Partial Inventory: #BH00394

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#	BH00394 - Bahá'u'lláh   -   1730 words   -   Arabic and Persian (mixed)
	•  best known
title	Sahifiy-i-Shattiyih (the Book of the Tigris)
original title	صحیفه شطیّه
time period	3. Middle and late Baghdad (March 1856–April 1863)
opening, original	قد اکثرت القول فی ذلک ولکن الناس اکثرهم لایفقهون آنچه از ظهورات معجزات که
opening, English	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
abstract	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.
notes	ROB1.105, MMAH.228, GSH.024, LL#280
in catalog	Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá; Tablet of the River [Tigris]
in tags	Shahifiy-i-Shattiyyih (Book of the River)
manuscripts	INBA36:316, INBA57:010, BLIB_Or15722.267, , BN_suppl.1754.139-143
publications	BRL_DA#734, MAS4.142, RHQM1.285-291 (349) (209-213), OOL.B096
translations	BLO_PT#137, BLO_sazedj#10x, JBS#9.3
subjects	@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

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