial Thou hast been one God, single and alone [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.121-124, CMB_F14.095v03-097r04,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @justice and wrath of God, @absolute freedom; independence of God

BB00293

Ziyarat for the second to be martyred among the Letters of the Living

660

Arabic

INBA_6007C.116-119, CMB_F14.091v10-093v09,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @martyrs and martyrdom

BB00258

Ziyarat for the sixth to be martyred among the Letters of the Living

780

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی انک انت فاطر السموات و الارض عالم الغیب و الشهادة لم تزل قد تعززت

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! Thou art, verily, the Creator of the heavens and earth, the Knower of the seen and the unseen. Ever hast Thou been exalted [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.126-129, CMB_F14.099r03-101r08,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @God as immanent vs. transcendent reality, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @absolute freedom; independence of God, @Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha

BB00329

Ziyarat for the third to be martyred among the Letters of the Living

550

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم لاشهدنک بجوهر کینونیتی و ساذج ذاتیتی و مجرد نفسانیتی و کافور انیتی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت

Glorified art Thou, O my God! I testify unto Thee by the essence of my being, the pure reality of my nature, the naked truth of my soul, and the innermost camphor of mine identity, that Thou art God, there is no God but Thee [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.119-121, CMB_F14.093v10-095v01,

@justice and wrath of God, @eulogies; reminiscences, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

BB00310

600

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم انک انت فاطر السموات و الارض و ما بینهما عالم الغیب والشهادة لن یعزب عن علمک من شیء لا فی السموات و لا فی الارض و لا ما بینهما

Glorified art Thou, O my God! Verily Thou art the Maker of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever lieth between them, the Knower of all that is hidden and manifest. Nothing escapeth Thy knowledge, whether in the heavens or in the earth or in whatsoever lieth between them [3.5s]

CMB_F14.086v07-088v03,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @purpose; goal of creation, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]

JRAS.456, BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207

BB00387

410

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک لک الملک و الملکوت و لک العز و الجبروت و لک القدرة و اللاهوت و لک القوة و الیاقوت و لک السلطنة و الناسوت تحیی و تمیت و انک انت حی لا تموت و ملک لا تزول و سلطان لا تحول و عدل لا تجول و فرد لا تفوت ... کل شیء قدیرا لم تزل یا الهی

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee that verily Thou art God, and that there is none other God but Thee, alone, without peer. Thine is the Kingdom and the Dominion, Thine the Glory and the Power, Thine the Might and the Empyrean, Thine the Strength and the Brilliance, Thine the Sovereignty and the human realm. Thou givest life and causeth death, and verily Thou art the Ever-Living Who dieth not, the King Who passeth not away, the Sovereign Who changeth not, the Just Who deviateth not, the Single One Who faileth not... over all things powerful hast Thou ever been, O my God [3.5s]

CMB_F14.101r10-102v02,

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

JRAS.456, BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207

BH00568

Bisharat (Glad-Tidings; =Lawh-i-Nida)

1320

mixed

Bisharat (Glad Tidings)

حق شاهد و مظاهر اسماء و صفاتش گواه که مقصود از ارتفاع ندآء و کلمه علیا آنکه

God, the True One, testifieth and the Revealers of His names and attributes bear witness that Our sole purpose in raising the Call

INBA30:042, BLIB_Or07851.043b, , KB_262:033-041, PR05.002b-007a, BN_suppl.1753.069-075

ADM2#108 p.195x, AVK3.431.02x, AVK4.248.04x, AVK4.282ax, MJMM.116, UAB.057cx, BSHA.066x, PYB#188 p.04x, ADH1.086x, TBP#03, OOL.B005, OOL.B132

TB#03, LOG#0410x, LOG#2105x, LOG#2116x, GPB.218x, PDC.026x, PDC.118x, SW_v08#06 p.067, SW_v08#09 p.113, SW_v11#18 p.297, DWN_v5#04 p.001x, DWN_v5#09 p.001x, DWN_v6#01 p.001-002x, BLO_PT#201, BSC.141 #070-091

Proclaims fifteen ‘glad-tidings’: the abolition of holy war, consorting in fellowship with the followers of all religions, the adoption of a universal auxiliary language, the obligation to faithfully serve just monarchs, obedience to government, the establishment of the ‘Lesser Peace’, freedom in choice of clothing and cut of beard, abandonment of monasticism, forbidding the confession of sins, abrogating a law of the Báb regarding the destruction of books, exalting useful work to the status of worship and forbidding mendicancy, entrusting the affairs of the people to the House of Justice, abrogating the requirement of making special journeys to visit the graves of the dead, and commending a combination of republicanism and monarchy in the governance of human affairs.

@House of Justice, @useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession, @status of kings; future of monarchy, @monasticism; asceticism, @law of pilgrimage, @work as worship, @destruction of books

JRAS.676-679, ROB4.161-168, GSH.156, GSH.191, BSR_v16p03, LL#013, LL#320

BB00211

940

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی انک انت لم تزل کنت الهاً واحداً احداً فرداً صمداً حیاً قیوماً ما اتخذت لنفسک صاحبة و لا ولداً

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! Verily, Thou hast ever been one God, Single, Unique, Individual, Self-Subsisting, Ever-Living, Self-Sufficient. Thou hast taken unto Thyself neither consort nor son [3.5s]

INBA78:077-088, CMB_F14.083v10-086v05,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @prayer for assistance; intercession, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @absolute freedom; independence of God

JRAS.455, BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207

BB00131

1400

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحانک اللهم کیف اذکرنک ایای و لاسبحنک بتسبیحی ایاک و ان اعلی ما یتعارج به المخلصون

Glorified art Thou, O my God! How can I make mention of Thee through my praise of Thee, or extol Thee through my glorification of Thee? For even the most exalted heights to which the sincere can ascend [3.5s]

PR03.089r01-090r25, CMB_F14.021v04-026r02, , MKI4511.064v-072v, BYC_collect3.130-137

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @absolute freedom; independence of God, @prayer for forgiveness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

BB00432

330

Arabic

بسمه العلی الاعلی. اللهم لک الحمد لا الله الا هو سامع الدعاء و دائم العطاء و واسع الآلاء و مالک الاسماء اللهم لک الحمد لا الله الا هو مرسل الالواح و محرک الرواح

O God, unto Thee be praise! There is no God but He, the Hearer of prayer, the Ever-Bestowing, the All-Bountiful, the Lord of Names. O God, unto Thee be praise! There is no God but He, the Sender of Tablets, the Mover of winds [3.5s]

INBA_6009C:227-231, , PR03.045r18-045v08, CMB_F14.004v02-005v02, , MKI4500.120r-120v, MKI4511.020v-022v, BYC_tablets.017.09-018.09

@station of the Manifestation of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @justice and wrath of God

BB00041

Du’a’ li-Hadrat-i-Ni’ma

5000

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحانک اللهم و بحمدک اشهدک حینئذ بتوحیدی ایاک و اقراری بازلیتک و ایقانی بوحدانیتک بجوهر کافور ذاتیتی و مجرد ظهور کینونیتی و منتهی غایات خفیات انیتی ... قل هو الله احد الله الصمد لم یلد و لم یولد و لم یکن له کفوا احد بلی انک انت الله

Glorified art Thou, O my God, and praise be unto Thee! I testify unto Thee at this moment, through my unity with Thee and my confession of Thine eternity and my certitude of Thy oneness, by the essence of the camphor of my reality, the pure manifestation of my being, and the uttermost boundaries of the hidden signs of my identity... Say: He is God, the One! God, the Self-Subsisting! He begetteth not, nor is He begotten, and there is none like unto Him. Yea, verily, Thou art God [3.5s]

CMB_F14.005v03-021v02, , BN_6518 p.307v, BYC_tablets.018.11-036.06

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

BB00024

Du’a’ li-Huruf-i-Bismi’llahi’r-Rahmani’r-Rahim

9400

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم انک انت فاطر السموات و الارض و ما بینهما و مقدرهما و مصورهما و مبدعهما و منشئهما لم تزل کنت الهاً واحداً احداً فرداً صمداً حیاً قیوماً

Glorified art Thou, O my God! Verily Thou art the Maker of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever lieth between them, their Ordainer, their Fashioner, their Originator and their Author. From time immemorial Thou hast been one God, single, unique, eternal, ever-living and self-subsisting [3.5s]

CMB_F14.027v09-057r04,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @self-description of God; God's self-remembrance, @impossibility of true worship of God, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]

BB00167

Prayer for Ahmad

1200

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم لاشهدنک و کل شیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک لک الملک و لک الحمد تحیی و تمیت ثم تمیت و تحیی و انک انت حی لاتموت

Glorified art Thou, O my God! I and all things bear witness that verily Thou art God, and that there is none other God but Thee, alone, without peer. Thine is the Kingdom and Thine the Praise. Thou givest life and causest death, then causest death and givest life, and verily Thou art the Ever-Living Who dieth not [3.5s]

CMB_F14.057r06-060v08,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

BB00289

Prayer for Friday

670

Arabic

INBA98:174.06-176.13, Berlin3655.116r-117v

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و الملائکة و اولو العلم قائما بالقسط لا اله الا هو العزیز الحکیم قد وقع علی ذلک الجبل کتابک و اشهد

God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, and the angels, and they who are possessed of knowledge, standing firm in justice, bear witness that there is none other God but Him, the Almighty, the All-Wise. Upon this mountain hath Thy letter descended, and I bear witness [3.5s]... ...Verily, at this time, the Sun of Truth hath reached the Point of midday zenith

GOH.171x

@interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @transcendence; unknowability of God, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @symbolism, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision

BB00028

Du’a’ li-Hurufi Bismillahi’l-Amna’i’il-Aqdas

7500

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لم تزل کنت منفرداً فی ملیک القدس والجلال و لا تزال کنت مرتفعاً فی علو سماء القدس والاجلال

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! Thou hast ever dwelt alone in Thy dominion of sanctity and majesty, and wilt evermore remain exalted in the celestial heights of holiness and glory [3.5s]

CMB_F14.060v10-083v08,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @absolute freedom; independence of God, @creation of the world, @God's love for His own Essence, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness

JRAS.454-455, BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, SRC.195

BB00290

670

Arabic

هو العطوف الرحیم الرؤف الکریم. طراز جوهر مجرد کافور ساذج عال ازل الذی طرز من استطرازو طرز تطریز طرازات اطراز طراز

O Essence of pure and ethereal camphor, Ancient and Most Exalted One, Who hath adorned with embellishments the very emblems of adornment [3.5s]

CMB_F14.002v03-004v01, , CMB_F23.149r10-150r12 (52), , MKI4500.126v-128r

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @prayer for forgiveness, @evanescence and eternality; fana and baqa

JRAS.453, BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, SRC.195

BB00066

Dala'il-i-Sab'ih (The Seven Proofs - Arabic)

2700

Arabic

Dala'il-i-Sab'ih (Seven Proofs - Arabic)

بسم الله الافرد الافرد. بسم الله الفرد الفرد بسم الله الفرد الفرد بسم الله الفرد الفراد بسم الله الفرد الفراد بسم الله الفارود الفارد بسم الله الفرد الفراد بسم الله الفرد الفرود

In the name of God, the One, the Peerless. In the Name of God, the One, the Peerless. In the Name of God, the Singular, the Matchless. In the Name of God, the Singular, the Matchless. In the Name of God, the Unique, the Supreme. In the Name of God, the Singular, the Matchless [4o]

INBA_2007C:01a-13b, , PR02.101v10-104r18x, CMB_F22.092b?, , HBH_dalail=DLLS, BYC_saba-a

DLLS, OOL.A005a

HURQ.BB54x

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion

JRAS.447, BRHL.63, BRHL.65, MSBR.204-205?, AHDA.447.8, MMAH.066, SRC.087-088, SRC.185, GOH.035

BB00049

Ziyarat Jami’atu'l-Kabira

3600

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم [بسمه المکنون الرؤف]. الحمد لله رب العالمین و انما الصلوة علی محمد رسول الله و خاتم النبیین ... و اذا اردت زیارت حبیب الله او احد من ائمة الدین طهر ادلا جسمک

Praised be to God, the Lord of all the worlds. And may prayerful devotion [peace] be upon Muhammad, the Messenger of God, and the Seal of the Prophets.

INBA50:001-072, INBA_5019C:132-145, , INBA_6009C:173-219, , PR02.090r01-093v09, CMB_F22.019b, , MKI4499.049, AEWB.145-170,

ASAT3.074x

HURQ.BB34x

@visitation Tablets, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @station of the Manifestation of God

JRAS.445, BRHL.63, MSBR.204-205, SRC.045, SRC.202

BH05229

190

mixed

یا محمد قبل علی در عالم و آنچه در او ذکر شده و ظاهر گشته تفکر نما جمیع عباد

O Muhammad-'Ali! Ponder thou upon the world and whatsoever hath been mentioned and made manifest therein. All servants [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15715.380a, , CMB_F31.037,

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @high station of the true believer, @martyrs and martyrdom, @love of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

JRAS.287

BH05609

180

mixed

یا محمد قبل علی از شطر سجن مالک اسماء این ندا بشنو و باینکلمه علیا ناظر باش

O Muhammad-Qablí-'Alí! Hearken thou unto this Call from the direction of the Prison of the Lord of Names, and fix thy gaze upon this most exalted Word [3.5s]

CMB_F31.037-038,

@praise and encouragement, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @nearness and remoteness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @consolation and comfort

JRAS.287

BH00016

8470

mixed

الحمد لربنا الذی اظهر من القطره امواج البحر و من الذره انوار الشمس و فصل من

Praised be our Lord, Who hath revealed from the droplet the waves of the sea and from the atom the rays of the sun [3.5s]

INBA18:146, CMB_F31.038bx,

MUH3.153-173, NSS.201-202x, AMIN.196x, AMIN.216x

@corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @suffering and imprisonment, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

JRAS.288

BH02116

420

Arabic

هل الایات نزلت قل ای ورب السموات هل اتت الساعه بل قضت ومظهر البینات قد

Hath the verses been sent down? Say: Yea, by the Lord of the heavens! Hath the Hour come? Nay, it hath passed, and He Who is the Manifestation of clear signs hath appeared [3.5s]

INBA72:021, INBA34:171, BLIB_Or15707.134, , BLIB_Or15735.288, , CMB_F31.038a-038b,

AQA1#040, AVK2.228.13x

@apocalyptic imagery, @day of Resurrection; Judgement, @power of prayer, @heaven and paradise; heaven and hell

JRAS.288

BH04161

220

Arabic

انا کنا ماشیا فی البیت و ناطقا بایات الله دخل العبد الحاضر بکتابک و عرضه لدی المظلوم اجبناک

While We were walking in the house and uttering the verses of God, the servant who was present entered with thy letter and laid it before the Wronged One. We have answered thee [3.5s]

CMB_F31.038b-039a,

JRAS.288-289

BH02966

300

Arabic

حمد مقدس از ذکر و بیان مقصود عالمیانرا لایق و سزاست که سبیل مستقیم

Hallowed praise, transcending all mention and utterance, befitteth the Lord of all worlds, Who hath shown forth the straight path [3.5s]

CMB_F31.039a-039b,

JRAS.289

BH04076

Lawh-i-Liqa'

230

Arabic

Bahá'í Scriptures; In the Presence of the Beloved: Bahá'u'lláh's Lawh-i-Liqá'

Lawh-i-Liqa

هذا کتاب جعلناه لقائنا للذین اقبلوا الی الله فی تلک الایام التی فیها تغیرت

Lo, We made this epistle to be the attainment of Our presence for such as have turned unto God in these days

INBA34:274, CMB_F31.039b-040a,

BRL_DA#369, AQA1#137, MAS8.167x, ASAT5.068x

LOIR18.471, BLO_PT#043, BSC.187 #276, HURQ.BH84

@praise and encouragement, @presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause

JRAS.289

BB00224

Epistle to Muhammad Shah 1

900

Arabic

Tablets of the Báb to Muhammad Shah

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اقرء کتاب ذکر اسم ربک الذی لا اله الا هو العلی الکبیر و انه لکتاب لا ریب فیه قد نزل من لدن

Read the Book of the Remembrance of thy Lord, no God is there except Him, the Exalted, the Mighty. Such is indeed a Book about which there is no doubt

INBA_4011C:328-332, , INBA_5006C:367-369, , INBA_6012C.262-264x, , CMB_F28.7.03-04,

HNU.149-151x, AHDA.102, OOL.A023.1

HURQ.BB28x

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @superiority; incomparability of the Word of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God

MSBR.208-209, AHDA.460.08, MMAH.024, SRC.058, SRC.192

BB00210

Testamentary disposition, addressed to Azal

940

Arabic

Tablet of the Báb Lawh-i-Vasaya, "Will and Testament"; Titles of Mírzá Yahyá; Will and Testament; Epistle of the Báb to Azal

Lawh-i-Vasaya

بسم الله الازل الازل. اننی انا الله لا اله الا انا الوحاد الوحید اننی انا الله لا اله الا انا الاحاد الاحید اننی انا الله لا اله الا انا الصماد الصمید ... ان یا اسم الازل فاشهد علی الله لا اله الا انا العزیز المحبوب ثم اشهد

Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the One, the Unique. Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the Single, the Peerless. Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the All-Sufficing, the Everlasting... O Name of Eternity! Bear thou witness that there is no God but Me, the Mighty, the Best-Beloved [3.5s]... …O name of Azal, testify that there is no God but I, the dearest beloved. Then testify that there is no God but you, the victorious and permanent. Say, God created what He created from the time of beginning that has no beginning and

INBA64:095.01-102.09x, INBA_6007C.465-471, PR03.084r24-085v13, CMB_F23.174r06-176v02 (59)x, , HBH_vasayax, BYC_vesayatx

LOIR08.387, HURQ.BB61x, BLO_PT#211

@preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah

MSBR.206-207x

BB00135

Kitab al-Hujja I

1400

Arabic

بسم الله الممتنع الممتنع. و ان هذا لکتاب من عند الله المهیمن القیوم الی من قد جعل الله ذکر اسمه اسم نبیل قبل علی ذکراً من عنده فی العالمین ان یا نبیل قبل علی فاشهد علی انه لا اله الا انا ذوالالاهین

Verily, this is a Book from God, the All-Protecting, the Self-Subsisting, unto him whose name God hath made the name of Nabil-before-Ali, a remembrance from His presence unto all the worlds. O Nabil-before-Ali! Bear thou witness that there is none other God but Me, the Lord of all divine attributes [3.5s]

CMB_F23.078v09-082r18 (17),

@proofs of the Manifestations of God, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @rejection of Muhammad, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation

MSBR.206-207

BB00455

Tafsir-i-Suratu'l-Fatiha (prefixed to Tafsir-i-Suratu'l-Baqarah)

300

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. هذه السورة المبارکة عندالله سبعة آیات محکمات الآیة الاولی کتاب محمد صلی الله علیه و آله و فقد جعل الله فیها احکام وجوده مما لا بدایة و لا نهایة و هی جنة الفردوس ...

This blessed Surah, in the presence of God, consisteth of seven inviolable verses, the first verse being the Book of Muhammad - peace and blessings of God rest upon Him and His family - wherein God hath ordained the laws of His existence, having neither beginning nor end, and it is the Garden of Paradise [3.5s]

INBA69:156-157, PR02.001v07-001v19, PR40.002, CMB_F08, , BLIB_Or5276, BLIB_Or5277

@family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam, @the Imamate; the Caliphate, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation

MSBR.200-201

BH03564

Lawh-i-Ard-i-Ta

260

mixed

Tablets of the Báb to Muhammad Shah

یا ارض الطاء یاد آر هنگامی را که مقر عرش بودی و انوارش از در و دیوارت ظاهر

Call thou to remembrance, O Land of Ṭa (Ṭihrán), the former days in which thy Lord had made thee the seat of His throne, and had enveloped thee with the effulgence of His glory

INBA66:106b, BLIB_Or15730.090a, , NLAI_BH1.081

GWBP#055 p.077bx, RHQM1.072-073x (092) (053-054), ASAT1.071-072x, TSHA3.011, PYM.110ax, LDR.322, OOL.B167

GWB#055x, LTDT.270x

@eulogies; reminiscences, @prophecy and fulfillment, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @Shrines and Holy places, @martyrs and martyrdom, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @praise and encouragement

MUH1.0034, LL#062

BB00416

Fi Mas’alati’l-Bada’ (Letter on the alteration of the Divine Will) (part I)

360

Arabic

بسم الله المنشأ العلیم الذی لا اله الا هو العزیز الحکیم. قد ابتدء باختراع الکلمات فی ثبات اهل السبحات

Verily hath begun the fashioning of words in establishing those who dwell in the realms of divine glory [3.5s]

INBA67:172-174, INBA_4011C:137-139, , INBA_6004C:200-202, , INBA_6006C:078-079, , PR07.066v-067r, AEWB.221-226,

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

MMAH.057, SRC.190, SRC.192x2

BB00332

Ziyarat-i-Shah-'Abdu'l-'Azim

540

Arabic

هو المعبود المحمود المقصود. السلام علی من اختصه الله بمحمد حبیبه الذی استخلصه من بحبوحة القدم علی سائر الممکنات والسلام علی من اصطفاه الله بعلی ولیه الذی اصطنعه لنفسه و جعله مهیمناً علی کل الموجودات

Peace be upon him whom God hath singled out through Muhammad, His Beloved, Whom He chose from the inmost realm of pre-existence above all created beings; and peace be upon him whom God hath chosen through 'Alí, His Friend, Whom He fashioned for His own Self and made supreme over all existence [3.5s]

PR03.053v25-054v03

AHDA.260, OOL.A011

@the Imamate; the Caliphate, @Imam Husayn, @law of pilgrimage, @station of the Manifestation of God

MMAH.055

BBU0012

Public address at Vakil Mosque

The condemnation of God be upon him who regards me either as a representative

DB.154, GEN.042, AFNAN.021-022

@self-concealment of the Manifestation of God, @Imam 'Ali, @Seal of the Prophets, @station of the Manifestation of God, @the Imamate; the Caliphate

MMAH.037

BB00074

Epistle to Haji Mirza Aqasi 3 (Khutbiy-i-Qahriyyih)

2600

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تقهر بتقهیر تقهر اقتهار قهر قهاریته علی کینونیات المشرکات من الممکنات... اما بعد فاعلم یا ایها الکافر بالله والمشرک بآیاته والمعرض عن جنابه والمستکبر عن بابه

Praise be to God Who, through His transcendent dominion, His sovereign power and His all-subduing might, hath prevailed over the essences of those beings who have joined partners with Him from among all contingent things... And now know thou, O thou who hast disbelieved in God, associated partners with His signs, turned away from His presence and shown pride before His gate [3.5s]

INBA64:127.04-150.07, INBA_4012C.001-013, , PR02.045v07-048r26, BYC_collect4.004-012

RHQM1.438-440 (326-328x), KKD1.104.19, HNU.204-206x, TZH2.241-250, AHDA.359, OOL.A023.8

@chastisement and requital, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @personal instructions, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @justice and wrath of God, @events in the life and ministry of the Bab

MMAH.031, SRC.092-093, SRC.186

BB00648

Epistle to Haji Mirza Aqasi 4 (lost)

MMAH.028, SRC.083

BB00647

Epistle to Muhammad Shah 6 (?)

490

Arabic

فدا فؤآدک من فی ملکوت ملیک یا ذا لسلطان المقتدر الرؤف حمد و سپاس بی قیاس ذات اقدس مالک الملکی را سزاست

May the hearts of those in the celestial Kingdom be sacrificed unto Thee, O Thou Sovereign Lord of Power and Mercy! Boundless praise and thanksgiving beseem the Most Holy Essence of the King of Kings [3.5s]

AHDA.280-281

@petitions to authorities, @creation of the world, @suffering and imprisonment, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @prayer for assistance; intercession

MMAH.026

BB00165

Sharh-i-Du’a’-i-Sabah I

1200

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع کل الذرات الموجودات بامره لا من شیء لتدلعن السن کل الممکنات

Praised be to God Who originated the essences of all the atoms of the realms of existence through His Logos-Command and not by means of anything other than Him

INBA14:400-409, INBA40:155-162, INBA53:411-419, INBA67:219-228, INBA_6010C:398-407, , PR02.179r08-181r20

TZH3.027x

HURQ.BB39x

@interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @transcendence; unknowability of God

MMAH.020, SRC.079, SRC.193

BB00105

Tafsir-i-Suratu'l-Qadar I

1700

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع ما فی السموات و الارض بامره ثم الذین آمنوا بالله و آیاته فاولئک هم الی الله یحشرون و الحمد لله الذی ابتدع الجوهریات لا من شیئ قبلها بعلیة نفسها

Praise be to God Who hath brought into being, through His command, whatsoever is in the heavens and on earth, and beyond them those who have believed in God and His signs - these shall verily be gathered unto Him. And praise be to God Who hath originated the essences, not from aught that existed before them, through their own causation [3.5s]

INBA14:221-229, INBA69:014-021, INBA98:158.16-165.07, INBA_6010C:211-219, , Berlin3655.081v-085v, HBH_qadr (=INBA69)

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @infinity and eternity, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @Word of God and human limitations

MMAH.019, SRC.072, SRC.202

BB00219

Bayan dar Jabr wa Tafwid (fi bayan-i-mas'alati'l-Qadar)

920

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. قال الله تعالی الذی خلق فسوی والذی قدر فهدی و قال الصادق لا جبر و لا تفویض بل امر بین الامرین فاعلم ان هذه المسئله لما سد الله معرفته عن العقول والنفوس والارواح

God spoke forth Who created all that is other than Him and thus foreordained and proffered guidance. And [likewise] al-Ṣādiq said when God blocked the gnosis of this matter

INBA14:479-483, INBA53:053-056, INBA67:134-138, INBA_4011C:110-115, , INBA_5006C:375-377, , INBA_6004C:192-195, , INBA_6006C:067-069, , INBA_6010C:473-477, , PR07.059v-061r

ASAT4.473x

HURQ.BB41x

@limits of the intellect, @free will and predestination; fate, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @the Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will

MMAH.018, SRC.073, SRC.184

AB00001

Alvah-i-Visaya (Will and Testament)

5820

Persian

Bahá'í Scriptures; Bahá'í World Faith; Bahá'í Prayers; Will and Testament of Abdu'l-Bahá

Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Bahá

حمدا لمن صان هیکل امره بدرع المیثاق عن سهام الشبهات و حمی حمی شریعته السمحاء

All praise to Him Who, by the Shield of His Covenant, hath guarded the Temple of His Cause from the darts of doubtfulness... O God, my God! Shield Thy trusted servants from the evils of self... O Lord by God! Assist Thy loved ones to be firm in Thy Faith

WTP, ABS#15-wt, AYT.456-484x, AYT.514-521x, DWNP_v1#03-4 p.005x, DWNP_v2#03-4 p.027-031x, DWNP_v3#03-4 p.024x and 026-029x, KHSH11.007, OOL.C003

WTAB, BPRY.153-154x, BPRY.191x, BWF.438-449x, BADM.003-012x, BADM.036-037x, BADM.069x, GPB.247x, GPB.250x2x, GPB.328x, GPB.332x, GPB.377x3x, GPB.389x, MBW.038x, TDH#64.4x, WOB.023x, WOB.128x, WOB.133x, WOB.148-149x, WOB.149x2x, BSC.552 #994x, SW_v14#03 p.085-086x, SW_v14#08 p.233-234x, DWN_v1#09 p.001x, DWN_v4#01 p.001x

MJ Cyr, KC Porter, E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown, MANA, N. Chiang, O. Devine, W. Heath, Soulrise Melodies, L. Dely & M. Congo, KC Porter, S. Bayan & S. Suggs

@Shoghi Effendi and the Guardianship, @House of Justice, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @Hands of the Cause, @twin Manifestations, @obedience to and respect for government authority

MMAH.284

AB00002

Tadhkiratu'l-Vafa (Memorials of the Faithful)

42100

Persian

Memorials of the Faithful

Memorials of the Faithful (book)

در نجف اشرف در دائره شیخ مرتضی انصاری مجتهد شهیر شخصی بی نظیر بود

There was, in the city of Najaf, among the disciples of the widely known mujtahid

MFP, IQN.174x, IQN.193x, MSBH1.496x, MSBH8.141-146x, OOL.C026

MF, STAB#003, STAB#010, STAB#029, STAB#085, STAB#088, STAB#101, STAB#132, STAB#135

Smith & Dragoman, R. Peterson [track 7]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @eulogies; reminiscences, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @banishment to; life in 'Akka, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @stories; anecdotes, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @accounts of dreams and visions, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @firmness in the Covenant, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @high station of learning, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @station of the Manifestation of God, @praise and encouragement, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @methods of teaching the Cause, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings, @spiritual transformation, @predictions and prophecies, @Ascension of Baha'u'llah, @Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @Shrines and Holy places, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @pain of love; love as veil, @zeal and fervor in teaching the Cause, @banishment to; life in Constantinople, @God as immanent vs. transcendent reality, @The Holy Spirit, @Hands of the Cause, @visitation Tablets, @soul; spirit after death, @celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy, @martyrs and martyrdom, @Mount Carmel, @thankfulness; gratitude, @love of God, @radiant countenance; bearing the divine fragrance, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @suffering and imprisonment, @Shaykhis, @love as fire

MMAH.283

AB00013

Tafsir-i-Bismillah

4760

Arabic

Creation

Tafsír-i-Bismilláh ar-Raḥmán ar-Raḥím (Commentary on the opening verse of the Quran)

الحمد لله الذی بفیض ظهوره الاعلی کشف الغطاء عن وجه الهدی و اشرقت الارض

...The names of God derive from those attributes which are the perfections belonging to the reality of the Essence

INBA55:001, INBA59:044, INBA90:097, UMich962.072-092, UMich991.174-203

MKT1.033, MNMK#005 p.032, ASAT4.475-476x, QT105.1.122x, BMT.012, RHQM1.252-255x (312x) (187-189x), YMM.179x, JNM1.453x, DLS.284x, DLS.418x, NSS.168x, OOL.C027

BLO_createx, BLO_PT#216.031nx

@names and attributes of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @existence and nonexistence; preexistence, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity

MMAH.279

Date of publication mentioned in TZH6.282 and BMT.012-013.

AB00016

Lawh-i-Lahih (Tablet to the Hague)

4540

mixed

Bahá'í Scriptures; Bahá'í World Faith; Tablet to the Central Organization for a Durable Peace, The Hague (Lawh-i-Hague); Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá

Lawh-i-Hague (Tablet to The Hague)

ای اول اشخاص خیرخواه محترم عالم انسانی نامه های شما که درین مدت حرب ارسال

O ye esteemed ones who are pioneers among the well-wishers of the world

BRL_HAGP1, MKT3.101, MNMK#112 p.210, MMK1#227 p.285x, AKHA_134BE #13 p.495x, AVK3.401.05x, AVK3.409.08x, AVK4.324ax, AVK4.324bx, AVK4.326x, AVK4.331ax, AVK4.334bx, DWNP_v2#12 p.095-99x, HDQI.211, ANDA#16 p.06x, KHAB.034 (043), OOL.C014

BRL_HAG1, SWAB#227x, BWF.284-296, LOG#1075x, BSC.410 #745, FWU.028x, SW_v11#08 p.123-127+129-134, DWN_v2#05 p.005x, ABCC.438-439x, BLO_PT#192, BLO_PT#193

@lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles, @war and peace, @unity in diversity, @universal peace; world unity, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @call to action, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @religion as source of love and unity, @unity; oneness of humanity

MMAH.271

AB00020

Lawh-i-Dr Forel (Tablet to Dr Forel)

3770

Persian

Bahá'í World Faith; Tablet to Auguste Forel

Tablet to Auguste Forel

ای شخص محترم مفتون حقیقت نامه شما که ۲۸ جولای ۱۹۲۱ مورخ بود رسید مضامین خوشی

O revered personage, lover of truth! Thy letter dated July 28th, 1921, hath been

BRL_LAFP, MKT3.474, MNMK#144 p.255, AKHA_106BE #06 p.02x, PYM.315, MJDF.002, KHF.018, KHAB.011 (022), KHTB3.015, NJB_v14#01 p.032, NJB_v14#02 p.064, OOL.C010, VUJUD.033-040

TAGF, BWF.336-348x, SW_v14#04 p.101-109, SW_v13#08 p.195+197-202, ABCC.449x, VUJUDE.043-056

@universality of the Cause, @The Holy Spirit, @divine philosophy and natural philosophy, @proofs for the existence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @names and attributes of God

MMAH.243

AB00005

Lawh-i-Hizar Bayti (Tablet of the Thousand Verses)

10300

mixed

Lawh-i-Hizar Bayti (Tablet of the Thousand Verses, two tablets)

ای رب تری هجوم الامم و جولتها و غرور الملل و صولتها علی عبدک الفرید الوحید

O Lord! Thou beholdest the assault of the nations and their violent commotion, and the pride of the peoples and their fierce onslaught against this lone and solitary servant [3.5s]

INBA87:520, INBA52:548b

MMK4#189 p.259, AYT.428x, HHA.084-088x, KHSH14.000x, RHQM1.170-176 (215x) (127-131x), ADH2_1#38 p.055x, MSHR3.098x, MSHR4.295x, MJMJ2.030bx, MJMJ2.034x, MJMJ2.072bx, MMG2#018 p.017x, MMG2#241 p.271x, MMG2#248 p.279x, OOL.C012a

A. Haghighi

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @episodes from the early history of Islam, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @the Imamate; the Caliphate, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @firmness in the Covenant, @importance of authoritative interpretation, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @Imam 'Ali, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @suffering and imprisonment, @martyrs and martyrdom

MMAH.237

AB00011

Siyasiyyih (The Art of Divine Polity - Treatise on Politics)

5110

Persian

Treatise on Leadership (Risáliy-i-Síyásíyyih); Treatise on Leadership; La Politique

Risaliy-i-Siyasiyyih (Treatise on Leadership)

ستایش و نیایش پاک یزدانیرا سزا که بنیان آفرینش را بر ظهورات کمالات مقدسه عالم

Adoration and praise beseem the Spirit of Purity that has laid the foundation of creation with the sole object

INBA88:001, BLIB_Or.08117#4,

AVK3.275.13x, AVK3.279.14x, AVK3.282.02x, AVK3.287.17x, DWNP_v4#01 p.004-008x, OOL.C025

BLO_PT#203x, BLO_PT#206, BLO_PT#207x

@obedience to and respect for government authority, @unity; oneness of humanity, @justice and wrath of God, @spiritual springtime, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha

MMAH.236

AB00004

Madaniyyih (The Secret of Divine Civilization)

20800

Persian

Bahá'í Scriptures; Secret of Divine Civilization

Secret of Divine Civilization (book)

بدایع حمد و ثنا و جوامع شکر و سپاس درگاه احدیت پروردگاریرا سزاست که از بین کافه

Praise and thanksgiving be unto Providence that out of all the realities in existence He has chosen the reality of man

BLIB_Or.08686, IOM.100, BLIB_Or.08117,

SDCP, AVK3.336.14x, AVK3.222.07x, AVK3.290.13x, AVK3.292.05x, AVK3.324.05x, AVK4.317bx, AVK4.328x, AVK4.339x, MSHR3.097x, OOL.C019

SDC, WOB.037-038x, WOB.192x, LOG#1061 ¶1x, LOG#1417x, LOG#1682x, LOG#1882x, LOG#1883x, BSC.424 #767.1x, SW_v07#18 p.181-182x, BLO_PT#057, STAB#044, STAB#064

Treatise addressed anonymously to the entire Persian nation, outlining both the secular and the religious bases of true civilization. Identified by Shoghi Effendi as Abdu'l-Baha's "outstanding contribution to the future reorganization of the world." Presents a defense of Western-style modernization in the face of opposition to the Shah's reforms. Explores the qualities of the spiritually learned through the lens of an Islamic tradition that the learned "must guard himself, defend his faith, oppose his passions and obey the commandments of his Lord". Presents the essential outlines of the Lesser Peace. Argues that religion is the greatest instrument for achieving true civilization, but warns that it can be diverted to the wrong ends. Rejects the possibility of a secular morality based on an "innate sense of human dignity", since "self-love is kneaded into the very clay of man". Issues a call for education reform, borrowing from other cultures as necessary, to restore the ancient glory of Persia.

@past, present and future of Iran, @religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @praise of Eastern values; culture, @Muhammad; Islam, @status of kings; future of monarchy, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @universal peace; world unity, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @mind as principle emanation; activity of the human spirit, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @war and peace, @Christ; Christianity, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @bribery and corruption, @education of children; moral education, @parliaments; constitutional government, @promotion of commerce and industry, @call to action, @spiritual assemblies; administrative matters, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @religion as source; stimulus of knowledge and science, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @power of the mind over nature, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @universal education, @excellence; distinction, @justice and wrath of God, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline, @symbolism

MMAH.234

BH02591

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Awliya (Vahid)

340

Arabic

Tablet of Visitation for Vahid-i Darabi (Lawh-i-Ziyarát-i-Vahíd-i-Darabí)

Lawh-i-Ziyarat-i-Vahid-i-Darabi (Tablet of Visitation for Vahid-i Darabi)

اول موج علا من بحر رحمه ربک الرحمن علیک یا سر الفرقان و مستسر البیان اشهد

The first wave of exaltation from the ocean of grace of thy Lord, the Compassionate, be upon thee, who art the essence of the Qur'án

BLIB_Or15714.092, , Majlis210461.091-092

LMA1.347 (207), ASAT4.079x, OOL.B150

BLO_PT#152, NYR#126

@prayer for martyrs, @eulogies; reminiscences, @martyrs and martyrdom, @visitation Tablets, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

MMAH.230, GSH.065, LL#343, LL#351

Tablet of Visitation for Vahid-i Darabi.

BH00610

Suriy-i-A'rab

1250

Arabic

Surah of the Arabs

Surat Al-Arab (Surah of the Arabs)

تلک آیات الله قد نزلت بالحق من سماء عز بدیع و جعلها الله حجه من عنده و برهانا

These are the verses of God which have been sent down from the heaven of wondrous glory, and which God has made to be a proof and testament from Him unto the worlds

INBA37:081, BLIB_Or15723.224, , BLIB_Or15725.045, , BLIB_Or15737.064,

BRL_DA#705, AQA4#085 p.215, AQA4a.061, MUH3.267-268x, OOL.B106

BLO_PT#093, JHT_B#004

Addresses words of praise and encouragement to the Arabs among His followers, inviting them to remember with gladness the years He spent amongst them in ‘Iraq.

@Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha, @suffering and imprisonment, @banishment to; life in Baghdad, @proclamation of the Cause (general or uncategorized), @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @status of kings; future of monarchy, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis

MMAH.224, MMAH.237, GSH.204, LL#292

BH00434

Suriy-i-Dhibh

1620

Arabic

Surah of the Sacrifice (Súratu'dh-Dhibh)

Suratudh-Dhibh (Surah of the Sacrifice)

اقر لله علی عرش العظمه و الجلال بانی انا الله لا اله الا انا المهیمن

God hath proclaimed from the throne of grandeur and splendor, "I, verily, am the Lord God, and there is no other god beside Me

INBA18:001, INBA37:003, BLIB_Or15723.188, , BLIB_Or15737.027,

AQA4#079 p.100, AQA4a.029, AVK3.467.01x, MAS4.139ax, ASAT3.267x, OOL.B113

BLO_PT#096

Exhorts the recipient to look into the truth of the Cause of God with his own eyes and declares that Bahá’u’lláh has been offered up as a sacrifice at the hands of the wicked at every moment for the past twenty years.

@sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @independent investigation of truth; reality

MMAH.222, GSH.113, LL#298

BH00951

860

mixed

احرف حمد حقایق و دقایق حمد مخصوص ساحت قدس قرب حضرت سلطانیست که از لطایف

The letters of praise and the subtleties of glorification belong unto the holy and intimate sanctuary of that Sovereign Lord Who, through His grace [3.5s]... ...My God, My Master, My Desire! …Thou hast created this atom of dust through the consummate power of Thy might

INBA65:268, INBA36:329c, NLAI_BH1.278

HDQI.060, TZH4.117-120x, MAS8.049bx, FBAH.099x, OOL.B155, UVM.083.02x

BKOG.104x, GPB.109x

@creation of the world, @suffering and imprisonment, @praise and encouragement, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

MMAH.217, LL#407

BH01536

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Bayt (Lawh-i-Hajj Baghdad)

570

Arabic

Wronged One, The; Surih of Visitation

یا ایها الناظر الی المنظر الاکبر اسمع ندآء جمال القدم من شطر سجنه الاعظم

O thou who gazest upon the Most Great Scene! Hearken unto the call of the Ancient Beauty from the direction of His Most Great Prison [3.5s]... ...When thou art departed out of the court of My presence, O Muḥammad, direct thy steps towards My House (Baghdád House), and visit it on behalf of thy Lord

INBA34:136, INBA49:283, BLIB_Or15707.058, , BLIB_Or15735.225, , NLAI_BH1.007x

BRL_DA#712, GWBP#057 p.079x, AQA1#019, AHM.097, TSBT.090, RHQM2.0805-807 (214) (133-134x), ASAT2.111x, HYK.255, OOL.B152

GWB#057x, GPB.110x9x, GPB.149x2x, GPB.360x, MBW.168x, PDC.026x, ADMS#107

@Shrines and Holy places, @prayers (general or uncategorized), @banishment to; life in Baghdad, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment

MMAH.206, GSH.206, LL#114, LL#345

Tablet to be recited when making pilgrimage to Bahá'u'lláh's House in Baghdad

BH00280

Suriy-i-Ziyarih

2280

Arabic

Surat az-Ziyarah (Surih of Visitation for Mulla Husayn)

هذا کتاب من لدی المظلوم الذی سمی فی ملکوت البقاء بالبهاء و فی جبروت العلاء

This is a letter from a wronged One, who is known in the kingdom of eternity as Bahá, in the dominion of exaltation… Our God and Beloved! Forgive us, our parents, and such of our relations as have believed in Thee and Thy signs

INBA37:122, INBA83:195, INBA49:289, BLIB_Or15702.239, , NLAI_BH2.297, ALIB.folder18p057-066

AQA4#091 p.301, ADM2#005 p.017x, MAS8.082, ASAT4.078x, OOL.B141

LOIR03.083, BLO_PT#098, JHT_S#087x

Visitation tablet for Mullá Ḥusayn, who was the first to embrace the cause of the Báb and was one of its early martyrs and who is implicitly related in the tablet to Bahá’u’lláh (whose given name was also Ḥusayn) and through Him to the persecution and suffering of Abel, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, Imam Ḥusayn, and the Báb.

@suffering and imprisonment, @power of the Manifestation of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @visitation Tablets

MMAH.204, GSH.196, LL#330

BH02183

Asl-i-Kullu'l-Khayr (Words of Wisdom)

400

Arabic

Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Asl-i-Kullul-Khayr (Words of Wisdom)

اصل کل الخیر هو الاعتماد علی الله و الانقیاد لامره و الرضاء لمرضاته اصل الحب

The source of all good is trust in God, submission unto His command, and contentment with His holy will and pleasure.

INBA36:170, INBA30:039, BLIB_Or15714.155, , NLI.32p026r, OSAI I.MMS

AVK1.014.09x, AVK3.003.04x, AVK3.161.13x, ZYN.036, AHM.044, MJMM.033, TZH4.224, NSR_1993.083, TBP#10, OOL.B002

TB#10, SW_v04#10 p.171, SW_v06#16 p.121, SW_v07#18 p.185-186, SW_v14#04 p.099-100, BSC.158 #155-163

Y. Mesbah, E. Mahony, Pradheep, Shayna, Shafireh & Prasad, Soulrise Melodies

A brief collection of moral maxims, summarizing the essence of faith, love, wisdom, religion, wealth, and others and centring around belief in God and submission to His will.

@walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @love of God, @fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf], @independent investigation of truth; reality, @exhortations and counsels, @thankfulness; gratitude, @words vs deeds, @humility; meekness; lowliness

MMAH.194, GSH.210, LL#008

BH00335

Lawh-i-Khalil

1970

mixed

Lawh-i-Khalíl (Tablet to Khalil)

ملکوت جلال و جمال و جبروت عظمت و اجلال سلطان لاهوت و ملیک حی لایموت را

The Sovereign of the Divine Realm and King of Life Who dieth not hath so established and ornamented the Kingdom of Majesty and Beauty and the Spiritual Realm of Might

BLIB_Or15717.213,

BRL_DA#483, MAS4.038x, MSHR5.386x, OOL.B161

HURQ.BH72

@Moses, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @transcendence; unknowability of God

MMAH.190, LL#420

BH00097

Lawh-i-Mulla Abdur-Rahim

4350

mixed

معروض میدارد این عبد فانی که مکتوب آنجناب واصل شد و از بدایع کلمات و جواهر

This evanescent servant submitteth that thy letter was received, and from the wondrous words and gems [3.5s]

SFI03.011

@infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat], @stories; anecdotes, @regarding the receptivity of the hearer in teaching the Cause, @wisdom [hikmat], @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @oneness; unity of religion, @belief and denial, @station of the Manifestation of God, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas

MMAH.186

BH02794

Lawh-i-Gul-i-Mawla

320

mixed

گل مولی چه بسیار از دراویش که در صحراهای شوق بیاد مولی سیاح شدند و در بحور

Flower of God! How many are the dervishes who journeyed through the wildernesses of longing in remembrance of their Lord and swam in the oceans of yearning

INBA35:189, NLI.32p001v

MAS4.218bx, ASAT4.491.15x

ADMS#259

@power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God, @rejection by the people of the Bayan

MMAH.182

BH00915

Lawh-i-Laylatu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Sacred Night - 'Akka)

900

Arabic

Tablet of the Sacred Night (Lawh Laylat al-Quds)

Lawh-i-Laylatu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Sacred Night, 'Akká)

فسبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک باسمک الذی نجیت به الادم عن الشیطان و حفظت النوح

Praise be to Thee, O my God. I call upon Thee by Thy Name, whereby Thou didst save Adam from Satan, and didst deliver Noah from the deluge, Abraham from the flames

INBA92:298

TSBT.174-181, RHQM2.0996x (435) (267x), OOL.B001a

BLO_PT#138, HURQ.BH43

@prayer for evening; night, @prayer for unity, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @power of prayer, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

MMAH.172, LL#148

Not to be confused with Inventory #BH00970.

BH01394

Lawh-i-Quds 1 (Lawh-i-A'rabi)

620

Arabic

Tablet of Holiness

Lawh-i-Quds (Tablets of Holiness); Lawh-i-Quds or Lawh-i-A'rabi (Tablet of Holiness)

یا اعرابی ثم یا احبائی ثم یا اصفیائی ثم یا جنودی ثم یا ظهوری اسمعوا ندائی ان

My Arabs, My Loved ones, My friends, My legions, My manifestation! Hearken unto My call, if ye be among them with ears to hear

INBA36:149, INBA71:320, BLIB_Or15696.169,

BRL_DA#362, AQA4#096 p.325, AQA4a.070, OOL.B068a

BLO_PT#112, JHT_B#008

@exhortations and counsels, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @self-concealment of the Manifestation of God, @contention and conflict

MMAH.171, LL#213

BH00061

Suriy-i-Sultan

5370

Arabic

تلک آیات الله قد نزلت بالحق من جبروت البقاء و جعلها الله حجه من عنده و

These are the verses of God, sent down in truth from the dominion of eternity, and God hath made them a testimony from His presence [3.5s]

INBA37:040, BLIB_Or15723.126,

BRL_DA#211, AQA4#082 p.154, AQA4a.261, OOL.B139

Addresses individually words of praise and encouragement to a number of followers in the town of Sulṭán-Ábád and addresses parenthetically Mírzá Yaḥyá, upbraiding him for his opposition and urging him to repent, while assuring him that Bahá’u’lláh holds no hatred in His heart for him.

@spiritual transformation, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @suffering and imprisonment, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @martyrs and martyrdom, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @proclamation to people of the Bayan, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

MMAH.170, GSH.193, LL#328

BH04904

200

mixed

یا عظیم نبا عظیم آمد صراط مستقیم ظاهر شد ندا از شطر قریب مرتفع گشت سبحان الله

O 'Azim! The Great News hath come, the Straight Path hath appeared, and the Call hath been raised from a near quarter. Glorified be God [3.5s]

AQA5#171 p.230

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

MMAH.169

BH00739

Lawh-i-Sahab (Tablet of the Cloud)

1060

Arabic

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablet of the Clouds (Lawḥ-i-Saḥáb), The

Lawh-i-Sahab (Tablet of the Clouds)

هذا کتاب من لدی الرحمن الی الذین اقبلوا الی قبله من فی السموات و الارضین

This is a Book from before the Most Merciful unto those who have turned their faces towards Him Who is the Qiblih of all who dwell in the heavens and on earth [3.5s]... ...My captivity can bring on Me no shame. Nay, by My life, it conferreth on Me glory. That which can make Me ashamed is the conduct of such of My followers as profess to love Me

INBA34:109, LEID.Or4970 item 10, , Majlis934.125.02-126.09x

BRL_DA#073, GWBP#060 p.083ax, AQA1#008, MAS4.168ax, MAS4.364bx, MAS8.107bx, ASAT4.051x, ASAT4.132x, ANDA#72 p.03x, OOL.B075

GWB#060x, TN.042x, ADJ.032x, GPB.190x, PDC.135-136x, PDC.139x, WOB.105x, JHT_B#002

Proclamatory tablet mentioning Bahá’u’lláh’s recent summons to Náṣiru’d-Dín Sháh and Napoleon III, extolling the prophetic significance of the Holy Land and His banishment there, and exhorting His followers to proclaim His message with wisdom, deeds, and upright conduct, describing them as those who would pass through a valley of pure gold ‘aloof as a cloud’.

@characteristics and conduct of true believers, @chastisement and requital, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @the power of words; of speech, @predictions and prophecies, @suffering and imprisonment, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

MMAH.167, GSH.179, LL#228

BH05338

Baz Av-u-Bidih Jamih

180

mixed

At Dawn the Friend came to my bed'

باز آو بده جامی این ساقی عطشانرا زآن ساغر باقی ده این فانی دورانرا این هیکل

Return and offer a cup to this thirsty cupbearer; From that eternal chalice, bestow upon this transient being;This temple [3.5s]

INBA30:138, OSAI I.MMS,

BRL_DA#252, TZH4.142-143x, MAS4.186, OOL.B004

Brief ode celebrating the divine love, beseeching immortal life, and expressing His desire for evanescence in God and His wish to offer up His life in the path of God.

@evanescence and eternality; fana and baqa, @mystical themes, @pain of love; love as veil, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @love as fire, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @spiritual transformation

MMAH.163, GSH.065, LL#011

BH00297

Suriy-i-Dhikr

2160

Arabic

Suriy-i-Dhikr (Surih of Remembrance)

هذا کتاب نقطه الاولی الی الذینهم آمنوا بالله الواحد الفرد العزیز العلیم و فیه یخاطب

This is the Súrih of Remembrance, sent down as a token of grace, that perchance the people of the Bayán might renounce that which they possess

INBA47:001, INBA37:097, BLIB_Or15725.176, , NLAI_BH2.343

BRL_DA#732, AQA4#087 p.236, AQA4a.108, ASAT3.279x, OOL.B114, AMB#38x

DOR#38x, GPB.137x, HURQ.BH24

Speaking in the voice of the Báb, Bahá’u’lláh declares His mystical identity with the Báb (one of whose titles was ‘the Remembrance of God’) and the fulfilment of the Báb’s revelation in Him and laments the state of the Bábís in the extremity of their rejection of Bahá’u’lláh.

@suffering and imprisonment, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @exhortations and counsels, @personal instructions, @chastisement and requital, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

MMAH.160, GSH.059, LL#299

BH01343

Suriy-i-Amin

640

Arabic

Súriy-i-Amín (Tablet to Amín)

هذا کتاب من لدی الله المهیمن القیوم الی الذی منه ظهرت الاستقامه الکبری فی

This is a Book from God, the All-Compelling, the Self-Subsisting, unto him through whom was manifested the Most Great Steadfastness [3.5s]

INBA34:123, BLIB_Or15707.030, , BLIB_Or15735.202, , LEID.Or4970 item 11,

AQA1#013, AQA4#094 p.320, ASAT1.201x, ASAT2.035x, ASAT4.459x, DLH2.187x, HYK.202, OOL.B104

Praises the recipient for his steadfastness; calls the followers of the Qur’an to hear ‘the voice of the Crier, Who cried out between heaven and earth’; relates the fallen state of Fu’ád Páshá upon his death; and extols the ultimate sacrifice of the youthful Badí‘, who delivered Bahá’u’lláh’s epistle to Náṣiru’d-Dín Sháh.

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @justice and wrath of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @power of faith; power of the spirit

MMAH.157, GSH.200, LL#290

BH01547

Lawh-i-Haqq

560

Arabic

Lawh-i-Haqq (Tablet of the Ultimately Real)

ان یا ملا الحق قد ظهر الحق عن افق الحق فی هذالحق الذی طلع عن مطلع الحق

O concourse of the Ultimately Real One! The Truly Real One has, in very Truth, been made manifest from the horizon of Ultimately Real

INBA37:141, OSAI I.MMS,

BRL_DA#720, GSH.037, ASAT3.117x, OOL.B041

HURQ.BH09

Announces to ‘the followers of the True One’ the appearance of the Spirit of Truth, round which circle all the Prophets of God, while sharply remonstrating the Bábís for their rejection of Bahá’u’lláh.

@proclamation to people of the Bayan, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @power of the Manifestation of God, @station of the Manifestation of God

MMAH.133, LL#001

BH00409

Lawh-i-Basitatu'l-Haqiqah

1700

mixed

Tablet of the Uncompounded Reality; Tablet on the Simple Reality, The (Lawḥ-i-Basíṭu'l-Ḥaqíqih)

Lawh-i-Basítatu'l-Haqíqah (Tablet of the Uncompounded Reality)

و ما سئل السائل فی قول الحکماء بسیط الحقیقه کل الاشیاء قل فاعلم ان المقصود

As to the question the enquirer hath asked concerning the sage’s assertion, saying: the Element of Simple Reality is all things… words without deeds are as bees that yield no honey

INBA39:034, BLIB_Or11096#012, , BLIB_Or15698.105, , BLIB_Or15720.105, , BLIB_Or15740.083, , NLAI_BH3.213, LEID.Or4971-7, , Majlis934.291-307

BRL_DA#714, AVK1.104.06x, IQT.105, SFI05.008, MAS7.140b, ASAT1.078x, ASAT5.176x, ASAT5.250x, TUM.061-064, OOL.B032, VUJUD.099x

LOIR11.203, BLO_PT#141, VUJUDE.133-134x, HURQ.BH65x, JHT_B#016

Elucidates a statement by the philosopher Mullá Ṣadrá that ‘the uncompounded reality is all things’, offers a middle position between the doctrines of ‘the oneness of being’ and ‘the oneness of appearances’, observes that both positions can be upheld with reference to different sacred scriptures, and suggests that nothing is to be gained from disputation in such matters.

@words vs deeds, @unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud], @transcendence; unknowability of God, @Greek philosophers; Greek civilization, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @uncompounded reality [basitu'l-haqiqah], @interpretation of words and passages in scripture

MMAH.121, GSH.185, LL#077

BH01580

550

Arabic

رسولی لاتحزن عما ورد علیک لعمری انک تحت جناح فضل ربک العزیز الحمید اشهد انک

O My Messenger! Grieve not for that which hath befallen thee. By My life! Thou art beneath the wing of thy Lord's grace, the Mighty, the All-Praised. I bear witness that thou [3.5s]... ...I beseech Thee, O Thou the best Beloved of the worlds and God of all in the heavens and on earth, to grant that I be confirmed in Thy love and steadfast under Thy command

INBA34:130, BLIB_Or11095#004, , BLIB_Or15707.045, , BLIB_Or15735.214,

AQA1#016, ADM2#039 p.066x, HYK.214, OOL.B072

JHT_S#039x

@suffering and imprisonment, @prayer for protection, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

MMAH.108, GSH.180, LL#219

BH01865

Lawh-i-Rasul

470

Persian

Lawh-i-Rasul (Tablet to Rasul)

ان یا رسول اگر از شمس سماء معنی پرسی در کسوف حسد مکسوف و مغطوء و اگر از قمر

O Rasúl! Shouldst thou ask concerning the Sun of the heaven of inner meaning, know that it hath been eclipsed by the clouds of envy

INBA38:257

NANU_BH#10x, ASAT4.013x, AMB#30, QUM.029

DOR#30

Identifies Himself, through His sufferings, with the prophets of the past and announces His intention to take leave of both friend and foe.

@suffering and imprisonment, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @love of God

MMAH.107, GSH.181, LL#219

BH05849

170

Arabic

Bahá'í Prayers; Prayers and Meditations; Days of Remembrance

قل یا الهی و ناری و نوری قد دخلت الایام التی سمیتها بایام الهاء فی کتابک یا

My God, my Fire and my Light! The days which Thou hast named the Ayyam-i-Ha in Thy Book have begun

INBA41:006, BLIB_Or15696.022e, , BLIB_Or15734.2.087a,

PMP#045, NFR.099, AHM.131, GHA.044ax, TSBT.204, NFF5.003, ABMK.020

PM#045, BPRY.290

Soulrise Melodies

@obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God, @prayer for fasting, @law of fasting, @spiritual transformation, @presence of; reunion with God

MMAH.106, LL#462

BH03908

Tablet for Naw-Ruz

240

Arabic

لک الحمد یا الهی بما جعلت النیروز عیدا لمن صاموا فی حبک و کفوا انفسهم عما

Praised be Thou, O my God, that Thou hast ordained Naw-Ruz as a festival unto those who have observed the fast

BLIB_Or15696.099d,

PMP#046, NFR.057, AHM.138, AYT.343, NFF5.079, AKHA_134BE #01 p.06, AMB#01

PM#046, DOR#01, BPRY.297, DAS.1915-03-22

R. Yazhari (1), R. Yazhari (2), R. Yazhari (3), R. Yazhari (4), almunajat.com [item 26], unknown

@forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @law of fasting, @Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc., @Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar

MMAH.105, LL#204

BH02896

310

Arabic

Prayers and Meditations; Days of Remembrance

لک الحمد یا الهی بما جعلت هذا الیوم عیدا للمقربین من عبادک و المخلصین من

Praise be to Thee, O my God, that Thou hast ordained this day as a festival unto the favoured among Thy servants and the sincere

NFR.036, AHM.133, AYT.340, GHA.405, NSR_1993.115, NFF5.076, AMB#02

DOR#02, DAS.1915-03-22, DAS.1914-04-01

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @prayers (general or uncategorized), @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @suffering and imprisonment, @praise and encouragement

MMAH.105, LL#203

BH00769

1030

Arabic

شهد الله لنفسه بوحدانیه نفسه و لذاته بفردانیه ذاته و نطق بلسانه فی عرش بقائه

God testifieth to the unity of His Godhood and to the singleness of His own Being.... Praise be to Thee, to Whom the tongues of all created things have, from eternity, called

INBA49:271, INBA92:253, BLIB_Or15739.141,

PMP#057x, PMP#058x, TSBT.182, NFF5.082, ABMK.031, AMB#04

PM#057x, PM#058x, DOR#04

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @limits of the intellect, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @divine emanation is ceaseless; eternal, @humility; meekness; lowliness

MMAH.105

BH00195

Ridvanu'l-'Adl (the Garden of Justice)

2910

Arabic

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Baha'u'llah's Paradise of Justice; Garden of Justice (Ridvan al-'adl); Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

Lawh-i-Ridvanul-Adl (Tablet of the Paradise of Justice)

هذا لوح فیه بعث الله اسمه العادل و نفخ منه روح العدل فی هیاکل الخلایق اجمعین

This is the Paradise of Justice, which hath appeared as a token of God’s grace and been adorned by Him with glorious and wondrous fruits

INBA47:022, INBA37:104, INBA92:207bx, BLIB_Or15723.241, , BLIB_Or15725.085, , BLIB_Or15737.083,

BRL_DA#717, GWBP#012 p.019x, GWBP#088 p.116ax, GWBP#134 p.186x, AQA4#088 p.245, AQA4a.299, AVK2.054.13x, SFI10.010, MAS4.160ax, RHQM2.0000 (138) (087-088x), AKHA_122BE #07-08 p.ax, OOL.B094

BRL_ATBH#55x, GWB#012x, GWB#088x, GWB#134x, ADJ.028ax, PDC.006x, PDC.120x, BLO_PT#018, HURQ.BH26, ADMS#016

M. Magagula, Sanele & Xolani

Extols the virtue of justice, assigning it a sacred origin and purpose in the world; calls upon the kings and rulers, the people of the world, and the Bábís to be its exponents; asserts that its essence is embodied in the laws of God; and prophesies the day when the ‘standard of oppression’ will be rolled up and the ‘banner of justice’ will be unfurled throughout the earth.

@proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @prophecy and fulfillment, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @justice and wrath of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

MMAH.104, GSH.207, LL#276

BH05684

Lawh-i-Ittihad(?)

170

mixed

Bahá'í Prayers; Persian Bayan, The; Persian Bayan, The; Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Persian Bayán; Persian Bayan, A Summary; Báb's Bayan, The; Selections from the Bahá'í Writings and from Shaykh Ahmad on the Seven Stages of Creation; Le Béyan Persan; Persian Bayan ("Exposition"); Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá; Gate of the Heart

ای احزاب مختلفه باتحاد توجه نمائید و بنور اتفاق منور گردید لوجه الله در مقری

O contending peoples and kindreds of the earth! Set your faces towards unity, and let the radiance

BLIB_Or15690.160b, , BLIB_Or15716.138c, , BLIB_Or15728.048b, , BN_suppl.1753.123-124

BRL_DA#708, GWBP#111 p.141, AVK4.276x.08, LHKM3.379a, AHM.407, MJMM.284, HDQI.042, DWNP_v5#01 p.002a, UAB.035b, DRD.063, MAS4.367c, AKHA_121BE #02-03 p.a, ANDA#16 p.05, OOL.B048b

GWB#111

@oneness; unity of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity, @exhortations and counsels, @call to unity; prohibition of disunity

MMAH.090, GSH.187, LL#190

BB00001

Bayan-i-Farsi (Persian Bayan)

106000

Persian

Bayan-i-Farsi (Persian Bayan)

تسبیح و تقدیس بساط قدس عز مجد سلطانی را لایق که لم یزل و لا یزال بوجود کینونیت ذات خود بوده

All praise and glory befitteth the sacred and glorious court of the sovereign Lord, Who from everlasting hath dwelt, and unto everlasting will continue to dwell within the mystery of His Own divine Essence… Thou knowest full well, O my God, that tribulations have showered... There is no paradise more wondrous for any soul

INBA62, INBA24, INBA96, INBA_1006C, INBA_4008C, INBA_6015C, INBA_6018C, INBA_6019C, INBA_6021C, CMB_F12, CMB_F13, CMB_Or.34(8), BLIB_Or2819, BLIB_Or5760, BLIB_Or1330, BN_suppl.1070, MKI4518, MKI4519, MKI4524.070, SOAS ms.24255, IOM.088-089, KB_bayan-per, HBH_bayanf, BYC_bayan-per, BYC_bayan-per2

BAYN, SWBP#09 (p.052-081x), SWBP#71 (p.153-154x), OOL.A001

SWB#09 (p.077-113x), SWB#71 (p.214-215x), BPRY.226-227x, GPB.029-030x, GPB.097-098x, WOB.062bx, WOB.100-101x, EGB.316-406, GOH.passim (see index), MNP.045-046x, MNP.226-228x, MESSIAH.659-704x, HURQ.BB55x, LOG#0668, LOG#0770, LOG#1480, LOG#1481, LOG#2161, LOG#2162, BLO_PT#049, BLO_PT#062x, BLO_PT#063x, BLO_PT#079.1.4x, BLO_sazedj#01, ADMS#041

Smith & Dragoman, L. Slott (2:16), J. Heath [track 8], J. Heath

The Mother Book of the Bábí Dispensation. Comprising nine vahids (unities) of nineteen chapters or babs (gates)—with the exception of the last unity, which has only ten gates—the greater part of the work was written in the prison of Mákú, but, contrary to some prevalent assumptions, the last parts may have been written in Chihriq, after the Báb was interrogated by the clerics in Tabriz. The Persian Bayán abrogates Islamic laws and traditions and sets down new laws and teachings. However, the various laws are discussed as symbols referring to deep spiritual meanings and vehicles to prepare the people for the advent of Him Whom God shall make manifest. Both the form and content of the book affirm the underlying metaphysics of unity in which all things are manifestations of an inner reality which is the revelation of God within them.

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @superiority; incomparability of the Word of God, @return of the Manifestations of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @the Imamate; the Caliphate, @names and attributes of God, @He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah, @inmost heart [fu'Ã¡d], @modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation, @station of the Manifestation of God, @twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God, @Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc., @rejection, opposition and persecution, @oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @Word of God the cause of creation, @Word of God is its own standard, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @Letters of the Living, @Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @suffering and imprisonment, @the Bayan, its laws and their abrogation, @The Holy Spirit, @purpose; goal of creation, @Manifestation of God as sun, @God's knowledge, @attaining good pleasure of God, @the Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im, @predictions and prophecies, @identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God, @chastisement and requital, @knowledge; recognition of God, @unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud]

NSS.045-049, BRHL.59, MSBR.204-205, AHDA.442.1, MMAH.007, SRC.083-084, SRC.181-184, SRC.280, GOH.035, GOH.281-298, GOH.308-338, GPB.025x

see also BB00020, Arabic Bayan

BB00015

Dala'il-i-Sab'ih (The Seven Proofs - Persian)

13900

Persian

Bahá'í Prayers; Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Seven Proofs, The; Gate of the Heart

Dala'il-i-Sab'ih (Seven Proofs - Persian)

بسم الله الافرد الافرد. الحمد لله الذی لا اله الا هو الافرد الافرد و انما البهاء من الله علی من یظهره الله ثم ادلائه لم یزل و لا یزال و بعد

Praise be to God, for there is none other God but He, the Only Unique, the Only Unique. All splendor comes from God, upon the 'Man Yuzhiruhu'llah' and upon His Apostles… Say: God sufficeth all things above all things

INBA_2007C:13b-64b, , PR02.104r21-115v02, CMB_F22.092b, CMB_F25.7, BLIB_Or5109, BLIB_Or5110, BN_6154, NLI.50, KB_seven, HBH_dalail=DLLS, BYC_saba-p

DLLS, AYT.043x, SWBP#10 (p.083-090x), OOL.A005b

SWB#10 (p.117-126x), BPRY.056x, GOH.078x, GOH.169x, GOH.171x, GOH.244-245x, GOH.267x, GOH.359x, GOH.361x, HURQ.BB53x, BLO_PT#085

The Badasht Project, K. Key, B. Vahdat, C. Shoemaker, B. Groetzinger, Edelo & Emma, T. Francis, M. Leong-Granfar, Honiara Baha'i Youth, W. Heath, Soulrise Melodies, N. Hamilton, J. Cooper, Baha'i Youth in Jordan, Kiskadee, L. Dely & M. Congo [track 10], A. & M. Zemke [track 4], Zannetta [track 7], almunajat.com [item 1], S. Jaberi

@oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @superiority; incomparability of the Word of God, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @proofs for the existence of God

NSS.039-044, JRAS.447, BRHL.63, BRHL.65?, MSBR.204-205, AHDA.447.8, MMAH.066, SRC.085-087, SRC.185, GOH.035

BB00017

Sahifiy-i-'Adliyya = Risaliy-i-'Adliyyih (Epistle of Justice: Root Principles)

13500

Persian

Selections from the Bahá'í Writings and from Shaykh Ahmad on the Seven Stages of Creation; Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá; Gate of the Heart

Sahifiy-i-Adliyyih (Epistle of Justice: Root Principles)

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. حمد و سپاس وصف جمال ذاتی است که لم یزل بوده یگانه فرد بدون وجود شیئ با او و لایزال بکینونیة خود

Praise and thanksgiving befit that Essential Beauty Who hath been from time immemorial single and alone, with naught existing alongside Him, and Who everlastingly endureth in His own Being [3.5s]... ...The supporters of the “oneness of existence” have joined partners with God through their testimony of existence… Since the Ancient of Days created mankind for the purpose of apprehending the power shining within themselves

INBA82:134-205, INBA_3006C:097-, , INBA_5010C:012-082, , INBA_6011C:001-077, , INBA_6012C.265-299x, , PR03.214v27-228r05, PR17.000v-044v, IOM.091, KB_adliyya, HBH_sahifadl, BYC_adliyya, AEWB.136-141x,

AYT.039x, AVK1.030.09x, AVK1.075.10x, AVK1.099-100x, AVK1.103-104x, AVK1.322.07x, AVK2.102.15x, AVK2.167.14x, AVK2.334.11x, HNMJ.093-096x, OOL.A014

BAPT.017-018x, BAPT.026-039x, TAME, BLO_PT#216.021x, GOH.191-192x, GOH.196-197x, GOH.207x, GOH.218-219x, GOH.222x, GOH.225-232x, GOH.235x, GOH.252x, MNP.047x, MNP.057x, HURQ.BB52x, BLO_PT#079.1.1x, BLO_PT#079.1.3x, BLO_sazedj#02

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @essential vs. actional attributes of God, @God's love for His own Essence, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @station of the Manifestation of God, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @impossibility of true worship of God

NSS.036-038, AHDA.453.5, MMAH.045?, MMAH.058, SRC.042, SRC.068-070, SRC.197, GOH.032-033, GOH.217-236

BB00012

Sahifiy-i-Ja'fariyya (Epistle of Ja'far)

19300

Arabic

Analysis of the Salient Features of Risáliy-i-Ja'faríyyih, An; Gate of the Heart

Risaliy-i-Jafariyyih (Treatise of Jafar) or Shar-i Du‘á’-i-Ghaybat (Commentary on the Occultation Prayer)

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی شهد بذاته لذاته ان لا اله الا هو الذی قد علا بعلو نفسه علی کل شیء و استتر من علو ظهوره عن کل شیء الذی کان لم یزل کان بلا ذکر شیئ

All praise be to God Who hath testified through His Own Self unto His Self that there is none other God but Him, Who hath ascended through the sovereignty of His Being above all things, and Who, through the loftiness of His Revelation, hath concealed Himself from all things - He Who hath everlastingly been, and existed ere the mention of aught else [3.5s]... ...The fifth station testifieth unto God in the mirror of the Letter Há’, and it is the Word that consisteth of the Twin Alifs

INBA60:057-154, INBA98:048.15-110.05x, PR14.001-060, Berlin3655.008r-051v

TZH3.280.06-282.21x, NSS.184ax, OOL.A010

GOH.224x, MNP.199-212x (infra), LOIR20.248

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @impossibility of true worship of God, @God as immanent vs. transcendent reality, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity

NSS.030-035, AHDA.453.4, SRC.066-067, SRC.198, GOH.021-022, GOH.032, GOH.235

BB00007

Tafsir-i-Suratu'l-Kawthar (Commentary on the Surah of Kawthar)

49500

Arabic

Commentary on the Surih of Kawthar

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم و به نستعین. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الواح کتاب الفلق فی کل ما فتق و استفرق و استنطق طراز الازل

Praised be to God, who hath made the Ornament of the scriptural Tablets to be the Book of the Daybreak which is operative within everything such that it is cleft asunder and split apart

INBA53:181-383, INBA_5019C:001-083x, , CMB_F10, , BLIB_Or5080, , HBH_tafkawthar, BYC_kowthar

ASAT2.007-008x, AHDA.466x, OOL.A006

GOH.069-075x, GOH.111-115x, GOH.177x, MNP.178x, HURQ.BB08x, KSHK#03x

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @prophecy and fulfillment, @station of the Manifestation of God

NSS.025-029, DB.174x, BRHL.59, MSBR.202-203, AHDA.455.03, MMAH.013, SRC.071, SRC.201, GOH.033

BB00297

Risala fi's-Suluk (Epistle on the Spiritual Path I)

650

Arabic

Báb's Epistle on the Spiritual Journey towards God, The; Gate of the Heart

Risala fis-Suluk I and II (Journey towards God)

استقم یا سائل التقی فی مقام التوحید قال الله تعالى الذین قالوا ربنا الله ثم استقاموا تتنزل

Be steadfast, O seeker of piety, in the station of affirming the divine unity. As God, exalted be He, has said

INBA14:486-489, INBA53:058-061, INBA67:145-148, PR04.052r08-054r12, PR07.063r-064r, HBH_suluktr (=INBMC6006)

ASAT4.158-159x, AVK2.231.07

LOIR03.049-058

@love of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @oneness; unity of religion, @knowledge; recognition of God, @spiritual transformation, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @transcending the material condition, @four pillars, @knowledge of self, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness

NSS.019-020, AHDA.449.3, MMAH.043, SRC.044, GOH.030, GOH.301

BB00354

Risala fi'l-Tasdid

470

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اعلم ثبت الله قدمیک علی الصراط ان الله سبحانه تعالی غنی کامل و ان مصنوعه حین ما اصنع جری القلم و قدرها القدر علی کماله بحیث لانقص فیه .....

Know thou—may God make firm thy footsteps upon the Path—that God, glorified and exalted be He, is the All-Sufficient and Perfect One, and that His creation, from the moment He fashioned it, when the Pen moved and destiny ordained it to its perfection, was such that no imperfection could be found therein [3.5s]

INBA14:483-486, INBA53:061-063, INBA67:143-145, INBA_4011C:121-123, , INBA_6004C:207-209, , INBA_6006C:072-073, , INBA_6010C:477-480, , PR07.062v-063r

ASAT5.237x

@perfection; imperfection of nature, @Adam; Adam and Eve, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @power of the Manifestation of God

SRC.045, SRC.192, SRC.196

BB00013

Sahifih of 33 prayers

15600

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی یهدی من یشاء و یضل من یشاء سبحانه وتعالی عما یصفون یا الهی کیف اشکو مصابی بعد ما انک تطلع بجریراتی

Praise be to God, Who guideth whom He willeth and leadeth astray whom He willeth. Glorified and exalted be He above all that they ascribe unto Him. O my God! How can I bemoan mine affliction when Thou art aware of my transgressions [3.5s]

TZH3.275.11-276.07x

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @prayer for forgiveness, @justice and wrath of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @impossibility of true worship of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

SRC.195

BB00318

as-Silsilatu'th-Thamaniyya

590

Arabic

بسم الله البدیع الذی لا اله الا هو العزیز الحکیم. و لقد ورد الی الیوم کتاب من عبدالله عبدالجلیل فاعلم یا ایهاالواقف علی خط القیم در حاشیه شبیه خط مبارک

Verily, there hath come unto me this day a letter from 'Abdu'llah 'Abdu'l-Jalil. Know thou, O thou who art acquainted with the sacred script, that in the margin there appeareth that which resembleth the blessed handwriting [3.5s]

INBA14:503-506, INBA67:169-172, INBA69:434-437, INBA_4011C:156-159, , INBA_5006C:365-367, , INBA_6004C:198-200, , INBA_6006C:085-087, , PR07.071v-072r, AEWB.217-221,

NSS.073-075

@divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @outward and inward meanings, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @transcendence; unknowability of God

SRC.192x2

BB00524

Answer to Mirza Muhammad 'Ali Qazvini

180

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. فاعلم یا اخ الجلیل و اثبت قدمیک علی صراط الله الجمیل و اعرف ان الله سبحانه ما خلق شیئا

Know thou, O noble brother! Plant thy feet firmly upon the beauteous path of God, and know that God, glorified be He, created naught [3.5s]

INBA67:177-178, INBA_4011C:163-164, , PR07.073r-073v

@trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @consolation and comfort, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

SRC.192

BB00579

Prayer for Mulla Hasan

120

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. یا ایها الحبیب قف علی باب المجیب و اتکل علی الله ربی و ربک الذی لا الله الا هو السمیع العلیم

O loved one! Stand at the door of the One Who Answers, and trust in God, my Lord and your Lord. There is no God but Him, the Hearing, the Knowing

INBA67:178-178, INBA_4011C:164-165, , PR04.051v01-051v05, PR07.073r-073r

@prayer for protection, @power of prayer, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

SRC.192

BB00158

Answer to Mirza Muhammad Yazdi

1200

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الواحد الاحد الفرد الذی لا اله الا هو العلی العظیم والصلوة من الله علی محمد و اوصیائه کماهو اهله انه هو العلی الحکیم در حاشیه شبیه خط مبارک

Praise be to God, the One, the Single, the Peerless, beside Whom there is no God, the Most High, the Most Great. May the blessings of God rest upon Muhammad and His chosen ones, as befitteth His grace, for verily He is the Most High, the All-Wise [3.5s]

INBA14:452-459, INBA67:160-165, INBA_4011C:149-156, , INBA_6006C:083-085, , PR07.069v-072r

@authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @power of prayer, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @station of the Manifestation of God, @Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God

SRC.192?

BB00645

In reply to a question from an unknown correspondent

INBA_5019C:279-284,

BB00072

Letter to Haji 'Abd al-Wahhab

2700

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. یا من له الحمد فی السموات و الارض و له السلام فی ملکوت الامر والخلق سبحانه و تعالی جل ذاتیته من ان یصعد الیها اعلی جواهر الممکنات و علت کینونیته من ان یرفع الی مقام عزها اعلی شوامخ

O Thou Who art praised in the heavens and on earth, and unto Whom belongeth peace in the Kingdom of Command and Creation! Glorified and exalted art Thou! The quintessence of Thy Being is far above the loftiest essences of all contingent things, and the Reality of Thy Self transcendeth the most sublime heights [3.5s]

INBA_5019C:257-264,

ASAT4.509x, AVK1.294-295x, AVK1.323-324x

@celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy, @meaning; importance of dreams and visions, @heaven and paradise; heaven and hell, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @soul; spirit after death, @symbolism, @the Imamate; the Caliphate, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

BB00640

On istifah (asking the explanation of texts)

INBA_5019C:264-269,

BB00641

To Aqa Sayyid Jawad [Karbala'i?]

INBA_5019C:269-270,

BB00644

To Mulla Ahmad Mu'allim Hisari

INBA_5019C:275-279,

BB00643

To Mulla Hasan Bajastani

INBA_5019C:271-275,

BAPT.006x

BB00642

To Mulla Mahdi Khu'i

INBA_5019C:270-271,

BB00364

Fi Bayani Lawhi’l-Mahfuz (Letter on the Preserved Tablet) (part II)

460

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. و قد سئلک السائل عن اللوح الحفیظ اعلمه بما قد علمک الله المحیط و ها انا ذا القیت الیک من رشحات تلک الالواح المستضیئه

The questioner hath assuredly asked thee about al-lawḥ al-maḥfūẓ ("The Preserved Tablet"). Inform him then according to what God, the All-Encompassing, hath taught thee [the Bāb]

INBA67:174-176, INBA_4011C:139-141, , INBA_6004C:202-204, , INBA_6006C:079-080, , PR07.067r-067v

HURQ.BB07x

@seven stages of creation, @the cross and the trinity, @law of cause and effect, @heaven and paradise; heaven and hell

SRC.190, SRC.192x2

BB00421

Fi ‘ilmi’l-Huruf va’l-Iksir (Letter on gematria and alchemy)

350

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. و اما السئوال عن علم الحروف فخذ من رأس کل عشرة حرف الاول و احسب علی الاول عنصر النار

As to thy question regarding the science of letters, know that from each set of ten letters, take the first, and reckon the first as representing the element of fire [4o]... ...And now as regards thy question about the Elixir: Know thou that God did not create anything except that He deposited within it a "letter" of the Elixir in accordance with its level of being

INBA67:203-204, INBA_6004C:213-215, , PR07.074r-074v, AEWB.234-236,

HURQ.BB17x

@alchemy; the elixir, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @four elements, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision

SRC.190, SRC.192

BB00510

Answer to Mirza Sulayman

200

Arabic

بسمه العلی الاعلی. بسمه العلی الاعلی الذی جعله الله عنده مطاعا مکر ما دام مجدا جعلت

In the Name of Him Who is the Most Exalted, the Most High, Whom God hath made to be obeyed and honored, endued with majesty [3.5s]

AVK3.415x

@trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @fellowship with the wayward and ungodly, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

BB00638

In reply to four questions, to an unknown recipient

INBA_5019C:170-171,

BB00580

Letter to Mulla Hasan Bajistani

120

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. یا ایها السآئل فاعلم ان الله لا یحکم بمرض لنفس الا بما قدمت ایدیه من الخطایا و ذلک ما کانت

O questioner! Know that God does not decree disease for a soul unless it is for the errors its hands have wrought. That is naught but a penance for its sins

INBA67:176-176, INBA_4011C:165-166, , PR07.074v-074v

HBAB.502x, ASAT3.097

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @mindfulness; concentration; focus, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @bringing oneself to account each day, @spiritual transformation, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @effort; striving

BB00637

On the imams, to an unknown recipient

INBA_5019C:163-166,

BB00639

Prayer for Sayyid Ja'far Shubbar

INBA_5019C:216-218,

BB00493

Prayer for the hajj, for Mirza Muhammad 'Ali Qazvini

230

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اشهد ان لا اله الا هو و اشهد لمحمد و علی و فاطمه و الحسن و الحسین و علی و محمد و جعفر

I bear witness that there is no God but Him, and I testify unto Muhammad and 'Alí and Fáṭimih and Ḥasan and Ḥusayn and 'Alí and Muhammad and Ja'far [3.5s]

INBA67:176-177, PR07.074v-074v

@family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam, @the Imamate; the Caliphate, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @chastisement and requital, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

BB00636

Reply to six questions from Mirza Sulayman

INBA_5019C:159-163,

BB00238

Tafsir-i-Dhata ‘Ali Mamsusa

840

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله المتعالی عن ذکرالذات بالذات للذات و المتقدس عن ذکرالاسماء و الصفات الله فرد حی قیوم احد وتر صمد تفسی

Praise be to God, exalted beyond description of His essence by His essence for His essence, and sanctified above all mention of names and attributes. He is God, the One, the Living, the Self-Subsisting, the Unmatched, the Singular, the Everlasting, transcendent in His reality [4o]

INBA67:100-104

AVK2.009.05x

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam, @Manifestation of God the only route to knowledge of God, @identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God, @names and attributes of God

BB00035

Lawh-i-Haykalu'd-Din

5800

Arabic

هو. شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو الملک ذو الملاکین قد قدر فی الباب الاول ذکر نفسه نفسه انه لا اله الی هو له الاسماء الملکی ... الابد مثل الابد قد قدر فی الباب الثانی

God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, the King, Possessor of the Kingdoms. In the First Gate He hath ordained mention of His Own Self, His Very Self - verily there is none other God but Him. His are the sovereign Names unto all eternity, like unto eternity. In the Second Gate He hath ordained [3.5s]... ...Ye shall assuredly find All Good in the numerical difference between Qá’im and Qayyúm, in nine years

BYC_haykal

GOH.353x, HURQ.BB60x

@God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @grammar and orthography, @Word of God and human limitations, @cleanliness and refinement

SRC.186

BB00441

310

Arabic

لعلی علیه السلام. الحمد لله رب العالمین الرحمن الرحیم مالک یوم الدین إیاک نعبد و إیاک نستعین اهدنا الصراط المستقیم صراط الذین أنعمت علیهم غیر المغضوب علیهم و لا الضالین

Praise be to God, the Lord of all worlds, the All-Merciful, the Ever-Compassionate, Master of the Day of Judgment! Thee do we worship, and Thine aid do we implore. Lead us upon the straight path, the path of those whom Thou hast favoured, not of those who have incurred Thy wrath, nor of those who have gone astray [3.5s]

QISM.011

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @imagery in the Qur'an, @chastisement and requital, @transcendence; unknowability of God

SRC.100, SRC.277

BB00308

Ziyara for the martyrs, on Thursday night

1500

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک لک الاسمآء الحسنى بجوهريتها و لک الامثال العليا بجبرويتها

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee that verily Thou art God, and that there is none other God but Thee, alone, without peer. Thine are the most excellent names in their essence, and Thine the most exalted attributes in their sovereignty [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.070-077, MKI4515.006r-012v

@martyrs and martyrdom, @He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @justice and wrath of God, @Letters of the Living

INBA_6007C.541-547, BYC_jabar.006.04-009.08

BB00185

Ziyarat for 'the twenty-nine letters'

1100

Arabic

هو بسم الله القادر الاقدر الافطر الاقهر. سبحان الذی قد بدع الآیات بفضله کیف یشاء انه هو المقتدر العسوف اول کافور سازج اطهر اظهر ابرز اطرز من رب العماء علیک یا ایها السر المخزون

Glorified be He Who hath created the verses through His grace as He willeth. Verily, He is the All-Powerful, the Most Mighty. The first and most refined camphor, most pure, most manifest, most resplendent, most adorned, from the Lord of the celestial realm descendeth upon thee, O thou Hidden Mystery [3.5s]

@mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @servitude; submission to God; repentance

BB00118

Ziyarat for the eight letters

1600

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو الملک القدوس السلام المؤمن المهیمن العزیز الجبار

God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, the Sovereign, the Most Holy, the Source of Peace, the Faithful, the Guardian, the Mighty, the All-Compelling [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.189-197, MKI4494.008

@He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @rejection by the people of the Bayan

BB00111

Ziyarat for the first [to believe]

1600

Arabic

بسم الله الازل الازل. اننی انا الله لا اله الا انا الأءزل الأءزل إنَّني أنا الله لا إله إلا أنا الأقدم الأقدم إنَّني أنا الله لا إله إلا أنا کنت أزلا قديما من قبل ومن بعد کلٌ إيَّاي يعبدون

Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the Eternal One. Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the Ancient One. Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, existing from time immemorial, before and after all things. Unto Me alone shall all worship be rendered [4o]

INBA_6007C.255-262

@He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

BB00213

Ziyarat for the first [to believe]

940

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاسئلنک من بهائک ابهاه و من جلالک اجله و من جمالک اجمله

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I beseech Thee by the most glorious of Thy Glory, and the most exalted of Thine Exaltedness, and the most beauteous of Thy Beauty [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.187a-189, MKI4494.005

@spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah

BB00223

Ziyarat for the first [to believe]

900

Arabic

انما البهاء من الله علی نوره الأنور و من یشابه ذلک النور من أدلائه الأظهر الأظهر

Verily all glory from God be upon His Most Luminous Light and upon them that resemble that Light among His most manifest guides [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.061-065, MKI4515.046r-050r

@the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @visitation Tablets, @rejection, opposition and persecution

BB00248

Ziyarat for the first [to believe]

800

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. و إن علیک سلام الله ثم سلام کل من آمن به من قبل و من بعد علیک یا أیتها الشمس المشرقة

Upon thee be the peace of God, then the peace of all who believed in Him, before and after, O thou dawning Sun [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.262-266

@power of the Manifestation of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @suffering and imprisonment, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity

BB00509

Ziyarat for the first [to believe]

400

Arabic

فاذا کنت مثل ذلک الیوم عند من یظهره الله فاذا لیکفینک بین یدی الله عن کل ذکر و ثناء و لکن اذا کنت فی اللیل

If, on that day, thou art in the presence of Him Whom God shall make manifest, then shall He suffice thee before God for all mention and praise. But if thou findest thyself in the night.. [4o]

INBA_6007C.067-069

BB00199

Ziyarat for the first and last to believe, on Friday

1000

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک حینئذ یوم الجمعه ثم کل شیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لاشریک

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I bear witness unto Thee in this hour of Friday, and so too doth every thing, that verily Thou art God, there is no God but Thee, alone, without partner [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.104-109, MKI4494.082

@divine attributes are within all things; every atom, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @prayer for the Babis; people of the Bayan

INBA_6007C.164-175, BYC_misc-b.113a04-125a01

BB00080

Ziyarat for the first to believe, on the Day of 'Arafa

2500

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو له الاسماء الحسنی یسبح له من فی السموات و من فی الارض و ما بینهما لا اله الا هو المهیمن القیوم و انما البهاء

God testifieth that there is none other God but Him. His are the most beauteous names. All who dwell in the heavens and on earth and whatsoever lieth between them sing His praise. There is none other God but Him, the All-Compelling, the Self-Subsisting. And verily the Glory is His [3.5s]

@progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @station of the Manifestation of God, @visitation Tablets, @oneness; unity of religion, @Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc., @prophecy and fulfillment

INBA_6007C.268-272, BYC_misc-b.089a03-092a08

BB00275

Ziyarat for the last [to believe]

710

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. الحمد لله الذی لا اله الا هو الاقهر الاقهر و انما البهاء من الله علی نوره الانور الانور و بعد اذا ادرکت ما قد قدرالله لک من عرفان ذلک الاسم الاعظم

Praise be to God, beside Whom there is no other god, the All-Subduing, the Most Compelling. And verily, all glory from God be upon His Light, the Most Luminous, the Most Radiant. And thereafter, shouldst thou attain unto that which God hath ordained for thee of the knowledge of that Most Great Name [3.5s]

@He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah, @visitation Tablets

BB00389

Ziyarat for the last [to believe]

400

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. انما البهاء من عند الله علیک یا جوهر البهآء ثم الجلال علیک یا جوهر الجلال ثم الجمال علیک یا جوهر الجمال

Verily all glory from God rest upon thee, O Essence of Glory! Then all Majesty be upon thee, O Essence of Majesty! Then all Beauty be upon thee, O Essence of Beauty! [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.266-268

INBA_6007C.175-176, BYC_misc-b.125a03-126a04

BB00478

Ziyarat for the last [to believe]

260

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. ان من بهاءالله علیک ابهاه و من جلال الله علیک اجله و من جمال الله علیک اجمله

Upon thee be the most resplendent glory of God, and upon thee be the most exalted majesty of God, and upon thee be the most beautiful grace of God [4o]

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

INBA_6007C.095-099, BYC_misc-b.096b05-100b03

BB00246

Ziyarat for the letters of unity, on Friday

810

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء فی تلک اللیلة التی عظمتها و شرفتها و قدستها و کرمتها و مننت علیها

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee in this night which Thou hast magnified and honored and hallowed and exalted [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.160-164, BYC_misc-b.046b05-051a01

BB00215

Ziyarat for the middle night of the month of God

930

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی هذه لیلة قد عظمتها و جللتها و جملتها و فضلتها و کرمتها بما قد قدرت فیها و نزلت

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! This is a night which Thou hast magnified and exalted, adorned and distinguished, and honored through that which Thou hast ordained therein [3.5s]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @chastisement and requital

BB00508

Ziyarat for the ten letters

200

Arabic

انما البهاء من الله ثم من کل من آمن بالله و آیاته علیکم یا ایتها الحروف

Verily all glory from God, and from all them that have believed in God and His signs, be upon you, O ye Letters [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.040-041

BB00153

Ziyarat for the two hidden names

200

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. انما البهاء من الله علیکما یا ایهما النوران النیران و الاسمان العالیان و الکلمتان الممتنعان

Verily all glory be from God upon ye both, O ye two resplendent and luminous Lights, ye two most exalted Names, and ye two impregnable Words! [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.069-070, MKI4515.028r-028v

@praise and encouragement, @martyrs and martyrdom, @spiritual transformation

BB00099

Ziyarat for Thursday night (Ziyara jami'a)

1800

Arabic

الحمد لله الذی لا إله إلا هو الحي المهیمن القیوم و إنما البهاء من الله علی الواحد الأول ثم أعداده ثم من یشابه ذلک الأعداد حيث لا يرى فيه إلا الواحد الأول

Praise be to God, beside Whom there is no other god, the Ever-Living, the All-Compelling, the Self-Subsisting. Indeed, the glory from God be upon the Primal Unity, then upon Its numbers, and then upon such as resemble those numbers wherein naught can be seen except the Primal Unity [3.5s]

INBA_6007C.052-061

@He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @transcendence; unknowability of God

BYC_tablets.055.02-056.05

BB00134

Ziyarat al-Zahra (Fatimah)

1400

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. فاذا قمت بین یدی الله ظهر مرقد فاطمه صلوات الله علیها صل فی مقام الذی صلی رسول الله علیه و انه فی بیت فاطمه

If thou standest before God, and the resting-place of Fatimih—upon her be the blessings of God—is made manifest, pray thou in that station wherein the Apostle of God did pray, and it is in the house of Fatimih [3.5s]... ...And I testify that thy [Fatimah's] son [Imam] Hasan is the Hujjat-Allah (Proof of God) and His Wali (Legatee) for through him the Throne was raised up upon the Watery Expanse

INBA_5019C:148-159, , AEWB.180-189,

HURQ.BB31x

@family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam, @the Imamate; the Caliphate, @station of the Manifestation of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

SRC.099, SRC.203

BB00085

Answer to the Mufti of Baghdad

2200

Arabic

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحان الذی یسجد له من فی السموات و من فی الارض و ما بینهما انا کل له ساجدون و الحمد لله الذی یسجد له من فی السموات و فی الارض و ما بینهما انا کل له عالدون شهد الله

Glorified be He before Whom bow down in adoration all who dwell in the heavens and on the earth and whatsoever lieth between them, and verily, we are all bow down in adoration before Him. And praise be unto God, before Whom boweth down whatsoever is in the heavens and on the earth and whatsoever lieth between them—verily, we are all worshippers before Him. God beareth witness [3.5s]

MBA.302-308x

@proofs of the Manifestations of God, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @superiority; incomparability of the Word of God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @Muhammad; Islam, @creation of the world, @return of the Manifestations of God

SRC.097

BB00268

Letter to Quddus

730

Arabic

یخاطب به الملا محمد علی المازندرانی الملقب بالقدوس و یخصص به کل واحد

He addresseth Mullá Muḥammad-'Alí-i-Mázandarání, who is entitled Quddús, and dedicateth it unto each [3.5s]

MBA.294-296x

@symbolism, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam

SRC.097

BB00460

Tawbat-namih

290

Persian

فداک روحی. الحمد لله کما هو اهله و مستحقه که ظهورات فضل و رحمت خود را در هر حال بر کافۀ عباد خود شامل گردانیده

May my life be thy sacrifice! Praise be to God such as He deserves and merits

MSBR.256-257, KSHG.204-205

MSBR.257-258

@humility; meekness; lowliness, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @false claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @petitions to authorities

SRC.097-098, RR.392

BB00412

Letter to Qurrat al-'Ayn (Chihriq)

360

Arabic

هو المتکبر الجمیل المحسن. اول طرز لاح و لمع ثم اشرق و طلع ثم اضاء و لجلج ثم انار و ارفع من ساحة قدس حضرت الکافور ... و ان ما حتمناه فی یوم الواحد بعدالعشرین من ذلک الشهر ... العزیز الرحیم

The first effulgence that shone forth and gleamed, then rose and dawned forth, then illumined and reverberated, then shed its radiance and was exalted from the sacred precincts of purest camphor... And verily that which We decreed on the twenty-first day of that month... the Mighty, the Merciful [3.5s]

HARV.6

MBA.296-300x, TZH3.333.18-334.07x

@apocalyptic imagery, @Imam Husayn, @heaven and paradise; heaven and hell, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @smoking

SRC.096, SRC.097

BB00413

360

Arabic

هو الاکبر الاقدس الامنع الاعلی. بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم الحمد لله رب العالمین و انما الصلوة من عند الله علی محمد و آله الصافین هذا ما نزل فی آخر یوم الدین بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم قل هو الله احد

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Praise be to God, the Lord of all worlds, and blessings, deriving solely from God, rest upon Muhammad and His pure kindred. This is that which hath been revealed on the Last Day of Religion. In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Say: He is God, the One [4o]

MANU.065-066, QISM.015

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @transcendence; unknowability of God

Selections from the Writings of the Báb

BB00550

Letter to Him Whom God shall make manifest

150

Arabic

Tablets of the Báb to Bahá'u'lláh

هو الابهی. الله لا اله الا هو العزیز المحبوب له ما فی السموات و ما فی الارض و ما بینهما و هو المهیمن القیوم

He is God, no God is there but Him, the Almighty, the Best Beloved. All that are in the heavens and on the earth and whatever lieth between them are His.

PR20.100, MKI4500.128r-128v

QISM.020, SWBP#02 (p.002-003)

SWB#02 (p.006-008)

L. Slott

@He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah, @power of the Manifestation of God, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity

BB00567

Letter to Mirza Asadu'llah Dayyan

130

Arabic

الله ادین بسم الدین ذی الدیانین …. قد نظرت الی الواح ابد بما قد طرز من انوار تجلی افقه جل و عز فلله الحمد کما هو اهله و مستحقه

God is the Most Great Judge! In the name of God, the judgment, master of all judges. In the name of God, the judgement, master of all who judge. You have looked at the tablets of abad [seven in abjad?], which has been ornamented with the lights

PR03.081r21-081r27, PR13.071r-071v, BYC_tablets.054.12-055.01

QISM.010

@defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

BB00625

Letter to Mulla 'Abd al-Karim Qazvini

Arabic

الله اکبر تکبیرا کبیرا. ان یا کریم قد وهبناک واحداْ من حق واحد الاول لتحفظن کل ما نزل من عند الله و لتبلغن الى اسم الوحيد ولتسئلن عمن يکتب آيات الله ما انتم مراد الله لا تعلمون

God is the Most Great, Great is He! O Karim! We have endowed you with a wahid from God

PR03.086r04-086r09, CMB_F23.141r08-141r10 (46r), , CMB_F20.020v10-020v12, , BYC_tablets.082.16-083.01

Letter to Mulla Ahmad Mu'allim Hisari

250

Arabic

و ان ما ذکرت من مراتب الاختلاف فمالک و ذکر تلک الاخبار فان ظاهر الدین هو طبق باطنه

As to what thou hast mentioned concerning the degrees of difference, what hast thou to do with relating such accounts? For verily the outer form of religion conformeth to its inner truth [3.5s]... ...As for what you have asked about the pure leaf, concerning the fact that she has claimed for herself the station of being a proof for others

TZH3.333.02-333.16x

MESSIAH.233x

@Tahirih [Qurratu'l-'Ayn], @false claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations

BB00614

Li’th-Thamara

Arabic

الله اکبر تکبیرا کبیرا. هذا کتاب من عند الله المهیمن القیوم الی الله المهیمن القیوم قل کل من الله مبدئون ... هذا کتاب من علی قبل ملل ذکرالله للعالمین الی من یقول اسمه اسم الوحید ذکرالله للعالمین

God is the Most Great, Great is He! This is a book from God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting to God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. Say: All are originated by God

PR03.086r01-086r03, PR03.088r25-088r28, CMB_F23.141r03-141r07 (46), , CMB_F20.020v05-020v08, , BYC_tablets.082.12-082.15

NQK.ld, MANU.038-038, QISM.001

@obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

BB00170

Tablet to Siyyid Muhammad

1200

Persian

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو له الخلق و الامر یحیی و یمیت ثم یمیت و یحیی و انه هو حی لا یموت فی قبضته ملکوت کلشیء یخلق ما یشآء بأمره انه کان علی کل شیء قدیراً قل هو الحق لا اله الا هو یحی و یمیت

God testifieth that there is none other God but Him. His is the creation and the command. He giveth life and causeth death, then causeth death and giveth life, and verily He is the Ever-Living Who dieth not. In His grasp is the dominion of all things; He createth whatsoever He willeth by His command, and verily, He hath power over all things. Say: He is the Truth, there is none other God but Him. He giveth life and causeth death [3.5s]... ...Inasmuch as every morning I saw thee reciting these words, “I believe in the Mystery of the Family of Muhammad,”

INBA58:172.03-182.09

KHSH6.010, TZH3.262, TZH3.223.06-225.07

GOH.129x, GOH.135x

@meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @Declaration; advent of the Bab, @events in the life and ministry of the Bab, @return of the Manifestations of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

BB00245

Tawqi'a Azal

810

Arabic

بسم الله الاله ذی الاهین قل اللهم انک انت سبحان السموات و

In the name of God, the Divinity, Possessor of Divinities! Say: O God! Verily Thou art the Glory of the heavens [3.5s]

QISM.003

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]

BB00350

Tawqi'a Qa'imiyyat

490

Arabic

هو الاعلی بسم الامنع الاقدس. قل هو الظاهر فوق خلقه و هو المهیمن القیوم شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو

Say: He is the One manifest above His creation, and He is the All-Compelling, the Self-Subsisting. God doth testify that there is none other God but Him [3.5s]

CMB_F23.136v13-138r03 (42), , CMB_F20.017r12-018r07, , BYC_tablets.076.09-078.05

QISM.018

@the Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @power of prayer, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @return of the Manifestations of God, @prophecy and fulfillment, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @day of Resurrection; Judgement, @praise and encouragement

Grammar of the Divine, A; Gate of the Heart

BB00273

Tawqi’i Qa’imiyyat

720

Arabic

Tawqi’i Qa’imiyyat

هو الاعلی بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو له الخلق و الامر یحیی و یمیت ثم یمیت و یحیی و انه هو حی لا یموت فی قبضته ملکوت کلشیء یخلق ما یشآء بأمره انه کان علی کل شیء قدیراً ان یا علی قد اصطفیناک بامرنا و جعلناک ملکاً تنادی بین یدی القائم

God testifieth that there is none other God but Him. His is the creation and the command. He giveth life and causeth death, then causeth death and giveth life, and verily He is the Ever-Living Who dieth not. In His grasp is the dominion of all things; He createth whatsoever He willeth by His command, and verily, He hath power over all things. O Ali! We have chosen thee through Our command and made thee a king to proclaim before the Qa'im [3.5s]

CMB_F20.010v18-012r07, , BYC_tablets.062.17-065.09

LDR.291x, TZH3.164.11-166.09, AHDA.472, QISM.014

HURQ.BB26x

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @the Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im, @day of Resurrection; Judgement, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @Muhammad; Islam, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

SRC.095, SRC.276

BB00322

Letter to an unnamed recipient re Mulla Husayn

570

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. و اذا اردت ان تدخل تلک الارض المقدسة فطهر نفسک و طیب ما عندک

And when thou desirest to enter that sacred land, purify thy soul and sanctify thy possessions [3.5s]

TZH3.140.20-142.21

@martyrs and martyrdom, @station of the Manifestation of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @visitation Tablets

SRC.095

BB00027

Tafsir-i-Haykali'd-Din

7500

Arabic

بسم الله العلیم ذی العلامین. الحمد لله العلیم ذی العلامین و انما البهاء من الله علی الواحد الاول ثم من یشابه ذلک الواحد حیث لا یری فیه الا الواحد الاول ... فکیف یعدل بها والمعلول بالعلة ...

Praise be to God, the All-Knowing, Lord of the Worlds, and verily all glory be from God upon the first Vahid and upon him who resembleth that Vahid wherein naught can be seen save the first Vahid... How then can the effect be equated with the cause [3.5s]

CMB_F23.107r08-126r10 (24), , BYC_tfshaykal

@station of the Manifestation of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @continual renewal of creation, @eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness, @oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God

SRC.090-091, SRC.200

BB00655

Commentary on the Qur'an I

SRC.088

BB00656

Commentary on the Qur'an II

SRC.088

BB00301

Fi ‘ili’l-qira’a

630

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی خلق الحروف بعدة تکرار اسم الوهاب من نفسه و حرف لا لتدلعن السن الممکنات ثناء نفسه فی حرف لا من دون حکم

Praise be to God, Who hath created the letters according to the repetition of His Name, the All-Bountiful, from His own Self, and the letter "Lá," that the tongues of all contingent beings might voice His praise through the letter "Lá" [3.5s]

INBA53:400-402

@grammar and orthography, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @the cross and the trinity

SRC.081, SRC.195

BB00324

Letter in reply to four questions

560

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی نزل الامر فی الکتاب للذین اتبعوا امرالله بالحق فان اولئک هم الصادقون و بعد قد نزل کتابک فی ارض الصاد و اطلعت بخطابک فاعلم فیما سئلت من معنی یوم القیامه

Praise be to God Who hath sent down the Command in the Book unto them that follow the Cause of God in truth, for these are the sincere ones. Thy letter hath reached the Land of Ṣád and I have understood thy message. Know thou, then, concerning that which thou didst inquire about the meaning of the Day of Resurrection [3.5s]

INBA53:398-400, PR02.200v04-201r04, Berlin3655.122v-124r

@day of Resurrection; Judgement, @self-concealment of the Manifestation of God, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @chastisement and requital

SRC.081, SRC.195

BB00036

Tawqi’i-i-Dhahabiyyih (Risaliy-i-Dhahabiyya II)

5700

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الواحد الاحد الفرد القهار الصمد الوتر الدائم الجبار الحی القیوم المتعال المختار المقتدرالعادل الغفار الذی خلق بامره جوهریات الاسرار

Praise be to God, the One, the Single, the Peerless, the All-Compelling, the Eternally Besought, the Unique, the Ever-Abiding, the Almighty, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting, the Most Exalted, the All-Choosing, the All-Powerful, the Just, the All-Forgiving, Who through His command hath created the essences of mysteries [3.5s]

INBA53:157-180, INBA86:070-098, PR07.102v-110r, HBH_RisalahDhahabiyyihll, BYC_zahab

HNMJ.071-079x, OOL.A016

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @limits of language, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @Manifestation of God the only route to knowledge of God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @impossibility of true worship of God, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @Word of God is its own standard

SRC.080-081, SRC.207, SRC.195

BB00042

Risalata’l-Ishraq

4600

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع المشیة قبل کلشیء لظهور قیومیته فی ملکوت الامر و الخلق لیعلم کل الذرات

Praise be to God Who hath brought forth the Primal Will before all else, that His divine sovereignty might be made manifest in the kingdom of command and creation, and that all atoms might come to know [3.5s]

INBA40:164-180, PR02.142r14-146v13, Berlin3655.126r-135v

@The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @eternal archetypes [a'yan-i-thabitah], @essential vs. actional attributes of God, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @transcendence; unknowability of God

SRC.079, SRC.194

BB00321

Tafsir-i-Hadith-i-'Ashura

570

Arabic

ما معنی الحدیث کل یوم عاشورا هذا لم اره فی محل و لا سمعته من العلما حتی ایقن

What is the meaning of the saying, "Every day is Ashura"? I have neither found it in any authoritative source nor heard it from the learned, until I became certain [4o]

INBA14:494-496, INBA67:141-143, INBA_4011C:118-121, , INBA_6006C:070-072, , INBA_6010C:488-490, , PR07.061v-062v

@Imam Husayn, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @martyrs and martyrdom, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @transcendence; unknowability of God

SRC.073, SRC.200

BB00325

Bayan al-Taqarub wa Taba'ud

560

Arabic

بسم الله الاقوم الاقوم - یا القدیم الاقوم. الذی لا اله الا هو العظیم الادوم شاءالله ان ینشاء سر اسم الاعظم فی هذا اللوح المعظم للرجال ....... لا تخف و لا تحزن فانا مع المحسنین و لمثل هذا فلنجری العاملین والحمد لله رب العالمین

He is God, the Most Great, the Ever-Enduring! God hath willed to manifest the mystery of the Most Great Name in this most exalted Tablet unto men... Fear not, neither be thou grieved, for verily We are with the doers of good, and thus shall they that strive be requited. All praise be unto God, the Lord of all worlds [3.5s]

INBA14:459-462, INBA53:077-079, INBA67:179-181, INBA_4011C:141-145, , INBA_5006C:348-350, , INBA_6004C:187-189, , INBA_6006C:080-081, , INBA_6010C:455-458, , PR07.067v-068v, AEWB.226-230,

@nearness and remoteness, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision

SRC.073, SRC.184

BB00244

Bayan fi 'Ilm al-Jawamid wa'l-Mushtaqat

810

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد تفرد اولیآئه بالمحامد العظمآء و توحد ابوابه فی علم الجوامد الکبریآء الذی قد نعت

Praise be to God Who hath singled out His chosen ones by sublime glorification and hath unified His gates in the knowledge of supreme grandeur [3.5s]

INBA67:130-134, INBA_5006C:350-352, , INBA_6006C:081-083, , PR07.068v-069v

@mystical themes, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @day of Resurrection; Judgement, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @symbolism

SRC.073, SRC.184

BB00239

Fi ‘ilmi’s-Sarf va’n-Nahv (Treatise on grammar)

830

Arabic

Risala fi al-nahw wa al-sarf (A Treatise on Grammar)

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تجلى على الانسان بالنقطة المنفصلة المتحرکه عن مطلع البیان و الحمد لله

Praise be to God Who hath revealed Himself unto man by the detached and moving Point from the Dayspring of utterance, and praise be to God [3.5s]... ...Verily, the noun is the attribute of the thing as it is in its own station…. But the verb referreth to the movement of that thing, and is the source of both noun and preposition

INBA67:121-125, PR07.076r-077r, AEWB.207-212,

GOH.205-206x, MNP.064-066, BLO_PT#039

@language and the structure of reality, @grammar and orthography, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @symbolism, @pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient

SRC.073, GOH.205

BB00249

Bayan 'illati Tahrimi'l-Maharim

800

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اشهد الله کشهادته لنفسه ان لا اله الا هو و هو العزیز الحکیم و اشهد لمحمد و احبائه سلام الله علیهم کما شاءالله

I bear witness before God, even as He beareth witness unto His Own Self, that there is none other God but Him, and He is the Mighty, the All-Wise. And I bear witness unto Muhammad and His loved ones - the peace of God be upon them - as God hath willed [3.5s]

INBA14:499-502, INBA67:165-169, INBA_4011C:159-163, , INBA_5006C:352, , INBA_6006C:087?, , INBA_6010C:493-496, , PR07.072r-073r, AEWB.212-216,

HURQ.BB09x

@Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @Islamic laws and jurisprudence, @law of divorce, @creation of the world

SRC.072, SRC.184

BB00048

Du'a-yi Alif

3800

Arabic

Autobibliography in the Writings of the Báb

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی خلق السموات و الارض بامره ثم الذین آمنوا بالله و آیاته فاولئک هم الی الله یحشرون یا الهی کیف ادعوک و انک لم تزل لن تعرف بسواک و لا تزال ....

Praise be to God, Who hath created the heavens and the earth by His command, and beyond them those who have believed in God and His signs - these shall verily be gathered unto Him. O my God! How can I call upon Thee, when Thou hast ever been unknowable except through Thine own Self, and shalt ever thus remain [3.5s]... ...I have not claimed a single word of revelation. They say, “He has laid claim to spiritual authority and its trappings.”

PR02.135v06-139r25

ASAT1.179-182

MNP.088x, LOIR06.047x, BLO_PT#012x

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @self-description of God; God's self-remembrance, @impossibility of true worship of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @prayer for forgiveness, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God

SRC.067-068, SRC.185

BB00065

Letter on the apostasy of Mulla Jawad Vilyani = suluk II

2700

mixed

Risala fis-Suluk I and II (Journey towards God)

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تعالی بذاتیة ذاتیة ذاتیته عن وصف المجردات و کنهها والحمد لله الذی تقدس بکینونیة کینونیة کینونیته عن نعت المادیات و حقائقها

Praise be to God Who hath exalted Himself, in the very Essence of His Essence, above the description and inmost being of all abstract realities, and praise be to God Who hath sanctified Himself, in the very Being of His Being, above the attributes and verities of all material realities [3.5s]

INBA98:111.13-122.08

AVK3.055.07x

GOH.043x, GOH.059x, GOH.209x, GOH.248-249x, GOH.302-308x

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @power of prayer, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @acquiescence and resignation; contentment, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @station of the Manifestation of God, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation

FHR, AHDA.450.4, MMAH.040, SRC.190, GOH.030

BB00157

Reply to Mulla Ja'far-i-Shubbar

1200

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی شهد لذاته بذاته الا اله الا هو العلی العظیم اللهم انی اشهدک فی ذلک الکتاب بما تحب لنفسک من اهل الابداع

All praise be to God Who hath testified through His Own Self unto His Self that there is none other God but Him, the Most Exalted, the Most Great. O my God! I bear witness before Thee in this Book unto that which Thou lovest for Thyself among the people of creation [3.5s]

INBA91:161.11-168.06, INBA_5019C:315-318, , PR04.023r13-026v02

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @dissimulation [taqiyyih]; concealment or denial of Faith, @station of the Manifestation of God, @Manifestation of God does not act of own volition, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God

FHR#12.10, SRC.191

BB00196

Reply to Mulla Ibrahim Mahallati

1000

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد عرف الخلق آیاته المودعة فی عز حقایقهم و ما خلق فی الافاق بغیر

Praise be to God, Who hath acquainted all created things with His signs deposited in the glory of their own selves and that which He hath fashioned in the horizons [3.5s]

INBA91:139.05-145.04, INBA_5019C:308-311, , PR04.020v05-023r12

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]

FHR#12.09, FHR#03.20, SRC.191

BB00124

Reply to Mirza hadi Qazvini and Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali Qazvini

1500

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی کیف ادعوک و انت تعلم سری و کیف لا اقول ما خطر علی قلبی و انت امرتنی بالدعاء و وعدت المتکبرین کلمة العذاب فی کتابک

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! How can I call upon Thee when Thou knowest mine inmost secrets, and how can I refrain from uttering that which hath stirred within my heart when Thou hast commanded me to pray and hast decreed for the proud the word of chastisement in Thy Book [3.5s]

INBA91:130.10-139.03, INBA_5019C:305-308, , PR04.032v15-036r10

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam, @servitude; submission to God; repentance

FHR#12.08, SRC.191

BB00138

Prayer in reply to Mulla Ahmad Khurasani, Di'bil, et al

1300

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد عرف لعباد نفسه و لو لا تعریفه با لا بداع لکانوا من المنسیین اللهم انی اشهدک فی ذلک الیوم بما تشهد لنفسک

Praise be to God, Who hath made Himself known unto His servants; for, without His revelation and divine guidance, they would assuredly have remained in oblivion. O Lord, I bear witness unto Thee on this day in the very manner that Thou dost bear witness unto Thine own Self [4o]

INBA91:123.04-130.08, INBA_5019C:295-298,

ASAT4.370x

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @petitions to authorities, @family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam, @prayer for justice and fairmindedness, @prayer for forgiveness

FHR#12.07, SRC.191

BB00145

Prayer in reply to Mirza Muhammad 'Ali Nahri et al

1300

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اللهم انی اشهدک بما تشهد لنفسک و للخلق عبادک انک انت الله لا اله الا انت وحدک لا شریک لک و لا لکینونیتک خلقه دون ذاتک

O God! I bear witness before Thee to that whereunto Thou dost bear witness unto Thyself and unto all created beings, Thy servants, that Thou art God, no God is there but Thee, Single art Thou, without peer, and naught existeth in Thine Essence save Thy Self [3.5s]

INBA91:154.06-161.09, INBA_5019C:311-315,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @wisdom [hikmat], @family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @alteration of the divine will [bada]

FHR#12.06, SRC.191

BB00402

Prayer in reply to Mulla 'Abd al-Jalil, on the thanksgiving prostration

380

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد عرف نفسه بنفسه و تنزه عن مجانسة عباده و تقدس عن مقارنة اثاره

Praise be to God Who hath revealed His Own Self through His Own Self, Who hath exalted Himself above all likeness to His servants, and Who hath sanctified Himself beyond all comparison with His signs [3.5s]

INBA91:121.02-123.02, INBA_5019C:294-294,

@station of the Manifestation of God, @self-description of God; God's self-remembrance, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @chastisement and requital

FHR#12.05, AHDA.459?, SRC.191

BB00587

Prayer written at the request of Karbala'i 'Ali Asghar Khurasani

100

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. شهد الله لعبده انه من بالله و ایاته و کان من المهتدین الهی انی اشهدک بما تشهد لنفسک

God bore witness to His servant that he believed in God and His verses, and he was of those who are guided. O my God! I bear witness to You by that which you bear witness to Yourself and the saints who have drawn nigh among Your servants

INBA91:153.10-154.04

Tablet of the Báb Addressed to Mullá 'Abdu'l-Kháliq Yazdí

@prayer for praise and gratitude, @prayer for forgiveness, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @justice and wrath of God

FHR#12.04, SRC.191

BB00172

Prayer in reply to Mulla 'Abdu'l-Khaliq [Yazdi]

1200

Arabic

Tablet to Mullá 'Abdu'l-Kháliq Yazdí

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. یا من له الحمد و العزة و ماسواه من خشیته یشفقون یا الهی اشهد لدیک فی ذلک الکتاب بما تشهد لنفسک قبل کل شیء لا اله الا انت وحدک لاشریک لک

O Thou to Whom belongeth all praise and glory, before Whom all else tremble in awe! O my God, I testify before Thee in this Book to that which Thou didst testify concerning Thine own Self before all things: Verily, there is none other God but Thee, alone, without peer [3.5s]

INBA91:094.12-102.01, PR04.026v04-029v05

AHDA.183

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @suffering and imprisonment, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

FHR#12.03

BB00152

Prayer in reply to al-'Alawiyya (Tahirih)

1300

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. یا من له العزة و الجمال و العظمة و الجلال لا اله الا هو الکبیر المتعال شهد الله لذاته قبل کل شیء

O Thou Who art possessed of glory and beauty, of grandeur and majesty! There is no God but Him, the Most Great, the Most Exalted. God beareth witness unto His Own Self before all else [3.5s]

INBA91:145.06-152.10, PR04.029v08-032v13

@identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @Muhammad; Islam, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @prayer for protection, @prayer for forgiveness

FHR#12.02

BB00102

Answer to Mulla Abdu'l-Jalil on 20 questions

1800

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد توحد بالعزة و تقدس بالکبریاء لا اله الا هو العزیز الحکیم اشهدک اللهم یا الهی فی ذلک الیوم من شهر الصیام الذی قد شرفته و فضلته و جعلته هدی للعالمین

Praise be to God Who hath been distinguished by might and sanctified by grandeur. There is no God but Him, the Mighty, the All-Wise. I bear witness before Thee, O my God, on this day of the month of fasting, which Thou hast honored and exalted and made a guidance unto all the worlds [3.5s]

INBA91:111.03-121.01, INBA_5019C:300-304, , PR04.015v13-020v04

HBAB.167x

@law of fasting, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @power of prayer, @prayer for fasting, @the Imamate; the Caliphate, @transcendence; unknowability of God

FHR#12.01, SRC.191

BB00009

Kitab al-Ruh (Book of the Spirit)

36000

Arabic

Kitáb al-Ruh (Book of the Spirit)

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد نزل الايات بالحق الي عبده لعل الناس بايات ربک يومنون ان اتبع ما اوحينا اليک

Praise be to God, Who hath revealed the verses in truth unto His servant, that perchance mankind might believe in the signs of their Lord. Follow that which We have revealed unto thee [3.5s]... ...This Book is a Dhikr (Remembrance) from God according to the Decree of a wondrous servant [the Bāb]. He is assuredly the True One within the heavens and the earth.

INBA78:069-076x, INBA_4011C.069-100, INBA_7005C, PR04.036r12-038r12x, MKI4507.001x, , IOM.091

ASAT4.044-45x, AHDA.198x, OOL.A017

HURQ.BB05x, HURQ.BB15x

@proofs of the Manifestations of God, @justice and wrath of God, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @Word of God is its own standard, @transcendence; unknowability of God

FHR#10, AHDA.446.5, MMAH.064, SRC.061, SRC.189, GOH.031, GOH.380fn3

The "Suratu'l-Ridvan" is a part of this work

BB00008

Tafsir-i-Suratu'l-Baqarah = Kitab al-Ahmadiyya (Commentary on the Surah of the Cow I)

43700

Arabic

Qur'an Commentary of Sayyid 'Alí Muhammad, the Báb, The; Gate of the Heart

Tafsir surat al-baqara (Commentary on the Surah of the Cow)

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الم ذلک الکتاب لا ریب فیه هدی للمتقین هذه الایة لاهل الحقیقة معرفة الله سبحانه

"Alif. Lám. Mím. This is the Book wherein there is no doubt, a guidance unto them that fear God." For the people of truth, this verse signifieth the knowledge of God, glory be unto Him [3.5s]... ...The Primal Adam is the Will, Who is the Primal Utterance, manifested in the primal realm of contingency

INBA69:157-377, INBA_6004C:002-178, , INBA_6014C:001-296, , INBA_6012C.060-257, , PR02.001v21-044v14, PR03.043r-043rx, PR40.003v-095v, CMB_F08, , BLIB_Or5277, , BN_5780, BN_5805, BN_6610, LEID.Or4371-8, , OXF.MS.Arab.e.59-60, IOM.090-091x, HBH_baqarah (=INBA 69)

ASAT2.064x

TAME, BLO_PT#216.019-020, GOH.119-121x, GOH.204x, GOH.251-252x, HURQ.BB01x

FHR#09, NSS.021-022, BRHL.59, MSBR.202-203, AHDA.455.05, MMAH.011, SRC.046-047, SRC.201, GOH.030, GOH.118

BB00022

Tafsir (huruf) al-basmala

10700

Arabic

Selections from the Bahá'í Writings and from Shaykh Ahmad on the Seven Stages of Creation; Gate of the Heart

بسم الله البدیع الذی لا اله الا هو. ان الله سبحانه قد جعل لظهوره لخلقه بخلقه اربع مقامات المشار الیها والرموز عنها

Verily God, glorified be He, hath ordained for His Manifestation unto His creation, through His creation, four stations which have been indicated and symbolized [3.5s]... ...The "E" (nún) in the stage of utterance is the same as the "B" (káf). It is the totality of the possible

INBA14:041.04-104, INBA53:001-045, INBA60:001-056, INBA64:033.16-081.14, INBA_6010C:041-094, , INBA_6013C:002-109, , INBA_6012C.300-393,

TZH3.139.10-139.15x

GOH.132x, GOH.135-136x, GOH.204x, GOH.215x, MNP.048x, HURQ.BB03x, BLO_PT#079.1.8x

@martyrs and martyrdom, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @station of the Manifestation of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @self-description of God; God's self-remembrance, @alchemy; the elixir, @transcendence; unknowability of God

FHR#08, AHDA.459.16, MMAH.012, SRC.063, SRC.200, GOH.031, GOH.079

BB00019

Sahifa Baynu'l-Haramayn (Epistle Revealed between the Twin Shrines)

13100

Arabic

Sahifiy-i-Bayna'l-Haramayn (Epistle between Twin Shrines)

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. ان هذا کتاب قد نزلت علی الارض المقدسة بین الحرمین من لدن علی حمید

This Book was indeed sent down within the sacred land between the Two Shrines on the part of one Elevated, Praiseworthy.

INBA50:073-106x, INBA_4011C:179-252, , INBA_6007C.348-413, PR03.058r22-068v23, PR04.115v04-164r03, CMB_F07, CMB_Or943 ff.489-545, BLIB_Or0943, BLIB_Or5325, BN_5804, BN_6248, LEID.Or4371, LEID.UL2414, MKI4499.069-118x, MKI4488.001r-028v, MKI4511.029v-037v, KB_bayn, BYC_bayn, BYC_baynal, AEWB.061-071x, AEWB.116-135x

HBAB.727x, HNMJ.006-008x, HNMJ.009-011x, HNMJ.011-016x, HNMJ.016-018x, HNMJ.019-020x, OOL.A004

RBB.093-096x, GOH.056x, HURQ.BB14x, KSHK#01x

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @seven stages of creation, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @Word of God and human limitations, @law of fasting, @He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah, @law of pilgrimage, @visitation Tablets, @prayer for martyrs, @personal instructions, @impossibility of true worship of God, @martyrs and martyrdom, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

FHR#07, DB.137x, BRHL.59, MSBR.200-201, AHDA.450.6, MMAH.049, SRC.060, SRC.198, GOH.031

BB00175

Khutba on gematria and its sister (‘ilmi’l-Huruf va Ukhtiha)

1100

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد عرف ذاته بایاته المتجلیه فی غرا لفواد بغیر تشبیه و لا تفریق لیشهد الکل فی مقعد الفضل

Praise be to God Who hath enabled the gnosis of His Essence to be realized through His verses which express theophanic self-disclosure within the grandeur of the inmost heart

INBA67:228-233, INBA91:030.07-036.06, INBA_5006C:315-317, , INBA_5019C:322-324, , INBA_6004C:209-213,

HURQ.BB20x

@meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @alchemy; the elixir, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture

FHR#06.09, SRC.063, SRC.187, SRC.191

BB00122

Khutba on the suffering of Imam Husayn, at sea

1500

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد شهد لذاتیته بالاحدیة القدیمة لما علم بان الحسین یشهد لنفسه بنفسه

Praise be to God, Who hath testified unto His Own Being through His Ancient Unity, inasmuch as He knew that Husayn beareth witness unto His Self through His Self [3.5s]

INBA91:073.10-081.02, INBA_5006C:317-320, , PR04.164r05-168r14

@martyrs and martyrdom, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @Imam Husayn, @transcendence; unknowability of God

FHR#06.08, SRC.063, SRC.187

BB00265

Khutbah fi'l-Bakarih (hin julusihi 'ala'l-safinah al-saghirah)

740

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد ارفع عبده من البلد المقام علی السفینة الصغیره الی الفلک المسخر فوق الماء من قبل طلوع خط البیضاء من احق السوداء

Praise be unto Him Who hath raised His servant from the settled place, upon the small vessel, unto the ark that saileth upon the waters, ere the rising of the white line from the black horizon [3.5s]

INBA_5006C:339-340?, , PR04.038r13-040v03

FHR#06.07?, SRC.242

BB00205

Khutba writen near the staging post of al-Safra 1

960

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد عرف ذاته بذاته و لا یعلم احد کیف هو الا هو لا اله الا هو قد انشأ

Praise be to God Who hath known His Own Self through His Self, and none knoweth His Reality save Him. There is no God but Him [3.5s]

INBA91:036.08-041.10, INBA_5006C:320-322, , INBA_5019C:324-326, , PR04.040v06-043v03

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity

FHR#06.07?, SRC.063, SRC.187

BB00279

Khutba writen near the staging post of al-Safra 2 (Khutbiy-i-Jamaliyyih)

700

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد علا بعلو ذاتیته علواً سقطت الاشیاء دونه و تعالی بعظم کینونیته علی عرش الاحدیة التی قد خضع الکل لدی وجهه

Praise be unto Him Who hath, through the loftiness of His Essence, risen to such heights that all things other than Him have fallen away, and Who hath, through the grandeur of His Being, been exalted upon the Throne of Oneness before which all creation boweth down in submission [3.5s]

INBA91:047.08-051.09, INBA_5006C:324-326, , INBA_5019C:328-330,

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @Shrines and Holy places, @creation of the world, @station of the Manifestation of God, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity

FHR#06.07?, SRC.063, SRC.187

BB00216

Khutba written one stage from Medina (Khutbiy-i-Shajariyyih)

920

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد شهد لذاته بذاته ان لا اله الا هو و ابدع خلقه بامره ان لا اله الا هو

Praise be to God, Who hath testified unto His Own Being by His Own Self that there is no God but Him, and Who brought forth His creation by His Command that there is no God but He [3.5s]

INBA91:042.01-047.06, INBA_5006C:322-324, , INBA_5019C:326-328,

@anthropomorphism, @Greek philosophers; Greek civilization, @pantheism, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @the cross and the trinity, @the Imamate; the Caliphate, @divine attributes are within all things; every atom, @Christ; Christianity

FHR#06.07?, SRC.063, SRC.187

BB00084

Khutbata’r-Raj’a (Khutba written in Jidda)

2200

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد اقام العرش علی الماء والهواء علی وجه الماء و فرق بینهما علی کلمة اللاء ثم قد فتق الاجواء من عالم العماء

Praised be to God! Who raised up the Celestial Throne upon the watery expanse and the atmosphere above the surface of the watery expanse.

INBA91:060.12-073.08, INBA_5006C:330-335,

HNU.143-145x, AHDA.086x

MNP.090-091x, MNP.146-158, HURQ.BB19x, LOIR06.050ff

@symbolism, @mystical themes, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @pilgrimage [Hajj] in Islam, @transcendence; unknowability of God

FHR#06.05, SRC.063, SRC.187, GOH.032

BB00101

Khutba on the 'Id al-Fitr written in Masqat (Khutbiy-i-Qamariyyih)

1800

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد تفرد بالعزة و توحد بالعظمة و تعظم بالکبریاء و تعالی عن مشاهدة الانظار الاحد القیوم والصمد المعبود

Praise be to God, Who hath singled Himself out in might, and united Himself in grandeur, and exalted Himself in majesty, and transcendeth the vision of all eyes—the One, the Self-Subsisting, the Eternal [3.5s]

INBA_4011C:359-366, , INBA_5006C:326-330,

FHR#06.04, SRC.063, SRC.187

BB00106

Khutba written in Kanakan (Khutbih Bahriyyih)

1700

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله المتقدس فی الذات و المتفرد فی الصفات القدیم الوتر و القیوم الحی الذی لا اله الا هو

Praise be to God, Who is sanctified in His Essence and unrivalled in His attributes, the Ancient of Days, the Single One, the Self-Subsisting, the Ever-Living, beside Whom there is no other God [3.5s]

INBA_4011C:351-358, , INBA_5006C:355-359,

FHR#06.03, SRC.063, SRC.186

BB00115

Khutbiy-i-Mahdiyyih

1600

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد عهد لعلو ذاتیته عن وصف الانشاء و اهلها و تقدس بعظم کینونیته عن نعت اهل الثناء و من یشابهها الخطبه السادسه فی البوشهر حمل

Praise be unto Him Who, by the sublimity of His Being, hath transcended all description by His creation and its people, and Who, through the grandeur of His Essence, hath sanctified Himself above the attributes of those who offer praise and their like [3.5s]

INBA_4011C:341-348, , INBA_5006C:359-363,

FHR#06.01, SRC.063, SRC.186

BB00025

Kitab-i-A'mal al-sana (sahifa) = Sahifa Fatimiyya (Epistle on the Devotional Deeds of the Year)

7600

Arabic

Autobibliography in the Writings of the Báb; Gate of the Heart

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی نزل الکتاب بالحق هدی و ذکری للخاشعین و انه لکتاب قد فصل فی حکم شهرالله فی القران هدی و رحمة من عندالله لقوم ساجدین

Praised be to God Who hath, in very truth sent down the Book, a guidance and a remembrance for such as fear God. It is indeed a Book which sets forth regulations pertaining to the month(s) of God in the Qur'an

INBA50:106-158x, INBA_5006C:262-278, , INBA_6007C.413-452, PR04.168v01-194v07, MKI4499.118-147, AEWB.001-060,

HNMJ.021-027x, HNMJ.027-030x, HNMJ.031-036x

HURQ.BB30x

@the Imamate; the Caliphate, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @martyrs and martyrdom, @law of obligatory prayer

FHR#05, AHDA.452.2, AHDA.461.02?, SRC.048, SRC.064-065, SRC.197, GOH.031

BB00128

Kitab al-Fihrist (Book of the index)

1400

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. المر ذلک الکتاب ذکر من الله فی حکم عبد بدیع و انه للکتاب قد نزلت من لدن بقیة الله امام حق قدیم

Alif. Lám. Mím. Rá. This is the Book, a Remembrance from God concerning a wondrous servant, and verily it is the Book sent down from the presence of the Remnant of God, the True Imam [3.5s]... ...And this is a Book which was sent down from God containing a directive from a wondrous servant. It is indeed a Book which hath come down from the Remnant of God

INBA_5019C:285-293, , INBA_6007C.339-348, INBA_4011C.062-069, , PR04.001r03-006v11, Berlin3655.001v-007r

ASAT4.527x

MNP.091-095x, HURQ.BB46x, LOIR06.051ff

@events in the life and ministry of the Bab, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam

FHR#04, AHDA.444.3, SRC.043, SRC.050-052, SRC.065, SRC.188, GOH.022, GOH.032

BB00333

Letter to Sulayman, Sharif of Mecca (addressing the people of Mecca)

540

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. ان هذا کتاب قد نزلت باذن ربک من لدن علی حکیم و انه لعلی صراط الله فی السموات و الارض ینزل الیک من الآیات بلسان عربی متین

Verily this is a Book sent down by leave of thy Lord from the presence of One who is Exalted and Wise, and lo, it followeth the Path of God in the heavens and on earth, revealing unto thee verses in a mighty Arabic tongue [3.5s]

INBA91:025.06-028.07, INBA_6012C.257-260, , CMB_F28.7.01-02,

AHDA.104

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @proclamation to Muslims, @superiority; incomparability of the Word of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

FHR#03.19, BRHL.68, MSBR.208-209, AHDA.461.12?, MMAH.035, SRC.191, SRC.192

BB00281

Li-Khalaf

700

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. تنزیل من کتاب ربک فی حکم عبد بعید و انه لکتاب لا ریب فیه قد نزل من لدن امام مبین وانه لهو الحق فی السموات و الارض لا یعزب من علمه شیء و انه لعلی کل شیء شهید انا نحن قد نزلنا کتابا من قبل

A revelation from the Book of thy Lord concerning a distant servant. Verily it is a Book wherein there is no doubt, sent down from the presence of a manifest Guide. And verily He is the Truth in the heavens and on earth; naught escapeth His knowledge, and He is witness over all things. We, verily, have sent down a Book before [3.5s]

PR04.013v03-015v11

FHR#03.17, AHDA.461.11

BB00222

Letter to Mulla Sadiq Muqaddas Khurasani

910

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الم ذکرالله للورقة الصفرآء عن یمین الطور لا اله الا هو قل ایای فاخرجون و لقد نزلنا الیک کتاباً من قبل

Alif. Lam. Mim. The Remembrance of God hath mentioned the yellow leaf nigh the right-hand side of the Mount [Sinai], [saying] `No God is there except Him'

PYK.003, ASAT4.236-238x, TZH3.149.06-150.13x, AHDA.101

HURQ.BB25x

@House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @rejection of Muhammad, @Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc., @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

FHR#03.15, MMAH.036

BB00586

Khatt li’sh-Shaykh Rafi’-i-Rashti

100

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. تبارک الذی ینزل علی من یشاء و روح الامر ان ابشروا لا تخلف فان الله ربک لغفور شکور و انه لا اله الا هو قد نزل الکتاب لامره

Bless Him who sends down the spirit of command on whom He will. Verily, rejoice and do not fear. God, your Lord, is both forgiving and thankful

PR03.043r15-043r18

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God

FHR#03.14

BB00665

Letter to Mirza Siyyid Hasan Khurasani (from Bushihr)

830

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اقرء کتاب ذکر اسم ربک ثم اسجد لحکمه انه لا اله الا هو لغنی حمید و انه لکتاب قد نزل من حکم بقیة الله امام حق مبین

Read thou the Book wherein is remembered the Name of thy Lord, then humble thyself before His decree. Verily, there is no God but Him, the Self-Sufficient, the All-Praised. And verily this is a Book sent down through the decree of the Remnant of God, the manifest Imam of Truth [3.5s]

INBA91:018.08-023.02

TZH3.169x, NSS.082ax

@corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

FHR#03.13?, FHR#03.02?

BB00356

Letter to Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani

470

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الم ذکر ربک للورقة الحمراء عن یمین بحر الابیض لا اله الا هو قل ایای فاخرجون اقرء کتاب ربک ثم اسجد لامره و انه لا اله الا هو قل ایای فاسمعون

Alif. Lam. Mim. [Revealed from] The Dhikr (Remembrance) of thy Lord unto the Crimson Leaf at the right-hand side of the snow-white Ocean.

HNU.181-182, NSS.182-183

HURQ.BB24

@Imam Husayn, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

FHR#03.10, AHDA.460.04, MMAH.033

BB00582

Letter to Hajj Sulayman Khan (from Medina)

110

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. ان هذا کتاب قد سطرت من ید الذکر هذا علی حکیم و انه لعلی علی صراط مستقیم و ان ربک یعلم غیب السموات

Verily, this book has been written by the hand of this, the Remembrance, Exalted and Wise. Verily, he is exalted upon the straight path. Verily, he knows the invisble world of the heavens and the earth

INBA91:029.10-030.04, INBA_5019C:299-300?, , INBA_6012C.261-262, , CMB_F28.7.03-04,

TZH2.059-060

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

FHR#03.09, FHR#03.22?, BRHL.68, MSBR.208-209, AHDA.461.14?, AHDA.610.12, SRC.191, SRC.192

BB00517

Letter to Haji Siyyid ‘Ali Kirmani (from Medina)

190

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. قد قرئت کتابک هذا فاستمع لماذا القی الیک باذن الله فان ذکر اسم ربک لهو الحق یهدیک الی صراط مستقیم

I have read this, thy letter. Hearken thou, therefore, to that which is imparted unto thee by leave of God, for verily the mention of thy Lord's Name is truth itself, guiding unto the straight path [3.5s]

INBA91:028.09-029.08, INBA_5019C:298-299, , INBA_6012C.260-261,

@power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

FHR#03.09, FHR#03.21?, SRC.191

BB00399

Letter to the Hanafi Imam

390

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. ان هذا کتاب قد نزلت باذن ربک من لدن علی حکیم. ثم قد فصلت آیاته باذن ربک على صراط مستقیم

Verily this is a Book sent down by leave of thy Lord from the presence of One who is Exalted and Wise. Then were its verses expounded by the leave of thy Lord upon a straight path [3.5s]

INBA91:023.04-025.04

@need for an educator, @superiority; incomparability of the Word of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @call to action, @justice and wrath of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

FHR#03.09

BB00571

Letter to the wife of the Báb, from Masqat

120

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اقرء کتاب ربک الذی لا اله الا هو قد نزل باذنه من لدن علی حمید و انه فی حکم الکتاب

Read the book of your Lord God, there is no other god but Him. It descended by His permission from Ali, the Praiseworthy. Verily, the path of God in the heavens and the earth is in the decree of the book

INBA58:170.04-171.04, INBA91:051.11-052.06, PR04.194v01-194v10

Tablet of the Báb to His Uncle, Ḥájí Mírzá Siyyid Muḥammad (Khál-i-Akbar), Revealed in Muscat

@procession; appearance of the Word from God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

FHR#03.08

BB00367

Letter to Khal-i-Akbar from Masqat I

450

Persian

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد نزل الکتاب بالحق فیه آیات بینات لقوم یسمعون و انه لکتاب لا ریب فیه قد نزل من لدن عزیز حکیم الخط الی المحال فی المسقط

Praise be to God Who hath sent down the Book in truth, wherein are clear verses for people who hear. Verily it is a Book wherein there is no doubt, sent down from the presence of One Mighty, All-Wise. The divine pen hath been directed towards the appointed spot in Muscat [3.5s]

AHDA.091

@power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

FHR#03.06?

BB00319

Letter to Khal-i-Akbar from Masqat II

570

Arabic

Tablet of the Báb to His Uncle, Ḥájí Mírzá Siyyid Muḥammad (Khál-i-Akbar), Revealed in Muscat

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اقرء کتاب ذکر اسم ربک الذی ینزل الان الیک کتابا مبینا ان اشکر الله ربک ثم اسجد

Read thou the Book wherein is remembered the Name of thy Lord, Who sendeth down unto thee now a manifest Book. Give thanks unto God, thy Lord, and prostrate thyself [3.5s]

HNU.000ii, AHDA.093

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @transcendence; unknowability of God

FHR#03.06?

BB00315

Letter to the uncle of the Báb in Bushihr

590

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحان الذی قد نزل الآیات علی من یشاء من عباده و انه لسمیع علیم و ان ذلک حکم من لدی ان ارسل کتاباً فیه احکام الناس ما هم کانوا عاملین

Glorified be He Who sendeth down verses upon whomsoever He willeth among His servants, and verily He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. And this, truly, is a decree from His presence, that I should send forth a Book containing ordinances for mankind according to which they act [3.5s]

INBA91:056.06-059.08

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @chastisement and requital, @belief and denial

FHR#03.06?

BB00229

Tablet to Sultan 'Abdu'l-Majid

900

Arabic

Epistle of Sayyid 'Alí Muhammad 'the Báb' to Sultan Abdulmecid

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحان الذی نزل الکتاب علی من یشاء من عباده و انه لا اله الا هو لغنی حمید هو الذی بیده ملکوت کل شیء و لایعزب من علمه شیء لا اله الا هو قل ایاه فاعبدون

Praise be to Him Who hath sent the Book unto whosoever He willeth among His servants

SFI08.026-027, TZH2.065-066x, AHDA.090x

LOIR04.001-015, BLO_PT#032

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @chastisement and requital, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @suffering and imprisonment, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings, @transcendence; unknowability of God

FHR#03.05, AHDA.460.07, SRC.058

BB00439

Letter to Mulla Hasan Gawhar

320

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. طه ما نزلنا الکتاب من قبل الا نذکرة لمن شاء ان یوحی بآیات ربک و کان من الساجدین اقرء کتاب ربک لا مبدل فی حکمی و استغفر لامتک لتکونن من المفلحین

Ta. Ha. We did not send down the Book aforetime except it was a memorial for Whomsoever He wills that he should believe in the verses of thy Lord

AHDA.089

HURQ.BB23x

@proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @suffering and imprisonment, @chastisement and requital

FHR#03.04, AHDA.460.1

BB00091

Kitabu’l-‘Ulama I (Bushihr)

2000

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی نزل الکتاب علی من یشاء من عباده و انه لا اله الا هو الغنی الجمیل و انه کتاب لا ریب فیه فصل فی حکم باطن القران

Praised be to God who sends down the Book upon whomsoever He willeth among His servants. He, verily, no God is there except Him.

INBA67:206-216, INBA91:082.02-094.10, INBA_4011C:318-328, , INBA_6007C.452-463, INBA_4012C.083-092, , PR03.063r10-065r26, PR04.106v02-115v02, PR07.049v-052v, CMB_F21.224.02-232.13#32, , BYC_collect5

HNU.085x, HNU.134x, AHDA.107

DB.148fn1, DB.129fn2, HURQ.BB22x, RR.121x

@corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture

FHR#03.03, GPB.024, BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, MMAH.034, SRC.074, SRC.098, SRC.189

BB00269

Letter to Mirza Hasan-i-Khurasani

720

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اقرء کتاب ذکر اسم ربک الذی لا اله الا هو العلی الحکیم و انه لکتاب قد تنزل من لدن بقیة الله امام حق

Read thou the Book wherein is remembered the Name of thy Lord, He besides Whom there is no God, the Most Exalted, the All-Wise. Verily it is a Book sent down from the presence of the Remnant of God, the true Imam [3.5s]

INBA67:216-219, INBA91:006.04-010.07, INBA_5019C:319-321,

NSS.078-080

@call to action, @superiority; incomparability of the Word of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

FHR#03.02, SRC.190, SRC.191

BB00355

Khatt ila Mirza Siyyid Hasan-i-Khurasani

470

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الله لا اله الا هو قد نزل الکتاب بالحق لیوم لاریب فیه و اعبده و انتظر لنصره فان ایام الذکر عند ربک کان مقضیا

God, no God is there but Him. He hath sent down the Book in truth for a Day whereof there is no doubt. Worship Him and await His triumph, for verily the days of remembrance with thy Lord have been ordained [3.5s]

INBA91:200.01-202.10

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @superiority; incomparability of the Word of God

FHR#03.02

BB00336

Letter to Mulla Husayn II (from Shiraz)

540

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. شهد الله لعبده فی ذلک الکتاب انه قد آمن بالله و آیاته و کان علی صراط حق مبین و ذلک الکتاب ذکر من بقیة الله لمن اراد ان یؤمن بآیات ربه و یتبع امره و کان من الساجدین

God testifieth in this Book unto His servant that he hath believed in God and His signs, and hath remained steadfast upon a path of manifest truth. And this Book is a remembrance from the Remnant of God for whosoever desireth to believe in the signs of his Lord and follow His command, and be numbered among those who prostrate themselves [3.5s]

INBA91:001.02-003.12, INBA_5019C:318-319, , PR04.006v13-008r12

TZH3.140.06-140.18x

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @chastisement and requital, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

FHR#03.01, SRC.191

BB00287

Letter to Mulla Husayn I (from Medina)

670

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. ان هذا کتاب قد نزلت باذن ربک من لدن علی حکیم و انه لعلی علی صراط مستقیم و ان ربک یعلم عنت السموات و الارض و ما کان الناس فیه تختلفون

Verily this is a Book sent down by leave of thy Lord from the presence of One who is Exalted and Wise, and lo, it standeth exalted upon the straight path. And thy Lord knoweth well the travail of the heavens and of the earth, and that concerning which men are at variance [3.5s]

INBA91:010.09-014.06

@law of pilgrimage, @justice and wrath of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @dissimulation [taqiyyih]; concealment or denial of Faith

BB00415

Letter to Mulla Husayn III

360

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. قال علی علیه السلام اللهم و انی لاعلم ان العلم لا یا رب (؟) کل و لا ینقطع مردود و انک لا تخلی ارضک من حجة انک علی خلقک

Ali, upon whom be peace, hath spoken: O God! Verily I know that knowledge doth not perish, and that its seeker is not turned away, and that Thou dost not leave Thine earth bereft of a proof unto Thy creation [3.5s]

INBA91:004.02-006.02

@power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @dissimulation [taqiyyih]; concealment or denial of Faith, @the Imamate; the Caliphate, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

BB00284

Letter to Mulla Husayn IV - from Bushihr

690

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحان الذی نزل الروح من حکمه الیک لتکونن من المنذرین اقرء کتاب ذکر اسم ربک هذا و کن من الشاکرین

Glorified be He Who hath sent down the Spirit through His wisdom unto thee, that thou mayest be numbered among the warners. Recite thou the Book of thy Lord's remembrance and be thou among the thankful [3.5s]

INBA91:014.08-018.06

ASAT4.236x

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @superiority; incomparability of the Word of God, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture

INBA91:059.10-060.10, PR04.008r14-008v13

BB00516

Letter to Mulla Husayn V

190

Arabic

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحان الذی قد نزل الروح علی قلبک لتکونن من المنذرین ان اتبع مایلقی الیک من کتاب کریم و لقد ارسلنا من قبل الیک

Glorified be He Who hath caused the Spirit to descend upon thy heart, that thou mayest be numbered among the warners. Follow thou what is revealed unto thee from this glorious Book, for verily We did send it aforetime unto thee [3.5s]

@personal instructions, @justice and wrath of God, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas

Bahá'í Prayers; Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Gate of the Heart

BB00018

Sahifiy-i-Makhdhumiyyih = Sahifiy-i-Makhzunih (Hidden Treasured Epistle)

13200

Arabic

Sahifiy-i-Makhzunih (Hidden Treasured Epistle)

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی هو کائن قبل کل شیء و لا یکون شیء معه و کان موجوداً حین لا وجود لشیء لدیه الذی قد قصدت افئده العارفین عن معرفة ادنی وصفه

Praise be to God Who existed ere all things were brought into being, and with Whom nothing can be compared. He was manifest when there was none other to contemplate His reality. He is the One Whose essence the hearts of the knowing have longed to fathom, yet fail utterly to apprehend even the most infinitesimal glimpse of His attributes [4o]... …The glory of glories and the most resplendent light rest upon Thee, O my God. Thy majesty is so transcendent… O my God, my Lord and my Master! I have detached myself… I adjure Thee by Thy might, O my God!... O My God, O my Lord, O my Master! I beg Thee to forgive me

INBA_5006C:284-314, , INBA_6009C:001-171, , PR03.043r-043rx, PR04.058r06-100r11, PR25.001-043, CMB_Add.3704, , MKI4499.043x

SWBP#53 (p.138-139x), SWBP#54 (p.139-141x), SWBP#57 (p.142-144x), SWBP#58 (p.144-145x), SWBP#59 (p.145-146x), SWBP#60 (p.146-147x), SWBP#62 (p.149-149(a)x), SWBP#63 (p.149-149(b)x), SWBP#64 (p.149-150x), SWBP#73 (p.155-155x), OOL.A009

SWB#54 (p.194-195x), SWB#55 (p.196-198x), SWB#58 (p.200-202x), SWB#59 (p.202-204x), SWB#60 (p.204-205x), SWB#61 (p.205-206x), SWB#63 (p.209-209x), SWB#64 (p.210(a)x), SWB#65 (p.210(b)x), SWB#73 (p.216x), BPRY.022x, BPRY.063x, BPRY.130x, BPRY.141x, BPRY.227x, HURQ.BB29x

The Humming Birds, S. Toloui-Wallace, Kiya & Parya, TaliaSafa, E. Mahony, E. Mahony, E. Mahony, E. Mahony, A. Wensbo, Louis & Eleonore, Z. Johnson, Nahal & Bakang, D. Khavari, Shadi, Hoda & Leif, C. Kinglit, O. Devine, N. Chiang, Soulrise Melodies, Soulrise Melodies, N. Hamilton, L. & L. Hosack, S. Ihsan, P. Held & C. Bahia [track 10], almunajat.com [item 4], E. Tarani, unknown

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @impossibility of true worship of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

FHR#02, AHDA.451.1, MMAH.059, SRC.059, SRC.198, GOH.030-031

Prayer 1 is Du'a-yi sahifa.

BB00002

Qayyumu'l-Asma' (Commentary on the Surah of Joseph)

112000

Arabic

Qayyum al-Asma' Sura 93: Chapter of the Bees (Qayyum al-Asma 93: Surat al-nahl); Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Qur'an Commentary of Sayyid 'Alí Muhammad, the Báb, The; Terms Remembrance (dhikr) and Gate (bab) in the Bab's Commentary on the Sura of Joseph, The; Gate of the Heart

Qayyumul-Asma (book)

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی نزل الکتاب علی عبده بالحق لیکون للعالمین سراجا وهاجا ان هذا صراط علی

All praise be to God Who hath, through the power of Truth, sent down this Book unto His servant [the Bāb], that it may serve as a shining light for all mankind

INBA03, INBA_6020C, INBA_6016C, PR41.002-192, CMB_F23.150r14-153r11 (53)x, , CMB_F11, , BLIB_Or3539, BLIB_Or6681, BN_6435, BN_5780, MKI4496, , IOM.089-090, KB_qayyum, BYC_qayyum

ASH.055-370, RHQM1.019-021x, MBA.309-314x, SWBP#08 (p.026-050x), OOL.A003

SWB#08 (p.041-074x), GPB.005-006x, GPB.023x, GPB.376x, WOB.101x, WOB.126x, GOH.passim (see index), MNP.001-027n, MNP.088x, MNP.110-114x, MNP.127-134x, HURQ.BB02x, LOIR06.047x, BLO_PT#074x

T. Ellis, unknown, friends in Jordan

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @chastisement and requital, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @Imam Husayn, @symbolism, @justice and wrath of God, @stories; anecdotes, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @heaven and paradise; heaven and hell, @day of Resurrection; Judgement, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @prophecy and fulfillment, @suffering and imprisonment, @martyrs and martyrdom, @power of the Manifestation of God, @call to action, @apocalyptic imagery, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @spiritual transformation, @creation of the world, @belief and denial, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @imagery in the Qur'an, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @visitation Tablets, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @recompense; reward for belief; right action, @celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @living waters; water of life, @the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @angels, @Adam; Adam and Eve, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @mystical themes, @proofs for the existence of God, @family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam, @Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @Crimson Ark; the Ark of God, @seven stages of creation, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @proclamation of the Cause (general or uncategorized), @idolatry, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @the Imamate; the Caliphate, @scarcity of receptive souls, @self-concealment of the Manifestation of God, @Night of Power (Laylat al-Qadr), @proclamation to divines; to religious leaders, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @Satan; the Evil One, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @fire and light; fire and water, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa], @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @Mosaic imagery, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @outward and inward meanings, @development of capacity and readiness, @realms of being; three realms; five realms, @empty learning; false spirituality, @predictions and prophecies, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @life and death, @unity; oneness of humanity, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @exhortations and counsels, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @Manifestation of God as mediator, @praise and encouragement, @hypocrisy, @language and the structure of reality, @superiority; incomparability of the Word of God, @infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat], @obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @firmness in the Covenant, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @high station of the true believer, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @the Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im, @twin duties of recognition and obedience, @Manifestation of God as sun, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures, @The Holy Spirit, @fellowship with the wayward and ungodly, @John the Baptist, @Greatest Name, @goodly deeds; actions, @birth of Christ; purity; virginity of Mary, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

FHR#01, NSS.023-024, DB.061x, DB.179x, BRHL.59, MSBR.202-203, AHDA.445.4, MMAH.009, SRC.055-057, SRC.195, GOH.030, GOH.111-159, KKD1.228.08x

BH00181

Khutbiy-i-Salavat

3080

Arabic

Twelve Table Talks Given by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in 'Akká

الحمد لله الذی قد اظهر الطلعه بالجذبات و لقد اغن الورقه بالسر السطر من ورآء

Praise be unto God Who hath manifested the Countenance through rapturous attractions and hath enriched the Leaf with the hidden mystery inscribed beyond [3.5s]

PR22.058a-072a

Extols the Cause of the Báb and encourages His followers to seek out and turn to the ‘countenance of light’.

@symbolism, @praise and encouragement, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @prophecy and fulfillment, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @chastisement and requital

BRL_TTT#11.8

Revealed 'in the year nine', see BRL_TTT#11; see also Tanbihu'l-Na'imin p.36.

BH11176

Arabic

Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

یا غصن اعظم لعمر الله نوازلک کدرتنی ولکن الله یشفیک و یحفظک و هو خیر کریم

O Most Great Branch! By My life! Thy tribulations have grieved Me, but God shall heal thee and preserve thee, for He is the Best, the All-Bountiful [3.5s]... ...The glory of God rest upon Thee and upon whosoever serveth Thee and circleth around Thee

INBA81:087a

BRL_DA#244, AHM.106, HDQI.006b, AHDW.009, ASAT4.413x, AHB_128BE #06-11 p.196, ANDA#03 p.46

BRL_ATBH#42, WOB.135x

almunajat.com [item 20]

@chastisement and requital, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @praise and encouragement

LL#092

BH09144

110

Arabic

یا غصنی الاعظم قد حضر لدی المظلوم کتابک و سمعنا ما ناجیت به الله رب العالمین

O thou my Greatest Branch! Thy letter was surely presented before this oppressed one, and I heard that which

INBA81:087b

BRL_DA#440, AHM.105, HDQI.007, AHDW.008, YHA1.012-013, ASAT4.412x, AHB_128BE #06-11 p.197, ANDA#03 p.48, ANDA#43-44 p.02, QALAM.014

GPB.243x3x, WOB.135-136x, SW_v04#14 p.239, SW_v05#15 p.228, SW_v08#14 p.184

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others

LL#091

BH04998

Ay Bulbulan

190

mixed

ای بلبلان ای بلبلان فصل گل و گلذار شد ای عارفان ای عارفان آنغیب در اظهار

It is the season of the rose, O nightingales, O nightingales! O mystic knowers of the Lord, The Unseen threw aside His veils!

INBA36:097, INBA71:261, INBA74:092x, NLAI_BH1.527, MKA.06 Mil Yz A 2791 p30a,

BRL_DA#363, TZH4.142, ASAT3.200-201, AHB_126BE #01-02 p.002

WIND#155, JHT_B#018

@mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @mystical themes, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @poems and quotation from poetry, @love of God, @transcending the material condition

LL#009

BH10163

170

mixed

Tablet to the Zoroastrians (Lawh-i-Dustan-i-Yazdaní); Tabernacle of Unity, The

یا غلام قبل حسین مخصوص جمیع اسامی مذکوره در نامه آیات بدیعه منیعه نازل

O Ghulam Qabl-Ḥusayn! For all the names mentioned in the letter, have We caused to be sent down verses wondrous and sublime [3.5s]... ...This is the Day in which God’s most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace

BRL_DA#649, GWBP#004 p.012bx

GWB#004x, WOB.161x

Gus & Emma, C. Zein, MANA, Soulrise Melodies, S. Sunderland (1), S. Sunderland (2), S. Scriven

@unity of thought and belief, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God

LL#089

BH02516

350

Arabic

ان یا فتح الاعظم کن بکینونتک و حقیقتک و ذاتک سمعا لتسمع ما ینطق ربک العلی

O Greatest Victory! Be thou with thine essence, thy reality and thy very being, an ear, that thou mayest hearken unto that which thy Lord, the Most Exalted, doth speak [3.5s]... ...The Mount dwellers have assuredly swooned away on the Elevated Mount. The denizens of the heavenly Kingdom

INBA23:030, INBA83:242, BLIB_Or03114.080rx, , BLIB_Or15725.532, , ALIB.folder18p376

SHHB.134-135x

@detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @call to action

LL#086

BH01654

Second Tablet to Faris

530

Arabic

قد حضر کتابک لدی الوجه و وجدنا منه عرف الحب و الوداد لذا نزل لک هذا اللوح

Thy letter hath come before Our Countenance, and from it We have inhaled the fragrance of love and affection; wherefore this Tablet hath been sent down unto thee [3.5s]... ...The Breath hath been wafted, and the Breeze hath blown, and from Zion hath appeared that which was hidden, and from Jerusalem is heard the Voice of God

INBA81:153, BLIB_Or11095#030,

BRL_DA#274, AVK3.121x, SFI16.038-039, ASAT4.432x, YIK.120-121

GPB.211x, PDC.125x, PDC.165x2x, PDC.165-166x, PDC.167x, BSB7:3-4 p27x, HURQ.BH77

@proclamation to Christians, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @praise and encouragement, @methods of teaching the Cause

LL#085

BH01353

Lawh-i-Dustan-i-Yazdani

630

Persian

Lawh-i-Dustan-i-Yazdani (Tablet to the Zoroastrians); - Tabernacle of Unity (book)

ای دوستان یزدان آواز یکتا خداوند بی نیاز را بگوش جان بشنوید تا شما را از بند

O friends of God! Incline your inner ears to the voice of the peerless and self-subsisting Lord, that He may deliver you

INBA35:106, BLIB_Or11096#039, , BLIB_Or15722.085, , NLI.32p005r, Majlis934.036-042

BRL_TBUP#5, AVK2.217.02x, ZYN.271, MJMM.247, YARP1.005, DWNP_v5#06 p.003-004x, DRD.058x, DLS.300x, AKHA_120BE #01 p.ax

TBU#5, COC#1846x, GPB.211x, PDC.127x2x, BLO_PT#196

@spiritual transformation, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @call to action, @chastisement and requital, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @proclamation to divines; to religious leaders, @power of prayer, @love as fire

LL#084

BH00528

Lawh-i-Bismillih

1410

Persian

Tablet on Understanding the Cause of Opposition to the Manifestations of God

Lawh-i-Bismillih or Lawh-i-irfán-i'illat-i-i'rád (Tablet on Understanding the Cause of Opposition to the Manifestations of God)

این مظلوم اراده نموده لوجه الله بر شما القا نماید آنچه را که سبب بقای ابدی… قل الهی الهی اشهد بوحدانیتک و فردانیتک و اعترف بما نطقت به السن

This Wronged One wishes to impart to you, wholly for the sake of God, that which is the cause of eternal life and everlasting remembrance.

BRL_DA#183, AVK3.408.11x, MJMM.276, DRD.072, NSS.126x, OOL.B033

WOB.107x, BLO_PT#165

Emphasizes the importance of the independent investigation of spiritual reality upon attainment of maturity, which entails the understanding of why some choose the path of faith and others that of denial, why each religious sect believes it is in sole possession of the truth, and why the Prophets of the past were all rejected in their day.

@suffering; rejection of Christ, @prayer for forgiveness, @suffering and imprisonment, @prayer for nearness to God, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @purpose; goal of creation

LL#079

BH04876

200

mixed

یا امائی علیکن بهائی و رحمتی قلم اعلی شهادت میدهد بر اینکه شما رجالید بلکه از

O My handmaidens! Upon you be My glory and My mercy! The Most Exalted Pen beareth witness that ye are indeed men, nay rather [3.5s]

INBA51:105b, KB_620:098-099

AKHT1.011x, AKHT2.000ج

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @role and station of women

LL#078

BH06350

160

Arabic

یا ایتها الورقه المبارکه النورآء غنی و تغنی علی افنان دوحه البهاء هذه الکلمه العلیا

Let these exalted words be thy love-song on the tree of Bahá, O thou most holy and resplendent Leaf

BRL_DA#754, ATB.116, AHB_119BE #04-06 p.001, AKHT1.080x, ANDA#03 p.27

BW_v05p171, GPB.347x, BHK_1#01

@spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @praise and encouragement, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha

LL#073

BH02747

320

Persian

Tablet of the Garden of Ridván (Lawh-i-Bágh-i-Ridván); Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

ای بندگان سزاوار آنکه در این بهار جان‌فزا از باران نیسان یزدانی تازه و خرم

O My servants! It behoveth you to refresh and revive your souls through the gracious favors which, in this Divine, this soul-stirring Springtime

INBA35:110, BLIB_Or11096#059, , BLIB_Or15722.089, , CMB_F33.039, , NLI.32p009v, Majlis934.046-049

GWBP#085 p.111b, ZYN.283, AHM.308, MJMM.255, YARP1.013, DWNP_v1#02 p.001-002x, UAB.058bx, DRD.040, DRD.101, PYB#019 p.02

GWB#085, ADJ.081x

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @all things are in motion; kinds of motion, @Satan; the Evil One, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @spiritual transformation, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @Declaration of Baha'u'llah, @greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world, @life and death, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence

LL#072

BH03509

260

mixed

Lawh-i-Bagh-i-Ridvan (Tablet of the Garden of Ridvan); Lawh-i-Ridvan (Tablets of Ridvan)

صبح یوم مبارک جمعه از قصر سفر نمودیم و در بستان وارد هر شجر بکلمه ناطق و هر

On the morning of the blessed Friday We proceeded from the Mansion and entered the Garden.

BRL_DA#066, MAS8.125x, YMM.138

BRL_ATBH#66, ROB4.015, BLO_PT#129

@banishment to; life in 'Akka, @power of prayer

LL#070

BH03420

270

Arabic

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity

یا بدیع نوصیک بالصبر و السکون و الامانه التی کانت ودیعه الله بین خلقه طوبی

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor

BRL_DA#655, GWBP#130 p.182x, AHB_117BE #12 p.371

GWB#130x, ADJ.025x, DWN_v3#01 p.009x, BSTW#401x

Joel in Real Life, Soulrise Melodies, Soulrise Melodies, D. Desimone

@walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @exhortations and counsels, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @humility; meekness; lowliness

LL#069

BH04073

230

Arabic

نسئل الله بان یبعث احدا من عباده و ینقطعه عن الامکان و یزین قلبه بطراز

We ask God to send one of His servants, and to detach him from Contingent Being, and to adorn his heart

NLI.32p099r, PR11.000b

BRL_DA#182, SFI03.155, BCH.032, TSHA3.365, DLH2.150, LDR.416, NJB_v03#02 p.5

BKOG.299

@martyrs and martyrdom, @acquiescence and resignation; contentment, @petitions to authorities

LL#067

BH02620

340

mixed

ع ل علیک بهاء الله العزیز العلام و سلامه فی اللیالی و الایام جناب نیاز افندی

Upon thee be the Glory of God, the Mighty, the All-Knowing, and His peace throughout the nights and days, O Niyáz Effendi [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15716.087a, , LEID.Or4971?,

@praise and encouragement, @spiritual transformation, @unity; oneness of humanity, @justice and mercy, @prayer for protection, @prayer for prosperity

BH02876

310

mixed

ع ل غبار نفاق نیر آفاق را احاطه نموده و احزان عالم سرور را منقلب کرده این

The dust of hypocrisy hath enveloped the Luminary of the horizons, and the sorrows of the world have transformed joy into perturbation [3.5s]

INBA51:164, KB_620:157-158, LEID.Or4971?,

@forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @consolation and comfort, @eulogies; reminiscences, @justice and wrath of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

BH03241

280

mixed

ع ل ی ان استمع ما یلقی الروح الیک من آیات ربک العلیم الخبیر قد نطقت السدره فی

O Ali! Hearken unto that which the Spirit imparteth unto thee from the verses of thy Lord, the All-Knowing, the All-Informed. Verily, the Tree hath spoken forth [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15715.146b, , LEID.Or4971?,

@laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

BH09906

Arabic

ع ل قل الهی الهی لک الحمد بما اظهرتنی فی ایام مشرق آیاتک و مطلع بیناتک و

Say: O my God, my God! To Thee be all praise, inasmuch as Thou hast manifested me in the days of the Dawning-Place of Thy signs and the Dayspring of Thy clear tokens [3.5s]

LEID.Or4971?,

@forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @prayer for purity; chastity

Tablet of the Nightingale and the Owl

BH01361

Gul va Bulbul (The nightingale and the owl)

630

mixed

Gul va Bulbul (Tablet of the Nightingale and the Owl)

گل معنوی در رضوان الهی بقدوم ربیع معانی مشهود ولکن بلبلان صوری محروم مانده اند گل

The spiritual rose in the divine garden blossoms into mystical meanings at the approach of spring, but the artificial nightingales remain deprived.

INBA65:234, BLIB_Or07852.108, , NLI.32p002v

AQA4#099 p.336, AQA4a.368, HDQI.011, AHB_126BE #01-02 p.002x, AKHA_123BE #11-12 p.a, ANDA#06 p.03, OOL.B200

BLO_PT#136

@symbolism, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @blind imitation [taqlid]

LL#064, LL#094

BH02984

300

Arabic

شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و الذی اتی من سماء الامر انه لهو الغیب المکنون و

God testifieth that there is none other God but Him and that He Who hath come from the heaven of divine revelation is the Hidden Secret

INBA51:369, BLIB_Or15713.118,

LHKM3.132, TBP#17a

TB#17a

@station of the Manifestation of God, @call to action, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @suffering and imprisonment, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world

LL#058

BH00948

Lawh-i-Aqa Siyyid Hasan

870

Arabic

قد ارتفع ندآء الله عن یمین الرضوان بندآء الذی یسمعه حقایق کل الاشیاء بین الارض

The call of God hath been raised from the right hand of the Ridván with such a call as is heard by the realities of all things upon the earth [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15702.100, , NLAI_BH2.122, ALIB.folder18p269

AQA4#097 p.328, AQA4a.123, MAS4.139bx, ASAT4.023x

@knowledge; recognition of God, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @call to action, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

LL#057

BH00652

1170

Arabic

Bahá'í Prayers; Prayer for Protection

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی کیف اذکرک بعد الذی ایقنت بان السن العارفین کلت عن ذکرک

Lauded and glorified art Thou, O Lord, my God! How can I make mention of Thee, assured as I am that no tongue, however deep its wisdom

INBA48:073, INBA83:144b, INBA49:107, INBA92:304, BLIB_Or15702.116, , BLIB_Or15739.131,

BRL_DA#771, GWBP#001 p.010x

GWB#001x

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @Imam Husayn, @call to action, @suffering and imprisonment, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

LL#056

BH10273

Arabic

سبحانک اللهم لاشهدنک کلشیء علی انک انت الله لا اله الا انت لم یزل کنت … اسئلک اللهم یا الهی بأن تحفظ حامل تلک الورقة البیضآء

Praised be Thou, O my God, I and all things bear witness that Thou art God, no god is there but Thee. From all eternity

AVK4.068, AHM.208, TSBT.234a, NFF1.025x, ABMK.063

RBB.138x, RBB.139x, ADMS#019

almunajat.com [item 31]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @prayer for protection

LL#512, LL#513

BH05801

170

Arabic

فسبحانک اللهم یا الهی و سیدی و مولائی و معتمدی و رجائی و کهفی و ضیائی

In His Name, the Exalted, the All-Highest, the Most Sublime! Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God!

AHM.206, MJMM.275, TSBT.232, ABMK.062

BPRY.148, RBB.138-139x, BLO_PT#068x, ADMS#033

@prayer for protection, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#511

BH00017

8350

Arabic

Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

یا عندلیب اسمع الندآء انه یظهر مره باسم الحبیب و اخری باسمی المحبوب و تاره

O 'Andalib! Hearken unto the Call, for verily it appeareth at one time in the name of the Beloved, and at another time in Mine Own name, the Well-Beloved, and again at times [3.5s]... ...The Hand of Omnipotence hath established His Revelation upon an unassailable, an enduring foundation. Storms of human strife are powerless to undermine its basis

BLIB_Or15691.040, , BLIB_Or15715.066c, , BLIB_Or15729.028, , NLAI_22848:066, Berlin1237#12, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p037v, , UMich962.156-158x, MKI4522.066,

BRL_DA#222, AQA2#001 p.002, AVK3.190.14x, AVK3.203.08x, AVK3.212.02x, AVK3.283.08x, MAS4.158x, MAS8.007ax, KHSK.015x, QT105.2.163, QT105.2.217, ASAT1.166x, ADH1.068x, ADH1.106x, QUM.028x

BRL_ATBH#36x, GPB.217x, WOB.104x, WOB.109x, RKS.005-006x

S. Jaberi

@walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @oneness; unity of religion, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

LL#051

BH03629

240

mixed

این نامه ایست از مظلوم بسوی مظلومی که از کاس بلا آشامید و از کوب باساء چشید

This is an epistle from the Wronged One to one who hath been wronged, who hath drunk from the chalice of tribulation and tasted from the cup of adversity [3.5s]... ...Dispel my grief by Thy bounty and Thy generosity, O God, my God, and banish mine anguish through Thy sovereignty

INBA61:063, INBA84:187a, INBA84:114b, INBA84:055.04, BLIB_Or15712.048, , MKI4523.288x,

BRL_DA#534, PMP#154x, ISH.288x, AHM.204, NSR_1993.031, VAA.059-059, ADH1.039

PM#154x, BPRY.223x

@prayers (general or uncategorized), @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @prayer for assistance; intercession, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

LL#507

BH09704

100

Arabic

یا من بلائک دوآء صدور المخلصین و ذکرک شفاء افئده المقربین و قربک حیوه

O God! The trials Thou sendest are a salve to the sores of all them who are devoted to Thy will

INBA48:208a, INBA30:121x, INBA41:281b, BLIB_Or15739.351a,

PMP#055, AHM.061, AQMJ1.006b

PM#055

@prayer for nearness to God, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @knowledge; recognition of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

LL#506

BH00438

1620

Persian

قد انزلنا الکتاب و هو ینطق امام وجوه العباد الملک لله رب الارباب و یبشر... الها معبودا ملکا مقصودا

Lo, We have sent down the Book, and it proclaimeth before the faces of the servants: "Dominion belongeth unto God, the Lord of Lords," and announceth [3.5s]... ...My God, my Adored One, my King, my Desire! What tongue can voice my thanks to Thee? I was heedless

INBA65:026x, INBA30:082bx, INBA81:001ax, BLIB_Or15690.221, , BLIB_Or15699.006, , NLAI_BH_AB.016x

BRL_DA#687, PMP#173x, AHM.323x, AQMJ1.144x, AYI2.050x, MMJA.011x

PM#173x, BPRY.019-020

L. Thoresen, R. Price, L. Slott, Soulrise Melodies, K. Porray

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @false claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations

LL#504

BH00868

940

mixed

امروز ثنا و سلام و ذکر و بیان مخصوص اولیاء حق جل جلاله است که شبهات اهل

In this day, praise and salutations and remembrance and utterance are reserved unto the chosen ones of God, exalted be His glory, who have dispelled the doubts of the people [3.5s]... ...My God, Whom I worship and adore! I bear witness unto Thy unity and Thy oneness, and acknowledge Thy gifts

INBA65:032x, INBA30:086ax, INBA41:117, INBA81:018x, NLAI_BH_AB.021

BRL_DA#685, PMP#157x, AHM.317, AQMJ1.140, MMJA.012x

PM#157x, BPRY.111x, BP1929.033-034x

@prayer for forgiveness, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @praise and encouragement, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people

LL#503

BH08600

120

Arabic

یا من بلائک دوآء المقربین و سیفک رجاء العاشقین و سهمک محبوب المشتاقین و

O Thou Whose tests are a healing medicine to such as are nigh unto Thee... I am he, O my Lord, that hath set his face towards Thee, and fixed his hope on the wonders of Thy grace

INBA48:192, INBA30:123bx, BLIB_Or15739.330,

PMP#133, PMP#134, AHM.066, AQMJ1.010, NSR_1993.030, ADH1.032

PM#133, PM#134, BPRY.074x, BPRY.220x

@servitude; submission to God; repentance, @prayer for nearness to God, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @prayer for tests and difficulties, @prayer for steadfastness; obedience

LL#502

BH10973

Arabic

یا من وجهک کعبتی و جمالک حرمی و شطرک مطلبی و ذکرک رجائی و حبک مونسی و عشقک

O Thou Whose face is the object of my adoration, Whose beauty is my sanctuary, Whose habitation is my goal

INBA33:145a, INBA30:123ax

PMP#166, AHM.064, AQMJ1.009, NSR_1993.037a

PM#166, BPRY.019

A. Youssefi, TaliaSafa, M.J. Davey-Hatcher

@prayers (general or uncategorized), @prayer for spiritual recognition, @knowledge; recognition of God, @nearness and remoteness

LL#501

BH04444

210

Arabic

ذکر الله فی شجره الفراق ان یا ایها الاحباب فاصبرون ایاکم ان لاتغفلوا عن ذکرنا ثم

God hath spoken in the tree of separation: Be patient for me, O friends! Beware that ye be not careless

INBA65:098, INBA71:013b

AHM.212, TSBT.213

RBB.124, ADMS#020

Yosi & Shay

@love of God, @meaning; importance of dreams and visions, @presence of; reunion with God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @personal instructions

LL#498

BH00554

1350

mixed

یا حیدر قبل علی بگو یا اهل ارض آذان را از برای اینکلمه مبارکه از آنچه

O Haydar-'Alí! Say: O peoples of the earth! Purge your ears for this blessed Word from whatsoever [3.5s]... ...O my God, the God of bounty and mercy! Thou art that King by Whose commanding word the whole creation

INBA42:001, INBA65:029x, INBA30:084a, BLIB_Or15690.234, , BLIB_Or15699.080, , BLIB_Or15718.155,

BRL_DA#684, PMP#159x, AHM.319x, AQMJ1.141x, VAA.202-202x, ADH1.044x, MMJA.034x

PM#159x, BPRY.168

A. Youssefi

@suffering and imprisonment, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @power of the Manifestation of God, @exhortations and counsels, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @praise and encouragement

LL#497

BH10507

mixed

یا مالک الاسمآء و فاطر السّمآء خلّص احبّآء من سجن اعدآء انّک سلطان القضآء و المشرق

O Thou Who art the Lord of all names and Fashioner of the heavens! Deliver Thy loved ones from the prison of their foes

BRL_DA#122

BRL_APBH#20, MSBR.057

unknown (1), unknown (2), almunajat.com [item 46]

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @prayers (general or uncategorized)

LL#496

BH09162

110

Arabic

Bahá'í Scriptures; Bahá'í Prayers; Prayers and Meditations

یا من وجهک کعبه المشتاقین و لقائک امل المخلصین و قربک رجاء المقربین و طلعتک

O Thou Whose face is the object of the adoration of all that yearn after Thee, Whose presence is the hope

INBA48:207, INBA30:120bx, BLIB_Or15739.350,

BRL_DA#755, PMP#010, AHM.059, AQMJ1.005, ADH1.048

PM#010, BPRY.240

Avalan & May

@praise and encouragement, @prayer for nearness to God, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @spiritual transformation, @suffering and imprisonment

LL#495

BH04421

210

mixed

باز بلند مکنت پرواز نمود و غراب غیرت از مغرب جان متصاعد و باوج عماء قدرت... قلباً طاهراً فاخلق فیّ یا الهی سرّاً ساکناً جدّد فیّ یا منائی

Once again hath the Phoenix of divine grandeur taken flight, and the Raven of glory hath soared from the western horizon of the soul unto the zenith of hallowed eternity [3.5s]... ...Create in me a pure heart, O my God, and renew a tranquil conscience within me, O my Hope!

INBA38:040, INBA33:020ax, INBA30:120ax

BRL_DA#689, PMP#155x, AHM.057x, BSHA.085, ADH1.047x, MMJA.025x, OOL.B159.2x

PM#155x, BPRY.164x, SW_v14#09 p.257x, BSC.186 #273x

Ahdieh, Nabilinho, E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown, L. Slott, M. Sparrow, Refuge, Chandra & Eric, C. McGrail, Elina, Mea, Nader, Pedram & Annika, The Bird & The Butterfly, N. Hamilton, Gyenyame, QuiqueSaba, G. and M. Smith, P. Held & C. Bahia [track 1], Ladjamaya [track 11], almunajat.com [item 6], S. Peyman, Nava, Michele, Roya & Marie

@spiritual transformation, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @prayer for purity; chastity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @nearness and remoteness, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @composure; tranquillity; serenity

LL#494

BH04772

1900

mixed

قد اتی الوعد و الموعود یقول یا ایها المذکور لدی العرش و القائم امام الوجه

The Promise hath come, and the Promised One declareth: O thou who art mentioned before the Throne and who standest before the Face [3.5s]

INBA65:064x, INBA30:103x

AVK3.418.06x, AHM.357x, DWNP_v6#09 p.001x, AQMJ1.168ax, MSHR5.297x, YIA.149-154

@martyrs and martyrdom, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @wisdom [hikmat], @courtesy; culture [adab], @justice and mercy, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

LL#493

BH02101

420

Arabic

فنعم یا الهی ما استغرد بغاء الداود فی حدیقه الزبور من تغنیات ورقاء الانجذاب... الهی الهی لا تبعد عنّی لأنّ الشّدائد بکلّها احاطتنی

O God, my God! Be Thou not far from me, for tribulation upon tribulation hath gathered about me.

INBA33:022x, INBA30:117.09x, INBA92:035

BRL_DA#544, PMP#145x, AHM.052x, TZH4.143ax, AQMJ1.013x, ADH1.041, OOL.B159.1

PM#145x

@spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @prayer for tests and difficulties, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

LL#492

BH08672

110

Arabic

ان یا جمال القدم ذکر العباد بما نزل من جبروت الفضل و الاقتدار لعل یستقیمون فی

O Ancient Beauty! Make mention of the servants through that which hath descended from the heaven of grace and power, that haply they may stand firm in [3.5s]... ...Say: whosoever desires to protect himself, let him read this verse at night and at morn

BLIB_Or15725.387c,

AVK4.068.02

RBB.138x

@prayer for protection, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice

LL#491

BH11085

Arabic

فاجعل لی یا الهی هذه الارض مبارکا و امنا ثم احفظنی حین دخولی فیها و خروجی

Make this land, O my God, blessed and secure for me. Guard me, then, O my God, at the time of my entering into it

INBA92:026

BRL_DA#353, ADM2#112 p.201x, AVK4.067.03, NSR_1993.023a

RBB.138x, BP1929.026, ADMS#128

@prayer for protection, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @rejection, opposition and persecution

LL#490

BH08604

120

Arabic

یا من قربک رجائی و وصلک املی و ذکرک منائی و الورود فی ساحه عزک مقصدی و شطرک

O Thou Whose nearness is my wish, Whose presence is my hope, Whose remembrance is my desire

INBA48:184a, INBA30:122x, BLIB_Or15739.319,

BRL_DA#759, PMP#104, AHM.062, AQMJ1.008, NSR_1993.028

PM#104, BPRY.185

S. Toloui-Wallace

@prayer for nearness to God, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

LL#489

BH11546

140

Arabic

یا ایها المهاجر اسمع ندآء الله عن شطر السجن انه لا اله الا هو المهیمن القیوم

Oh thou who hast pioneered! Listen to the voice of God from the shores of the Prison. There is no god but Him, the Mighty

NLAI_BH1.055

@spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @consolation and comfort, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @fire and light; fire and water, @nearness and remoteness

LL#488

BH03315

270

Arabic

الهی الهی اشکرک فی کل حال و احمدک فی جمیع الاحوال فی النعمه الحمد لک یا اله

O God, my God! I yield Thee thanks at all times and render Thee praise under all conditions.

INBA61:041, INBA30:110x, BLIB_Or15696.190c,

BRL_DA#004, AHM.049, AQMM.058, NSR_1993.013, NFF2.026, ADH1.036

BRL_APBH#11, RBB.131x

almunajat.com [item 7]

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @praise and encouragement, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @thankfulness; gratitude

LL#487

BH01572

550

mixed

بشنوید ندای الهی را و ببصر حدید و قلب منیر در کلمات بدیعش نظر نمائید و تفکر

Hearken unto the divine Call, and with penetrating vision and illumined heart, ponder the wondrous words He hath revealed, and meditate thereon [3.5s]... ...Praise be to Thee, O my God! I beseech Thee by Thy Most Great Name, whereby the Sun of Thy Command shone forth above the horizon of Thine inspiration

INBA47:244, INBA33:018bx, BLIB_Or03116.078, , BLIB_Or11096.172, , BLIB_Or15722.019,

AVK3.453.07x, AVK4.060.03, AHM.210, AQMJ2.099x, GHA.340x, MAS4.102ax, NSR_1993.020x, BSHA.060, ADH1.012x, AKHA_105BE #04 p.001x, VUJUD.095.07x

RBB.119x, VUJUDE.138x, JHT_S#001

almunajat.com [item 28]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

LL#486

BH10688

Arabic

یا ایها المذکور لدی المظلوم فی حین الخروج عن المدینه قل الهی الهی خرجت من بیتی

O thou who art remembered before the Wronged One at the time of departure from the city! Say: My God, my God! I have gone forth from my home [3.5s]... ...O God, my God! I have set out from my home, holding fast unto the cord of Thy love, and I have committed myself wholly to Thy care

PMP#164x, AHM.209, AQMJ2.100, TSBT.236, NSR_1993.023b, NFF1.024x, ABMK.064

PM#164x, BPRY.147x

A. Youssefi, The Descendants, almunajat.com [item 27]

@prayer for protection, @prayers (general or uncategorized), @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

LL#482, LL#484

BH07721

130

Arabic

فسبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک باسمک الذی به ارفعت اعلام هدایتک و اشرقت انوار

Glory be to Thee, O Lord my God! I implore Thee by Thy Name, through which Thou didst lift up the ensigns of Thy guidance

INBA30:130, INBA49:066b

PMP#148, ADM1#079 p.137, AHM.181, AQMJ2.097, ADH1.098

PM#148, BPRY.096-097

@names and attributes of God, @prayer for healing, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @attaining good pleasure of God

LL#481

BH04475

210

Arabic

فسبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک باسمک الذی به استقر جمالک علی عرش امرک و باسمک

Glory be to Thee, O Lord my God! I beg of Thee by Thy Name through which He Who is Thy Beauty hath been stablished

PMP#146, AHM.202, ADH1.098

PM#146, BPRY.099

@prayer for healing, @prayer for women

LL#480

BH04990

190

Arabic

انت الذی یا الهی باسمائک یبرء کل علیل و یشفی کل مریض و یسقی کل ظمئان و یسرع

Thou art He, O my God, through Whose names the sick are healed and the ailing are restored, and the thirsty are given drink

BRL_CHILD#03, PMP#147, AHM.199, MMTF.003

PM#147, BPRY.100, DAS.1914-09-12

R. Leigh

@prayer for healing, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

LL#479

BH08013

120

Arabic

الهی الهی اسئلک ببحر شفائک و اشراقات انوار نیر فضلک و بالاسم الذی سخرت به

O God, my God! I beg of Thee by the ocean of Thy healing, and by the splendors of the Day-Star of Thy grace

INBA30:116bx

BRL_DA#774, PMP#174, ADM2#111 p.200x, AHM.180, AQMJ2.096, MAS4.101x, NSR_1993.019x, ADH1.097

PM#174, BPRY.095, DAS.1915-04-04, BP1929.028-029

E. Tarani

@forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @prayer for healing, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#477

BH00436

1620

mixed

الحمد لله الذی فتح باب العلوم و الفنون بمفتاح اسمه الاقدس الاعظم الابهی الذی به نصب خباء

Praise be to God Who hath unlocked the gates of sciences and arts with the key of His Most Holy, Most Great and Most Glorious Name, whereby He hath raised the pavilion [3.5s]... ...O God! O God! I beg of Thee by Thy Radiant, Collective Name

BLIB_Or15695.210,

ABIE.362x, DAS.1913-09-27x

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @praise and encouragement, @prayer for forgiveness, @station of the Manifestation of God, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God

LL#475

BH03109

290

Arabic

Bahá'í Prayers

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اشهد بقدرتک و قوتک و سلطانک و عنایتک و فضلک و اقتدارک و

Glory be unto Thee, Thou O My God, the Lord Omnipotent. I testify to Thine omnipotence and Thy might

INBA61:036, BLIB_Or15695.218,

BRL_DA#549, AVK4.070.14, BSHN.001, BSHN.008, MHT1a.043, TSBT.237, BSHA.070

BPRY.038x

@prayer for the departed, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @soul; spirit after death, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]

LL#465

BH00382

1770

mixed

حمد و ثنا و شکر و بها مقصودیرا لایق و سزا که بحرکت اصبع اقتدار سبحات و حجبات

Praise and glory and thanksgiving and splendor befit and are worthy of that Most Desired One Who, through the motion of the Finger of Power, hath rent asunder the veils and shrouds [3.5s]... ...My God, the Object of my adoration, the Goal of my desire, the All-Bountiful, the Most Compassionate! All life is of Thee

INBA65:030x, INBA30:084bx, INBA81:013bx, BLIB_Or15690.210, , BLIB_Or15699.099b, , NLAI_BH_AB.025x

BRL_DA#691, PMP#160x, AHM.326, AQMJ1.146x, AYI2.310x, AYI2.311x, ADH1.017x

PM#160x

@suffering and imprisonment, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @the power of words; of speech, @praise and encouragement

LL#464

BH03386

270

mixed

کتابت دیده شد و ندایت شنیده گشت انشاء الله لازال بافق اعلی ناظر باشی و بما یحب

Thy letter was beheld and thy call was heard. God willing, mayest thou remain ever-gazing toward the Most Exalted Horizon and that which He loveth [3.5s]... ...Praise be to Thee, O my God, that Thou didst graciously remember me through Thy Most Exalted Pen, at a time when Thou wert held in the Most Great Prison

BLIB_Or15697.078b,

BRL_DA#091, AVK4.069.03x

BRL_APBH#14x, RBB.126x, KSHK#22

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @prayer for children and youth, @high station of the true believer, @suffering and imprisonment, @praise and encouragement, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times

LL#463

BH00425

1650

Arabic

هذا کتاب من لدی المسجون الی الذی آمن بالله ربه العلی العظیم و فاز بلقاء الغلام

This is an Epistle from the Prisoner unto him who hath believed in God, his Lord, the Most High, the Most Great, and hath attained to the presence of the Youth [3.5s]... ...By the righteousness of God, my Well-Beloved! I have never aspired after worldly leadership

INBA27:398, BLIB_Or15725.459, , NLAI_BH2.108

BRL_DA#245, GWBP#054 p.077ax

GWB#054x

@proclamation to Jews, @Baha'u'llah, @proclamation to Christians, @proclamation to people of the Bayan, @He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah, @suffering and imprisonment

LL#460

BH05904

Lawh-i-'Ali Haydar Shirvani (2nd Tablet to the Czar)

170

mixed

نصار حقیقی آمد لعمر الله قادر است بر اینکه بیک کلمه عالم را منقلب نماید چون

He Who leadeth to true victory is come. By the righteousness of God! He is fully capable of revolutionizing the world

ANDA#16 p.64x, ANDA#64 p.04x, TBP#17jx

TB#17jx, GPB.106x

@suffering and imprisonment, @prayer for protection, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, @universal peace; world unity, @hypocrisy, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

LL#046, LL#106

BH01234

680

mixed

قد ماج بحر السرور و ابتسم ثغر الله المهیمن القیوم بما بلغ الندآء من ارض

The ocean of joy hath surged, and the countenance of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting, hath smiled, inasmuch as the Call hath been raised from the land [3.5s]... ...The vitality of men’s belief in God is dying out in every land; nothing short of His wholesome medicine can ever restore it. The corrosion of ungodliness is eating into the vitals of human society

BLIB_Or15716.066.07x, , BN_suppl.1753.116-118

BRL_DA#648, GWBP#099 p.131x, LHKM3.375, PYB#156 p.03x

GWB#099x, GPB.217x, PDC.184x, WOB.181x

@power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @firmness in the Covenant, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @spiritual transformation

LL#459

BH09970

Arabic

قل یا قوم لاتخافوا من سطوه الذینهم ظلموا و اشرکوا ان استقیموا علی الامر ثم ... قل اذا جآء النصر کل یدعون الایمان و یدخلون فی امر الله

Say: O people, fear not the dominion of them that have oppressed and associated partners with God. Be ye steadfast in His Cause, then [3.5s]... ...When the victory arriveth, every man shall profess himself as believer and shall hasten to the shelter of God’s Faith

BLIB_Or15725.388a,

BRL_DA#798, GWBP#150 p.205bx

GWB#150x

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @call to action, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @consolation and comfort, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

LL#458

BH01640

530

Arabic

ان یا عبد قد حضر بین یدینا کتابک و عرفنا بما فیه و کان الله علی ما فی قلبک علیما

O servant! Your letter hath come before Our presence, and We have understood that which was therein, and verily God is the All-Knowing of what lieth within thy heart [3.5s]... ...And now concerning thy reference to the existence of two Gods. Beware, beware, lest thou be led to join partners with the Lord, thy God

BLIB_Or15694.307, , ALIB.folder18p340

BRL_DA#672, GWBP#094 p.126x

GWB#094x

@God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @absolute freedom; independence of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @chastisement and requital

LL#456

BH07535

130

mixed

انشاء ??لله در کل احیان از رحیق حیوان بیاشامید و بذکر محبوب عالمیان مشغول

God willing, may ye at all times drink from the life-giving waters and be engaged in remembrance of the Best-Beloved of the worlds [3.5s]... ...The ordinances of God have been sent down from the heaven of His most august Revelation. All must diligently observe them

BLIB_Or15710.163, , BLIB_Or15722.131,

BRL_DA#664, GWBP#133 p.185x, UAB.021cx, AYI2.049x, AYI2.195, PYB#187 p.03

GWB#133x

@laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God, @living waters; water of life

LL#455

BH11250

Suriy-i-Dhabih 5

160

Arabic

ان یا غلام اسمع ندآء هذا الغلام عن جهة العرش لیجذبک ندآء الرّحمن الی رضوانه

O servant! Hearken unto the call of this Youth from the precincts of the Throne, that the melody of the All-Merciful may draw thee to His paradise [3.5s]... ...Know verily that whenever this Youth turneth His eyes towards His own self, he findeth it the most insignificant of all creation.

BRL_DA#668, GWBP#049 p.073bx, OOL.B112.5x

GWB#049x

@twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @suffering and imprisonment

LL#454

BH01184

700

mixed

انا نحب ان نری کل واحد منکم مبدء کل خیر... ان یا مقصود ان استمع ندآء الله العزیز الودود من هذا المقام

...It is Our wish and desire that every one of you may become a source of all goodness unto men, and an example of uprightness to mankind

BLIB_Or15715.152cx,

GWBP#146 p.202bx, LHKM2.277x

GWB#146x

E. Mahony

@creation of the world, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @exhortations and counsels, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @unity; oneness of humanity

LL#452

BH03550

260

Arabic

هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی اخذته نفحات آیات ربه الرحمن و فاز بانوار الهدی فی

This is a Book from Our presence unto him whom the sweet-scented breezes of the verses of his Lord, the All-Merciful, have stirred, and who hath attained unto the lights of guidance in [3.5s]... ...The Pen of the Most High hath decreed and imposed upon every one the obligation to teach this Cause.

INBA34:252, NLAI_BH2.195

BRL_DA#657, GWBP#144 p.201x, AQA1#113, ASAT4.126x

GWB#144x, TDH#037.1x

Gus, Emma & Edelo, D. Mantas, A.E. Rahbin

@suffering and imprisonment, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @disregarding own capacity in teaching the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

LL#450

BH00718

Lawh-i-'Ali

1090

mixed

Lawh-i-'Ali (Tablet to 'Ali)

یا علی از یومی که لوح معهود که به صیحه و ساعه و صور نامیده شده ارسال گشت مشرکین

O Ali! From the day when that promised Tablet - which hath been designated as the Cry, the Hour and the Trumpet - was dispatched, the ungodly [3.5s]... ...The voice of the Divine Herald, proceeding out of the throne of God, declareth: O ye My loved ones! Suffer not the hem of My sacred vesture

BLIB_Or11096#260, , BLIB_Or15698.290, , BLIB_Or15710.051, , BLIB_Or15720.286x, , BLIB_Or15740.222x, , Majlis934.273-281

BRL_DA#136, GWBP#100 p.132x, AVK3.473.02x, IQT.290, ASAT4.264x, OOL.B164

GWB#100x, LOG#0419x, ADJ.025x2x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.059x, MBW.117x, WOB.163x

@defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @work as worship, @fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf], @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness

LL#045

BH01658

530

Arabic

کتاب نزلت آیاته عربیا و انه فصل من ام الکتاب من لدی الله العزیز الوهاب و فیه یلقی

A Book whose verses have been sent down in Arabic, and verily it is a chapter from the Mother Book from the presence of God, the Mighty, the All-Bountiful, wherein is cast [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15715.143c,

MAS4.095ax, ASAT5.177x, MSHR5.143-144x

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @suffering and imprisonment

LL#447

BH10129

In my Name the Oppressed, from my most great Prison. By my life, and my sorrow, and my affliction, if the Supreme Pen had addressed itself

MSBR.060-061x

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world

LL#446

BH02731

320

Arabic

الحمد لله الذی اظهر الاسم الاعظم رغما للامم الذین انکروا حجه الله و برهانه و

Praise be unto God Who hath manifested the Most Great Name, despite the nations that denied His proof and His testimony [3.5s]

AQA7#362 p.052

@suffering and imprisonment, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#445

BH03249

280

Arabic

قد اخذ المیثاق حین الاشراق من الذین آمنوا ان لا یعبدوا الا الله و لایفسدوا

He verily hath taken the Covenant at the hour of dawning from them that have believed, that they should worship none but God and should not corrupt [3.5s]... ...I sorrow not for the burden of My imprisonment. Neither do I grieve over My abasement, or the tribulation I suffer at the hands of Mine enemies

INBA34:204

BRL_DA#072, GWBP#046 p.071bx, AQA1#066

GWB#046x, ADJ.028ax, ADJ.032x

@detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @power of the Manifestation of God, @idle fancies; lust and passion, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @suffering and imprisonment

LL#444

BH02484

360

Arabic

هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی سلک سبیل الله الواضح المستقیم و تمسک بالعروه

This is a Book from Our presence unto him who hath walked the path of God, manifest and straight, and held fast unto the cord [3.5s]... ...The Ancient Beauty hath consented to be bound with chains that mankind may be released from its bondage, and hath accepted to be made a prisoner

INBA34:181, INBA84:170, INBA84:098b, INBA84:039, BLIB_Or15707.155, , BLIB_Or15735.306,

BRL_DA#656, GWBP#045 p.071ax, AQA1#047, ASAT4.333x, HYK.036

GWB#045x

@suffering and imprisonment, @sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world, @praise and encouragement, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @power of prayer, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

LL#443

BH11575

The object of all that hath been shown forth is that men's ears should be prepared to listen to this lofty Word

MSBR.065

LL#442

BH11574

I swear by the Sun of Truth, which ariseth and appeareth from the horizon of this Most Great Prison, that the beauty of Eternity desireth not strive and contention

MSBR.064

LL#441

BH07594

130

mixed

Tablet on Marriage (Lawh-i-Nikáh)

حضرت رحمن انسانرا بینا و شنوا خلق فرموده اگرچه بعضی او را عالم اصغر

The All-Merciful hath conferred upon man the faculty of vision, and endowed him with the power of hearing

BLIB_Or15715.254b,

BRL_DA#797, GWBP#162 p.219ax

GWB#162x

@microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar], @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

LL#440

BH03116

290

mixed

عرض جناب حاجی فرج علیه بهآء الله معروض شد هذا ما نزل من جبروت القدرة این ایام بخدمت آنجا مشغول باشند... و دیگر در بارهٴ ارث آقا علی اکبر مرفوع علیه رحمة الله و غفرانه سؤال فرموده بودید

The petition of His honor Haji Faraj, upon him be the Glory of God, hath been received. This is what hath been sent down from the Heaven of Power: In these days let them occupy themselves with service in that place [3.5s]... ...Thou hast asked concerning the laws of marriage and divorce. That which was sent down previously on this matter in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas hath been forwarded

BLIB_Or15722.055x,

AVK4.157.03x, GHA.172ax

RBB.062x, BLO_PT#156

@authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings, @law of inheritance, @laws of marriage and dowry, @the power of words; of speech, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution

LL#044

BH01371

620

mixed

الحمد لله از دریای عنایت الهی آشامیدی و بافق اعلی توجه نمودی جمیع احزاب

Praise be to God! Thou hast drunk from the ocean of divine bounty and turned thy face toward the Most Exalted Horizon, while all the peoples [3.5s]... ...Behold, how the divers peoples and kindreds of the earth have been waiting for the coming of the Promised One. No sooner had He, Who is the Sun of Truth, been made manifest

BLIB_Or15730.080,

BRL_DA#652, GWBP#006 p.014x

GWB#006x

@prayer for spiritual recognition, @praise and encouragement, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @station of the Manifestation of God, @rendering assistance to God; victory [nusrat], @spiritual transformation

LL#439

BH00972

Lawh-i-Zaynu'l-Muqarrabin 3

850

mixed

کتابت لدی الوجه حاضر آنچه مسطور مذکور آمد و شنیده شد انشاء الله همیشه ایام

Thy letter hath been presented before Our countenance, and that which was inscribed therein hath been mentioned and heard. God willing, may all thy days [3.5s]... ...And now concerning thy question whether human souls continue to be conscious one of another after their separation from the body

INBA66:115, BLIB_Or11096#021, , BLIB_Or15698.226, , BLIB_Or15720.222, , BLIB_Or15740.172,

BRL_DA#539, GWBP#086 p.113x, AVK1.278.02x, IQT.226, YARP1.055a, MAS1.071x, OOL.B085c

GWB#086x, PNAK.86

@interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation, @soul; spirit after death, @Christ; Christianity, @recompense; reward for belief; right action, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#438

BH01652

530

mixed

سبحان الله اظهر امره و انطق الاشیاء علی انه لا اله الا هو الحق علام الغیوب

Glorified be God Who hath manifested His Cause and made all things speak forth that there is none other God but Him, the Truth, the Knower of things unseen [3.5s]... ...Happy is the man who will arise to serve My Cause, and glorify My beauteous Name. Take hold of My Book with the power of My might

BRL_DA#679, GWBP#028 p.052x, AVK2.056.06x, MJMM.219, ASAT1.113x

GWB#028x, WOB.172-173x

@corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

LL#435

BH05544

180

Arabic

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; River of Life, The

هذا کتاب من لدی المظلوم الی الذی اتخذ الی الرحمن سبیلا لیاخذه عن نفسه و یجذبه

This is the Book from the Wronged One unto him who hath chosen for himself a path unto the All-Merciful, that it may seize him from his self and draw him nigh [3.5s]... ...Blessed art thou, O My servant, inasmuch as thou hast recognized the Truth, and withdrawn from him who repudiated the All-Merciful

INBA34:315, BLIB_Or15707.170, , BLIB_Or15735.319,

BRL_DA#766, GWBP#143 p.200x, AQA1#188, HYK.319

GWB#143x, PDC.027x, WOB.161-162x

@prayer for nearness to God, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @suffering and imprisonment

LL#434

BH04829

200

mixed

مقصود از کتابهای آسمانی و آیات الهی آنکه مردمان بادابی تربیت شوند که سبب

The purpose underlaying the revelation of every heavenly Book, nay, of every divinely-revealed verse

INBA57:087a, INBA41:155bx, BLIB_Or07852.111b, , BLIB_Or15710.296a,

GWBP#101 p.134x, AVK3.001.06, MJMM.304x, DWNP_v5#01 p.001-002, UAB.023ax, DRD.001x, RRT.005x, DAUD.01x, AHB_109BE #05 p.020, AHB_134BE #03-04 p.068, AKHA_133BE #09 p.199, AKHA_136BE #07 p.110

GWB#101x, ROL.009

@purpose of religion in the world (personal and social), @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @spiritual transformation, @call to action, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day

LL#431

BH00958

860

mixed

لم یزل نفحات قدسی از رضوان عنایت الهی در وزیدن بوده و لایزال روایح عز معنوی

From time immemorial have the breezes of holiness wafted from the Paradise of divine favor, and unto eternity shall the fragrances of spiritual glory continue to be diffused [3.5s]... ...The purpose of God in creating man hath been, and will ever be, to enable him to know his Creator and to attain His Presence

INBA36:080, INBA71:241

BRL_DA#130, GWBP#029 p.053x, AVK1.333.010x, MJMM.368, DRD.139, ASAT5.061x, ASAT5.262x, AKHA_134BE #18 p.691

GWB#029x, DWN_v3#12 p.031-032x

@knowledge; recognition of God, @nearness and remoteness, @growth of the Cause, @suffering and imprisonment, @power of the Manifestation of God, @purpose; goal of creation

LL#430

BH02443

360

Arabic

انا اردنا ان نذکر من اقبل الینا و نسقیه کوثر العنایه مره بعد مره لیقربه الی

We desire to mention him who hath set his face towards Us and to let him once again drink deep from the life-giving waters

INBA15:303, INBA26:306

PYK.047, TBP#17l

TB#17l

@praise and encouragement, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @presence of; reunion with God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @predictions and prophecies, @consolation and comfort

LL#043

BH05162

190

Arabic

هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی زین بطراز رحمه ربه العزیز الحکیم و انطقه جذب

This is a Book from Our presence unto him whom We have adorned with the robe of the mercy of his Lord, the Mighty, the All-Wise, and caused him to speak through rapture [3.5s]... ...They that have forsaken their country for the purpose of teaching Our Cause—these shall the Faithful Spirit strengthen through its power

INBA34:302

BRL_DA#678, GWBP#157 p.215ax, AQA1#170, GHA.259ax, AKHA_124BE #04-05 p.j, YFY.077-078

GWB#157x, COC#1904x, ADJ.051x, ADJ.060x4x, ADJ.060-61x, ADJ.068x, GPB.377x, GPB.389x, MBW.038x

Claudia & Jornt

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

LL#428

BH00328

2000

mixed

ذکر من لدنا لمن اقبل الی الله رب العالمین و حضر کتابه فی السجن الاعظم و فاز

A remembrance from Our presence unto him who hath turned unto God, the Lord of all worlds, who hath attained unto His Book in the Most Great Prison, and who hath achieved [3.5s]... ...Thou hast asked Me concerning the nature of the soul. Know, verily, that the soul is a sign of God, a heavenly gem whose reality the most learned of men hath failed to grasp

INBA51:165, BLIB_Or15730.039, , KB_620:158-166

BRL_DA#663, GWBP#082 p.107x, ADM1#037 p.079x, AVK1.137bx, AVK1.185ax, AVK1.276ax, MAS8.189bx, RRT.144x, ASAT4.106x, YMM.270x

GWB#082x

@the human soul, @celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy, @degrees of faith; certitude, @soul; spirit after death, @suffering and imprisonment, @literal interpretation

LL#427

BH01828

480

Arabic

اذا نطق لسان الله فی کل شیء بانی حی فی هذا الافق الذی ظهر بالحق و سمی فی

When the Tongue of God spoke within all things, proclaiming: "Verily, I am alive in this horizon which hath appeared in truth and hath been named..." [3.5s]... ...O people! I swear by the one true God! This is the Ocean out of which all seas have proceeded, and with which every one of them will ultimately be united

BLIB_Or15694.451, , ALIB.folder18p357

BRL_DA#670, GWBP#051 p.074x, LMA1.413 (249b), MAS4.086, RHQM2.0712-714 (104) (065-066)

GWB#051x, ADJ.080x

@progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @twin Manifestations, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God

LL#424

BH02699

330

mixed

قلم اعلی در کل حین ندا میفرماید ولکن اهل سمع کمیاب الوان مختلفه دنیا اهل

The Pen of the Most High is unceasingly calling; and yet, how few are those that have inclined their ear to its voice! The dwellers of the kingdom of names have busied themselves with the gay livery of the world

INBA51:453, BLIB_Or15715.253a,

BRL_DA#683, GWBP#096 p.128x, LHKM3.311

GWB#096x, ADJ.066-67x, ADJ.075x, ADJ.079x, ADJ.083x, ADJ.084x, GPB.377x, WOB.202x

G. Munro, M. Sparrow, L. Dely & M. Congo [track 11]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @high station of teachers of the Cause, @critique of Western values; culture, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

LL#422

BH00413

1690

mixed

سبحان الذی اظهر نفسه کیف شاء و اراد فی حین ماادرکته افئده اولی الحجی و اعترض

Glorified be He Who hath manifested His Self as He hath willed and desired, at a time when the hearts of them that are endowed with understanding could not comprehend Him and raised objection [3.5s]... ...Regard thou the one true God as One Who is apart from, and immeasurably exalted above, all created things. The whole universe reflecteth His glory

INBA35:094, BLIB_Or11096#009, , BLIB_Or15698.143, , BLIB_Or15720.141, , BLIB_Or15740.110, , NLI.32p083v

BRL_DA#597, GWBP#084 p.111ax, ADM1#006 p.021x, IQT.143, AYI1.337x, UAB.031ax, AQMJ1.181x, ASAT4.270x

GWB#084x, SW_v02#05 p.015x, JHT_S#030x

@prayer for steadfastness; obedience, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

LL#421

BH11543

Were We to make mention of what befell Us, the heavens would be rent asunder and the mountains would crumble

GPB.189-190x

LL#419

BH02874

310

Arabic

شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو العزیز المحبوب له الجود و الفضل یعطی من یشاء ما

God witnesseth that there is no God but Him, the Gracious, the Best-Beloved. All grace and bounty are His. To whomsoever He will He giveth whatsoever is His wish

INBA23:197b, INBA36:087a, INBA71:249

BRL_DA#782, GWBP#030 p.055ax

GWB#030x

@oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @return of the Manifestations of God, @suffering; rejection of Christ

LL#417

BH02035

430

Arabic

ان یا مصطفی قد حضر بین یدینا کتابک و قرأناه و انا کنا قارئین و سمعنا حنین قلبک

O Mustafa! Thy letter hath reached Our presence, and We have read it, for verily We have ever been the Reader thereof, and We have hearkened unto the yearning of thy heart [3.5s]... ...Recall thou to mind My sorrows, My cares and anxieties, My woes and trials, the state of My captivity, the tears that I have shed, the bitterness of Mine anguish

BLIB_Or15694.336, , ALIB.folder18p347

BRL_DA#646, GWBP#062 p.084ax, PYB#337 p.09

GWB#062x, PDC.014x

@suffering and imprisonment, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @acquiescence and resignation; contentment

LL#416

BH00576

1300

mixed

الحمد لله الذی تجلی بنقطه من الکتاب الاعظم علی اوراق العالم اذا ظهرت الکتب و

Praise be unto Him Who hath revealed through a single Point from the Most Great Book upon the pages of the world when the Books appeared and [3.5s]... ...Members of the human race! Hold ye fast by the Cord which no man can sever. This will, indeed, profit you all the days of your life

BLIB_Or15715.097c,

BRL_DA#745, GWBP#164 p.220x, AVK4.460bx, MAS4.349ax

GWB#164x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.081x, GPB.183x, GPB.185x, GPB.218x3x, PDC.004x, PDC.136x, WOB.194x

@wisdom [hikmat], @suffering and imprisonment, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @consultation, @proclamation to divines; to religious leaders, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @praise and encouragement, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals

LL#414

BH01507

570

Arabic

ان یا حرف الحی لقد سمعت اذن الله ندآئک و لاحظت عین الله کتابک و ینادیک حینئذ عن

O Letter of the Living! The ear of God hath heard thy cry, and His eyes have beheld thy written supplication. He is calling thee from His seat of glory

INBA19:183, INBA32:166, INBA83:255, BLIB_Or03114.063r, , BLIB_Or15725.545, , BLIB_Or15737.180, , ALIB.folder18p284

BRL_DA#770, GWBP#135 p.187x

GWB#135x

@power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @Letters of the Living, @suffering and imprisonment, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

LL#412

BH04596

210

mixed

یا معشر العلماء اتقوا الله ثم انصفوا فی امر هذا الامی الذی شهدت له کتب الله

Lay not aside the fear of God, O ye the learned of the world, and judge fairly the Cause of this unlettered One

INBA51:186b, KB_620:179-180

GWBP#044 p.070, LHKM3.339, YFY.264-265

GWB#044

@lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @call to action, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @power of the Manifestation of God, @suffering and imprisonment

LL#410

BH04254

220

mixed

قد حضر کتابک و عرضه العبد الحاضر لدی الوجه اجبناک بهذا اللوح المبین نسئل الله

Thy letter hath arrived and was presented by the servant in attendance before the Face. We have answered thee through this perspicuous Tablet. We beseech God [3.5s]... ...The first person who devoted himself to philosophy was Idrís. Thus was he named. Some called him also Hermes. In every tongue he hath a special name.

INBA51:242, KB_620:235-236

LHKM3.284, YMM.242x

TB#09n3

@station of the Manifestation of God, @Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha, @the soul as soil; cultivation of the soul

LL#409

BH07865

Suriy-i-Dhabih 3

130

Arabic

هذا کتاب من الله الی التی آمنت بربها و کانت من القانتات ان لاتعبدی الا الله… تالله لو لم یکن مخالفًا بما نزل فی الألواح لقبّلتُ ید الّذی یسفک دمی

This is a Book from God unto her who hath believed in her Lord and was numbered among the devoutly obedient women, that she worship none save God [3.5s]... ...God is my witness! Had it not been in conflict with that which the Tablets of God have decreed, I would have gladly kissed the hands of whosoever attempted to shed my blood

BLIB_Or15725.329a,

BRL_DA#566, GWBP#048 p.073ax, OOL.B112.3x

GWB#048x

@consolation and comfort, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @eulogies; reminiscences, @power of prayer, @spiritual transformation

LL#408

BH00926

890

Arabic

هذا کتاب من الله المهیمن القیوم الی الذی آمن به و استهدی بانوار الروح فی تلک الایام

This is a Book from God, the All-Protecting, the Self-Subsisting, unto him who hath believed in Him and sought guidance from the splendours of the Spirit in these days [3.5s]... ...O Jews! If ye be intent on crucifying once again Jesus, the Spirit of God, put Me to death, for He hath once more, in My person, been made manifest unto you

BLIB_Or15725.104, , NLAI_BH2.102

BRL_DA#669, GWBP#047 p.072x

GWB#047x

@return of the Manifestations of God, @suffering and imprisonment, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

LL#406

BH06328

160

mixed

وجه حق از افق اعلی باهل بها توجه نموده میفرماید در جمیع احوال بانچه سبب

He Who is the Eternal Truth hath, from the Dayspring of Glory, directed His eyes towards the people of Bahá

INBA35:292, INBA81:164, BN_suppl.1753.126-126

BRL_DA#651, GWBP#156 p.214, LHKM3.382, KSHG.146-147, PYB#112-113 p.49, AHB_125BE #05-06 p.118, AKHA_133BE #06 p.a

GWB#156, PDC.187x

Francesco & Lorenzo, B. Weber

@consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @unity in diversity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God, @education of children; moral education, @love and unity

LL#403

BH01880

470

Arabic

قل انا انزلنا من جهه العرش ماء البیان لینبت به من قلوبکم نبات الحکمه و

Say: We have caused the rivers of Divine utterance to proceed out of Our throne, that the tender herbs of wisdom and understanding may spring forth

INBA34:148, BLIB_Or15707.087, , BLIB_Or15735.249,

GWBP#018 p.036, AQA1#026, HYK.249

GWB#018

Turning Point

@apocalyptic imagery, @chastisement and requital, @suffering and imprisonment, @imagery in the Qur'an, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#402

BH07147

Tablet of the Hair 1

140

Arabic

شهد شعری لجمالی بانی انا الله لا اله الا انا قد کنت فی ازل القدم الها فردا

My hair beareth witness for My Beauty that verily I am God and that there is none other God but Me.

BLIB_Or11098.029a

LHKM3.068, MUH3.272, ASAT3.023x, OOL.B191.01, OOL.B191.03

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @suffering and imprisonment

BH11265

Tablet of the Hair 10

Arabic

شعری سمندری لذا استقر علی نار خدی و یرعی فی ریاض وجهی و هذا مقام الذی خلع ابن

My hair is My Phoenix. Therefore hath it set itself upon the blazing fire of My Face and receiveth sustenance

BLIB_Or11098.029h

LHKM3.075c, MUH3.275c, OOL.B191.10

@detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual transformation, @fire and light; fire and water, @symbolism

BH11483

Tablet of the Hair 11

Arabic

جعدی حبلی من تمسک به لن یضل فی ازل الازال لان فیه هدایه الی انوار الجمال

A lock of My hair is My Cord. He who layeth fast hold on it shall never to all eternity go astray

BLIB_Or11098.029i

LHKM3.076a, MUH3.275d, OOL.B191.11

BLO_PT#202, DAS.1914-09-12

@symbolism

BH11496

Tablet of the Hair 8

Arabic

شعری شعاری به استر جمالی لئلا تقع علیه عیون الاغیار من عبادی کذالک نستر عن

My hair is My Veil whereby I conceal My Beauty, that haply the eyes of the non-believers among My servants may not fall upon it.

BLIB_Or11098.029f

LHKM3.075a, MUH3.275a, OOL.B191.08

@Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @self-concealment of the Manifestation of God, @suffering and imprisonment

BH10832

Tablet of the Hair 9

Arabic

شعری سفیری فی کل حین ینادی علی غصن النار فی رضوان القدس و الانوار لعل اهل

My hair is My Messenger. It is calling aloud at all times upon the branch of Fire within the hallowed and luminous garden of Paradise

BLIB_Or11098.029g

LHKM3.075b, MUH3.275b, OOL.B191.09

@fire and light; fire and water, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @nearness and remoteness, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @power of the Manifestation of God

BH03960

240

mixed

یا نعمه الله از برای نعمت مراتب لانهایه بوده و خواهد بود در کتاب پروردگار تو

Know thou that, according to what thy Lord, the Lord of all men, hath decreed in His Book, the favors vouchsafed by Him unto mankind

BLIB_Or15715.244b,

GWBP#095 p.127, AQA5#037 p.051, UAB.033ax, AKHA_121BE #11-12 p.a, ANDA#58 p.03

GWB#095

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @knowledge; recognition of God

LL#399

BH03941

240

mixed

یا ایها الناظر الی الوجه اسمع ندائی و لاتضطرب عما ورد علی احباء الله و امنائه

O thou who gazest upon the Countenance! Hear thou My call, and be thou not perturbed by that which hath befallen the loved ones of God and His trusted servants [3.5s]... ...The generations that have gone on before you—whither are they fled? And those round whom in life circled the fairest and the loveliest of the land, where now are they?

INBA34:272

BRL_DA#658, GWBP#123 p.168ax, AQA1#135

GWB#123x

@chastisement and requital, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @love of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @suffering and imprisonment

LL#398

BH00545

1360

Arabic

انه هو حینئذ حی فی هذا الافق العزیز المنیر یشهد و یری و یقول مخاطبا لملا

Verily He is, in this hour, alive in this glorious and resplendent horizon. He doth witness and behold and speaketh, addressing the concourse [3.5s]... ...Every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God is endowed with such potency as can instill new life into every human frame, if ye be of them that comprehend this truth

BLIB_Or15725.455, , NLAI_BH2.072

BRL_DA#675, GWBP#074 p.096bx, YMM.380x

GWB#074x

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God

LL#394

BH00779

1020

Persian

سپاس و ستایش خداوندی را سزاوار که آفرینش را بتوانائی خود از برهنگی نابودی

All praise and glory be to God Who, through the power of His might, hath delivered His creation from the nakedness of nonexistence, and clothed it with the mantle of life

INBA72:080, Ghazi3072.167-177

GWBP#034 p.057bx, AYI1.332x, YARP1.045, UAB.010ax, UAB.018x, UAB.019x, MAS4.044x

GWB#034x, WOB.187x

@Manifestation of God as divine physician, @freedom of thought and action, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @universal human capacity for spiritual recognition, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @knowledge of self, @relativity of religious truth, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all

LL#393

BH09299

100

Persian

Reflection on the Theory of Alchemy as Explained in the Bahá'í Writings, A

ای محبوب روحی در دل دمیدی و قرار از من اخذ نمودی و بعد مابین مشرکین و مغلین

O My Well-Beloved! Thou hast breathed Thy Breath into Me, and divorced Me from Mine own Self.

GWBP#040 p.065a

GWB#040

@divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @God's love for His own Essence, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @suffering and imprisonment, @self-concealment of the Manifestation of God

LL#392

BH00088

Lawh-i-Kimiya 2 (Lawh-i-Mariyyih)

4710

mixed

Lawh-i-Kímíya II or Lawh-i-Máríyyih (Tablet on Alchemy II or Tablet of Mary)

کتاب مرسله در ساحت احدیه وارد و ما فیه مشاهده شد لله الحمد که در این فجر... و اینکه سئوال از قول ماریه نمودید

The missive was received at the Court of Oneness and its contents perused. Unto God be praise that you were illumined… the treatment is specially designed so that this precious, life-giving substance, which has appeared from the divine mine, may be purified... The appearance of this hidden treasure amongst these people [arbab-i-ulum] is the sign of the coming of age of the world

INBA66:187, NLAI_BH2.164

MAS1.026-045x, MAS4.024-025x, OOL.B197.2

BLO_alchemy, HURQ.BH06

A detailed explanation in symbolic language of an enigmatic statement on alchemy attributed to the legendary figure of Mary the Prophetess, describing the various stages in the creation of the elixir, and warning that the rediscovery of its knowledge by the scientists of the day will herald both the maturity of the world and the threat of a desolating affliction.

@alchemy; the elixir, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @composition and decomposition, @law of cause and effect, @knowledge; recognition of God, @spiritual transformation, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity

LL#391

BH02654

Lawh-i-Kimiya 3

340

mixed

یا علی قبل اکبر مکتوبت را عبد حاضر حاضر نمود و در منظر اکبر معروض داشت معلوم

O 'Ali-Qabli-Akbar! This servant in attendance presented thy letter and laid it before the Most Great Horizon. Know thou [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15715.113b, , BLIB_Or15722.168c,

SFI07.016b, MAS1.045x, OOL.B197.3x

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @alchemy; the elixir, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

LL#391

BH00497

1480

mixed

للّه الحمد بما ابتسم ثغر الاطمینان و ظهر لؤلؤ عرفان جمال الرّحمن عن صدف الایقان

Praise be unto God that the lips of certitude have smiled and from the shell of assurance hath appeared the pearl of the knowledge of the All-Merciful Beauty [3.5s]... ...The whole earth, is now in a state of pregnancy. The day is approaching when it will have yielded its noblest fruits, when from it will have sprung forth the loftiest trees

BLIB_Or11096#263x, , BLIB_Or15698.296, , BLIB_Or15720.291, , BLIB_Or15740.226, , NLAI_BH4.039.06-050.13, Majlis934.282-291

BRL_DA#138, IQT.296, SFI03.157.07x, MAS8.041bx, ASAT5.074x

GPB.212x3x, GPB.217x2x, PDC.007x, PDC.074x2x, PDC.074-075x, PDC.191x, WOB.169x, HURQ.BH59x, HURQ.BH62x

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @praise and encouragement, @unity; oneness of humanity, @call to action, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @contention and conflict

LL#390

BH00945

870

mixed

ذکر من لدنا لمن اقبل الی المذکور اذ اتی الوعد و ظهر الموعود بسلطان مبین

A remembrance from Our presence unto him who turned to the Remembered One, when the Promise came to pass and the Promised One appeared with manifest sovereignty [3.5s]

MKI4523.248,

BRL_DA#507, ISH.248, ADH1.124x

@greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @prophecy and fulfillment, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @Word of God and human limitations, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @suffering and imprisonment, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @suffering; rejection of Christ

LL#389?

BH01611

540

mixed

ذکر بلایای احباب شده بود الحمد لله که احبای الهی هر یک علی قدره از کاس بلا در

Mention was made of the tribulations of the loved ones. Praised be God that each of His loved ones hath, in the measure decreed for him, drunk from the chalice of affliction [3.5s]... ...detachment, love and trust in God

BLIB_Or11096#023, , BLIB_Or15710.003, , NLAI_BH1.519, NLAI_BH2.255b

MAS8.005x

GPB.182x

@spiritual transformation, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

LL#388

BH05241

190

mixed

یا ورقتی بگوش جان ندای رحمن را بشنو از سجن اعظم بتو توجه نموده و ترا بذکر

O My Leaf! With the ear of thy soul hearken thou unto the Call of the All-Merciful, Who hath turned towards thee from the Most Great Prison and maketh mention of thee [3.5s]... ...Know thou that every hearing ear, if kept pure and undefiled, must, at all times and from every direction, hearken to the voice that uttereth these holy words

INBA51:312, BLIB_Or15715.338b,

BRL_DA#743, GWBP#165 p.222ax, LHKM3.296

GWB#165x

@mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

LL#387

BH00387

1750

mixed

یا قلمی الاعلی اذکر من اقبل الی الله فی یوم فیه اعرض اکثر الناس و شرب الرحیق

O My Most Exalted Pen! Make mention of him who hath turned unto God on a day wherein most men have turned away, and hath quaffed the choice wine [3.5s]... ...It is evident that every age in which a Manifestation of God hath lived is divinely ordained, and may, in a sense, be characterized as God’s appointed Day

BLIB_Or15690.214, , BLIB_Or15699.123,

BRL_DA#677, GWBP#025 p.047ax, AYI2.319x, AYI2.320x, AYI2.322x, AYI2.324x, AYI2.338x

GWB#025x, WOB.167x2x

@corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @Seal of the Prophets, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#386

BH01591

Suriy-i-Dhabih 4

550

Arabic

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablet of the Gems of Unity, The (Lawh-i-Javáhir-i-Tawhíd)

قلم الامر یقول الملک یومئذ لله لسان القدره یقول السلطنه یومئذ لله ورقاء العماء علی

The Pen of Revelation exclaimeth: “On this Day the Kingdom is God’s!” The Tongue of Power is calling: “On this Day all sovereignty is, in very deed, with God!”

INBA83:270, BLIB_Or15725.561, , NLAI_BH1.445

BRL_DA#543, GWBP#015 p.031x, OOL.B112.4x

GWB#015x, GPB.155x

@call to action, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @suffering and imprisonment, @station of the Manifestation of God, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @praise and encouragement

LL#385

BH00690

1120

mixed

Lawh-i-Javáhir-i-Tawhíd (Tablet of the Gems of Unity)

جواهر توحید و لطایف تحمید متصاعد بساط حضرت سلطان بی مثال و ملیک ذوالجلالی

All praise to the unity of God, and all honor to Him, the sovereign Lord, the incomparable and all-glorious Ruler of the universe, Who, out of utter nothingness, hath created the reality of all things

INBA65:242, INBA57:001, BLIB_Or15722.224, , NLAI_BH1.283, NLAI_BH3.186

BRL_DA#773, GWBP#027 p.050x, AVK1.015.08x, AVK1.212.08x, AVK2.001.03x, AVK3.014.09x, AVK3.422.11x, MJMM.338, DWNP_v3#12 p.028-031, UAB.008bx, UAB.014bx, MAS4.042x, PYB#006-007 p.01x, AKHA_107BE #06 p.002x, YMM.169x

GWB#027x, JHT_B#015

@twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God, @suffering and imprisonment, @eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness, @human reality created in the image of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#383

BH01079

770

Arabic

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Days of Remembrance

تلک آیات الله قد نزلت بالحق و انها لکتاب مبین و جعلها برهانا من لدنه ثم ذکری للعالمین

These are the verses of God which have verily been sent down in truth, and they are indeed a perspicuous Book, which He hath made a testimony from His presence and a remembrance unto all the worlds [3.5s]... ...Give ear, O My servant, unto that which is being sent down unto thee from the Throne of thy Lord, the Inaccessible, the Most Great.

INBA73:173, INBA83:181, BLIB_Or03114.094, , BLIB_Or15702.213, , ALIB.folder18p280

BRL_DA#799, GWBP#076 p.098, AMB#34x

GWB#076x, DOR#34x

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @spiritual transformation, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @Manifestation of God as mediator, @creation of the world

LL#381

BH01052

800

Arabic

هذا کتاب فیه یذکر ما یجری عنه الدموع من اعین المقربین ان یا قلم فاذکر ما ورد علی ذکر

This is a Book wherein is mentioned that which causeth tears to flow from the eyes of them that are near unto God. O Pen! Make mention of that which hath befallen the Remembrance [3.5s]... ...God is My witness, O people! I was asleep on My couch, when lo, the Breeze of God wafting over Me roused Me from My slumber.

INBA49:316, BLIB_Or15694.377, , ALIB.folder18p249

BRL_DA#671, GWBP#041 p.065bx

GWB#041x

@rejection by the people of the Bayan, @Manifestation of God does not act of own volition, @Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih, @self-concealment of the Manifestation of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

LL#379

BH00903

910

Arabic

هذا کتاب یهدی الی الحق و یذکر الناس بایام الروح و یبشرهم برضوان الله المهیمن

This is a Book that guideth unto truth, remindeth the people of the days of the Spirit, and beareth unto them the glad-tidings of God's all-compelling Paradise [3.5s]

INBA36:025, INBA71:182, BLIB_Or15696.171c,

BRL_DA#365, LHKM2.032, RSBB.018, ASAT2.194x

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @suffering and imprisonment, @avoidance of Covenant-Breakers, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @self-concealment of the Manifestation of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

LL#378

BH00565

1330

mixed

هذا کتاب من لدی المظلوم الی من تمسک بالعلوم لعل یخرق حجاب الاکبر و یتوجه الی

This is a Book from Him Who is Wronged unto him that hath clung to learning, that perchance he may rend asunder the most great veil and turn towards [3.5s]... ...Ponder awhile. What is it that prompted, in every Dispensation, the peoples of the earth to shun the Manifestation of the All-Merciful?

INBA35:053, INBA66:110, BLIB_Or11096#007, , BLIB_Or15698.231, , BLIB_Or15720.228, , BLIB_Or15740.176,

BRL_DA#666, GWBP#035 p.060x, ADM1#005 p.018x, IQT.231, AYI1.329x, MJMM.232, DWNP_v5#06 p.002-003x, UAB.002bx, ASAT3.074x, ASAT3.131x, ASAT4.146x, ASAT4.429x, YMM.404x, NSS.125x

GWB#035x, JHT_S#100x

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @suffering and imprisonment, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation, @suffering; rejection of Christ

LL#377, LL#423

BH01881

470

mixed

قلم اعلی در سجن عکا باحبای ارض خا توجه نموده یعنی نفوسیکه بطراز جدید مزین

The Most Exalted Pen hath, in the Prison of 'Akká, turned toward the loved ones in the land of Khá, namely, those souls who are adorned with the new raiment [3.5s]... ...The time foreordained unto the peoples and kindreds of the earth is now come. The promises of God, as recorded in the holy Scriptures, have all been fulfilled

BLIB_Or15719.171c, , BLIB_Or15722.191,

BRL_DA#538, GWBP#010 p.016bx, MJMM.267, DLS.065, ASAT1.250x, ASAT3.238x, YMM.408x, YMM.430x

GWB#010x, PDC.124x2x

@the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @prophecy and fulfillment, @Word of God and human limitations, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day

LL#376, LL#426

BH02294

390

mixed

هر منصفی شهادت داده و میدهد که اینمظلوم از اول ظهور کل را بافق اعلی دعوت

Every unbiased observer will readily admit that, ever since the dawn of His Revelation, this wronged One hath invited all mankind to turn their faces towards the Dayspring of Glory

BLIB_Or15715.328b,

BRL_DA#795, GWBP#059 p.081bx, SFI16.045-046x

GWB#059x, ADJ.032x, GPB.194x4x, GPB.196x

@detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @suffering and imprisonment, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @justice and wrath of God, @prophecy and fulfillment

LL#375

BH00026

7800

Arabic

قد تحرک القلم الأعلی و اراد ان یذکر اولیائه الذین اقبلوا الی مشرق وحی

The Most Exalted Pen hath stirred, and desireth to make mention of His loved ones who have turned themselves unto the Dawning-Place of Revelation [3.5s]... ...My God, my God! Separation from Thee hath destroyed me, and the sorrow of Thine exile and the hardship Thou hast sustained in Thy path hath consumed me… My God, my God! If Thou prevent me from drawing nigh unto Thee, being present before Thy throne... My God, my God! Thou dost behold the impoverished one who hath stood at the gate of Thy wealth, the ailing one

BLIB_Or15729.051, , NLAI_22848:121, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p066r, , MKI4522.120,

BRL_DA#681, GWBP#002 p.011x, AQA2#002 p.041, ADM2#034 p.056x, ADM2#035 p.058x, ADM2#105 p.189x, AVK3.204.19x, ASAT3.258x, ADH1.063x, ADH1.065x, ADH1.066x, QUM.096.16x

GWB#002x, JHT_S#034x, JHT_S#057x, JHT_S#174x

@suffering and imprisonment, @praise and encouragement, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#374

BH06839

1150

mixed

یا زین علیک بهائی و عنایتی مکتوب شما و اسم کریم علیه بهائی را عبد حاضر لدی العرش

O Zayn, upon whom rest My glory and loving-kindness! the servant in attendance before the Throne hath received thy letter and the name of the honored one, upon whom rest My glory [3.5s]... ...All praise be to God Who hath adorned the world with an ornament, and arrayed it with a vesture, of which it can be despoiled by no earthly power

BRL_DA#653, GWBP#163 p.219bx, AVK3.409.17x, AVK4.266.07x, MAS8.046x, ASAT4.092ax, ASAT4.388x, ASAT5.257x

GWB#163x

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @consultation, @order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir], @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @wisdom [hikmat], @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

LL#365, LL#449

BH02628

340

Arabic

Tablet about Ashrafs mother

لا تجزعی من غربتک تالله لو تنظرین بعینی لتفدین نفسک فی سبیلی بما جعلک الله

Grieve thou not in thine exile. By God! Wert thou to behold through Mine eyes, thou wouldst sacrifice thyself in My path, through that which God hath made thee to be [3.5s]... ...Call thou to mind the behavior of Ashraf’s mother, whose son laid down his life in the Land of Zá (Zanján). He, most certainly, is in the seat of truth

INBA34:182

BRL_DA#074, GWBP#069 p.092x, AQA1#048, TISH.509-510

GWB#069x

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @consolation and comfort

LL#363

BH01252

670

mixed

اینکه مرقوم داشتند نفسی از احباء این آیه مبارکه را سوال نموده قد ظهر سر

Concerning that which was written, that one of the loved ones inquired about this blessed verse "The Mystery hath appeared" [3.5s]

INBA73:048

MAS1.015x, RHQM1.561-562 (687) (421x), NSS.100-102

@interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @symbolism, @Shaykhis, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @empty learning; false spirituality

LL#362

BH00822

990

Arabic

Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; River of Life, The; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh; Lawh-i-Abdu'r-Razzáq

تلک آیات الله الملک الحق العدل المبین نزلت بالحق من جبروت فضل عظیم و انها

These are the verses of God, the King, the Truth, the Manifest Justice, which have verily descended from the heaven of a mighty favor; and they are [3.5s]... ...Should any man, in this Day, arise and, with absolute detachment from all that is in the heavens and all that is on the earth, set his affections on Him Who is the Dayspring of God’s holy Revelation

BLIB_Or15725.130,

BRL_DA#674, GWBP#149 p.205ax

GWB#149x

@wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @suffering and imprisonment, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @call to action, @sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world

LL#361

BH00060

Lawh-i-Abdu'r-Razzaq

5390

mixed

Lawh-i-Abdu'r-Razzáq

مکتوب آنجناب بمنظر اکبر وارد و از قمیص کلماتش نفحات حب مالک اسما و صفات

Thy letter hath attained unto the Most Great Horizon, and from the garment of its words wafted the sweet-scented fragrance of love for the Lord of Names and Attributes [3.5s]... ...As to thy question concerning the origin of creation. Know assuredly that God’s creation hath existed from eternity, and will continue to exist forever… Thou hast asked Me whether man, as apart from the Prophets of God…

INBA38:144, BLIB_Or15698.044, , BLIB_Or15720.046, , BLIB_Or15740.038, , NLAI_BH3.047, BN_suppl.1754.021-030

BRL_DA#030, GWBP#078 p.101bx, GWBP#080 p.103x, GWBP#087 p.114x, AVK1.113ax, AVK1.213.04x, AVK1.222.10x, AVK1.272x, AVK2.042.10x, AVK2.073.12x, IQT.044, RSBB.104, MAS4.174ax, ASAT1.013x, ASAT2.019x, ASAT2.103x, ASAT4.317x, ASAT4.296x, ASAT4.530x, ASAT5.270x, ASAT5.355x, OOL.B021

BRL_ATBH#75x, GWB#078x, GWB#080x, GWB#087x, ROL.016-021x, BSC.228 #453-459x, HURQ.BH57x, HURQ.BH58x

Addresses some misconceptions of the Bábís and answers questions concerning the origin of creation, the soul after death, and the absence of historical records prior to Adam.

@soul; spirit after death, @universal language, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @Word of God and human limitations, @eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @creation of the world

LL#036, LL#411

BH03835

240

Arabic

ذکر من لدنا لمن طار بذکر هذا الذکر فی هوآء الذی تطیر فیه طیور الفردوس و تمر

A remembrance from Our presence unto one who hath soared, through mention of this Remembrance, in the atmosphere wherein the birds of Paradise do wing their flight and pass [3.5s]... ...Know thou of a certainty that the Unseen can in no wise incarnate His Essence and reveal it unto men. He is, and hath ever been, immensely exalted

BLIB_Or11095#319,

BRL_DA#537, GWBP#020 p.039x

GWB#020x

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @essential distinction of Manifestation of God from others, @Manifestation of God as mediator

LL#359

BH02224

400

mixed

قلم اعلی این ایام بلسان پارسی تکلم میفرماید تا طایران هوای عرفان بیان رحمن را

The Most Exalted Pen in these days speaketh in the Persian tongue, that the birds soaring in the atmosphere of divine knowledge may comprehend the utterance of the All-Merciful [3.5s]... ...Some have regarded it as lawful to infringe on the integrity of the substance of their neighbor, and have made light of the injunction of God

INBA15:312, INBA35:170b, INBA26:316, BLIB_Or07852.092, , BLIB_Or15719.149c, , BN_suppl.1753.100-102

BRL_DA#662, GWBP#137 p.190x, LHKM3.372, UAB.047ex, MAS8.007bx, HYB.020

GWB#137x, COC#2041x, ADJ.023-024x, TRBP.003-004, ADMS#066x

@theft; seizing the properties of others, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @suffering and imprisonment, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

LL#358

BH01801

490

Arabic

ان یا قلمی الاعلی انا نراک ترکض فی اللوح مره تمیل الی الیمین و اخری الی

O My Most Exalted Pen! Verily, We behold thee hastening across the Tablet, now inclining to the right, and at another moment to the left [3.5s]

INBA15:301, INBA26:304

MAS4.150bx, MAS8.041ax

@the power of words; of speech, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @proclamation to divines; to religious leaders, @blind imitation [taqlid], @transience; worthlessness of the physical world

LL#355

BH02046

430

mixed

Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

در قرون اولی تفکر نما هر هنگام که آفتاب عنایت الهی از افق ظهور طالع شد ناس

Consider the former generations. Witness how every time the Day Star of Divine bounty hath shed the light of His Revelation upon the world

BLIB_Or15715.361a,

GWBP#023 p.045

GWB#023, GPB.187x, PDC.131-132x

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

LL#354

BH09086

110

Arabic

یا الهی هذا غصن انشعب من دوحه فردانیتک و سدره وحدانیتک تراه یا الهی ناظرا

This is the Branch that hath extended from the bower of Thy Oneness... ...Thou knowest, O my God, that I desire for Him naught except that which Thou didst desire

INBA81:090, BLIB_Or15696.127d,

BRL_DA#402, AHM.109, HDQI.006a, AHDW.009, KKD2.002, ASAT4.414x, AHB_128BE #06-11 p.197, ANDA#03 p.47

GPB.243x, WOB.136x, SW_v04#13 p.235, SW_v05#15 p.226, SW_v08#14 p.184

@power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @prayer for firmness in the Covenant

LL#353

BH00465

1550

mixed

حیرت اندر حیرت و عجب اندر عجب که اینفانی مفقود در اول عرایض و مکاتب و رسائل

Wonder upon wonder and astonishment upon astonishment, that this evanescent and lost one, in the beginning of supplications, letters and treatises [3.5s]... ...My God, my God! I beseech Thee by the station wherein Thy most sweet voice calleth aloud,and by the horizon from which the luminary of Thy Cause doth shine forth

INBA31:116

AQA6#217 p.051, ADM2#030 p.051x, FRH.077-078x

JHT_S#055x

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @justice and wrath of God, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution

LL#352

BH00704

Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Babu'l-Bab va Quddus

1100

Arabic

Ziyarat-Namih-i-Mulla Muhammad `Ali-i-Barfurushi (Tablets of Visitation for Mulla Muhammad `Ali-i-Barfurushi (Quddus))

السلام الظاهر من مطلع فم اراده الله مولی الوری و النور المشرق من افق سماء

The peace that hath shone forth from the Dayspring of the Will of God, the Lord of all being, and the light that hath dawned above the horizon

BLIB_Or15714.077,

BRL_DA#535, GANJP.009-010x

BRL_ATBH#82, ADMS#153

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @prayer for forgiveness, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @Hands of the Cause, @martyrs and martyrdom

LL#344

Baha’u’llah’s Tablet of Visitation for Mulla Husayn and Quddus.

BH09728

Arabic

Ziyarat-Namih (Tablet of Visitation for the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh)

اسئلک یا الهی بالکلمه التی فیها کنزت لئالی علمک و بالبحر الذی ماج باسمک... صلّ اللّهمّ یا الهی علی عبادک الفائزین و امائک الفائزات

I beseech Thee, O my God, by the Word through which Thou hast treasured the pearls of Thy knowledge, and by the Ocean which surgeth through Thy Name [3.5s]... ...Bless Thou, also, O Lord my God, Thy servants and Thy handmaidens who have attained unto Thee

INBA18:381a

PMP#180x, AQMJ2.027b

PM#180x

@prayer for women, @prayer for protection, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#341

Part 4 of the Tablet of Visitation (BH02307).

BH01761

Suriy-i-Zuhur

500

Arabic

Súriy-i-Zuhúr (Surah of Revelation)

تلک آیات الکتاب قد نزلت علی احسن النغمات و انها بنفسها لیکون حجه علی من فی

These are the verses of the Book, revealed in the most melodious of tones, and they shall, of themselves, stand as testimony against all who dwell therein [3.5s]

INBA83:113, BLIB_Or15702.028, , ALIB.folder18p316

PYK.115, OOL.B143

Declares, at a time when He is beset on all sides, that His revelation is the testimony of God that separates truth from error; asserts that what the people recognize of His cause is but the robe and cloak wherewith He attires Himself; and admonishes the people for failing to recognize Him upon His return, after changing His garb and departing for but a little while from their midst.

@self-concealment of the Manifestation of God, @Word of God and human limitations, @power of faith; power of the spirit, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @call to action, @rejection, opposition and persecution

LL#332

Not to be confused with Lawh-i-Zuhur (BH00686).

BH00604

Suriy-i-Zubur

1260

Arabic

جمال الرحمن عن افق الرضوان خلف سحاب الاحزان قد کان بالحق مشروقا و ان یرفع السحاب

The Beauty of the All-Merciful hath risen from the horizon of the Divine Good-Pleasure, veiled behind clouds of sorrow, and verily these clouds shall be lifted [3.5s]

INBA83:132, BLIB_Or03114.039r, , BLIB_Or15696.124b, , BLIB_Or15702.070, , BLIB_Or15737.121, , NLAI_BH1.390, ALIB.folder18p147-152

ASAT1.125x, TISH.269-273, OOL.B142

Explains the circumstances of His withdrawal from the community, states that He has as a result hidden His reality behind the veils, and calls the recipient to proclaim and defend Bahá’u’lláh’s cause both in person and in his writings, assuring him that divine confirmations will attend his efforts.

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

LL#331

BH00127

Suriy-i-Qahir

3810

Arabic

Suriy-i-Qahir (Tablet to Qahir)

هذا کتاب من لدن نقطه الاولی الی الذی آمن بالله و آیاته و دخل بقعه الروح مقر الذی

This is the Book from the Primal Point unto him who hath believed in God and His verses, and hath entered the sacred precincts of the Spirit, the dwelling-place of Him Who [3.5s]... ...I am not apprehensive for My own self. My fears are for Him Who will be sent down unto you after Me

BLIB_Or15694.471, , Berlin1237#11, ALIB.folder18p018-034

BRL_DA#542, OOL.B135

WOB.117x

Affirms Bahá’u’lláh’s mystical identity with the Báb; answers a number of specific objections to His claims advanced by followers of the Báb; and laments His persecution at their hands, while reserving His real fears for ‘Him who will come after Me’, a statement that was reiterated in the Súriy-i-Haykal.

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @suffering and imprisonment, @chastisement and requital, @modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God

LL#323

BH01854

Suriy-i-Man'

480

Arabic

هذا کتاب ینطق بالحق و یذکر فیه عبد من عبادنا لیشکر الله رب و یکون من الشاکرین

This is a Book in which He, in very Truth, crieth out and maketh mention of one among Our servants to the end that he render thanks unto God, his Lord, and be numbered among the especially thankful

INBA83:148, BLIB_Or15702.128, , ALIB.folder18p319

BRL_DA#320

HURQ.BH41

@spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @personal instructions, @praise and encouragement, @suffering and imprisonment, @avoidance of Covenant-Breakers

LL#318

BH00922

Suriy-i-Ma'ani

890

Arabic

سبحان الذی یسبح له کل من فی السموات و الارض و انه کان علی کل شیء محیطا

Praised be He who offereth glory before Him; all, that is, whether they be in the heavens or upon the earth. He indeed hath ever been All-Encompassing of everything

INBA83:136, BLIB_Or03114.044r, , BLIB_Or15702.082, , BLIB_Or15737.126, , NLAI_BH2.118, ALIB.folder18p219

OOL.B129

HURQ.BH33

Praises God and His Messengers, who receive divine inspiration in various ways; declares as a matter of principle that the transcendent Godhead is not the immediate cause of this inspiration; and extols the transformative power of the word of God at the time of its revelation.

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @love of God

LL#317

BH00952

Suratu'l-Kifaya

860

Arabic

ان یا اهل الهاء استمعوا تغنی ورقه الحمراء فی جو العماء بانه هو النور هیکل

O people of Ha! Hearken unto the melody of the Crimson Leaf in the Paradise of the Divine Cloud, for He, verily, is the Light of the Radiant Temple

INBA36:277

HURQ.BH03

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @the cloud ['ama], @symbolism, @essential vs. actional attributes of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#315

BH00503

Suriy-i-Khitab

1470

Arabic

ذکر الله علی هیئه النار فی هیکل النور من سدره الانسان باذن الرحمن قد کان فی قطب

The Remembrance of God in the form of Fire, in the Temple of Light, from the Lote-Tree of Man, hath, in very truth, been made manifest with the permission of the All-Merciful

INBA83:154, BLIB_Or15702.144, , BLIB_Or15737.137,

BRL_DA#108, OOL.B128

HURQ.BH36

Praises the recipient for recognizing Bahá’u’lláh after failing to do so in an earlier meeting prior to His declaration, calls the Bábís to recognize Bahá’u’lláh as the return of the Báb and their verses as the same in essence, and summons the recipient to teach the Cause of God through his utterance and through his pen, promising that through the power of this tablet, his words will have a penetrating influence.

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @spiritual transformation, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @proclamation to people of the Bayan

LL#314

BH02218

400

Arabic

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; River of Life, The; Tablet of the Son (Jesus)

شهد الله بلسانه الحق فیکل الألواح بأننی انا حی فی الأفق الأبهی و اذا تالله فی هذا الأفق

God hath, through His tongue that uttereth the truth, testified in all His Tablets to these words: “I am He that liveth in the Abhá Realm of Glory.”

BLIB_Or15694.334, , BLIB_Or15725.152, , ALIB.folder18p346

BRL_DA#647, GWBP#103 p.136a, PYB#337 p.12

GWB#103

@spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @praise and encouragement, @justice and wrath of God, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @Mosaic imagery, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

LL#313

BH03944

240

mixed

یا جواد امروز روزیست که از ذکرش نفس ساعت مضطرب مشاهده شد و جمیع کتب الهی از

O Javád! Such is the greatness of this Day that the Hour itself is seized with perturbation, and all heavenly Scriptures

BLIB_Or15710.235,

BRL_DA#021, SFI15.016-017, TBP#17f

TB#17f

@greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @methods of teaching the Cause, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @rejection, opposition and persecution

LL#312

BH00682

Suriy-i-Hifz

1130

Arabic

هذا کتاب یذکر فیه ما الهمنی الروح و انه لتنزیل من الله و آیه ذکره للذینهم اقروا بالله و

This is a Book wherein is recorded that which the Spirit hath inspired within Me, and verily it is a revelation from God and a token of His remembrance unto them that have acknowledged God [3.5s]

INBA83:139, BLIB_Or03114.047r, , BLIB_Or15702.090, , BLIB_Or15737.129, , ALIB.folder18p152-162

OOL.B122

Discusses Bahá’u’lláh’s opposition from Mírzá Yaḥyá and the latter’s intention to have Bahá’u’lláh killed, which was averted through divine protection, and Bahá’u’lláh’s open offer of forgiveness should His half-brother turn to Him in repentance.

@rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @proclamation to people of the Bayan, @call to action, @spiritual transformation

LL#307

BH00376

Suriy-i-Fath

1790

Arabic

ان یا فتح الاعظم قد اخذت القلم لننزل علیک ما یسرک و یحدث فی قلبک ما یجذبک الی

O Fatḥ al-A`zam! I took firm hold of the Pen that there might be revealed for thee what will gladden thee and generate within thy heart

INBA18:249, BLIB_Or15694.355, , ALIB.folder18p075-081

ANDA#79 p.45x, OOL.B116a

HURQ.BH35x

Addresses an intimate early follower, expressing His weariness at the inane questions and vain objections of the uninformed, the defection of former believers, and the opposition of Mírzá Yaḥyá and declaring that He would rather die a thousand deaths than endure the calumny that the latter was spreading.

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @events in the life and ministry of the Bab, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @suffering and imprisonment

LL#301

BH00343

Suriy-i-Fadl

1920

Arabic

Suriy-i-Fadl

ان یا ذبیح انا ارسلنا الیک من قبل لوحا ممتنعا منیع و فیه ذکر ما جعله الله حجه علی من فی

O Dhabih! We did verily send unto thee aforetime a Tablet, mighty and impregnable, wherein was inscribed that which God hath made a testimony unto all who dwell therein [3.5s]... ...Say: By God! The Sovereign of Words hath assuredly come upon the clouds of the verses, and lo, the words of every contentious polytheist were thunderstruck

INBA83:247, BLIB_Or15725.537, , BLIB_Or15737.173, , ALIB.folder18p081-088

OOL.B115

SHHB.135x

Exhorts the recipient to be bold in conveying Bahá’u’lláh’s claim to the followers of the Báb and to sharply challenge those who have repudiated the former’s claim, asking them to consider the infinite grace of God in revealing again the divine verses.

@progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @idolatry, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @chastisement and requital, @call to action, @suffering and imprisonment, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @proofs of the Manifestations of God

LL#300

BH00112

Suriy-i-Asma' (=Lawh-i-Ibn?)

3990

mixed

Suriy-i-Asma' (Surah of Names)

رایحه احزان جمال رحمن را احاطه نموده و ابواب فرح و بهجت از ظلم اهل طغیان من

The fragrance of sorrows hath encompassed the Beauty of the All-Merciful, and the gates of joy and delight have been shut fast through the tyranny of the people of rebellion [3.5s]... ...Know thou that when the Son of Man yielded up His breath to God, the whole creation wept with a great weeping.

INBA38:177, INBA18:468, INBA35:177b, BLIB_Or15698.078, , BLIB_Or15720.080, , BLIB_Or15740.064, , Majlis934.330-368, BN_suppl.1754.131-139

BRL_DA#031, GWBP#036 p.062ax, AVK2.037.04x, AVK2.098.11x, AVK2.176.05x, IQT.078, NFQ.003x, MAS4.165bx, MAS7.130x, ASAT1.051x, ASAT1.127x, ASAT2.088x, ASAT2.129x, ASAT4.531x, ASAT5.293x, AHB_109BE #08 p.002x, OOL.B108

GWB#036x, ROL.021-045x, ADJ.060x, ADJ.081x, PDC.004x2x, PDC.179-181x, WOB.185-186x, BLO_PT#139, HURQ.BH45

Responds to objections to His claims raised by some Bábís, implores them not to be shut out from the truth by the veil of names, acknowledges the outward differences between sacred scriptures while asserting that this derives from the varying capacity of humanity, extols at length the revelation and the crucifixion of Jesus as having infused ‘a fresh capacity into all created things’, compares the Báb to John the Baptist and announces Himself to be the return of Christ, and declares that the purpose of His revelation, like Christ’s, is to bestow eternal life.

@rejection by the people of the Bayan, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @exhortations and counsels, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

LL#294, LL#380

BH01585

550

mixed

Tablet on the Daystar of Divine Beauty

Lawh-i-Shams-i-Jamal-i-Ilah (Tablet on the Daystar of Divine Beauty)

شمس جمال الهی از مشرق غیب ربانی طالع شده و بر جمیع ممکنات مشرق گشته فیا طوبی

The Daystar of Divine Beauty hath risen from the dawning-place of ancient glory and shineth upon all created things. Happy art thou, who hast been illumined by its splendours.

INBA19:032, INBA32:031

BLO_PT#158, HURQ.BH30

@symbolism, @knowledge; recognition of God, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @mystical themes

LL#285

BH02867

Saqi bidih abi

310

Persian

Hymn to Love (Sáqí, bi-dih ábí), A

ساقی بده آبی زآن شعله فارانی تا که بشویم جان را از وسوسه نفسانی زآن آب کزو

O Cup-Bearer, give me a drop of the mystic Flame, that it may wash my soul from the whispers of the flesh

INBA30:171, OSAI I.MMS,

BRL_DA#491, MAS4.192

LOIR16.223, BLO_PT#042

@love of God, @pain of love; love as veil, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @mystical themes, @spiritual transformation, @love as fire

LL#284

BH00305

Namaz-i-Hajat and instructions re ablutions

2100

Arabic

Tablet to Jináb-i-Mullá 'Alí-Akbar fí ardi'l-álif

Salat-i-Hajat or Salat-i-Liqá (Prayer of the Needs or Reunion prayer)

ان یا قلم الاعلی ذکر الذی غرق فی ابحر الظن و الهوی لعل یخلصه ما یجری عنک و

O Pen of the Most High! Make mention of him who is immersed in the seas of doubt and passion, that perchance thou mayest purify him

INBA66:122, BLIB_Or15694.342, , Berlin1237#27, ALIB.folder18p066-075

BRL_DA#076, AVK4.074x, MAS7.131x, RSR.106-107x

RBB.115-118x, BLO_PT#183

@law of obligatory prayer, @knowledge; recognition of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

LL#281, LL#505

BH00778

1020

mixed

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی هذه ایام فیها فرضت الصیام لکل الانام لیزکی بها انفسهم و

Glory be to Thee, O Lord my God! These are the days whereon Thou hast bidden all men to observe the fast

INBA48:080, INBA49:180, INBA92:278, BLIB_Or15739.151,

PMP#056, TSBT.029x, NFF5.034, AKHA_123BE #10 p.ax, ABMK.009, OOL.B090.07

PM#056, BPRY.275

N. Chiang

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @law of fasting, @prayer for fasting, @twin Manifestations

LL#271, LL#474

BH00848

970

Arabic

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک بالذی اظهرته و جعلت ظهوره نفس ظهورک ... فی هذا الظهور الذی فیه اسودت وجوه مظاهر النفی

Praised be Thou, O Lord my God! I supplicate Thee by Him Whom Thou hast called into being

INBA48:085, INBA49:174, INBA92:293, BLIB_Or15739.160,

PMP#178, TSBT.022, NFF5.068, ABMK.014, RAHA.110x, OOL.B090.05

PM#178

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @prayer for fasting, @suffering and imprisonment, @prayer for martyrs

LL#271, LL#473

BH01888

470

Arabic

Obligatory Prayer and Fasting, The Importance of

یا الهی هذه ایام فیها فرضت الصیام علی عبادک و به طرزت دیباج کتاب اوامرک بین

These are, O my God, the days whereon Thou didst enjoin Thy servants to observe the fast. With it Thou didst adorn the preamble of the Book

INBA92:370

PMP#085, AHM.115, TSBT.053, NFF5.051, OOL.B090.03

PM#085, BPRY.270

K. Porray, E. Mahony, B. Weber, unknown

@expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @law of fasting, @prayer for fasting, @collection; ordering of the Sacred Writings, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @prayer for victory and requital; triumph of the Cause, @prayer for spiritual recognition

LL#271, LL#472

BH02777

320

Arabic

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک بعظمتک التی منها استعظم کل شیء و بانوار وجهک

Glorified art Thou, O my God! I beseech Thee by Thy grandeur, through which all things have derived their greatness, and by the effulgent lights of Thy countenance [3.5s]... ...O my God and my Master! I am Thy servant and the son of Thy servant. I have risen from my couch

INBA49:001, INBA92:190, BLIB_Or15739.230,

BRL_DA#690, AQMJ2.062, TSBT.230x, TSBT.226b, NFF5.048x, ABMK.060, OOL.B090.01x

almunajat.com [item 34]

@prayer for protection, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @prayer for nearness to God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#271, LL#470

BH00437

Prayer for the Fast (Iftar)

1620

Arabic

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک بالذین جعلت صیامهم فی حبک و رضائک و اظهار امرک

Exalted art Thou, O Lord my God! I beseech Thee by those whom Thou hast bidden to observe the Fast for the sake of Thy love

INBA38:304, INBA48:045, INBA33:087, INBA49:227, INBA92:284, BLIB_Or15739.094,

BRL_DA#242, TSBT.064, NFF5.055, ASAT4.488x, OOL.B090.02

BRL_IOPF#3.06

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @law of fasting, @prayer for fasting, @justice and wrath of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God

LL#271, LL#469

BH07657

130

Arabic

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک بهذا الظهور الذی فیه بدل الدیجور بالبکور و بنی

Praise be to Thee, O Lord my God! I beseech Thee by this Revelation whereby darkness hath been turned into light, through which the Frequented Fane hath been built… I am the one, O my Lord, who hath held fast the cord of Thy loving-kindness…

INBA48:188a, INBA49:062, INBA92:165, BLIB_Or15739.324,

PMP#007, NFF5.066, OOL.B090.14

PM#007, BPRY.269

B. Lisbeth

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @law of fasting, @prayer for fasting, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @belief and denial, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

LL#271, LL#468

BH01125

Prayer for the Fast (Dawn)

740

Arabic

Munajathay-i-Siyam (Prayers for Fasting)

اللهم انی اسئلک بالایه الکبری و ظهور فضلک بین الوری بان لاتطردنی عن باب

I beseech Thee, O my God, by Thy mighty Sign, and by the revelation of Thy grace amongst men

INBA97:153, Majlis210461.121-124

PMP#177, AHM.121, TSBT.057, NFF5.041, OOL.B090.04

PM#177, BPRY.261, SW_v04#18 p.306, BP1929.004-011

The Badasht Project, E. Mahony, L. Harley

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @presence of; reunion with God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @prayer for fasting, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @service to others; to the Cause of God

LL#271, LL#467

BH00154

3430

Arabic

Obligatory Prayer and Fasting, The Importance of; Bahá'í Prayers

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک باسمک الباقی الذی به استبقت مظاهر امرک و باسمک

Praised be to Thee, O God, my God! I beg of Thee, by Thy name the Enduring One by which the Manifestations of Thy Cause… This is, O my God, the first of the days on which Thou hast bidden Thy loved ones observe the Fast

INBA38:287, INBA48:001, INBA33:091x, INBA49:151, INBA92:263, BLIB_Or15739.001,

AVK1.105.16x, TSBT.037x, NFF5.010, ASAT3.262x, ASAT4.162x, ASAT4.297x, ASAT5.169x, ASAT5.349x, ASAT5.364x, OOL.B090.06x, OOL.B090.09x

BRL_IOPF#3.01x, BPRY.259x, ADMS#047

unknown

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @prayer for fasting, @suffering and imprisonment, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @love of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @prayers (general or uncategorized)

LL#271, LL#466, LL#471

BH02249

390

mixed

الحمد لله الذی ایدنا علی الصیام فی شهر القیام الذی قام فیه الناس لعباده الله

Praise be unto God Who hath strengthened us to observe the Fast in the month of arising, wherein mankind arose for the worship of God [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15700.237, , BLIB_Or15711.089,

@power of love, @Muhammad; Islam, @knowledge; recognition of God, @family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam, @law of fasting, @presence of; reunion with God

BH05450

180

Arabic

قد اصبحت الیوم یا الهی فی جوار رحمتک الکبری و اخذت القلم لاذکرک بحولک بذکر

Today, O my God, I have awakened within the precincts of Thy most great mercy, and have taken up the Pen to make mention of Thee, through Thy power, in remembrance [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15734.2.025b,

AQA6#266 p.260

@spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @prayer for nearness to God, @pain of love; love as veil, @love as fire, @prayer for fasting

BH05990

170

Arabic

یا مالک الملک و الملکوت و سلطان الجبروت اسئلک بقلب العالم الذی جعلته قبله

O Thou Who art the Sovereign of the earthly kingdom and the celestial realm, and the Lord of the dominion of power! I beseech Thee by the heart of the world which Thou hast made the Qiblih [3.5s]

INBA23:053b, BLIB_Or15734.2.008b,

@prayer for fasting, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

Obligatory Prayer and Fasting, The Importance of; Bahá'í Prayers

BH10581

Arabic

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی انا صمنا بامرک و افطرنا بحبک و رضائک فاقبل منا یا الهی

Praise be unto Thee, O Lord my God! We have observed the Fast in conformity with Thy bidding

HDQI.126b, ANDA#29 p.03, OOL.B090.11

BRL_IOPF#3.03, BPRY.285

unknown

@prayer for fasting, @prayer for forgiveness, @law of fasting, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

Inebriation of His Enrapturing Call (mast-and bulbulán), The

BH02479

360

Persian

مستند بلبلان ز نغمه یاهوی او هم جان ... هم جان عاشقان ز جرعه یاهوی او جان بجانان

Nightingales are inebriated by the melody of His enrapturing Call, and spirit lovers by one draught of His enrapturing Call

INBA30:169, OSAI I.MMS,

BRL_DA#590, MAS4.194

BLO_PT#044

@evanescence and eternality; fana and baqa, @mystical themes, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @spiritual transformation, @love of God, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @presence of; reunion with God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

LL#269

BH01328

Lawh-i-Ziyarih

640

Arabic

اول بهاء ظهر و اشرق عن مشرق البقا و اول ضیاء لاح عن مطلع السنا و اول رحمه

The first splendor that dawned and shone forth from the Dayspring of eternity, and the first light that gleamed from the Horizon of glory, and the first mercy [3.5s]

INBA37:131, INBA83:233, INBA49:305, BLIB_Or15725.524, , Majlis210461.102-104

ASAT4.081x

@visitation Tablets, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @prayer for forgiveness, @martyrs and martyrdom, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

LL#268

BH00009

13240

mixed

امروز حفیف سدره منتهی مرتفع و آفتاب بیان از افق سماء معانی مشرق و لائح صراط

In this day the rustling of the Divine Lote-Tree hath been raised up, and the Sun of Utterance hath dawned and shone forth from the horizon of the heaven of inner meanings, and the Path hath been made manifest [3.5s]... ...The days of the Manifestations of God have, in one sense, been referred to as the Day of God. Yet these days, as they are mentioned in all the Holy Books… How can I choose to sleep, O God, my God, when the eyes of them that long for Thee are wakeful... I have risen this morning by Thy grace, O my God, and left my home trusting wholly in Thee... This, Thy servant, seeketh to sleep in the shelter of Thy mercy... I have wakened in Thy shelter, O my God

INBA61:061x, INBA30:115x, INBA41:018x, BLIB_Or15717.018,

BRL_DA#686, ADM3#088 p.102x, ADM3#089 p.103x, AVK3.343.10x, UAB.030cx, MAS4.154x, BSHA.055x

ADMS#040x

MJ Cyr, J. Lenz [track 2], A. Wensbo, Nabilinho, Nabilinho, D. Gundry, M. Sparrow, The Descendants, M. Saraswati, Honiara Baha'i Youth, The Bird & The Butterfly, O. Devine, Soulrise Melodies, S. Sunderland, Gyenyame, G.H. Miller (1), G.H. Miller (2), T. Ellis, almunajat.com [items 3, 4, 10, 13], C. Signori, T. Ellis, K. Porray, K. Porray, Refuge, Nabil and Karim, E. Mahony

@power of prayer, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @justice and wrath of God, @soul; spirit after death, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @rejection, opposition and persecution

LL#262, LL#509

BH02680

330

mixed

Trustworthiness

باین بیان که مانند آفتاب جهان از افق آسمان اوامر الهی طالع و مشرق است ناظر

Fix thine eyes upon this utterance, which, even as the sun in the heavens, hath dawned and shone forth from the horizon of God's celestial commandments [3.5s]... ...Were a man in this day to adorn himself with the raiment of trustworthiness it were better for him in the sight of God than that he should journey on foot towards the holy court

INBA19:015, INBA32:015, INBA57:078, BLIB_Or15710.279, , BLIB_Or15722.172, , BLIB_Or15734.2.031,

COMP_TRUSTP#12x, GHA.316ax, UAB.039ax, MAS4.025x, AHB_133BE #03-04 p.003

BRL_TRUST#12x, COC#2024x

@honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @words vs deeds, @education of children; moral education

LL#261

BH08723

110

mixed

ای دوست جمیع را در بیان امر نمودیم که در این ظهور اعظم بچشم خود به بینند و

O Friend! In the Bayán We directed everyone in this Most Great Revelation to see with his own eyes

INBA19:073b, INBA32:068

TBP#17e

TB#17e

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @independent investigation of truth; reality

LL#260

BH00051

5760

mixed

شهد الخادم بما شهد الله و اعترف بما اعترف به القلم الاعلی قبل خلق الاشیاء انه

The servant beareth witness unto that which God Himself hath witnessed, and acknowledgeth that which the Most Exalted Pen hath acknowledged ere the creation of all things, that verily He [3.5s]... ...And now concerning thy question about the Manifestations of God. Know thou that, even in the wombs of their mothers, the Manifestations possessed stations

INBA19:318, INBA32:277

BRL_DA#174, AVK2.036.10x, AVK2.059.14x, AVK2.250.15x, MAS1.019x, MAS4.150ax, MAS4.166bx, ASAT4.315x, ASAT5.296x, NSS.087-088x

ADMS#043x, ADMS#199n79x

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @firmness in the Covenant, @chastisement and requital, @praise and encouragement, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @prophecy and fulfillment, @preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @wisdom [hikmat], @dissimulation [taqiyyih]; concealment or denial of Faith

LL#259, LL#391

BH00023

Tablet to Varqa I

8000

mixed

حمد مقدس از ذکر تقدیس و تنزیه و فوق آن بساط حضرت مقصودی را لایق و سزاست که

Sanctified praise, transcendent above all mention of glorification and exaltation, beseemeth the court of that Divine Object of all desire, Who [3.5s]... ...This heedless and prattling have understood this Revelation to be like unto the events of the past. Up to this moment they have not comprehended

INBA41:158x, INBA41:379bx

MAS4.032x, MAS4.141bx, MAS4.348x, AYI2.003x, ABDA.093-094x, TSAY.472x, MSHR2.027.01x, MSHR5.381bx

KFPT#03.1x

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @praise and encouragement, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @power of love, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @wisdom [hikmat], @words vs deeds, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @the power of words; of speech, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @presence of; reunion with God, @consolation and comfort, @call to action, @goodly deeds; actions, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @firmness in the Covenant, @development of capacity and readiness, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

LL#259

BH04631

200

mixed

Tablet on Interpretation of Sacred Scripture (Lawh-i-Ta'wíl); Tablet on Interpretation of Sacred Scripture (Lawh-i-Ta'wíl)

امریکه لم یزل و لایزال مقصود نبیین و غایه رجای مرسلین بوده باراده مطلقه و

The Revelation which, from time immemorial, hath been acclaimed as the Purpose and Promise of all the Prophets of God

BLIB_Or15715.254a,

BRL_DA#790, GWBP#003 p.012ax, OOL.B175

GWB#003x, ADJ.078x

@greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @prophecy and fulfillment, @firmness in the Covenant, @thankfulness; gratitude, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @suffering and imprisonment

LL#258

BH00013

10050

mixed

Lawh-i-Ta'wíl (Tablet on Interpretation of Sacred Scripture)

البهاء لمن خرق الاحجاب فی یوم الماب و کسر اصنام الاوهام باسم مالک الایام ... قَد جِئت بِاَمرِ الله وظَهَرت لِذکره وخُلِقْت لِخدمتهِ العزیز المحبوب

Glory be unto Him Who hath rent asunder the veils on the Day of Return, and shattered the idols of vain imaginings through the Name of the Lord of all Days [3.5s]... ...The purpose of interpretation is this: that none become deprived of that which is evident, and be veiled from that which is intended

INBA23:062, INBA41:132x, INBA41:329x, BLIB_Or15698.279, , BLIB_Or15720.274x, , BLIB_Or15733.001, , BLIB_Or15740.213x, , Majlis934.255-266

AVK4.028.05x, AVK4.073-074x, AVK2.143.09x, AVK3.300.03x, AVK3.450.13x, AVK3.426.12x, AVK3.472.01x, IQT.279-286x, AYI1.336x, GHA.341ax, UAB.029bx, UAB.042ax, MAS1.018.1x, MAS4.354bx, TSAY.472x, TSAY.472-473x, ASAT2.119x, ASAT3.120x, ASAT3.242x, ASAT4.286x, PYB#115 p.03x, VUJUD.095-096x, VUJUD.105x

BLO_PT#154, BLO_PT#155, WIND#115, VUJUDE.139-141x, VUJUDE.212-213x

almunajat.com [item 41]

@proclamation to divines; to religious leaders, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @chastisement and requital, @praise and encouragement, @outward and inward meanings, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @exhortations and counsels, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @self-concealment of the Manifestation of God

LL#251, LL#282

Includes verses for newborn child

BH03457

Lawh-i-Tal'atu'l-Hubb

260

Arabic

ان یا طلعه الحب قد عرفنا شوقک الی الله فی رفرف البقا علی قربک فی میادین

Countenance of love, we have recognized your longing for God in the pavilions of eternity, insofar as you drew near and attained

BRL_DA#118, AQA4a.240, FRH.346

WIND#123

@praise and encouragement, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @mystical themes, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

LL#249

BH03255

Lawh-i-Siyyid Muhammad ibn Vahid

280

Arabic

قد فتح باب البیان و ظهر غلام المعانی و کان فی یده الیمنی کاس من سلسبیل رحمه

Lo! The portal of utterance is flung open, and the Youth of inner meaning is come. In His right hand, He beareth a chalice

BLIB_Or11095#187,

AQA4#104 p.358, AQA4a.132, LMA1.348 (208)

ADMS#028

@spiritual transformation, @obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @power of the Manifestation of God, @piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa], @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause

LL#247

BH06114

160

mixed

بنویس بجناب مهدی انا انطقنا النبیل قبل علی فی صغره لیشهدن الناس قدرتی و

Write, O Mahdi! Verily, We caused Nabil-i-'Ali to speak forth in his childhood that men might witness My power and [3.5s]... ...He, verily is but one of My servants... Should he for a moment pass out from under the shadow of the Cause

BRL_DA#105, MAS4.361x, MAS8.040a, ASAT5.100x

WTAB.006x, GPB.251x

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @station of the Manifestation of God, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @Word of God the cause of creation

LL#246

BH02806

320

Arabic

یا اله الرحمن و المقتدر علی الامکان تری عبادک و ارقائک الذین یصومون فی

Thou seest, O God of Mercy, Thou Whose power pervadeth all created things, these servants of Thine, Thy thralls… Thou seest, O Lord, our suppliant hands…

GWBP#138 p.192, AHM.110, TSBT.050, NFF5.031, OOL.B090.08

GWB#138

E. Mahony

@prayer for fasting, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @prayer for forgiveness

LL#244, LL#271

BH00415

Lawh-i-Sirr al-Tankis

1690

mixed

مطالب مذکوره در ساحت اقدس معروض افتاد هذا ما نزل من سمآء الأمر قد سمعنا ما نادیت به الله بما علمک من قبل... و اما در فقرهٴ عباراتی که منسوب بجناب شیخ احمد احسائی

The matters mentioned were presented to the Most Holy Court, and this is what hath been sent down from the heaven of Command: We have heard that which thou didst call upon God concerning what He taught thee aforetime... And as for the phrases attributed to Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsá'í [3.5s]

BLIB_Or11096#253x, , BLIB_Or15722.035, , NLI.32p144rx

ADM2#095 p.176x, MAS1.012x, MAS4.276x, ASAT4.088x, ASAT5.065x, NSS.098x

ADMS#199n77x

@Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @petitions to authorities, @authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings, @praise and encouragement, @personal instructions, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution

LL#243

BH11595

Lawh-i-Shaykh Abdu'l-Husayn

unknown

LEID.Or4970 item 9,

LL#239

BH02612

340

Arabic

سبحان الذی بیده ملکوت ملک السموات و الارض و انه کان بکل شی علیما له الجود و

Glorified be He in Whose hand is the dominion of the heavens and of the earth, and verily He hath knowledge of all things. His is the bounty and [3.5s]

INBA36:024, INBA71:181

BRL_DA#217, LHKM1.022

@suffering and imprisonment, @station of the Manifestation of God, @praise and encouragement, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#237

BH09085

Salat-i-Mayyit (Prayer for the Dead)

110

Arabic

Salat-i-Mayyit (Prayer for the Dead)

یا الهی هذا عبدک و ابن عبدک الذی آمن بک و بایاتک و توجه الیک منقطعا عن سواک

O my God! This is Thy servant and the son of Thy servant who hath believed in Thee and in Thy signs

BRL_Mayyit, PMP#167, AVK4.203, AHM.214, BSHN.005, GHA.138x, TSBT.239, BSHA.077, OOL.B097a, OOL.B097b

PM#167, BPRY.035

Prayer with six verses to be repeated nineteen times each, recited at graveside, and stated in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas to constitute the only exception to the general prohibition on congregational prayer.

@Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.

LL#231

BH11209

Salat-i-Saghir (Short Obligatory Prayer)

Arabic

Bahá'í Scriptures; Bahá'í Prayers; Prayers and Meditations; Short Obligatory Prayer in Many Languages

Obligatory prayer, Short

اشهد یا الهی بانک خلقتنی لعرفانک و عبادتک و اشهد فی هذا الحین بعجزی و قوتک

I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee.

PMP#181, AHM.084, TSBT.021, NFF1.009x, ABMK.008, MMJA.020, OOL.B176a

PM#181, BPRY.004, SW_v12#19 p.313, BSC.184 #265

S. Sunderland, A.E. Rahbin, S. Akhavan, Rowshan [track 7]

@law of obligatory prayer, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @importance of prayer, @purpose; goal of creation, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @twin duties of recognition and obedience

LL#230

BH03447

Salat-i-Vusta (Medium Obligatory Prayer)

260

Arabic

Obligatory prayer, Medium

الهی قو یدی لتأخذ کتابک باستقامة لا تمنعها جنود العالم ثم احفظها عن التصرف

Strengthen my hand, O my God, that it may take hold of Thy Book with such steadfastness

PMP#182, AHM.081, TSBT.019, NFF1.008x, ABMK.006, OOL.B176b

PM#182, BPRY.004-007, SW_v06#14 p.112, BP1929.017-019x

@law of obligatory prayer, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @the state of prayer; dynamics of prayer, @servitude; submission to God; repentance

LL#230

BH01506

570

Arabic

الحمد لله الذی توحد بالعظمه و تفرد بالکلمة التی اذا ظهرت ظهرت الحاقة

Praise be unto Him Who standeth alone in His grandeur and is unique through His Word, whereupon its revelation hath manifested the Ultimate Truth [3.5s]

INBA81:148, BLIB_Or15719.139b,

@day of Resurrection; Judgement, @suffering and imprisonment, @prophecy and fulfillment, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @station of the Manifestation of God

LL#227

BH01459

590

Arabic

ان یا قلم الابهی بشر اهل ملا الاعلی بما شق حجاب الستر و ظهر جمال الله عن هذا

Proclaim unto the celestial Concourse, O Pen of effulgent glory, that lo, the veil of concealment hath been rent asunder

INBA81:076, BLIB_Or15706.110, , BLIB_Or15714.001,

AHM.162, AHM.158, AYT.246, NSR_1993.111, ASAT1.075x, ASAT3.137x, ASAT4.400x, ASAT4.400x, AHB_120BE #02 p.040, AMB#07

DOR#07, GPB.154x

unknown, S. Jaberi

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity

LL#222

BH01624

Lawh-i-Rida

2400

mixed

Lawh-i-Rida (Tablet to Rida)

بروحی و کینونتی لک الفدآء یا حبّذا بما فزت بکتابک الّذی کان رأسه مزیّناً باکلیل ذکر ربّنا

By My spirit and essence, may I be a sacrifice unto Thee! How excellent it is that thou hast attained unto thy letter, whose apex was adorned with the crown of the remembrance of our Lord! [3.5s]... ...That which thou hast heard concerning Abraham, the Friend of the All-Merciful, is the truth, and no doubt is there about it.

BLIB_Or11096#234x, , BLIB_Or15722.034x, , BN_suppl.1754.143-144x

BRL_DA#682a, GWBP#032 p.056x, AVK2.160.20x, AVK2.196.11x, AVK3.117.05x, MJMM.330x, MAS1.075x, ASAT1.037x, ASAT1.142x, ASAT2.036x, ASAT3.008x, ASAT3.082x, ASAT3.268x, BCH.032x, TABN.215bx

GWB#032x

@spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause

LL#220

BH00921

Lawh-i-Raqsha

890

Arabic

ذکر من لدنا لمن اقبل و سمع ندآء الله المهیمن القیوم و اجاب مولیه فی یوم فیه

A remembrance from Our presence unto him who hath turned and hearkened unto the Call of God, the All-Compelling, the Self-Subsisting, and who hath answered his Lord on this Day wherein [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15713.014,

NNY.235-236x, MAS4.107x, OOL.B071

Details the divine justice and wrath that was visited upon the two individuals mentioned in the Lawḥ-i-Burhán and offers remembrance and praise for several of His followers.

@justice and wrath of God, @praise and encouragement, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @call to action, @suffering and imprisonment

LL#218

BH00475

Lawh-i-Rafi'(?)

1520

mixed

حمد مقدس از لسان و بیان مالک الملکی را لایق و سزاست که بمفتاح بیان ابواب

Sanctified praise, through tongue and utterance, befitteth the Lord of all sovereignty, Who by the key of expression hath opened the doors [3.5s]

BLIB_Or15717.090,

NSS.105x

@call to action, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @praise and encouragement

LL#215

BH03421

270

mixed

یا ثمرتی و یا ورقتی علیک بهائی و رحمتی محزون مباش از آنچه وارد شده اگر در

O thou who art the fruit of My Tree and the leaf thereof! On thee be My glory and My mercy.

BLIB_Or15716.086d, , MKI4523.284,

GWBP#068 p.091, AVK1.085x, ISH.284, ADH1.125

GWB#068

@free will and predestination; fate, @consolation and comfort, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @acquiescence and resignation; contentment, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @power of prayer, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

LL#021

BH10741

I bear witness that thou hast helped thy Lord, and art one of the helpers. To [the truth of] my testimony

BKOG.323-324, BRHL.053-054

@rendering assistance to God; victory [nusrat], @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @chastisement and requital, @praise and encouragement

LL#202

BH00272

2340

mixed

Unnamed Tablet (Purpose of the one true God)

حق جل جلاله از برای ظهور جواهر معانی از معدن انسانی آمده الیوم دین الله و مذهب

The purpose of the one true God, exalted be His glory, in revealing Himself unto men is to lay bare those gems that lie hidden within the mine of their true and inmost selves… So powerful is the light of unity

BLIB_Or15692.040, , BLIB_Or15738.044ax, , MKI4523.133, , BN_suppl.1753.037-043

BRL_DA#661, GWBP#126 p.174x, GWBP#132 p.184x, AVK3.111.03x, AVK3.212.05x, ISH.133, UAB.023bx, UAB.036bx, ASAT3.118x, NSS.119-120x

GWB#126x, GWB#132x, TN.042-048x, STOB#085n, STOB#108n, ADJ.065bx, PDC.181x, WOB.203x2x, SW_v03#02 p.006x, DWN_v3#01 p.010x

L. Dely & M. Congo [track 4], R. Yazhari, T. Nosrat, MANA, N. Zabihi, Naim, Ridvan, Reza & Bahia, Pedram, Aram, Onni & Nader, A Family Affair, Soulrise Melodies (1), Soulrise Melodies (2), Leona and Larry, G.H. Miller, R. Peterson [track 13], E. Mahony, P. Weber

@oneness; unity of religion, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @call to action, @unity; oneness of humanity, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @love and unity, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness

LL#020

Part of this quoted in ESW.

BH00388

1740

mixed

الحمد لله الذی تجلی للکائنات بالنقطه التی کانت مقدسه عن الجهات و النقاط و انها

Praise be to God, Who hath manifested Himself unto all created things through the Point that hath been sanctified above all directions and points, and verily it [3.5s]

BLIB_Or11097#008,

BRL_DA#328, MAS7.139x, MAS7.254x, AYI2.304x, ANDA#20 p.03x, MSHR2.286x, YMM.172x, YMM.433x, NSS.134x

@prophecy and fulfillment, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @wisdom [hikmat], @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @methods of teaching the Cause, @transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#195

BH00483

1500

mixed

Bahá'í Scriptures; Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh

الحمد لمن نطق بعد تقدیسه عن اللسان و علم بعد تنزیهه عن البیان انه لهو الذی

Praise be unto Him Who, after His sanctification beyond all tongues, hath spoken, and Who, after His transcendence above all utterance, hath taught. He, verily, is the One Who [3.5s]... ...It hath been decreed that, if anyone should have a troubled dream and should thereby be grieved and saddened, he may recite this blessed verse… O Thou by Whose name the sea of joy moveth and the fragrance of happiness is wafted!

INBA07:128, INBA18:421, BLIB_Or15717.233, , Majlis210461.126x

ADM2#113 p.202x, MAS4.366bx, ASAT1.072x, PYK.033x

BRL_APBH#23x, RBB.123x, BSC.186 #270x, BP1929.012x

Sixth Choral Music Festival Concert, C. Wolcott

@meaning; importance of dreams and visions, @eulogies; reminiscences, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @consolation and comfort, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @praise and encouragement

LL#189

BH04818

200

Arabic

Lawh-i-Muhammad-`Alí I and II

کتاب نزل بالحق لقوم یفقهون و یامر الناس بالعدل و التقی و یمنعهم عن البغی و

A Book sent down in truth unto men of insight! It biddeth the people to observe justice and to work righteousness

INBA34:290

GWBP#141 p.197, AQA1#155

GWB#141, ADJ.032x

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @exhortations and counsels, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @call to action, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity

LL#187

BH05002

190

mixed