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| AB00013 | Tafsir-i-Bismillah | 4760 | Creation | Tafsír-i-Bismilláh ar-Raḥmán ar-Raḥím (Commentary on the opening verse of the Quran) | الحمد لله الذی بفیض ظهوره الاعلی کشف الغطاء عن وجه الهدی و اشرقت الارض | ...The names of God derive from those attributes which are the perfections belonging to the reality of the Essence | INBA55:001, INBA59:044, INBA90:097, UMich962.072-092, UMich991.174-203 | MKT1.033, MNMK#005 p.032, ASAT4.475-476x, QT105.1.122x, BMT.012, RHQM1.252-255x (312x) (187-189x), YMM.179x, JNM1.453x, DLS.284x, DLS.418x, NSS.168x, OOL.C027 | BLO_createx, BLO_PT#216.031nx | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Existence and nonexistence; preexistence; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Names and attributes of God; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | MMAH.279 | Date of publication mentioned in TZH6.282 and BMT.012-013. | ||
| AB00124 | 980 | ای ثابت بر پیمان الان که در ارض مصر هجرتگاه یوسف کنعانی مدینه اسکندریه در | O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Now that thou art in the land of Egypt, the place of exile of Joseph of Canaan, in Alexandria [3.5s] | MMK6#104x, TZH8.0841, ANDA#73 p.46, MAS5.129 | Ottoman commissions of investigation; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||||
| AB00139 | 940 | در این وقت که بلبل گلزار بقا قصد آشیان وفا نموده و شاهد انجمن عاشقین عزم دیار | At this hour, when the nightingale of the eternal rose garden hath taken wing toward the nest of faithfulness, and the Beloved of the gathering of lovers hath departed for His realm [3.5s]... ...Such hath been the interposition of God that the joy evinced by them hath been turned to chagrin and sorrow, so much so that the Persian consul-general in Baghdad regrets exceedingly | BRL_DAK#0787, MMK4#035 p.035, AHB.121BE #07 p.226, TZH4.299, HHA.015-020, MSHR2.169x | GPB.150x, ABCC.016-017x | Banishment to; life in Constantinople; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | ||||||||
| AB00179 | 860 | یا اباالفضائل و امة و اخیه چندیست که بوی خوش معانی از ریاض قلب آن معین عرفان | O thou father, mother and brother of Faza'il! It has been a long time since | INBA13:024, INBA55:240 | MKT1.276, AHB.119BE #03 p.96, DWNP_v1#09 p.001-003, TZH8.1134, MSBH2.323, SAAF.234-237, NJB_v04#19 p.001, NJB_v13#05 p.00128 | SW_v13#05 p.107-109 | Call to action; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The power of words; of speech | - | - | |||||||
| AB00231 | 770 | سبحان من اشرق عن افق التوحید سبحان من لاح عن مطلع التفرید سبحان من نطق بالحق | Glorified be He Who hath shone forth from the horizon of unity! Glorified be He Who hath dawned from the dayspring of oneness! Glorified be He Who hath spoken forth with truth! [3.5s] | TZH8.0507-511 | Call to action; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for the spiritual progress of others; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | |||||||||
| AB00246 | 740 | الحمد لله الذی انطق الورقاء باحسن اللغی فی حدیقه الرحمن علی الاغصان بابدع | Praise be to God Who hath caused the tongue of the Mystic Dove to speak with the best of words in the Garden of the All-Merciful upon the boughs with the most wondrous of melodies | INBA55:149, INBA59:023b, UMich962.069-072, UMich991.043-047 | BRL_DAK#0645, MKT1.114, MNMK#017 p.090, TZH6.1104-1107, ABB.125 | SMR.292-295 | Exhortations and counsels; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | |||||||
| AB00378 | 620 | ای یاران روحانی جناب میرزا مهدی اخوان صفا مدت حیاترا وقف اعلاء کلمه الله نمود | O spiritual friends! Jinab-i-Mirza Mahdi Ikhwan-i-Safa devoted the span of his life to the exaltation of the Word of God [3.5s] | TZH8.0129-131, DUR4.504x, MSBH4.089, NNY.126-127x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||
| AB00757 | 450 | Peace | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما بدقت ملاحظه گردید اثر خامه صدق عین واقع بود | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter was carefully perused, and the traces of thy pen reflected the very truth [3.5s]... ...Chaos and confusion are daily increasing in the world. They will attain such intensity as to render the frame of mankind unable to bear them. Then will men be awakened | BRL_DAK#0838, COMP_PEACEP#26x, AVK4.479cx, TZH8.0752, KHMT.143x | BRL_PEACE#26x, COC#1587x | Conduct in finance and business; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Past, present and future of Iran; Relationship between government and people; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||
| AB00982 | 390 | انی اتبتل الیک یا نور الارض و السموات و اتضرع الیک یا فاطر الوری تری تحلب | I turn with utmost devotion to Thee, O Light of the earth and heavens, and implore Thee, O Creator of all beings [3.5s] | TZH8.0126-128 | Eulogies; reminiscences; Prayer for the departed; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||
| AB01032 | 390 | یا ابناء الملکوت ان سلطان الملکوت قد استقر علی سریر الناسوت و ان شمس عوالم | O children of the Kingdom! Verily the Sovereign of the celestial realm hath established Himself upon the throne of the earthly dominion, and the sun of the worlds [3.5s] | INBA55:275, INBA59:124, UMich962.117-118, UMich991.056-059 | BRL_DAK#1000, MKT1.172, MNMK#035 p.120, MILAN.053, QT105.1.407, TZH8.1188, MJZ.006 | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Quotation from or interpretation of the Bible; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| AB01195 | 360 | ای سهیم و شریک عبودیت عبدالبهاء نامه رسید سوال فرموده بودید که خیرخواهی دولت | O co-sharer and partner in 'Abdu'l-Bahá's servitude! Thy letter was received, wherein thou hadst inquired concerning goodwill towards the government [3.5s] | MKT4.077, AVK3.186, PYB#107 p.05, TZH8.0754 | Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Obedience to and respect for government authority; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | |||||||||
| AB01323 | 340 | ای دو بنده صادق آستان مقدس الحمد لله که از راحت تن و آسایش جان بیزارید و از | O ye two faithful servants of the Sacred Threshold! Praise be unto God that ye are detached from bodily comfort and the repose of the soul, and [3.5s] | TZH8.0850 | Consultation; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Bayan, its laws and their abrogation; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||||||
| AB01492 | 320 | ای دوستان آن یار مهربان آن آفتاب حقیقت نیر اعظم فلک رحمانیت پرتوش جهانگیر است | O friends of that Loving Friend, that Sun of Truth, that Most Great Luminary in the heaven of divine mercy, whose rays encompass the world [3.5s] | INBA88:104 | MMK2#030 p.020, TZH8.0660 | Call to action; East and West; communication between East and West; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God | - | - | ||||||||
| AB01599 | 310 | ای منجذب بنفحات الهی مثنوی روحانی قرائت شد و غزل بی بدل تلاوت گردید آن تبتل و | O thou who art attracted by the divine fragrances! The spiritual verses were read, and the matchless ode was chanted. That pure devotion [3.5s] | MKT4.102, AHB.121BE #04 p.000, TZH8.0399, MSHR2.144x, YMM.063, DMSB.031 | Mystical themes; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The power of words; of speech | - | - | |||||||||
| AB01629 | 310 | ایها المنجذب بنفحات الله قد اطلعت بمضمون الکتاب و عرفت فحوی الخطاب و حمدت | O thou who art attracted by the fragrances of God! I noted the contents of thine epistle and the purpose of thy call… Thou hast asked the detail in relation to the 12th Imam | BRL_DAK#1065, TZH8.0571, MSBH1.406, MUH2.0833, YMM.165x, YMM.411x, NSS.162-163 | KFPT#03.4x | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Soul; spirit after death; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; The Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im | - | - | ||||||||
| AB01658 | 300 | النور الساطع من النیر الاعظم یغشی مرقدک المنور و جدثک المطهر یا من تمنی کاس | The radiant light emanating from the Most Great Light envelops thy luminous resting place and thy sanctified sepulcher, O thou who hast yearned for the chalice [3.5s] | INBA89:241 | BRL_DAK#1054, MKT1.283, TZH8.0285, HHA.152, MUH1.0221 | Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Visitation Tablets | - | - | ||||||||
| AB01705 | 300 | ای خویشان و پیوند ان هوشمند حضرت کیخسرو خسروی فرمود و وفاپروری نمود | O kindred and wise relatives of His Majesty Kay Khusraw, who showed sovereignty and manifested fidelity [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0447, MKT2.150, AHB.133BE #03-04 p.95, BSHN.140.417x, BSHN.144.411x, TZH8.1168, DUR1.545x, ANDA#25 p.43, MHT1a.059x, MHT1b.017x, MSBH10.007, YARP2.225 p.205 | Consolation and comfort; Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for the departed; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice | - | - | |||||||||
| AB01732 | 300 | ای منادی پیمان نامه اخیر رسید خبر صعود من ادرک لقاء ربه فی الرفیق الاعلی حضرت | O herald of the Covenant! Thy recent letter hath arrived with tidings of the ascension of him who hath attained unto the presence of his Lord in the Abhá Kingdom [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#1059, TZH8.0328 | Consolation and comfort; Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Methods of teaching the Cause | - | - | |||||||||
| AB01980 | 280 | ای یاران عبدالبهاء امة الله خدیجه بیگم از من خواسته که ذکری از شما نمایم و | O friends of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! Khadíjih Begum, handmaid of God, hath requested that I make mention of you [3.5s] | TZH8.0383, MSBH10.139 | ADMS#224n16x | Eulogies; reminiscences; Praise and encouragement | - | - | ||||||||
| AB02008 | 280 | یا من انفق روحه و نفسه و حیاته و جسمه و فواده و ذاته فی سبیل الله و سعی فی | O thou who hast sacrificed thy spirit, thy soul, thy life, thy body, thy heart and thine essence in the path of God, and hast striven [3.5s] | TZH8.1120, KHSH08.052 | Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Power of prayer; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||
| AB02025 | 270 | اللهم یا ملجای و ملاذی و مبدای و معادی و مامنی و معاذی و انیس قلبی فی وحشتی | O Lord, my refuge and sanctuary, my origin and return, my shelter and safeguard, the companion of my heart in my loneliness [3.5s] | MILAN.206, TZH8.0003, ADH2.054, ADH2_2#02 p.087, MJMJ1.002, MMG2#121 p.137, MJH.056, NSR_1978.121, NSR_1993.134 | God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||
| AB02027 | 270 | Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks | الهی الهی انی ابسط اکف الضراعه و الابتهال الی ملکوت العزه و الجلال و ادعوک | O my God, my God! I spread forth my suppliant and beseeching hands unto the Kingdom of might and majesty, and I call upon Thee [3.5s]... ...thou shouldst initially adopt that course of prudence that the Faith enjoins. In the early stages, thou shouldst seek out the company of the eminent members of the populace | BRL_DAK#0892, TZH8.0473, TSQA2.042, SAHA.042 | BRL_ATE#183x, COC#1872x | Methods of teaching the Cause; Prayer for teaching; Rendering assistance to God; victory [nusrat]; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | |||||||
| AB02044 | 270 | ای بازماندگان آن سرور آزادگان حضرت سید مصطفی شهپر تقدیس گشود و باشیان الهی | O ye survivors of that noble leader of the free, His Holiness Siyyid Mustafa, who hath spread the wings of sanctity and ascended unto the divine Kingdom [3.5s] | TZH8.0313 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Knowledge; recognition of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for the departed | - | - | |||||||||
| AB02068 | 270 | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه که بمحفل روحانی طهران مرقوم نموده بودید ملاحظه گردید و | O thou who art firm in the Covenant! The letter which thou didst address to the Spiritual Assembly of Tihran hath been perused [3.5s] | TZH8.0437 | Business; financial; property matters; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Education of children; moral education; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings | - | - | |||||||||
| AB02182 | 260 | الهی و محبوبی تشاهد و تری ان ایادی الظلم من الامه المذنبه مستطیله لضر عبادک | O my God and my Beloved! Thou dost witness and behold how the hands of oppression, from a sinful people, are extended to harm Thy servants [3.5s] | TSHA3.575, TZH8.0661x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | |||||||||
| AB02395 | 250 | ای طبیب روحانی امراض جسمانی هر چند شدید است ولی صعوبت در معالجات امراض | O Divine Physician! Though bodily ailments be severe, yet the difficulty lies in treating the diseases [3.5s] | TZH8.0390, YQAZ.566-567x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Martyrs and martyrdom; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||||
| AB02419 | 250 | ای هموطن محبوب آفاق نامه بدیع المعانی از آنحبیب روحانی در اقلیم یوسف کنعانی | O beloved compatriot of the horizons, the epistle, wondrous in its meanings, from that spiritual loved one in the realm of Joseph of Canaan [3.5s] | TZH8.0435, ANDA#81 p.45 | Station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||||
| AB02509 | 240 | ای بنده الهی مدتی است که از اینجانب نامه سمت تحریر نیافت این از موانع کثیر | O thou servant of God! It has been some that no epistle has been forwarded to you from this land. Innumerable hindrances have brought about the interruption of correspondence | TZH8.0748, ANDA#73 p.76, KHH1.244 (1.340) | KHHE.358-359, DAS.1915-05-15 | Consolation and comfort; Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement | - | - | ||||||||
| AB02607 | 240 | ای یاران عزیز عبدالبهاء از یاران آن کشور بی نهایت راضی و مسرورم و خوشنود | O beloved friends of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! I am infinitely pleased, joyful and content with the friends of that land [3.5s] | AYBY.369 #055, TZH8.0628, MUH1.0289, YQAZ.533-534 | Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for specific individuals; groups; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||||||
| AB02639 | 230 | الهی و ربی و رجائی و املی و منائی قد تقطعت الاکباد و ارتعدت الارکان و ذابت القلوب | O my God, my Lord, my Hope, my Aspiration, and my Desire! The hearts have been rent asunder, the pillars have trembled, and souls have melted away [3.5s] | TZH8.0132 | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Prayer for the departed; Prayer for the spiritual progress of others; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | |||||||||
| AB02681 | 230 | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه ای که بجناب آقا میرزا حیدر علی مرقوم نموده بودید ملاحظه | O thou firm in the Covenant! Thy letter addressed to his honor Mirza Hayder Aly | TZH8.0244, HHA.276, MSBH2.408 | SW_v06#07 p.051-052 | Call to action; Martyrs and martyrdom; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| AB02840 | 230 | یا من انجذب بنفحات انتشرت من ریاض موهبه الله قل قد فتح الله بید القدره و القوه | O thou who art attracted by the fragrances that have wafted from the gardens of God's bounty! Say: God hath, by the hand of might and power, opened [3.5s] | INBA55:278, INBA59:123, INBA59:203, UMich962.119, UMich991.060-061 | MKT4.194b, MILAN.056, TZH8.1188, MJZ.001 | Call to action; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | ||||||||
| AB02858 | 220 | اللهم یا غافر الذنوب و کاشف الکروب و ساتر العیوب انی ابسط الیک اکف الضراعه و | O Lord, Thou Forgiver of sins, Remover of difficulties, and Concealer of faults! I spread before Thee these hands of supplication [3.5s] | TZH8.0133 | Eulogies; reminiscences; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Generosity [kirama]; Prayer for the departed; Service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | |||||||||
| AB02903 | 220 | ای ثابت بر پیمان جناب امین چنان ستایش از آنشخص ثابت مستقیم نموده که هر سامعی | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Jinab-i-Amín hath so praised that steadfast and upright soul that every hearer [3.5s] | MKT9.107, AMK.124-124, TZH8.0485, YIK.482-483 | Business; financial; property matters; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||
| AB03051 | 220 | Bahá'í World Faith; Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | یا احباء الله و ابناء ملکوت الله ان السماء الجدیده قد اتت و ان الارض الجدیده | O ye beloved of God! O ye children of His Kingdom! Verily, verily, the new heaven and the new earth are come. | INBA21:071, INBA55:333, INBA59:085, INBA59:202b, UMich962.115-116, UMich991.053-055 | MKT2.103, MNMK#048 p.133, MMK1#003 p.012, MILAN.055, QT105.1.240, AVK2.188.01x, TZH8.1188, RHQM1.590-591 (720) (442), MJZ.012 | SWAB#003, BWF.350-351, SW_v14#12 p.358 | Angels; Continual renewal of creation; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Presence of; reunion with God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Return of Christ; second coming of Christ; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||
| AB03474 | 200 | ای مشتعل بنار موقده در سدره میثاق برخیز و چون نار موقده در قطب آفاق شعله زن و | O thou who art enkindled by the fire which blazes in the tree of the Covenant! Arise and like a flame of fire | AKHA_117BE #09-10 p.545, TZH8.0414, KNSA.070 (115)x | MNYA.087x | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Prayer for teaching; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| AB03734 | 190 | ای فائزه ای راضیه از قرار معلوم محقق و مثبوت گردید که در نزول بلا و شدت اذیت | O Fa'izih! O Radiyyih! It hath become manifestly evident and firmly established that in the descent of trials and the intensity of tribulations [3.5s] | MKT6.154b, AKHT1.234-235, TZH8.0489, AMIN.102-105 | Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||
| AB04199 | 180 | یا من ثبت علی العهد و المیثاق بقوه من الافق الاعلی تالله الحق ان اهل الملکوت | O thou who hast steadfastly adhered to the Covenant and Testament through a power from the Most Exalted Horizon! By God, the Truth, verily the people of the Kingdom [3.5s] | TZH8.1119, KHSH08.052 | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The concourse on high | - | - | |||||||||
| AB04985 | 160 | یا من تعطر الافاق من نفحات ثبوته علی میثاق الله و لمثلک ینبغی هذا المقام | O thou whose fragrance hath perfumed the horizons through the sweet-scented breezes of thy steadfastness to God's Covenant! Well-befitting indeed is this station for one such as thee [3.5s] | MKT2.286, AVK2.150.03x, TZH8.1121, KHSH08.052 | Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Praise and encouragement; The concourse on high | - | - | |||||||||
| AB05019 | 150 | الهی الهی تری عبادک المخلصین متعطشون لکاس الشهاده الکبری فی سبیلک و یسرعون | O God, my God! Thou seest Thy devoted servants athirst of the cup of mighty martyrdom in Thy path, hastening to the field of sacrifice. | TZH8.0748, SHYM.077, KHH1.236 (1.330), KHH2.193 (2.353) | KHHE.349fn | Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for martyrs | - | - | ||||||||
| AB05052 | 150 | ای امه الله شکر کن خدا را در میان آن قوم اول مومنی و بنشر نفحات پرداختی | O handmaid of God! Render thanks to the Lord that among that race thou art the first believer | BRL_DAK#0422, COMP_WOMENP#010, MKT7.060, TZH8.1209 | BRL_WOMEN#010, COC#2101 | Being a source of light; guidance; Praise and encouragement; Race unity; racial issues; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| AB06156 | 130 | ای ثابت مستقیم محرری که بجناب سید تقی مرقوم نموده بودی ملاحظه گردید این | O steadfast and firm one! The letter thou didst write to his honour Siyyid Taqi hath been perused [3.5s] | TZH8.0740 | Consolation and comfort; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||||
| AB06474 | 130 | رب و رجائی و مقدری و مصوری و ملاذی و معاذی ان عبدک عزیز قد تذلل الی جبروت | O Lord, my Hope, my Destiny, my Fashioner, my Refuge, and my Sanctuary! Behold, Thy servant 'Azíz hath abased himself before Thy celestial dominion [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0312, MKT4.151, AKHA_102BE #05-06 p.18, TZH8.0400, YMM.064, DMSB.042 | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayers (general or uncategorized) | - | - | |||||||||
| AB06798 | 120 | ای سیاح آفاق در سبیل میثاق بهر بوم و بر که مرور نمودی عموم ستایش نمودند و | O wayfarer of the horizons! In the path of the Covenant, in every land and region that thou didst traverse, all proclaimed their praise [3.5s] | TZH8.0620, YQAZ.112 | Call to action; Praise and encouragement; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||||
| AB07765 | 110 | سرکار ماطوشقف صاحب در صون حمایت پروردگار محفوظ و مصون باشند و بالطاف کردگار | May our esteemed Sir Maṭūshaqaf remain safeguarded and protected beneath the shelter of the Lord, and blessed by His divine favors [3.5s] | TZH8.0465 | Praise and encouragement; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | |||||||||
| AB11398 | 30 | جناب منادی الهی خطه طبرستان علی الخصوص نور موطن مبارک مجلی | O esteemed Herald of God in the realm of Ṭabaristan, particularly in Núr, the blessed birthplace [3.5s] | TZH8.0857, NJB_v05#12 p.005 | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU0123 | Words spoken on 1917-11-12 in Haifa | 1110 | Man of Courage, The | در یوم ثانی محرم سنه ١٢٣٣ در طهران در محله دروازه شمیران | On the second day of Muharram in the year 1233, in Tehran, in the district of the Shimran Gate [3.5s]... ...Ḥají Mírza Áqasí harbored the utmost enmity towards Mírza [ʻAbbas Núrí] | AHB.130BE #09-10 p.20, AYT.062-067, TZH2.012-015, MHA.184-187x | BLO_courage.06a | Early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah; Innateness; early self-awareness of the Manifestations of God; Interpretation of dreams and visions; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Special knowledge of the Manifestation of God | - | - | ||||||
| ABU0918 | 330 | در آنجا میرزا حسن برادر میرزا آقاخان حضور مبارک عرض کرد اینها همه تسلیم اند اگر | Therein did Mirza Hasan, brother of Mirza Aqa Khan, make petition before His blessed presence, saying: "All these are submissive if..." [3.5s] | TZH2.094-095 | - | - | ||||||||||
| BB00003 | Kitab-i-Asma' (Book of Names) | >500000 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Gate of the Heart; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | Kitáb-i-Asma (Book of Names); Tablet of the Báb to the Sherif of Mecca | الباب الاول من الواحد الاول ... بسم الله الاسمم الاسمم. لا اله الا هو الأرشد الأرشد قل الله ارشد فوق کل ذا ارشاد لن يقدر ان يمتنع عن مليک سلطان ارشاده | God, no God is there save Him., the Supremely Guided (al-arshad), the Supremely Guided (al-arshad). Say: God proffers a Guidance (arshad) beyond every possessor of Guidance (irshad)…. O Lord! Enable all the peoples of the earth to gain admittance | INBA60:156-166x, INBA64:025.10-030.01x, INBA82:060-066x, INBA_6002C, INBA29, PR02.069v01-069v20x, PR03.150v08-151v11x, PR24.069r-072vx, PR30.001-344, CMB_F16x, CMB_F18x, CMB_F23.171v04-174r04 (58)x, , CMB_F17x, CMB_F19x, BLIB_Or5278, BLIB_Or5481, BLIB_Or5869, BLIB_Or6255, BN_5806, BN_5807, BN_6141, BN_6142, BLIB_Or5487-5490, , MKI4491, MKI4492, MKI4493, IOL (12:1-18)x, IOM.091-092x, HBH_asma, BYC_asma | MANU.039-045x, TZH2.006x, SWBP#07 (p.018-024x), SWBP#11 (p.092-106x), SWBP#15 (p.109-110x), SWBP#28 (p.121-122x), SWBP#31 (p.124-125x), SWBP#32 (p.125-125(a)x), SWBP#33 (p.125-125(b)x), SWBP#47 (p.136-136x), OOL.A008 | SWB#07 (p.029-037x), SWB#11 (p.129-149x), SWB#15 (p.155-155x), SWB#29 (p.172-172x), SWB#32 (p.176(a)x), SWB#33 (p.176(b)x), SWB#34 (p.177(a)x), SWB#48 (p.191-191x), BPRY.081x, BPRY.234x, GOH.passim (see index), HURQ.BB58x | E. Mahony, A. Bryan, G.H. Miller, K. Key | Absolute freedom; independence of God; Business; financial; property matters; Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Courtesy; culture [adab]; Cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds; Divine attributes are within all things; every atom; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Essential distinction of Manifestation of God from others; Excellence; distinction; Exhortations and counsels; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; God's attributes require the existence of objects; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; God as immanent vs. transcendent reality; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God; Importance of reading the Sacred Writings; Justice and wrath of God; Knowledge; recognition of God; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Literature; drama; humanities; the arts; Manifestation of God as mediator; Manifestation of God as mirror; Martyrs and martyrdom; Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Oneness; unity of religion; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of prayer; Power of the Manifestation of God; Prayer for martyrs; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Predictions and prophecies; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings; Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God; Proclamation to Muslims; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Proofs for the existence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Recompense; reward for belief; right action; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Relativity of religious truth; Return of the Manifestations of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Thankfulness; gratitude; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud]; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God and human limitations; Words vs deeds | * | - | BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, AHDA.447.7, MMAH.065, SRC.091-092, SRC.188, GOH.036 and passim | Note that the Partial Inventory states that the word count is more than 500,000 words. | |
| BB00004 | Kitab-i-Jaza' (Book of the Reckoning) | >100000 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | فلتسبحن الله فی دین الحق تسبیحاً عظیماً. سبحان الذی فی قبضته ملکوت یاقوتیات السموات و الارض وما بینهما فلتسبحن الله فی دین الحق تسبیحاً عظیماً... شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو قل کل له عابدون شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو قل کل له ساجدون | Glorified be He in Whose grasp lieth the dominion of the ruby-like realms of the heavens and of the earth and whatsoever lieth between them. Therefore glorify ye God in the true Faith with mighty glorification. God beareth witness that there is none other God but Him. Say: All are His worshippers. God beareth witness that there is none other God but Him. Say: All bow down before Him [3.5s]... ...God testifieth that there is none other God but Him. His are the kingdoms in the heavens and on the earth and all that is between them | PR09.001-274x, PR40.099v-204vx, CMB_F23.190r10-199r12 (65)x, , MKI4488.029r-133vx, MKI4500.001-119vx, MKI4517, BYC_misc-a.001-203x, BYC_jazax, BYC_misc-b.130a05-162a03x | TZH3.070.12-072.21x, SWBP#13 (p.108-109x), SWBP#14 (p.109-109x), SWBP#49 (p.136-137x) | SWB#13 (p.153-154x), SWB#14 (p.154-155x), SWB#50 (p.192-193x), BPRY.231-232x | Absolute freedom; independence of God; Acquiescence and resignation; contentment; Angels; Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Call to action; Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Chastisement and requital; Cleanliness and refinement; Collection; ordering of the Sacred Writings; Continual renewal of creation; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Creation of the world; Day of Resurrection; Judgement; Declaration; advent of the Bab; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations; Eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness; Events in the life and ministry of the Bab; Exhortations and counsels; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Fire and light; fire and water; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Free will and predestination; fate; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; God as immanent vs. transcendent reality; Greatest Name; Law of repetition; recitation of the Greatest Name; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Imam 'Ali; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Knowledge; recognition of God; Knowledge of self; Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Letters of the Living; Life and death; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Limits of the intellect; Love of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Muhammad; Islam; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Outward and inward meanings; Pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient; Personal instructions; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; One universal law; attractive power of love; Power of love; Power of prayer; Power of the Manifestation of God; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for nearness to God; Prayer for parents; Prayer for praise and gratitude; Prayer for protection; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayer for the spiritual progress of others; Predictions and prophecies; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings; Primordial Covenant; the day of alast; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Purpose; goal of creation; Religion as reality; definitions of religion; Rendering assistance to God; victory [nusrat]; Return of the Manifestations of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Soul; spirit after death; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Symbolism of color and light; Thankfulness; gratitude; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The first and the last; the seen and the hidden; The golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others; The Imamate; the Caliphate; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer; The Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Unity in diversity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God and human limitations; Word of God the cause of creation | - | - | JRAS.482, MSBR.206-207, SRC.095, SRC.102 | ||||
| BB00012 | Sahifiy-i-Ja'fariyya (Epistle of Ja'far) | 19300 | Analysis of the Salient Features of Risáliy-i-Ja'faríyyih, An; Gate of the Heart | Risaliy-i-Jafariyyih (Treatise of Jafar) or Shar-i Du‘á’-i-Ghaybat (Commentary on the Occultation Prayer) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی شهد بذاته لذاته ان لا اله الا هو الذی قد علا بعلو نفسه علی کل شیء و استتر من علو ظهوره عن کل شیء الذی کان لم یزل کان بلا ذکر شیئ | All praise be to God Who hath testified through His Own Self unto His Self that there is none other God but Him, Who hath ascended through the sovereignty of His Being above all things, and Who, through the loftiness of His Revelation, hath concealed Himself from all things - He Who hath everlastingly been, and existed ere the mention of aught else [3.5s]... ...The fifth station testifieth unto God in the mirror of the Letter Há’, and it is the Word that consisteth of the Twin Alifs | INBA60:057-154, INBA98:048.15-110.05x, PR14.001-060, Berlin3655.008r-051v | TZH3.280.06-282.21x, NSS.184ax, OOL.A010 | GOH.224x, MNP.199-212x (infra), LOIR20.248 | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; God as immanent vs. transcendent reality; Impossibility of true worship of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | NSS.030-035, AHDA.453.4, SRC.066-067, SRC.198, GOH.021-022, GOH.032, GOH.235 | |||
| BB00013 | Sahifih of 33 prayers | 15600 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی یهدی من یشاء و یضل من یشاء سبحانه وتعالی عما یصفون یا الهی کیف اشکو مصابی بعد ما انک تطلع بجریراتی | Praise be to God, Who guideth whom He willeth and leadeth astray whom He willeth. Glorified and exalted be He above all that they ascribe unto Him. O my God! How can I bemoan mine affliction when Thou art aware of my transgressions [3.5s] | TZH3.275.11-276.07x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Impossibility of true worship of God; Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for forgiveness; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | SRC.195 | |||||||
| BB00022 | Tafsir (huruf) al-basmala | 10700 | Selections from the Bahá'í Writings and from Shaykh Ahmad on the Seven Stages of Creation; Gate of the Heart | بسم الله البدیع الذی لا اله الا هو. ان الله سبحانه قد جعل لظهوره لخلقه بخلقه اربع مقامات المشار الیها والرموز عنها | Verily God, glorified be He, hath ordained for His Manifestation unto His creation, through His creation, four stations which have been indicated and symbolized [3.5s]... ...The "E" (nún) in the stage of utterance is the same as the "B" (káf). It is the totality of the possible | INBA14:041.04-104, INBA53:001-045, INBA60:001-056, INBA64:033.16-081.14, INBA_6010C:041-094, , INBA_6013C:002-109, , INBA_6012C.300-393, | TZH3.139.10-139.15x | GOH.132x, GOH.135-136x, GOH.204x, GOH.215x, MNP.048x, HURQ.BB03x, BLO_PT#079.1.8x | Alchemy; the elixir; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Martyrs and martyrdom; Self-description of God; God's self-remembrance; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#08, AHDA.459.16, MMAH.012, SRC.063, SRC.200, GOH.031, GOH.079 | ||||
| BB00026 | Javab-i-Ahadin mina’s-sabirin | 7500 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی خلق الممکنات لشأن قبولهم و صورهم علی هیکل طاعتهم ثم قد اقامهم فی مقامات الامر والنهی لیجزیهم وصفهم ثم افتتنهم لیمیزینهم فسبحانه ما اعجب فتنته و اعظم بینته | Praise be to God, who hath brought into being the contingent beings for the purpose of their acceptance, and hath fashioned them in the form of their obedience. Thereupon, He hath raised them up in the stations of command and prohibition, that He might recompense them according to their true deserts. Thereafter, He hath subjected them to trials, that He might distinguish them. Exalted be He! How wondrous is His trial, and how mighty His proof [4o] | INBA98:122.11-150.04 | TZH3.279.19-280.06x, TZH3.282.21-283.05x, TZH3.283.05-09x, AHDA.187x | Power of prayer; Power of the Manifestation of God; Prayer for forgiveness; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God and human limitations | - | - | |||||||
| BB00032 | Tafsir al-Hamd | 5900 | Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله المتقدس عن جوهر نعت الموجودات و المتعالی عن مجرد وصف الممکنات و المتکبر عن ذکر کافور اللکینونیات ... قد علمت قد ذکرت ما ذکرت فی ذکر ورقة الطاهرة و ما للناس والاخذ من تلک الثمرة الجنیه قد رکنها ربها لنفسها | Praise be to God, Who is sanctified above the essence of all created things' attributes, exalted beyond mere description by contingent beings, and magnified above mention of the camphor of existences... Indeed thou hast known and made mention of that which thou didst mention concerning the pure Leaf, and what have people to do with partaking of that hidden fruit which her Lord hath reserved for her [3.5s]... ...When it [the Point] appeared there was [also] manifest that which is Unseen, namely, the letter alif | INBA14:005-038, INBA69:120-155, INBA_5019C:084-129, , INBA_6010C:005-041, , Berlin3655.060r-075r, HBH_hamd (=INBA69) | ASAT1.205x, ASAT4.115-120, TZH2.176x | RBB.101-104, HURQ.BB04x | Da'iras and haykals; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Names and attributes of God; Prayer for tests and difficulties; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.64, AHDA.458.11?, MMAH.015, SRC.064, SRC.199, GOH.330 | ||||
| BB00073 | Letter to Mulla Muhammad Ja'far Kirmani | 2600 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی استنطق حرف الکاف من نفسه بنفسه الی نفسه قبل ما اقضت کتابه باذن الله ثم جعله فی مقام الامر بما قبلت نفسه | Praise be to God Who hath caused the letter Kaf to speak forth from His Essence, through His Essence, unto His Essence, ere His Book had been decreed by the permission of God. Thereafter, He hath established it in the station of Command with that which His Essence had accepted [4o] | TZH3.402.15-405.13x | Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00074 | Epistle to Haji Mirza Aqasi 3 (Khutbiy-i-Qahriyyih) | 2600 | Fourth Epistle Revealed by the Báb to Mírzá Áqásí, The | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تقهر بتقهیر تقهر اقتهار قهر قهاریته علی کینونیات المشرکات من الممکنات... اما بعد فاعلم یا ایها الکافر بالله والمشرک بآیاته والمعرض عن جنابه والمستکبر عن بابه | Praise be to God Who, through His transcendent dominion, His sovereign power and His all-subduing might, hath prevailed over the essences of those beings who have joined partners with Him from among all contingent things... And now know thou, O thou who hast disbelieved in God, associated partners with His signs, turned away from His presence and shown pride before His gate [3.5s] | INBA64:127.04-150.07, INBA_4012C.001-013, PR02.045v07-048r26, BYC_collect4.004-012 | RHQM1.438-440 (326-328x), KKD1.104.19, HNU.204-206x, TZH2.241-250, AHDA.359, OOL.A023.8 | Chastisement and requital; Events in the life and ministry of the Bab; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Justice and wrath of God; Personal instructions; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | MMAH.031, SRC.092-093, SRC.186 | |||||
| BB00078 | Letter to Mulla Baqir Tabrizi (Chihriq) Tafsir hadith "شمس التی تلک الشموس فی ظهوره" | 2500 | Tablet to Mullá Muhammad Báqir-i Tabrízí; Gate of the Heart | Tablet to Mulla Muhammad Baqir-i Tabrizi | بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. الحمد لله الذی لا اله الا هو العزیز المحبوب و انما البهاء من الله عز ذکره علی من یظهره الله جل امره و من یخلق بامره و لا یری فیه الا ماقد تجلی الله له بقوله علی انه لا اله الا هو المهیمن القیوم | Praised be to God, no god is there except Him, the Mighty, the Beloved One. The Splendour which cometh from God — exalted be His Remembrance — be upon Him Whom God shall make manifest | CMB_F21.035.18-044.13#05, , BYC_pray.099.01-105.02 | KSHG.439, AYT.169, TZH3.020.04-022.21x | GOH.241x, GOH.249x, GOH.290x, GOH.351-353x, GOH.372-374x, HURQ.BB57x, GPB.030x, BLO_PT#185x | He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Names and attributes of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095, GOH.036 | |||
| BB00079 | Epistle to Muhammad Shah 3 | 2500 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb | Tablets of the Báb to Muhammad Shah | هو المتکبرالعلی الاعلی. حمد و سپاس بی مثل و قیاس حضرت حی قیوم را سزاست که لم یزل بوده و شیء در ساحت قدس | Praise and glory, beyond comparison and likeness, befit the Supreme, the Ever-Living and Eternal Lord, who hath existed from time immemorial, while naught hath ever approached the sanctified precincts of His holiness [4o]... ...The substance wherewith God hath created Me is not the clay out of which others have been formed | INBA64:103.05-126.08 | RHQM1.709x, ASAT4.368-369x, HNU.239-241x, TZH2.156-165, AHDA.299, SWBP#06 (p.013-018x), OOL.A023.3 | SWB#04 (p.011-017x) | Naim Z, Naim S & Negin | Prophecy and fulfillment; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | AHDA.460.08, MMAH.023?, SRC.097, SRC.193 | Shoghi Effendi writes in " God Passes By", p. 26: "The Báb was still in Máh-Kú when He wrote the most detailed and illuminating of His Tablets to Muḥammad Sháh. Prefaced by a laudatory reference to the unity of God, to His Apostles and to the twelve Imáms; unequivocal in its assertion of the divinity of its Author and of the supernatural powers with which His Revelation had been invested; precise in the verses and traditions it cites in confirmation of so audacious a claim; severe in its condemnation of some of the officials and representatives of the Sháh’s administration, particularly of the “wicked and accursed” Ḥusayn Khán; moving in its description of the humiliation and hardships to which its writer had been subjected, this historic document resembles, in many of its features, the Lawḥ-i-Sulṭán, the Tablet addressed, under similar circumstances, from the prison-fortress of ‘Akká by Bahá’u’lláh to Náṣiri’d-Dín Sháh, and constituting His lengthiest epistle to any single sovereign." | |
| BB00094 | Kitabu’l-‘Ulama II | 1900 | إلى علماء تبريز | Kitabu’l-‘Ulama II (Tablet of the Báb Revealed to the Divines of Tabríz) | بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحان الذی یسجد له من فی السموات و من فی الارض و انا کل له ساجدون سبحان الذی یسبح له من فی السموات و من فی الارض و ما بینهما و انا کل له قانتون شهد الله | Glorified be He before Whom bow down in adoration all who dwell in the heavens and all who dwell upon the earth, and verily, we all all bow down in adoration before Him. Exalted is He by Whose praise all who are in the heavens and the earth, and all that lieth between them, extol; and we all, indeed, stand in devout obedience unto Him. God beareth witness.. [4o] | TZH2.476-483, AHDA.332x | BLO_PT#221 | Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Rejection, opposition and persecution; The truth of past religions and sacred scriptures | - | - | AHDA.460.06?, MMAH.034 | ||||
| BB00103 | Ziyarat for the martyrs | 1800 | بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. انما البهاء من الله الذی لا اله الا هو علی فوادک و فواد من فی فوادک و علی روحک و من فی روحک... قدوس قدوس قدوس انما البهاء من الله | The glory from God, no other God is there but He, rest upon thy heart and the heart of whomsoever is in thy heart, and upon thy spirit and the spirit of whomsoever is in thy spirit | INBA64:001.04-013.08, INBA_6007C.130-137, CMB_F14.104v04-110r01, | TSHA1.412-414, MANU.082-088, TZH3.424.20-426.02x | RBB.105-106x, BLO_PT#150 | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Justice and wrath of God; Power of prayer; Prayer for praise and gratitude; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | JRAS.457, BRHL.60, MSBR.206-207, SRC.099, SRC.210 | |||||
| BB00119 | Letter to Mirza Hasan-‘Ali, uncle of the Bab | 1600 | Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. قبله محترم دام عزکم تلاوت آیات کریمه را نموده ولی چه بسیار عجب است که اهل بصیرت ... والسلام خیرالکلام والحمد | O revered uncle, may thy glory endure! I have perused thy kind letter; yet how passing strange it is that the people of insight... Peace be upon the best of utterances, and praise be to [3.5s]... ...This lowly One hath completed the Commentary on the Súrih of Joseph in forty days, during which I wrote parts thereof each day | INBA91:170.11-180.06, PR04.200r05-204r11 | TZH3.283.09-286.11x | GOH.124x, MNP.002x | Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Independent investigation of truth; reality; Literal interpretation; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||
| BB00129 | Li-Akhiri’l-Mu’min | 1400 | بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. اننی انا الله لا اله الا انا قد خلقت کل شیء بامری و ان ما دونی خلقی قل ان یا خلقی ایای فاعبدون اننی قد کنت ازلاً قدیماً من قبل و من بعد | Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me. I have created all things by My command, and whatsoever is other than Me is My creation. Say: O My creation! Worship Me alone. Indeed, I have been from all eternity the Ancient of Days, before and after [3.5s] | TZH2.389-393 | Chastisement and requital; Creation of the world; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Justice and wrath of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab | - | - | AHDA.462.03z? | |||||||
| BB00136 | Epistle to Haji Mirza Aqasi 2 | 1300 | Third Epistle Revealed by the Báb to Mírzá Áqásí, The | بسم الله القهار الشدید. اشهد الله و من عنده بانه لا اله الا هو العزیز الحکیم و اشهد لما قد احاط به علم الله | I testify before God and those in His presence, that verily there is no God but He, the Mighty, the Wise, and I bear witness to that which the knowledge of God hath encompassed [4o] | RHQM1.441-446 (328-331), TZH3.085.21-089.13, OOL.A023.7 | Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | AHDA.461.09, MMAH.030, SRC.092, SRC.192 | ||||||
| BB00137 | Sahifiy-i-Radaviyyih (Epistle of Rida') | 1300 | Autobibliography in the Writings of the Báb; Excerpts from the Risáliy-i-Dhahabiyyih; Gate of the Heart | Risaliy-i-Dhahabiyyih | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی خلق الماء بسر الانشا و اقام العرش علی الماء بشان الامضا و انزل الایات من عالم العما | Praise be to God Who hath created the water by the mystery of construction, hath established the throne upon the water by the modality of execution | CMB_F28.6.1-2, , BYC_radawiya | MHA.141-142x, TZH3.290x, AHDA.473-474x fn2, OOL.A013 | BAPT.003-005x, MNP.057-058x, MNP.097-100, HURQ.BB21x, LOIR06.059ff, BLO_PT#012x, BLO_PT#034x | Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Essential vs. actional attributes of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | BRHL.68, MSBR.208-209, AHDA.449.2, AHDA.452.3, MMAH.046, MMAH.048, SRC.053-055, SRC.207, GOH.023, GOH.032, GOH.131, GOH.379fn35 | Includes the Khutbiy-i-Dhikriyyih as chapter 1. | ||
| BB00154 | Answer to Mulla Asadu’llah-i-Qazvini | 1200 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابتدع الابداع لا من ابداع قبله و اخترع الاختراع لا من اختراع بعده ثم جعل القدر | Praised be to God Who originated the Formative Genesis (ibtida` al-ibda`), not from any prior formative genesis | PR07.040v-042v, CMB_F21.115.18-120.16#18, | TZH3.013.02-016.11 | HURQ.BB27x | Creation of the world; Degrees of faith; certitude; Free will and predestination; fate; Knowledge; recognition of God; Meditation; Miracles and their interpretation; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095 | |||||
| BB00165 | Sharh-i-Du’a’-i-Sabah I | 1200 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع کل الذرات الموجودات بامره لا من شیء لتدلعن السن کل الممکنات | Praised be to God Who originated the essences of all the atoms of the realms of existence through His Logos-Command and not by means of anything other than Him | INBA14:400-409, INBA40:155-162, INBA53:411-419, INBA67:219-228, INBA_6010C:398-407, , PR02.179r08-181r20 | TZH3.027x | HURQ.BB39x | Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | MMAH.020, SRC.079, SRC.193 | |||||
| BB00170 | Tablet to Siyyid Muhammad | 1200 | Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو له الخلق و الامر یحیی و یمیت ثم یمیت و یحیی و انه هو حی لا یموت فی قبضته ملکوت کلشیء یخلق ما یشآء بأمره انه کان علی کل شیء قدیراً قل هو الحق لا اله الا هو یحی و یمیت | God testifieth that there is none other God but Him. His is the creation and the command. He giveth life and causeth death, then causeth death and giveth life, and verily He is the Ever-Living Who dieth not. In His grasp is the dominion of all things; He createth whatsoever He willeth by His command, and verily, He hath power over all things. Say: He is the Truth, there is none other God but Him. He giveth life and causeth death [3.5s]... ...Inasmuch as every morning I saw thee reciting these words, “I believe in the Mystery of the Family of Muhammad,” | INBA58:172.03-182.09 | KHSH6.010, TZH3.262, TZH3.223.06-225.07 | GOH.129x, GOH.135x | Declaration; advent of the Bab; Events in the life and ministry of the Bab; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Return of the Manifestations of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | SRC.096 | ||||
| BB00174 | Tafsir-i-Almavadda fi’l-Qurba | 1100 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی افرغنی لمشاهدة قمص طلعة حضرة ظهوره فی وسط الجبال و الهمنی | Praise be to God Who hath granted Me to behold the garments of His Manifestation's countenance amidst the mountains and hath inspired Me [3.5s] | PR07.042v-044r, CMB_F21.138.03-143.04#25, | TZH3.053.12-054.15x | Nearness and remoteness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095 | ||||||
| BB00187 | Epistle to Muhammad Shah 5 | 1100 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb | Tablets of the Báb to Muhammad Shah | بسم الله المتکبر الشدید. سبحان الذی یعلم ما فی السموات و ما فی الارض و انه لا اله الا هو الملک القهار العظیم هو الذی یقضی یوم الفصل بالحق | Glory be unto Him Who knoweth all that is in the heavens and in the earth. Verily there is no God but Him | TZH3.082.06-085.20, SWBP#05 (p.009-013), OOL.A023.5 | SWB#05 (p.018-023) | Chastisement and requital; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | AHDA.460.08, MMAH.027, SRC.097, SRC.193 | ||||
| BB00200 | 990 | هو الاعلی بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو له الخلق و الامر یحیی و یمیت ثم یمیت و یحیی و انه هو حی لا یموت فی قبضته ملکوت کلشیء یخلق ما یشآء بأمره انه کان علی کل شیء قدیراً شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو العزیز المحبوب شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو المهیمن القیوم ... فتوبوا الی ان الینا ایابکم ثم علینا حسابکم | God testifieth that there is none other God but Him. His is the creation and the command. He giveth life and causeth death, then causeth death and giveth life, and verily He is the Ever-Living Who dieth not. In His grasp is the dominion of all things; He createth whatsoever He willeth by His command, and verily, He hath power over all things. God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, the Mighty, the Best-Beloved. God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, the Help-in-Peril, the Self-Subsisting... Return ye unto Him in repentance, for unto Us is your return, then with Us shall rest your reckoning [3.5s] | INBA64:152.02-158.07 | TZH3.272x, NSS.183x | Growth of the Cause; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; The Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God the cause of creation | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00214 | Fi Bayani’l-I’tiqad | 930 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی یهدی من یشاء و یضل من یشاء و الیه کل الخلق یرجعون و ان الصلوة علی محمد رسول الله و اوصیائه الذین قد جعلهم الله ائمة الدین و ارکان اهل الیقین ... و بعد لما سمعت ان بعض الناس قد عرضوا بمحضر حضرة العالی | Praise be to God, Who guideth whom He willeth and leadeth astray whom He willeth, and unto Whom all created things shall return. And blessings rest upon Muhammad, the Apostle of God, and His chosen ones, whom God hath made the Imams of the Faith and the pillars of them that are assured... And further, when I heard that certain ones had made representations in the presence of [3.5s] | INBA14:385-390, INBA40:133-136, INBA69:411-416, INBA_6010C:383-388, , PR02.130v24-131v26, CMB_F21.089.01-093.01#11, , BYC_collect4.017-020, BYC_three.092-097 | ESCH.393, TZH2.082-084 | Events in the life and ministry of the Bab; Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.; Muhammad; Islam; Names and attributes of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.077, SRC.193 | ||||||
| BB00220 | Answer to Haji Muhammad | 910 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تمحص قلوب عباده بما نزل علیهم من آیات کتابه انه لا اله الا هو العزیز الحکیم و انا ذا فی موقفی هذا اشهد ان لا اله الا الله | Praise be to God Who doth test and purify the hearts of His servants through that which He hath revealed unto them of the verses of His Book. Verily, there is no God but Him, the Mighty, the All-Wise. And I, in this My station, do testify that there is no God but God [3.5s]... …I have read your letter and informed myself of what you mentioned In it. I had heard from your companion about the dissension in the holy land [Karbala] | PR07.038r-039r, CMB_F21.108.12-110.19#16, | TZH3.332.06-333.02 | MESSIAH.232x | Contention and conflict; House of Justice; Tahirih [Qurratu'l-'Ayn]; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095, SRC.096 | |||||
| BB00222 | Letter to Mulla Sadiq Muqaddas Khurasani | 910 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الم ذکرالله للورقة الصفرآء عن یمین الطور لا اله الا هو قل ایای فاخرجون و لقد نزلنا الیک کتاباً من قبل | Alif. Lam. Mim. The Remembrance of God hath mentioned the yellow leaf nigh the right-hand side of the Mount [Sinai], [saying] `No God is there except Him' | PYK.003, ASAT4.236-238x, TZH3.149.06-150.13x, AHDA.101 | HURQ.BB25x | House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]; Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.; Rejection of Muhammad; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | FHR#03.15, MMAH.036 | ||||||
| BB00229 | Tablet to Sultan 'Abdu'l-Majid | 900 | Epistle of Sayyid 'Alí Muhammad 'the Báb' to Sultan Abdulmecid | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحان الذی نزل الکتاب علی من یشاء من عباده و انه لا اله الا هو لغنی حمید هو الذی بیده ملکوت کل شیء و لایعزب من علمه شیء لا اله الا هو قل ایاه فاعبدون | Praise be to Him Who hath sent the Book unto whosoever He willeth among His servants | SFI08.026-027, TZH2.065-066x, AHDA.090x | LOIR04.001-015, BLO_PT#032 | Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Chastisement and requital; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#03.05, AHDA.460.07, SRC.058 | |||||
| BB00260 | Du’a’-i-Manuchihr Khan | 760 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb | اللهم ان فضلک کان على قدر مسکنتى و ان عفوک کان على قدر معصیتى فانت تعلم یا الهى ... یا الهی انت الحق لم تزل و ما سواک محتاج فقیر و انا ذا یا الهی انقطعت عن کل الناس بالتوسل الی حبلک | O my God! Thy bounty hath ever been equal to my poverty, and Thy forgiveness hath ever been equal to mine iniquity. Thou knowest, O my God... O my God! Thou art the Truth and hast ever been, and all else beside Thee is needy and poor. And here am I, O my God, detached from all mankind through my clinging to Thy cord [3.5s]... …Throughout eternity Thou hast been, O my Lord, and wilt ever remain the One true God, while all else save Thee | TZH3.277.09-15-279.18, HNMJ.001-002x, SWBP#52 (p.137-138x) | SWB#53 (p.194-194x) | almunajat.com [item 3] | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||
| BB00273 | Tawqi’i Qa’imiyyat | 720 | Epistle of Qāʾimiyyat, The | Tawqi’i Qa’imiyyat | هو الاعلی بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو له الخلق و الامر یحیی و یمیت ثم یمیت و یحیی و انه هو حی لا یموت فی قبضته ملکوت کلشیء یخلق ما یشآء بأمره انه کان علی کل شیء قدیراً ان یا علی قد اصطفیناک بامرنا و جعلناک ملکاً تنادی بین یدی القائم | God testifieth that there is none other God but Him. His is the creation and the command. He giveth life and causeth death, then causeth death and giveth life, and verily He is the Ever-Living Who dieth not. In His grasp is the dominion of all things; He createth whatsoever He willeth by His command, and verily, He hath power over all things. O Ali! We have chosen thee through Our command and made thee a king to proclaim before the Qa'im [3.5s] | CMB_F20.010v18-012r07, , BYC_tablets.062.17-065.09 | LDR.291x, TZH3.164.11-166.09, AHDA.472, QISM.014 | HURQ.BB26x | Day of Resurrection; Judgement; Muhammad; Islam; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; The Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | SRC.095, SRC.276 | |||
| BB00322 | Letter to an unnamed recipient re Mulla Husayn | 570 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. و اذا اردت ان تدخل تلک الارض المقدسة فطهر نفسک و طیب ما عندک | And when thou desirest to enter that sacred land, purify thy soul and sanctify thy possessions [3.5s] | TZH3.140.20-142.21 | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Visitation Tablets | - | - | SRC.095 | |||||||
| BB00336 | Letter to Mulla Husayn II (from Shiraz) | 540 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. شهد الله لعبده فی ذلک الکتاب انه قد آمن بالله و آیاته و کان علی صراط حق مبین و ذلک الکتاب ذکر من بقیة الله لمن اراد ان یؤمن بآیات ربه و یتبع امره و کان من الساجدین | God testifieth in this Book unto His servant that he hath believed in God and His signs, and hath remained steadfast upon a path of manifest truth. And this Book is a remembrance from the Remnant of God for whosoever desireth to believe in the signs of his Lord and follow His command, and be numbered among those who prostrate themselves [3.5s] | INBA91:001.02-003.12, INBA_5019C:318-319, , PR04.006v13-008r12 | TZH3.140.06-140.18x | Chastisement and requital; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | FHR#03.01, SRC.191 | ||||||
| BB00357 | Tawqi'a Tahrim Sharb-i-Dukhkhan (in honor of Shaykh 'Ali) | 470 | هو العلی المتکبر البدیع. سبحان الذی یعلم ما فی السموات و ما فی الارض و انه لا اله الا هو العزیز الحکیم هو الذی یبدع ما یشاء بامره و ان الذین کفروا بالله و ایاته فاولئک هم الخاسرون و ان الذین | Glorified be He Who knoweth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is on the earth. Verily, there is none other God but Him, the Almighty, the All-Wise. He it is Who createth, through His command, whatsoever He willeth. And they who have disbelieved in God and His signs, these are they who are the lost, and those who [3.5s] | CMB_F23.139v12-141r02 (45), , CMB_F20.019v11-020v03, , BYC_tablets.080.16-082.10 | TZH3.000j.04 | Alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium; Chastisement and requital; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||
| BB00368 | 450 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اللهم انی اشهدک بانی عبدک قد آمنت بک و بآیاتک | O God! I testify before Thee that I am Thy servant who hath believed in Thee and in Thy signs [3.5s] | TZH3.270.02-271.06x | - | - | ||||||||||
| BB00403 | Kitabu’l-Ahmad | 380 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی یمن علی ما یشاء من عباده و انه لا اله الا هو ذو الفضل العظیم و اثنی علی محمد صلی الله علیه و اله بما اثناه الله فی قدم الذات و ذروة الصفات | Praise be to God Who bestoweth His bounty upon whomsoever He willeth among His servants. Verily, there is none other God but Him, the Possessor of infinite grace. And I extol Muhammad—upon Him and His kindred be the blessings of God—with such praise wherewith God hath lauded Him in the eternity of His Essence and the summit of His attributes [3.5s] | PR07.031v-032r, CMB_F21.133.09-134.19#23, , BYC_collect3.024-025 | TZH3.460.14-461.16 | Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Personal instructions; Prayer for specific individuals; groups | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.095, SRC.204 | ||||||
| BB00412 | Letter to Qurrat al-'Ayn (Chihriq) | 360 | هو المتکبر الجمیل المحسن. اول طرز لاح و لمع ثم اشرق و طلع ثم اضاء و لجلج ثم انار و ارفع من ساحة قدس حضرت الکافور ... و ان ما حتمناه فی یوم الواحد بعدالعشرین من ذلک الشهر ... العزیز الرحیم | The first effulgence that shone forth and gleamed, then rose and dawned forth, then illumined and reverberated, then shed its radiance and was exalted from the sacred precincts of purest camphor... And verily that which We decreed on the twenty-first day of that month... the Mighty, the Merciful [3.5s] | HARV.6 | MBA.296-300x, TZH3.333.18-334.07x | Apocalyptic imagery; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Imam Husayn; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Smoking | - | - | SRC.096, SRC.097 | ||||||
| BB00425 | Letter to an uncle of the Báb | 340 | هو العلی المبتکر الرفیع. الحمد لله الذی عرف کافوریة کینونیة سازجیت ذاتیة وحدانیته مفسانیة کندانیة و تقدس عن نعت | Praise be unto Him Who hath wafted the camphor-like fragrance of His unity, with innate sweetness and intrinsic harmony, and Who hath sanctified it above description [3.5s] | TZH3.068a | Piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00454 | 300 | بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو العزیز المحبوب هو الاکبر بسم الله الامنع الاقدس شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو له الخلق و الامر یحیی و یمیت | God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, the Mighty, the Best-Beloved. He is the Most Great. In the Name of God, the Most Unapproachable, the Most Holy. God testifieth that there is none other God but Him. His is the creation and the command. He quickeneth and causeth to die [3.5s] | BYC_tablets.053.02-053.16 | MANU.064-065, TZH3.263?x | Creation of the world; Day of Resurrection; Judgement; Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00458 | 300 | بسم الله تعالی. یا حبیب المکرم والشفیق المحترم حرسکم الله تعالی لا تحسبن الغطاع الکسب عن ملا | O cherished friend and honored companion! May God, the Most High, protect thee! Think not that distance hath severed thee from the concourse [3.5s] | TZH3.262a | Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00470 | Epistle to Muhammad Shah 2 (to Haji Mirza Aqasi?) | 270 | Epistle of the Báb to Muḥammad Sháh Revealed at Síyáh-Dihán, The | Tablets of the Báb to Muhammad Shah | بسمه تبارک و تعالی. الحمد لله الذی یمن علی من یشاء بحکمه سبحانه و تعالی عما یصفون الله یعلم خداوند شاهد است بر حال من و کفی به شهیدا که ذنبی متحمل نشده ام که باعث چنین حکمی شده باشد | Praise be to God Who bestoweth wisdom upon whomsoever He willeth, and glorified be He above all that they ascribe unto Him. God knoweth, and the Lord beareth witness - and sufficient is He as witness - that I have committed no transgression warranting such a decree [3.5s] | ASAT2.189x, HNU.220-221, TZH2.139-140, AHDA.262, OOL.A023.2 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | BRHL.68, MSBR.208-209, AHDA.460.08, SRC.064, SRC.193 | |||||
| BB00487 | Letter to Mulla Ahmad Mu'allim Hisari | 250 | و ان ما ذکرت من مراتب الاختلاف فمالک و ذکر تلک الاخبار فان ظاهر الدین هو طبق باطنه | As to what thou hast mentioned concerning the degrees of difference, what hast thou to do with relating such accounts? For verily the outer form of religion conformeth to its inner truth [3.5s]... ...As for what you have asked about the pure leaf, concerning the fact that she has claimed for herself the station of being a proof for others | TZH3.333.02-333.16x | MESSIAH.233x | False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Tahirih [Qurratu'l-'Ayn] | - | - | SRC.096 | ||||||
| BB00489 | Letter to the great uncle | 240 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی من علی بالبلاء و احمده بما نزل علی من البأساء والضراء بما فعل بغیر حق اهل الشرک و العصیان و ان الی اشکوتنی و حزنی | Praise be unto God, Who hath bestowed upon me the Grace to thank Him for His ordeals. | KKD1.105-106, TZH2.126, AHDA.231 | CHH.023-025 | Events in the life and ministry of the Bab; One universal law; attractive power of love; Power of love; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||
| BB00497 | Letter to Khal-i-Asghar I | 230 | هو الله المتکبر العزیز المستعان. حال تحریر یوم عید اکبر است الحمد لله کما هو یحب و یرضی ... جهة شیراز فرستاده باشند که مطلع از ذکر حدیث شوند | Now, at the time of writing, it is the Most Great Festival. Praise be unto God, even as He loveth and is well-pleased... let them be sent unto Shiraz that they may become apprised of the mention of the tradition [3.5s] | TZH3.068c | Business; financial; property matters | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00518 | 190 | و ان ما سئلت من اختلاف الناس فی حق الطاهرة فان مجمل القول فی حقها انه حق علی الکل ان یصمتوا | As to what thou hast asked concerning the diverse opinions of the people regarding Tahirih, verily the essence of the matter concerning her is that it behooveth all to remain silent [3.5s] | TZH2.176-177 | Changing and unchanging parts of religion; Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa]; Tahirih [Qurratu'l-'Ayn] | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00521 | Answer to Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali | 180 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی یمن علی من یشاء بذکره و انه لا اله الا هو العزیز الحکیم یا الهی کیف ادعوک و انک تری ... و ان ما سئلت من حکم الطاهرة علی الارض الم??دسة فقد اذنت لها من قبل بالخروج لما تقع بها الفتنه هنالک | Praise be to God, Who bestoweth His remembrance upon whomsoever He willeth. Verily, there is none other God but Him, the Mighty, the Wise. O my God, how shall I call upon Thee, seeing Thou art the All-Seeing One... As for that which thou hast asked concerning the matter of Tahirih in the sacred land, permission was granted her aforetime to depart when turmoil arose therein [4o] | PR07.030v-030v, BYC_collect3.008-009 | TZH3.331.15-332.05 | Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; The Imamate; the Caliphate; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||
| BB00555 | Li-Mulla Sadiq | 150 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. شهد الله لعبده انه قد آمن بالله و آیاته و کان من الصادقین اللهم انک تعلم کل شیء و ما یعمل العاملون لوجهک و انک قد وعدت علی لسان اولیائک للذین یصبر | God testifieth concerning His servant that he hath believed in God and His signs, and was among the truthful ones. O God! Thou knowest all things, and whatsoever they who act for Thy sake do perform, and Thou hast promised through the tongue of Thy chosen ones unto them that show patience [3.5s] | PYK.004, TZH3.150.17-151.03 | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00582 | Letter to Hajj Sulayman Khan (from Medina) | 110 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. ان هذا کتاب قد سطرت من ید الذکر هذا علی حکیم و انه لعلی علی صراط مستقیم و ان ربک یعلم غیب السموات | Verily, this book has been written by the hand of this, the Remembrance, Exalted and Wise. Verily, he is exalted upon the straight path. Verily, he knows the invisble world of the heavens and the earth | INBA91:029.10-030.04, INBA_5019C:299-300?, , INBA_6012C.261-262, , CMB_F28.7.03-04, | TZH2.059-060 | KSHK.BWB | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | FHR#03.09, FHR#03.22?, BRHL.68, MSBR.208-209, AHDA.461.14?, AHDA.610.12, SRC.191, SRC.192 | |||||
| BB00610 | 60 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. تحصنت بذی الملک و الملکوت و اعتصمت بذی العزة و الجبروت | I have sought refuge with the Possessor of the Dominion and the Kingdom. I have sought shelter with the Posessor of Power and Sovereignty. I have trusted in the Living who neither sleeps nor dies | TZH2.379 | KSHK.BWB | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for protection; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00635 | Seal of the Báb | 10 | شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو العزیز المحبوب | God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, the Almighty, the Best-Beloved | CMB_F23.162v03-169v01 (56), , CMB_F25.4, | TZH3.068c, QISM.001 | KSHK.BWB | - | - | |||||||
| BB00649 | Seal of the Báb | 10 | اننی انا حجة الله و نوره | Verily, I am the proof of God and His light | CMB_F23.132v14-133v04 (33), , CMB_F25.4, | TZH3.068c, QISM.001 | KSHK.BWB | Manifestation of God as sun; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God | - | - | ||||||
| BB00665 | Letter to Mirza Siyyid Hasan Khurasani (from Bushihr) | 830 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اقرء کتاب ذکر اسم ربک ثم اسجد لحکمه انه لا اله الا هو لغنی حمید و انه لکتاب قد نزل من حکم بقیة الله امام حق مبین | Read thou the Book wherein is remembered the Name of thy Lord, then humble thyself before His decree. Verily, there is no God but Him, the Self-Sufficient, the All-Praised. And verily this is a Book sent down through the decree of the Remnant of God, the manifest Imam of Truth [3.5s] | INBA91:018.08-023.02 | TZH3.169x, NSS.082ax | Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | FHR#03.13?, FHR#03.02? | ||||||
| BB00684 | 10 | انّا بعثنا علياً من مرقده وارسلناه اليک لو عرفته لسجدت بين يديه | Verily, We raised up 'Alí from His resting-place and sent Him unto thee. Hadst thou recognized Him, thou wouldst have bowed down before Him [3.5s] | ASAM.253x, TZH3.088x | - | - | ||||||||||
| BH00002 | Kitab-i-Iqan (The Book of Certitude) | 36200 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Kitáb-i-Íqán; Tablet of the True Seeker" from the Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude), The | Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Tablet of the True Seeker | الباب المذکور فی بیان ان العباد لن یصلن الی شاطی بحر العرفان الا بالانقطاع | No man shall attain the shores of the ocean of true understanding except he be detached from all that is in heaven and on earth.... Verily He Who is the Daystar of Truth and Revealer of the Supreme Being holdeth, for all time, undisputed sovereignty…. But, O my brother, when a true seeker determineth to take the step of search… | BLIB_Or03116.078-127, , BLIB_Or15696.076cx, , CMB_F58, CMB_F59, IOL.440, IOM.092-093, SOAS ms.46696, CUL.X893.7.B111, BN_suppl.1400 | BRL_IqanP, GWBP#013 p.020x, GWBP#019 p.038x, GWBP#022 p.041x, GWBP#090 p.117x, GWBP#091 p.119x, GWBP#125 p.170x, TZH4.214-223x, OOL.B017 | IQAN, GWB#013x, GWB#019x, GWB#022x, GWB#090x, GWB#091x, GWB#125x, GPB.006x, GPB.007x, GPB.022x, GPB.023x, GPB.050x2x, GPB.057x2x, GPB.058x2x, GPB.079x, GPB.079-080x, GPB.098-099x, GPB.118-119x, GPB.119-120x, GPB.120x, GPB.126x, GPB.141x, GPB.175x, GPB.176x2x, PDC.020x, PDC.129x, PDC.129-130x, PDC.130x, PDC.130-131x, PDC.133x2x, PDC.138x, PDC.151x, PDC.162x2x, PDC.163x, PDC.176x, PDC.179x4x, WOB.024-025x, WOB.058x, WOB.062ax, WOB.113x, WOB.113-114x, WOB.114-115x, WOB.115x, WOB.115-116x, WOB.124x, WOB.124-125x, WOB.125x4x, WOB.125-126x, WOB.166x, SW_v03#01 p.003x, SW_v07#16 p.163-164x, BLO_PT#020, BSC.003 #001-035x | R. Dupras (¶1), L. Manifold (¶1), Savva, Danika, Lauren, Adeeb & Jeremy (¶1), Ahdieh (¶64), Mathilde (¶65), R. Peterson (¶107) [track 3], E. Mahony (¶151), Eswatini Baha'i Choir (¶213), Soulrise Melodies (¶214), K. Key (¶214), S. Toloui-Wallace (¶216) | Bahá’u’lláh’s preeminent doctrinal work as well as His second longest, answering four questions from an uncle of the Báb regarding prophetic expectation and fulfilment, affirming the essential unity of the prophets of God while simultaneously acknowledging the distinctiveness of their persons and missions, expounding the concept of progressive revelations from God that are renewed about every thousand years, summarizing the spiritual prerequisites of the seekers on the spiritual path, clarifying the central role in that path of the independent investigation of reality, condemning the clergy for their role in the rejection of the prophets from age to age, and emphasizing, through a commentary on certain verses of the gospels, the need for a symbolic as opposed to a literal understanding of sacred scriptures. | Abraham; Isaac; Ishmael; Belief and denial; Christ; Christianity; Christian rejection of Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Dissimulation [taqiyyih]; concealment or denial of Faith; Exhortations and counsels; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people; Knowledge; recognition of God; Law of obligatory prayer; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Literal interpretation; Living waters; water of life; Manifestation of God as mediator; Manifestation of God as sun; Moses; Noah; Oneness; unity of religion; Power of the Manifestation of God; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Quotation from or interpretation of the Bible; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Return of Christ; second coming of Christ; Return of the Manifestations of God; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Seal of the Prophets; Spiritual springtime; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | * | LAC.113-174, ROB1.153 et al, BKOG.165, GPB.138, GPB.172, EBTB.121, EBTB.221, EBTB.227, MMAH.071, GSH.013, LL#029, LL#278 | |
| BH00004 | Kitab-i-Badi' | 84700 | Translation List; Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Kitáb-i-Badi (Wondrous Book) | مکتوبت که مشعر بر بعض روایات غیرمحققه و اخبارات غیرصادقه بود باین عبد فانی | Thy letter, containing certain unsubstantiated accounts and false reports, was received by this servant. On the one hand, it opened the portals of joy… By God! The relationship between the Revelation of the Primal Point (the Bab) and this most wondrous, this most glorious Revelation is identical to that of the Revelation of John, son of Zechariah (John the Baptist), and the Spirit of God (Jesus) | BLIB_Or15709.001, | BADI, BADIZ, AVK3.009.10x, AVK3.147.12x, AVK3.254.12x, AVK3.457.03x, KHSH08.005x, TZH4.238-239x, MAS4.121x, MAS8.039b.15x, TSQA4.052x, ASAT2.102x, AKHA_137BE #06 p.081x, ANDA#10 p.66x, ANDA#72 p.29x, ANDA#73 p.49x, ANDA#55 p.03x, ANDA#58 p.65x, HYK.267x, HYK.283x, HYK.343x, MSHR3.274x, OOL.B016 | BRL_ATBH#54x, BRL_ATBH#56x, BRL_ATBH#57x, LTDT.024-025x, LTDT.055x, COC#1016x, LOG#1004x, COF.101x3x, TDH#158.18x, GPB.028x, GPB.092x, GPB.147x, WOB.124x, BLO_sazedj#13x, ADMS#057x, ADMS#182x, BTO#10x, ADMS#298x, ADMS#300x | Bahá’u’lláh’s trenchant apologia of His claims, by far His longest single work, written in the voice of one of His supporters, emphasizing the importance of recognizing the truth through the eye of the heart and refuting seven specific accusations levelled by a certain follower of Mírzá Yaḥyá. The answers emphasize the importance of ‘He Whom God shall make manifest’ in the writings of the Báb, declare Bahá’u’lláh’s claim to be the fulfilment of that promise, assert that the relationship between the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh is the same as that between John the Baptist and Jesus Christ, and warn the questioner of the wrath of God. | Alteration of the divine will [bada]; Belief and denial; Blind imitation [taqlid]; Call to unity; prohibition of disunity; Chastisement and requital; Contention and conflict; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Empty learning; false spirituality; Exhortations and counsels; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Knowledge; recognition of God; Literal interpretation; Manifestation of God as mirror; Manifestation of God the only route to knowledge of God; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Outward and inward meanings; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Prayer for forgiveness; Presence of; reunion with God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Seal of the Prophets; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual springtime; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; The Bayan, its laws and their abrogation; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity; oneness of humanity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God and human limitations; Word of God is its own standard; Words vs deeds | * | - | LAC.175-210, ROB2.370 et al, BKOG.124, BKOG.245, BKOG.257, GSH.097, LL#028 | ||
| BH00005 | Lawh-i-Ibn-i-Dhi'b (Epistle to the Son of the Wolf) | 28200 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Epistle to the Son of the Wolf; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | Lawh-i-Ibn-i-Dhib (Epistle to the Son of the Wolf) | الحمد لله الباقی بلا فناء و الدائم بلا زوال و القائم بلا انتقال المهیمن | Praise be to God, the Eternal that perisheth not, the Everlasting that declineth not, the Self-Subsisting that altereth not.... O God, my God! Attire mine head with the crown of justice... Thou seest me, O my Lord, with my face turned towards the heaven | BLIB_Or15708.001, , BLIB_Or15721.001, , BLIB_Or15726.082x, | BRL_ESWP, AQA6#237 p.136x, TZH4.114-115x, YMM.306x, OOL.B047 | ESW, BPRY.075x, ADJ.028ax2x, ADJ.077x, COF.101ax, TDH#158.20, GPB.071x, GPB.071-072x, GPB.097x3x, GPB.101x2x, GPB.102x2x, GPB.114x2x, GPB.124x, GPB.125x, GPB.133x, GPB.137x, GPB.184x9x, GPB.194x2x, GPB.217x2x, GPB.218x3x, PDC.015-016x, PDC.017x, PDC.082x, PDC.117-118x, PDC.118x2x, PDC.125-126x, PDC.141-142x, PDC.142x, PDC.142-143x, PDC.148x, PDC.162x, PDC.181x, PDC.184-185x, PDC.187x, WOB.186x, SW_v01#18 p.004-005x, SW_v05#15 p.226x, BSC.118 #048x, HURQ.BH74x | L. Thoresen [track 2], Charisse et al, Smith & Dragoman, E. Mahony, Baha'i Youth of Japan, Y. Mbazo & the Durban Baha'i Choir, A. Rae, Taraz, Nthabiseng & Page, MANA, S. Toloui-Wallace, S. Jaberi, Arman & Gloria, Steve & Atosa | His last major work and His third longest, calling on its recipient, a leading mujtahid, to repent of his role in the oppression and massacre of the Bahá’ís, quoting some of the most celebrated passages from His own writings, and adducing proofs establishing the validity of His cause. | Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Being a source of light; guidance; Chastity and purity; Collection; ordering of the Sacred Writings; Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Contention and conflict; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Dissimulation [taqiyyih]; concealment or denial of Faith; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; East and West; communication between East and West; Empty learning; false spirituality; Fanaticism and hatred; Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; High station of learning; Holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Idle fancies; lust and passion; Incarceration of Baha'u'llah in Siyah Chal; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Knowledge; recognition of God; Knowledge of self; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Manifestation of God does not act of own volition; Martyrs and martyrdom; Oneness; unity of religion; Piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for forgiveness; Prayer for praise and gratitude; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Rebellion and sedition; disobedience; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Shrines and Holy places; Spiritual warfare; struggle; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Status of kings; future of monarchy; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause; Teachings as spirit of the age; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Theft; seizing the properties of others; The golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Unity; oneness of humanity; Universal peace; world unity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; War and peace; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness | * | * | ROB4.368 et al, BKOG.382, GPB.219, GPB.238, EBTB.147, MMAH.122, MMAH.129, GSH.148, LL#124 | |
| BH00012 | Javahiru'l-Asrar (Gems of Divine Mysteries) | 10360 | Gems of Divine Mysteries | Javáhiru'l-Asrár (Gems of Divine Mysteries) | یا ایها السالک فی سبل العدل و الناظر الی طلعه الفضل قد بلغ کتابک و عرفت سوالک | O thou who treadest the path of justice and beholdest the countenance of mercy! Thine epistle was received, thy question was noted | INBA46:001, INBA66:036, INBA99:001, PR07.015b-029b, LEID.Or4970.1-26, UMich968.041-052x | BRL_Jawahir, AQA3#067 p.004, TZH4.189-190x, TZH4.190-191x, TZH4.191x, ANDA#21 p.04x, OOL.B157 | GDM | D. Stevenson (¶110) | A lengthy commentary in answer to a question on the fulfilment of prophetic expectations in unexpected ways, describing the difficulties encountered in understanding sacred scriptures, offering keys to their symbolic interpretation with reference to a passage in the Gospels, and describing in a manner similar to ‘the Seven Valleys’ the stages traversed by the spiritual wayfarers. | Jabulqa and Jabarsa; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Mystical themes; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Prophecy and fulfillment; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud]; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | LOC.062-066, ROB1.151, MMAH.195, GSH.027, LL#023 | |
| BH00021 | Suriy-i-Muluk | 8150 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Summons of the Lord of Hosts; Days of Remembrance | Suriy-i-Muluk (Surih to the Kings) | هذا کتاب من هذا العبد الذی سمی بالحسین فی ملکوت الاسما الی ملوک الارض کله | This is a Tablet from this Servant, who is called Ḥusayn in the kingdom of names, to the concourse of the kings of the earth. | INBA71:123, BLIB_Or15723.001, , IOM.098-099, PR11.043b-064a, PR19.048a-061b, PR23.016a-029b | NRJ#5, GWBP#065 p.086x, GWBP#066 p.087x, GWBP#113 p.143x, GWBP#114 p.150x, GWBP#116 p.158x, GWBP#118 p.160x, RSBB.040, TZH4.328-353, BCH.008x, PYB#129 p.03x, OOL.B131, AMB#36x | SLH#05, GWB#065x, GWB#066x, GWB#113x, GWB#114x, GWB#116x, GWB#118x, DOR#36x, LOG#1615x, COF.138-139x, GPB.161x4x, GPB.171x, GPB.172x7x, GPB.175x4x, GPB.210x, GPB.230x2x, PDC.007x, PDC.020x, PDC.027-028x, PDC.033-034x, PDC.034x, PDC.034-035x, PDC.035x2x, PDC.035-038x, PDC.038-039x, PDC.043-044x, PDC.060x, PDC.060-062x, PDC.062x, PDC.062-063x, PDC.063-064x, PDC.098x4x, PDC.098-099x, PDC.114-115x, PDC.143x, PDC.146-147x, PDC.182x, WOB.108x, WOB.174x, WOB.177x3x, WOB.177-178x, WOB.178x | E. Mahony | His most momentous proclamatory work, though not yet divulging the totality of His messianic claim, in which He counsels and chastises, in turn, the entire company of the kings of the earth, the kings of Christendom, the French Ambassador in Constantinople, the ministers of the Ottoman Sultan, the inhabitants of Istanbul, the Sultan himself, the Persian Ambassador to the Sultan, the people of Persia, the divines and wise men of Constantinople, and the philosophers of the world. | Chastisement and requital; Justice and wrath of God; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | ROB2.301 et al, BKOG.207, BKOG.213, BKOG.330, GPB.171, MMAH.158, GSH.090, LL#319 | |
| BH00031 | Suriy-i-Nush | 7310 | Surih of Admonition (Suratu'l-Nus'h); Days of Remembrance | Suriy-i-Nush (Surih of Counsel) | فسبحان الذی نزل الایات بالحق علی النبیین و المرسلین و ینزل حینئذ علی ما کان | Glorified be He Who hath sent down the verses in truth unto the Prophets and Messengers, and Who doth now send down what hath ever been [3.5s]... ...Announce unto My servants the advent of the One Who came unto them with the power of truth bearing the name of ‘Alí | INBA47:171, INBA36:242, INBA73:181.09x, INBA83:001, PR19.034b-048b | BRL_DA#727, AVK2.228.08x, TZH4.200-202x, LMA1.350 (209), MAS4.135x, ASAT3.024x, YMM.152x, OOL.B133, AMB#35x | DOR#35x, GPB.141x6x, BLO_PT#097, NYR#145x | A lengthy work recounting the stories of the prophets of God and their rejection by the people and clergy of their day, and exhorting the people of this day not to reject ‘Him Whom God shall make manifest’ upon His appearance. | Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Noah; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Stories; anecdotes; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | ROB1.137, MMAH.207, LL#321 | ||
| BH00047 | Haft Vadi (The Seven Valleys) | 6100 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Call of the Divine Beloved | Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys) | الحمد لله الذی اظهر الوجود من العدم و رقم علی لوح الانسان من اسرار القدم و | Praise be to God Who hath made being to come forth from nothingness; graven upon the tablet of man a measure of the mysteries of His eternity | INBA35:293, INBA33:101, BLIB_Or03116.067, , NLI.32p061r, PR19.024b-032b | BRL_Haft, AQA3#068 p.092, AVK1.320x, TZH4.151-153x, YMM.310x, OOL.B006 | CDB#2, BSC.159 #164-174, HURQ.BH12 | MJ Cyr (1), MJ Cyr (2), TaliaSafa & Friends, Rachel, Ethan & Ilia, E. Sabariego, G. Burriston & P. Kay, Ine, Ine, MANA, N. Hamilton, A.E. Rahbin, Gyenyame, E. Kelly, T. Ellis, M. Levine, P. Marin, J. Luckey [track 1], L. Dely & M. Congo, T. Francis | His most important mystical composition, patterned in part after Faríd’u’d-Dín ‘Aṭṭár’s Manṭiqu’l-Ṭayr (‘The Conference of the Birds’), describing seven stages in the path of the spiritual wayfarers—‘search’, ‘love’, ‘knowledge’, ‘unity’, ‘contentment’, ‘wonderment’, and ‘true poverty and absolute nothingness’—and revealing that the source of conflict upon earth can be traced to the wayfarers’ lack of awareness of the relative truths to be found within each of these stages. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Love as fire; Love of God; Microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar]; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud]; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | * | ROB1.096, BKOG.139, BKOG.159-161, GPB.140, MMAH.096, GSH.017, LL#016 | |
| BH00049 | Lawh-i-Nasir | 5960 | Tablet to Hájí Muhammad-Nasír-i-Qazvíní (Lawh-i-Hájí Muhammad-Nasír-i-Qazvíní); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Nasir or Lawh-i-Hájí Muhammad-Nasír-i-Qazvíní (Tablet to Hájí Muhammad-Nasir-i-Qazvini) | قلم اعلی لازال بر اسم احبای خود متحرک و جاری و آنی از فیوضات لابدایات خود | The Pen of the Most High hath never ceased to make mention of the names of His loved ones…. All praise be unto Thee, O Lord, in that Thou hast sent down from the heaven of Thy bounty that whereby the worlds are purified | INBA73:144, CMB_F22, , PR19.061b-069b, PR23.052b-060b, BN_suppl.1754.064-075 | BRL_DA#032, GWBP#053 p.076x, GWBP#075 p.097x, ADM2#106 p.191x, AVK1.019.01x, AVK1.150x, AVK2.016.15x, AVK2.075.20x, AVK2.116.03x, AVK3.313.15x, AVK3.407.08x, AVK4.141.02x, MJMM.166, RSBB.152, TZH4.121x, MAS4.160bx, DLS.506x, ASAT1.032x, ASAT1.123x, ASAT1.154x, ASAT2.058x, ASAT2.101x, ASAT2.191x, ASAT3.009x, ASAT3.093x, ASAT3.203x, ASAT3.217x, ASAT4.006x, ASAT4.008x, ASAT4.372x, ASAT5.224x, ADH1.083x, YMM.340x, OOL.B063 | BRL_ATBH#74x, GWB#053x, GWB#075x, COC#1651x, COC#1652x, ADJ.057x, GPB.171x, GPB.377x, WOB.106x, BLO_PT#176, HURQ.BH52, JHT_S#092x | Affirms the ceaselessness of divine grace and guidance, which brings forth fruit provided the seed is cast upon fertile soil; asserts the continuity of His mission with those of Jesus, Muhammad, and the Báb; clarifies the position of Mírzá Yaḥyá as nominal figurehead; exposes the latter’s attempt to take Bahá’u’lláh’s life; and affirms that ‘every man hath been, and will continue to be, able of himself to appreciate the Beauty of God’. | Chastisement and requital; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar]; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB2.245 et al, MMAH.193, GSH.173, LL#201 | ||
| BH00056 | 5660 | الله لا اله الا هو الذی ینطق فیکل شیء انه لا اله الا هو له العزه و الجلال | God, no God is there but Him, Who speaketh in all things. Verily, there is none other God but Him. His is the glory and the majesty [3.5s]... ...Soon will the cry, 'Yea, yea, here am I, here am I' be heard from every land. For there hath never been, nor can there ever be, any other refuge to fly to for anyone | INBA27:147 | BRL_DA#085, TZH4.212-213x, MAS4.359bx, RHQM1.214-214 (271x) (162-162x), KHAF.035x, PYK.186 | ADJ.081-082x | Consolation and comfort; Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Power of prayer; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | - | - | |||||||
| BH00076 | Suriy-i-Ashab (=Lawh-i-Habib) | 4960 | Surah of the Companions | Suriy-i-Ashab or Lawh-i Habib (Surah of the Companions or Tablet for the Beloved One) | ح ب اسمع ندآء الله عن جهه العرش بایات مهیمن مقدم عظیم لعل تقلب بکلک الی | H.B. Give ear unto the divine summons from the precincts of the Throne, as We recite to thee the verses of God | INBA83:027b, BLIB_Or15723.031b, | AQA4#072b p.001, AQA4a.205, TZH4.354-360, MAS4.355ax, ASAT3.071x, OOL.B039, OOL.B107 | WOB.108-109x, BLO_PT#094, HURQ.BH32 | Proclamatory work playing a major role in the conversion of the followers of the Báb to the cause of Bahá’u’lláh, declaring His prophetic station to a number of receptive individuals while attesting that if it were revealed to humanity to an extent smaller than a needle’s eye, it would cause every mountain to crumble into dust. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of faith; power of the spirit; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB2.065, MMAH.151, GSH.075, LL#095, LL#293 | ||
| BH00108 | Mathnavi-yi-Mubarak | 4040 | Mathnaviyí-i Mubárak; Mathnaví-yi Mubárak; Mathnaví of the Blessed One | Mathnaviyi-i Mubarak | ای حیات العرش خورشید وداد که جهان و امکان چه تو نوری نزاد گر نبودی خلق محجوب | You! Life-force of God's throne, compassion's sun, Time's universe has birthed no light like Yours! From seeing God, creation's eyes are barred | INBA30:131, OSAI I.MMSx, , MKA.06 Mil Yz A 2791 p14, | BRL_DA#272, MSNV, AQA3#070 p.160, DWNP_v4#07 p.038-039x, DWNP_v5#04 p.003x, TZH4.139-141x, HHA.058x, ASAT1.119x, ASAT4.015x, AHB_124BE #01 p.002x, AHB_130BE #03-04 p.130x, OOL.B089 | GPB.099x, BLO_PT#055, BLO_PT#218, HURQ.BH28 | Ahdieh (1), Ahdieh (2), unknown | Ecstatic poem in rhyming couplets, written during the journey to Istanbul and announcing the Day of God and the divine springtime but warning that it can only be perceived by those possessing a spiritual eye. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | - | ROB2.029, MMAH.233, GSH.071, LL#270 | |
| BH00113 | Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words - Persian) | 3970 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Hidden Words | Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words) | ای صاحبان هوش و گوش اول سروش دوست این است ای بلبل معنوی جز در گلبن معانی جای | O ye people that have minds to know and ears to hear! The first call of the Beloved is this | INBA65:115, INBA36:383, INBA30:014, BLIB_Or15714.131c, , CMB_F33.001, , NLI.32p048v, BLIB_Or.08117, BLIB_Or.08685, CUL.X893.7.B111, Majlis210461.030-045, BN_suppl.1974.001 | BRL_HWP, GWBP#042 p066ax, GWBP#104 p.136bx, ZYN.001, AHM.421, MJMM.373, BSHN.017x, MHT2b.036x, UAB.047dx, UAB.048ax, UAB.048bx, UAB.069ax, UAB.069bx, TZH4.223-224, NFF4.017, OOL.B013b | HWPE, GWB#042x, GWB#104x, LOG#0835x, ADJ.081x, BADM.155-156x, PDC.007x, PDC.148x, PDC.149x, WOB.059-060x, WOB.116x, WOB.201x, SW_v03#02 p.005x, SW_v05#10 p.150-151x, SW_v14#11 p.321x, BLO_PT#061 | S. Toloui-Wallace (#1), S. Taefi (#1) [track 1], R. Johnston-Garvin (#1) [track 7], Baha'i Youth of Japan (#2), S. Taefi (#2) [track 2], L. Dely & M. Congo (#2), S. Toloui-Wallace (#3), K. Key (#3), A. Bridges (#3), L. Slott (#3), Rowshan (#3), SKY (#3), E. Mahony (#3), L. Dely (#3), S. Engle and J. White (#3), Delia Olam (#3), B. Vahdat (#3), Sanale & Xolani (#3), Nora, Sasha & Ann-Sofie (#3), NKAK (#3), Zannetta (#3) [track 10], A.E. Rahbin (#3), B. Silvestre (#3), R. Bennett (#3), S. Kouchekzadeh (#3), L. Dube (#3) [track 6], D. Hunt (#4), A. Youssefi (#4), Bass Adjustment (#4), S. Taefi (#4) [track 4], G.H. Miller (#4), Rowshan (#4) [track 6], Nabil and Karim (#4), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#4), N. Ma'ani (#4), A. Stephen (#4), A. Wood (#4), G. Besungu (#4), Ahdieh (#4), S. Parak (#4), A. Youssefi (#7), G.H. Miller (#7), S. Zahrai (#7), A.E. Rahbin (#7), B. Khademi (#7), G. and M. Smith (#7), S. Zein (#7), The Badasht Project (#8), A. Wensbo (#8), A. Bryan (#8), G.H. Miller (#9), A. Toufighian & A. Youssefi (#9), A. Wensbo (#10), L. Dube (#10) [track 18], S. Taefi (#10) [track 5], G.H. Miller (#11), S. Taefi (#11) [track 7], Naim, Miad & Justus (#11), Z. Rolle (#11), A. Bryan (#12), E. Mahony (#12), J. Sweeting & M. Weigert (#12), Chicago Baha'i Community (#12), MANA (#12), Meredith & Arman (#12), J. Cooper (#12), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#13), G.H. Miller (#13), S. and S. Toloui-Wallace (#14), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#14), MANA (#14), S. Esmaeili (#14), S. Peyman (#14), J. Cooper (#14), Rowshan (#16), A.E. Rahbin (#16), G.H. Miller (#16), L. Dely & M. Congo (#16), G.H. Miller (#18), O. Master (#19), S. Taefi (#20) [track 10], G.H. Miller (#21), Anis & Friends (#21), T. Ellis (#21), S. Taefi (#21) [track 8], R. Johnston-Garvin (#21) [track 6], E. Mahony (#21), N. Ma'ani (#22), D. Stevenson (#26), M. Kerr (#26), A.E. Rahbin (#26), J. Marks and S. Engle (#26), Chicago Baha'i Community (#26), Ashwin & Arhwin (#26), Temple of Light (#29), L. Dube (#30) [track 11], G.H. Miller (#31), TaliaSafa (#31), E. Mahony (#31), Turning Point (#31), S. Taefi (#31) [track 3], A. & M. Zemke (#31) [track 5], N. Ma'ani (#31), G.H. Miller (#32), TaliaSafa (#32), A. Wensbo (#32), MANA (#32), S. Trick (#32), S. and S. Toloui-Wallace (#33), A. Youssefi (#33), L. Dube (#34) [track 4], Carmel, Roya & Maryam (#35), A.E. Rahbin (#36), S. and S. Toloui-Wallace (#38), S. Toloui-Wallace (#38), F. Lionheart (#38), J. Cooper (#38), Seaon, Sasha & Sam (#38), S. Taefi (#38) [track 6], S. Bayan & S. Suggs (#38), L. Dely (#38), N. Hamilton (#38), B. Khademi (#39), A.E. Rahbin (#39), S. Toloui-Wallace (#40), Rasmus & Ann-Sofie (#40), Voices of Baha 2010 (#40), T. Ellis (#40), A Family Affair (#40), A. Youssefi (#40), The Badasht Project (#40), Refuge (#40), R. Peterson (#40) [track 8], Nabil and Karim (#40), E. Mahony, F. Doomun-Rouhani & M. Brown (#40), J. Cooper (#40), S. Parak (#40), A. Youssefi (#40), N. Hamilton (#40), Kiskadee (#40), L. Dely (#40), Rasmus & Ann-Sofie (#40), L. Dely & M. Congo (#42), J. Cooper (#42), L. Dely & M. Congo (#44) [track 9], D. E. Walker (#44), S. Cleasby (#44), MANA (#44), M. Sparrow (#45), L. Dube (#63) [track 13], G.H. Miller (#64), G.H. Miller (#70), Bosch Bluegrass Band (#72), Arrayanes (#72) [track 8], A. Youssefi (#73), Friends from Mongolia (#73), N. D. Huening (#76), C. & L. Heggie (#80), K. Key (#80) | The Persian portion of His foremost ethical work, consisting of 82 aphorisms spoken in the voice of the Divine and declaring themselves to be the ‘inner essence’ of what was revealed to ‘the Prophets of old’, affirming the essential nobility and divinity of the human soul, prescribing its intimate communion with its Creator, proclaiming the oneness of the human race, and declaring our consequent responsibility to fellowship, love, fair-mindedness, and mutual aid for one another, especially the poor and downtrodden. | Begging; mendicancy; idleness and sloth; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Goodly deeds; actions; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Justice and wrath of God; Love of God; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Primordial Covenant; the day of alast; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Words vs deeds | * | * | ROB1.071 et al, BKOG.159 et al, GPB.140, MMAH.092, GSH.016, LL#025 | |
| BH00115 | Qasidiy-i-'Izz-i-Varqa'iyyih (Ode of the Dove) | 3950 | Ode of the Dove; Baha'u'llah's Notes to His "Ode of the Dove"; Bahá'u'lláh's "Ode of the Dove" | Qasidiyyih-Varqaiyyih (Ode of the Dove) | اجذبتنی بوارق انوار طلعه لفروغها کل الشموس تخفت کان بروق الشمس من نور حسنها | A face flashing with light drew me to her; all the suns dimmed before her radiance | INBA36:419, INBA66:175x | BRL_DA#803, AQA3#071 p.196, TZH4.148x, MAS4.197, MAS8.039ax, RHQM2.0878-887 (299) (184-191), OOL.B092 | GPB.118x, BLO_PT#017x, BLO_PT#059, JBS#29.3.43, HURQ.BH04 | A lengthy poem composed in the style of a poem by Ibn-i-Fáriḍ, glorifying the spirit that had visited Him in the form of the Maid of Heaven, expatiating on His sufferings and His loneliness and affirming His determination to face any future calamities that might befall Him in the path of God. | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | - | ROB1.062, ROB1.084, BKOG.118, BKOG.415, EBTB.098, MMAH.087, GSH.010, LL#274 | ||
| BH00134 | Madinatu't-Tawhid (the City of Unity) | 3720 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Madínatu't-Tawhíd (City of Unity) | تلک آیات الکتاب فصلت آیاته بدعیا غیر ذی عوج علی آیات الله و هدی و نوری | These are the verses of the Book, whose signs have been set forth with wondrous originality, free from all crookedness, dwelling upon the signs of God, and serving as guidance and light [3.5s]... ...Beware, O believers in the Unity of God, lest ye be tempted to make any distinction between any of the Manifestations of His Cause | INBA36:199, BLIB_Or07852.046, , NLAI_BH3.074, PR03.251b13-254a15, PR19.017a-025b | BRL_DA#283, GWBP#024 p.046x, TZH4.225-227, MAS4.313, ASAT5.286x, MMUH#13x, MSBH5.443-444x, OOL.B088 | GWB#024x, GPB.003x, PDC.011x, PDC.111x, HURQ.BH15, JHT_B#009 | A theological discussion of the concept of divine unity from various perspectives: the unity of the divine Essence, of the divine attributes, of the divine Manifestations, of action, and of worship. | Absolute freedom; independence of God; Essential vs. actional attributes of God; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB1.109, MMAH.180, GSH.022, LL#151 | ||
| BH00208 | 2790 | Prayers and Meditations | لک الحمد یا الهی و اله العالمین و مقصودی و مقصود العارفین و محبوبی و محبوب | Praise be unto Thee, Who art my God and the God of all men, and my Desire and the Desire of all them that have recognized Thee | INBA56:001, BLIB_Or15729.098, , NLAI_22848:235, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p123v, , Ghazi3072.001-045, MKI4522.235, | PMP#176, AQA2#005 p.118, TZH4.002-003x, TZH4.143-144x, AQMM.002 | PM#176 | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||
| BH00232 | 2610 | جوهر تسبیح و ساذج تقدیس سلطان بدیع منیع قیومی را سزاست که از رشحات طفحات | The essence of glorification and purest sanctity beseemeth the wondrous, exalted and Self-Subsisting Sovereign, Who from the outpourings [3.5s] | INBA36:365, BLIB_Or15722.256, , PR23.048b-050b | BRL_DA#033, TZH4.143bx, MSHR4.198x, YMM.321x | Humility; meekness; lowliness; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00267 | Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'am (the Tablet of All Food) | 2370 | Tablet of All Food (Lawh-i Kullu't-Ta'am) | Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'ám (Tablet of All Food) | الحمد لله مموج ابحر النور بالماء الناریه الالهیه و مهیج احرف الظهور بنقطه | Praise be to God Who hath caused Oceans of Light to surge in the Divine Fiery Water; excited the Letters of the Dispensation | INBA36:268, Berlin1237#20 | BRL_DA#393, TZH4.132-135x, MAS4.265, RHQM2.0979-989 (416) (256-262), OOL.B052 | GPB.118x2x, BLO_PT#108, HURQ.BH02 | A commentary offering several allegorical interpretations of the Qur’anic verse ‘All food was allowed to the children of Israel’ (Qur’an 3:93). | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Prayer for protection; Realms of being; three realms; five realms; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB1.050, BKOG.112, MMAH.127, GSH.008, LL#146 | Revealed "in the year nine", see BRL_TTT#11 | |
| BH00278 | 2280 | الحمد لله المقدس عن الذکر و الثناء و المتعالی عما یتکلم به اللسان و یتحرک | Praised be God, Who is sanctified beyond all mention and praise, and exalted above whatsoever the tongue may utter [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11097#003, | AVK3.046.02x, AVK3.123.18x, AVK3.245.02x, AVK4.139.14x, TZH6.0593x, MAS8.160ax, AYI2.013x, AYI2.033x, ANDA#67-68 p.37x | Goodly deeds; actions; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity in diversity; Useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00306 | Chihar Vadi (The Four Valleys) | 2100 | Call of the Divine Beloved | Chahar Vadi (Four Valleys) | ای ضیاء الحق حسام الدین راد که فلک و ارکان چه تو شاهی نزاد نمیدانم چرا | O light of truth and sword of faith And soul of generosity! No prince hath sky or earth begot | INBA36:334x, BLIB_Or15722.307, , NLI.32p092v | BRL_Chihar, AQA3#069 p.140, TZH4.153x, ASAT4.314x, MSHR2.109x, MSHR3.131x, OOL.B007 | CDB#7, HURQ.BH13 | M. Milne [track 7] | A mystical work elaborating four different but complementary paths of approach to the Divine: the way of ‘the self ’, ‘the intellect’, ‘love’, and ‘the throne of the inmost heart’. | Belief and denial; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Love of God; Mystical themes; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | * | ROB1.104, BKOG.159, BKOG.163, MMAH.197, GSH.018, LL#014 | |
| BH00312 | 2080 | یا نبیل قبل علی علیک بهائی و ذکری و ثنائی طوبی لک بما حضرت لدی الوجه و سمعت | O Nabil-i-'Ali! Upon thee be My glory, My remembrance and My praise! Blessed art thou, inasmuch as thou hast attained unto My presence and hearkened unto My voice [3.5s]... ...Should a man appear ere the lapse of a full thousand years - each year consisting of twelve months | BLIB_Or11096#001, , BLIB_Or15698.129, , BLIB_Or15720.128, , BLIB_Or15740.101, | BRL_DA#077, AVK2.276.13x, AVK3.180.19x, AVK3.466.03x, AVK4.257.13x, IQT.129, TZH5.006, MAS8.113ax, ASAT1.195x, ASAT3.097x, AKHA_121BE #05 p.ax, AKHA_121BE #06 p.ax, AKHA_122BE #05 p.bx, AKHA_118BE #05-06 p.ax, OOL.B195 | WOB.132x | Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||
| BH00334 | Suriy-i-Qalam | 1970 | Days of Remembrance | Suriy-i-Qalam (Surih of the Pen) | ان یا قلم الاعلی ان اشهد فی نفسک بانه هو الله لا اله الا انا المهیمن القیوم | O Pen of the Most High! Bear thou witness, in thine own self, that verily He is God and that there is none other God but Me | INBA37:115, BLIB_Or15692.012, , BLIB_Or15706.001, , BLIB_Or15714.049, , BLIB_Or15725.239, , NLAI_BH1.083, NLAI_BH2.204 | AQA4#089 p.258, SFI14.036-045n, TZH4.268-270, TSBT.124, ASAT1.111x, ASAT3.015x, ASAT3.136x, ASAT4.508x, OOL.B136, AMB#23 | DOR#23, BLO_PT#095, HURQ.BH47 | A celebration of the festival of Riḍván, taking the form of a series of apostrophes to His Pen, the denizens of earth and heaven, the concourse of monks, and the Maid of Heaven. | Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Monasticism; asceticism; Proclamation to Christians; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God the cause of creation | * | * | ROB2.397, SFI14.036-045, MMAH.159, GSH.192, LL#324 | ||
| BH00358 | Suriy-i-Dam | 1850 | Tablet of Blood (Súriy-i-Damm); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Suriy-i-Damm (Tablet of Blood) | ان یا محمد اسمع ندآء ربک عن هذا المقام الذی لن یصل الله ایدی الممکنات و لا | O Muhammad! Hearken unto the call of thy Lord from this Station whereunto the hands of all created things cannot attain [3.5s]... ...Adorn thyself with My virtues, in such wise that should anyone stretch forth the hand of oppression against thee, thou wouldst neither take notice nor contend with him. | INBA83:066, BLIB_Or15723.156, | BRL_DA#157, GWBP#039 p.064x, AQA4#075 p.059, AQA4a.001, TZH4.360-366, ASAT4.167x, ASAT5.200x, ASAT5.226x, OOL.B111 | BRL_ATBH#61x, GWB#039x, WOB.118-119x, WOB.139x, BLO_PT#109, HURQ.BH42 | Proclamatory work declaring the oneness of the Prophets through a vision of the words of the dying Imám Ḥusayn, who identifies his sufferings with those of Abraham, Moses, Joseph, John the Baptist, Jesus, the Báb, and Bahá’u’lláh. | Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Prophecy and fulfillment; Return of the Manifestations of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | ROB2.236, MMAH.223, GSH.081, LL#296 | Sometimes spelled as Súriy-i-Damm. | |
| BH00431 | Lawh-i-Ibna' | 1630 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | تلک لآیات الله المهیمن القیوم الی الذینهم آمنوا بالله و آیاته و هم من فزع | These are the verses of God, the All-Protecting, the Self-Subsisting, unto them that have believed in God and His signs, and who are among those that are in terror [3.5s]... ...And now, concerning thy question regarding the creation of man. Know thou that all men have been created in the nature made by God | INBA35:063 | BRL_DA#109, GWBP#077 p.101ax, RSBB.069, TZH5.148x, MAS1.065x, AHDW.010, YIK.050-054, OOL.B161 | BRL_ATBH#38x, GWB#077x, GPB.242x, SW_v08#14 p.185x | Admonishes the believers not to deny Him, not to forget the Covenant established in the Bayán and in all the sacred Books, and not to contend with His verses. Answers three questions out of more than twenty that were asked: regarding the station of man -- that all were created in God's nature and have been assigned predetermined measures of capacities and capabilities, which manifest according to their individual efforts; regarding His own station, which is greater than the creation of the heavens and the earth; and regarding the station of His sons, one of whom which will be manifested "through the power of the true Faith". | Free will and predestination; fate; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Power of the Manifestation of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ROB2.259-260, LL#141, LL#384, LL#433 | |||
| BH00457 | Lawh-i-Mubahilih | 1580 | Tablets concerning the Divine Test | Surat al-Mubahalah (Surah of the Divine Test) | هذا لوح قد فصل من لوح المحفوظ لیکون بنفسه هدایه و رحمه علی کل من فی السموات | This is a Tablet that hath been separated from the Preserved Tablet, that it might serve, of itself, as a guidance and mercy unto all who dwell in the heavens [3.5s]... ...O Muhammad! He Who is the Spirit hath, verily, issued from His habitation, and with Him have come forth the souls of God's chosen ones | BLIB_Or07852.089, , BLIB_Or15725.463, , NLAI_BH2.006 | BRL_DA#153, TZH5.029n-044n, MAS4.278.18x, MAS7.243-244x, ASAT4.487x, SAM.208, PYK.006, YMM.338x, OOL.B060 | GPB.168-169x, BLO_PT#199x | Praises the station of Quddús, one of the Báb’s first disciples and an early martyr, and relates the circumstances of the public challenge issued by Bahá’u’lláh to Mírzá Yaḥyá to take place in the mosque of Sultan Salim, at which the latter failed to present himself, which sealed the irreparable breach that had arisen between them. | Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Martyrs and martyrdom; Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | * | - | ROB2.293, GPB.169, MMAH.168, LL#184 | See also BH03710. | |
| BH00558 | 1340 | Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | یا اهل قفقاز قد سالت البطحاء و انار الافق الاعلی لعمری افتر ثغر الحجاز بما | O people of the Caucasus! Batha (Mecca) hath flowed with water, and the Supreme Horizon | BRL_DA#378, TZH6.1108-1113, MAS4.211x, RHQM2.0887-887 (308) (192-193x), QT105.2.123, ASAT4.504-505x, RAHA.248bx, YFY.128-131 | BRL_ATBH#15x, MAAN#32x | Fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf]; High station of learning; Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||
| BH00579 | Lawh-i-Maryam | 1300 | Lawh-i-Maryam (Tablet to Maryam) Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh's Four Tablets to Maryam; Days of Remembrance | Lawh-i-Maryam (Tablet to Maryam) | ای مریم مظلومیتم مظلومیت اسم اولم را از لوح امکان محو نموده و از سحاب قضا | O Maryam! The wrongs which I suffer have blotted out the wrongs suffered by My First Name from the Tablet of creation. | INBA38:087, INBA28:386 | BRL_DA#739, AYT.366, BSHN.046, MHT2b.044x, TZH4.138-139x, TZH4.159-161x, TZH4.261-262x, MAS4.329, RHQM2.0991-996 (430) (264-267), ANDA#05 p.02, OOL.B058c, AMB#31 | DOR#31, BKOG.117x, LTDT.300x, GPB.118x, GPB.119x, GPB.120x, GPB.124x, GPB.125x, BLO_PT#015, BLO_PT#048 | Recounts to one of His cousins Bahá’u’lláh’s banishment to Baghdad, His departure for Sulaymaniyah, the dispirited character of the Bábí community upon His return, and His efforts to instil new life into it; alludes to His still-hidden messianic secret and counsels purity of heart as a precondition to its recognition; and announces His withdrawal from the community. | Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | * | - | ROB1.013, BKOG.117, MMAH.132, GSH.174, LL#164 | ||
| BH00638 | 1200 | Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá | ای خلیل انشاء الله از نار اعراض مظاهر نمرودیه محفوظ مانی و در کل اعصار بثناء | O Khalil! God willing, mayest thou remain preserved from the fire of rejection kindled by the manifestations of Nimrod-like souls, and in all ages [be engaged] in praise [3.5s]... ...I swear by the incomparable, the one true God! No atom in the heavens and the earth moveth except by the leave of the Ancient Beauty and the good-pleasure of His will | INBA57:062, INBA81:051x | AVK3.192.03x, AVK3.196.11x, RSBB.119, GHA.328x, TZH2.351x, MAS4.155x, MAS8.009bx, AKHA_106BE #10 p.002x | BLO_sazedj#08x | Contention and conflict; Martyrs and martyrdom; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||
| BH00745 | 1050 | سبحان الذی یذکر من یشاء بامر من عنده و یلقی من یشاء ما یرید من علمه لا اله الا | Glorified be He Who remembereth whom He willeth through a command from His presence, and bestoweth upon whom He pleaseth whatsoever He desireth of His knowledge. There is no God but Him [3.5s] | INBA18:204c, INBA71:109, BLIB_Or15696.159, , BLIB_Or15738.079, | AQA7#387 p.091, SFI04.018, TZH4.293-295, KHAF.082 | Development of capacity and readiness; Fellowship with the wayward and ungodly; Methods of teaching the Cause; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00746 | Shikkar-Shikan Shavand | 1050 | Fire and Light; Tablet of Shikkar Shikan (Shikkar Shikkan Shavand); Tablet of Shikkar Shikan (Shikkar Shikkan Shavand); Tablet of Shikkar Shikan Shavand | Lawh-i-Shikkar Shikan (Tablet of Shikkar Shikan Shavand) | شکرشکن شوند همه طوطیان هند زین قند پارسی که به بنگاله میرود مکتوب آنجناب | Warblers, mellifluous-toned, all the parrots of Ind shall be, Because of this Pársí sugar-cone which to Bengal goes… They that yearn for the abode of the Beloved, they that circle round the sanctuary of the Desired One | INBA38:064, INBA36:351, INBA30:070, BLIB_Or15722.210, , BN_suppl.1753.102-106 | BRL_DA#127, NANU_BH#11x, TZH4.242, DRD.147, RHQM1.575-577 (703) (431-433x), ASAT2.105x, ASAT3.105x, AKHA_119BE #09-10 p.ax, FBAH.134x, LDR.432x, NJB_v11#01 p.21-24, OOL.B099 | BRL_FIRE_BH#06x, BLO_PT#120, BLO_PT#121, BKOG.149x | Poetically anticipates future opposition and lauds the constancy of the loved ones of God in the face of threats and persecutions. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | * | - | ROB1.147, BKOG.149, BKOG.446, MMAH.209, GSH.031, LL#286 | ||
| BH00753 | 1040 | Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | حمد حضرت مقصودی را لایق و سزاست که آنجناب را موید فرمود بر اقبال و توجه | Praise be to the Desired One, worthy and befitting is He Who hath aided thee to turn unto Him and draw nigh [3.5s] | MKI4523.218, | BRL_DA#262, ISH.218, AYBY.113, AQMJ2.143x, TZH2.483-484x, MAS4.260x, ADH1.115, MSBH7.053x | BRL_ATBH#12x | Praise and encouragement; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; The Bayan, its laws and their abrogation | - | - | ||||||
| BH00775 | Lawh-i-Hamd-i-Musha‘sha‘ | 1020 | Translation List; Lawh-i-Hamd-i-Musha'sha' (The Tablet of the Effulgent Praise), The | Lawh-i-Hamd-i-Mushasha (Tablet of the Effulgent Praise) | حمد مشعشع مطرز متلامع مترافع متصاعد هواء قرب قدس حضرت محبوبی است که بیک رنه | May a praise effulgent and adorned, brilliant and exalted, ascend to the hallowed realm of nearness unto Him Who is the Beloved | BLIB_Or15722.262, , NLAI_BH1.300 | BRL_DA#065, SFI02.077x, TZH4.014-17x | ADMS#245 | Chastisement and requital; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for forgiveness; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | One of the earliest known Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh? | |||
| BH00941 | 870 | ان یا ایها العبد اسمع ندآء الله ثم اعمل بما تومر من لدن ربک و لاتکن فی دین | O thou servant! Hearken unto the Call of God, then act in accordance with that which hath been ordained for thee by thy Lord, and be not of them that waver in their faith [3.5s]... ...By God, the True One! Were We, for a single instant, to withhold from him the outpourings of Our Cause | INBA23:042, BLIB_Or15725.032, | BRL_DA#114, TZH5.155 | GPB.251x | Chastisement and requital; Contention and conflict; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||
| BH00951 | 860 | احرف حمد حقایق و دقایق حمد مخصوص ساحت قدس قرب حضرت سلطانیست که از لطایف | The letters of praise and the subtleties of glorification belong unto the holy and intimate sanctuary of that Sovereign Lord Who, through His grace [3.5s]... ...My God, My Master, My Desire! …Thou hast created this atom of dust through the consummate power of Thy might | INBA65:268, INBA36:329c, NLAI_BH1.278 | HDQI.060, TZH4.117-120x, MAS8.049bx, FBAH.099x, OOL.B155, UVM.083.02x | BKOG.104x, GPB.109x | Creation of the world; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | MMAH.217, LL#407 | ||||||
| BH01049 | 800 | فطوبی لک یا سمندر النار بما اشتعلت من نار التی ظهرت علی هیکل المختار فی هذه الایام | Blessed art thou, O Salamander of Fire, inasmuch as thou hast been enkindled by the Fire that hath appeared upon the Temple of the Chosen One in these days [3.5s] | INBA83:244, BLIB_Or15725.534, , BLIB_Or15737.170, , ALIB.folder18p231 | AYBY.015, TZH6.0528-0531, TRZ1.066cx | High station of the true believer; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01115 | 750 | ندآء الله از شطر عکا مرتفع و میفرماید طوبی از برای نفوسیکه الی الله توجه | The Call of God hath been raised from the direction of 'Akká, proclaiming: Blessed be they that have turned their faces unto God [3.5s]... ...From time immemorial, they who have been outwardly invested with authority have debarred men from setting their faces towards God | BLIB_Or11096#024, , BLIB_Or15698.259, , BLIB_Or15720.255, , BLIB_Or15740.198, | BRL_DA#134, IQT.259, TZH?.531 | PDC.028x | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Interpretation of dreams and visions; Prayer for pilgrims; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Status of kings; future of monarchy; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | |||||||
| BH01381 | 620 | بدایات کلام و غایات ختام ذکر سلطان عما و ملیک بهاست جل عنایته و عظم احسانه | The inception of utterance and the consummation thereof is the mention of the Sovereign of transcendence and the King of Glory, exalted be His grace and magnified be His bounty [3.5s] | INBA36:326, BLIB_Or15722.207, | BRL_DA#254, TZH4.130-131x, ASAT5.309x | Contention and conflict; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Suffering and imprisonment; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01636 | 530 | ان استمع ما یلهمک لسان الله عن جبروته المقدس العزیز المنیع لعل تسمع ندآء | Hearken unto that which the Tongue of God inspireth thee from His sacred, mighty and impregnable dominion, that perchance thou mayest hear the Call [3.5s] | INBA36:165, NLAI_BH1.236 | BRL_DA#456, TZH4.315 | Realms of being; three realms; five realms; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Word of God and human limitations | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01734 | 510 | لا تیاس من روح الله ما بتو مانوس و تو محسوس ما هفت شهر عشق را عطار گشت ما | Despair not of the Spirit of God, for thou art neither familiar with nor conscious of Its presence. While 'Attar wandered through the seven cities of Love, We [3.5s] | INBA36:345.02, BLIB_Or15722.247, , NLAI_BH1.319 | BRL_DA#596, TZH4.150x, RHQM1.335-335 (408) (247x), MSHR4.258-259x, MSHR4.365x, MSHR5.069x, MSHR5.342x | Love of God; Mystical themes; Poems and quotation from poetry; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01736 | 510 | مهی برآمد از این شهر و سوی شهر دگر شد که از غروب و طلوعش دو شهر زیر و زبر | A moon hath risen from this city and journeyed toward another, whereupon through its setting and rising two cities were utterly transformed [3.5s] | INBA36:341, BLIB_Or15722.205, | BRL_DA#601, TZH4.144-146x, RHQM1.337-337 (411x) (248x), MSHR5.154x, MSHR5.305x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Martyrs and martyrdom; Poems and quotation from poetry | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01791 | 500 | یا ایها المتمسک بحبل العمل و البیان حبذا عملک فی سبیل الله و حبه و خلوصک | O thou who clingest to the cord of deeds and utterance! How excellent are thy deeds in the path of God and His love, and thy sincerity [3.5s] | INBA73:055, BLIB_Or15690.097, , BLIB_Or15728.214, | BRL_DA#516, SFI15.014-016, TZH6.1095-1096 | Cleanliness and refinement; John the Baptist; Monasticism; asceticism; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Thankfulness; gratitude | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02022 | Lawh-i-Ahmad (Arabic) | 440 | Tablet of Ahmad, Arabic (Lawh-i-Ahmad); Tablet of Ahmad (Arabic); Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | Lawh-i-Ahmad (Tablet of Ahmad (Arabic)) | هذه ورقه الفردوس تغنی علی افنان سدره البقا بالحان قدس ملیح و یبشر المخلصین | Lo, the Nightingale of Paradise singeth upon the twigs of the Tree of Eternity, with holy and sweet melodies | INBA19:001, INBA32:002, INBA36:041, INBA71:199, INBA30:076, BN_suppl.1974.067 | BRL_DA#197, AHM.193, RSBB.007, SFI17.008, TZH4.302, TSBT.215, NSR_1993.025, NFF1.016, BSHA.032, ASAT5.103x, ABMK.052, OOL.B023a | BPRY.307 | Ahdieh, L. Slott, G.H. Miller, Seals & Crofts, L. Bergsmo & S. Vadeghani, R. Lehmer-Chang, MANA, N. Hamilton, R. Grammer [track 2], L. Dely, L. Dely & M. Congo, KC Porter, Ladjamaya [track 15], almunajat.com [item 19], F. Dehghan & M. Weigert | Brief words of consolation and encouragement to its recipient, affirming the prophetic station of the Báb, exhorting steadfastness, and assuring the resolution of difficulties and the removal of afflictions to the one who chants it. | Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Power of prayer; Recompense; reward for belief; right action; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | * | ROB2.107, MMAH.183, GSH.074, LL#040 | |
| BH02101 | 420 | Prayers and Meditations | فنعم یا الهی ما استغرد بغاء الداود فی حدیقه الزبور من تغنیات ورقاء الانجذاب... الهی الهی لا تبعد عنّی لأنّ الشّدائد بکلّها احاطتنی | O God, my God! Be Thou not far from me, for tribulation upon tribulation hath gathered about me. | INBA33:022x, INBA30:117.09x, INBA92:035 | BRL_DA#544, PMP#145x, AHM.052x, TZH4.143ax, AQMJ1.013x, ADH1.041, OOL.B159.1 | PM#145x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for tests and difficulties; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | LL#492 | |||||
| BH02183 | Asl-i-Kullu'l-Khayr (Words of Wisdom) | 400 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas | Asl-i-Kullul-Khayr (Words of Wisdom) | اصل کل الخیر هو الاعتماد علی الله و الانقیاد لامره و الرضاء لمرضاته اصل الحب | The source of all good is trust in God, submission unto His command, and contentment with His holy will and pleasure. | INBA36:170, INBA30:039, BLIB_Or15714.155, , NLI.32p026r, OSAI I.MMS | AVK1.014.09x, AVK3.003.04x, AVK3.161.13x, ZYN.036, AHM.044, MJMM.033, TZH4.224, NSR_1993.083, TBP#10, OOL.B002 | TB#10, SW_v04#10 p.171, SW_v06#16 p.121, SW_v07#18 p.185-186, SW_v14#04 p.099-100, BSC.158 #155-163 | Y. Mesbah, E. Mahony, Pradheep, Shayna, Shafireh & Prasad, Soulrise Melodies | A brief collection of moral maxims, summarizing the essence of faith, love, wisdom, religion, wealth, and others and centring around belief in God and submission to His will. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Exhortations and counsels; Fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf]; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Independent investigation of truth; reality; Love of God; Thankfulness; gratitude; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Words vs deeds | * | * | MMAH.194, GSH.210, LL#008 | |
| BH02335 | 580 | فسبحانک اللهم یا الهی انادیک حین تتابع البلایا عن سحائب قضائک و ترادف الرزایا | Glorified art Thou, O my God! I call upon Thee while trials descend in succession from the clouds of Thy decree, and calamities follow one upon another [3.5s] | BRL_DA#346, TZH4.115-117x, MAS8.050x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love of God; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||||
| BH02605 | 340 | در ساعتی که عروس حزن از قناع نقاب رخ برافراخت و شاهد هموم علم حسرت برافراشت | In the hour when the Bride of Sorrow lifted her face from behind the veil, and the Witness of Grief raised aloft the banner of anguish [3.5s] | INBA36:343b, NLAI_BH1.338 | BRL_DA#608, TZH4.150-151x, RHQM1.340-340 (415) (251x) | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Poems and quotation from poetry; Stories; anecdotes; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03002 | 300 | قد ظهر ما کان مکنونا فی ازل الازال و برز من کان مخزونا فی علم الله رب الارباب | That which was hidden throughout all eternity hath been made manifest, and that which was treasured in the knowledge of God, the Lord of Lords, hath appeared [3.5s]... ...Myriad thanks unto the Desire of the Worlds, Who confirmed ye in service to the Cause. Blessed is the one who was not held back | BRL_DA#237, TZH5.376x, USK.088-090, TISH.225-226x, TISH.244-245 | RIDA.038-039x | Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03075 | 290 | ان یا ورقاء ان استمع الندآء من مطلع الکبریاء المرتفع فی سجن عکا انه لا اله الا انا | O Dove! Hearken unto the Voice raised from the Dayspring of Grandeur in the Prison of 'Akká: Verily, there is none other God but Me [3.5s]... ...Abandon that which ye possess, and seize that which God, Who layeth low the necks of men, hath brought | INBA19:013, INBA32:013b, Majlis934.108-111 | TZH6.0779-0780 | PDC.006-007x | Chastisement and requital; Manifestation of God as divine physician; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to the people of the world | - | - | |||||||
| BH03307 | 270 | اسمع یا اسمی ثم اسطع عن کثیب الحمرا کسطوع المسک عن رضوان ربک المنان العزیز | Hearken, O My name! Then shine forth from the crimson hill even as musk diffuseth its fragrance from the paradise of thy Lord, the All-Bountiful, the Mighty [3.5s] | BRL_DA#321, AQA7#472 p.294, TZH4.308 | Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Love of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The power of words; of speech | - | - | |||||||||
| BH03330 | 270 | اول ذکر اشرق من افق ام الکتاب و اول نور لاح من افق الوجه فی الماب علیک یا | The first remembrance that dawned from the horizon of the Mother Book, and the first light that shone forth from the horizon of the Countenance in its return, be upon thee, O [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15714.093, , Majlis210461.090-091 | TZH6.1102-1103, LDR.144 | Eulogies; reminiscences; Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for forgiveness; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03710 | Prologue to the Lawh-i-Mubahilih | 920 | Tablets concerning the Divine Test | Surat al-Mubahalah (Surah of the Divine Test) | معلوم احباءالله بوده باشد که یومى از ایام سید دجال بمکر جدیدى قیام نموده | We heard that some of our opponents desired to come into the presence of this youth. Say: Come, and do not delay! We have appointed as the meeting-place the house of God | TZH5.029, MAS4.277-281, MAS4.166a, RHQM1.068-068 (087x) (051-051x) | BLO_PT#199 | Banishment to; life in Adrianople; Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Rejection, opposition and persecution; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | LL#183 | See also BH00457. | |||
| BH03791 | 240 | ان یا حسین تزور الحسین و تقتل الحسین یا ایها الغافل المرتاب انا اردنا حضورک | O Husayn! Thou visitest Hussein and slayest Hussein. O thou heedless and doubting one! Verily, We desired thy presence [3.5s] | INBA34:237 | AQA1#097, TZH4.202-203x, MAS4.136x, ASAT4.313x | Chastisement and requital; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03843 | Saqi az Ghayb-i-Baqa | 240 | Short Poem by "Darvísh" Muhammad, Bahá'u'lláh: Sáqí az ghayb-i baqá burqa' bar afkan az 'idhár, A | Saqi az Ghayb-i-Baqa (The Cup-bearer from the Eternal Unseen) | ساقی از غیب بقا برقع برافکن از عذار تا بنوشم خمر باقی از جمال کردگار آنچه در | Lift up the veil from Thy face, O Cup-Bearer of the hidden Realm of Immortality, That I may taste the wine of eternal life | INBA36:455a, INBA30:137, OSAI I.MMS, | BRL_DA#155, TZH4.141-142x, MAS4.209, RHQM1.350-351 (425) (258-259), OOL.B098 | DB.137x, BLO_PT#087, HURQ.BH11 | A brief ode alluding to His messianic secret and calling for purification of heart and commitment to love and sacrifice as conditions of the spiritual journey. | Christ; Christianity; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Mosaic imagery; Mystical themes; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | * | - | ROB1.064, MMAH.164, GSH.065, LL#283 | ||
| BH04415 | 210 | ایام ایام امتحان و ابحر اختلاف و ابتلا در هیجان و رایات مشتبهات از هر گوشه | The days of tests are now come. Oceans of dissension and tribulation are surging | INBA38:042, INBA36:328, BLIB_Or15722.266, | BRL_DA#613, TZH4.129-130x | BKOG.109x, GPB.115x | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||
| BH04998 | Ay Bulbulan | 190 | ای بلبلان ای بلبلان فصل گل و گلذار شد ای عارفان ای عارفان آنغیب در اظهار | It is the season of the rose, O nightingales, O nightingales! O mystic knowers of the Lord, The Unseen threw aside His veils! | INBA36:097, INBA71:261, INBA74:092x, NLAI_BH1.527, MKA.06 Mil Yz A 2791 p30a, | BRL_DA#363, TZH4.142, ASAT3.200-201, AHB_126BE #01-02 p.002 | WIND#155, JHT_B#018 | Love of God; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Mystical themes; Poems and quotation from poetry; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Transcending the material condition; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | - | - | LL#009 | |||||
| BH05338 | Baz Av-u-Bidih Jamih | 180 | باز آو بده جامی این ساقی عطشانرا زآن ساغر باقی ده این فانی دورانرا این هیکل | Return and offer a cup to this thirsty cupbearer; From that eternal chalice, bestow upon this transient being;This temple [3.5s] | INBA30:138, OSAI I.MMS, | BRL_DA#252, TZH4.142-143x, MAS4.186, OOL.B004 | Brief ode celebrating the divine love, beseeching immortal life, and expressing His desire for evanescence in God and His wish to offer up His life in the path of God. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Evanescence and eternality; fana and baqa; Love as fire; Mystical themes; Pain of love; love as veil; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | * | - | MMAH.163, GSH.065, LL#011 | |||||
| BH05706 | Commentary on the revelation of the Lawh-i-Karmil | 170 | اینکه آنمقر منظر اکبر واقع بعد از ورود و نزول جمال قدم جل اجلاله در آنمحل | That spot which became the Most Great Scene, after the advent and descent therein of the Ancient Beauty, glorified be His majesty [3.5s] | TZH7.125 | Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Shrines and Holy places | - | - | ||||||||
| BH07763 | 130 | قد کان عند ربکم الرحمن فی سجن آذربایجان نفسان امسک الحسین ید الفضل و اطرد | In the prison of Ádhirbáyján there were, in the presence of your Lord, the All-Merciful, two souls: Ḥusayn, who grasped the Hand of Grace, and one who was cast out [3.5s] | INBA73:072, NLAI_BH1.475, NLAI_BH2.224 | BRL_DA#146, TZH3.459.17, RHQM1.625-625 (759x) (467x), ASAT4.348x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Stories; anecdotes; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| BH09228 | 270 | سبحان الذی انزل الایات بالحق و اظهر ما اراد انه لهو الحق ... ان الذی افتی علی الحرف الثالث المؤمن بمن یظهره الله | Glorified be He Who hath sent down the verses in truth and made manifest whatsoever He desired. He, verily, is the Truth... As to him who pronounced judgment against the Third Letter, who had believed in Him Whom God shall make manifest [3.5s] | BRL_DA#344, TZH4.161x, TZH4.168x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BH09559 | 610 | حمد پروردگار عالم را که کل را تربیت فرمود و خود را در کتاب ... لک الحمد یا مالک الوجود بما ایدتنی علی الاقبال الیک ... قسم بآفتاب حقیقت که از افق سجن مشرق وقتی شد | All praise be unto the Lord of the worlds, Who hath nurtured all beings and revealed Himself in the Book... Praise be unto Thee, O Possessor of existence, for having strengthened me to turn unto Thee... I swear by the Sun of Truth which hath dawned from the horizon of the prison at a time [3.5s] | Majlis210461.054-056 | BRL_DA#531, ADM3#114 p.134x, TZH4.229x | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for assistance; intercession; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH09637 | 100 | یا اولیائی فی الشین قلم اعلی در جمیع احیان شهادت داده و میدهد بانه هو الفرد | O you the near ones in Shiraz! Under all conditions, the Supreme Pen hath testified and always will: God is Single | INBA51:357b | BRL_DA#313, TZH5.526, KHAF.203, MATA.168-169 | GEN.312 | Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | |||||||
| BH11261 | 40 | سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لک الحمد بما انفقتنی لاحیاء من فی سمائک و ارضک و جعلتنی | Glorified art Thou, O my God! All praise be unto Thee for having caused me to expend myself for the quickening of all who dwell in Thy heaven and on Thy earth, and hast made me [3.5s] | INBA73:001a, INBA92:382a | TZH4.115x, AQMJ1.021 | Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice | - | - | ||||||||
| BH11287 | 40 | قل اللهم انک انت سلطان الملوک و راحم المملوک و مذهب الشکوک لتغنین من تشاء | Say: O God! Thou art verily the Sovereign of kings, the Merciful to the downtrodden, the Dispeller of doubts, Who enrichest whom Thou pleasest [3.5s] | BRL_DA#497, TZH4.007x | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for praise and gratitude | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11417 | 100 | هذا کتاب ینطق بالحق ... ای هادی از حجبات ظلمانی بدرآی و پرده‌های اوهام... فوالذی نفس حسین بیده مقصود جز ابلاغ امر الله نبوده و نیست | This is a Book that speaketh with truth... O Hadi, emerge from the darksome veils and cast aside the curtains of vain imaginings... By Him Who holdeth the soul of Husayn in His hand, no purpose have I had, nor have I, save the proclamation of God's Cause [3.5s] | TZH2.009x, YFY.199x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11696 | 1030 | حمد حضرت مقصودی را سزاست که بانوار آفتاب حقیقت مدن و دیار را بنور معرفت | All praise be befitting unto Him Who is the Ultimate Goal, Who hath illumined the cities and regions with the rays of the Sun of Truth and with the light of knowledge [3.5s]... ...O My loved-ones in that land! Ye are the keys to the portals of constancy amidst the people and the standard of guidance among the creatures. Through you the oneness of God’s essence and His sanctity hath been established | BRL_DA#523, TZH5.389x | RIDA.111-112x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Moderation; frugality; simplicity; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| BH11725 | 380 | حمد مقصود عالمیان را لایق و سزاست که اولیای خود را لازال ذکر نموده و مینماید... یا حبیب فؤادی حضرت افنان علیه منکلّ بهآء ابهاه | Praise be unto Him Who is the Aim and End of all creation, Who hath remembered and doth ever remember His loved ones [3.5s]... ...O beloved of my heart! According to what the illustrious Afnán, upon him rest all the Glory of the Most Glorious, hath written, a plot of land hath been purchased in the name of God | TZH6.998x, TISH.052-053 | RIDA.030-031x | Business; financial; property matters; Praise and encouragement; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| BH11728 | 370 | قد اتی المیقات و اتی منزل الایات من سماء الامر بقوه لاتضعفها ظلم الاشرار | Verily the decreed time has arrived and the Revealer of verses has come from the Heaven of His Cause with a power that will not be weakened by the tyrannies of the evil-doers | BRL_DA#412, TZH5.390-391, TISH.238-239 | RIDA.112-114 | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| BH11735 | 330 | یا حسین علیک بهائی نشهد انک فزت بما کان مسطورا فی اللوح و مرقوما من القلم | O Husayn! Upon thee rest My Glory! I testify that thou hast attained unto that which was concealed in the Tablet as inscribed by the Supreme Pen at the behest of God, the Lord of both worlds | BRL_DA#520, TZH5.394-395, TISH.242-243 | RIDA.118-119 | Justice and wrath of God; Obedience to and respect for government authority | - | - | ||||||||
| BHU0001 | Panj Kanz (The Five Treasures) | 1400 | Translation List | Panj Kanz (Five Treasures) | کنز اول قومی در بیرونی بیت قدَم میزدند وبرخی از شاهزادگان ایران حضور داشتند | Dost thou know what sort of person is worthy of hearing My words and is fit to enter My presence? | TZH4.255-259x, PKNZ, DHU.049x, ANDA#40 p.10, OOL.B156 | SW_v16#02 p.431x, ADMS#017 | Divine attributes are within all things; every atom; Fellowship with the wayward and ungodly; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | - | - | ROB2.140-143x, MMAH.162, LL#207 | ||||
| BHU0005 | Words spoken in the house of 'Izzat Aqa | 520 | ما چون در میان وزرای ایران مشهور بودیم همه آنها با ما اظهار دوستی میکردند ولی خائف ازین بودند | Since We were well-known among all the ministers of Iran, they would all exhibit friendship towards Us | TZH5.025-026 | RKS.139-141 | Early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God | - | - | |||||||
| BHU0025 | 100 | آیا صدر اعظم هر ماهی چقدر شهریه و مخارج برای شما معین کرده | How large of a stipend and expenditure does the Sadr A`zam allot you every month… What are you busying yourself with, Kalim? | TZH4.227-228 | KSHK#05 | Alchemy; the elixir; Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Occult sciences; psychic phenomena | - | - |
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