# | BH00249 - Bahá'u'lláh - 2510 words - Persian |
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title | Lawh-i-Ahmad (Persian) |
original title | لوح احمد |
time period | 4. Istanbul and early Edirne (April 1863–March 1866) |
opening, original |
اینست بدایع نصایح الهی که بلسان قدرت در مکمن عظمت و مقعد قدس رفعت خود میفرماید پس بگوش |
opening, English |
O banished and faithful friend! Quench the thirst of heedlessness with the sanctified waters of My grace |
abstract | 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’. |
notes | ROB2.137, BKOG.157, BKOG.223, BKOG.245, MMAH.184, LL#041 |
in catalog | Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Provisional Translation of the Persian Tablet of Ahmad |
in tags | Lawh-i-Ahmad (Tablet of Ahmad (Persian)) |
manuscripts | INBA38:018, INBA65:185, INBA35:073, INBA36:401, NLI.32p145r, PR23.041b-045b, Majlis210461.020-030, BN_suppl.1753.106-115 |
publications | 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 |
translations | 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 |
music | 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] |
subjects | @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 |
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