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Abstract:
A meditation on mortality, death, suffering, and theodicy, in remembrance of a cousin who had recently died.
Notes:
See also a brief essay about this Tablet, and see Adib Taherzadeh's Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol 1 pp. 122-125.

Parts of this Tablet are often recited at funerals by Eastern Bahá’ís.

Note: An authorized translation of the first paragraph has been published in the section "Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh" on bahai.org/library.


Suffering of the Exalted Letters

Bahá'u'lláh

Joshua Hall, translator

2017

original title

Musíbat-i-Hurúf-i-'Álín

1. Introduction

Download: bahaullah_hall_exalted_letters_intro.pdf.

2. Translation, English only

Download: bahaullah_hall_exalted_letters.pdf.

3. Translation, interlinear version

Download: bahaullah_hall_exalted_letters_interlinear.pdf.
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