# | BH00034 - Bahá'u'lláh - 7050 words - Arabic |
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title | Suriy-i-Sabr (=Lawh-i-Ayyub) |
original title | سورة الصبر |
time period | 3. Middle and late Baghdad (March 1856–April 1863) |
opening, original |
ذکر الله فی مدینه الصبر عبده ایوبا اذ آویناه فی ظل شجره القدس فی فواده و اشهدناه |
opening, English |
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 |
abstract | 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. |
notes | ROB1.263, BKOG.131, BKOG.195, MMAH.203, GSH.055, LL#327 |
in catalog | 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) |
in tags | Surih-i-Sabr or Lawh-i-Ayyub (Tablet of Patience or Tablet of Job) |
manuscripts | INBA36:173, INBA73:082, Berlin1237#08 |
publications | BRL_DA#726, AYT.262, LMA1.379 (228), MAS4.282, ASAT5.246x, ASAT5.309x, ASAT5.247x, FBAH.160x, OOL.B138 |
translations | WOB.116x, BLO_PT#116, HURQ.BH23, NYR#144 |
subjects | @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 |
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