Partial Inventory: #BH00064

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#	BH00064 - Bahá'u'lláh   -   5270 words   -   Arabic and Persian (mixed)
	•  best known
title	Hurufat-i-'Alin (=Kalimat-i-'Uliya; the Exalted Letters)
original title	الحروفات العاليات​ / حروفات عالين​
time period	3. Middle and late Baghdad (March 1856–April 1863)
opening, original	سبحانک اللهم یا الهی کیف یتحرک القلم و یجری المداد بعد ما انقطعت نسائم
opening, English	Pure and sanctified art Thou, O my God! How can the pen move and the ink flow after the breezes of loving-kindness have ceased
abstract	A meditation on mortality, death, suffering, and theodicy, in remembrance of a cousin who had recently died.
notes	ROB1.122, MMAH.216, GSH.025, LL#019, LL#272
in catalog	Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh's Four Tablets to Maryam; Suffering of the Exalted Letters; Translation List
in tags	Musíbat-i-Hurúf-i-‘Állín (Suffering of the Exalted Letters)
manuscripts	INBA36:281, BLIB_Or15714.157,
publications	BRL_DA#035, AHM.217, BSHN.054, MHT1a.002, MHT2b.007x, TSBT.242, ASAT3.087x, OOL.B010a, OOL.B010b
translations	BRL_APBH#01x, BLO_PT#015x, BLO_PT#090, HURQ.BH18x, ADMS#163x, JHT_B#005
subjects (colored as in PDF)	Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcendence; unknowability of God

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