# | BH00395 - Bahá'u'lláh - 1720 words - Arabic |
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title | Lawh-i-Sayyah (=Suratu'l-Widad) |
original title | لوح سياح (وداد) |
time period | 4. Istanbul and early Edirne (April 1863–March 1866) |
opening, original |
ان یا علی فاشهد بانی ظهور الله فی جبروت البقاء و بطونه فی غیب العماء و جمال |
opening, English |
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 |
abstract | 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. |
notes | ROB2.210, ROB3.013, BKOG.220, BKOG.245, MMAH.220, GSH.079, LL#236 |
in tags | Lawh-i-Sayyah (Tablet of the Traveller) |
manuscripts | INBA36:052, INBA71:211 |
publications | BRL_DA#396, RSBB.075, MUH3.258-262, OOL.B079 |
translations | GPB.184x2x, HURQ.BH49 |
subjects (colored as in PDF) |
Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of |
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