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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. | ||
| AB00056 | 1420 | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá; Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha | ای یاران عزیز عبدالبهاء چندیست که از بعضی بلاد یک آهنگ دلربا بگوش جان نرسیده | O ye the cherished loved ones of Abdu'l-Baha! It is a long time now since my inward ear hath heard any sweet melodies out of certain regions | MNMK#123 p.235, MMK1#188 p.210, ASAT4.356x, BSHI.111-116 | SWAB#188, TAB.375-382 | S. Toloui-Wallace | Ottoman commissions of investigation; Prayer for protection; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||
| AB00058 | 1390 | اناجیک یا الهی فی غدوی و آصالی و بهره نهاری و جنح اللیالی و ادعوک بلسانی و جنانی | I commune with Thee, O my God, at daybreak and eventide, in the bright noontide and the dark of night, and I call upon Thee with my tongue and my heart [3.5s] | INBA85:334b | BRL_DAK#0722, MKT1.392, MNMK#008 p.063, ASAT3.046-047x, MAS2.095ax, AADA.142ax | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Idle fancies; lust and passion; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance | - | - | ||||||||
| AB00079 | 1200 | Translation List | الهی الهی هولاء عباد کشفت عن اعینهم الغطاء و جزلت لهم العطاء و نورت ابصارهم | O my God, my God! These are servants from whose eyes Thou hast lifted the veil, upon whom Thou hast bestowed abundant bounties, and whose vision Thou hast illumined [3.5s]... ...during His days in Iraq, the Blessed Beauty went into seclusion for two years. So concealed was the nominee of the Bab | MMK4#174 p.202, MMK6#566, ASAT5.356-361 | ADMS#160x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering; rejection of Christ | - | - | |||||||
| AB00116 | 1200 | Light of the World | سبحانک اللهم تقدس ادنی ایه من ایات ملکوتک عن المحامد و النعوت فی جمیع الشئون... درین ایام صنادید شیطانرا اسیر خذلان کرد و فسادشانرا واضح و عیان | Glorified art Thou, O God! The least of the signs of Thy Kingdom is, under all conditions, sanctified above all description and praise | UMich962.140-141x, UMich991.097-098x | NURA#41, MMK4#081 p.090x, ASAT3.041-042x, ASAT4.058x, AVK1.009.10x, AVK4.015.13x, AVK4.308x | LOTW#41 | Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Growth of the Cause; Impossibility of true worship of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||
| AB00133 | 960 | تعالیت یا الهی بعلو تقدیسک عن محامد الکائنات و تسامیت بسمو تنزیهک عن نعوت | Exalted art Thou, O my God, in the transcendence of Thy sanctity above the praise of all created things, and sublime art Thou in the loftiness of Thy detachment from the attributes [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0564, ASAT2.167-168x, KHAF.118-122, TISH.585x, MATA.070x | Eulogies; reminiscences; House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]; Prayer for the departed; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Shrines and Holy places; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||
| AB00149 | 920 | الهی الهی ترانی خائضا فی غمار البلاء و غریقا فی بحار الباساء و الضراء هدفا للنصال مطعونا | My God, my God! Thou beholdest me plunged in an ocean of tribulation, drowned in the seas of hardship and suffering, a target for arrows, pierced through [3.5s] | INBA87:372, INBA52:381 | MMK5#011 p.005, ASAT4.298, QT108.145-146 | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Martyrs and martyrdom; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| AB00235 | 760 | ای بنده آستان مقدس نامه بیست و نهم ذی حجه ۱۳۲۸ رسید و نامه های دیگر بواسطه سفر | O servant of the Sacred Threshold! Thy letter dated the twenty-ninth of Dhi'l-Hijjih 1328 was received; the other letters, in the course of transmittal [3.5s] | INBA87:223, INBA52:228 | ASAT5.013x, YMM.240x | Alteration of the divine will [bada]; Business; financial; property matters; Empty learning; false spirituality; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Mystical themes | - | - | ||||||||
| AB00263 | 720 | Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks | ای کنیز عزیز الهی نامه ای که بتاریخ ششم اپریل ۱۹۰۶ مرقوم نموده بودی رسید از | O thou dear handmaid of God! Thy letter dated 6 April 1906 hath been received. Thou hast written that Mrs. ... hath regained her health. | ASAT2.179-180x, MAS2.064-067 | BRL_ATE#036, BLO_PT#153 | Education of children; moral education; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The truth of past religions and sacred scriptures | - | - | |||||||
| AB00288 | 700 | ای منادی میثاق مکتوبی که بجناب منشادی مرقوم نموده بودید ملاحظه گردید در خصوص | O thou herald of the Covenant! The letter that thou didst address to Jinab-i-Manshadi hath been perused. Regarding [3.5s] | INBA85:388 | BRL_DAK#0150, ASAT2.190-191x, AVK3.277.16x, AVK3.344.18, TRZ1.333, MAS5.220-221x, YIA.323-325, YIK.397-399 | Chastisement and requital; Non-participation in politics; Obedience to and respect for government authority; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | - | - | ||||||||
| AB00298 | 690 | حمدا لمن خلق حقیقه نورانیه و هویه رحمانیه و کینونه روحانیه و جوهره ربانیه | Praise be to Him Who hath created the luminous reality, the merciful essence, the spiritual being, and the divine substance [3.5s] | INBA13:390, INBA55:219, INBA59:143, INBA88:045b, UMich962.034-036, UMich991.012-015 | BRL_DAK#0759, MMK6#284, ASAT3.126x, AVK2.202x, YMM.397, YMM.471 | Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God | - | - | ||||||||
| AB00300 | 690 | لک الحمد یا الهی بما کشفت الغطاء و رفعت النقاب عن وجه الحقیقه لعبدک المبتهل | All praise be unto Thee, O my God, for Thou hast lifted the veil and removed the covering from the face of truth for Thy suppliant servant [3.5s] | MMK4#178 p.219, ASAT5.356x, DUR4.798 | Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; The Bayan, its laws and their abrogation; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||||||
| AB00327 | 660 | لک الحمد یا الهی و لک الشکر یا محبوبی علی ما علت کلمتک و تمت نعمتک و سبقت | Praise be unto Thee, O my God, and thanksgiving be unto Thee, O my Beloved, for Thou hast exalted Thy Word and perfected Thy bounty and caused it to precede [3.5s] | INBA16:046, INBA89:198 | MKT4.171, MILAN.186, ASAT5.126x | Growth of the Cause; House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Obedience to and respect for government authority; Praise and encouragement | - | - | ||||||||
| AB00379 | 620 | ای یاران عبدالبهاء نامه ای که مجتمعا تبریک ورود باقلیم مصر مرقوم نموده بودید | O friends of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! The letter which ye collectively wrote to celebrate [my] arrival in the realm of Egypt [3.5s] | AMK.121-123, ASAT5.133-135x, RHQM1.122-124 (158x) (092-094x), YHA1.098-099, QT108.077-078 | Justice and wrath of God; Ottoman commissions of investigation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||||
| AB00460 | 580 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Bahá'í World Faith; Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha | ایها الزائر لمطاف الارواح المخلص فی دین الله طوبی لام ولدتک و طوبی لثدی رضعت لبنه | O visitant to the Resort of spirits (who are) sincere in the Religion of God! Blessed is the mother who bore thee | UMich962.120-122, UMich991.061-065 | MKT1.127, MNMK#020 p.097, ASAT3.233, AVK2.175.05x | TAB.114-118, BWF.370-371x, BSC.447 #815-816x, BSTW#273a, BSTW#276f | Degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence; John the Baptist; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The cross and the trinity | - | - | ||||||
| AB00462 | 580 | رب و رجائی انادیک فی العشی و الابکار و بطون اللیالی و الاسحار و ادعوک بقلبی | O Lord, my Hope! I call upon Thee at eventide and at dawn, through the watches of night and at daybreak, and with my heart I supplicate Thee [3.5s] | MKT3.273, ASAT5.259, SAAF.367x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | - | - | |||||||||
| AB00510 | 550 | ای دو یادگار دو نفس بزرگوار حضرت عبدالمجید و حضرت سید محسن این دو نفس مبارک | O ye two remembrances of those two noble souls, His Holiness 'Abdu'l-Majíd and His Holiness Siyyid Muḥsin, those two blessed beings [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0780, MKT3.407, ASAT3.111x, TSHA3.291 | Eulogies; reminiscences; Martyrs and martyrdom; Permission for visit; pilgrimage; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | |||||||||
| AB00562 | 520 | ای احبای آذربایجان لابد لنا من آذربایجان آذری بجان ناقضان زنید و تبریز را | O beloved ones of Azerbaijan! We must needs have from Azerbaijan an Azerbaijan set ablaze with ardour. Refute the violators, and let Tabriz [3.5s] | INBA88:321, INBA89:055b | AKHA_122BE #07-08 p.j, ASAT1.016x, MJMJ3.036x, MMG2#008 p.008x | Call to action; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Martyrdom of the Bab; Martyrs and martyrdom | - | - | ||||||||
| AB00563 | 520 | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای بنده آستان بهاء الله نامه مورخ به ۱۴ جون ۱۹۲۰ رسید و نامه بعضی از اعضای | O Servant of the Threshold of Baha'u'llah! Thy letter dated 14 June 1920 hath been received. A letter from some of the members of the Peace Committee | MKT3.447, MNMK#120 p.230, MMK1#228 p.297, ASAT5.060x, YHA1.426-427x (2.840) | SWAB#228, WOB.046x, BSTW#203x | Business; financial; property matters; Growth of the Cause; Methods of teaching the Cause; Parliaments; constitutional government; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Universal language | - | - | |||||||
| AB00700 | 470 | ای زائر مشکین نفس حافظ شیرازی در دیوان خویش میگوید ترکان پارسی گو بخشندگان | O thou pilgrim who art laden with the perfume of musk! Hafiz of Shíraz stateth in his Divan that the Parsi-speaking Turks impart life.... ...The friends of God must live in accord with the exhortations and admonitions of the Light of reality, the Blessed Perfection | BRL_DAK#0868, MKT2.278, ASAT2.154, MSHR2.343x, YHA1.133x, YHA1.378x | DAS.1913-12-28x | Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Petitions to authorities; Praise and encouragement | - | - | ||||||||
| AB00724 | 460 | الهی الهی ان عبدک المنیب الحبیب النجیب التقی النقی الرجل الرشید الذی نادی | O my God, my God! Verily, this Thy servant, penitent, beloved, noble, devout, pure, the man of wisdom who hath raised his call [3.5s] | ASAT2.140-141, IQN.072 | Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for martyrs; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | |||||||||
| AB00755 | 450 | ای بنده صادق جمال کبریاء خلاصه حوادث اینست که هیئت تفتیش در نهایت کنج کاوی | O sincere servant of the Glorious Beauty! The essence of what hath transpired is this: that the Committee of Investigation, with utmost scrutiny [3.5s] | MMK5#021 p.013, ASAT4.359x | Call to action; Obedience to and respect for government authority; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | |||||||||
| AB00765 | 450 | ای سائل جلیل از افق اعلی و ملکوت ابهی سوال نموده بودید حضرت اعلی اننی انا حی | O honored questioner! Thou hast asked about the Supreme Horizon and the Kingdom of Abha. His Holiness the Bab hath stated | MKT9.134b, ASAT5.156, BSHN.140.364, BSHN.144.362, MHT1a.074, MHT1b.032, YMM.418 | BSTW#186 | False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Realms of being; three realms; five realms; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]; Unity of thought and belief | - | - | ||||||||
| AB01000 | 390 | Translation List | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما رسید و از مضمون بهجت و سرور حاصل گردید جناب حاجی | O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Thy letter was received and its contents brought joy and delight [3.5s]... ...There is no truth whatsoever to the inferences of the astrologers… The other sign that is mentioned in the Tablets is the hidden craft. | MKT3.337, ASAT1.208x, AVK1.158.17x, AVK3.358.12x, ANDA#81 p.07, MAS2.024-025x, VAA.212-213 | ADMS#083x | Alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium; Astrology and numerology; House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||||
| AB01109 | 370 | Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks | ای بنده آستان ایزد دانا آنچه مرقوم نمودی ملحوظ گردید هر چه نگاشتی مفهوم شد | O servant of the Threshold of the All-Knowing God! That which thou didst write was perused, and all that thou didst inscribe was understood [3.5s]... ...By the term “that true and radiant morn” mentioned in the Hidden Words is meant the Dawn of divine Revelation when the Exalted One manifested Himself | BRL_DAK#0701, ASAT5.039-040x, AVK2.262.15x, PYB#027 p.04, MAS2.019-020x, YMM.369x, YARP2.130 p.148, NSS.155bx | BRL_ATE#187x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Personal instructions; Praise and encouragement | - | - | |||||||
| AB01131 | 370 | ای یاران الهی بشارت کبری اینکه هیکل مطهر منور مقدس حضرت اعلی روحی له الفداء | The most joyful tidings is this, that the holy, the luminous body of the Bab ... after having for sixty years been transferred from place to place | INBA16:229 | BRL_DAK#1075, AKHA_107BE #02-03 p.40, ASAT5.028x, AHB.130BE #03-04 p.11, AHB.110BE #17-18 p.346, AYT.225, HHA.105, DUR3.117, RHQM1.085-086 (114) (066-067), YHA1.126x (1.256), MLK.065, QT108.044-045 | GPB.276x, ABCC.126 | Growth of the Cause; Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]; Sacred remains; burial of the Bab; Shrines and Holy places | - | - | |||||||
| AB01165 | 360 | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای ابناء و بنات ملکوت نامه شما که بالهام آسمانی مرقوم وصول یافت مضامین دلنشین | O ye sons and daughters of the Kingdom! Your letter, which was surely inspired of heaven, hath been received. | BLIB_Or.08117.032, | MKT3.438, MMK1#219 p.263, ASAT5.071x | SWAB#219, SW_v02#05 p.006, CHH.147-148, BLO_PN#022 | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Praise and encouragement; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||
| AB01297 | 340 | ای ابناء آن اب راحم چون نمرود عنود و قوم آشور آن سرور وجود و جمال محبور را از وطن | O children of that compassionate Father! Even as the obdurate Nimrod and the people of Assyria banished that Lord of being and Beauty resplendent from His native land [3.5s] | INBA88:350 | ASAT1.046-047x, SFI17.017-018 | Abraham; Isaac; Ishmael; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Power of the Manifestation of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| AB01325 | 340 | ای دو یار عزیز هیچ میدانید که عبدالبهاء غرق چه دریاایست قسم باسم اعظم روحی | O ye two beloved friends! Know ye not in what ocean 'Abdu'l-Bahá is immersed? I swear by the Most Great Name, my spirit [3.5s] | INBA17:162 | MMK6#329x, ASAT5.136-137x, AVK4.142.09x, MAS2.083-084 | Duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations; Law of pilgrimage; Personal instructions; Shrines and Holy places | - | - | ||||||||
| AB01437 | 330 | ای یاوران عبدالبهاء بخارا وقتی عقل افزا بود و مرکز علم و دانش نفوسی در آنجا | O ye supporters of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! Bukhárá was once a place that enhanced wisdom, a center of learning and knowledge where souls [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#1035, MKT2.152, AKHA_088BE #07 p.01, ASAT2.027x, AHB.107BE #15 p.328, AVK2.134, PYM.096x, GTB.122 | Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Non-participation in politics; Praise of Eastern values; culture; Prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction | - | - | |||||||||
| AB01789 | 290 | ای امه الله المنجذبه نامه شما رسید و از مضمون ثبوت بر میثاق واضح و مشهود بود | O maidservant of God who art attracted! Thy letter was received, and from its contents thy firmness in the Covenant was clear and evident [3.5s] | AMK.177-178, ASAT2.176x | Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Growth of the Cause; Martyrs and martyrdom; Personal instructions; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Shrines and Holy places; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | |||||||||
| AB01797 | 290 | Translation List | ای بنده حضرت بهاء الله آن حدود و ثغور منبت شجره مبارکه است و موطن حضرت مقصود | O servant of Baha'u'llah! Those regions and environs are the ground wherein grew the blessed Tree, and are the homeland of the Desired One. | MKT3.213, ASAT2.143, PYM.114-115x, YHA1.415x (2.817) | ADMS#065i24x | Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision | - | - | |||||||
| AB01806 | 290 | ای ثابت بر پیمان مکتوبی که بجناب منشادی مرقوم نموده بودید ملاحظه گردید در | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! The letter thou hadst addressed to Jináb-i-Manshádí hath been perused [3.5s] | ASAT2.079, AVK4.205.03x, AVK4.291ax | House of Justice; Law of burial and cremation; Obedience to and respect for government authority; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | |||||||||
| AB02087 | 270 | ای سرگشته دشت و صحرا در سبیل الهی هر نفسی در بادیه سرگردان پریشان افتان و | O wanderer of desert and plain in the path of God, every soul in this wilderness wandereth bewildered, stumbling and falling [3.5s] | INBA55:095, INBA88:347 | ASAT4.260, MAS9.010x, YIK.338-339 | Martyrs and martyrdom; Poems and quotation from poetry; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | ||||||||
| AB02486 | 240 | اللهم ان سید الموحدین و سند المخلصین سمی سید الساجدین زین العابدین الذی آمن | O Lord! Verily, the Chief of the Monotheists and the Support of the Pure-hearted bears the name of the Master of the Devout, the Ornament of the Worshippers, who hath believed [3.5s] | ASAT2.142, IQN.100 | Eulogies; reminiscences; Prayer for the departed; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||||
| AB02620 | 240 | علیک التحیه و الثناء یا فخر النساء المنتسبه الی الشجره المبارکه الثابته الاصل | Upon thee be salutations and praise, O pride of the female kindred of that Blessed Tree whose Root is firmly established | ASAT4.289, IQN.111 | LTDT.278-279 | Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Eulogies; reminiscences; Prayer for the departed; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| AB02662 | 230 | ای بنده آستان مقدس آنچه نگاشتی ملاحظه گردید و بر تفصیل اطلاع حاصل شد هفت وادی | O servant of the Sacred Threshold! That which thou didst write was perused, and its contents were fully understood. The Seven Valleys [3.5s]... ...Every person must have an occupation, a trade or a craft, so that he may carry other people's burdens, and not himself be a burden to others. | INBA87:386a, INBA52:396 | BRL_DAK#0832, ASAT3.243, AVK3.369.09 | COC#0011x | Begging; mendicancy; idleness and sloth; Love of God; Music and singing; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Work as worship | - | - | |||||||
| AB03042 | 220 | رب و محبوبی لک الحمد علی ما اولیت و لک الشکر علی ما اعطیت توتی من تشاء و توید | O God and my Beloved! Praise be upon Thee for Thy greatness and thanks be unto Thee for Thy generosity. Thou grantest what Thou dost wish | INBA84:319 | ASAT4.380, AHB.110BE #17-18 p.356, AHB.121BE #07 p.247, MUH2.1117, YHA1.128 (1.261), MLK.112, QT108.054, DSDS.071, QUM.253-254x, KHH1.330 (1.460) | KHHE.467-468 | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for praise and gratitude | - | - | |||||||
| AB03050 | 220 | واشوقی یا الهی الی باهی جمالک و ضاحی وجهک و شهی وصالک و ظماء قلبی لمعین | O my God! How I yearn for Thy resplendent beauty, Thy radiant face, the sweetness of reunion with Thee, and my heart thirsts for the wellspring [3.5s] | PR20.004 | MKT2.162, ASAT4.395x | Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love of God; Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The soul as soil; cultivation of the soul | - | - | ||||||||
| AB03482 | 470 | ای منادی پیمان مکتوب اخیر وصول یافت مرقوم نموده بودید امروز بالعیان مکشوف | O Herald of the Covenant! Thy recent letter was received. Thou didst write that which is today manifest before all eyes [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0812, ASAT1.082-083x | Alteration of the divine will [bada]; Business; financial; property matters; Non-participation in politics | - | - | |||||||||
| AB03862 | 190 | یا امه الله نامه شما رسید مضمون معلوم گردید جواب مختصر مرقوم میشود عالم ذر که گفته | O handmaiden of God! Your letter was received and its contents noted. A brief reply is being written [3.5s]... ...The realm of subtle entities that is alluded to referreth to the realities, specifications, individuations, capacities and potentialities of man in the mirror of the divine knowledge. | BRL_TBUP#2n19, MMK6#168, ASAT3.271, AVK1.293.11, AVK2.167.06x, MAS2.030x, DVB5.047-048 | BRL_TBU#2n19 | Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Soul; spirit after death | - | - | ||||||||
| AB04007 | 180 | ای دوستان الهی تلغرافی امروز ارسال شد ولی مختصر است مفصل اینکه الحمد لله در صون | O friends of God! A telegram was dispatched today, though it was very brief. The detailed account is this: praise be to God, in the protection [3.5s] | ASAT4.358 | Fellowship with the wayward and ungodly; Importance of prayer; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times; Useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession | - | - | |||||||||
| AB04010 | 180 | A Supplement to 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913 | نامه مفصل که در خصوص استتکارت نوشته بودی ملاحظه گردید مختصر این است | ...The extensive letter you had written about Stuttgart was perused. In brief, Germany will shine resplendent, inasmuch as its citizens are religiously minded | ASAT1.025x | BBBD.242-243, DAS.1913-07-15, ABIE.069, BLO_PN#007, MHMD2s.323ax | Call to action; Growth of the Cause; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Praise and encouragement; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||
| AB04677 | 160 | ای بنده آستان مقدس نامه که در پانزدهم شباط مرقوم نموده بودید در جوف | O servant of the Sacred Threshold! The letter which thou didst write on the fifteenth of Shabbaṭ was received [3.5s] | MMK6#317x, ASAT4.110x, YMM.182x, YMM.262x, YMM.393x | Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; Quotation from or interpretation of the Bible | - | - | |||||||||
| AB05703 | 170 | ای سرمست صهبای پیمان آنچه مرقوم نموده بودید ملاحظه گردید و همچنین عکسی که | O thou who art inebriated with the wine of the Covenant! That which thou didst write was perused, and likewise the photograph that [3.5s] | ASAT5.095-096, BSHI.103 | Banishment to; life in Adrianople; Chastisement and requital; Photographs and recordings | - | - | |||||||||
| AB05969 | 140 | یا من یمتحن عبدالبهاء لیس لک ان تمتحن عبدا متضرعا الی الله اما قرات فی کتاب | O thou who art putting Abdu’l-Baha to the test! It is not for thee to test a servant who ardently supplicateth the Lord | MKT4.198, MILAN.198, ASAT1.203, YHA2.937 | BTO#13a | Manifestation of God as sun; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| AB06329 | 130 | Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks | ای منادی پیمان نامه شما رسید و از مضمون نهایت مسرت حاصل گردید که الحمد لله | O herald of the Covenant! Your letter was received and its contents brought the utmost joy, for which praise be to God [3.5s]... ...Thou hast written concerning the refutation of the fallacies contained in the writings of Edward Browne. This matter is important and action needs to be taken | BRL_DAK#0893, ASAT1.080-081, MAS2.058x | BRL_ATE#182x | Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Praise and encouragement; Review of publications | - | - | |||||||
| AB06396 | 130 | ای ورقه موقنه در کور مسیحائی و دور عیسوی بعد از صعود روح وجود بمقام محمود جمیع یاران | O leaf assured! In the Dispensation of Christ and the Christian Cycle, following the ascension of the Spirit of Being to the glorious and praised station, all the friends [3.5s] | MKT7.172b, ASAT5.124 | Call to action; Early Christian persecutions; the Pharisees; Eulogies; reminiscences; Mary Magdalene | - | - | |||||||||
| AB06407 | 130 | Mahmúd's Diary | ای یار مهربان چند روز بسبب دعوت دو کشیش و رجای احبای الهی بفلادلفیا رفتم دو | O thou kind Friend, I visited Philadelphia, for a few days, at the invitation of two ministers | ASAT2.127, BDA1.119.02 | SW_v19#11 p.350, MHMD1.126, ABCC.212 | Call to action; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||
| AB06442 | 130 | ایها الحبیب قد وصل تحریرکم و اطلعنا بمضمونه و نختصر فی الجواب لقله الاوقات | O beloved friend! Thy letter hath reached us and we have taken note of its contents. We shall be brief in our reply, owing to the constraint of time [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0792, MKT3.198, MNMK#061 p.141, ASAT4.394, SFI02.058, YMM.322x, YIK.298x, ZIAB2.149-150 | God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Names and attributes of God; The cloud ['ama] | - | - | |||||||||
| AB06638 | 120 | ای بنده جمال ابهی وجد و سرور نما که الحمد لله مظهر الطاف حضرت بدیع الاوصافی | O servant of the Abhá Beauty! Rejoice and be filled with gladness, for praise be to God, thou art a recipient of the favors of Him Who is wondrous in His attributes [3.5s] | ASAT5.283, KASH.147x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Education of children; moral education; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||||||
| AB09371 | 80 | ای ذات محترم نامه مبارک شما ملاحظه گردید خطاب به والی محترم بستن | O esteemed being, your blessed letter was perused, which was addressed to the honourable governor [3.5s] | ASAT1.217, ANDA#43-44 p.91, NJB_v02#14-16 p.006 | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Personal instructions | - | - | |||||||||
| AB10265 | 70 | یا من تمسک بالعره الوثقی بدان عروه وثقی که از اول ابداع در زبر و الواح و صحف | O thou who hast clung to the Most Firm Handle! [3.5s]... ...Know thou that the 'Sure Handle' mentioned from the foundation of the world in the Books, the Tablets and the Scriptures of old is naught else but the Covenant and the Testament | MMK6#050, ASAT4.333 | GPB.238x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant | - | - | ||||||||
| AB10434 | 360 | ای بنده صادق الهی نامه ایکه مرقوم نموده بودید ملحوظ افتاد محرک فساد شیخ الملک است... محرّک فساد شیخ الملک است | O sincere servant of God! The letter thou didst write was noted. The instigator of corruption is Shaykh al-Mulk... The instigator of corruption is Shaykh al-Mulk [3.5s] | ASAT5.362x, BSHI.062-063 | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | |||||||||
| AB11046 | 50 | ربّ و رجائی ترانی ... ای یار روحانی نامهٴ نورانی منظوماً و منثوراً ارسال نموده بودی بنهایت روح و ریحان | O my Lord and my Hope! Thou seest me... O spiritual friend! Thou didst send a luminous letter, both in verse and in prose, with utmost joy and fragrance [3.5s] | ASAT5.258x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Growth of the Cause; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||||
| AB11189 | 40 | ای معین مظلومان حمایت و صیانت دولت ابد مدت خاطر آزردههه ستمدیدگان را شاد و خرم نمود....این سلطنت با عدالت | O sustainer of the oppressed! The protection and safeguarding of the eternal government hath gladdened and delighted the hearts of the grief-stricken and downtrodden... This sovereignty with justice [3.5s] | ASAT2.183, MSHR3.349 | Status of kings; future of monarchy | - | - | |||||||||
| AB11321 | 420 | Translation List | اللهم یا من تجلی بانوار ساطعه الاشراق علی الافاق و ظهر بملکوت الجمال فقامت | O God! O Thou Who hast shone forth with resplendent lights of effulgence upon all horizons and hast manifested Thyself through the Kingdom of Beauty, whereupon arose [3.5s]... ...The friends of Iran are dearer than life and soul, inasmuch as they have endured great trials… | BRL_DAK#0857, AKHA_129BE #03 p.69, ASAT1.026x, NKHD.123x | ADMS#065i17x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||
| AB11343 | 30 | ای بنده حق فرصت نیست مختصر مرقوم میشود شجره انیسا جمال مبارکست که در ظل آن | O servant of the Truth! Time permitteth but a brief reply. The Tree of Anisa is none other than the Blessed Beauty, beneath Whose shade [3.5s] | MKT9.057b, ASAT1.247, YMM.198 | Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant | - | - | |||||||||
| AB11349 | 30 | Reflection on the Theory of Alchemy as Explained in the Bahá'í Writings, A | امّا علامت بلوغ عالم که در کتاب اقدس مرقوم یکی حصول صلح عمومی و دیگری ظهور و بروز اخت النّبوة حکمت الهّیه است که صنعتع مکتوبه جزو آن است | ...As for the signs of the coming of age of the human race mentioned in the Kitab-i-Aqdas: one sign is the advent of universal peace, and the other is the unfoldment and appearance of the 'sister of prophecy', the divine philosophy, of which the hidden craft forms a part | ASAT1.208x | BLO_alchemy | Coming-of-age; maturity of mankind; Consolation and comfort; House of Justice; Station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Universal peace; world unity | - | - | |||||||
| AB11407 | 30 | آن عکس که مرقوم نموده اید عکس جمال مبارک نیست آن عکس جناب کلیم | The photograph whereof thou didst write is not the likeness of the Blessed Beauty, but rather the photograph of Jinab-i-Kalím [3.5s] | ASAT5.095x | Martyrs and martyrdom; Personal instructions; Promotion of commerce and industry | - | - | |||||||||
| AB11412 | 30 | در خصوص جناب خادم مرقوم نموده بودید لیس لاحد ان یتکلّم بحقّه شیئاً | Concerning what thou didst write about Jinab-i-Khadim, none hath the right to speak against him [3.5s] | ASAT3.196x | Love of God; Personal instructions; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | |||||||||
| AB11573 | 10 | الهی الهی قد انشأت بقدرتک خلقاً جدیداً و برأت و احدثت کوراً شدیداً | O my God, O my God! Through Thy power Thou hast brought forth a new creation and fashioned and ordained a mighty age [3.5s] | ASAT2.037 | Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU0221 | Words spoken on 1914-02-04 | 870 | انبار طهران جائی نبود که کسی بتواند یک ماه زیست کند واقعا محل عجیبی بود زیر زمینی بود | The prison storehouse of Tehran was no place where any soul could survive for even a month. Verily, it was a strange place, situated underground [3.5s] | ASAT1.232-236 | Incarceration of Baha'u'llah in Siyah Chal; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0243 | 830 | خلیل پاشا والی بیروت عبدالرحمن الحوت را بوکالت از خود بعکا فرستاد | Khalil Pasha, the Governor of Beirut, dispatched 'Abdu'r-Rahman al-Hut to 'Akka as his deputy [3.5s]... ...Upon their arrival, the Commission of Inquiry invited me to meet with them but I declined. They sent a certain official by the name of Hikmat Big | ASAT4.360-363 | CHC.217-218x | Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Ottoman commissions of investigation; Rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0383 | 630 | از عادت حکومت ترکیه است که حکم فرمان را بحضور مقصر میخوانند تا تکلیف خود | It is among the customs of the Turkish government that they read aloud the decree in the presence of the accused, that he may know his fate [3.5s] | ASAT4.349-352 | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU0431 | 590 | جمال پاشا کوهی از غرور بود هر کجا میرفت دار بپا میکرد و هر که را میخواست | Jamal Pasha was as a mountain of pride; whithersoever he went, he raised the gallows, and whomsoever he desired, he condemned [3.5s] | ASAT3.042-045 | Humor; jokes; Oneness; unity of religion; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Stories; anecdotes; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU0530 | 510 | جمال مبارک ملاقات هیچ متصرفی را نپذیرفتند و سلطان باندیشه شد | The Blessed Beauty accepted not the audience of any governor, and this caused the sovereign to fall into deep contemplation [3.5s] | ASAT4.352-354 | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU0983 | Words spoken ca. 1914 | 310 | الارض المقدسه حرارتها لاتزید عن سی و سه ٣٣ درجه و ابرد فصلها تقریبا ٤ فوق الصرفرفی | The temperature in the Holy Land does not exceed 33 degrees [Celsius] and in the coldest season, it is approximately four degrees above zero. | ASAT4.454-455x, KHH1.323-324 (1.449-451) | KHHE.451-462 | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1254 | Words spoken ca. 1914 | 250 | جرجس الجمال کان من اهل العقل و الوداد و لکنه کان پرتستانی متعصب عنید مرة طلبت مثه ارض الصنوبر | ASAT2.091-093, KHH1.324 (1.451-452) | Business; financial; property matters; Humor; jokes; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Stories; anecdotes | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU1263 | 250 | قصر مدت سی سال اجاره اش را دادیم تا آنکه خریدیم وناقضین ازما گرفتند | For the span of thirty years did We pay its rent, until We purchased it, and then the Covenant-breakers wrested it from Us [3.5s] | ASAT4.501-502 | Assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick; Business; financial; property matters; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Shrines and Holy places | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU1266 | Words spoken ca. 1914 | 250 | من عادة الحکومه العنمانیه هوانها تقرٴ حکم الفرمان بحضور المذنب حتی یعلم تکلیفه و یتبع القوانین | ASAT4.349, KHH1.325-326 (1.453-454) | Banishments of Baha'u'llah; Banishment to; life in 'Akka | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU1297 | 240 | النور هو تموجات مادیه مثل الحرارة و غیرها من تأثیرات الماده | Light consisteth of material undulations, even as heat and other material influences [3.5s] | ASAT5.243-244 | Pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient; Transcending the material condition | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU1491 | 210 | جمال الدین افغانی از مزورین بود و محض تحریک دولت بر ضد ما ادعای فیلسوفیت | Jamal ad-Din the Afghan was amongst the deceivers, and solely to stir up the government against Us did he lay claim unto philosophy [3.5s] | ASAT3.040-041 | Justice and wrath of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU1500 | Words spoken ca. 1914 | 210 | و من اعمال الناقضین قال الموملی انهم اخذوا مناالقصر ولم یعطوفا منه عرقه واحده لاغیر ثوبی من العرق | The Covenant-breakers seized the flower gardens adjoining the Shrine of Baha'u'llah from us, but some of the friends and I would carry soil and water on our shoulders for that garden and tend to its beauty. | ASAT4.501, KHH1.324 (1.452-453) | KHHE.463 | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Shrines and Holy places | - | - | |||||||
| ABU1540 | 200 | جمال مبارک حاجی میرزا حیدر علی را از اسلامبول بمصر فرستاد و امر بحکمت کرد | The Blessed Beauty sent Haji Mirza Haydar-'Ali from Constantinople unto Egypt and commanded him to exercise wisdom [3.5s] | ASAT3.121-122 | Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU1596 | 190 | از جمله مکرهای میرزا محسن خان سفیر ایران در اسلامبول آنکه یک بار | Among the stratagems employed by Mirza Muhsin Khan, the Persian Ambassador in Istanbul, was that on one occasion [3.5s] | ASAT3.110-111 | Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Power of the Manifestation of God; Stories; anecdotes | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU1598 | 190 | اگر چنانچه ممکن باشد که نسبت هر روزنامه ازامر منقطع گردد که مردم بدانند | Would that it were possible for every newspaper to become detached from command, that the people might know [3.5s] | ASAT4.046-047 | Chastisement and requital; Newspapers and the media; publications; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU1603 | 190 | چقدر ساده و لطیف است که انسان گمان میکند مانند آنرا تواند نوشت هیهات | How simple and delicate it appeareth, such that man imagineth he can write the like thereof! Far, far from possible! [3.5s] | ASAT4.174-175 | Literature; drama; humanities; the arts; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU1922 | 150 | من بیشتر مکاتیب بدست خود مینوشتم ولکن چون سه انگشتان دستم از کثرت کتابت از کار افتاد مجتاج شدم که کاتبی بگیرم | Most of My epistles did I pen with Mine own hand, yet when three fingers of Mine hand became disabled through the profusion of writing, I found Myself compelled to take a scribe [3.5s] | ASAT5.010-011 | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Eulogies; reminiscences; Personal instructions | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU1993 | 140 | میرزا تقی خان در مجلس بنوع استهزاء پرسید که دیگر لا رطب و لایابس الا فی کتاب مبین | In the gathering, Mirza Taqi Khan asked mockingly: "What else remains that is not to be found, whether green or sere, save in the perspicuous Book?" [3.5s]... ...one day Mirza Taqi Khan attended a gathering (presumably in Tihran) at which Baha’u’llah was present. | ASAT2.164-165 | ROB3.245-246, STAB#075 | Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Prophecy and fulfillment; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2237 | 110 | عزمی دده رئیس طائفهٴ مولویه در اسلامبول از علماء بود و خدیو اسمعیل پاشا | Azmi Dede, who was among the divines and served as chief of the Mevlevi Order in Istanbul, and the Khedive Isma'il Pasha [3.5s] | ASAT3.237-238 | Rejection, opposition and persecution; Stories; anecdotes | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU2241 | 110 | مذکور که حکایت کردند پادشاهی بوزیرش گفت بادنجان را مخالف صحت و سلامت دانستند گفت بلی | A king told his minister that eggplant was reported to be bad for one's health. | ASAT2.022 | STAB#158 | Humor; jokes; Stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2459 | Words spoken in 1919 in Haifa | 90 | عاکور همین عکا است که فرنگیها عاکر میگویند عکاء اسامی مختلفه پیدا نمود | Akko is indeed that same Akka which the Franks call Acre. Akka hath acquired diverse names throughout the ages [3.5s] | ASAT4.345-346 | Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Shrines and Holy places | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2467 | Words to Mirza Muhammad Ali Khan, ca. 1906 | 90 | ملاحطه نمائید که در سنهٴ ماضیه اعداء و بدخواهان این مظلوم بنهایت فساد برخاستند | Consider ye how in the bygone year the enemies and ill-wishers of this Wronged One arose with consummate mischief [3.5s] | ASAT5.110 | Ottoman commissions of investigation; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2547 | 80 | المسیح ماکان عنده احباء کفایة بحافظون علی قبره قبره کان فی مزبلة | The Christ had not sufficient loved ones who would keep watch over His tomb, for His sepulchre was amidst a refuse heap [3.5s] | ASAT4.467-468 | Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people; Law of burial and cremation; Stories; anecdotes | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU2548 | Words spoken on 1919-12-25 | 80 | امروز چون عید ولادت حضرت مسیح بود دیدن بعضی دوستان مسیحی رفتم من بموجب امر جمال | Today, inasmuch as it was the Feast of the Nativity of Christ, I proceeded, in accordance with the command of the Beauty, to visit certain Christian friends [3.5s] | ASAT5.144-145 | Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Fellowship with the wayward and ungodly | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2970 | 50 | اطاعت اوامر دولت بر هر بهائی واجب است وگرنه خطر بر همهٴ هیئت | Obedience unto the ordinances of the government is binding upon every Bahá'í, else peril shall encompass the entire body [3.5s] | ASAT3.257 | Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Obedience to and respect for government authority | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3005 | 50 | عرس العرب فی البادیة بسیط جداًالعرس یقف علی حجرٍ والعروس تقف علی حجراٍ | The marriage of the Bedouin in the desert is exceedingly simple: the bridegroom standeth upon one stone and the bride upon another [3.5s] | ASAT4.071 | Equality of men and women; Moderation; frugality; simplicity | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3007 | 50 | قرة العین که معروف آفاق است وقتی که مؤمن بخدا شد منجذب بنفحات الهی گشت | The Point of the Eye, who became renowned throughout all regions, when she believed in God, was drawn unto the divine fragrances [3.5s] | ASAT4.496a | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3148 | Words spoken at 309 W 78th St in New York, 1912-07-10 | 40 | Mahmúd's Diary | مراد لوحی از الواح مبارکست و کنایه از اینکه الواح الهیه را باید بر سنگهای گرانبها نقش نمود | What is meant is one of the holy Tablets. But it also alludes to the fact that the divine Tablets should be engraved on precious stones. In addition, there is a saying in the East by which the color white symbolizes divine will | ASAT5.040, MAS2.021, BDA1.152.02 | MHMD1.164 | Martyrs and martyrdom; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Symbolism of color and light | - | - | ||||||
| ABU3477 | 20 | کیفیة شهادة قرة العین هو انهم اخبروها ان زوجة‌الصدر الاعظم تحب ان تلاقیها فی البستان | The manner of the martyrdom of Qurratu'l-Ayn was that they informed her that the wife of the Grand Vizier desired to meet with her in the garden [3.5s] | ASAT4.496b | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00007 | Tafsir-i-Suratu'l-Kawthar (Commentary on the Surah of Kawthar) | 49500 | Gate of the Heart | Commentary on the Surih of Kawthar | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم و به نستعین. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الواح کتاب الفلق فی کل ما فتق و استفرق و استنطق طراز الازل | Praised be to God, who hath made the Ornament of the scriptural Tablets to be the Book of the Daybreak which is operative within everything such that it is cleft asunder and split apart | INBA53:181-383, INBA_5019C:001-083x, , CMB_F10, , BLIB_Or5080, , HBH_tafkawthar, BYC_kowthar | ASAT2.007-008x, AHDA.466x, OOL.A006 | GOH.069-075x, GOH.111-115x, GOH.177x, MNP.178x, HURQ.BB08x, KSHK#03x | Prophecy and fulfillment; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | NSS.025-029, DB.174x, BRHL.59, MSBR.202-203, AHDA.455.03, MMAH.013, SRC.071, SRC.201, GOH.033 | |||
| BB00008 | Tafsir-i-Suratu'l-Baqarah = Kitab al-Ahmadiyya (Commentary on the Surah of the Cow I) | 43700 | Qur'an Commentary of Sayyid 'Alí Muhammad, the Báb, The; Gate of the Heart | Tafsir surat al-baqara (Commentary on the Surah of the Cow) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الم ذلک الکتاب لا ریب فیه هدی للمتقین هذه الایة لاهل الحقیقة معرفة الله سبحانه | "Alif. Lám. Mím. This is the Book wherein there is no doubt, a guidance unto them that fear God." For the people of truth, this verse signifieth the knowledge of God, glory be unto Him [3.5s]... ...The Primal Adam is the Will, Who is the Primal Utterance, manifested in the primal realm of contingency | INBA69:157-377, INBA_6004C:002-178, , INBA_6014C:001-296, , INBA_6012C.060-257, , PR02.001v21-044v14, PR03.043r-043rx, PR40.003v-095v, CMB_F08, , BLIB_Or5277, , BN_5780, BN_5805, BN_6610, LEID.Or4371-8, , OXF.MS.Arab.e.59-60, IOM.090-091x, HBH_baqarah (=INBA 69) | ASAT2.064x | TAME, BLO_PT#216.019-020, GOH.119-121x, GOH.204x, GOH.251-252x, HURQ.BB01x | - | - | FHR#09, NSS.021-022, BRHL.59, MSBR.202-203, AHDA.455.05, MMAH.011, SRC.046-047, SRC.201, GOH.030, GOH.118 | ||||
| BB00009 | Kitab al-Ruh (Book of the Spirit) | 36000 | Gate of the Heart | Kitáb al-Ruh (Book of the Spirit) | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد نزل الايات بالحق الي عبده لعل الناس بايات ربک يومنون ان اتبع ما اوحينا اليک | Praise be to God, Who hath revealed the verses in truth unto His servant, that perchance mankind might believe in the signs of their Lord. Follow that which We have revealed unto thee [3.5s]... ...This Book is a Dhikr (Remembrance) from God according to the Decree of a wondrous servant [the Bāb]. He is assuredly the True One within the heavens and the earth. | INBA78:069-076x, INBA_4011C.069-100, INBA_7005C, PR04.036r12-038r12x, MKI4507.001x, , IOM.091 | ASAT4.044-45x, AHDA.198x, OOL.A017 | HURQ.BB05x, HURQ.BB15x | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Justice and wrath of God; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God is its own standard | * | - | FHR#10, AHDA.446.5, MMAH.064, SRC.061, SRC.189, GOH.031, GOH.380fn3 | The "Suratu'l-Ridvan" is a part of this work | ||
| BB00021 | Tafsir al-Ha I (Tafsir alfayn) (Commentary on the Letter Ha’) | 11000 | Selections from the Bahá'í Writings and from Shaykh Ahmad on the Seven Stages of Creation; Gate of the Heart | Tafsir-i-Ha' (Commentary on the Letter Ha') | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الالواح الابداع طراز الالف القائم بین الحرفین الذی لاح و اشرق بما استشقق و استنطق فسبحان رب العرش عما یصف القائلون و انه هو فوق ما یعرف العارفون ... | Praise be to God Who hath made the ornament of the Tablets of creation to be the ornament of the Alif standing between two letters, which hath shone forth and gleamed resplendent through that which was cleft asunder and made to speak. Glorified be the Lord of the Throne above whatsoever they who speak may describe, and verily He transcendeth all that they who know can comprehend [3.5s]... ...God, verily, created the Will from nothing through itself… That which I set forth in explanation of the letter Há was to extol the Tree of Bahá, for the supporters of fate recognize the decree of spontaneity | INBA14:231-283, INBA53:081-125, INBA67:004-052, INBA86:099-154, INBA_3006C:002-058, , INBA_6010C:221-274, , INBA_4002C, , PR02.181r22-193v13, PR07.078r-092v | AADA.138x, ASAT1.189x, ASAT3.214x, AVK1.100-102x, HNMJ.080-081x | GOH.211-214x, GOH.222-223x, MNP.209x, LOIR06.052x, BLO_PT#079.1.3x, BLO_PT#079.1.6x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Eternal archetypes [a'yan-i-thabitah]; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | AHDA.454.01, SRC.072, SRC.199, GOH.033 | |||
| BB00029 | Tafsir al-Ha II (Tafsir sirr al-ha) (Commentary on the Mystery of Ha’) | 7200 | Gate of the Heart | Tafsir-i-Sirr-i-Ha' (Commentary on the Mystery of Ha') | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تقدس بقدس کینونیته عن عرفان اعلی مجردات اللاهوت و من یشا... الحمد لله الذی یمن فی الکتاب علی الذین آمنوا | Praise be to God Who, through the sanctity of His Essence, transcendeth the comprehension of the most sublime abstractions of divinity and whatsoever... Praise be to God Who bestoweth grace in the Book upon them that have believed [3.5s]... ...For verily each name hath infinite degrees, and the meaning of each thing that is named pertaineth to its own degree | INBA14:283-320, INBA53:125-156, INBA67:052-085, INBA86:154-193, INBA_3006C:058-096, , INBA_6010C:274-310, , INBA_4002C, , PR02.193v14-200v02, PR03.065r28-067r27x, PR07.092v-102r, BYC_collect3.116-126x | ASAT1.190x, ASAT5.158-159x, ASAT5.163-164x, HNMJ.081-086x, HNMJ.086-093x, HNMJ.086-093x | GOH.064x | Essential vs. actional attributes of God; Impossibility of true worship of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God and human limitations | - | - | AHDA.454.02, SRC.072, SRC.199, GOH.034 | |||
| 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 | ||||
| BB00037 | Risala fi Tashkhis al-Ghina (on singing) | 5600 | Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تقدس تقدیس قیومته عن نعت الجوهریات و ما یشاء بهها و الحمد لله الذی تفرد بتفرد ازلیته عن وصف الذاتیات و ما یعادلها | Praise be to God Who, through the sanctity of His Essence, hath sanctified Himself above the attributes of essences and all that pertaineth thereunto; and praise be to God Who, in His primal Eternity, hath singled out His oneness above the description of intrinsic qualities and their like [3.5s]... ...The reality of all beings, save God, dependeth on two aspects. The first is the existential aspect (jihat-i-vujúdí) which indicateth the divine effulgence | INBA14:432-452, INBA40:202-220, INBA67:233-259, INBA82:096-133, INBA_6010C:430-450, , PR02.146v16-152r04, PR07.110r-117v, UMich962.152-156, BYC_collect4.022x | SFI01.085-095, ASAT4.424-425x | GOH.177x | Martyrs and martyrdom; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | AHDA.450.5, MMAH.047, SRC.080, SRC.194, GOH.034-035 | ||||
| BB00048 | Du'a-yi Alif | 3800 | Autobibliography in the Writings of the Báb | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی خلق السموات و الارض بامره ثم الذین آمنوا بالله و آیاته فاولئک هم الی الله یحشرون یا الهی کیف ادعوک و انک لم تزل لن تعرف بسواک و لا تزال .... | Praise be to God, Who hath created the heavens and the earth by His command, and beyond them those who have believed in God and His signs - these shall verily be gathered unto Him. O my God! How can I call upon Thee, when Thou hast ever been unknowable except through Thine own Self, and shalt ever thus remain [3.5s]... ...I have not claimed a single word of revelation. They say, “He has laid claim to spiritual authority and its trappings.” | PR02.135v06-139r25 | ASAT1.179-182 | MNP.088x, LOIR06.047x, BLO_PT#012x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Impossibility of true worship of God; Prayer for forgiveness; Self-description of God; God's self-remembrance; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | SRC.067-068, SRC.185 | ||||
| BB00049 | Ziyarat Jami’atu'l-Kabira | 3600 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم [بسمه المکنون الرؤف]. الحمد لله رب العالمین و انما الصلوة علی محمد رسول الله و خاتم النبیین ... و اذا اردت زیارت حبیب الله او احد من ائمة الدین طهر ادلا جسمک | Praised be to God, the Lord of all the worlds. And may prayerful devotion [peace] be upon Muhammad, the Messenger of God, and the Seal of the Prophets. | INBA50:001-072, INBA_5019C:132-145, , INBA_6009C:173-219, , PR02.090r01-093v09, CMB_F22.019b, , MKI4499.049, AEWB.145-170, | ASAT3.074x | HURQ.BB34x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Visitation Tablets | - | - | JRAS.445, BRHL.63, MSBR.204-205, SRC.045, SRC.202 | |||||
| BB00054 | Letter to Mirza Hasan Vaqay’-Nigar | 3300 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع ما فی السموات و الارض بامره و اقام الکل بحکمه لیعرف کل الموجودات فی مقام عرفان طلعة الذات و آیات ظهورات الصفات | Praise be to God Who hath brought into being, through His command, whatsoever is in the heavens and on earth, and hath established all things through His wisdom, that every created thing might attain unto the station of recognition of the Countenance of His Essence and the signs of the manifestations of His attributes [3.5s] | INBA40:180-192, INBA53:385-398, INBA67:085-100, PR02.175r27-179r06, CMB_F28.7.06, | ASAT4.368x | BAPT.002x, HURQ.BB51x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Free will and predestination; fate; Names and attributes of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.68, MSBR.208-209, MMAH.032, SRC.079, SRC.194 | |||||
| BB00068 | Tafsir-i-Suratu'l-Qadar II | 2700 | بسم الله المتقدس المنیع. سبحان الذی لم یزل و لا یزال کان وجوده قبل القبل بلا ذکر شیء عنده و لایزال انه هو کائن بمثل ماقد کان | Glorified be He Who hath ever been and shall ever be, Whose existence preceded all that was before, with naught beside Him to be mentioned, Who endureth even as He hath always been [3.5s] | BYC_qadar | ASAT4.472x | Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Night of Power (Laylat al-Qadr); The Imamate; the Caliphate; The Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im | - | - | |||||||
| BB00072 | Letter to Haji 'Abd al-Wahhab | 2700 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. یا من له الحمد فی السموات و الارض و له السلام فی ملکوت الامر والخلق سبحانه و تعالی جل ذاتیته من ان یصعد الیها اعلی جواهر الممکنات و علت کینونیته من ان یرفع الی مقام عزها اعلی شوامخ | O Thou Who art praised in the heavens and on earth, and unto Whom belongeth peace in the Kingdom of Command and Creation! Glorified and exalted art Thou! The quintessence of Thy Being is far above the loftiest essences of all contingent things, and the Reality of Thy Self transcendeth the most sublime heights [3.5s] | INBA_5019C:257-264, | ASAT4.509x, AVK1.294-295x, AVK1.323-324x | Celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Meaning; importance of dreams and visions; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Soul; spirit after death; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The Imamate; the Caliphate | - | - | SRC.191 | ||||||
| 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." | |
| BB00089 | Letter to Jinab-i-Haji Siyyid Javad Karbala'i | 2000 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الواح صبح الازل طراز الالف القائم بین البائین فلاحت و اضائت بعد ما بدعت قبل ما اخترعت | Praise be to God Who hath made the ornament of the Tablets of the Morn of Eternity to be as the Alif standing betwixt two Bás, resplendent and illumining after it was originated, ere it was fashioned [3.5s] | INBA98:150.07-158.13, PR02.161r25-163v22, CMB_F21.026.18-035.16#04, , Berlin3655.105v-110v | ASAT3.054-055x, NSS.059-064 | Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209 | ||||||
| BB00100 | Alfayn Munajat | 1800 | Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع السموات و الارض بامره ثم الذین آمنوا بالله و آیاته الی ربهم یحشرون اللهم انت الله رب السموات و الارض تعلم کل شیء و لا یخفی علیک شیئ فی السموات و الارض | Praise be to God Who hath brought forth the heavens and earth by His command; then shall they who have believed in God and His signs be gathered unto their Lord. O God! Thou art God, Lord of the heavens and earth, Thou knowest all things, and naught in the heavens or earth remaineth concealed from Thee [3.5s]... ...Glory be to Thee, O God! Thou art the God Who hath existed before all things, Who will exist after all things and will last beyond all things… Verily Thou art the Lord of all created things | INBA_5019C:173-188, , PR03.172v13-179r06 | ASAT5.165-167x, HNMJ.096-115, SWBP#42 (p.132-132x) | SWB#43 (p.186-186x), BPRY.150x | Kiya & Parya | Love of God; Predictions and prophecies; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | AHDA.458.14, SRC.072, SRC.190, SRC.202 | |||
| BB00114 | Tafsiri-i-Hadith-i-‘Allamani Akhi Rasulu’llah | 1600 | Selections from the Bahá'í Writings and from Shaykh Ahmad on the Seven Stages of Creation; Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی الهم من فی السموات و الارض حکمه لئلا یحتجب احد عن ظهور نور طلعته | Praise be to God, the God of all who are in heaven and on earth, Who hath decreed that no one should be veiled from the effulgence | INBA14:410-417, INBA40:137-143, INBA53:068-075, INBA67:195-203, INBA_6010C:408-415, , CMB_F21.093.03-100.01#12, | ASAT4.367x | GOH.214x, BLO_PT#079.1.3x, BLO_PT#079.1.7 | Knowledge; recognition of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | BRHL.62, MSBR.208-209, SRC.078, SRC.193, GOH.247 | ||||
| BB00128 | Kitab al-Fihrist (Book of the index) | 1400 | Autobibliography in the Writings of the Báb; Gate of the Heart | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. المر ذلک الکتاب ذکر من الله فی حکم عبد بدیع و انه للکتاب قد نزلت من لدن بقیة الله امام حق قدیم | Alif. Lám. Mím. Rá. This is the Book, a Remembrance from God concerning a wondrous servant, and verily it is the Book sent down from the presence of the Remnant of God, the True Imam [3.5s]... ...And this is a Book which was sent down from God containing a directive from a wondrous servant. It is indeed a Book which hath come down from the Remnant of God | INBA_5019C:285-293, , INBA_6007C.339-348, INBA_4011C.062-069, , PR04.001r03-006v11, Berlin3655.001v-007r | ASAT4.527x | MNP.091-095x, HURQ.BB46x, LOIR06.051ff | Events in the life and ministry of the Bab; Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih] | - | - | FHR#04, AHDA.444.3, SRC.043, SRC.050-052, SRC.065, SRC.188, GOH.022, GOH.032 | ||||
| BB00138 | Prayer in reply to Mulla Ahmad Khurasani, Di'bil, et al | 1300 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد عرف لعباد نفسه و لو لا تعریفه با لا بداع لکانوا من المنسیین اللهم انی اشهدک فی ذلک الیوم بما تشهد لنفسک | Praise be to God, Who hath made Himself known unto His servants; for, without His revelation and divine guidance, they would assuredly have remained in oblivion. O Lord, I bear witness unto Thee on this day in the very manner that Thou dost bear witness unto Thine own Self [4o] | INBA91:123.04-130.08, INBA_5019C:295-298, | ASAT4.370x | Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Petitions to authorities; Prayer for forgiveness; Prayer for justice and fairmindedness; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | FHR#12.07, SRC.191 | ||||||
| BB00146 | Answer to Shaykh ‘Ali | 1300 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. ان الله هو السلام و منه السلام و علیه السلام و الیه یرفع السلام سبحانه و تعالی لا اله الا هو ثم السلام فی السلام عن السلام الی السلام محمد رسول الله صلی الله علیه و آله سر احرف التوحید | Verily God is Peace, and from Him cometh Peace, and upon Him resteth Peace, and unto Him ascendeth Peace - glorified and exalted be He! There is no God but Him. Then Peace within Peace, from Peace unto Peace - Muhammad, the Apostle of God, upon Him and His kindred be Peace - the Mystery of the letters of Unity [3.5s] | ASAT4.370x | Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00203 | 970 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی اصطفی من رسله من یشاء و ینزل الرحمة علی من یشاء و یهدی من عباده المؤمنین من یشاء و یطمئن قلوب عباده المؤمنین کما یشاء | Praise be to God Who chooseth whom He pleaseth from among His Messengers, and sendeth down mercy upon whomsoever He willeth, and guideth whom He pleaseth from among His believing servants, and bringeth peace to the hearts of His faithful servants as He willeth [3.5s] | ASAT5.234x, HNMJ.125-131 | Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00219 | Bayan dar Jabr wa Tafwid (fi bayan-i-mas'alati'l-Qadar) | 920 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. قال الله تعالی الذی خلق فسوی والذی قدر فهدی و قال الصادق لا جبر و لا تفویض بل امر بین الامرین فاعلم ان هذه المسئله لما سد الله معرفته عن العقول والنفوس والارواح | God spoke forth Who created all that is other than Him and thus foreordained and proffered guidance. And [likewise] al-Ṣādiq said when God blocked the gnosis of this matter | INBA14:479-483, INBA53:053-056, INBA67:134-138, INBA_4011C:110-115, , INBA_5006C:375-377, , INBA_6004C:192-195, , INBA_6006C:067-069, , INBA_6010C:473-477, , PR07.059v-061r | ASAT4.473x | HURQ.BB41x | Free will and predestination; fate; Limits of the intellect; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; The Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im | - | - | MMAH.018, SRC.073, SRC.184 | |||||
| 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 | ||||||
| BB00235 | Prayer for Friday | 880 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم بسم الله الفرد الرحیم. سبحانک اللهم یا محبوب من ان اذکرک بذکری ایاک او ان اثنی فی ملکک اذ اننی اعرف حد کینونیتی بانها معدومة عندک | Glorified art Thou, O God, O Beloved, that I should make mention of Thee through my remembrance, or that I should praise Thee in Thy dominion, for verily I recognize the bounds of mine own being as non-existent before Thee [3.5s] | INBA58:145.08-154.09, INBA78:094-105, INBA82:054-060, BYC_collect3.137-141 | ASAT5.159-163, HNMJ.002-005x, HNMJ.037-040x, HNMJ.040-042x | Humility; meekness; lowliness; Impossibility of true worship of God; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||
| BB00284 | Letter to Mulla Husayn IV - from Bushihr | 690 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحان الذی نزل الروح من حکمه الیک لتکونن من المنذرین اقرء کتاب ذکر اسم ربک هذا و کن من الشاکرین | Glorified be He Who hath sent down the Spirit through His wisdom unto thee, that thou mayest be numbered among the warners. Recite thou the Book of thy Lord's remembrance and be thou among the thankful [3.5s] | INBA91:014.08-018.06 | ASAT4.236x | Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | FHR#03.01 | ||||||
| BB00297 | Risala fi's-Suluk (Epistle on the Spiritual Path I) | 650 | Báb's Epistle on the Spiritual Journey towards God, The; Gate of the Heart | Risala fis-Suluk I and II (Journey towards God) | استقم یا سائل التقی فی مقام التوحید قال الله تعالى الذین قالوا ربنا الله ثم استقاموا تتنزل | Be steadfast, O seeker of piety, in the station of affirming the divine unity. As God, exalted be He, has said | INBA14:486-489, INBA53:058-061, INBA67:145-148, PR04.052r08-054r12, PR07.063r-064r, HBH_suluktr (=INBMC6006) | ASAT4.158-159x, AVK2.231.07 | LOIR03.049-058 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Four pillars; Knowledge; recognition of God; Knowledge of self; Love of God; Oneness; unity of religion; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcending the material condition; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | NSS.019-020, AHDA.449.3, MMAH.043, SRC.044, GOH.030, GOH.301 | |||
| BB00340 | 520 | Short All-Embracing Visitation Tablet (Ziyārat-i Jāmi'ah-yi Ṣaghīrah), The | بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحیم . اشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شریک له و اشهد ان محمدا عبده و رسوله اللهم صل علی محمد و ال محمد السلام علیکم | I bear witness that there is no God but God, alone and without partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and His Messenger. O God, send down Thy blessings upon Muhammad and the Family of Muhammad. Peace be upon you [3.5s] | ASAT3.006-007x | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for protection; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BB00354 | Risala fi'l-Tasdid | 470 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اعلم ثبت الله قدمیک علی الصراط ان الله سبحانه تعالی غنی کامل و ان مصنوعه حین ما اصنع جری القلم و قدرها القدر علی کماله بحیث لانقص فیه ..... | Know thou—may God make firm thy footsteps upon the Path—that God, glorified and exalted be He, is the All-Sufficient and Perfect One, and that His creation, from the moment He fashioned it, when the Pen moved and destiny ordained it to its perfection, was such that no imperfection could be found therein [3.5s] | INBA14:483-486, INBA53:061-063, INBA67:143-145, INBA_4011C:121-123, , INBA_6004C:207-209, , INBA_6006C:072-073, , INBA_6010C:477-480, , PR07.062v-063r | ASAT5.237x | Adam; Adam and Eve; Perfection; imperfection of nature; Power of the Manifestation of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion | - | - | SRC.045, SRC.192, SRC.196 | ||||||
| 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 | |||||
| BB00580 | Letter to Mulla Hasan Bajistani | 120 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. یا ایها السآئل فاعلم ان الله لا یحکم بمرض لنفس الا بما قدمت ایدیه من الخطایا و ذلک ما کانت | O questioner! Know that God does not decree disease for a soul unless it is for the errors its hands have wrought. That is naught but a penance for its sins | INBA67:176-176, INBA_4011C:165-166, , PR07.074v-074v | HBAB.502x, ASAT3.097 | KSHK.BWB | Bringing oneself to account each day; Effort; striving; Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Mindfulness; concentration; focus; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | SRC.190 | |||||
| BB00588 | 30 | و ان الیوم بالاجماع وصی رسول الله محمد الغائب المنتظر و القائم المقتدر المنتصر | Verily, today, by consensus, the Messenger of God designated the Hidden Awaited One and the Mighty, Victorious Qa'im whom God must manifest so that he may fill the earth with justice after it had been filled with oppression and injustice | ASAT4.527x | KSHK.BWB | - | - | |||||||||
| BB00613 | 60 | Selections from the Bahá'í Writings and from Shaykh Ahmad on the Seven Stages of Creation | مراتب سبعة کلیة‌الاولی رتبة‌الجماد فاذا استعرج رتبة الحدودیة عن مقام المعدنیة هنالک یتصل الی مقام النبات | There are seven general stages. The first is the stage of the inorganic being. From the mineral kingdom, it ascendeth to the stage of the plant | ASAT4.121 | BLO_PT#079.1.5, KSHK.BWB | Degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence; Evolution; human evolution; Presence of; reunion with God; Seven stages of creation; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||
| BB00651 | Fi’l-Maut va’l-‘Ama’ | 3400 | بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحان الذی بیده ملکوت السموات و الارض لا اله الا هو الواحد المتکبر الاحد المقتدر ... اما معنی الحديث الآخر الذی سئل فی الکتاب ان الله کان فی عماء فوقه هواء و تحته هواء | Glorified be He in Whose Hands lie the kingdoms of the heavens and of the earth. There is no God but Him, the One, the All-Compelling, the Single, the All-Powerful... As to the meaning of that other tradition mentioned in the Book, that God was in a cloud with air above it and air beneath it [3.5s] | INBA_6007C.001-016 | ASAT4.391-393x | HURQ.BB42x | Absolute freedom; independence of God; The cloud ['ama]; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||
| 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 | ||
| BH00006 | Lawh-i-Sarraj | 26800 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Sarraj (Tablet to Sarraj) | نامه آنجناب بین یدی العرش حاضر و بر مقر انه لایعرف بما سواه واصل و ما فیه | Thy letter hath been made present before the Throne and hath reached the Seat of Him Who is known through naught else but Himself, and that which it contained [3.5s]... ...Shake off, O heedless ones, the slumber of negligence, that ye may behold the radiance which His glory hath spread through the world. | INBA35:190, INBA73:198, INBA33:081bx, INBA76:001, PR19.072b-110b, BN_suppl.1754.075-124 | BRL_DA#029, GWBP#050 p.073cx, GWBP#097 p.130ax, MAS4.046ax, MAS4.090bx, MAS4.100ax, MAS4.364ax, MAS4.350bx, MAS4.174bx, MAS7.004, ASAT4.271x, ASAT4.272x, ASAT4.487x, AKHA_122BE #04 p.?x, AKHA_137BE #08 p.ax, ANDA#05 p.06x, ANDA#69 p.05x, MSHR4.286x, YMM.468x, OOL.B201 | BRL_ATBH#67x, BRL_ATBH#72x, BRL_ATBH#76x, BRL_ATBH#77x, GWB#050x, GWB#097x, LOG#0327x, ADJ.080x, GPB.098x, GPB.102x, GPB.171x, PDC.019-020x, WOB.063x2x, WOB.104x2x, WOB.107x, WOB.108x2x, BLO_PT#075x, HURQ.BH51 | One of the longest works of Bahá’u’lláh, written in answer to questions regarding the enigma of the outwardly exalted station of Mírzá Yaḥyá and arguing, citing various statements of the Báb, that virtues become transmuted into vices when one turns away from the light of truth. | Collection; ordering of the Sacred Writings; Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The power of words; of speech; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ROB2.262 et al, MMAH.140, LL#242 | ||
| BH00008 | Commentary ln the Lawh-i-Ra'is, the martyrdom of Badi', and other subjects | 18700 | الحمد لله الذی وفی بالوعد و انزل الموعود من سماء مشیته و اظهر ما کان مسطورا... اول نور ظهر و اشرق و لاح و ابرق | Praise be unto God Who hath fulfilled His promise and sent down the Promised One from the heaven of His Will, making manifest that which was inscribed... The first Light hath appeared, shone forth, gleamed and flashed [3.5s] | BLIB_Or07852.004, , BLIB_Or15714.089x, , BLIB_Or15733.117x, , Majlis210461.093-095x | AVK2.244.08x, AYI1.259x, MAS7.174-255, BALM.006x, ASAT4.082x, AKHA_130BE #11 p.ax, TSHA3.375x, TSHA3.399x, MSBH4.534-535x | Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Praise and encouragement; Predictions and prophecies; Prophecy and fulfillment | - | - | ROB3.179, ROB3.251, LL#357, LL#367 | ||||||
| BH00010 | 13180 | الحمد للّه الذی تفرد بالمحبة و توحد بالوداد انه لمولی العباد و مالک الایجاد | Praise be unto Him Who is unique in His love and singular in His affection; verily, He is the Lord of all beings and the Sovereign of creation [3.5s]... ...The companions of God are, in this day, the lump that must leaven the peoples of the world. They must show forth such trustworthiness, such truthfulness and perseverance, such deeds and character that all mankind may profit by their example | INBA28:049, INBA22:307, INBA45:049, BLIB_Or15713.144x, , Majlis210461.120x | BRL_DA#084, AVK3.148.06x, ASAT5.263x, AKHA_129BE #18 p.ax | COC#0768x, COC#2040x, ADJ.023x, ADJ.079x2x | Goodly deeds; actions; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ROB4.023?, LL#112 | ||||||
| BH00013 | 10050 | Tablet on Interpretation of Sacred Scripture (Lawh-i-Ta'wíl); Tablet on Interpretation of Sacred Scripture (Lawh-i-Ta'wíl) | Lawh-i-Ta'wíl (Tablet on Interpretation of Sacred Scripture) | البهاء لمن خرق الاحجاب فی یوم الماب و کسر اصنام الاوهام باسم مالک الایام ... قَد جِئت بِاَمرِ الله وظَهَرت لِذکره وخُلِقْت لِخدمتهِ العزیز المحبوب | Glory be unto Him Who hath rent asunder the veils on the Day of Return, and shattered the idols of vain imaginings through the Name of the Lord of all Days [3.5s]... ...The purpose of interpretation is this: that none become deprived of that which is evident, and be veiled from that which is intended | INBA23:062, INBA41:132x, INBA41:329x, BLIB_Or15698.279, , BLIB_Or15720.274x, , BLIB_Or15733.001, , BLIB_Or15740.213x, , Majlis934.255-266 | AVK4.028.05x, AVK4.073-074x, AVK2.143.09x, AVK3.300.03x, AVK3.450.13x, AVK3.426.12x, AVK3.472.01x, IQT.279-286x, AYI1.336x, GHA.341ax, UAB.029bx, UAB.042ax, MAS1.018.1x, MAS4.354bx, TSAY.472x, TSAY.472-473x, ASAT2.119x, ASAT3.120x, ASAT3.242x, ASAT4.286x, PYB#115 p.03x, VUJUD.095-096x, VUJUD.105x | BLO_PT#154, BLO_PT#155, WIND#115, VUJUDE.139-141x, VUJUDE.212-213x | almunajat.com [item 41] | Chastisement and requital; Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Exhortations and counsels; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Outward and inward meanings; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | LL#251, LL#282 | Includes verses for newborn child | ||
| BH00017 | 8350 | Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | یا عندلیب اسمع الندآء انه یظهر مره باسم الحبیب و اخری باسمی المحبوب و تاره | O 'Andalib! Hearken unto the Call, for verily it appeareth at one time in the name of the Beloved, and at another time in Mine Own name, the Well-Beloved, and again at times [3.5s]... ...The Hand of Omnipotence hath established His Revelation upon an unassailable, an enduring foundation. Storms of human strife are powerless to undermine its basis | BLIB_Or15691.040, , BLIB_Or15715.066c, , BLIB_Or15729.028, , NLAI_22848:066, Berlin1237#12, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p037v, , UMich962.156-158x, MKI4522.066, | BRL_DA#222, AQA2#001 p.002, AVK3.190.14x, AVK3.203.08x, AVK3.212.02x, AVK3.283.08x, MAS4.158x, MAS8.007ax, KHSK.015x, QT105.2.163, QT105.2.217, ASAT1.166x, ADH1.068x, ADH1.106x, QUM.028x | BRL_ATBH#36x, GPB.217x, WOB.104x, WOB.109x, RKS.005-006x | S. Jaberi | Oneness; unity of religion; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | LL#051 | ||||
| BH00018 | Commentary on the Fire Tablet | 8330 | الحمد لله الذی اظهر بسلطانه ما اراد و زین الیوم بنسبته الیه و سمیه فی کتب السماء | Praise be unto Him Who hath, through His sovereignty, manifested whatsoever He hath willed, and Who hath adorned this Day through its connection with His Name, as recorded in the Books of Heaven [3.5s]... ...One day during My childhood, I set out intending to visit the grandmother of the Most Great Branch at a time when she was the wife of Mirza Isma'il-i-Vazir | INBA39:090, MKI4523.002, | BRL_DA#221, AVK2.061.04x, AVK4.436x, ISH.002, UAB.034ax, ASAT1.134x, ASAT5.109x, ASAT5.252x, ADH1.051x, LDR.077x, MSHR2.087x, YIA.119-120x | LTDT.088x, GPB.209x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual foundations of true knowledge; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God is its own standard | - | - | ROB3.230, LL#382 | |||||
| BH00020 | Tafsir-i-Hurufat-i-Muqatta'ih (Commentary on the Disconnected Letters) = Lawh-i-Ayat-i-Nur (Tablet of the Verse of Light) | 8280 | Tablet of the 'Light Verse', also known as Commentary on the Disconnected Letters; Tablet of the 'Light Verse' (Lawh-i-Áyiy-i-Núr), also known as Commentary on the Disconnected Letters; Lawh-i-Hikmat | Lawh-i-Ayat-i-Nur or Tafsir-i-Hurufat-i-Muqatta'ih (Tablet of the Verse of Light or Commentary on the Disconnected Letters) | الحمد لله الذی خلق الحروفات فی عوالم العما خلف سرادقات القدس فی رفارف الاسنی | Praise be to God who created the letters in the worlds of the divine Cloud beyond the pavilions of holiness… Know that the first tokens brought into existence by the pre-existent Cause in the worlds of creation are the four elements… Strive therefore to recognize amongst the primary substances those things which are in equilibrium | INBA08:587, INBA36:212, NLAI_BH2.141x, NLAI_BH3.003x, Berlin1237#19, PR19.002b-017b | MAS4.049, ASAT3.090x, ASAT4.068x, ANDA#19 p.32x, OOL.B029, OOL.B145 | BLO_failayn, HURQ.BH08x, BTO#04x, ADMS#199n84x | An extensive commentary on the famous ‘verse of light’ in the Qur’an (24:35) and on the origin and meaning of the enigmatic letters heading many of its surahs, which Bahá’u’lláh relates to different aspects of the person and revelation of the Báb, to the mystical science of letters and numbers, and to stages in the alchemical craft. | Alchemy; the elixir; Four elements; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria) | - | - | ROB1.125, MMAH.099, GSH.021, GSH.045, LL#337, LL#391, LL#405? | ||
| BH00026 | 7800 | قد تحرک القلم الأعلی و اراد ان یذکر اولیائه الذین اقبلوا الی مشرق وحی | The Most Exalted Pen hath stirred, and desireth to make mention of His loved ones who have turned themselves unto the Dawning-Place of Revelation [3.5s]... ...My God, my God! Separation from Thee hath destroyed me, and the sorrow of Thine exile and the hardship Thou hast sustained in Thy path hath consumed me… My God, my God! If Thou prevent me from drawing nigh unto Thee, being present before Thy throne... My God, my God! Thou dost behold the impoverished one who hath stood at the gate of Thy wealth, the ailing one | BLIB_Or15729.051, , NLAI_22848:121, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p066r, , MKI4522.120, | BRL_DA#681, GWBP#002 p.011x, AQA2#002 p.041, ADM2#034 p.056x, ADM2#035 p.058x, ADM2#105 p.189x, AVK3.204.19x, ASAT3.258x, ADH1.063x, ADH1.065x, ADH1.066x, QUM.096.16x | GWB#002x, JHT_S#034x, JHT_S#057x, JHT_S#174x | Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | LL#374 | ||||||
| BH00029 | 7420 | حمد محبوبی را لایق و سزاست که بقدرت کامله بحته خود خلق فرمود سموات بیان را | Praise befitteth the Best-Beloved Who, through His pure and consummate power, created the heavens of utterance [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15722.278, | ASAT2.053x, ASAT3.094x, ASAT5.312-344 | Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00030 | 7400 | Tablet of Ridván (Lawh-i-Ridván); Days of Remembrance | Lawh-i-Ridvan (Tablets of Ridvan) | حمد مقدس از حقیقت و مجاز حضرت بینیازیرا لایق و سزاست که از نقطه چهار رکن | Sanctified praise, transcending reality and metaphor, beseemeth and befitteth the Most Exalted Lord, Who from the Point hath fashioned the four pillars [3.5s]... ...On the first day that the Ancient Beauty ascended His Most Great Throne in the garden named Riḍván, the Tongue of Glory gave utterance to three blessed words. | INBA44:205 | AVK3.456.09x, MAS8.064x, ASAT4.022x, BCH.041x, AMB#09x | DOR#09x | Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ROB1.278, LL#333 | ||||
| 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 | ||
| BH00032 | Lawh-i-Ruh | 7220 | Lawḥ-i-Rúh (Tablet of the Spirit) | فسبحان الذی فی قبضته ملکوت ملک الآیات یصرفها کیف یشآء بأمر | Glorified be He in Whose grasp lieth the dominion of the realm of verses, Who directeth them as He pleaseth through His command [3.5s] | INBA37:018, INBA83:073, BLIB_Or15723.082, , PR23.001b-015b | AQA4#081 p.123, AQA4a.150, ASAT1.276x, OOL.B073 | Refutes certain claims of Mírzá Yaḥyá; asserts the magnitude of Bahá’u’lláh’s own station, whose full transformative power remains, out of wisdom, as yet undivulged; and foretells the ultimate triumph of His cause. | Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Oneness; unity of religion; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | ROB2.181, ROB2.260, MMAH.185, GSH.085, LL#224 | ||||
| BH00033 | 7090 | Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | الحمد لله الذی توحه بالکلام و تفرد بالبیان الذی خضعت بحور المعانی عندما | Praise be unto Him Who hath adorned Himself with utterance and Who alone possesseth expression, He before Whom the oceans of inner meanings have bowed down whensoever [3.5s]... ...He it is Who in the Old Testament hath been named Jehovah, Who in the Gospel hath been designated as the Spirit of Truth… the task of executing the laws, the ordinances and statutes that have been sent down in the Book hath been delegated unto the men of the divine Houses of Justice [rijal-i-buyut-i-'adliyyih-yi-ilahiyyih]... It is beloved of God that all should speak in Arabic, which is the richest and vastest of all languages | INBA31:022 | BRL_DA#225, AQA7#393 p.114, AVK3.219.08x, AVK3.228.05x, AVK4.272x.01, AVK4.278x.07, DWNP_v1#05 p.001-003x, UAB.041bx, UAB.054bx, NFQ.005-008x, MAS4.175ax, GSH.210-213x, ASAT5.108x, AKHA_106BE #09 p.002x, AKHA_111BE #10-12 p.002x, AKHA_135BE #07 p.141x, NJB_v14#07 p.224x, YMM.305x, OOL.B177x, LFLN.012x | BRL_ATBH#37x, LTDT.052-053x, WOB.104x, SW_v14#07 p.224x, HURQ.BH70x, STYLE.032-033x, ADMS#331ax | Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; The Bayan, its laws and their abrogation; Universal language; Word of God and human limitations | - | - | ROB4.159, LL#273, LL#418 | |||||
| BH00034 | Suriy-i-Sabr (=Lawh-i-Ayyub) | 7050 | Tablet of Patience, or Tablet of Job (Súrih-i-Sabr or Lawh-i-Ayyúb); Tablet of Patience, or Tablet of Job (Súrih-i-Sabr or Lawh-i-Ayyúb) | Surih-i-Sabr or Lawh-i-Ayyub (Tablet of Patience or Tablet of Job) | ذکر الله فی مدینه الصبر عبده ایوبا اذ آویناه فی ظل شجره القدس فی فواده و اشهدناه | This is the remembrance of God in the City of Patience regarding Job, Our servant, Whom We sheltered under the shade of that Holy Tree planted in His heart | INBA36:173, INBA73:082, Berlin1237#08 | BRL_DA#726, AYT.262, LMA1.379 (228), MAS4.282, ASAT5.246x, ASAT5.309x, ASAT5.247x, FBAH.160x, OOL.B138 | WOB.116x, BLO_PT#116, HURQ.BH23, NYR#144 | Major work, written on the first day of Riḍván as He was departing Baghdad, praising the Bábís of the Nayriz upheaval of 1850 and in particular their leader, Siyyid Yaḥyáy-i-Dárábí (Vaḥíd), recounting their sufferings and condemning their persecutors; describes the sufferings of the biblical Job, comparing them to those of the recipient of the tablet, who played a key role in supporting the defenders at Nayríz; commends fortitude and patience in the face of suffering; foretells the coming of ‘the birds of darkness’; and proclaims the continuity of divine revelation. | Consolation and comfort; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Stories; anecdotes; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | - | ROB1.263, BKOG.131, BKOG.195, MMAH.203, GSH.055, LL#327 | ||
| BH00041 | Lawh-i-Jamal-i-Burujirdi II | 7070 | Translation List; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | الحمد لله الذی توحد بالجلال و تفرد بالاجلال و تقدس عن الملال و تنزه عن الامال | All praise be unto Him Who hath become one through His majesty, Who standeth alone in His grandeur, Who is sanctified above all weariness, and Who is exalted beyond all earthly hopes and desires [3.5s]... ...We verily mention Our friends collectively, greet them from the direction of My Prison, send them salutations and remember them every morn and eve | INBA07:066, INBA97:031x, INBA81:059x, NLAI_BH4.169-199 | BRL_DA#115, AVK1.010.02x, AVK3.398.03x, AVK4.137.12x, NNY.152-153x, GHA.105a.02x, SFI03.003bx, MAS4.027x, MAS4.151bx, MAS8.017ax, MAS8.017bx, MAS8.072x, MAS8.073ax, ASAT1.072x, ASAT1.168x, ASAT1.242x, ASAT5.226x, PYB#221 p.03x, YMM.197x | BRL_ATBH#58x, LTDT.263x, LTDT.270-271x, ADMS#254x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||
| BH00042 | 6590 | Translation List | الحمد لله الذی انزل ما کان مکنونا فی سماء مشیته و اظهر ما کان مخزونا فی علمه | Praise be to Him Who hath sent down that which lay concealed in the heaven of His will, and revealed that which was treasured within His knowledge [3.5s]... ...The Afnans arrived in Beirut. After some time they received permission to come in small groups. Finally, they entered the shelter of grace | INBA31:049x, INBA51:150x, BLIB_Or15701.116, , KB_620:143-144x | AQA6#221 p.086, ADM1#020 p.052x, LHKM2.176x, AYI1.265x, AYT.327x, LMA2.016x, ASAT2.098x | LTDT.051-052x, GEN.314.04x, ADMS#077 | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Prayer for protection; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||
| BH00046 | 6370 | یا محبوب فوادی این السمیع و این البصیر آیات ناطق بینات متکلم شمس شاهد ماه و | O Beloved of My heart! Where is the All-Hearing, and where is the All-Seeing? The Verses do speak, the clear Signs proclaim, the Sun beareth witness, and the Moon testifieth [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15717.044, | AVK4.261.15x, TSBT.272x, TSBT.273x, MAS4.037x, MAS7.129ax, MAS7.137bx, AYI2.302x, AYI2.303x, ASAT1.102x, ASAT4.385x, ASAT5.002x, MSBH5.481x, YMM.178x, YMM.474x | Chastisement and requital; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00048 | 12400 | Tabernacle of Unity, The; Tablet to Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Concerning the Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria | Lawh-i-Manikchi Sahib (Tablets to Manikchi Sahib); - Tabernacle of Unity (book) | الحمد لله الذی اظهر من الالف الاستقامه الکبری و بالباء شان الامتیاز بین الاشیاء... استدعای دیگر آنکه خدمت جناب صاحب یگانه سلام برسانید انشآءالله در این دار فانی بامری فائز شوند | Praise be to God Who hath manifested through the Alif the Most Great Steadfastness, and through the Bá the station of distinction between all things [3.5s]... ...In regard to what thou hast written concerning his honour the learned Sahib, upon him be the grace of God... And that which you have mentioned about Shalmaghani and what Shalmaghani has uttered in relation to this Supreme Manifestation of God | BRL_TBUP#2x, AVK2.067.06x, LHKM1.156x, AYI1.333x, YARP1.023x, UAB.022cx, MAS7.148x, AYI2.396x, SAAF.085x, SAAF.091x, SAAF.365x, ASAT1.277x, ASAT4.179x, ASAT5.251x, NSS.129-130x, DVB5.007-033 | TBU#2x, BLO_PT#184x, KFPT#03.2x | Existence and nonexistence; preexistence; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Proclamation to the people of the world; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ROB3.433, LL#161, LL#174, LL#175 | |||||
| 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 | ||
| BH00050 | 5800 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913 | هذا کتاب یجد منه الاشجار عرف الربیع و الابناء رآئحه الاب المشفق الکریم | This is a Book from which the trees inhale the fragrance of springtime, and from which the sons perceive the sweet perfume of their tender, bountiful Father [3.5s]... ...The beginning of all things is the knowledge of God, and the end of all things is strict observance of whatsoever hath been sent down | BLIB_Or15729.072, , BLIB_Or15737a.039, , BLIB_Or15738.016, , NLAI_22848:173, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p091r, , Majlis210461.117-119x, MKI4522.173, | BRL_DA#533, GWBP#063 p.084bx, GWBP#064 p.085x, AQA2#003 p.076, NNY.123-126x, QT105.1.165, ASAT4.085x, ASAT4.274x, TABN.028x, PYM.110bx, QUM.073.17x | GWB#063x, GWB#064x, GPB.102x, MHMD2.500x | G.H. Miller | Alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ROB1.048, LL#238, LL#451 | ||||
| BH00051 | 5760 | Translation List | شهد الخادم بما شهد الله و اعترف بما اعترف به القلم الاعلی قبل خلق الاشیاء انه | The servant beareth witness unto that which God Himself hath witnessed, and acknowledgeth that which the Most Exalted Pen hath acknowledged ere the creation of all things, that verily He [3.5s]... ...And now concerning thy question about the Manifestations of God. Know thou that, even in the wombs of their mothers, the Manifestations possessed stations | INBA19:318, INBA32:277 | BRL_DA#174, AVK2.036.10x, AVK2.059.14x, AVK2.250.15x, MAS1.019x, MAS4.150ax, MAS4.166bx, ASAT4.315x, ASAT5.296x, NSS.087-088x | ADMS#043x, ADMS#199n79x | Chastisement and requital; Dissimulation [taqiyyih]; concealment or denial of Faith; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Praise and encouragement; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings; Prophecy and fulfillment; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | LL#259, LL#391 | |||||
| BH00052 | Suriy-i-Qamis | 5750 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Súriy-i-Qamís (Surah of the Robe) | ان یا اهل البقا فی الملا الاعلی اسمعوا ندآء الله عن هذا النسیم المتحرک فی هذا الهواء | O ye dwellers in the immortal realm on high! Hearken unto the Call of God from this stirring Breeze that moveth in this atmosphere [3.5s]... ...By the righteousness of God! These are the days in which God hath proved the hearts of the entire company of His Messengers and Prophets | BLIB_Or15723.059, , NLAI_BH1.356 | BRL_DA#724, GWBP#008 p.015bx, AQA4#074 p.034, AQA4a.320, ASAT3.281x, OOL.B137 | GWB#008x, ADJ.057x, ADJ.079x, GPB.003x, GPB.099x, GPB.377x, PDC.015x, HURQ.BH34 | Proclamatory tablet taking in part the form of a conversation between the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh; announcing the return of the Báb in the person of Bahá’u’lláh; reproaching the Bábís for their denial; and directing one of the many named recipients to place the tablet, like the shirt of the biblical Joseph, upon his face. | Manifestation of God as sun; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | ROB2.397, BKOG.246?, MMAH.150, GSH.049, LL#325 | ||
| BH00053 | Ishraqat (Splendours) | 5740 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | Lawh-i-Ishraqat (Tablet of Splendors) | الحمد لله الذی تفرد بالعظمه و القدره و الجمال و توحد بالعزه و القوه و الجلال و | Praise be unto God, incomparable in majesty, power and beauty, peerless in glory, might and grandeur… I magnify Thy Name, O my God, and offer thanksgiving | BLIB_Or07851.016b, , KB_262:002-032, CMB_F32.002, , PR05.030b-037a, OSAI_TC 8r-20v, MKI4523.050, , BN_suppl.1753.001-023 | AVK2.273.14x, AVK3.157.10x, AVK3.203.11x, ZYN.092, ISH.050, GHA.202x, UAB.024ax, UAB.025x, UAB.037bx, UAB.042bx, UAB.043bx, UAB.057dx, ASAT4.057x, ASAT4.250x, TBP#08, TUM.076-080x, OOL.B011 | TB#08, BPRY.183x, LOG#0578x, ADJ.028ax, COF.095ax, GPB.057x, GPB.208x, GPB.217x, GPB.218x3x, GPB.219x, PDC.185x, WOB.041x, WOB.186-187x, SW_v08#10 p.123x, SW_v09#07 p.081x, SW_v11#17 p.286x, DWN_v2#07 p.051-054x, DWN_v5#01 p.005x, DWN_v6#10 p.001ax, BSC.236 #497-523 | almunajat.com [item 36] | Explains the meaning of the ‘most great infallibility’ and the nature of the authority of the Manifestations of God, proclaims the fulfilment of prophetic expectations derived from various passages in the Qur’an, recalls a vision of the personified virtue of trustworthiness, and proclaims nine ‘splendours’: religion as source of order in the world; the promotion of the ‘Lesser Peace’ by the rulers of the world; the commandments of God as source of life to the world; the importance of praiseworthy deeds and upright character; the conferral of government positions based on merit; union and concord among all people, which can be achieved by establishing a universal language; the importance of parenthood and the education of children; entrusting administrative affairs to the trustees of the House of Justice; and religion as the most potent instrument for establishing unity in the world. | Business; financial; property matters; Education of children; moral education; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; House of Justice; Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Justice and mercy; Oneness; unity of religion; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity; oneness of humanity | * | * | ROB4.146 et al, BKOG.382, EBTB.062, MMAH.215, GSH.154, LL#022, LL#334, LL#397 | |
| BH00054 | 5690 | الحمد لله الذی اظهر الوجه بعد فناء الاشیاء و هز ملکوت الاسماء باهتزاز قلمه | Praise be to God Who hath manifested His Countenance after the extinction of all things, and hath stirred up the Kingdom of Names through the movement of His Pen [3.5s] | INBA07:137, INBA22:210, BLIB_Or15717.137, , NLAI_BH4.326-364 | ASAT3.193x | Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00055 | 5690 | Obligatory Prayer and Fasting, The Importance of | یا جوان روحانی علیک بهاء الله الابدی نامه شما در ساحت عز احدیه بشرف اصغاء | O spiritual youth! Upon thee be the eternal Glory of God! Thy letter hath attained unto the presence of His Sacred and Most Exalted Court and hath been graciously heard [3.5s]... ...My God, my God! Do Thou adorn Thy servants with the vesture of understanding,and ordain for them such as shall bring them ever nearer to Thy horizon | INBA44:018, NLAI_BH1.144x | ADM3#137 p.155x, AVK3.204.09x, AVK3.498.07x, MAS4.048x, ASAT2.116x, ASAT3.011x, ASAT3.239x, ASAT4.143x, ASAT4.144x, ASAT4.187x, ASAT4.431x, ASAT4.445x, ASAT4.505x, ASAT5.050x, ASAT5.083x, TISH.024x, FRH.069-071x, FRH.352-353x | BRL_IOPF#1.08x, JHT_S#066x | Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||
| BH00057 | 5560 | Tablet to Sháh-Muhammad-Amín (Amínu'l-Bayán) (Lawh-i-Amínu'l-Bayán); Social Action | Lawh-i-Aminul-Bayan (Tablet to Shah-Muhammad-i-Manshadi (Aminul-Bayan)) | حمد مقدس از ذکر و اصغا مالک اسما را لایق و سزاست که از آفتاب آسمان علم عالم | Sanctified praise, transcending all mention and hearing, befitteth the Lord of Names, Who, from the Sun in the heaven of knowledge, illumineth the world [3.5s]... ...Thou hast written that one of the friends hath composed a treatise. This was mentioned in the Holy Presence, and this is what was revealed in response… Whatever is written should not transgress the bounds of tact and wisdom | INBA08:512, NLAI_BH4.373-415 | BRL_DA#224, COMP_DEFENCEP#10x, AVK2.219.04x, MAS1.017x, MAS4.103x, PZHN v4#1 p.142x, KHAF.010x, AADA.035-036x, ASAT1.158x, ASAT1.199x, ASAT1.199x, ASAT2.013x, ASAT5.296x, ASAT5.297x, YIK.022-037, YFY.293-294x | BRL_SOCIAL#239x, COMP_DEFENCE#10x, COC#2212x, LOG#0346x, BLO_PT#190x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Law of fasting; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||
| BH00058 | Suriy-i-Hajj I (Shiraz) | 5550 | Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of the Báb (Suriy-i-Hajj) | Suriy-i-Hajj (Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of the Báb) | تلک آیات الله قد نزلت حینئذ عن قطب البقاء مقام الذی یطوفن فی حوله اهل سرادق | These are the verses of God which have been sent down in this hour from the Focal Point of eternity, that Station round which circle the dwellers of the pavilion [3.5s]... ...O Muhammad, when the fragrances of holiness have drawn thee unto them and turned thee unto the land of the All-Merciful that thou mayest discover the breezes of divine praise | INBA73:005, INBA83:049, BLIB_Or15723.168, , BLIB_Or15737.006, | AQA4#078 p.075, AVK4.120, GHA.039x, GHA.069ax, TSBT.093x, RHQM2.0809-834 (222) (137-151), ASAT2.113x, ASAT4.426x, ASAT5.029x, OOL.B119 | RBB.154-162x, BLO_PT#118x, HURQ.BH53, GEN.371-380 | Prescribes the rite of pilgrimage to the House of the Báb in Shiraz, codified later in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas as a sacred duty. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | ROB2.240, BKOG.250, MMAH.152, GSH.082, LL#304 | ||
| BH00060 | Lawh-i-Abdu'r-Razzaq | 5390 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; River of Life, The; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh; Lawh-i-Abdu'r-Razzáq | Lawh-i-Abdu'r-Razzáq | مکتوب آنجناب بمنظر اکبر وارد و از قمیص کلماتش نفحات حب مالک اسما و صفات | Thy letter hath attained unto the Most Great Horizon, and from the garment of its words wafted the sweet-scented fragrance of love for the Lord of Names and Attributes [3.5s]... ...As to thy question concerning the origin of creation. Know assuredly that God’s creation hath existed from eternity, and will continue to exist forever… Thou hast asked Me whether man, as apart from the Prophets of God… | INBA38:144, BLIB_Or15698.044, , BLIB_Or15720.046, , BLIB_Or15740.038, , NLAI_BH3.047, BN_suppl.1754.021-030 | BRL_DA#030, GWBP#078 p.101bx, GWBP#080 p.103x, GWBP#087 p.114x, AVK1.113ax, AVK1.213.04x, AVK1.222.10x, AVK1.272x, AVK2.042.10x, AVK2.073.12x, IQT.044, RSBB.104, MAS4.174ax, ASAT1.013x, ASAT2.019x, ASAT2.103x, ASAT4.317x, ASAT4.296x, ASAT4.530x, ASAT5.270x, ASAT5.355x, OOL.B021 | BRL_ATBH#75x, GWB#078x, GWB#080x, GWB#087x, ROL.016-021x, BSC.228 #453-459x, HURQ.BH57x, HURQ.BH58x | Addresses some misconceptions of the Bábís and answers questions concerning the origin of creation, the soul after death, and the absence of historical records prior to Adam. | Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Creation of the world; Eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Soul; spirit after death; Universal language; Word of God and human limitations | * | - | LL#036, LL#411 | ||
| BH00064 | Hurufat-i-'Alin (=Kalimat-i-'Uliya; the Exalted Letters) | 5270 | Bahá'u'lláh's Four Tablets to Maryam; Suffering of the Exalted Letters; Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh; Translation List | Musíbat-i-Hurúf-i-‘Állín (Suffering of the Exalted Letters) | سبحانک اللهم یا الهی کیف یتحرک القلم و یجری المداد بعد ما انقطعت نسائم | Pure and sanctified art Thou, O my God! How can the pen move and the ink flow after the breezes of loving-kindness have ceased | INBA36:281, BLIB_Or15714.157, | BRL_DA#035, AHM.217, BSHN.054, MHT1a.002, MHT2b.007x, TSBT.242, ASAT3.087x, OOL.B010a, OOL.B010b | BRL_APBH#01x, BLO_PT#015x, BLO_PT#090, HURQ.BH18x, ADMS#163x, JHT_B#005 | A meditation on mortality, death, suffering, and theodicy, in remembrance of a cousin who had recently died. | Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB1.122, MMAH.216, GSH.025, LL#019, LL#272 | ||
| BH00066 | Lawh-i-Salman I | 5230 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Days of Remembrance; Commentary on a Verse of Rumi; Commentary on a Verse of Rumi | Lawh-i-Salman I (Tablet to Salman I) | ای سلمان از شهر جان بنسایم قدس رحمن بر اهل اکوان و امکان مرور نما | O Salman! Pass through the realm of being and existence with holy breezes from the City of the Spirit, wafting with the fragrances of the All-Merciful [3.5s]... ...O Salmán! Say: O people! Tread ye in the path of the one true God and ponder the ways and words of Him Who is the Manifestation | INBA35:276, INBA73:118, BLIB_Or15722.001, , NLAI_BH3.110, BN_suppl.1754.047-059 | BRL_DA#735, GWBP#021 p.040x, GWBP#148 p.204x, GWBP#154 p.212x, AVK1.026.05x, AVK2.078.12x, AVK3.303.06x, AVK3.418.16x, MJMM.128, ASAT4.100x, ASAT5.346x, YMM.322x, OOL.B076, AMB#37x | GWB#021x, GWB#148x, GWB#154x, DOR#37x, MNP.036-037x, ADJ.060x, ADJ.076-77x, ADJ.083x, ADJ.084x, GPB.169x, WOB.108x, WIND#128, HURQ.BH55 | Laments the opposition of Mírzá Yaḥyá; contrasts the stations of belief and disbelief; considers and rejects various theories of the mystics concerning the relationship between God and creation; asserts that, the Godhead itself being unknowable, the means of access to the knowledge of God is through the channel of His prophets; and interprets a line of Rumi’s Mathnaví to the effect that the light of truth is one but that, cast through the glass of different souls, it takes on different tints and colours, which is both the cause of the denial of the religion of God and the source of conflict upon earth. | Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Development of capacity and readiness; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB2.283, ROB3.089, BLO_PT#023, MMAH.187, GSH.179, LL#232, LL#234 | ||
| BH00071 | Suriy-i-Hajj II (Baghdad) | 5070 | Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of Bahá'u'lláh (Suriy-i-Hajj) | Suriy-i-Hajj (Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of Bahá'u'lláh) | فسبحان الذی نزل الایات بالحق و ینزل بامره کیف یشاء لا اله الا هو العزیز | Glorified be He Who hath sent down the verses in truth and doth send down through His command whatsoever He willeth. There is no God but Him, the Mighty [3.5s]... ...I beg Thy forgiveness, O Lord, with the entirety of my being—my tongue, my heart, my breath, my soul, my spirit, my body... It is incumbent on whomsoever desireth to turn to the most holy direction, to come into the presence of God, the Mighty, the Knowing, to hearken unto the call of God | INBA37:066, INBA66:012, BLIB_Or15723.194, , BLIB_Or15737.033, | BRL_DA#166, AQA4#084 p.192, ADM2#107 p.193x, AVK4.109, GHA.070x, DRD.009x, TSBT.077x, ASAT1.094x, ASAT2.109x, ASAT4.022x, ADH1.082x, OOL.B120 | RBB.163-168x, BLO_PT#117x, HURQ.BH54, JHT_S#193x | Prescribes the rite of pilgrimage to the House of Bahá’u’lláh in Baghdad, codified later in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas as a sacred duty. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]; Inability of the Manifestation; Prophet to comprehend God; Law of pilgrimage; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for forgiveness; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | * | - | ROB2.240, MMAH.152, GSH.083, LL#305 | ||
| 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 | ||
| BH00082 | Lawh-i-'Andalib | 4810 | Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | الحمد لله الذی سخر شمس البیان بقدرته و قمر البرهان بسلطانه الذی بامره طوی ما | Praise be to God Who, through His might, hath caused the Sun of Utterance to shine forth and, through His sovereignty, hath made manifest the Moon of Proof, He Who by His command hath rolled up that which [3.5s] | INBA39:001, BLIB_Or15698.002, , BLIB_Or15720.001, , BLIB_Or15740.001, , Majlis934.153-198 | BRL_DA#078, AVK3.070.06x, AVK4.139.10x, AVK4.248.09x, IQT.002, GHA.191x, GHA.270x, ASAT1.073x, ASAT1.128x, ASAT4.288x, ASAT4.340x, NSS.204-205x | BRL_ATBH#22x | Call to action; Justice and wrath of God; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ROB4.083, LL#050 | ||||
| BH00084 | Suriy-i-Amr | 4760 | Suriy-i-Amr (Surih of Command) | سبحان الذی خلق الخلق بأمره و ابدع خلق کلشیء اقرب من ان یحصی ان انتم تعلمون | Glorified be He Who hath created all beings through His command and brought forth the creation of all things in ways beyond reckoning, were ye to comprehend [3.5s] | INBA36:001, INBA71:155, INBA81:108, BLIB_Or07852.093, , BLIB_Or15723.109, , PR19.069b-072bx, PR23.060b-063bx, ROB2.000x | BRL_DA#725, NANU_BH#17x, RSBB.026, RSBB.030, RSBB.033, SFI13.019, ASAT4.303x, ASAT4.326x, YIA.549-553x, OOL.B105 | Major proclamatory work formalizing Bahá’u’lláh’s claim to divine messengership, read aloud at His instruction to Mírzá Yaḥyá and written partly in the voice of God and partly in the voice of Bahá’u’lláh, describing the rivers of paradise and apostrophizing earth and heaven, the trees and clouds, the lands of ‘Iraq and Rumelia, and the followers of the Báb. | Chastisement and requital; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | ROB2.161, BKOG.230, MMAH.141, GSH.073, LL#291 | ||||
| BH00085 | 4750 | یک تجلی از تجلیات اسم کریم بر ارض پرتو افکند نعمت ظاهر مائده نازل بحر جود | A beam from among the effulgent beams of the Most Generous Name cast its radiance upon the earth; manifest became the bounty and the heavenly feast descended from the ocean of munificence [3.5s]... ...Glory be unto Thee, O Lord my God! Unto Thee do I repent; Thou art, in truth, the Pardoning, the Munificent… One of the relatives, named Muhammad Hasan, came to this land, and on his return he bore seventy Tablets for the servants of God | INBA39:059, INBA61:026x, BLIB_Or07852.078, , BLIB_Or15724.069b, , MKI4523.085, | BRL_DA#210, ISH.085, ISH.107, IQN.186-188x, ASAT1.277-278x, ASAT5.276x, ADH1.112x, NSS.209ax | LTDT.288x, JHT_S#192 | Call to action; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Petitions to authorities; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God is its own standard | - | - | |||||||
| BH00095 | 4510 | Prayers and Meditations | یومی از ایام نشسته بودم در امر الهی متحیر و در آنچه در ارض کاف و را ظاهر شده | One day, as I sat in contemplation, bewildered by the divine Cause and by that which had been made manifest in the land of Káf and Rá [3.5s]... ...My God, Thou Whom I adore and worship, Who art Most Powerful! I testify that no description by any created thing | INBA65:021bx, INBA30:079x, INBA81:015x, BLIB_Or15704.439, , NLAI_BH4.417-449 | BRL_DA#692, PMP#153x, AHM.320x, DWNP_v5#09 p.002x, AQMJ1.142x, ASAT3.017x, ADH1.014x, AKHA_133BE #15 p.469x, AKHA_136BE #08 p.125x | PM#153x | Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God and human limitations | - | - | ROB3.044, LL#255 | |||||
| BH00096 | 4440 | الحمد لله الذی جعل البلاء ماء لسدرته العلیا و شجرته القصوی و نورا لعباده | Praise be unto Him Who hath made tribulation as water for His exalted and furthermost Lote-Tree, and as a light for His servants [3.5s] | INBA97:095.07x, BLIB_Or11097#064, , BLIB_Or15717.188, | ASAT1.164x, PYK.202x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| 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 | |
| BH00112 | Suriy-i-Asma' (=Lawh-i-Ibn?) | 3990 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; River of Life, The; Tablet of the Son (Jesus) | Suriy-i-Asma' (Surah of Names) | رایحه احزان جمال رحمن را احاطه نموده و ابواب فرح و بهجت از ظلم اهل طغیان من | The fragrance of sorrows hath encompassed the Beauty of the All-Merciful, and the gates of joy and delight have been shut fast through the tyranny of the people of rebellion [3.5s]... ...Know thou that when the Son of Man yielded up His breath to God, the whole creation wept with a great weeping. | INBA38:177, INBA18:468, INBA35:177b, BLIB_Or15698.078, , BLIB_Or15720.080, , BLIB_Or15740.064, , Majlis934.330-368, BN_suppl.1754.131-139 | BRL_DA#031, GWBP#036 p.062ax, AVK2.037.04x, AVK2.098.11x, AVK2.176.05x, IQT.078, NFQ.003x, MAS4.165bx, MAS7.130x, ASAT1.051x, ASAT1.127x, ASAT2.088x, ASAT2.129x, ASAT4.531x, ASAT5.293x, AHB_109BE #08 p.002x, OOL.B108 | GWB#036x, ROL.021-045x, ADJ.060x, ADJ.081x, PDC.004x2x, PDC.179-181x, WOB.185-186x, BLO_PT#139, HURQ.BH45 | Responds to objections to His claims raised by some Bábís, implores them not to be shut out from the truth by the veil of names, acknowledges the outward differences between sacred scriptures while asserting that this derives from the varying capacity of humanity, extols at length the revelation and the crucifixion of Jesus as having infused ‘a fresh capacity into all created things’, compares the Báb to John the Baptist and announces Himself to be the return of Christ, and declares that the purpose of His revelation, like Christ’s, is to bestow eternal life. | Exhortations and counsels; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | LL#294, LL#380 | ||
| BH00117 | 3920 | سبحانک یا اله الاسماء و فاطر السماء تری کیف احاط البلاء عبادک الذین نبذوا | Glorified art Thou, O God of Names and Creator of Heaven! Thou beholdest how tribulation hath encompassed Thy servants who have cast aside [3.5s] | INBA97:030x, BLIB_Or11097#035, , BLIB_Or15719.094ax, , BLIB_Or15722.170x, | ADM2#097 p.179x, NNY.181-182x, MAS8.144ax, ASAT4.311x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Personal instructions; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00128 | 3800 | Fire and Light | الحمد لله الذی ظهر بالحکمه و اظهر امره بالحکمه و امر الکل بالحکمه و جعل | Praise be to God Who hath manifested Himself through wisdom, and revealed His Cause through wisdom, and commanded all through wisdom, and ordained [3.5s]... ...Nothing hath ever happened nor will happen without a cause or effect. Reflect a while and consider | INBA97:139x, BLIB_Or15732.103, | BRL_DA#781, ADM3#144x p.163, AVK3.015.16x, NANU_BH#06x, NNY.191-192x, ASAT4.034x, ASAT4.230x, TABN.027x, TABN.279x | BRL_FIRE_BH#04x | Call to action; Contention and conflict; Martyrs and martyrdom; Nationalism; love of country; The power of words; of speech; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||
| BH00130 | Lawh-i-Ahbab | 3770 | Translation List | Lawh-i-Ahbab (Tablet of the Friends) | هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی اذا سمع الندا من شطر ربه الابهی قال بلی یا اله من | This is a Book from Our presence unto him who, when he heard the Call from the direction of his Most Glorious Lord, responded "Yea, verily, O my God!" [3.5s]... ...O Pen of Revelation! Call thou to mind the Baptizer. Say: The Day of baptism hath come. Blessed is the one who hath baptized himself with the baptism of God | INBA34:069, BLIB_Or11095#001, | AQA1#002, AVK4.476ax, MAS4.159x, ASAT3.071x, BCH.032x, PYK.031x, OOL.B022 | ADMS#244, BTO#02x | Addresses various followers with words of advice and encouragement, calling them to be united, to be detached from the things of the world, and to promote the cause of God, and lamenting the Bábís and others who have rejected His message. | Call to action; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | * | - | ROB3.258, GSH.187, LL#038 | ||
| BH00132 | Commentary on the Dala'il-i-Sab'ih of the Bab | 3750 | قد فتح ختم رحیق المختوم باسمی القیوم طوبی لقوم یعرفون انه لکوثر الرحمن ...قوله جل و عز از جمله ادلاء متقنه علم کل شیء است | The seal of the Choice Wine hath been broken through My Name, the Self-Subsisting. Blessed are they that recognize it as the Kawthar of the All-Merciful... His Word - exalted and glorious be He - is among the most perfect proofs of the knowledge of all things [3.5s] | INBA33:001x, BLIB_Or11095#033x, , BLIB_Or11096#011x, , BLIB_Or15722.107x, , NLAI_BH3.222x, BN_suppl.1754.037-042x | GHA.042x, ASAT5.276x | Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Prophecy and fulfillment; Word of God is its own standard | - | - | DB.304-305, SRC.089, LL#178 | ||||||
| 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 | ||
| BH00135 | Commentary on a verse from the Qayyumu'l-Asma | 3690 | هذا کتاب من لدنا لمن آمن بالله و سلطانه الذی کان علی العالمین محیطا لیذکر المظلوم الذی | This is a Book from Our presence unto him who hath believed in God and His sovereignty which encompasseth all the worlds, that the Wronged One may mention [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#010, , BLIB_Or15740.031x, , NLAI_BH3.192, BN_suppl.1754.031-037 | AVK1.242.14x, AVK1.318x, AVK1.321.18x, LHKM2.047, AYI2.067x, AYI2.068x, ASAT3.009x, ASAT5.282x, ASAT5.368x, ASAT5.369x, RAHA.126-127x, YMM.325x, YMM.357x, YMM.359x, YMM.385x, YMM.396x | Meaning; importance of dreams and visions; Microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar]; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||
| BH00140 | Lawh-i-Maqsud | 3650 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas | Lawh-i-Maqsud (Tablet of Maqsud) | حمد مقدس از ذکر و بیان حضرت معبود و مالک غیب و شهودی را لایق و سزاست که از | A praise which is exalted above every mention or description beseemeth the Adored One, the Possessor of all things… Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value… The Word is the master key for the whole world | BLIB_Or15696.091dx, , IOM.099, MKA.06 Mil Yz A 2791 p06, | GWBP#110 p.140x, GWBP#112 p.142x, GWBP#117 p.159x, GWBP#122 p.167x, ADM2#007 p.020x, AVK3.171.04x, AVK3.210.04x, AVK3.213.14x, AVK3.217.04x, AVK4.281.01x, AYI1.335x, DWNP_v5#01 p.002bx, UAB.010bx, UAB.011ax, UAB.013bx, UAB.024bx, UAB.026ax, UAB.028bx, UAB.030ax, UAB.033bx, UAB.037ax, UAB.039dx, UAB.040bx, UAB.041ax, UAB.045bx, UAB.050ax, UAB.050bx, UAB.051bx, UAB.052ax, UAB.053bx, DRD.011x, ASAT5.236x, ANDA#79 p.13x, TBP#11, MMUH#05x, OOL.B057 | TB#11, GWB#110x, GWB#112x, GWB#117x, GWB#122x, ADJ.028ax, ADJ.088x, GPB.217x3x, GPB.218x5x, GPB.219x, PDC.186x, PDC.187x2x, PDC.190x, WOB.032x, WOB.041xx, WOB.198x, WOB.041x, WOB.162x, WOB.187x2x, WOB.198x2x, WOB.202-203x, DWN_v1#10-11 p.001-004, KSHK#20x | Morgane & Samy, E. Kelly, L. Harley | Relates various teachings as prerequisites to world peace: universal education; regarding one another as ‘the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch’; reward and punishment as pillars of world stability; rulers acting with justice and wisdom; the gathering of the nations to lay the foundations of the ‘Lesser Peace’; the adoption of a universal language and script; affirming that ‘the earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens’; not allowing religion to become the source of disunity; taking counsel together in all matters; promoting useful branches of knowledge; exercising moderation in all things; inculcating tolerance and righteousness; and having due regard for the power of human utterance, in particular the Word of God, which is the ‘master key for the whole world’. | Consultation; Education of children; moral education; Reward and punishment; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity; Universal language; Work as worship | * | * | ROB4.235 et al, MMAH.138, GSH.213, LL#162, LL#461 | |
| BH00144 | Suriy-i-Bayan | 3580 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Suriy-i-Bayan (Tablet of Utterance) | ذکر اسم ربک عبده اذ دخل بقعه الفردوس مقر الذی استشرقت علیه انوار الوجه عن مشرق | The remembrance of the name of thy Lord by His servant, when he entered the Garden of Paradise, the seat whereupon shone forth the lights of the Face from the Dayspring [3.5s]... ...Say: Doth it beseem a man while claiming to be a follower of his Lord, the All-Merciful, he should yet in his heart do the very deeds of the Evil One? | INBA37:007, INBA83:203, BLIB_Or15702.254, , BLIB_Or15723.228, , BLIB_Or15737.069, , NLAI_BH2.280, Berlin1237#10, ALIB.folder18p001-018, Majlis934.115.09-125.01x | BRL_DA#736, GWBP#128 p.176x, GWBP#129 p.179x, GWBP#145 p.202ax, AQA4#080 p.108, AQA4a.392, AVK3.095.13x, AVK3.147.08x, AVK3.260.06x, GHA.428x, ASAT2.106x, PYK.032x, YFY.060x, OOL.B109 | GWB#128x, GWB#129x, GWB#145x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.034x, TDH#037.1x, GPB.170x, GPB.376-377x, GPB.404x, MBW.038x, BSTW#037x, HURQ.BH39 | D. E. Walker, MANA (1), MANA (2), C. Signori | Charges the recipient to teach the Cause of God in a state of detachment from the world and enkindlement with the love of God, summons the Maid of Heaven to come to the aid of whoever does so, and instructs him to carry the message to specific people and regions in Iran. | Assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Exhortations and counsels; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | * | - | ROB2.397, GSH.198, LL#295 | |
| BH00151 | Lawh-i-Qina' | 3480 | Translation List; Tablet of the Veil (Lawh-i-Qina') | Lawh-i-Qina (Tablet of the Veil) | یکی از احبای الهی مکتوبی بیکی از علمای معروف نوشته و در آن مکتوب سوالات چندی | One of the loved ones of God wrote a letter to Ḥájí Muḥammad Karím Khán, in which he posed a number of questions...For twelve years We tarried in Baghdád. Much as We desired that a large gathering of divines and fair-minded men be convened | INBA38:165, INBA35:007, INBA90:044, BLIB_Or15698.190, , BLIB_Or15720.188, , BLIB_Or15740.144, , NLAI_BH2.320, NLAI_BH3.167, Majlis934.199-229, BN_suppl.1754.124-131 | BRL_DA#719, AVK1.307.08x, AVK2.101.18x, AVK2.108.15x, AVK2.273.08x, AVK3.103.10x, AVK3.396.06x, IQT.190, MJMM.067, ASAT2.012x, ASAT3.279x, ASAT4.519x, ASAT4.520x, ASAT4.204x, ASAT5.174x, ASAT5.239x, TUM.050-051x, NSS.089-090x, NSS.190-199, OOL.B067 | BKOG.148x, PDC.139x, HURQ.BH63x, ADMS#199 | Sharply rebuts accusations, made by the leader of the Shaykhí school, of grammatical discrepancies in the writings of the Báb, asserting that divine revelation is not constrained by man-made rules, citing in support several examples from the Qur’an and challenging him with Bahá’u’lláh’s own prophetic claim. | Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Word of God is its own standard | * | - | ROB1.334, MMAH.137, GSH.176, LL#212 | ||
| BH00154 | 3430 | Obligatory Prayer and Fasting, The Importance of; Translation List; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک باسمک الباقی الذی به استبقت مظاهر امرک و باسمک | Praised be to Thee, O God, my God! I beg of Thee, by Thy name the Enduring One by which the Manifestations of Thy Cause… This is, O my God, the first of the days on which Thou hast bidden Thy loved ones observe the Fast | INBA38:287, INBA48:001, INBA33:091x, INBA49:151, INBA92:263, BLIB_Or15739.001, | AVK1.105.16x, TSBT.037x, NFF5.010, ASAT3.262x, ASAT4.162x, ASAT4.297x, ASAT5.169x, ASAT5.349x, ASAT5.364x, OOL.B090.06x, OOL.B090.09x | BRL_IOPF#3.01x, BPRY.259x, ADMS#047 | unknown | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love of God; Prayer for fasting; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | LL#271, LL#466, LL#471 | ||||
| BH00155 | Suriy-i-Ahzan | 3410 | Surah of Sorrows (Suriy-i-Ahzán); Days of Remembrance | Suriy-i-Ahzan (Surih of Sorrows) | ان یا سیاح الاحدیه سبح فی قلزم الکبریاء الذی ظهر باسمی الابهی و جرت علیه سفن | O thou who art the pilgrim of Divine Oneness! Swim thou in the ocean of grandeur which hath been manifested through My Most Glorious Name, whereon sail the barques [3.5s]... ...Would that thou wert standing at this moment before the Throne and couldst hear how the melodies of eternity | INBA37:085, BLIB_Or15694.494, , BLIB_Or15723.212, , BLIB_Or15737.052, , NLAI_BH2.125, NLAI_BH2.265, ALIB.folder18p034-047 | BRL_DA#733, AQA4#086 p.221, AQA4a.075, ASAT5.351x, OOL.B103, AMB#39x | DOR#39x, LTDT.080x, BLO_PT#092 | Expatiates on the sorrows experienced by Bahá’u’lláh and the Báb, taking in part the form of a mystical conversation between the two. | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Suffering and imprisonment; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | ROB2.397, MMAH.155, GSH.114, LL#289 | ||
| BH00160 | 3310 | سبحانک اللهم یا الهی تسمع حنینی کحنین الثکلی و طرفی الی الافق الاعلی تری و | Glory be to Thee, O Lord my God! Thou hearest how I weep with a weeping like that of a mother bereaved of her child...So grievous hath been My weeping that I have been prevented from making mention of Thee and singing Thy praises | INBA48:019, INBA49:238, INBA92:223b, BLIB_Or15739.051, | AVK2.025.14x, AVK2.300.17x, AVK2.359.03x, AVK3.016.08x, AHM.002, AYT.435x, ASAT1.136x, ASAT2.103x, ASAT5.349x | GPB.118x, JHT_B#019 | Call to action; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for martyrs; Prayer for protection; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||
| BH00185 | 3050 | حبذا حبذا کاروان بیان با ارمغان معانی وارد هر حرفش بهجت گل آورد و هر کلمه اش | How wonderful, how glorious is the caravan of utterance, arriving with the gift of inner meanings; every letter thereof bringeth the joy of flowers, and each word thereof [3.5s]... ...Glory be unto Thee, O Lord of heaven and earth, Holder of the reins of all mankind! I entreat Thee by that which is hidden in Thy knowledge | AQA7.201, ADM3#064 p.079x, AYI2.118x, AYI2.119x, ASAT4.239x | JHT_S#150x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Oneness; unity of religion; Petitions to authorities; Praise and encouragement; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00192 | 2940 | جوهر حمد و بیان و ساذج شکر و تبیان بساط امنع اقدس مالک امکان را لایق و سزاست | The essence of praise and utterance, and the quintessence of thanksgiving and exposition, beseemeth and befitteth the most holy and most exalted court of the Lord of all possibility [3.5s]... ...God hath not blinked, nor will He ever blink His eyes at the tyranny of the oppressor | INBA28:229 | BRL_DA#787, AVK2.181.09x, AVK3.402.09x, NANU_BH#08x, ASAT2.128x, ASAT3.269x, ASAT4.055x, ASAT4.206x, YMM.425x | GPB.224x | Justice and wrath of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Personal instructions; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ROB2.413, LL#210 | ||||||
| BH00193 | 2920 | الحمد لله الذی ظهر و اظهر ما اراد انه هو المقتدر علی ما یشاء لایعجزه شئونات | All praise be unto God, Who hath manifested Himself and revealed whatsoever He willeth. Verily, He is the Omnipotent, Who doeth as He pleaseth; no circumstances can frustrate Him [3.5s] | INBA07:109, BLIB_Or15717.205, , NLAI_BH4.240-263 | ASAT3.161x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Call to action; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Greatest Name; Law of repetition; recitation of the Greatest Name; Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00199 | 2880 | قد فزت بکتابک الذی کان مزینا بذکر المقصود و مطرزا بثناء محبوب العالمین طوبی لک | Verily I have received thy letter, which was adorned with the remembrance of the Desired One and embellished with the praise of the Beloved of the worlds. Blessed art thou [3.5s] | BRL_DA#486, AVK3.089.16x, AVK3.445.10x, AVK3.451.15x, SFI14.006-012, ASAT5.054x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Law of pilgrimage; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | |||||||||
| BH00203 | Lawh-i-Quds 1 | 2800 | Translation List | Lawh-i-Quds (Tablets of Holiness) | هذا لوح القدس یذکر فیه ما یشتعل به فی قلوب العباد نارا لعل یحترق بها کل الحجبات | This is the Tablet of Holiness; in it is mentioned what will kindle a flame in the hearts of the servants, that haply it may burn away every veil and allusion | INBA51:224b, INBA57:031, BLIB_Or15694.420, , KB_620:217-228, ALIB.folder18p255x | BRL_DA#099, SFI08.019b, MAS1.060x, AADA.061-073, ASAT1.130x, ASAT5.350x | ADMS#224 | A call to the recognition of Bahá’u’lláh, affirming the continuity of His mission with the Báb’s, investigating the cause of the rejection of prophets past, and refuting the counter-claim of Mírzá Yaḥyá. | Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering; rejection of Christ; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | |||
| BH00205 | 2790 | ان یا رحیم مر علی البلاد کنسایم الروح لیجدد بک هیاکل العباد بطراز الله المهیمن العزیز | O Rahim! Pass over the land like the breezes of the Spirit, that through Thee the temples of the servants may be renewed with the adornment of God, the All-Subduing, the Mighty [3.5s] | INBA83:257x, BLIB_Or15725.547, , ALIB.folder18p047-057 | ASAT1.132x, ASAT4.010x, ASAT4.386x, ASAT4.435x, HYK.129 | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00210 | Lawh-i-Hadi - Re "He who knoweth himself..." | 2770 | He who knoweth his self hath known his Lord (Man 'arafa nafsahú faqad 'arafa Rabbahú); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Man ‘arafa nafsahú faqad ‘arafa Rabbahú (He who knoweth his self hath known his Lord); Lawh-i-Hadi (Tablet to Mírzá Hadi) | توحید بدیع مقدس از تحدید و عرفان موجودات ساحت عز حضرت لایزالی را لایق و سزا | How wondrous is the unity of the Living, the Ever-Abiding God—a unity which is exalted above all limitations, that transcendeth the comprehension of all created things! He hath, from everlasting, dwelt | INBA38:238, INBA36:409, INBA57:018b, BN_suppl.1754.059-064 | BRL_DA#125, GWBP#073 p.096ax, GWBP#083 p.109x, GWBP#124 p.168bx, AVK1.061x, AVK1.180ax, AVK1.180bx, AVK1.187.06x, AVK1.242.05x, AVK1.307.02x, AVK2.077.13x, AVK3.398.09x, MJMM.346, DWNP_v6#05 p.003-004x, DRD.155, MAS4.026bx, MAS4.028x, ASAT1.185x, ASAT2.102x, ASAT4.292x, ASAT5.062x, ASAT5.251x, PYB#026 p.01x, PYB#221 p.03x, OOL.B160 | GWB#073x, GWB#083x, GWB#124x, BLO_PT#040, WIND#112 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine attributes are within all things; every atom; Knowledge of self; Manifestation of God the only route to knowledge of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ROB3.063, LL#097 | |||
| BH00211 | 2770 | سبحانک یا من بندائک الاحلی اجتذب قلب العالم و من فوحات قمیص ذکر اسمک الابهی | Glorified art Thou, O Thou Who through Thy most sweet call hath drawn unto Thee the heart of the world, and through the fragrances of the garment of the mention of Thy Most Glorious Name [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#264x, , BLIB_Or15710.125x, | AYBY.162, ASAT1.184x, MSHR3.139x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Business; financial; property matters; Call to action; Consolation and comfort; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Personal instructions; Praise and encouragement; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00217 | 2720 | الحمد لله الذی اظهر المکنون و ابرز المخزون الذی به ظهر اسرار ما کان و ما | Praise be to God Who hath revealed the hidden and brought forth that which was treasured up, whereby the mysteries of what was and what shall be have been made manifest [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15700.033, , BLIB_Or15711.042, | MAS8.053bx, ASAT5.277.07x, MSHR2.161x, YMM.464x | Call to action; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00223 | Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom) | 2680 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom) | کتاب انزله الرحمن من ملکوت البیان و انه لروح الحیوان لاهل الامکان تعالی الله | This is an Epistle which the All-Merciful hath sent down from the Kingdom of Utterance. It is truly a breath of life… Say: Magnified be Thy Name, O Lord my God! | INBA47:098, INBA90:001, INBA30:052, INBA81:024, BLIB_Or15729.106, , NLAI_22848:255, NLAI_BH3.142, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p133v, , Ghazi3072.045-093, UMich962.095-105, MKI4522.255, MKI4524.290, BN_suppl.1753.089-100 | AQA2#006 p.130, ADM2#011 p.026x, AVK4.437bx, MJMM.037, RSBB.092, NSR_1993.047x, ASAT1.042-043x, ASAT1.190x, ASAT1.156x, ASAT5.213x, ASAT5.372x, ADH1.103x, TBP#09, OOL.B043 | TB#09, BPRY.199x, PN_1900_heh p013, ADJ.025x, GPB.197x, PDC.186-187x, SW_v14#09 p.257x, BSC.189 #277-338 | Arrayanes, Rafael, Efe, Sabria & Maarten, L. Dely & M. Congo [track 8], P. Held & C. Bahia [track 9], almunajat.com [item 23] | Calls on the people to observe a number of spiritual maxims; answers a question regarding the origin of creation; describes the Word of God as ‘the Cause which hath preceded the contingent world’; identifies nature with the operation of the Divine Will; mentions in positive terms some ancient philosophers, including Empedocles, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Balinus, and Hermes; states that the essence and fundamentals of philosophy have emanated from the Prophets; and asserts that a true philosopher would never deny God and His evidences. | Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Greek philosophers; Greek civilization; Heat and motion; Purpose; goal of creation; Special knowledge of the Manifestation of God; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God sanctified from time and place | * | * | ROB4.033 et al, BKOG.382, GPB.219, EBTB.115, MMAH.085, GSH.139, LL#116 | |
| BH00238 | Lawh-i-Dunya (Tablet of the World) | 2590 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas | Lawh-i-Dunya (Tablet of the World) | حمد و ثنا سلطان مبین را لایق و سزاست که سجن متین را بحضور حضرت علی قبل اکبر | Praise and thanksgiving beseem the Lord of manifest dominion Who hath adorned the mighty prison… The betterment of the world can be accomplished | INBA89:190x, BLIB_Or07851.066a, , BLIB_Or15696.107bx, , BLIB_Or15716.198x, , PR05.009a-020a, Majlis934.001-026, BN_suppl.1753.078-089 | GWBP#043 p.066bx, AVK1.021.02x, AVK3.063.14x, AVK3.161.09x, AVK3.203.15x, AVk3.459.04x, AVK4.239.06x, AVK4.255.05x, AVK4.280x, ZYN.212, MJMM.285, AQMJ2.151x, AQMJ2.152x, UAB.051cx, DRD.084, MAS4.120ax, ASAT3.039x, ASAT4.387x, ASAT5.067x, AHB_107BE #03 p.046x, ADH1.080x, SAM.235x, TBP#07, OOL.B036 | TB#07, GWB#043x, ADJ.024x, ADJ.024-025x, ADJ.028x, ADJ.077x, GPB.232x, PDC.196x, PDC.199x, WOB.107x2x, WOB.198x, SW_v09#07 p.082x, SW_v14#06 p.179x, DWN_v3#01 p.009x, DWN_v5#01 p.003-004x, DWN_v6#06-7 p.001-002x, BLO_PT#201, BSC.138 #055-069x | T. Price, T. Ellis, A. Tahirih R. Weiss, MANA, Soulrise Melodies, S. Jaberi | Reiterates many of Bahá’u’lláh’s central social teachings, such as renunciation of self and promoting the good of the entire human race; achieving the betterment of the world ‘through pure and goodly deeds, through commendable and seemly conduct’; consorting with all religions in friendliness and fellowship; avoiding contention and conflict; observing courtesy; promoting the ‘Lesser Peace’; adopting a universal language; championing the universal education of children; and recognizing the importance of agriculture. | Call to action; House of Justice; Lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Unity in diversity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | * | ROB4.329 et al, BKOG.382, BKOG.399, BKOG.410, BKOG.454, MMAH.131, GSH.168, LL#083 | |
| BH00244 | 2540 | Changing Pronouns and Dropping 'Say' in Prayers | بجناب ذبیح علیه بهاء الله تکبیر مالانهایه برسانید عجبست که خبر ایشان نرسید | Convey unto his honor Dhabih, upon whom be the Glory of God, boundless greetings. Strange it is that no word hath been received from him [3.5s]... ...In some of the revealed prayers and supplications it is written, “and make him.” Is it considered interpolation if one recites, in a passsage of entreaty, "and make me" | INBA28:171, NLAI_BH4.053-062.03x | AVK2.318.17x, AVK4.028.13x, AVK4.267.10x, AVK4.439ax, MAS4.030x, MAS4.036x, ASAT4.030x, ASAT4.462x, ASAT5.054x, YIK.071-078 | KSHK#08x | Empty learning; false spirituality; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ROB4.321, ROB3.200-201, LL#193, LL#372 | |||||
| BH00245 | Commentary on a verse from Sa'di | 2530 | Commentary on a Verse of Sa'di (Tafsir-i Bayti az Sa'di); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Unrestrained as the Wind; Tafsir-i Bayti az Sadi (Commentary on a Verse of Sadi) | آنچه از معنی بیت در آیات الهی نازل و از افق سماء حقیقت مشرق همان تمام است و | The intent of the poet in these verses, "The Friend is closer to me that I am to myself | BLIB_Or11096#006, , BLIB_Or15722.022, , NLAI_BH3.097, BN_suppl.1754.042-047 | BRL_DA#034, GWBP#093 p.122bx, GWBP#161 p.218x, AVK3.105.13x, AVK3.465.02x, KHSH01.054, MAS1.057x, ASAT1.035x, ASAT2.085x, ASAT2.114x, ASAT3.091x, ASAT5.094x, ASAT5.235x, UVM.101.07x | GWB#093x, GWB#161x, ADJ.050-051x, ADJ.060x, ADJ.077x2x, ADJ.060x5x, COF.120x, GPB.389x, WOB.103x, WOB.167x, WIND#133 | B. Grover, MANA | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Nearness and remoteness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Word of God and human limitations | - | - | ROB3.404, LL#335, LL#448, LL#457 | ||
| BH00248 | Suriy-i-'Ibad | 2520 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Suriy-i-Ibad (Tablet of the Servants) | شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و انا کل له عابدون شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و انا کل | God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, and verily all are His worshippers. God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, and verily all [3.5s]... ...Contemplate with thine inward eye the chain of successive Revelations that hath linked the Manifestation of Adam | INBA47:077x, BLIB_Or15723.050, , BLIB_Or15738.006, , NLAI_BH1.312 | BRL_DA#005x, GWBP#031 p.055bx, AQA4#073 p.023, AQA4a.244, ASAT4.307x, OOL.B124 | BRL_APBH#12x, GWB#031x, GPB.151x5x, HURQ.BH31 | S. Jaberi | Declares the continuity of Bahá’u’lláh’s prophetic claim with the ‘chain of successive Revelations that hath linked the Manifestation of Adam with that of the Báb’, relates the events of His banishment from Baghdad to Edirne, and delivers specific guidance to a number of followers named in the tablet. | Banishment to; life in Constantinople; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Exhortations and counsels; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB2.272, MMAH.154, GSH.112, LL#309 | |
| BH00249 | Lawh-i-Ahmad (Persian) | 2510 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Provisional Translation of the Persian Tablet of Ahmad | Lawh-i-Ahmad (Tablet of Ahmad (Persian)) | اینست بدایع نصایح الهی که بلسان قدرت در مکمن عظمت و مقعد قدس رفعت خود میفرماید پس بگوش | O banished and faithful friend! Quench the thirst of heedlessness with the sanctified waters of My grace | INBA38:018, INBA65:185, INBA35:073, INBA36:401, NLI.32p145r, PR23.041b-045b, Majlis210461.020-030, BN_suppl.1753.106-115 | BRL_DA#126, GWBP#152 p.207x, GWBP#153 p.208x, AVK1.021.09x, ZYN.070, MJMM.315, DRD.114, MAS8.038bx, ASAT5.106x, PYM.012x, OOL.B023b | GWB#152x, GWB#153x, ADJ.081x, ADJ.082x, PDC.024-025x, SW_v07#06 p.044x, SW_v07#16 p.152x, SW_v14#02 p.040x, BLO_PT#073, BSC.223 #435-443 | L. Slott, A. Youssefi (1), A. Youssefi (2), E. Mahony (1), E. Mahony (2), E. Mahony (3), A. Bryan, Samira & Sara, MANA, Soulrise Melodies (1), Soulrise Melodies (2), A.E. Rahbin, E. Kelly, K. Porray, M. Levine [track 7] | Sets forth the conditions of spiritual search, with purity of heart being foremost; compares His revelation to that of an ocean which yields up its pearls in proportion to the eagerness of the search; and proclaims that ‘this fathomless and surging ocean is near, astonishingly near, unto you’. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge of self; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | - | ROB2.137, BKOG.157, BKOG.223, BKOG.245, MMAH.184, LL#041 | |
| BH00258 | Lawh-i-Yusuf | 2460 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablet of Joseph (Lawh-i Yusuf); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Resurrection and the World to Come | Lawh-i-Yusuf (Tablet of Joseph) | تلک آیات الله قد نزلت بالحق عن جهه ایمن العرش و جعلها الله هدی و ذکری للعالمین... ای یوسف حجّتم بر کلّ من فی السّموات و الارض... انّا قد جعلنا میقاتاً لکم فاذا تمّت المیقات | These are the verses of God which have verily been sent down in truth from the right hand of the Throne, and which God hath made a guidance and a remembrance unto all the worlds [3.5s]... ...We have a fixed time for you, O people. If ye fail, at the appointed hour, to turn towards God, He, verily, will lay violent hold on you | INBA38:139, BLIB_Or15694.465, , ALIB.folder18p199, NLI.32p030vx | BRL_DA#532, GWBP#108 p.139bx, AVK1.279.19x, RSBB.181, GHA.255x, UAB.031cx, MAS4.019bx, MAS8.013x, AYI2.248x, AYI2.250x, ASAT4.378x, OOL.B084b | GWB#108x, LOG#1982x, PDC.007x, WOB.201x, SW_v02#03 p.003x, BLO_PT#113, BSC.199 #339-372, KSHK#28x | Emphasizes the importance of detachment as prerequisite to the recognition of spiritual truth and explains the meaning of ‘paradise’, ‘hellfire’, ‘resurrection’, and similar terms. | Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God and human limitations | * | - | GSH.171, LL#265, LL#395 | ||
| BH00260 | Suriy-i-Ra'is | 2450 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Summons of the Lord of Hosts | Suriy-i-Rais (Tablet to Sultan Ali Pasha) | ان یا رئیس اسمع ندآء الله الملک المهیمن القیوم انه ینادی بین الارض و السماء | Hearken, O Chief, to the voice of God, the Sovereign, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. He, verily, calleth aloud between heaven and earth | INBA47:147, INBA34:081, BLIB_Or15735.129, , NLAI_BH2.354, Berlin1237#28, PR11.020b-026a, UMich962.130-132x | NRJ#2, AQA1#003, AVK4.453x, MJMM.087, ASAT3.048x, ASAT4.254x, ASAT5.230x, BCH.104x, YMM.269x, OOL.B070a | SLH#02, GPB.174x, GPB.179-180x, GPB.180x, GPB.181x2x, PDC.099x, PDC.120x, WOB.105-106x, WOB.178x, BLO_PT#194, BSC.088 #039x, BSC.224 #444-445x | Addresses ‘Álí Páshá, the Ottoman Prime Minister, as Bahá’u’lláh and His companions were being transferred from Adrianople to Gallipoli en route to ‘Akká; takes the minister to task for his abuse of power; predicts the downfall of Sulṭán ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz; announces that He has come to ‘quicken the world and unite all its peoples’; relates the circumstances of His expulsion from Edirne; and parenthetically answers a question from a follower about the origin and nature of the soul. | Chastisement and requital; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for nearness to God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Suffering and imprisonment; Existence; immortality of the human soul; The human soul; The human soul at midpoint of creation; the isthmus [barzakh]; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ROB2.411 et al, BKOG.259, MMAH.146, GSH.109, LL#326 | ||
| BH00269 | Lawh-i-Ra'is | 2370 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Summons of the Lord of Hosts | Lawh-i-Rais (Tablet to Sultan Ali Pasha) | قلم اعلی میفرماید ای نفسیکه خود را اعلی الناس دیده و غلام الهی که چشم اهل ملا | The Pen of the Most High proclaimeth: O thou who hast imagined thyself to be the most exalted of men | INBA35:043, BLIB_Or11096#015, , BLIB_Or15698.302, , BLIB_Or15720.296, , BLIB_Or15740.230, , CMB_F31.030, , NLI.32p039v, PR11.066a-072a | NRJ#3, AVK1.333.04x, AVK2.287.11x, AVK3.052.07x, AVK4.455x, IQT.302, MJMM.102, UAB.058cx, DRD.043, ASAT3.015x, ASAT4.168x, ASAT4.419x, OOL.B070b | SLH#03, GPB.173x2x, GPB.187x3x, GPB.208x3x, PDC.073-074x, PDC.099x, PDC.099-100x, SW_v02#02 p.003-007x, BLO_PT#198, BSC.081 #038 | Bahá’u’lláh’s second tablet to the Ottoman Prime Minister ‘Álí Páshá, denouncing him for his further act of cruelty in imprisoning Bahá’u’lláh and His followers in the citadel of ‘Akká, warning him of the ephemerality of his worldly power, relating the episode of a puppet show from Bahá’u’lláh’s own childhood which convinced Him of the fleeting nature of the trappings of the world, asking ‘Álí Páshá to comport himself with reason and justice, and reiterating a request for a brief audience with the Sultan. | Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | * | * | ROB3.033 et al, BKOG.013, MMAH.148, GSH.121, LL#217 | ||
| BH00271 | Tafsir-i-Va'sh-Shams (Commentary on the Surih of the Sun) | 2340 | Commentary on the Surah of the Sun; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Tafsír-i-Suriy-i-Vash-Shams (Commentary on the Surih of the Sun) | الحمد لله الذی انطق ورقاء البیان علی افنان دوحه التبیان بفنون الالحان علی انه لا اله الا هو | Praise be to God, Who hath set the dove of eloquence, perched among the twigs of the tree of explanation, to weaving her divers melodies | INBA90:076, BLIB_Or15714.065, , NLAI_BH3.227, Berlin1237#01, MKI4524.278, | BRL_DA#710, GWBP#089 p.116bx, MJMM.001, DLS.107x, ASAT1.253x, ASAT2.171x, ASAT3.116x, ASAT4.205x, ASAT4.208x, ASAT4.366x, ASAT4.375x, ADH1.108x, OOL.B146 | GWB#089x, BLO_PT#025, HURQ.BH78, ADMS#199n02x | W. Heath | Gives a detailed interpretation of a short surah of the Qur’an, relates several symbolic meanings of the word ‘sun’, and tells of the inexhaustible meanings of the Word of God, which are disclosed according to the capacity of the hearers and which must be understood according to both their outward and inward meanings. | Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Limits of language; Names and attributes of God; Outward and inward meanings; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | ROB1.032, MMAH.102, GSH.209, LL#338 | |
| BH00272 | 2340 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Unnamed Tablet (Purpose of the one true God) | حق جل جلاله از برای ظهور جواهر معانی از معدن انسانی آمده الیوم دین الله و مذهب | The purpose of the one true God, exalted be His glory, in revealing Himself unto men is to lay bare those gems that lie hidden within the mine of their true and inmost selves… So powerful is the light of unity | BLIB_Or15692.040, , BLIB_Or15738.044ax, , MKI4523.133, , BN_suppl.1753.037-043 | BRL_DA#661, GWBP#126 p.174x, GWBP#132 p.184x, AVK3.111.03x, AVK3.212.05x, ISH.133, UAB.023bx, UAB.036bx, ASAT3.118x, NSS.119-120x | GWB#126x, GWB#132x, TN.042-048x, STOB#085n, STOB#108n, ADJ.065bx, PDC.181x, WOB.203x2x, SW_v03#02 p.006x, DWN_v3#01 p.010x | L. Dely & M. Congo [track 4], R. Yazhari, T. Nosrat, MANA, N. Zabihi, Naim, Ridvan, Reza & Bahia, Pedram, Aram, Onni & Nader, A Family Affair, Soulrise Melodies (1), Soulrise Melodies (2), Leona and Larry, G.H. Miller, R. Peterson [track 13], E. Mahony, P. Weber | Call to action; Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Oneness; unity of religion; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | LL#020 | Part of this quoted in ESW. | ||
| BH00275 | Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Khadijih Bagum | 2300 | Tablet of Visitation for the wife of the Bab, Khadijih Begum; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Khadijih Begum (Tablet of Visitation for the wife of the Báb, Khadijih Begum) | ان القلم ینوح و اللوح یبکی بما صعدت زفرات اهل الوفاء و نزلت عبرات الفردوس... ان یا قلم قد اتتک مصیبة کبری | O Pen! Verily a great tribulation and mighty calamity hath come upon Thee, one that hath caused the denizens of the Exalted Paradise and the dwellers of the Concourse on High | INBA31:074, BLIB_Or15704.218, , BLIB_Or15714.095x, , Majlis210461.114-116x | BRL_DA#273x, AQA4#100 p.339, AQA4a.201, AVK3.133.02x, AYT.029x, KHAF.184 (285), ASAT4.080x, AKHT1.364x, OOL.B179a, MATA.154-155x | BRL_ATBH#16x, EBTB.379, LTDT.055x, LTDT.057x, BLO_PT#151, GEN.099-102 | Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Visitation Tablets | - | - | LL#139 | |||
| BH00279 | Remembrance of the seven martyrs of Yazd | 2280 | Tablet to The Times of London; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Times (Tablet to the Times) | کنا ماشیا فی البیت و سامعا حدیث الارض اذا ارتفع الندآء من الفردوس الاعلی | We were walking in the House and hearing the discourse of the earth when the Call was raised from the Most Exalted Paradise [3.5s]... ...O 'Times', O thou endowed with the power of utterance! O dawning place of news! Spend an hour with the oppressed of Iran | INBA39:154 | BRL_DA#375, MAS4.124cx, RHQM1.382-382 (461) (283-289), ASAT4.387x, MSBH2.171x, OOL.B169, OOL.B199 | BRL_ATBH#08x, BLO_PT#195 | Call to action; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ROB4.348, MMAH.144, LL#253 | Includes the "Lawh-i-Times" | ||
| BH00280 | Suriy-i-Ziyarih | 2280 | Wronged One, The; Surih of Visitation | Surat az-Ziyarah (Surih of Visitation for Mulla Husayn) | هذا کتاب من لدی المظلوم الذی سمی فی ملکوت البقاء بالبهاء و فی جبروت العلاء | This is a letter from a wronged One, who is known in the kingdom of eternity as Bahá, in the dominion of exaltation… Our God and Beloved! Forgive us, our parents, and such of our relations as have believed in Thee and Thy signs | INBA37:122, INBA83:195, INBA49:289, BLIB_Or15702.239, , NLAI_BH2.297, ALIB.folder18p057-066 | AQA4#091 p.301, ADM2#005 p.017x, MAS8.082, ASAT4.078x, OOL.B141 | LOIR03.083, BLO_PT#098, JHT_S#087x | Visitation tablet for Mullá Ḥusayn, who was the first to embrace the cause of the Báb and was one of its early martyrs and who is implicitly related in the tablet to Bahá’u’lláh (whose given name was also Ḥusayn) and through Him to the persecution and suffering of Abel, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, Imam Ḥusayn, and the Báb. | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Power of the Manifestation of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Visitation Tablets | * | - | MMAH.204, GSH.196, LL#330 | ||
| BH00282 | 2230 | الحمد لله الذی اظهر ما هو المستور بقدرته المهیمنه علی الاسماء و ابرز ما هو | All praise be unto God Who, through His power that transcendeth all names, hath revealed that which was hidden and made manifest that which was concealed [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11097#032, | AQA6#309 p.304, AVK4.231.09x, AVK4.417cx, AVK4.418ax, AVK4.462.10x, KHSH09.089, MAS8.141bx, ASAT4.279x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Law of Huququ'llah; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00284 | 2210 | الحمد لله الذی اید احبائه علی خدمه اصفیائه و وفقهم بفضله علی الاستقامه علی | Praise be unto God Who hath strengthened His loved ones to serve His chosen ones and through His grace hath guided them to steadfastness [3.5s] | INBA18:408 | ASAT3.234x, YIA.188-190x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Chastisement and requital; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for protection; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00285 | 2210 | این مظلوم بین انیاب ذئاب بوده و هست در این حالت صریر قلم اعلی قطع نشد و ندآء | This Wronged One hath been and is between the fangs of wolves; yet even in this state the Most Exalted Pen hath not ceased its flow, nor hath the Call been silenced [3.5s]... ...Of all the peoples of the world, they that have suffered the greatest loss have been, and are still, the people of Persia | BLIB_Or15698.030, , BLIB_Or15712.022b, , BLIB_Or15720.032, , BLIB_Or15740.027, | BRL_DA#261, AVK1.279.13x, AVK3.244.15x, IQT.030, AYBY.089, AQMJ2.006x, ASAT1.263x, ASAT3.219x, ASAT5.363x, TRZ1.078ax | PDC.143-144x | Call to action; Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Knowledge; recognition of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||
| BH00287 | Lawh-i-Baha | 2190 | Lawh-i-Bahá (Tablet of Glory) | ان یا امه الله ا تصبرین علی مقعدک بعد الذی کان قمیص الغلام محمرا بدم البغضاء | O Maidservant of God! Be patient under all circumstances and mindful of the fact that the robe of this Youth was dyed crimson with the blood of enmity betwixt earth and heaven | INBA35:070x, NLAI_BH1.269x | BRL_DA#703, AQA7#394-395 p.154, ASAT5.348x, OOL.B030a, OOL.B030b | HURQ.BH38 | Identifies Himself and His sufferings with those of prophets past; compares Mírzá Yaḥyá to the biblical Balaam, who rejected Moses after having occupied an exalted station; and bids His own followers, the newly named ‘people of Bahá’, to enter the ‘ark of eternity’ upon the ‘crimson sea’. | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | ROB2.179, ROB2.171, MMAH.119, GSH.040, LL#071 | |||
| BH00292 | 2180 | الحمد لله الذی توحد بالوحدانیه و تفرد بالفردانیه قد اظهر الکلمه من افق سماء | Praise be to God, Who is one in His oneness and single in His singleness. Verily He hath caused the Word to appear from the horizon of heaven [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15700.049, , BLIB_Or15711.300, | MUH3.301-306, ASAT5.042x | Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Predictions and prophecies; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Prophecy and fulfillment; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00295 | Madinatu'r-Rida (the City of Radiant Acquiescence) | 2180 | Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá; City of Radiant Acquiescence (Lawh-i-Madinatu'r-Rida); Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Madinatur-Rida (City of Radiant Acquiescence) | ذکر رحمه الله عبده بالحق لیفتخر بذلک فی ملا العالین و یشکر ربه فی کل حین | Remind his servant of God's clemency in truth, that he might be honored thereby among the concourse of the worlds, and might give thanks to his lord at all times, insofar as God's bounties to him | INBA73:186 | BRL_DA#282, AQA4a.135, AVK3.403.02x, ASAT4.015x, AKHA_124BE #11-12 p.bx, OOL.B087 | BRL_ATBH#41x, WIND#138, BLO_sazedj#07x, HURQ.BH16x | Expounds various stages and degrees of contentment: contentment with God and His decree; with one’s own self, which requires detachment from the world; with one’s fellow believers, which implies humility in their presence; and with the vicissitudes of the world. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Prayer for forgiveness; Prayer for protection; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Symbolism of color and light; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | * | - | ROB1.108, MMAH.191, GSH.036, LL#150 | ||
| BH00297 | Suriy-i-Dhikr | 2160 | Days of Remembrance | Suriy-i-Dhikr (Surih of Remembrance) | هذا کتاب نقطه الاولی الی الذینهم آمنوا بالله الواحد الفرد العزیز العلیم و فیه یخاطب | This is the Súrih of Remembrance, sent down as a token of grace, that perchance the people of the Bayán might renounce that which they possess | INBA47:001, INBA37:097, BLIB_Or15725.176, , NLAI_BH2.343 | BRL_DA#732, AQA4#087 p.236, AQA4a.108, ASAT3.279x, OOL.B114, AMB#38x | DOR#38x, GPB.137x, HURQ.BH24 | Speaking in the voice of the Báb, Bahá’u’lláh declares His mystical identity with the Báb (one of whose titles was ‘the Remembrance of God’) and the fulfilment of the Báb’s revelation in Him and laments the state of the Bábís in the extremity of their rejection of Bahá’u’lláh. | Chastisement and requital; Exhortations and counsels; Personal instructions; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | MMAH.160, GSH.059, LL#299 | ||
| 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 | - | - | |||||||
| BH00327 | 2000 | الله ابهی شمس البهاء قد ظهرا و تظهرت عند جمال الغیب عن مخزن السترا و ارتفعت بذلک | God is Most Glorious! The Sun of Splendor hath appeared and been made manifest through the Beauty of the Unseen from the Treasury of Mystery, and thereby was It raised up [3.5s] | ASAT3.178x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||
| BH00328 | 2000 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | ذکر من لدنا لمن اقبل الی الله رب العالمین و حضر کتابه فی السجن الاعظم و فاز | A remembrance from Our presence unto him who hath turned unto God, the Lord of all worlds, who hath attained unto His Book in the Most Great Prison, and who hath achieved [3.5s]... ...Thou hast asked Me concerning the nature of the soul. Know, verily, that the soul is a sign of God, a heavenly gem whose reality the most learned of men hath failed to grasp | INBA51:165, BLIB_Or15730.039, , KB_620:158-166 | BRL_DA#663, GWBP#082 p.107x, ADM1#037 p.079x, AVK1.137bx, AVK1.185ax, AVK1.276ax, MAS8.189bx, RRT.144x, ASAT4.106x, YMM.270x | GWB#082x | Celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy; Degrees of faith; certitude; Literal interpretation; Soul; spirit after death; Suffering and imprisonment; Existence; immortality of the human soul; The human soul; The human soul at midpoint of creation; the isthmus [barzakh]; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures | - | - | LL#427 | |||||
| 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 | ||
| BH00336 | Lawh-i-Burhan (= Lawh-i-Raqsha?) | 1960 | Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas | Lawh-i-Burhan (Tablet of the Proof) | قد احاطت اریاح البغضا سفینه البطحا بما اکتسبت ایدی الظالمین یا باقر قد افتیت | The winds of hatred have encompassed the Ark of Baṭḥá, by reason of that which the hands of the oppressors have wrought | INBA47:126, INBA35:119x, INBA90:026, INBA97:072, BLIB_Or15729.119, , NLAI_22848:289, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p150r, , UMich962.105-113, MKI4522.289, | AQA2#008 p.152, AVK3.110.07x, AVK4.284ax, AVK4.454bx, MJMM.053, NNY.245, RHQM2.0965-973 (399) (247-252), ASAT2.073x, ASAT3.250x, ASAT4.034x, ASAT4.052x, ASAT4.376x, LDR.217x, TBP#14, OOL.B035, OOL.B110 | TB#14, BADM.173-174x, GPB.211x, GPB.218x, GPB.231x, GPB.232x3x, PDC.159x, WOB.179x | Condemns in fiery language two members of the Shiite clergy for their roles in the martyrdom of two prominent Bahá’ís, sets forth the spiritual prerequisites of the truly learned, and summons them to investigate the truth of Bahá’u’lláh’s cause by perusing His writings. | Chastisement and requital; Empty learning; false spirituality; Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment | * | * | ROB4.091 et al, GPB.219, MMAH.219, GSH.145, LL#081 | ||
| BH00346 | 1910 | یا مهدی استمع ندآء من کان متغمسا فی بحر البلاء و اذا تمهله الامواج یرفع راسه | Hearken, O Mahdi, unto the call of Him Who is drowning in a sea of tribulation. | BLIB_Or11096#013, , BLIB_Or15698.116, , BLIB_Or15720.116, , BLIB_Or15738.108, , BLIB_Or15740.091, , LEID.Or4971-7 p4, | BRL_DA#279, AVK2.307.06x, IQT.116, RSBB.085, ASAT3.115x, ASAT3.132x, ASAT4.287x, ASAT4.406x, ASAT4.432x, ASAT4.496x, ASAT5.256x | PDC.028x, KSHK#24 | Episodes from the early history of Islam; Rejection of Muhammad; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||
| BH00352 | 1880 | یا محمد قبل علی نامهای متتابعه احبای ارض خا علیهم بهائی که بشما فرستادند عبد | O Muhammad-Qablí-'Alí! The successive letters sent unto thee by the beloved ones of the land of Khá - upon them be My Glory - have been received [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15719.108, | ASAT3.218x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir]; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00354 | Suriy-i-Vafa (=Lawh-i-Vafa) | 1870 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas | Suriy-i-Vafa (Tablet to Vafa) | ان یا وفاء ان اشکر ربک بما ایدک علی امره و عرفک مظهر نفسه و اقامک علی ثناء ذکره | O Vafa! Render thanks unto thy Lord for having aided thee to embrace His Cause, enabled thee to recognize the Manifestation | INBA28:215, BLIB_Or15694.386, , Berlin1237#26, ALIB.folder18p103-109 | GWBP#079 p.102x, AQA4#103 p.350, AQA4a.418, AVK1.119.07x, AVK1.276bx, AVK1.321.01x, LMA1.418 (253), MAS1.006x, MAS1.063x, ASAT5.300x, TBP#12, OOL.B140 | TB#12, GWB#079x, WOB.138-139x, NYR#143 | Exhorts the recipient to be the essence of faithfulness; asserts Bahá’u’lláh’s mystical identity with the Báb; answers questions about ‘the return’, the worlds of God, the ordinances of God, and paradise; and confirms that, as predicted during the time of His departure from ‘Iraq, the ‘birds of darkness’ have begun to stir. | Chastisement and requital; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Meaning; importance of dreams and visions; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Realms of being; three realms; five realms; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Return of the Manifestations of God | * | * | ROB4.205, GSH.190, LL#329 | ||
| BH00355 | 1870 | ای دوستان کذب قبل محبوب بعد را آویخت و برصاص ظلم شهید نمود تفکر در نفوس | O friends! The falsehood of the past hath hanged the Beloved of a later day, and martyred Him with the leaden bullets of tyranny. Ponder ye upon the souls [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15698.267, , BLIB_Or15720.263, , BLIB_Or15740.204, , Majlis934.237-255 | AVK1.143.05x, AVK3.216.10x, IQT.267, SFI13.030, ASAT4.226x | Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Unity; oneness of humanity; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| 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. | |
| BH00359 | 2200 | Bahá'í Scriptures; River of Life, The; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | قلم اعلی اولیای الهی را بلغت فصحی ذکر فرمود حال بلسان پارسی احلی میفرماید... بگو ای دوستان کذب قبل محبوب بعد را آویخت و برصاص ظلم شهید نمود تفکر در نفوس کاذبه | The Supreme Pen hath made mention of the loved ones of God in the most eloquent language, and now, in sweeter Persian, doth proclaim [3.5s]... ...Say, O friends! The former lying caused the succeeding Beloved to be hanged and martyred by the bullet of opposition. | NLAI_BH1.128 | BRL_DA#173x, AVK3.213.02x, AVK3.219.04x, ASAT3.003x | BRL_ATBH#01x, SW_v06#01 p.002x, SW_v10#05 p.091x, DWN_v5#06 p.007-008x, DWN_v6#06-7 p.001x, BSC.229 #460-496x, ROL.011-016x | Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Human reality created in the image of God; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||
| BH00363 | 1840 | الحمد لله الذی توحد بسلطان وحدانیته و تفرد بملیک فردانیته الذی کان مقدسا عن | Praise be to God Who hath singled Himself out through the sovereignty of His oneness and distinguished Himself through the dominion of His uniqueness, Who hath ever been sanctified from [3.5s]... ...Lo, through His pervasive Will, He hath built the House of His Cause on the foundation of utterance and the basis of exposition | BLIB_Or11097#015, , NLAI_BH4.065-074 | AVK4.422x, AVK4.424x, AVK4.425x, MAS8.138ax, MAS8.138bx, ASAT3.243x, MYD.012x | ADMS#138x | False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Hands of the Cause; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||
| BH00379 | 1780 | Days of Remembrance | شمس الکلمات عن افق بیان ملیک الاسماء و الصفات قد کانت فی احسن الساعات بانوار | The day-star of words, dawning above the horizon of the utterance of Him Who is the Lord of all names and attributes, hath, at this most blessed of hours | INBA81:062, BLIB_Or15692.005, , BLIB_Or15706.021, , BLIB_Or15714.005, | BRL_DA#200, AYT.305x, ASAT4.400x, AMB#10 | DOR#10 | Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Proclamation of the Cause (general or uncategorized); Rejection, opposition and persecution; Stories; anecdotes; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | LL#015 | |||||
| BH00399 | 1720 | شخصی در این مدینه از علمای مدینه کبیره بوده آقا جان نزد او مراوده داشت | A person in this city was among the learned men of the Great City (Constantinople), with whom Áqá Ján maintained correspondence [3.5s] | MAS4.252, ASAT4.244-245x, ASAT4.247x, MSHR4.310x | Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Prophecy and fulfillment; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis | - | - | |||||||||
| BH00408 | 1700 | حمد مقدس از ذکر و فکر حضرت مقصود لایزالی را سزاست که افق برهانرا در یوم قیام | Praise, sanctified beyond thought and remembrance, beseemeth that Ever-Abiding Desired One, Who hath caused the horizon of proof to shine forth on the Day of Rising [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11097#037, | MAS8.145x, ASAT2.012x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Development of capacity and readiness; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00409 | Lawh-i-Basitatu'l-Haqiqah | 1700 | Tablet of the Uncompounded Reality; Tablet on the Simple Reality, The (Lawḥ-i-Basíṭu'l-Ḥaqíqih) | Lawh-i-Basítatu'l-Haqíqah (Tablet of the Uncompounded Reality) | و ما سئل السائل فی قول الحکماء بسیط الحقیقه کل الاشیاء قل فاعلم ان المقصود | As to the question the enquirer hath asked concerning the sage’s assertion, saying: the Element of Simple Reality is all things… words without deeds are as bees that yield no honey | INBA39:034, BLIB_Or11096#012, , BLIB_Or15698.105, , BLIB_Or15720.105, , BLIB_Or15740.083, , NLAI_BH3.213, LEID.Or4971-7, , Majlis934.291-307 | BRL_DA#714, AVK1.104.06x, IQT.105, SFI05.008, MAS7.140b, ASAT1.078x, ASAT5.176x, ASAT5.250x, TUM.061-064, OOL.B032, VUJUD.099x | LOIR11.203, BLO_PT#141, VUJUDE.133-134x, HURQ.BH65x, JHT_B#016 | Elucidates a statement by the philosopher Mullá Ṣadrá that ‘the uncompounded reality is all things’, offers a middle position between the doctrines of ‘the oneness of being’ and ‘the oneness of appearances’, observes that both positions can be upheld with reference to different sacred scriptures, and suggests that nothing is to be gained from disputation in such matters. | Greek philosophers; Greek civilization; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Uncompounded reality [basitu'l-haqiqah]; Unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud]; Words vs deeds | * | - | MMAH.121, GSH.185, LL#077 | ||
| BH00413 | 1690 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | سبحان الذی اظهر نفسه کیف شاء و اراد فی حین ماادرکته افئده اولی الحجی و اعترض | Glorified be He Who hath manifested His Self as He hath willed and desired, at a time when the hearts of them that are endowed with understanding could not comprehend Him and raised objection [3.5s]... ...Regard thou the one true God as One Who is apart from, and immeasurably exalted above, all created things. The whole universe reflecteth His glory | INBA35:094, BLIB_Or11096#009, , BLIB_Or15698.143, , BLIB_Or15720.141, , BLIB_Or15740.110, , NLI.32p083v | BRL_DA#597, GWBP#084 p.111ax, ADM1#006 p.021x, IQT.143, AYI1.337x, UAB.031ax, AQMJ1.181x, ASAT4.270x | GWB#084x, SW_v02#05 p.015x, JHT_S#030x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for steadfastness; obedience; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | LL#421 | |||||
| BH00415 | Lawh-i-Sirr al-Tankis | 1690 | مطالب مذکوره در ساحت اقدس معروض افتاد هذا ما نزل من سمآء الأمر قد سمعنا ما نادیت به الله بما علمک من قبل... و اما در فقرهٴ عباراتی که منسوب بجناب شیخ احمد احسائی | The matters mentioned were presented to the Most Holy Court, and this is what hath been sent down from the heaven of Command: We have heard that which thou didst call upon God concerning what He taught thee aforetime... And as for the phrases attributed to Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsá'í [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#253x, , BLIB_Or15722.035, , NLI.32p144rx | ADM2#095 p.176x, MAS1.012x, MAS4.276x, ASAT4.088x, ASAT5.065x, NSS.098x | ADMS#199n77x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Personal instructions; Petitions to authorities; Praise and encouragement; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation | - | - | LL#243 | |||||
| BH00418 | 1670 | الحمد لله الذی تجلی بسلطان الاسماء علی من فی الانشاء اذا انجذبت الکائنات و | Praise be to God Who hath revealed Himself through the sovereignty of Names unto all who are in creation, whereupon all beings were drawn unto Him [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11097#005, , NLAI_BH4.080-088 | AVK3.420.14x, GHA.269x, MAS8.127x, ASAT5.313x | Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Praise and encouragement; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00421 | 1670 | Revealed on the Day of Ridván (Nuzzila fi al-Yawm ir-Ridván); Days of Remembrance | یا ملا الارض و السماء اسمعوا شهاده الله من لسان ربکم الابهی انه شهد لنفسه | O concourse of earth and heaven! Give ear to the testimony of God that proceedeth from the mouth of your Lord, the All-Glorious. He verily hath testified | BLIB_Or15692.019, , BLIB_Or15706.042, , BLIB_Or15714.031, | AVK2.022.14x, DWNP_v2#09 p.076-078x, TSBT.142, ASAT5.146x, AMB#16 | DOR#16, BLO_PT#077x | Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for protection; Presence of; reunion with God; Proclamation to Christians; Prophecy and fulfillment; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Twin Manifestations | - | - | ||||||
| BH00426 | 1650 | یا عندلیب علیک بهاء الله رب العالمین بلسان پارسی ندا مینمائیم انا نحب ان | O 'Andalib! Upon thee be the glory of God, the Lord of all worlds. In the Persian tongue do We address thee, verily We love to [3.5s] | INBA51:424, BLIB_Or15690.023, , BLIB_Or15728.187, | LHKM3.229, ASAT1.142x, PYB#163 p.03x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for steadfastness; obedience; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00433 | Lawh-i-Abdu'l-Vahhab | 1630 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Abdu'l-Vahhab | حمد مقدس از ادراک و عقول بساط قدس حضرت قیومی را لایق و سزاست که بنفس خود من | Sanctified praise, transcending minds and understanding, befitteth the holy court of that Self-Subsisting Lord Who, through His own Self [3.5s]... ...O ‘Abdu’l Vaḥḥáb! May the glory of God, the Almighty, the Bountiful, rest upon thee. Incline thine ear | UMich962.156x, MKI4523.212, , BN_suppl.1753.059-063 | BRL_DA#702, GWBP#081 p.105x, AVK1.120.02x, AVK3.303.13x, AVk3.463.01x, AVK4.284.11x, ISH.212, MJMM.160, RRT.143x, ASAT2.027x, ADH1.009x, OOL.B020 | GWB#081x, LOG#0686x, SW_v06#19 p.165x, SW_v09#06 p.080x, SW_v14#02 p.038-039x, BSC.226 #446-452x, HURQ.BH71 | Addresses a question on the soul and its continuance after death, alludes to the state of the souls in the next world while declaring that it cannot be adequately described, and declares that the whole truth of the matter has remained concealed for the sake of the protection of the human race. | Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Power of the Manifestation of God; Proofs for the existence; immortality of the soul; Soul; spirit after death; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB4.041, MMAH.145, GSH.176, LL#034 | Shares with BH00070 a passage on the soul after death, beginning: "Know thou of a truth that the soul, after its separation from the body, will continue to progress until it attaineth the presence of God" | |
| BH00434 | Suriy-i-Dhibh | 1620 | Surah of the Sacrifice (Súratu'dh-Dhibh) | Suratudh-Dhibh (Surah of the Sacrifice) | اقر لله علی عرش العظمه و الجلال بانی انا الله لا اله الا انا المهیمن | God hath proclaimed from the throne of grandeur and splendor, "I, verily, am the Lord God, and there is no other god beside Me | INBA18:001, INBA37:003, BLIB_Or15723.188, , BLIB_Or15737.027, | AQA4#079 p.100, AQA4a.029, AVK3.467.01x, MAS4.139ax, ASAT3.267x, OOL.B113 | BLO_PT#096 | Exhorts the recipient to look into the truth of the Cause of God with his own eyes and declares that Bahá’u’lláh has been offered up as a sacrifice at the hands of the wicked at every moment for the past twenty years. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Independent investigation of truth; reality; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | MMAH.222, GSH.113, LL#298 | ||
| BH00437 | Prayer for the Fast (Iftar) | 1620 | Obligatory Prayer and Fasting, The Importance of | سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک بالذین جعلت صیامهم فی حبک و رضائک و اظهار امرک | Exalted art Thou, O Lord my God! I beseech Thee by those whom Thou hast bidden to observe the Fast for the sake of Thy love | INBA38:304, INBA48:045, INBA33:087, INBA49:227, INBA92:284, BLIB_Or15739.094, | BRL_DA#242, TSBT.064, NFF5.055, ASAT4.488x, OOL.B090.02 | BRL_IOPF#3.06 | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Justice and wrath of God; Law of fasting; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for fasting; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | LL#271, LL#469 | ||||
| BH00443 | 1600 | Meetings, Bahá'í | امروز حدیقه ثنا باسم اولیای الهی مزین یعنی نفوسیکه ما عند الناس ایشانرا از ما | In this day is the garden of praise adorned with the name of the chosen ones of God - that is, those souls whom the possessions of men have not withheld from Us [3.5s]... ...Glory be unto Thee, O Thou Who art the God of the seen and the unseen,and ascendent on the throne of Thy name, the Well-Beloved!... The friends of God, one and all, are remembered by the Supreme Pen | INBA44:170b, BLIB_Or15717.009, | ADM3#079 p.095x, AVK3.142.01x, ASAT3.099x, ASAT4.274x | BRL_MEET.BH#01x, JHT_S#151x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Importance of reading the Sacred Writings; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||
| BH00447 | 1600 | شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و ان علیا قبل نبیل عبده و بهائه و قد قضی ایام العبد و ظهر البها | God beareth witness that there is no God but Him and that Ali-before-Nabil is His servant and His Glory. The days of servitude have passed and the Glory hath appeared [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15694.365, , ALIB.folder18p194 | ASAT4.088x | Consolation and comfort; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00454 | Lawh-i-Huriyyih (Tablet of the Maiden) | 1580 | Tablet of the Maiden | Lawh-i-Huriyyih (Tablet of the Maiden) | سبحانک اللهم یا الهی اذکرک حینئذ حین الذی استشرقت شمس الوهیتک عن افق سماء | Praise be unto Thee, O Lord, My God! I mention Thee at this moment when the Sun of Thy divinity is shining from the horizon of the Heaven | INBA48:036, INBA66:004, INBA92:001, BLIB_Or15714.058, , BLIB_Or15739.080, | AQA4#102 p.342, AQA4a.379, SFI16.008-012, ASAT3.134x, ASAT4.049x, OOL.B045 | BLO_PT#133, HURQ.BH20 | Describes a visionary encounter with the Maid of Heaven, who looks deeply within His soul and expires in sorrow upon perceiving the extent of His suffering. | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Mystical themes; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | ROB1.125, ROB3.223, BKOG.167, MMAH.211, GSH.020, LL#118 | ||
| BH00456 | 1580 | هذا کتاب نزل بالحق من سماء مشیه الله رب العالمین فلما ظهر ظهرت اسرار الکتب | This Book hath been sent down in truth from the heaven of God's Will, the Lord of the worlds, and when it appeared, the mysteries of the Sacred Books were made manifest [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15695.190b, | ASAT1.069x, ASAT3.240x, ASAT4.133x, YBN.165x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| 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. | |
| BH00460 | 1560 | الحمد لله بعنایت مالک قدر یوم قبل جناب ملا علی اکبر علیه بهاء الله بنفحات | Praise be unto God that, through the grace of the Lord of Power, on the preceding day, Mullá 'Alí-Akbar—upon him be the glory of God—was blessed with the fragrances [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11097#013, | BRL_DA#294, KHSH11.045, AYI2.381x, ASAT4.414x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Methods of teaching the Cause; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00478 | Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Maryam | 1510 | Bahá'u'lláh's Four Tablets to Maryam | Ziyarat-Namih-i-Maryam (Tablet of Visitation for Maryam) | ان یا قلم الاعلی مااخذک السرور فی ایام ربک العلی الاعلی لتغن به علی افنان | O Pen of Glory! Thou hast never been seized with transports of joy during the days of Thy Lord, the Exalted, the Most High | INBA38:311, INBA48:052, INBA49:260, BLIB_Or15714.119, , BLIB_Or15739.108, , NLAI_BH2.336, Majlis210461.104-111 | BRL_DA#568, TAHR.336-339, ASAT4.080x, AKHT1.093-094x, AKHT1.366, HYK.334x, OOL.B153 | LTDT.298-299x, BLO_PT#015, HURQ.BH85 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for protection; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Visitation Tablets | * | - | ROB1.013, GSH.205, LL#348 | Stephen Lambden states that this Tablet of Visitation was "apparently primarily written by Baha'u'llah for Tahirih and utilized also for various other eminent female Bahá'ís, including Maryam". | ||
| BH00483 | 1500 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | الحمد لمن نطق بعد تقدیسه عن اللسان و علم بعد تنزیهه عن البیان انه لهو الذی | Praise be unto Him Who, after His sanctification beyond all tongues, hath spoken, and Who, after His transcendence above all utterance, hath taught. He, verily, is the One Who [3.5s]... ...It hath been decreed that, if anyone should have a troubled dream and should thereby be grieved and saddened, he may recite this blessed verse… O Thou by Whose name the sea of joy moveth and the fragrance of happiness is wafted! | INBA07:128, INBA18:421, BLIB_Or15717.233, , Majlis210461.126x | ADM2#113 p.202x, MAS4.366bx, ASAT1.072x, PYK.033x | BRL_APBH#23x, RBB.123x, BSC.186 #270x, BP1929.012x | Sixth Choral Music Festival Concert, C. Wolcott | Consolation and comfort; Eulogies; reminiscences; Meaning; importance of dreams and visions; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | LL#189 | ||||
| BH00485 | 1500 | Selections from the Bahá'í Writings and from Shaykh Ahmad on the Seven Stages of Creation | حمد مقدس از ذکر و بیان بساط امنع اقدس حضرت مقصودیرا سزاست که عالم را بکلمه | Sanctified praise, transcending all mention and utterance, befitteth the Most Holy and Most Exalted Court of the Lord of all beings, Who through His Word hath created the world [3.5s]... ...Thou hast inquired about the tradition “Knowledge is twenty and seven letters. All that the Prophets have revealed are two letters thereof | MKI4523.264, | BRL_DA#527, ISH.264, ASAT4.395x, YIK.066-070 | BLO_PT#079.2.2x | Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Praise and encouragement; Realms of being; three realms; five realms; Suffering and imprisonment; Thankfulness; gratitude; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||
| BH00488 | 1500 | روحی لحبکم الفدآء دستخط آنمحبوب دل و جان رسید و در ملکوت بیان عرض شد فرمودند | My spirit be a sacrifice for your love! The handwriting of that Beloved of heart and soul arrived and was presented in the Kingdom of utterance, and He spoke forth [3.5s] | INBA22:258x | MJAN.174, AYBY.262ax, AYBY.262bx, ASAT4.275x, ASAT4.275x | Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Law of Huququ'llah; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00494 | 1490 | یا آقا بابا علیک بهاء الله الابهی هل تعلم من ینادیک قلم الله الاعلی و هل | O Aqa Baba! Upon thee be the Glory of God, the Most Glorious! Dost thou know who calleth thee? The Most Exalted Pen of God, and dost thou [3.5s] | INBA44:165, BLIB_Or15715.195bx, , BLIB_Or15724.109, | BRL_DA#046, ASAT2.087x | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00497 | 1480 | للّه الحمد بما ابتسم ثغر الاطمینان و ظهر لؤلؤ عرفان جمال الرّحمن عن صدف الایقان | Praise be unto God that the lips of certitude have smiled and from the shell of assurance hath appeared the pearl of the knowledge of the All-Merciful Beauty [3.5s]... ...The whole earth, is now in a state of pregnancy. The day is approaching when it will have yielded its noblest fruits, when from it will have sprung forth the loftiest trees | BLIB_Or11096#263x, , BLIB_Or15698.296, , BLIB_Or15720.291, , BLIB_Or15740.226, , NLAI_BH4.039.06-050.13, Majlis934.282-291 | BRL_DA#138, IQT.296, SFI03.157.07x, MAS8.041bx, ASAT5.074x | GPB.212x3x, GPB.217x2x, PDC.007x, PDC.074x2x, PDC.074-075x, PDC.191x, WOB.169x, HURQ.BH59x, HURQ.BH62x | Call to action; Contention and conflict; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | LL#390 | ||||||
| BH00505 | Lawh-i-Aqdas (Tablet to the Christians) | 1470 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas | Lawh-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Tablet) | هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی مامنعته سبحات الاسماء عن الله فاطر الارض و السما | This is an Epistle from Our presence unto him whom the veils of names have failed to keep back from God | INBA34:100, BLIB_Or15735.163, , CMB_F32.085, | AQA1#006, SFI16.025, NSR_1993.024ax, ASAT1.168x, ASAT4.185x, HYK.163, TBP#02, OOL.B026 | TB#02, COF.030ax, TDH#158.3x, GPB.210x8x, GPB.253x, GPB.396x, PDC.166x, PDC.166-167x, PDC.167-168x, PDC.168x, PDC.174x, WOB.078x, SW_v04#01 p.013, SW_v04#01 p.014-020, BSC.124 #049 | Ahdieh | Announces to an unnamed Christian Bahá’u’lláh’s revelation as the fulfilment of Christian prophetic expectations, reproaches the Christians in general and the clergy in particular for failing to recognize it, asks them to consider how Christ was similarly rejected by the people of His day, and concludes with a series of beatitudes reminiscent of the Sermon on the Mount. | Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Monasticism; asceticism; Mosaic imagery; Proclamation to Christians; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | * | * | ROB4.227 et al, BKOG.382, GPB.209, WOB.104, MMAH.165, GSH.164-168, LL#060 | |
| BH00512 | Lawh-i-Tawhid | 1450 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Translation List | Lawh-i-Tawhid (Tablet of Divine Unity) | حمد مقدس از عرفان ممکنات و منزه از ادراک مدرکات ملیک عز بی مثالی را سزا است | Praise be to God, the All-Possessing, the King of incomparable glory, a praise which is immeasurably above | INBA38:012, INBA65:167, INBA35:058b, INBA36:396, NLI.32p020v, PR23.039b-041b | BRL_DA#716, GWBP#026 p.047bx, AVK1.113b.02x, AVK2.013.17x, AVK2.072.02x, ZYN.056, MJMM.307, DWNP_v1#01 p.003-007, UAB.006bx, UAB.008ax, DLS.070x, ASAT2.104x, AHB_109BE #07 p.002x, PYM.335-341, OOL.B081 | GWB#026x, WOB.113x2x, ADMS#013 | Discourse on the transcendence of God, Whose signs have pervaded the entire creation and Who is known only through His Manifestations, Who appear from age to age and call the people to recognize His cause as one would recognize a friend: that is, by his own self and not by the garments he may be wearing on any given day. | Creation of the world; Manifestation of God as mirror; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | - | GSH.184, LL#250 | ||
| BH00513 | Suriy-i-Dhabih (= Lawh-i-Dhabih) | 1450 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Suriy-i-Dhabih (Tablets to Dhabih) | روحی و نفسی لک الفداء کتاب مبارک که بطراز حب محبوب عالمیان مزین بود این خادم | My spirit and soul be a sacrifice unto Thee! The blessed Book, which was adorned with the ornament of love for the Best-Beloved of all worlds, reached this servant [3.5s]... ...The Pen of Revelation, O Dhabih, hath, in most of the divinely-revealed Tablets, recorded these words | BLIB_Or11096#242x, , BLIB_Or15698.323, , BLIB_Or15720.315, , BLIB_Or15740.246x, | BRL_DA#141, GWBP#115 p.155, AVK3.269.13x, AVK3.270.08x, IQT.323, GHA.333x, ASAT1.131x, OOL.B112.1 | GWB#115x, ADJ.024x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.077x, GPB.099x, PDC.119-120x | Summons the Bahá’ís to upright conduct, obedience to worldly authority, and high moral character and warns that the greatest harm that can be inflicted upon Bahá’u’lláh’s Cause is not His imprisonment and persecution but the misdeeds of those who claim to be His followers. | Bribery and corruption; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Obedience to and respect for government authority; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | * | - | ROB2.412, LL#082, LL#297 | ||
| BH00534 | 1400 | الحمد لله الذی تفرد بالامر و توحد بالحکم و انزل من سماء الاحدیه حکم الحکمه و | All praise be unto God Who is single in His command and unique in His decree, and Who hath sent down from the heaven of oneness the precepts of wisdom [3.5s]... ...I beseech Thee, Who art the Lord of the entire creation and the Edifier of all that is come into being, by Him Who is the Revelator of the divine verses | BLIB_Or15727b.108, | ADM3#093 p.106x, AVK3.020.09x, AVK3.116.03x, NNY.150-152x, MAS8.106ax, AYI2.305x, RHQM1.430-430 (521x) (320x), ASAT3.210x, ASAT5.250x, YMM.425x | JHT_S#167x | Knowledge; recognition of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ROB4.089b, LL#006 | ||||||
| BH00537 | Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Siyyidu'sh-Shuhada | 1380 | Tablet of Visitation for Imám Husayn (Lawh-i-Zíyárat-Namih-i-Imám Husayn); Translation List; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Ziyarat-Namih-i-Imam Husayn (Tablet of Visitation for Imam Husayn) | شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و الذی اتی انه هو الموعود فی الکتب و الصحف و | God testifieth that there is no God but Him! And He that hath appeared is the One promised in all the Books and sacred Scrolls…. Glory be unto Thee O my God, O Thou the Lord of Manifestation, Whose shed the glory of His effulgence upon the branch of Sinai! | INBA65:001, BLIB_Or15696.175bx, , BLIB_Or15714.112, | BRL_DA#158, ADM2#010 p.024x, MJMM.202, AYT.235, ASAT3.100x, DLH3.422x, OOL.B154 | BRL_ATBH#59x, BLO_PT#149, ADMS#003x, JHT_S#173x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Imam Husayn; Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for martyrs; Visitation Tablets | * | - | ROB3.303, MMAH.226, GSH.144, LL#347, LL#350 | Tablet of Visitation for Imam Husayn. | ||
| BH00552 | 1350 | هذا کتاب نزل بالحق من سماء التی کانت علی العالمین محیطا و ینزل منها فیکل حین | This is the Book sent down in truth from the heaven that hath encompassed all the worlds, and from which there descendeth at every moment that which hath been ordained [3.5s]... ...Wert thou to hear with Mine ear, thou wouldst hear how Ali [the Bab] bewaileth Me in the presence of the Glorious Companion | INBA92:218x, BLIB_Or15694.537, , ALIB.folder18p137-142 | ASAT4.157x | PDC.013-014x | Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Exhortations and counsels; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Personal instructions; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||
| BH00553 | 1350 | هذا کتاب ینطق بالحق و یلقی فی القلوب من اسرار الله المهیمن العزیز القدیر و | This is a Book that proclaimeth the truth and casteth into hearts the mysteries of God, the All-Possessing, the Mighty, the All-Powerful [3.5s] | INBA36:117, INBA71:283b, BLIB_Or15696.164b, , BLIB_Or15738.091, | ASAT2.112x, ASAT4.438x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| 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 | - | - | |||||||
| BH00565 | 1330 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | هذا کتاب من لدی المظلوم الی من تمسک بالعلوم لعل یخرق حجاب الاکبر و یتوجه الی | This is a Book from Him Who is Wronged unto him that hath clung to learning, that perchance he may rend asunder the most great veil and turn towards [3.5s]... ...Ponder awhile. What is it that prompted, in every Dispensation, the peoples of the earth to shun the Manifestation of the All-Merciful? | INBA35:053, INBA66:110, BLIB_Or11096#007, , BLIB_Or15698.231, , BLIB_Or15720.228, , BLIB_Or15740.176, | BRL_DA#666, GWBP#035 p.060x, ADM1#005 p.018x, IQT.231, AYI1.329x, MJMM.232, DWNP_v5#06 p.002-003x, UAB.002bx, ASAT3.074x, ASAT3.131x, ASAT4.146x, ASAT4.429x, YMM.404x, NSS.125x | GWB#035x, JHT_S#100x | Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Suffering; rejection of Christ; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | LL#377, LL#423 | |||||
| BH00586 | 1300 | یوم یوم الله است و کل ما سواه بر هستی و عظمت و اقتدار او گواه بعضی شناخته و | This is the Day of God, and all else besides Him beareth witness to His Being, His Grandeur and His Power. Some have recognized [3.5s]... ...Regard thou the one true God as One Who is apart from, and immeasurably exalted above, all created things. | INBA39:045, BLIB_Or11096#014, , BLIB_Or15698.155, , BLIB_Or15720.152, , BLIB_Or15740.119, | BRL_DA#665, AVK1.015.13x, AVK2.021.02x, AVK3.386.15x, IQT.155, RSBB.100, MAS8.108cx, ASAT5.285x | PDC.133x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Knowledge; recognition of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||
| BH00587 | Lawh-i-Siyyid Mihdiy-i-Dahaji | 1290 | Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas | Lawh-i-Siyyid-i-Mihdiy-i-Dahaji (Tablet to Siyyid Mihdiy-i-Dahaji) | ان یا اسمی ان احمد الله بما جعلناک امطار الفضل لما زرعناه فی الاراضی الطیبه | O my Name! Yield thou praise unto God for having graciously chosen thee to be a shower of bounty for that which We have sown | BLIB_Or15710.097, , BLIB_Or15738.100, , Majlis934.133-147 | BRL_DA#103, AVK3.468.12x, AVK3.470.15x, AVK4.480ax, ASAT5.206x, ASAT5.256x, TBP#13, OOL.B163 | TB#13, GPB.216x | T. Ellis, L. Harley | Praises a prominent teacher of the Bahá’í Faith, declares that the complete victory of the Cause of God will be achieved through speech and utterance, and stipulates the prerequisites of effective speech: that it possess moderation and refinement, be delivered with tact and wisdom, and have penetrating influence, all of which require detachment and purity of heart on the part of the speaker. | Methods of teaching the Cause; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Stories; anecdotes; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The power of words; of speech | - | - | ROB4.236, LL#245 | |
| BH00597 | Lawh-i-Ashraf | 1270 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablet to Ashraf | Lawh-i Ashraf (Tablet to Ahsraf) | ان یا اشرف اسمع ما یلقیک لسان القدم و لاتکن من الغافلین و ان استماع نغمه من نغمات | O Ashraf, listen carefully to what the Tongue of the Eternal has to say. Any one of the melodies of your Lord would be sufficient to attract the hearts | INBA83:216, BLIB_Or15702.276, , NLAI_BH2.308, ALIB.folder18p167 | BRL_DA#722, GWBP#052 p.075x, AVK3.088.11x, MJMM.211, ASAT1.123x, ASAT1.140x, ASAT2.065x, ASAT5.347x, OOL.B027 | GWB#052x, BLO_PT#171 | A summons to the recognition of Bahá’u’lláh, naming the proofs of His cause as His own self, His revelation, and His words, and admonishing the Bábís who had not yet embraced it. | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Personal instructions; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | ROB2.230, ROB2.120, GSH.186, LL#063 | Quoted in the Lawh-i-Istintaq, BH00015. | |
| BH00603 | 1260 | الحمد لله نعمت آیات ظاهر و مائده بینات نازل و افئده و قلوب صافیه بطراز الفت | Praise be unto God! The bounties of His verses are manifest, the heavenly feast of clear proofs hath descended, and pure hearts and souls are adorned with the ornament of fellowship [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15701.081, | BRL_DA#526, ASAT3.230x | Call to action; Consolation and comfort; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for victory and requital; triumph of the Cause; Predictions and prophecies; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00604 | Suriy-i-Zubur | 1260 | جمال الرحمن عن افق الرضوان خلف سحاب الاحزان قد کان بالحق مشروقا و ان یرفع السحاب | The Beauty of the All-Merciful hath risen from the horizon of the Divine Good-Pleasure, veiled behind clouds of sorrow, and verily these clouds shall be lifted [3.5s] | INBA83:132, BLIB_Or03114.039r, , BLIB_Or15696.124b, , BLIB_Or15702.070, , BLIB_Or15737.121, , NLAI_BH1.390, ALIB.folder18p147-152 | ASAT1.125x, TISH.269-273, OOL.B142 | Explains the circumstances of His withdrawal from the community, states that He has as a result hidden His reality behind the veils, and calls the recipient to proclaim and defend Bahá’u’lláh’s cause both in person and in his writings, assuring him that divine confirmations will attend his efforts. | Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | LL#331 | |||||
| BH00643 | 1180 | حمد مقدس از ذکر و بیان و منزه از ادراک اهل امکان مقصود عالمیان را لایق و سزاست | All praise, sanctified beyond mention and utterance and exalted above the comprehension of all contingent beings, befitteth the Desire of all worlds [3.5s] | INBA28:243 | AVK3.132.03x, ASAT3.093x | Call to action; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Praise and encouragement; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00647 | Lawh-i-Pisar-'Amm (Tablet to the Cousin) | 1170 | Tablet to the Cousin (Lawh-i-Pisar-'Amm); River of Life, The; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Pisar-Amm (Tablet to the Cousin) | ای پسر عم حمد کن خدا را که این نسبت کبری قطع نشد و سبقت گرفتی از جمیع | O son of My paternal uncle! Render praise unto God that the ties of this most great kinship have not been severed. | BLIB_Or03116.082, , BLIB_Or11096#019, , BLIB_Or15698.174, , BLIB_Or15720.171, , BLIB_Or15740.132, , Majlis934.308-318 | BRL_DA#156, AVK3.110.02x, AVK3.189.12x, AVK3.368.06x, IQT.174, AYI1.339x, UAB.044ax, IQN.128x, ASAT4.503x, OOL.B066 | BRL_ATBH#53x, ROL.050-051x | Praises the recipient, a paternal cousin, for his faithfulness; remonstrates with another relative for remaining distant, asking him whether it is better to die in his bed or in the path of God; and calls the people of a certain village not to grieve over their suffering and not to engage in rebellion and revolt but to eschew dissension and strife and to be characterized with divine attributes. | Fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf]; Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | * | - | ROB3.216, MMAH.139, GSH.184, LL#209, LL#427 | ||
| BH00670 | 1140 | هذا کتاب من نقطه الاولی و بهائه الی الذی سمی فی جبروت الاسما بالکاظم و کان من | This is an epistle from the Primal Point and His Glory unto him who hath been named, in the dominion of names, Káẓim, and who was [3.5s] | INBA74:001 | AYBY.010b, ASAT5.235x, YMM.358x | Prophecy and fulfillment; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00687 | Qad Ihtaraqa'l-Mukhlisun (The Fire Tablet) | 1120 | Fire Tablet; Bahá'í Prayers [2002] | Lawh-i-Qad-Ihtaraqal-Mukhlisun (Fire Tablet) | ان یا مهدی ان انظر من افق البدآء انوار وجه ربک العلی الابهی ثم استمع الندآء | Indeed the hearts of the sincere are consumed in the fire of separation: Where is the gleaming of the light of Thy Countenance, O Beloved of the worlds? | INBA33:147x, INBA30:124, INBA81:192, BLIB_Or11095#009, , BLIB_Or15738.124, | BRL_DA#335, AHM.169, TSBT.219, MAS4.236ax, NFF2.007x, ASAT1.064x, ASAT5.255x, ABMK.055, OOL.B091 | BPRY.312, BLO_PT#036, BLO_PT#037, BSTW#411 | Ahdieh, S. and S. Toloui-Wallace, B. Lisbeth, A. Yanch, Gyenyame, T. Ellis | Written in rhythmic prose and taking the form of a conversation between Bahá’u’lláh and God in verses reminiscent of the biblical Book of Job, Bahá’u’lláh calls to God in His suffering and in God’s apparent absence and receives God’s answer as to the wisdom of this suffering. | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | * | * | ROB3.226, BKOG.321, MMAH.115, GSH.188, LL#211 | |
| BH00698 | Lawh-i-Manikchi Sahib | 1110 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Baha'u'llah's Tablet to Mánikchí Sáhib; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tabernacle of Unity, The | Lawh-i-Manikchi Sahib (Tablets to Manikchi Sahib); - Tabernacle of Unity (book) | ستایش بیننده پاینده را سزا است که بشبنمی از دریای بخشش خود آسمان هستی را بلند | Praise be to the all-perceiving, the ever-abiding Lord Who, from a dewdrop out of the ocean of His grace, hath reared the firmament of existence | INBA35:116, BLIB_Or15715.120b, , BLIB_Or15722.092, , BN_suppl.1753.118-123 | BRL_TBUP#1, GWBP#106 p.138x, AVK3.095.19x, AVK3.104.08x, AVK3.169.06x, AVK3.205.03x, ZYN.236, MJMM.259, RSBB.175, YARP1.019, DWNP_v5#02-3 p.001-002x, UAB.021ax, UAB.027ax, UAB.032ax, UAB.035ax, UAB.046cx, DRD.002, DLS.301x, NVJ.030, ASAT1.009x, ASAT4.014x, ASAT4.131x, ASAT5.041x, PYB#066 p.03x, ADH1.009x, AKHA_109BE #01 p.002x, AKHA_119BE #08 p.ax, PYM.111ax, ANDA#79 p.12x, ANDA#79 p.16x, OOL.B056 | TBU#1, GWB#106x, SW_v01#01 p.005, SW_v03#02 p.003, SW_v07#18 p.186, BLO_PT#019, BSC.130 #050 | Parrish & Toppano, S. Toloui-Wallace, M. Sparrow, The Joburg Baha'i Choir, Sahar & Hoda | Addresses a number of theological questions by implying that the answers lie in the realm of action, in the process elucidating several central Bahá’í teachings: that the Manifestations should be regarded as ‘divine physicians’ prescribing the remedy from age to age in accordance with the disease, that the unity of mankind is the remedy for the ills of today, that one should be ‘anxiously concerned with the needs of the age’ in which one lives and centre one’s deliberations ‘on its exigencies and requirements’, and that words should be matched with deeds and that both should be motivated by purity of intention. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Procession; appearance of the Word from God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity; Words vs deeds | * | * | ROB3.270, GSH.174, LL#160, LL#176 | |
| BH00718 | Lawh-i-'Ali | 1090 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-'Ali (Tablet to 'Ali) | یا علی از یومی که لوح معهود که به صیحه و ساعه و صور نامیده شده ارسال گشت مشرکین | O Ali! From the day when that promised Tablet - which hath been designated as the Cry, the Hour and the Trumpet - was dispatched, the ungodly [3.5s]... ...The voice of the Divine Herald, proceeding out of the throne of God, declareth: O ye My loved ones! Suffer not the hem of My sacred vesture | BLIB_Or11096#260, , BLIB_Or15698.290, , BLIB_Or15710.051, , BLIB_Or15720.286x, , BLIB_Or15740.222x, , Majlis934.273-281 | BRL_DA#136, GWBP#100 p.132x, AVK3.473.02x, IQT.290, ASAT4.264x, OOL.B164 | GWB#100x, LOG#0419x, ADJ.025x2x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.059x, MBW.117x, WOB.163x | Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf]; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Work as worship | - | - | LL#045 | |||
| BH00721 | 1080 | رقیمه آنجناب رسید از نفحات آن کمال بهجت و سرور دست داد انشاء الله در کل احیان... قل قد حرم علیکم الزینا و اللواط | The letter of that honored personage hath been received. From its gentle breeze, utmost joy and felicity were vouchsafed. God willing, in all seasons... ...Ye are forbidden to commit adultery, sodomy and lechery. Avoid them, O concourse of the faithful. By the righteousness of God! Ye have been called into being to purge the world from the defilement of evil passions | INBA22:155, NLAI_BH4.088-095 | AvK3.513.12x, GHA.338x, ASAT1.077x | COC#0148x | Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Muhammad; Islam; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Unchastity and adultery | - | - | |||||||
| BH00729 | Lawh-i-Ghulamu'l-Khuld (Tablet of the Immortal Youth) | 1070 | Days of Remembrance | Lawh-i-Ghulamul-Khuld (Tablet of the Immortal Youth) | قد فتحت ابواب الفردوس و طلع غلام القدس بسلطان مبین فیا بشری هذا غلام الخلد | Lo, the gates of Paradise were unlocked, and the hallowed Youth came forth bearing a serpent plain. Rejoice! This is the immortal Youth | INBA36:464, BLIB_Or15706.093, BLIB_Or15706.139, BLIB_Or15714.014, | AQA7#414 p.203, AYT.092, ASAT4.401x, AKHA_124BE #04-05 p.hx, OOL.B038, AMB#27 | DOR#27, BLO_PT#127 | Narrates in mystical language the appearance of the Immortal Youth (Bahá’u’lláh), whose beauty is compared to that of Joseph, who is unveiled by the Maid of Heaven and who summons His lovers unto Him. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love of God; Mystical themes; Pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God | * | * | ROB1.213, MMAH.125, GSH.032, LL#090 | ||
| BH00730 | 1070 | هذا کتاب من العبد الی الذینهم آمنوا بالله و آیاته و کانوا من الذینهم بایات الله لمهتدین | This is an epistle from the servant unto them that have believed in God and His signs, and were among those who are guided by His verses [3.5s] | BLIB_Or03114.001rx, , NLAI_BH2.316, PR03.256a21-257a28 | ASAT2.055x | Consolation and comfort; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00739 | Lawh-i-Sahab (Tablet of the Cloud) | 1060 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablet of the Clouds (Lawḥ-i-Saḥáb), The | Lawh-i-Sahab (Tablet of the Clouds) | هذا کتاب من لدی الرحمن الی الذین اقبلوا الی قبله من فی السموات و الارضین | This is a Book from before the Most Merciful unto those who have turned their faces towards Him Who is the Qiblih of all who dwell in the heavens and on earth [3.5s]... ...My captivity can bring on Me no shame. Nay, by My life, it conferreth on Me glory. That which can make Me ashamed is the conduct of such of My followers as profess to love Me | INBA34:109, LEID.Or4970 item 10, , Majlis934.125.02-126.09x | BRL_DA#073, GWBP#060 p.083ax, AQA1#008, MAS4.168ax, MAS4.364bx, MAS8.107bx, ASAT4.051x, ASAT4.132x, ANDA#72 p.03x, OOL.B075 | GWB#060x, TN.042x, ADJ.032x, GPB.190x, PDC.135-136x, PDC.139x, WOB.105x, JHT_B#002 | Proclamatory tablet mentioning Bahá’u’lláh’s recent summons to Náṣiru’d-Dín Sháh and Napoleon III, extolling the prophetic significance of the Holy Land and His banishment there, and exhorting His followers to proclaim His message with wisdom, deeds, and upright conduct, describing them as those who would pass through a valley of pure gold ‘aloof as a cloud’. | Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Chastisement and requital; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Predictions and prophecies; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | MMAH.167, GSH.179, LL#228 | ||
| 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 | ||
| BH00781 | 1020 | Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | کتابت بمنظر اکبر وارد و آنچه از آیات الهیه سوال نموده بودید عبد حاضر لدی | Your letter reached the Most Great Being, and the servant in attendance, on behalf of the Countenance, responds to what you have asked about the divine verses | BLIB_Or11096#026, , BLIB_Or15722.046, , NLAI_BH3.159 | BRL_DA#550, AVK2.105.09x, MAS1.008.2x, MAS1.010x, ASAT4.089, ASAT5.036x, NSS.206x | BRL_ATBH#35x, KSHK#16x | Grammar and orthography; Grammatical and other discrepancies in the Sacred Writings; Law of inheritance; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||
| BH00786 | 1020 | یا جواد علیک بهائی لازال ذکرت در ساحت اقدس بوده و از قلم اعلی در صحیفه حمرا | O Javád! Upon thee be My glory! Ever hath thy mention been before the Most Holy Court, and by the Most Exalted Pen upon the crimson scroll [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15690.242, , BLIB_Or15699.134, | ASAT3.049x, ASAT4.336x | Praise and encouragement; Prayer for teaching; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00795 | 1010 | یا طبیبی قد احببناک و ذکرناک فی الواح شتی ان ربک مع عباده الذین اقبلوا الیه و | O My Physician! We have loved thee and made mention of thee in divers Tablets. Verily thy Lord is with His servants who have turned unto Him [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#256, , BLIB_Or15722.042x, | AVK3.012.09x, AVK3.054.03x, ASAT3.140x, ASAT4.282x | Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for martyrs; Suffering and imprisonment; Suicide | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00796 | 1000 | Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | الحمد لله از تجلیات انوار نیر اعظم افق عالم روشن و منیر است و فیوضات رحمانیه | Praise be to God! Through the effulgent rays of the Supreme Luminary, the horizon of the world is illumined and resplendent, and the outpourings of divine grace [3.5s] | BLIB_Or03116.123, , BLIB_Or11096#017, , BLIB_Or15698.240, , BLIB_Or15720.236, , BLIB_Or15740.183, | BRL_DA#276, IQT.240, HNU.390x, ASAT4.106x, PYB#235 p.37x, DLH3.421x | BRL_ATBH#18x | Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Exhortations and counsels; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||
| BH00814 | 1000 | Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá | هذا کتاب من هذا العبد الحاضر لدی العرش الی الذینهم آمنوا بالله و عصمهم | This is a Book from this servant who standeth before the Throne unto them that have believed in God and whom He hath protected [3.5s]... ...For in this Manifestation, God – glorified be His mention – hath willed that most of the believers and the sincere ones should give utterance to Verses; whence in the next Dispensation We shall ordain a different matter as proof | MAS4.092x, RHQM1.320-321 (391x) (236x), ASAT3.192-193x | BLO_sazedj#14x, JBS#24.3.063x, RKS.136-138x, RKS.098x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power of the Manifestation of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Word of God and human limitations | - | - | |||||||
| BH00827 | Lawh-i-Haft Pursish (Tablet of the Seven Questions) | 990 | Tabernacle of Unity, The | Lawh-i-Haft Pursish (Tablet of Seven Questions); - Tabernacle of Unity (book) | ستایش پاک یزدانرا سزاوار که از روشنی آفتاب بخشش جهانرا روشن نمود از با بحر | All praise be to the sanctified Lord Who hath illumined the world through the splendours of the Daystar of His grace. | BLIB_Or15712.229, , IOL, , MKI4523.231, , BN_suppl.1753.063-068 | BRL_TBUP#3, AVK1.300x, AVK2.229.03x, ZYN.246, ISH.231, MJMM.240, YARP1.008, DWNP_v6#03 p.003x, UAB.034cx, DRD.065, TSBT.234bx, AQMJ1.110ax, ASAT1.039x, PYB#166 p.03x, ABMK.063, OOL.B040 | TBU#3, GPB.211x, GPB.230x, PDC.126x, PDC.126-127x, BLO_PT#119 | almunajat.com [item 29] | Briefly addresses a follower of Zoroastrian background, answering seven questions regarding the problem of conflicting religious claims, declaring that His religion is ‘the religion of forbearance’ and that it ‘embraceth all faiths and all religions’, and affirming ‘the reality of Paradise and Hell, for reward and punishment require their existence’. | Day of Resurrection; Judgement; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Existence; immortality of the human soul; The human soul; The human soul at midpoint of creation; the isthmus [barzakh]; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures; Transcendence; unknowability of God | * | * | ROB3.272, BKOG.009, MMAH.221, GSH.172, LL#096, LL#257 | |
| BH00845 | Suratu'llah | 970 | Surah of God | Súratu'lláh (Surah of God) | ان یا علی بعد نبیل اسمع ندآء ربک حین الذی یرید ان یخرج عن بینکم بما اکتسبت | O Muhammad-`Ali, hearken to this proclamation from thy Lord, at a time when He desireth to depart out from among ye by reason of what the hands of the oppressors have wrought | BLIB_Or15723.162, , BLIB_Or15737.001, | AQA4#076 p.068, AQA4a.016, ASAT2.111x, OOL.B102 | BLO_PT#091, HURQ.BH25 | Declares the divinity of His station, rebukes the followers of the Báb for plotting against Him, and announces His temporary retirement from the community. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | ROB1.245, MMAH.153, GSH.060, LL#316 | ||
| BH00869 | 940 | ای عبدالغنی بشنو ندای غنی متعال را بلسان ابدع احلی الیوم یومی است که باید هر | O 'Abdu'l-Ghani! Hearken unto the call of the All-Glorious, the Most Exalted, in the most wondrous and sweetest tongue. This is the Day wherein every [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#003, , BLIB_Or15722.141, | AQA5#036 p.045, MAS8.044ax, ASAT3.091x, ASAT4.049x, ASAT5.075x, AKHA_120BE #12 p.ax, AKHA_121BE #04 p.ax | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Collection; ordering of the Sacred Writings; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Praise and encouragement; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00873 | 940 | مکتوب آنجناب که بعبد حاضر لدی العرش نوشته بودید تلقاء وجه حاضر از قبل لوح | Your missive, which you had addressed to this servant present before the Throne, was laid before His countenance, ere the Tablet [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#020, , BLIB_Or15710.059, , BLIB_Or15738.120, | ASAT5.350x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Business; financial; property matters; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00889 | 920 | Days of Remembrance | لک الحمد یا الهی بما جمعت احبائک فی عیدک الاعظم الذی فیه تجلیت باسمائک الحسنی | Praise be to Thee, O my God, for having gathered together Thy loved ones to celebrate Thy Most Great Festival | AYT.313, ASAT4.401x, OOL.B202, AMB#17 | DOR#17, DAS.1915-04-29n | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; Hospitality; Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ROB3.053, LL#223 | ||||||
| BH00893 | 910 | ای یوسف از عرف قمیص رحمانی محروم مشاهده میشوی عجب در آنست که چشم یعقوب | O Joseph! I behold thee deprived of the fragrance of the divine Raiment. Strange indeed it is that the eye of Jacob [3.5s] | INBA35:027b, BLIB_Or03116.105, , BLIB_Or11096#032, | MUH3.381-382x, ASAT5.350x, OOL.B189x | Belief and denial; Call to action; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Prayer for spiritual recognition; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH00902 | 910 | Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | هذا کتاب من لدی الله مالک الاسماء لاهل البهاء الذین لایتکلمون الا بما نطق | This is a Book from God, the Possessor of Names, unto the people of Bahá who speak not except that which hath been uttered [3.5s] | INBA51:149, BLIB_Or15738.068, , KB_620:142-143 | BRL_DA#404, LHKM1.065, MAS8.022bx, MUH3.270x, ASAT4.302x | BRL_ATBH#13x | Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Chastisement and requital; Duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Prayer for forgiveness | - | - | ||||||
| BH00903 | 910 | هذا کتاب یهدی الی الحق و یذکر الناس بایام الروح و یبشرهم برضوان الله المهیمن | This is a Book that guideth unto truth, remindeth the people of the days of the Spirit, and beareth unto them the glad-tidings of God's all-compelling Paradise [3.5s] | INBA36:025, INBA71:182, BLIB_Or15696.171c, | BRL_DA#365, LHKM2.032, RSBB.018, ASAT2.194x | Avoidance of Covenant-Breakers; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | LL#378 | |||||||
| BH00937 | 880 | و معلوم احبای الهی بوده در ایام توقف در ارض سر الواح منیعه | Be it known unto the beloved of God that during the days of sojourn in the Land of Mystery, exalted Tablets were revealed [3.5s] | MAS4.248, ASAT5.186x, MSHR4.266x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Predictions and prophecies; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||||
| BH00948 | Lawh-i-Aqa Siyyid Hasan | 870 | قد ارتفع ندآء الله عن یمین الرضوان بندآء الذی یسمعه حقایق کل الاشیاء بین الارض | The call of God hath been raised from the right hand of the Ridván with such a call as is heard by the realities of all things upon the earth [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15702.100, , NLAI_BH2.122, ALIB.folder18p269 | AQA4#097 p.328, AQA4a.123, MAS4.139bx, ASAT4.023x | Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | LL#057 | ||||||
| BH00958 | 860 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | لم یزل نفحات قدسی از رضوان عنایت الهی در وزیدن بوده و لایزال روایح عز معنوی | From time immemorial have the breezes of holiness wafted from the Paradise of divine favor, and unto eternity shall the fragrances of spiritual glory continue to be diffused [3.5s]... ...The purpose of God in creating man hath been, and will ever be, to enable him to know his Creator and to attain His Presence | INBA36:080, INBA71:241 | BRL_DA#130, GWBP#029 p.053x, AVK1.333.010x, MJMM.368, DRD.139, ASAT5.061x, ASAT5.262x, AKHA_134BE #18 p.691 | GWB#029x, DWN_v3#12 p.031-032x | Growth of the Cause; Knowledge; recognition of God; Nearness and remoteness; Power of the Manifestation of God; Purpose; goal of creation; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | LL#430 | |||||
| BH00970 | Lawh-i-Laylatu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Sacred Night - Adrianople) | 850 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh Laylat al-Quds (Tablet of the Sacred Night, Edirne) | سبحانک اللهم یا الهی تشهد و تری کیف ابتلیت بین عبادک بعد الذی مااردت الا الخضوع | The Most Great Name beareth Me witness! How sad if any man were, in this Day, to rest his heart on the transitory things of this world! | INBA81:021x, BLIB_Or15698.213, , BLIB_Or15720.209, , BLIB_Or15740.162, , Majlis934.127-133x | BRL_DA#715, GWBP#147 p.203x, AVK2.027.04x, AVK3.240x, IQT.213, MJMM.227, HDQI.027ax, ASAT3.212x, ASAT4.015x, ASAT5.248x, ASAT5.284x, AHB_107BE #09 p.180x, AKHA_105BE #06 p.001x, AKHA_108BE #08 p.002x, OOL.B001bx | GWB#147x, ADJ.083x, SW_v07#19 p.191, SW_v10#01 p.001, BSC.133 #051x | Calls on His followers to be closely united and to associate with their neighbours ‘with faces joyous and beaming with light’. | Being a source of light; guidance; Call to unity; prohibition of disunity; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | * | - | ROB2.164, ROB2.188, GSH.209, LL#147 | Sometimes referred to in the plural, Alváḥ-i-Laylatu’l-Quds. Not to be confused with Inventory #BH00915. | |
| BH00984 | 830 | Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | سؤالاتیکه در احکام الهیه نموده بودید عرض شد از مطلع عنایت این جواب مشرق و | The questions which thou didst ask concerning the divine ordinances were submitted, and from the Dayspring of loving-kindness this answer hath shone forth [3.5s]... ...A number of people in various regions are at present illumined with the light of faith, but with the exception of a few, they have not been privileged as yet to observe the injunctions | INBA73:061, BLIB_Or15722.127b, , NLAI_BH4.100-105 | BRL_DA#757, AVK3.116.12x, GHA.133.10x, ASAT4.170x, ASAT4.170x, MSBH5.413bx | BRL_ATBH#02x, COC#1120x, LOG#1039x | House of Justice; Law of Huququ'llah; Law of inheritance; Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas | - | - | ||||||
| BH00994 | Suriy-i-Ism | 830 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá | Suriy-i-Ism | ان یا اسمی اسمع ندآء الله عن مطلع کل اللسان بانی انا الله ربک و رب کل شیء و | O My Name! Hearken unto the Call of God from the Dawning-Place of every tongue: "Verily, I am God, thy Lord and the Lord of all things." [3.5s]... ...Say: Deliver your souls, O people, from the bondage of self, and purify them from all attachment to anything besides Me… Intone, O My servant, the verses of God | INBA83:124, BLIB_Or15702.051, , ALIB.folder18p214 | BRL_DA#721, GWBP#136 p.189x, AVK2.168.20x, MAS4.026ax, MAS4.045x, MAS8.120bx, ASAT1.242x, ASAT4.156x, PYK.018, OOL.B125 | GWB#136x, ADJ.025x, ADJ.031x, ADJ.032x, BLO_sazedj#12x, HURQ.BH37 | MJ Cyr, L. Slott, Seals & Crofts, MANA, Soulrise Melodies, Soulrise Melodies, L. Dely & M. Congo, K. Key, Sheyda Peyman, Ina Nes | Calls the recipient to cast all names and designations behind him and announce the joyful tidings; states that between God and the creatures there is a ladder with three steps: this world, the hereafter, and ‘the Kingdom of Names’; calls the people to deliver their souls from ‘the bondage of self ’; invites the recipient to ‘intone the verses of God’, promising that the sweetness of their melody will cause ‘the heart of every righteous man to throb’; and counsels the people to truthfulness, generosity, and purity of heart. | Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | LL#143, LL#310 | |
| BH00997 | 830 | ای دوستان جمال رحمن من غیر ستر و کتمان از افق اکوان مشرق و لائح بشانیکه احدی | O friends! The Beauty of the All-Merciful hath shone forth from the horizon of creation, manifest and unconcealed, in such wise that none [3.5s] | INBA81:165, NLAI_BH1.123, NLAI_BH2.049 | BRL_DA#317, MAS4.021cx, MAS4.022bx, MAS4.124ax, MAS4.138bx, ASAT4.192x | Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01027 | Lawh-i-Tabib | 810 | اینکه در باره انقلاب و اختلاف ایران مذکور نموده بودید هذا ما وعدنا به فی | That which thou didst mention concerning the upheaval and dissension in Persia - this is what We had promised in [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#257, , BLIB_Or15698.318, , BLIB_Or15720.311, , BLIB_Or15740.242, , NLI.32p135v | BRL_DA#135, AVK4.438x, AVK4.477dx, IQT.318, SFI03.157.19x, MAS4.034x, ASAT2.112x, ASAT4.051x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Petitions to authorities; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ROB3.200, ROB3.201, ROB3.351-2, LL#371 | ||||||
| BH01043 | 800 | این بسی معلوم و واضح است که ابدا حق جل ذکره راضی نه که احدی بر احدی تعدی | This is indeed evident and manifest that under no circumstances is the Truth, exalted be His mention, content that any soul should transgress against another [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#244, , BLIB_Or15722.073b, | AVK1.175bx, AVK4.257.05x, ASAT4.233x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Return of the Manifestations of God; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud] | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01050 | 800 | Call of the Divine Beloved; لوحی است از حضرت بهاءالله (حرف باء) خطاب به میرزا هادی قزوینی (حرف هاء) [از حرف "باء" به حرف "هاء\'] | From the Letter Bá’ to the Letter Há’ | قد ارسلت الیک من قبل کتابا علی لسان عربی مبین و اذا انزل علیک هذاللوح | I addressed unto thee aforetime an Epistle in the lucid Arabian tongue | BLIB_Or15722.232, | AVK1.063.12x, SFI08.017, ASAT5.311x, NSS.137x | CDB#3 | Differences in human capacity; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Love of God; Mystical themes; Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||
| BH01053 | 800 | هذا کتاب من خادم الرحمن الذی سمی بعبدالله و اشتهر باقا جان الی الذینهم | This is a Book from the servant of the All-Merciful, Who was named 'Abdu'lláh and became known as Áqá Ján, unto them that [3.5s] | ASAT3.189-192x, AKHA_137BE #05 p.065x, YIK.471-472x | Chastisement and requital; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Literal interpretation; Martyrs and martyrdom; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Stories; anecdotes; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||||
| BH01058 | 790 | فسبحان الذی نزل الایات بالحق و سینزل کیف یشاء و انه هو الحق لا اله الا هو | Glorified be He Who hath sent down the verses in truth and Who will continue to send them down as He pleaseth. He, verily, is the Truth; there is no God but Him [3.5s] | ASAT4.236x, PYK.020 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for forgiveness; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | |||||||||
| BH01069 | Lawh-i-Hawdaj (=Lawh-i-Samsun) | 780 | Lawh-i-Hawdaj (Tablet of the Howdah) | تلک آیات ظهرت فی خدر البقا و هودج القدس حین ورود اسم الاعظم عن شطر السبحان | These verses were revealed behind the Veil of Immortality, in the Howdah of Holiness, when the Most Great Name arrived | BRL_DA#728, LHKM1.012, SFI08.015, ASAT4.241x, AKHA_122BE #10 p.ax, AKHA_122BE #10 p.bx, OOL.B042, OOL.B078 | GPB.157x2x, HURQ.BH29 | Written upon Bahá’u’lláh’s arrival on the shores of the Black Sea en route to Istanbul, announcing the fulfilment of what was foretold in the ‘Tablet of the Holy Mariner’ a short time before, and warning of an impending ‘grievous and tormenting mischief ’ that would serve as the ‘divine touchstone’ separating truth from error. | Banishment to; life in Constantinople; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Power of the Manifestation of God; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | * | - | ROB2.006, BKOG.195, GPB.157, MMAH.111, GSH.067, LL#115, LL#235 | See howdah at wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdah. | |||
| BH01084 | 770 | حمد و ثنا حضرت قوی قادریرا لایق و سزا که در بحبوحه بلایاء مابین ایادی اعدا | Praise and glorification befit the Mighty, the Omnipotent Lord, Who amidst the intensity of tribulations and in the grasp of enemies [3.5s] | INBA39:054, BLIB_Or07852.076, , BLIB_Or15690.077, , BLIB_Or15728.215, | ASAT1.110x, ASAT5.271x | Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Petitions to authorities; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Religion as source of love and unity; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01100 | 760 | شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و الذی اتی بالحق انه هو مولی العالم و الاسم الاعظم الذی به ظهر | God beareth witness that there is none other God but Him, and He Who hath come with the truth is verily the Lord of all worlds and the Most Great Name through Whom He hath appeared [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15695.026, | AVK3.416.14x, ASAT3.220x, MSHR5.067x, FRH.051-053 | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Personal instructions; Prayer for the spiritual progress of others; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01151 | 730 | Translation List | قد تشرفت الایام یا الهی بالایام التی سمیتها بالهاء کان کل یوم منها جعلته مبشرا | All the days have been honoured, O my God, by the arrival of the days upon which Thou hast conferred the name of Há, each of which Thou hast made a herald and a messenger | BRL_DA#406, GHA.043bx, TSBT.197, NFF5.005, ASAT5.249x | BRL_ATBH#14x, ADMS#023 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Law of fasting; Prayer for fasting; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||
| BH01154 | 730 | یا ارض الصاد این الذبح الاعظم الذی ماقبل الفدی فی سبیل الله مولی الوری و | O Land of Ṣád! Where is that Supreme Sacrifice, before Whom no ransom was accepted in the path of God, the Lord of all humanity [3.5s] | AVK3.134.09x, LHKM2.085, NNY.120x, NNY.161-164x, ASAT4.080x | Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for martyrs; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||||
| BH01159 | 720 | ان یا اسمی مهدی علیک بهائی و ذکری و ثنائی طوبی لک بما وفیت میثاقی و نشرت ذکری | O My Name Mahdi! Upon thee be My glory and My remembrance and My praise. Blessed art thou for having kept faith with My Covenant and spread abroad My remembrance [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#251, , BLIB_Or15710.121, , BLIB_Or15738.134, | ASAT4.415x | Consolation and comfort; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01172 | 710 | تعالی الذی نزل الایات من ملکوت کان بانوار العرش مضیئا و ینطق فی سدره الوحی | Exalted is He Who hath sent down the verses from the Kingdom that was illumined by the lights of the Throne, and Who speaketh from the Lote-Tree of Revelation [3.5s] | INBA34:121, BLIB_Or15707.025, , BLIB_Or15735.198, | AQA1#012, AVK4.475cx, ASAT3.022x, HYK.198 | Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Presence of; reunion with God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ROB3.179, LL#369 | |||||||
| BH01194 | Lawh-i-Zaynu'l-Muqarrabin 2 | 700 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | یا ایها الناظر الی وجهی و الشارب کاس عنایتی و کوب رحمتی و افضالی و الساکن فی | O thou who gazest upon My countenance and hast quaffed the chalice of My loving-kindness and the cup of My mercy and bounty, and who dwellest in [3.5s]... ...Call thou to mind that which hath been revealed unto Mihdí, Our servant, in the first year of Our banishment to the Land of Mystery (Adrianople) | INBA34:125, BLIB_Or15707.035, , BLIB_Or15735.206, | BRL_DA#711, GWBP#058 p.081ax, AQA1#014, ASAT4.048x, ASAT5.354x, HYK.206, MSBH5.453ax, OOL.B085b | GWB#058x, BADM.099-100x, BADM.165x, GPB.110x2x, GPB.357x, GPB.360x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Prophecy and fulfillment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | * | - | GSH.180, LL#373 | ||||
| BH01217 | Lawh-i-Hirtik (Tablet to David Hardegg) | 690 | Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh; Lawh-i-Hirtík (Tablet to Hardegg) | Lawh-i-Hirtik (Tablet to Hardegg) | قد حضر کتابک المختوم لدی المظلوم و وجدنا منه عرف خلوصک لله المهیمن القیوم | Thy sealed letter hath reached the presence of this Wronged One, and from it We have inhaled the sweet savour of thy devotion to God | BRL_DA#546, LHKM3.215b, SFI11.011, ASAT4.232x, OOL.B044 | BRL_ATBH#87, BBR.216-217, LOIR04.097, BLO_PT#177, HURQ.BH76 | Briefly addresses the head of the German Templers of Haifa, calling him to consider with insight the ascendancy and sweetness of the word of God, the mysterious processes by which the abased become exalted and the exalted abased, and the lessons of the past; employs the science of letters and their numerical equivalents in explaining the significance of certain names; and affirms that He and the recipient are moved by the same divine spirit. | Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Mystery of the great reversal; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | * | ROB3.028, MMAH.116, GSH.172, LL#117 | |||
| BH01231 | 680 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Muhammad-`Alí I and II | ای محمد قبل علی بشنو ندای محبوب باوفا را که از شطر ابهی ندا میفرماید و | O Muhammad-'Ali! Hearken unto the call of thy faithful Beloved, Who from the Most Glorious Horizon doth proclaim and [3.5s]... ...I swear by the beauty of the Well-Beloved! This is the Mercy that hath encompassed the entire creation, the Day whereon the grace of God hath permeated and pervaded all things | INBA35:035, INBA74:097, BLIB_Or03116.106r, , BLIB_Or11096#033, , BLIB_Or15710.208, , BLIB_Or15722.151, | BRL_DA#767, GWBP#142 p.198x, ADM1#010 p.031x, AVK3.178.13x, RSBB.090, MAS4.110, ASAT5.167x, ADH1.029x | GWB#142x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Prayer for forgiveness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ROB2.117, LL#186 | ||||
| BH01281 | 660 | Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá | ان یا هاجر ان اهجری عن کل النفوس و لاتهجری عن حب ربک الذی کان علی العالمین | O Hájar! Be thou an emigrant in the love of God, that is, flee from all that dwell on earth and abide secure beneath the shade of the Tree of Divine love | NLAI_BH2.262, PR23.050b-050a | HDQI.078, MAS8.010, LMA1.418x, ASAT5.300x, YFY.072-074 | BLO_sazedj#05x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love of God; Nearness and remoteness; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||
| BH01289 | 660 | کتاب الباء الی الجیم ان لا تحزن من موارد الدنیا آنس بذکر الله ثم اقنع به عما | O Book of B unto J! Grieve thou not over the vicissitudes of this world. Find solace in the remembrance of God, and be thou content therewith above all else [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#288, , BLIB_Or15710.022cx, | AVK3.002.19x, ASAT5.013x | Chastisement and requital; Consolation and comfort; Evanescence and eternality; fana and baqa; Nearness and remoteness; Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Praise and encouragement; Wisdom [hikmat]; Words vs deeds | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01306 | 650 | در بارهٴ جناب آقا رجبعلی مرقوم فرموده بودند که وفات کرده‌اند و همچنین از ترکهٴ او سؤال نموده بودند | As regards his honor Áqá Rajab-'Alí, thou didst write that he hath ascended unto the realms above, and likewise thou didst inquire concerning his inheritance [3.5s]... ...As for the scribes and the differences between the manuscripts they prepared, this is what has shown forth from the horizon of elucidation | BLIB_Or15722.125bx, | ASAT4.092-093x | KSHK#15x | Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Law of Huququ'llah; Law of inheritance; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings | - | - | |||||||
| BH01312 | Ziyarat-i-Jinab-i-Aba Badi' | 650 | قد مضت ایام الفرح و الابتهاج و اتت ایام الاحزان بما غاب نجم الایقان من سماء العرفان | The days of joy and exultation have passed away, and the days of sorrow have come, for the Star of Certitude hath vanished from the heaven of divine knowledge [3.5s] | INBA97:117, Majlis210461.099-101 | BRL_DA#329, MUH2.699x, ASAT3.107x, ASAT4.081x, LDR.193x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Visitation Tablets | - | - | |||||||
| BH01325 | Lawh-i-Ru'ya (Tablet of the Vision) | 640 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Tablet of the Vision; Tablet of Vision | Lawh-i-Ruya (Tablet of the Vision) | یا اسمی استمع ندائی من حول عرشی لیبلغک الی بحر ما له ساحل و ما بلغ قعره | O My Name! Give thou ear unto My Voice ringing from around the precincts of My Throne | INBA23:084b, BLIB_Or15729.133, , BLIB_Or15737a.073, , BLIB_Or15738.061, , NLAI_22848:324, BSB.Cod.arab.2644 p166v, , MKI4522.324, | BRL_DA#730, AQA2#011 p.174, AYT.016, RHQM2.0973-975 (409) (252-253), ASAT3.135x, ASAT4.049x, ASAT4.403x, AKHA_123BE #04 p.ax, OOL.B074 | GPB.221x2x, BLO_PT#143, BLO_PT#148, BSC.249 #525, HURQ.BH66 | unknown | Recounts, in celebration of the anniversary of the birth of the Báb, a joyful vision of the Maid of Heaven as personification of the Holy Spirit, who embraces Him and addresses Him ecstatically and who bids Him leave ‘Akká and hasten to His ‘other dominions’. | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Mystical themes; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light | * | - | ROB3.223, BKOG.246, GSH.149, LL#226 | |
| BH01328 | Lawh-i-Ziyarih | 640 | اول بهاء ظهر و اشرق عن مشرق البقا و اول ضیاء لاح عن مطلع السنا و اول رحمه | The first splendor that dawned and shone forth from the Dayspring of eternity, and the first light that gleamed from the Horizon of glory, and the first mercy [3.5s] | INBA37:131, INBA83:233, INBA49:305, BLIB_Or15725.524, , Majlis210461.102-104 | ASAT4.081x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for forgiveness; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Visitation Tablets | * | - | LL#268 | ||||||
| BH01333 | 640 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | حمد و ثنا متغمسین بحر تجرید را لایق و سزا که در ظلمت ایام و اعتساف انام | The highest praise is due to them who have immersed themselves in the ocean of detachment—they who in the darkness of these times...Give a hearing ear, O people, to that which I, in truth, say unto you. The one true God, exalted be His glory, hath ever regarded | BRL_DA#742, GWBP#102 p.135x, AVK3.268.08x, AVK4.283ax, MJMM.364, MAS8.121bx, SAAF.198-201, ASAT1.039-040x, ASAT4.084x, ASAT4.106x, ASAT4.373x, TISH.247-249 | GWB#102x, PDC.120x, RIDA.176-179 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Eulogies; reminiscences; Martyrs and martyrdom; Obedience to and respect for government authority; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | LL#163 | ||||||
| BH01335 | 640 | روحی و نفسی لک الفداء علی قول من قال دل پیش تو صورت احوال از بپرس حضرت علیم | My spirit and my soul be a sacrifice unto Thee, according to the words of him who declared: "Ask Thou the All-Knowing One concerning the state of the heart that lieth before Thee." [3.5s] | INBA33:073bx, BLIB_Or03116.112, , BLIB_Or11096#042x, , BLIB_Or15710.024, | ASAT4.489x, MSHR3.258x | Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Nearness and remoteness; Parents and children; youth; families; Permission for visit; pilgrimage; Praise and encouragement; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01337 | 640 | سبحانک یا الهی تعلم و تری ما ورد علی اصفیائک فی ایام ظهورک و تنظر و تشاهد ما | Glorified art Thou, O my God! Thou knowest and beholdest what hath befallen Thy chosen ones in the days of Thy Manifestation, and Thou dost witness and observe what [3.5s] | LHKM2.081, NNY.159-161, ASAT3.107x | Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||||
| BH01339 | 640 | شهد الله بذاته لذاته فی عز سلطانه بانه لا اله الا هو و ان علیا لظهوره و | God beareth witness, through His own Self unto His own Self, in the glory of His sovereignty, that verily there is no God but Him, and that 'Alí is His Manifestation [3.5s] | INBA36:077c, INBA71:239 | ASAT4.379x | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01343 | Suriy-i-Amin | 640 | Súriy-i-Amín (Tablet to Amín) | هذا کتاب من لدی الله المهیمن القیوم الی الذی منه ظهرت الاستقامه الکبری فی | This is a Book from God, the All-Compelling, the Self-Subsisting, unto him through whom was manifested the Most Great Steadfastness [3.5s] | INBA34:123, BLIB_Or15707.030, , BLIB_Or15735.202, , LEID.Or4970 item 11, | AQA1#013, AQA4#094 p.320, ASAT1.201x, ASAT2.035x, ASAT4.459x, DLH2.187x, HYK.202, OOL.B104 | Praises the recipient for his steadfastness; calls the followers of the Qur’an to hear ‘the voice of the Crier, Who cried out between heaven and earth’; relates the fallen state of Fu’ád Páshá upon his death; and extols the ultimate sacrifice of the youthful Badí‘, who delivered Bahá’u’lláh’s epistle to Náṣiru’d-Dín Sháh. | Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of faith; power of the spirit; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | * | - | MMAH.157, GSH.200, LL#290 | ||||
| BH01363 | 630 | هذا کتاب ینطق بالحق و فیه یذکر ما یسر به افئده العارفین و بذلک یهب نفحات القدس | This is a Book that speaketh the truth, and wherein is mentioned that which gladdeneth the hearts of them that have attained recognition, and whereby the holy breezes are wafted [3.5s] | NLAI_BH1.439 | BRL_DA#570, LHKM1.053, ASAT4.107x, ASAT4.403x, ASAT4.489x, ASAT5.034x, YMM.224x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Personal instructions; Power of the Manifestation of God; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Rejection by the people of the Bayan | - | - | ||||||||
| 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 | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01389 | 620 | هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی استقام علی امر ربه و به زین ثوب الایقان و اخذه جذب | This is a Book from Our presence unto him who hath stood firm in the Cause of his Lord, who hath adorned himself with the robe of certitude, and whom divine attraction hath seized [3.5s] | INBA34:152, BLIB_Or15707.094, , BLIB_Or15735.255, | AQA1#028, ASAT4.153x, ASAT5.121x, HYK.255 | Methods of teaching the Cause; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ROB3.199, LL#370 | |||||||
| BH01403 | Lawh-i-Salman II | 610 | Second Tablet of Salmán (Lawh-i-Salmán) | Lawh-i-Salman II (Tablet to Salman II) | ای سلمان در هر امور اقتدا بحق کن و بقضایای الهی راضی باش ملاحظه کن که این | O Salmán! Follow thou in all things the example of the One true God, and be content with whatsoever He ordaineth. | BLIB_Or11096#022, , BLIB_Or15710.001, , NLAI_BH2.208 | BRL_DA#128, AVK1.135.12x, MJMM.124, BSHN.032x, MHT2b.060x, DRD.036, MAS4.167x, ASAT1.209x, ASAT4.315x, OOL.B077 | PDC.115-116x, WIND#180, HURQ.BH56 | Emphasizes the fleeting nature of this world, that those who remain occupied with it are heedless of this truth, and that one of the signs of the maturity of the world is that none will be found to bear the burden of kingship and its earthly cares. | Prayer for specific individuals; groups; Status of kings; future of monarchy; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | * | - | ROB3.025, ROB3.157, MMAH.188, GSH.179, LL#233 | ||
| BH01404 | 610 | این نامه این مسجونست باسم منیر و قمیص یوسف مصر الهی ست بکلمه بصیر قمیص غلام | This epistle belongeth to this Prisoner and is, like unto the garment of Joseph of divine Egypt, adorned with the word "All-Seeing" - the garment of the servant [3.5s] | INBA38:093b, INBA74:053, NLI.32p155v | RSBB.140, ASAT1.018x, YIK.183-184 | Humility; meekness; lowliness; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01405 | 610 | باید احبای الهی بسجیه حق مابین بریه مشی نمایند چنانچه مشاهده میشود که هرچه | The beloved of God must walk among the people with divine virtues, even as it is observed that whatsoever [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#258, , BLIB_Or15710.049, | ASAT4.265x | False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Methods of teaching the Cause; Prophecy and fulfillment; Suffering and imprisonment; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01441 | 600 | لله درک یا مهدی قد حضر کتابک لدی المظلوم و اعترف بعنایه الله و فضله واحدا | O Mahdi! God bless thee! Thy letter hath reached the Wronged One, and He hath acknowledged the bounty and grace of God, the One [3.5s] | INBA84:229, BLIB_Or15715.016, | NNY.235x, MAS4.346x, ASAT4.230x, ASAT4.374x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Chastisement and requital; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Justice and wrath of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01447 | Subhana Rabbiya'l-A'la | 600 | Subḥána Rabbíya'l-A'lá (Praise to the Exalted Lord) | یا حرف البقاء البس نعلی الانقطاع ثم ارکب علی الرفرف الاعلی فسبحان من خلق | Letter of eternity, put on the bridal trousseau of detachment and walk upon the exalted brocade runner; praised be my Lord, the most high. | INBA15:355, INBA19:029, INBA26:359, INBA36:462, INBA81:139, BLIB_Or15706.102, , BLIB_Or15714.017, , NLAI_BH1.229 | BRL_DA#250, GSH.061, ASAT3.092x, ASAT3.137x, ASAT4.021x, AKHA_124BE #02-03 p.hx, OOL.B100 | WIND#144, HURQ.BH19 | Celebrates, through a vision of the appearance and unveiling of the Maid of Heaven, the renewal of the mystic realm and portends future tests and difficulties. | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; Transcending the material condition | * | - | ROB1.211, MMAH.201, LL#287 | |||
| BH01459 | 590 | Days of Remembrance | ان یا قلم الابهی بشر اهل ملا الاعلی بما شق حجاب الستر و ظهر جمال الله عن هذا | Proclaim unto the celestial Concourse, O Pen of effulgent glory, that lo, the veil of concealment hath been rent asunder | INBA81:076, BLIB_Or15706.110, , BLIB_Or15714.001, | AHM.162, AHM.158, AYT.246, NSR_1993.111, ASAT1.075x, ASAT3.137x, ASAT4.400x, ASAT4.400x, AHB_120BE #02 p.040, AMB#07 | DOR#07, GPB.154x | unknown, S. Jaberi | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | LL#222 | ||||
| BH01490 | 580 | سبحان الذی اظهر الکلمه بسلطان من عنده انها تنطق بین اهل الامکان انه لا اله | Glorified be He Who hath manifested the Word with sovereignty from His presence, for verily it proclaimeth amongst the peoples of contingent existence that there is no God [3.5s] | INBA35:092, INBA51:468, BLIB_Or11095#019, | LHKM3.096, ASAT3.106x, LDR.415x | Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01536 | Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Bayt (Lawh-i-Hajj Baghdad) | 570 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Translation List | یا ایها الناظر الی المنظر الاکبر اسمع ندآء جمال القدم من شطر سجنه الاعظم | O thou who gazest upon the Most Great Scene! Hearken unto the call of the Ancient Beauty from the direction of His Most Great Prison [3.5s]... ...When thou art departed out of the court of My presence, O Muḥammad, direct thy steps towards My House (Baghdád House), and visit it on behalf of thy Lord | INBA34:136, INBA49:283, BLIB_Or15707.058, , BLIB_Or15735.225, , NLAI_BH1.007x | BRL_DA#712, GWBP#057 p.079x, AQA1#019, AHM.097, TSBT.090, RHQM2.0805-807 (214) (133-134x), ASAT2.111x, HYK.255, OOL.B152 | GWB#057x, GPB.110x9x, GPB.149x2x, GPB.360x, MBW.168x, PDC.026x, ADMS#107 | Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Rejection, opposition and persecution; Shrines and Holy places; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | MMAH.206, GSH.206, LL#114, LL#345 | Tablet to be recited when making pilgrimage to Bahá'u'lláh's House in Baghdad | |||
| BH01545 | 560 | ان استمع لما یوحی الیک من شطر الهویه علی بقعه الاحدیه من لسان الالهیه انه لا | Hearken thou unto that which is revealed unto thee from the Realm of the Divine Essence, upon the Sacred Spot of Oneness, from the Tongue of Divinity, that verily [3.5s] | INBA34:132, BLIB_Or15707.049, , BLIB_Or15735.218, | AQA1#017, ASAT5.293x, HYK.218 | Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01547 | Lawh-i-Haqq | 560 | Lawh-i-Haqq (Tablet of the Ultimately Real) | ان یا ملا الحق قد ظهر الحق عن افق الحق فی هذالحق الذی طلع عن مطلع الحق | O concourse of the Ultimately Real One! The Truly Real One has, in very Truth, been made manifest from the horizon of Ultimately Real | INBA37:141, OSAI I.MMS, | BRL_DA#720, GSH.037, ASAT3.117x, OOL.B041 | HURQ.BH09 | Announces to ‘the followers of the True One’ the appearance of the Spirit of Truth, round which circle all the Prophets of God, while sharply remonstrating the Bábís for their rejection of Bahá’u’lláh. | Power of the Manifestation of God; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | MMAH.133, LL#001 | |||
| BH01562 | 560 | هذا یوم فیه ارتفع ندآء الله من شطر السجن الاعظم و ینادی الامم بانه لا اله الا | This is the Day wherein the Call of God hath been raised from the precincts of the Most Great Prison, summoning the peoples that there is none other God but He [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15719.081b, | RSBB.179, ASAT1.200x | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Living waters; water of life; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation of the Cause (general or uncategorized); Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01593 | 550 | م ه دی اسمی انشاء الله همیشه بذکر حق و خدمتش مشغول باشید قلت اسئله و ارجو | O Mahdi, My Name! May thou, God willing, be ever engaged in the remembrance of the True One and in His service. I ask and beseech [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15710.057, | ASAT3.200x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01606 | 540 | اذکر من اقبل الیک الی ان دخل فی البقعه التی فیها اشرقت شمس جمال ربک | Make thou mention of him who hath turned unto Thee, until he entered that spot wherein shone forth the Sun of thy Lord's Beauty [3.5s]... ...O Thou Who art my God and the God of all in the heavens and on earth, Who art my Beloved and the Beloved of the worlds! I testify that because of Thee the sweet fragrance of Thy garment | NFR.010, ASAT1.082x | JHT_S#062x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayer for steadfastness; obedience | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01624 | Lawh-i-Rida | 2400 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | Lawh-i-Rida (Tablet to Rida) | بروحی و کینونتی لک الفدآء یا حبّذا بما فزت بکتابک الّذی کان رأسه مزیّناً باکلیل ذکر ربّنا | By My spirit and essence, may I be a sacrifice unto Thee! How excellent it is that thou hast attained unto thy letter, whose apex was adorned with the crown of the remembrance of our Lord! [3.5s]... ...That which thou hast heard concerning Abraham, the Friend of the All-Merciful, is the truth, and no doubt is there about it. | BLIB_Or11096#234x, , BLIB_Or15722.034x, , BN_suppl.1754.143-144x | BRL_DA#682a, GWBP#032 p.056x, AVK2.160.20x, AVK2.196.11x, AVK3.117.05x, MJMM.330x, MAS1.075x, ASAT1.037x, ASAT1.142x, ASAT2.036x, ASAT3.008x, ASAT3.082x, ASAT3.268x, BCH.032x, TABN.215bx | GWB#032x | Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | - | - | LL#220 | |||
| BH01639 | 530 | ان یا بقیه آلی اسمع ندائی عن شطر عرشی لتجذبک نغمات الرحمن الی مقام کان عن | O remnant of My lineage! Hearken thou unto My call from the direction of My Throne, that the melodies of the All-Merciful may draw thee unto a station that [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15725.405, | BRL_DA#205, ASAT2.069x | Martyrs and martyrdom; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01642 | 530 | ای نبیل عرایضت معروض و ندایت مسموع و اجابت آن معلق بوقت چه که بعضی حال در این | O Nabíl, thy supplications have been laid before Us and thy cry hath reached Our ears, yet the answer thereto remaineth suspended until the appointed time, for certain souls at present [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#285, , BLIB_Or15722.051, | AVK3.155.06x, ASAT5.200x, AKHA_135BE #12 p.245, AKHA_136BE #03 p.039 | Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Purpose of religion in the world (personal and social); Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01652 | 530 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | سبحان الله اظهر امره و انطق الاشیاء علی انه لا اله الا هو الحق علام الغیوب | Glorified be God Who hath manifested His Cause and made all things speak forth that there is none other God but Him, the Truth, the Knower of things unseen [3.5s]... ...Happy is the man who will arise to serve My Cause, and glorify My beauteous Name. Take hold of My Book with the power of My might | BRL_DA#679, GWBP#028 p.052x, AVK2.056.06x, MJMM.219, ASAT1.113x | GWB#028x, WOB.172-173x | Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | LL#435 | ||||||
| BH01654 | Second Tablet to Faris | 530 | قد حضر کتابک لدی الوجه و وجدنا منه عرف الحب و الوداد لذا نزل لک هذا اللوح | Thy letter hath come before Our Countenance, and from it We have inhaled the fragrance of love and affection; wherefore this Tablet hath been sent down unto thee [3.5s]... ...The Breath hath been wafted, and the Breeze hath blown, and from Zion hath appeared that which was hidden, and from Jerusalem is heard the Voice of God | INBA81:153, BLIB_Or11095#030, | BRL_DA#274, AVK3.121x, SFI16.038-039, ASAT4.432x, YIK.120-121 | GPB.211x, PDC.125x, PDC.165x2x, PDC.165-166x, PDC.167x, BSB7:3-4 p27x, HURQ.BH77 | Methods of teaching the Cause; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Praise and encouragement; Proclamation to Christians | - | - | LL#085 | |||||
| BH01658 | 530 | کتاب نزلت آیاته عربیا و انه فصل من ام الکتاب من لدی الله العزیز الوهاب و فیه یلقی | A Book whose verses have been sent down in Arabic, and verily it is a chapter from the Mother Book from the presence of God, the Mighty, the All-Bountiful, wherein is cast [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15715.143c, | MAS4.095ax, ASAT5.177x, MSHR5.143-144x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | LL#447 | |||||||
| BH01663 | 530 | هذا ذکر من لدی المسجون الی الذی آمن بالله المهیمن القیوم ان لاتعبد الا ایاه | This is a remembrance from the Prisoner unto him who hath believed in God, the All-Compelling, the Self-Subsisting, that none should be worshipped save Him [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15725.482, , NLAI_BH2.034, NLAI_BH2.106 | ASAT1.024x, ASAT4.127x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01711 | 520 | یا جواد علیک بهاء مالک الایجاد فی المبدء و المعاد طوبی لک و نعیما لک بما... ذکر بهرام علیه بهائی را | O Javad! Upon thee be the glory of the Lord of Creation, in the beginning and the return! Blessed art thou and glad tidings unto thee, inasmuch as thou hast mentioned Bahram, upon him be My glory [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15722.101, , NLAI_BH1.119 | AVK2.066.18x, ZYN.267, YARP1.053x, ASAT2.093x, PYB#106 p.03x, PYB#280 p.03x | Fire and light; fire and water; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Praise and encouragement; Suffering and imprisonment; Zoroastrianism; Mahabad and Zoroaster | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01726 | 510 | ذکر الله فی شجره الفردوس الله لا اله الا هو العزیز المقتدر العلیم الذی قدر | The remembrance of God in the Tree of Paradise - God, there is none other God but Him, the Mighty, the Powerful, the All-Knowing, Who hath ordained [3.5s] | INBA36:060, INBA71:218 | ASAT3.022x, YMM.183x | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of prayer; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Self-concealment of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01728 | 510 | Prayers and Meditations | Ziyarat-Namih (Tablet of Visitation for the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh) | سبحان الذی نزل الایات بالحق و یجذب بها قلوب من یشاء و انه کان علی ما یشاء قدیرا... الثّنآء الّذی ظهر من نفسک الأعلی و البهآء الّذی طلع | Glorified be He Who hath sent down the verses in truth and through them doth draw unto Himself such hearts as He willeth, and verily He is powerful over whatsoever He desireth [3.5s]... ...The praise which hath dawned from Thy most august Self, and the glory which hath shone forth from Thy most effulgent Beauty | INBA83:223, INBA49:286, BLIB_Or15702.289, , NLAI_BH1.177, ALIB.folder18p325 | PMP#180x, ASAT4.077x | PM#180x | Chastisement and requital; Law of pilgrimage; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Presence of; reunion with God; Suffering and imprisonment; Visitation Tablets | - | - | |||||
| BH01730 | Tablet of the Hair 5 | 510 | Translation List | Alvah-i-Sha'arat (Tablets of the Hair) | فلک الحمد یا الهی مما قدرت کنز الحیوان فی جنه الرضوان و فیه جمعت النار و | Praise be to Thee, O my God, for Thou didst ordain that the treasure of life lie within the garden of Paradise, wherein Thou didst gather fire and water | BLIB_Or11098.029c | LHKM3.070, MUH3.273-274, ASAT4.060x, OOL.B191.05 | ADMS#169 | Praises God for creating the "treasure of creation" in Paradise and manifesting fire and water together through His power. Marvels at the serpent He made as the guardian of this treasure, endowed with His divine breath. Requests that through this serpent, God unites the hearts of His loved ones and brings them together, just as He brought together fire and water. Reflects on the wonders of God's creation and His mysterious works, including creating this serpent to test the strength of His devoted followers. Recognizes that despite the hardships caused by this serpent, the believers look to God for solace and continue to seek His divine grace. Acknowledges that God has promised heavenly rewards for the righteous and the punishment of hellfire for the disobedient. Expresses bewilderment at the workings of God and submits oneself to His will, seeking refuge in Him alone. | Fire and light; fire and water; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Pain of love; love as veil; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light | - | - | |||
| BH01732 | 510 | قد ماج بحر البلاء و احاطت الامواج فلک الله المهیمن القیوم ان یا ملاح لاتضطرب | The ocean of tribulation hath surged, and the waves have encompassed the Ark of God, the All-Possessing, the Self-Subsisting. O Mariner, be thou not dismayed [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11095#024, | MAS4.239x, RHQM2.0749-751 (147) (092-093x), ASAT4.489x | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01751 | 7800 | Trustworthiness | الحمد لله آفتاب حکمت الهی در تربیت اهل عالم مشغول و دریای علم لدنی بفیض کلی | Praise be to God! The Sun of Divine Wisdom is occupied with the education of the peoples of the world, and the Ocean of God's knowledge doth bestow its boundless grace [3.5s]... ...Cleave thou to the fear of God and to whatsoever hath been revealed in His Book: thus biddeth thee He Who is the Word of Truth and the Knower of things unseen | COMP_TRUSTP#22x, AVK1.011.15x, AVK3.380.04x, AYI2.086x, AYI2.088x, AYI2.374x, ASAT4.163x, YIA.023-044 | BRL_TRUST#21x, COC#2033x | Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The power of words; of speech; The truth of past religions and sacred scriptures; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||
| BH01774 | Suriy-i-Hijr | 500 | فسبحان الذی خرق حجبات الممکنات بسلطانه و خلق السموات بامره و انزل من مکفهرات | Glorified be He Who hath rent asunder the veils of all contingent beings through His sovereignty, and hath fashioned the heavens by His command, and hath caused to descend from the darkening clouds [3.5s] | INBA37:001, BLIB_Or15723.166, , BLIB_Or15737.004, | AQA4#077 p.072, AQA4a.024, ASAT5.262x, OOL.B123 | Announces His withdrawal from the community and His sorrow at the state of affairs that made this action necessary. | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Personal instructions; Proclamation to the people of the world; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | ROB2.397, GSH.188, LL#308 | |||||
| BH01786 | 500 | Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá | Tablet of visitation for Badi | هذا کتاب نزل بالحق و فیه یذکر ما یلوح به وجه الامر بین الارضین و السموات قل | This is a Book sent down in truth in remembrance of that which hath caused the face of the Cause of God to unveil its splendor betwixt earth and heaven | INBA34:138, BLIB_Or11095#003, , BLIB_Or15707.062, , BLIB_Or15735.228, , LEID.Or4970.64v-66r, | BRL_DA#082, AQA1#020, ASAT4.081x, AKHA_124BE #02-03 p.jx, TSHA3.380, HYK.229, LDR.412 | BLO_sazedj#06 | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ROB3.179, ROB3.202, LL#032 | ||||
| BH01790 | 500 | یا افنانی انا نذکر ما ورد علیکم من الاحزان فی ایام الرحمن و نعزیکم بایات الله | O My Afnán! We make mention of the tribulations that have befallen you in the days of the All-Merciful, and console you through the verses of God [3.5s] | AQA7#490 p.321, ASAT5.093x | Consolation and comfort; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | |||||||||
| BH01804 | 490 | ان یا ورقه الفردوس ان اشهدی فی نفسک بانه لا اله الا هو و ان علیا قبل محمد | O Leaf of Paradise! Bear thou witness in thine inmost being that verily there is no God but Him, and that 'Alí before Muhammad [3.5s] | INBA36:101, INBA71:265 | ASAT5.292x | Importance of prayer; Mystical themes; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01822 | Lawh-i-Amr | 490 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | هذا لوح الامر قد نزل من لدن مالک القدر لیقرب الناس الی المنظر الاکبر هذا المقام | This is the Tablet of Command which hath been sent down from the presence of the Lord of Destiny, that it may draw mankind nigh unto the Most Great Vision, this exalted station [3.5s]... ...There hath appeared in this Revelation what hath never appeared before. As to the infidels that have witnessed what hath been manifested | INBA34:145, BLIB_Or15707.079, , BLIB_Or15735.242, , NLAI_BH3.157 | BRL_DA#660, GWBP#067 p.090x, AQA1#024, AVK2.274.04x, SFI13.017, ASAT1.207x, TISH.276-278, FBAH.143, DLH2.218, HYK.242, LDR.430x | GWB#067x | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Power of the Manifestation of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Word of God and human limitations | - | - | ROB2.161, LL#047 | ||||
| BH01827 | 480 | ابواب افضالیکه از اول لا اول الی حین مسدود بود اذا قد فتح بالحق باصبع عز | The gates of bounty, which from time immemorial had remained sealed, have now been opened by the fingers of Glory [3.5s] | BN_suppl.1754.147-148 | RSBB.142, AYI2.244x, ASAT4.366x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Development of capacity and readiness; Knowledge; recognition of God; Love of God; Presence of; reunion with God; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01865 | Lawh-i-Rasul | 470 | Days of Remembrance | Lawh-i-Rasul (Tablet to Rasul) | ان یا رسول اگر از شمس سماء معنی پرسی در کسوف حسد مکسوف و مغطوء و اگر از قمر | O Rasúl! Shouldst thou ask concerning the Sun of the heaven of inner meaning, know that it hath been eclipsed by the clouds of envy | INBA38:257 | NANU_BH#10x, ASAT4.013x, AMB#30, QUM.029 | DOR#30 | Identifies Himself, through His sufferings, with the prophets of the past and announces His intention to take leave of both friend and foe. | Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Love of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment | * | - | MMAH.107, GSH.181, LL#219 | ||
| BH01879 | 470 | قد طار المعانی الف سنه لیصل الی مقام هذا اللفظ الذی تفوه به لسان الله | The meanings have soared for a thousand years to attain unto the station of this utterance which hath been spoken by the Tongue of God [3.5s] | INBA28:251 | ASAT4.038x, ASAT4.501x | Eulogies; reminiscences; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01881 | 470 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | قلم اعلی در سجن عکا باحبای ارض خا توجه نموده یعنی نفوسیکه بطراز جدید مزین | The Most Exalted Pen hath, in the Prison of 'Akká, turned toward the loved ones in the land of Khá, namely, those souls who are adorned with the new raiment [3.5s]... ...The time foreordained unto the peoples and kindreds of the earth is now come. The promises of God, as recorded in the holy Scriptures, have all been fulfilled | BLIB_Or15719.171c, , BLIB_Or15722.191, | BRL_DA#538, GWBP#010 p.016bx, MJMM.267, DLS.065, ASAT1.250x, ASAT3.238x, YMM.408x, YMM.430x | GWB#010x, PDC.124x2x | Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Prophecy and fulfillment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Word of God and human limitations | - | - | LL#376, LL#426 | |||||
| BH01900 | Lawh-i-Husayn 3 | 460 | امروز آفتاب گفتار یزدان از افق سماء خامه بیان مشرق و لائح و بتجلیی از تجلیاتش | In this day the Sun of God's utterance hath risen from the horizon of the heaven of the Pen's expression, manifest and resplendent, with one of its effulgences [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15715.227b, , BLIB_Or15722.099b, , NLAI_BH1.116 | ZYN.262, YARP1.001, ASAT1.017x, ASAT1.027x, ASAT3.246x, OOL.B046c | Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||
| BH01904 | 460 | ان یا نسیم الفردوس هب علی الممکنات بما هبت علیک نسائم القدس من هذالشطر | O breeze of paradise! Waft thou over all created things, even as the holy breezes have wafted upon thee from this direction [3.5s] | INBA36:159, INBA71:333 | ASAT4.443x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Realms of being; three realms; five realms; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01915 | 460 | ذکر الله فی شجره القدس بقعه التی بارکها الله علی بقاع الارض الله لا اله الا | The mention of God hath arisen from the Sacred Tree in that spot which God hath blessed above all the regions of earth - there is no God but Him [3.5s] | INBA36:049, INBA71:208, BLIB_Or07852.113, | RSBB.001, ASAT4.263x | Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Idolatry; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01923 | 460 | شهد لسان العظمه بظهوره و استوآئه علی العرش و اشراقه من افق العالم ولکن الامم | The Tongue of Grandeur beareth witness to His Manifestation, to His establishment upon the throne, and to His dawning from the horizon of the world, yet the peoples [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15713.059, , BLIB_Or15715.001a, | ASAT4.388x, TISH.058-060 | Call to action; Prophecy and fulfillment; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01927 | 460 | قد حضر ما جری من قلمک عند مجری انهار الحیوان بین الامکان و سلسبیل رحمه | That which flowed from thy pen hath reached Him Who causeth the rivers of everlasting life to stream forth amidst all created things and the crystal waters of mercy [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#029, , BLIB_Or15738.132, | BRL_DA#101, ASAT3.201x, ASAT5.255x | Justice and wrath of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01989 | 440 | اذا وردنا السجن اردنا ان نبلغ الکل رسالات ربهم ... و دیگر در فقرهٴ علم مکنون حسب الحکم آنکه آنچه در آن فارسی نازل شده باید عمل شود | When We arrived at the Prison, We desired to convey unto all the messages of their Lord... and further, regarding the hidden knowledge, according to wisdom: whatsoever hath been revealed in Persian must be carried out [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#240, , BLIB_Or15722.069.03, | ASAT4.128.16x | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Personal instructions; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Prophecy and fulfillment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH01996 | 440 | ای حیدر ندایت مره بعد مره و کره بعد کره و طورا بعد طور اصغا شد اگر قلم اعلی | O Haydar! Time and time again, repeatedly and in cycle after cycle, We have hearkened unto thy call. If the Most Exalted Pen [3.5s] | INBA42:261, INBA97:084, BLIB_Or15697.002, , Majlis210461.048-050 | KHSH08.006, ASAT5.347x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02009 | 440 | فاعلم بان الغافلین خرجونا عن مدینه الله بظلم مبین و بذلک ارتفع عویل البکاء | Know thou that the heedless ones have expelled Us from the City of God with manifest tyranny, whereupon the wailing of lamentation was raised [3.5s]... ...Praise be unto Thee, O Lord my God, for having chosen us to sustain Thy trials and bear hardships for love of Thee and in acquiescence unto Thy good-pleasure | AQA6#215 p.046, ADM2#031 p.053x, MAS4.356x, ASAT1.105x | JHT_S#124x | Angels; Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Martyrs and martyrdom; Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02012 | 440 | کتاب انزله الرحمن لمن آمن بالله المهیمن القیوم لتجذبه نفحات الوحی الی مطلع | The Book which the All-Merciful hath revealed unto them that have believed in God, the All-Compelling, the Self-Subsisting, that the breezes of Revelation may draw them unto the Dawning-Place [3.5s] | INBA28:248, BLIB_Or15716.208c, | ASAT3.235x, ASAT4.207x, ASAT4.260x, ASAT4.284x, ASAT4.493x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.; Martyrs and martyrdom; Purpose of religion in the world (personal and social); Rejection, opposition and persecution; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| 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 | |
| BH02023 | 440 | Translation List | سبحانک اللهم یا الهی احب بکل لسان ادعوک و بکل بیان ارجوک و بکل قلب اذکرک | Magnified be Thy Name, O my God! I love to call on Thee with every tongue, to implore Thee with every utterance, to remember Thee with every heart | INBA30:118x | AHM.054, AQMJ1.022x, ASAT4.393x, ADH1.044 | ADMS#118 | Knowledge; recognition of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | ||||||
| BH02059 | 430 | نبیلی اکثری از خلق از حق سم طلب نموده و مینمایند و بخیال خود شهد خواسته اند حنظل | O Nabil! Most among the people have sought, and continue to seek, poison from the Truth, while in their own imagination, though desiring honey, they have asked for bitter colocynth [3.5s] | BLIB_Or03116.100r, , BLIB_Or11096#057, | ASAT5.200-202 | Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Nearness and remoteness; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02060 | 430 | هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی اقبل الی الله مولی العالمین نذکر له ما ورد علینا | This is a Book from Our presence unto him who hath turned towards God, the Lord of all worlds, wherein We recount that which hath befallen Us [3.5s] | INBA34:172, BLIB_Or15707.137, , BLIB_Or15735.291, | AQA1#041, ASAT5.216x, HYK.291 | Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02077 | 420 | الحمد لله که فلک همت بر قطب بحر انقطاع رانده اید و بفیوضات ربانیه و عنایات | Praise be to God that ye have steered the firmament of high endeavor upon the pole of the ocean of detachment through divine bounties and heavenly grace [3.5s] | BLIB_Or03116.093, , BLIB_Or11096#031, , NLI.32p134r | ASAT5.037x | Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02080 | 420 | Bahá'í Scriptures | امروز روزیست که کرسی رب مابین شعب ندا میکند جمیع ساکنین ارض را و امر مینماید | This is the day whereon the Throne of God, established amidst the people, proclaimeth unto all the denizens of the world | BLIB_Or15719.101b, , BLIB_Or15722.189, | AVK2.242.15x, MAS4.097bx, KHAZ.026, ASAT1.250x, KASH.289-290 | DAS.1913-10-04, BSC.116 #047, BSTW#141 | Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Proclamation to Jews; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||
| BH02154 | 410 | قد ارتفع الندآء عن یمین البقعه المبارکه النوراء من سدره الابهی بندآء تسمعه | The Call hath been raised from the right side of the luminous and blessed Spot, from the Divine Lote-Tree, with a call that thou hearest [3.5s] | INBA34:163, BLIB_Or15707.118, , BLIB_Or15735.275, | AQA1#035, ASAT4.136x, HYK.275 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02188 | Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Um al-Uliya Madar-i-Aqa Muh. Karim 'Attar | 400 | الذکر اللائح من افق الملکوت و النور الساطع من افق سماء الجبروت علیک یا امتی | The resplendent mention shining forth from the horizon of the Kingdom and the radiant light beaming from the firmament of might be upon thee, O My handmaiden [3.5s] | ASAT1.189x, ASAT3.281x, ASAT4.082x, AKHT1.377 | Eulogies; reminiscences; Soul; spirit after death; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02209 | Lawh-i-Ard-i-Ba | 400 | Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas | Lawh-i-Ard-i-Ba (Tablet of the Land of Ba) | حمدا لمن تشرف ارض الباء بقدوم من طاف حوله الاسماء بذلک بشرت الذرات کل | Praise be to Him Who hath honoured the Land of Bá through the presence of Him round Whom all names revolve. | INBA81:088x, BLIB_Or15727a.043, | AHM.107x, HDQI.005x, AHDW.009x, ASAT4.413x, AHB_128BE #06-11 p.196x, TBP#16x, OOL.B166x | TB#16x, GPB.243x, WOB.136x, SW_v04#14 p.239x, SW_v08#14 p.185x | almunajat.com [item 21], L. Slott | Consolation and comfort; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Prayer for specific individuals; groups; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | ROB4.240, BKOG.378, YMM.151, LL#061 | ||
| BH02222 | 400 | قد حضر تلقاء الوجه کتابک و هذا صدره آنکه از حرق الحشا مقسوم گشته کیست من ان | Your letter hath appeared before Our face, and its essence was apportioned from the burning of the inmost heart. Who am I [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#259, , BLIB_Or15722.076, | BRL_DA#151, KHSH07.016, SFI16.046-047x, ASAT5.200x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Call to action; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Knowledge; recognition of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02241 | 400 | یا ایها الشارب رحیقی من ید عطائی و یا ایها الطائر فی هوائی و یا ایها المحترق | O thou who drinkest the pure wine from the hand of My bounty, O thou who soarest in Mine atmosphere, O thou who art consumed [3.5s] | INBA15:427, INBA26:430 | AVK4.437cx, MAS4.035, MUH3.265-266, ASAT1.144x | Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Justice and wrath of God; Praise and encouragement; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02247 | 400 | Translation List | یا قلم الاعلی قد اتت المصیبه الکبری و الرضیه العظمی اذکر من صعد الی الرفیق | O Pen of the Most High! The direst of calamities, the most grievous of afflictions hath come to pass | INBA65:087, BLIB_Or15714.128, | BRL_DA#367, ASAT4.083x | ADMS#156 | Banishments of Baha'u'llah; Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Prayer for the departed; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||
| BH02263 | 390 | Translation List | ان یا ایها المذکور لدی العرش فاعلم بان المشرکین جعلوا اهلی و احبتی اساری من | O thou who art remembered before the Throne! Know that the infidels made captives of My kindred and My loved ones in ʻIráq, and caused them to enter another land | INBA34:174, BLIB_Or15707.140, , BLIB_Or15735.294, | AQA1#042, QT108.059x, ASAT1.023x, HYK.294 | ADMS#093 | Banishments of Baha'u'llah; Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||
| BH02264 | 390 | ان یا جواد اردنا ان نجری لک کوثر الحیوان فی اللوح الذی به علق حیوه من فی | O Javad! Verily, We have desired to cause the Kawthar of Life to flow forth for thee in this Tablet, whereby life was bestowed upon all who dwell therein [3.5s]... ...Glory be unto Thee, O Thou Who art the Lord of all creation and King of things visible and invisible! I entreat Thee by Him Who is the Desire of the heavens and earth | BLIB_Or11095#026, | ADM3#050 p.063x, ASAT2.047x | JHT_S#146x | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Living waters; water of life; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||
| BH02317 | 380 | ان استمع ما یوحی من شطر البلا علی بقعه المحنه و الابتلا من سدره القضا انه لا | Hearken unto that which is revealed from the court of tribulation, upon the spot of affliction and adversity, from the Lote-Tree of destiny: He is [3.5s] | INBA34:169, BLIB_Or15707.131, , BLIB_Or15735.286, | AQA1#039, ASAT3.226x, HYK.286 | Call to action; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02324 | Lawh-i-Karmil (Tablet of Carmel) | 380 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas | Lawh-i-Karmil (Tablet of Carmel) | حبذا هذا الیوم المبارک الذی لا تعادله القرون و الاعصار حبذا هذا الیوم اذ | All glory be to this Day, the Day in which the fragrances of mercy have been wafted over all created things | GWBP#011 p.018, RHQM2.0976-977 (412) (254-255), ASAT5.027x, PYB#041 p.04, AHB_110BE #17-18 p.340, ANDA#06 p.01, TBP#01, NJB_v06#05 p.6, OOL.B051 | TB#01, DAS.1914-01-02, GWB#011, TDH#064.3x, TDH#064.6x, GPB.219x, GPB.277-278x, GPB.278x, WOB.105x, SW_v14#05 p.149 | J. Murday, Ahdieh, NIKNAK, Mea, almunajat.com [items 42-43] | Brief proclamatory tablet, revealed during a visit to Mount Carmel, taking the form of a joyful dialogue between Bahá’u’lláh and the sacred mountain and promising that ‘Ere long will God sail His Ark upon thee, and will manifest the people of Bahá who have been mentioned in the Book of Names’, words that have been taken as the charter for the establishment of the Bahá’í World Centre in Haifa. | Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Presence of; reunion with God; Proclamation to Jews; Shrines and Holy places | - | * | ROB4.351, ROB4.423, BKOG.375, GPB.219, GPB.345, MMAH.081, GSH.147, LL#137 | ||
| BH02328 | 380 | حمد کن خدا را که مهاجر شدی و هجرت نمودی و آنچه بر این عبد مسجون وارد شده بعضی | Render praise unto God that thou hast become a wanderer and undertaken the pilgrimage, and some of what hath befallen this imprisoned servant [3.5s] | INBA57:059 | ASAT1.275-276x, YFY.076-077 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02329 | Lawh-i-Babu'l-Ata [Lawh-i-Banu-Qurayzih] | 380 | Translation List | Lawh-i-Bábu’l-ʻAtá (or Lawh-i-Banú-Qurayzih) | ذرات کائنات شاهد و حقائق ممکنات گواه که این عبد از ظهور و اظهار امر مقصودی جز | The atoms of every contingent being and the realities of all created things bear witness that this Servant.... When I was but a child, this Wronged One read an account of the invasion of the Banú-Qurayẓih recorded in a book attributed to the late Mullá Báqir Majlisí. | INBA81:158, BLIB_Or15695.037, , BLIB_Or15724.101, | MAS7.135, ASAT2.017x | ADMS#042 | Early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah; Episodes from the early history of Islam; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Personal instructions; Purpose of religion in the world (personal and social); Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ROB2.348, LL#075 | |||
| BH02333 | 380 | علیک یا مهدی ذکر الله و تکبیره ان افرح بما یذکر لدی العرش اسمک فی اکثر الاحیان | Upon thee, O Mahdi, be the remembrance of God and His glorification! Rejoice thou in that thy name hath been mentioned before the Throne time and again [3.5s]... ...Know thou that upon Our arrival at this Spot, We chose to designate it as the 'Most Great Prison.' Though previously subjected in another land | INBA51:533 | ASAT4.130x | GPB.185x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Call to action; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Importance of reading the Sacred Writings; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||
| BH02360 | 380 | یا معشر الاصفیا لم یدر البهاء من ای مصائبه یذکر لکم ا یذکر ما ورد علیه من | O concourse of the pure ones! The Beauty knoweth not from which of His tribulations He should make mention unto you - whether He should recount what hath befallen Him from [3.5s] | INBA44:043, INBA34:176, BLIB_Or15707.146, , BLIB_Or15735.299, | BRL_DA#051, AQA1#044, MAS8.161x, ASAT5.215x, HYK.299 | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Living waters; water of life; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02361 | 380 | یا من اردت اثری فاعلم اثری احاط السموات و الارض و فی مقام کل شیء اثری لو | O thou who seekest My trace! Know thou that My trace encompasseth the heavens and the earth, and in every station is My trace, were thou to perceive [3.5s] | INBA34:168, BLIB_Or15707.128, , BLIB_Or15735.283, , Berlin1237#09 | AQA1#038, ASAT1.057x | Divine attributes are within all things; every atom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02383 | 370 | ای علی انشاء الله بنفحات ایام الهی فائز باشی و باسمش از دریای دانائی بیاشامی | O Ali! God willing, mayest thou be blessed by the sweet fragrances of the Days of God and, through His Name, drink from the ocean of wisdom [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15697.122b, | ASAT1.207x | Alchemy; the elixir; Knowledge; recognition of God; Predictions and prophecies; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02384 | 370 | ایاک ان لاتعجز ثم انطق بقدره بدیعه میقات صمت گذشت روزیکه سلطان بقا از حجبات | Take heed lest thou falter, then speak forth with wondrous power, for the appointed time of silence hath passed - the day when the Sovereign of Eternity emerged from behind the veils [3.5s] | INBA73:179, NLI.32p038v | AVK3.464.10x, ASAT3.056x, ASAT4.192x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The power of words; of speech; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02386 | 370 | اینکه در الواح نصایح مشفقه در اتحاد و غیره نازل میشود مقصود جمیع بریه بوده و | Know that whatever loving counsels have been revealed in the Tablets concerning unity and other matters were intended for all created beings [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#255, , BLIB_Or15710.047b, | ASAT4.073x | Consolation and comfort; Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Unity in diversity | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02391 | 370 | تلک آیات الله المهیمن القیوم نزلت بالحق ولکن الناس اکثرهم لایوقنون الله الذی | These are the verses of God, the Protector, the Self-Subsisting, sent down in truth; yet most among mankind remain unconvinced. God, Who [3.5s] | INBA34:178, BLIB_Or15707.149, , BLIB_Or15735.302, | AQA1#045, ASAT2.105x, HYK.302 | Chastisement and requital; Idolatry; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Bayan, its laws and their abrogation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02393 | 370 | حمد خدا را که درهای بسته را گشود و اولیا و اصفیایش را راه نمود و بصراط مستقیم | Praise be to God Who hath opened the closed doors and guided His chosen ones and loved ones unto the straight path [3.5s] | INBA15:341b, INBA26:345b, BLIB_Or15726.151, | ASAT1.095x | Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02413 | 370 | لعمری یا فتح قبل اعظم قد ستر فیک نغمه لو نظهرها بتمامها لتنجذب منها العالمین | By My life, O Fath-i-A'zam! There lieth concealed within thee a melody which, were it to be revealed in its fullness, would draw unto itself all the worlds [3.5s] | INBA23:032b, BLIB_Or03116.099, , BLIB_Or11096.183, , NLI.32p141r | ASAT4.436x | Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02446 | 360 | ای علی کتابت حاضر و آنچه در او مسطور بود عبد حاضر لدی العرش معروض داشت | O Ali! Thy letter was laid before Us, and that which was inscribed therein hath been presented by this servant in attendance to the Divine Throne [3.5s] | INBA97:089, BLIB_Or15722.185, , BLIB_Or15730.077c, | ASAT4.229x | Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02478 | 360 | لیس البلیه سجنی و ما ورد علی من المکاره بل البلیه ابتلائی بین الذین لایعرفون | The affliction is not My imprisonment, nor the hardships that have befallen Me, but rather My affliction is to be found amidst those who know not [3.5s] | INBA34:183 | AQA1#049, LHKM2.238, ASAT2.170x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02484 | 360 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی سلک سبیل الله الواضح المستقیم و تمسک بالعروه | This is a Book from Our presence unto him who hath walked the path of God, manifest and straight, and held fast unto the cord [3.5s]... ...The Ancient Beauty hath consented to be bound with chains that mankind may be released from its bondage, and hath accepted to be made a prisoner | INBA34:181, INBA84:170, INBA84:098b, INBA84:039, BLIB_Or15707.155, , BLIB_Or15735.306, | BRL_DA#656, GWBP#045 p.071ax, AQA1#047, ASAT4.333x, HYK.036 | GWB#045x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Power of prayer; Praise and encouragement; Sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | LL#443 | |||||
| BH02485 | 360 | هذا کتاب من لدنا الی من فاز بانوار الوجه فی هذا الفجر الذی کان من افق الامر | This is a Book from Our presence unto him who hath been illumined by the light of the Countenance in this Dawn which hath risen from the horizon of the Cause [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11095#036, | MUH3.231, ASAT3.016x, ASAT5.252x, OOL.B194 | Chastisement and requital; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Greatest Name; Law of repetition; recitation of the Greatest Name; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02511 | 350 | ان یا ابا بصیر قم و انذر الذینهم کفروا بایات الرحمن و جعلوا انفسهم عن هذا الرضوان | O Abu-Basir! Arise and warn them that have denied the signs of the All-Merciful and have kept themselves from this Paradise [3.5s] | INBA83:194, BLIB_Or15702.237, , NLAI_BH2.313, ALIB.folder18p371 | ASAT1.037x, TISH.511-512 | Chastisement and requital; Purpose; goal of creation; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The power of words; of speech | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02518 | 350 | انشاء الله در جمیع احیان از انوار وجه رحمن مستنیر باشی و بافق امر ناظر علی | God willing, mayest thou be illumined at all times by the radiant lights of the Countenance of the All-Merciful, and remain steadfast in thy gaze upon the horizon of the Cause [3.5s] | BLIB_Or03116.084, , BLIB_Or11096.179, | ASAT4.412x | Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02533 | 350 | Days of Remembrance | سبحانک اللهم اسئلک بهذا الیوم و بالذی ظهر فیه بسلطنتک و عظمتک و اقتدارک و | Glorified art Thou, O my God! I beseech Thee by this Day, and by Him Whom Thy sovereignty and Thy majesty and Thy might have manifested therein | INBA48:115, INBA49:029, BLIB_Or15739.215, | TSBT.139, AQMJ1.078, ASAT4.224x, ABMK.028, AMB#14 | DOR#14 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for nearness to God; Prayer for protection; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Word of God the cause of creation | - | - | ||||||
| BH02563 | Lawh-i-Rada'r-Ruh | 350 | Tablet to Rada'r-Rúh | Lawh-i-Radar-Ruh (Tablet to Radar-Ruh) | یا ایها الناظر الی الوجه اسمع ندآء من سجن مره بعد اخری فی سبیل الله ربک و رب | O Thou who hast fixed his gaze upon the (divine) Countenance! Hearken unto the Call of Him Who hath suffered imprisonment, time after time, in the path of God | INBA73:362, NLAI_BH1.510, NLAI_BH2.249 | SFI16.036-037, MUH3.026-027, ASAT1.051x, DLH3.472 | BLO_PT#189, BTO#11 | Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ROB3.007-010, LL#197 | |||
| BH02586 | 340 | ان یا ایها المتسافر الی رفرف البیان و المتصاعد الی ملکوت الایقان و الساکن فی فردوس | O thou who journeyest to the verdant meadows of utterance, who ascendest unto the kingdom of certitude, and who dwellest in paradise [3.5s] | INBA71:117, NLAI_BH1.310 | ASAT4.155x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Nearness and remoteness; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Unity in diversity | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02591 | Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Awliya (Vahid) | 340 | Tablet of Visitation for Vahid-i Darabi (Lawh-i-Ziyarát-i-Vahíd-i-Darabí) | Lawh-i-Ziyarat-i-Vahid-i-Darabi (Tablet of Visitation for Vahid-i Darabi) | اول موج علا من بحر رحمه ربک الرحمن علیک یا سر الفرقان و مستسر البیان اشهد | The first wave of exaltation from the ocean of grace of thy Lord, the Compassionate, be upon thee, who art the essence of the Qur'án | BLIB_Or15714.092, , Majlis210461.091-092 | LMA1.347 (207), ASAT4.079x, OOL.B150 | BLO_PT#152, NYR#126 | Eulogies; reminiscences; Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for martyrs; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Visitation Tablets | * | - | MMAH.230, GSH.065, LL#343, LL#351 | Tablet of Visitation for Vahid-i Darabi. | ||
| BH02594 | 340 | این کتابی است از عبد خدا بسوی بنده از بندگان او الذی اتخذ الی الله سبیلا و بعد | This is a Book from the servant of God unto a servant from among His servants who hath taken unto God a path [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096.178, , BLIB_Or15710.020, | ASAT4.309x | Law of pilgrimage; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02631 | 340 | نفحات محبت محبوب نزد محبین محبوب لذا ارسلناها بهذه الکلمات العالیات و فوحات | The fragrances of the Beloved's love are cherished by His loved ones; thus have We sent them forth through these exalted words and sweet perfumes [3.5s]... ...The recent news is that, in these days, it was mentioned that the Chief of the Great City (Istanbul) has heard that a person from among the grandees of Diyarbakir is in the possession of a shoe of the Apostle (Muhammad) | BLIB_Or11096#054, , BLIB_Or15710.212b, , BLIB_Or15722.156, | BRL_DA#591, MAS4.215x, ASAT4.053x | BTO#01x | Religious rituals minimized or eliminated; Stories; anecdotes; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||
| BH02635 | 340 | هذا کتاب من لدنا الی من فی السموات و الارضین لتجذبهم آیات مالک الاسماء و | This is a Book from Us unto them that dwell in the heavens and on earth, that the verses of the Lord of Names may draw them unto Him [3.5s] | INBA34:186 | AQA1#051, ASAT1.206x | Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God; Proclamation to divines; to religious leaders; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Proclamation to the people of the world; Sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02744 | 320 | ان یا مهدی قد حضر بین یدینا کتابک و اطلعنا بما فیه و اجبناک بهذا اللوح لیفرح | O Mihdi! Thy letter hath indeed come before Us, and We have taken cognizance of that which it containeth, and have answered thee through this Tablet, that thou mayest rejoice [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15725.019, , BLIB_Or15738.065, | ASAT5.177x, ASAT5.255x | Contention and conflict; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Exhortations and counsels; Piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa]; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02750 | 320 | ای سلمان من لدی الرحمن مامور بودی که بحکمت رفتار نمائی و تکلم کنی که مبادا | O Salman! Thou wert commanded by the All-Merciful to conduct thyself with wisdom and speak with prudence, lest perchance [3.5s] | INBA38:338 | ASAT2.171x | Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Thankfulness; gratitude; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02765 | 320 | در باره جناب امین و توجه او بارض تا و از آنجا مع جمعی بانگلیس و یا تفلیس | Concerning the honoured Amín and his journey unto the Land of Ṭá, and from thence with a company unto England or Tiflis [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15722.188, | NNY.192-193x, ASAT1.201x, MSHR2.102x | Martyrs and martyrdom; Petitions to authorities; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02794 | Lawh-i-Gul-i-Mawla | 320 | Translation List | گل مولی چه بسیار از دراویش که در صحراهای شوق بیاد مولی سیاح شدند و در بحور | Flower of God! How many are the dervishes who journeyed through the wildernesses of longing in remembrance of their Lord and swam in the oceans of yearning | INBA35:189, NLI.32p001v | MAS4.218bx, ASAT4.491.15x | ADMS#259 | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | - | - | MMAH.182 | ||||
| BH02858 | Suriy-i-Dhabih 2 | 310 | Translation List | Suriy-i-Dhabih (Tablets to Dhabih) | ذ ب قد ارسل الیک من یمن السبحان ما نزل لک من سماء رحمه ربک و منه تفوح رایحه | Unto thee hath been sent, from the right hand of the All-Glorious, what was revealed for thee from the heaven of the clemency of thy Lord | INBA34:197, NLAI_BH2.363 | AQA1#060, AVK4.257.11x, ASAT3.010x, ASAT3.267x, OOL.B112.2 | ADMS#243 | Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Predictions and prophecies; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | * | - | ||||
| BH02878 | 310 | فسبحانک اللهم یا الهی اسئلک بذاتک الغیب فی مکمن البقاء و بذکرک العلی الاعلی | Glorified art Thou, O my God! I beseech Thee by Thy Hidden Essence in the Sanctuary of Eternity, and by Thy Most Exalted, Most Supreme Remembrance [3.5s] | INBA92:029 | ASAT5.191x, DLH2.162, ANDA#71 p.20 | Martyrs and martyrdom; Prayer for assistance; intercession; Prayer for forgiveness; Prayer for protection; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02904 | 310 | هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی آمن بالله و اقبل الی وجهه و ذاق فی حبه کاس | This is a Book from Our presence unto him who hath believed in God, turned his face towards Him, and tasted the cup of His love [3.5s] | INBA34:203 | AQA1#065, ASAT5.179x | Consolation and comfort; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02945 | 300 | انشاء الله بعنایت رحمن از رحیق حیوان که بید قدرت الهی مفتوح گشته بیاشامید | God willing, through the tender care of the All-Merciful, drink ye of the Wine of Life which hath been unsealed by the Hand of Divine Power [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15719.048b, | ASAT1.113x, ANDA#70 p.21 | Greatest Name; Law of repetition; recitation of the Greatest Name; Living waters; water of life; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH02960 | 300 | حمد حضرت مقصودی را لایق و سزاست که از سحاب عنایت امطار رحمت بر اراضی طیبه | Praise be unto the Desired One, Who is worthy and befitting, for from the clouds of loving-kindness the rains of mercy descend upon the goodly earth [3.5s] | MAS4.358x, MAS7.129bx, MJTB.016x, QT108.063x, ASAT1.103x, ASAT3.059x | Call to action; Praise and encouragement; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||
| BH03045 | 300 | یا جواد علیک سلامی و سلام الله رب الارباب نشهد فی اول الکتاب بوحدانیه | O Javád! Upon thee be My salutation and the salutation of God, the Lord of Lords. We bear witness at the outset of this Book to His oneness [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15690.308, , BLIB_Or15699.076b, | ASAT3.057x | God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03066 | 290 | ان استمع الندآء من مالک السفینه الحمرآء من شطر العکاء التی سمیت بالبقعه | Hearken unto the Call from the Master of the Crimson Ark from the shores of 'Akká, which hath been designated as the Spot [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11095#028, | ASAT4.466x | Call to action; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for steadfastness; obedience; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03072 | 290 | ان یا ذبیح قد نزلت الایات من سماء مشیه ربک مالک الاسماء و الصفات اذا حضر لدی | O Dhabih! The verses have indeed descended from the heaven of thy Lord's Will, the Lord of Names and Attributes, when thou didst attain His presence [3.5s] | INBA28:263 | ASAT1.258x, YIK.387-388 | Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03076 | 290 | انا نذکر العباد بالذکر الاعظم الذی جعله الله مبدء ذکر العالمین انه لهو الذی | We make mention of the servants through the Most Great Remembrance, which God hath made to be the source of the remembrance of all the worlds. Verily, He is the One Who [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15730.158, | ASAT4.087x | Call to action; Importance of reading the Sacred Writings; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Service to others; to the Cause of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03077 | 290 | انشاء الله بعنایات رحمانیه و فیوضات ربانیه فائز باشی و از مائده انقطاع که | God willing, through the loving-kindness of the All-Merciful and the divine outpourings, mayest thou be enabled to attain, and partake of the heavenly table of detachment that [3.5s] | INBA35:147, INBA33:039, BLIB_Or15719.157a, | ASAT3.026x | Consolation and comfort; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03104 | 290 | رس انشاء الله در جمیع احیان و اوان در ظل رحمت رحمن مستریح باشی و از عالم و عالمیان | Mayest thou, by the grace of God, in all times and seasons abide beneath the shade of the All-Merciful's mercy, and find rest from the world and its peoples [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#085, | ASAT2.133x | Growth of the Cause; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03121 | 290 | قد انزلنا کتاب الاسماء من سماء مشیه الله فاطر السماء و فیه بشرنا العالم بهذا | We have sent down the Book of Names from the heaven of God's Will, the Creator of the heavens, and therein have We given unto the world these glad-tidings [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15696.067c, | ASAT1.127x | Development of capacity and readiness; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03148 | 290 | هذا کتاب ینطق بالحق و یامر الناس بالبر و العدل من لدن علیم حکیم لیعرفوا سبیل | This Book proclaimeth the truth and enjoineth upon men righteousness and justice, from the presence of One Who is All-Knowing, All-Wise, that they may know the path [3.5s] | INBA34:205, NLAI_BH1.017 | AQA1#067, AVK4.421ax, ASAT4.326x | Chastisement and requital; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03183 | 280 | امروز روزیست پیروز چه که عرف ظهور مکلم طور در آن متضوع طوبی از برای نفسیکه | Today is a victorious day, inasmuch as the fragrance of the Revelation of the Speaker of Sinai is wafting therein. Blessed is the soul that [3.5s] | INBA28:264 | AVK2.181.09x, ASAT5.371x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03189 | 280 | ان یا احمد ان استمع ندآء الله من شطر القضا انه لا اله الا انا العزیز الحکیم | O Ahmad! Hearken thou unto the Voice of God from the direction of Divine Decree. Verily, there is none other God but Me, the Mighty, the All-Wise [3.5s] | INBA34:220 | AQA1#081, ASAT5.106x | Personal instructions; Prayer for steadfastness; obedience; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03190 | 280 | ان یا خلیلی فی الصحف و اسمی فی الکتب ان استمع ندآء الله من شاطی بحر القدم فی | O My friend in the Scriptures and My name in the Books! Hearken thou unto the Call of God from the shore of the Ancient Sea [3.5s] | INBA34:231, INBA41:011b | AQA1#091, ASAT3.219x | Consolation and comfort; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03191 | 280 | ان یا ریحانه الذکر و روحانی اللقب ان استمعی ندآء الذی ارتفع عن جهه عرش ربک | O thou essence of remembrance and bearer of a spiritual title, hearken unto the Call that hath been raised from the direction of thy Lord's Throne [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15725.489, , NLAI_BH2.214 | ASAT5.281x | Power of prayer; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for praise and gratitude; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03195 | 280 | انا نذکر اهل الخضرآء الذین اقبلوا الی الافق الاعلی اذ کسروا اصنام الهوی باسم ربهم | Verily, We make mention of the people of the verdant realm who turned towards the Most Exalted Horizon when they shattered the idols of desire in the name of their Lord [3.5s] | INBA45:210, BLIB_Or15715.050a, | ASAT3.207x | Idolatry; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Prayer for steadfastness; obedience; Satan; the Evil One; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03199 | 280 | ای ذبیح از برای تبلیغ خلق شدی قعود و صمت جایز نه الیوم بر امثال آنجناب لازم | O Dhabíh! Thou wert created for the propagation of the Faith. In this Day silence and stillness beseemeth not such as thee [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15710.127, | AVK3.462.03x, ASAT1.131x | Detachment in teaching the Cause; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Methods of teaching the Cause; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03321 | 270 | ان یا ابوطالب اسمع ندآء ربک عن شطر البقاء ثم استمع لما یوحی الیک من هذه السدره | O Abu-Talib! Hearken unto the call of thy Lord from the precincts of eternity, then listen thou unto that which is revealed unto thee from this Tree [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15737.205, , NLAI_BH1.352 | ASAT5.179x, QUM.019x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; High station of the true believer; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03380 | 270 | کتاب انزله الرحمن لیقرب به من فی الامکان الی البحر الذی تموج باسمه العظیم من | This is a Tablet sent down by the Lord of mercy that the people of the world may be enabled to draw nigh unto this Ocean | ASAT1.167x, TBP#17k | TB#17k | Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Knowledge; recognition of God; Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ROB3.060? | |||||||
| BH03400 | 270 | هذا لوح قد نزل من لدن عزیز حکیم و یبشر الناس فی هذا الیوم الذی استوی فیه | This is a Tablet that hath been sent down from the presence of the Mighty, the Wise, and beareth glad tidings unto mankind on this Day whereon He hath ascended the throne [3.5s] | INBA34:217, INBA51:123, KB_620:116-117, NLAI_BH1.011 | AQA1#078, LHKM2.160, QT108.199-200, ASAT4.184x | Call to action; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Knowledge; recognition of God; Shrines and Holy places | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03402 | 270 | هذا یوم فیه طار طائر من اطیار العرش و طارت معه الافئده و العقول ان یا میم | This is the Day whereon the Bird from among the birds of the Divine Throne hath taken wing, and with It have soared aloft all hearts and minds. O Mím! [3.5s]... ...Blessed art thou, and blessed he that turneth unto thee, and visiteth thy grave, and draweth nigh, through thee, unto God, the Lord of all that was and shall be | INBA23:195, BLIB_Or11095#129, | BRL_DA#438, RHQM2.0790-791 (206) (127x), ASAT4.415x, FBAH.227x | TDH#064.12x, GPB.188x3x, GPB.348x | Consolation and comfort; Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Shrines and Holy places; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||
| BH03404 | 270 | هل حملت الارض بالذی لایمنعه النسبه عن مالک البریه و یدع عن ورائه النسب و الاشارات | Hath the earth borne one whom no ties of kinship can withhold from the Lord of all creation, and who casteth behind him all lineage and allusions [3.5s] | NLAI_BH1.022 | LHKM3.191b, ASAT5.081x | Call to action; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Prayer for protection | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03409 | 270 | یا اصحاب المعمور ان استمعوا ندآء ربکم الغفور من شطر هذا الظهور الذی به اضاء | O dwellers of the inhabited realm! Hearken unto the call of your Lord, the All-Forgiving, from the direction of this Manifestation whereby illumination hath shone forth [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11095#156, | BRL_DA#307, ASAT5.148x | Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03417 | 270 | یا ایها المظلوم قد سمعنا ما اثنیت به الله و ما دعوت به الله و ما ناجیت به | O Thou Who art wronged! We have heard that wherewith Thou didst praise God, and that wherewith Thou didst supplicate unto Him, and that wherewith Thou didst commune with Him [3.5s] | INBA33:036 | ASAT2.027x, ASAT3.027x | Consolation and comfort; Prayer for protection; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03489 | 260 | ذکر من لدنا عباد الرحمن الذین آمنوا بالله المقتدر العزیز المنان فی ایام فیها | A remembrance from Our presence unto the servants of the All-Merciful who have believed in God, the All-Powerful, the Mighty, the Munificent, in these days wherein [3.5s] | INBA34:206 | AQA1#068, ASAT5.254x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for steadfastness; obedience; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03550 | 260 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی اخذته نفحات آیات ربه الرحمن و فاز بانوار الهدی فی | This is a Book from Our presence unto him whom the sweet-scented breezes of the verses of his Lord, the All-Merciful, have stirred, and who hath attained unto the lights of guidance in [3.5s]... ...The Pen of the Most High hath decreed and imposed upon every one the obligation to teach this Cause. | INBA34:252, NLAI_BH2.195 | BRL_DA#657, GWBP#144 p.201x, AQA1#113, ASAT4.126x | GWB#144x, TDH#037.1x | Gus, Emma & Edelo, D. Mantas, A.E. Rahbin | Disregarding own capacity in teaching the Cause; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | LL#450 | ||||
| BH03551 | 260 | هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی فاز بانوار الایمان فی ایام ربه الرحمن انا نذکر فی | This is a Book from Our presence unto him who hath been illumined by the lights of faith in the days of his Lord, the All-Merciful. We make mention therein [3.5s] | INBA34:249 | AQA1#110, ASAT4.051x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power of prayer; Sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03564 | Lawh-i-Ard-i-Ta | 260 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | یا ارض الطاء یاد آر هنگامی را که مقر عرش بودی و انوارش از در و دیوارت ظاهر | Call thou to remembrance, O Land of Ṭa (Ṭihrán), the former days in which thy Lord had made thee the seat of His throne, and had enveloped thee with the effulgence of His glory | INBA66:106b, BLIB_Or15730.090a, , NLAI_BH1.081 | GWBP#055 p.077bx, RHQM1.072-073x (092) (053-054), ASAT1.071-072x, TSHA3.011, PYM.110ax, LDR.322, OOL.B167 | GWB#055x, LTDT.270x | Eulogies; reminiscences; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement; Prophecy and fulfillment; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Shrines and Holy places | - | - | MUH1.0034, LL#062 | ||||
| BH03582 | 260 | یا محمد قبل تقی عظم الله اجرک فی ابنک الذی صعد الیه کما صعد ابنی مهدی فی اول | O Muhammad-i-Qablí-Taqí! God magnify thy recompense for thy son who hath ascended unto Him, even as did My son Mahdi ascend in former times [3.5s] | INBA57:098x | AQA5#113 p.139, BSHN.035, MHT2b.051, ASAT3.255x | Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03684 | 250 | قد اشرقت شمس البهی عن افق البقا بطراز الله المقتدر العلی الاعلی قل موتوا یا | The Sun of Glory hath dawned from the horizon of eternity, adorned with the ornament of God, the Almighty, the Most Exalted of the Most Exalted. Say: Perish, O ye [3.5s] | INBA42:259, BLIB_Or15725.258, , OSAI I.MMS, | ASAT5.350x | Chastisement and requital; Manifestation of God as sun; Praise and encouragement | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03717 | 250 | هذا کتاب من لدن ربک الرحمن لتجد منه عرف قمیصه و تکون من الشاکرین ایاک ان | This is a Book from thy Lord, the All-Merciful, that thou mayest find therein the fragrance of His garment and be among them that render thanks. Beware lest [3.5s] | INBA34:232 | AQA1#092, AQA6#227 p.125, ASAT1.131x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Adamic cycle and the Baha'i cycle | - | - | ||||||||
| 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 | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03865 | 240 | قد ارسلنا الیک بید السین کتابا کریما لما اتی الشین نزلت هذه الایات مره اخری | Verily, We have sent unto thee, by the hand of Sin, a glorious Book, and when Shin appeared, these verses were revealed once again [3.5s] | INBA23:031, INBA34:250 | AQA1#111, ASAT1.019x, ASAT4.437x | Chastisement and requital; Consolation and comfort; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Predictions and prophecies; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH03890 | 240 | ک ر ان استمع الندآء مره اخری من البقعه النورآء المقام الذی فیه ینطق مالک | O peoples of the world! Hearken once again unto the Call from the luminous Spot, the sacred Precinct wherein speaketh the Lord [3.5s] | INBA18:324b | ASAT4.052x | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ROB4.105? | |||||||
| BH04015 | 230 | ذکر الله عباده الذین آمنوا بربهم الرحمن فی یوم ناحت السما و اضطربت قبائل | God calleth to remembrance His servants who believed in their All-Merciful Lord on a Day when the heavens lamented and the tribes were in turmoil [3.5s] | INBA34:247b | AQA1#108, ASAT1.018x | Chastisement and requital; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Suffering and imprisonment; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH04043 | 230 | قد اشتغلوا العباد باهوآئهم و یفرحون بما عندهم من الزخارف الفانیه و نحن فی | The servants have occupied themselves with their vain desires and rejoice in the fleeting ornaments they possess, whilst We [3.5s] | INBA34:256 | AQA1#117, ASAT1.050x | Idolatry; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| BH04049 | 230 | قد غنت الورقاء هل یری من ذی سمع لیسمع و انتشرت اجنحه الطاوس هل من ذی نظر | The Dove hath warbled: is there any with ears that will hear? The wings of the Peacock have spread forth: is there any possessed of sight [3.5s] | INBA34:265 | AQA1#127, ASAT1.024x | Chastisement and requital; Development of capacity and readiness; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH04076 | Lawh-i-Liqa' | 230 | Bahá'í Scriptures; In the Presence of the Beloved: Bahá'u'lláh's Lawh-i-Liqá' | Lawh-i-Liqa | هذا کتاب جعلناه لقائنا للذین اقبلوا الی الله فی تلک الایام التی فیها تغیرت | Lo, We made this epistle to be the attainment of Our presence for such as have turned unto God in these days | INBA34:274, CMB_F31.039b-040a, | BRL_DA#369, AQA1#137, MAS8.167x, ASAT5.068x | LOIR18.471, BLO_PT#043, BSC.187 #276, HURQ.BH84 | Praise and encouragement; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | - | - | JRAS.289 | |||
| BH04080 | 230 | هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذین فی حبی لایهجعون الا قلیلا و بالاسحار هم یقومون عن | This is a Book from Our presence unto those who, in their love for Me, slumber not save a little, and at the break of dawn they rise [3.5s] | INBA34:243 | AQA1#103, ASAT4.154x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Idolatry; Importance of prayer; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| BH04125 | 230 | یا ورقتی قد ناح قلمی الاعلی بما ورد علیکم من اعدائی الذین نبذوا کتاب الله | O My leaf! The Most Exalted Pen hath lamented over that which hath befallen thee at the hands of Mine enemies, who have cast aside the Book of God [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15715.023a, | ASAT3.108x | Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for steadfastness; obedience; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH04234 | 220 | شکی نیست که اسمی جمال علیه بهاء الله مقصودش از آنچه بان عامل شده نصرت حق و | There is no doubt that the Name of Beauty—upon Him be the Glory of God—hath purposed through all His deeds the triumph of Truth [3.5s] | INBA35:161a, BLIB_Or15715.117c, | AVK3.244.03x, ASAT3.027x | Contention and conflict; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| BH04245 | 220 | فرداً وتراً واحداً وحیداً از بیت عظمت و جلال خارج شدند و در محل وحدت و خفا مسکن فرمودند | Alone, solitary, single and unique, He departed from the Mansion of grandeur and majesty, and took up His dwelling in the realm of oneness and concealment [3.5s] | ASAT4.207x, ASAT5.299x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Prophecy and fulfillment; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Return of the Manifestations of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||
| BH04293 | 220 | هذا کتاب من لدن عزیز جمیل الی الذی آمن بربه الجلیل لیطیره فی هوآء رحمه ربه | This is an epistle from the presence of the Mighty, the All-Beauteous, unto him who hath believed in his Glorious Lord, that He may cause him to soar in the atmosphere of His Lord's mercy [3.5s] | INBA34:282 | AQA1#146, MAS8.054bx, ASAT2.035x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Methods of teaching the Cause; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH04339 | 220 | Translation List | یا رضی انشاء الله از تجلیات انوار آفتاب حقیقت منور باشی و بذکر دوست یکتا ناطق | God grant, O Riḍá, that thou art illumined with the splendors of the light of the Sun of Truth, and that thou art voicing the praise of the Incomparable Friend | BLIB_Or15715.271a, | MAS4.095b, ASAT1.137x, PYB#245 p.03, ANDA#62 p.01, ANDA#60 p.03, QUM.035-036, YQAZ.130 | ADMS#071 | Assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick; Consolation and comfort; Incarceration of Baha'u'llah in Siyah Chal; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||
| BH04366 | 210 | الحمد لله الذی اختص احبائه بالبلاء جزاء بما وعد لهم من جزیل الالاء فلله الحمد حمدا یحبه و یرشاه | Praise be to God, Who hath singled out His loved ones for tribulation, in recompense for what He hath promised them of abundant bounties. Unto God be praise, such praise as He loveth and is well-pleased with [3.5s] | ASAT1.101x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Business; financial; property matters; Consolation and comfort; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Thankfulness; gratitude | - | - | |||||||||
| BH04372 | Lawh-i-Zaynu'l-Muqarrabin 1 | 210 | Translation List | الیوم اعظم امور ثبوت بر امر الله بوده و هست چه که شیاطین از جمیع اشطار ظاهر | That which is of paramount importance in this day is steadfastness in the Cause of God, for fiendish souls have manifested from every side | INBA71:337 | BRL_DA#164, MJMM.337, DRD.182, ASAT1.050x, AKHA_123BE #08 p.a, OOL.B085a | ADMS#213 | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | GSH.180, LL#266 | ||||
| BH04396 | 210 | ان یا علی قد بکی محمد رسول الله من ظلمک بما اتبعت الهوی و اعرضت عن الهدی | O Ali! Muhammad, the Messenger of God, hath indeed wept over thy wrongs, inasmuch as thou didst follow vain desires and turn aside from guidance [3.5s] | INBA34:289 | AQA1#154, MAS4.360, ASAT4.388x, DLH3.571 | Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | ROB4.297 | |||||||
| BH04455 | 210 | سبحان الذی یذکر امته حین الذی احاطته الاحزان من طرف قریب و بعید علی شان | Glorified be He Who remembereth His people at a time when sorrows have encompassed Him from near and far [3.5s] | INBA83:190, BLIB_Or15702.229, , ALIB.folder18p457 | ASAT1.141x, TISH.508-509 | Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Presence of; reunion with God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH04533 | 210 | لیس حزنی فیما ورد علی نفسی تالله ان البهاء لایجزع عن البلایا انه انس بها فی | My sorrow is not for what hath befallen My soul. By God! Bahá doth not shrink from tribulations; nay, He hath found solace in them [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15710.063, | ASAT4.348x | Justice and wrath of God; Murder; causing physical harm; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH04537 | 210 | مکتوب تلقاء عرش حاضر و فائز شد و آنچه باخوین شهیدین نوشته بودید بلحظات عنایت | The missive hath attained unto the Divine Throne and been accepted, and that which thou didst write concerning the two martyrs hath been considered with glances of favor [3.5s] | BLIB_Or03116.096, , BLIB_Or11096#122, , BLIB_Or15710.007a, , BLIB_Or15722.018, | ASAT3.108x | Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Soul; spirit after death | - | - | ||||||||
| BH04545 | 210 | هذا کتاب کریم نزل من لدن علیم حکیم انه لذکر الله بین العالمین و کلمه العلیا | This is a glorious Book sent down from the presence of One Who is All-Knowing, All-Wise. Verily, it is the Remembrance of God amidst the worlds and His Most Exalted Word [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11095#290, | ASAT3.272x | Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Prayer for protection; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH04552 | 210 | هذا لوح من لدنا الی الذین فازوا بمطلع الانوار اذ اتی المختار بسلطان العظمه و | This is a Tablet from Us unto those who have attained unto the Dawning-Place of Lights, when the Chosen One came with the sovereignty of grandeur [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11095#157, | LHKM1.070b, ASAT5.111-112x, ASAT5.113x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Predictions and prophecies; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH04606 | Lawh-i-Ram | 200 | اتقوا الله یا ملا الارض و لاتظنوا فیما اذکرناه فی اللوح باسم الرام رام الذی | Fear ye God, O people of the earth, and think not that the wine We have mentioned in Our Tablet is the wine which men drink | INBA81:049 | AVK3.041.06x, GHA.429a.01-03x, MUH3.276-277, ASAT4.003x, AKHA_122BE #09 p.a, OOL.B186 | COC#1785 | Alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light | - | - | ||||||
| BH04607 | 1180 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | احمد و اشکر من جعلنی فائزا بنفحات بیانکم اسبح و اقدس من جعلنی مهتزا بظهورات | I praise and give thanks unto Him Who hath caused me to be enraptured by the sweet fragrances of Thy utterance. I glorify and sanctify Him Who hath made me to be stirred by the manifestations [3.5s]... ...The world is in travail, and its agitation waxeth day by day. Its face is turned towards waywardness and unbelief. | BRL_DA#744, GWBP#061 p.083bx, AVK4.472x, ASAT1.021x, PYB#264 p.06x, AHB_133BE #01-02 p.003x, PYM.273x | GWB#061x, LOG#0422x, ADJ.082x, GPB.217x2x, PDC.004x, PDC.190x, WOB.033x, WOB.046x, WOB.181x, DWN_v1#07 p.001x | - | - | ||||||||
| BH04609 | 200 | از جمله آن غافل بر اسم الله جمال علیه بهائی اعتراض نموده که بر دو مسند جالس بوده | Among these heedless ones is one who raised objection against Ismu'llah Jamal, upon Him be My Glory - asserting that He had occupied two seats [3.5s] | ASAT3.024-025x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Letters of the Living; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; The Bayan, its laws and their abrogation; The Imamate; the Caliphate | - | - | |||||||||
| BH04610 | 200 | اعرفوا یا ملأ الأرض و السمآء بأنی انا الذی قد علق کل الأعمال برضائی | Know ye, O concourse of earth and heaven, that I am He Who hath made all deeds dependent upon My good-pleasure [3.5s] | ASAT2.157x, ASAT5.230x | Chastisement and requital; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Quotation from or interpretation of the Bible; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Stories; anecdotes; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||
| BH04611 | 200 | اگر انسان بتمامه ظاهر نماید آنچه را که مستور است ضوضا بلند شود چه که مخالف است | Were one to reveal all that is now hidden, a clamour would arise, for it outwardly conflicteth with the views of the people of outward forms. Yet if one were to conceal everything, none would attain eternal salvation. The manner in which the Ancient Beauty walked in Iraq and other lands is a perfect example unto all [3.5s] | AVK3.066.07x, AVK3.474.13x, ASAT3.017x, ASAT3.241x, ASAT5.021x | Methods of teaching the Cause; Personal instructions; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Stories; anecdotes; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | |||||||||
| BH04646 | 200 | ان یا عبد ان استمع ندا ربک العلی الاعلی من شطر الذی فیه استقر عرش ربک العلی | O servant! Hearken unto the call of thy Lord, the Most Exalted, the All-Highest, from that court wherein is established the throne of thy Lord, the Most High [3.5s] | INBA44:008, INBA34:288 | AQA1#153, ASAT4.329x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Presence of; reunion with God; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH04828 | 200 | معلوم بوده که مسافران الی الله بعد از طی مراتب ماسواه بمحل معروف که مشهور | It is well known that the wayfarers unto God, after passing the way stations of what is other than he, arrived at the renowned place known as Istanbul | RSBB.126, MAS4.369x, ASAT1.108x, PYB#129 p.03 | WIND#139 | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement | - | - | ||||||||
| BH04844 | 200 | هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی آمن بالله لیجذبه ندآء الله الی عرش مولاه ان ربک | This is a Book from Our presence unto him who hath believed in God, that the call of God may draw him unto the throne of his Lord. Verily, thy Lord [3.5s] | INBA34:298, NLAI_BH1.020 | AQA1#165, ASAT4.317x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | ||||||||
| BH04861 | 200 | و اینکه در بارهٴ حرکت بدیار بکر مرقوم فرمودید بأسی نیست ولکن در جمیع احوال فرمودند | And concerning what thou didst write regarding the journey to Diyár-Bakr, there is no harm therein, yet in all circumstances He hath ordained [3.5s] | ASAT1.119.09x, ASAT2.016.16x, ASAT2.076.17x, ASAT3.026.02x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Acquiescence and resignation; contentment; Call to action; Consolation and comfort; Personal instructions; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||||||
| BH04862 | 200 | و کلمه‌ئی که الیوم مقدم است بر کل کلمهٴ مبارکهٴ اللهم انی اسئلک من بهائک بأبهاه | The Word which today precedeth all words is the blessed utterance: "O my God! I beseech Thee by Thy most glorious Glory!" [3.5s] | MAS8.021cx, ASAT2.086-087x, ANDA#70 p.22x | Law of Huququ'llah; Permission for visit; pilgrimage; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||||
| BH04864 | 200 | Trustworthiness; Huqúqu'lláh; Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | یا اباالحسن انشاء الله بعنایت مخصوصه حق فائز باشی و بما ینبغی لایام الله عامل | O Abu’l-Ḥasan! God willing thou art sustained by His lordly favours and art occupied with such deeds as befit His Day... Regard thou faith as a tree. Its fruits, leaves, boughs and branches are, and have ever been, trustworthiness, truthfulness, uprightness and forbearance | BLIB_Or15719.112d, | BRL_DA#025, BRL_HUQUQP#081x, COMP_TRUSTP#02x, MAS8.098x, ASAT1.199x | BRL_ATBH#39, BRL_HUQUQ#081x, BRL_TRUST#02x, COC#2014x | Acquiescence and resignation; contentment; Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Law of Huququ'llah; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | ||||||
| BH04966 | 190 | ان یا ابراهیم ان استمع ندآء ربک الکریم من ملکوت بیانه الممتنع القدیم لا اله | O Ibrahim! Hearken unto the call of thy Lord, the All-Bountiful, from the Kingdom of His utterance, the Impenetrable, the Ancient. There is no God [3.5s] | BRL_DA#468, ASAT4.070x, ANDA#22 p.03 | Call to action; Eulogies; reminiscences; Martyrs and martyrdom; The concourse on high; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | |||||||||
| 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 | |||||
| BH05157 | 190 | هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی استشرق من بوارق انوار ربه و استغرب عن الاوطان | This is a Book from Our presence unto him who hath been illumined by the splendors of his Lord's light and hath become a stranger to his homeland [3.5s] | INBA34:297b, BLIB_Or15736.045c, , NLAI_BH1.069b | AQA1#164, ASAT3.206x | Consolation and comfort; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Permission for visit; pilgrimage; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH05192 | 190 | یا الهی ان البهاء آنس بالبلاء فی حبک و رضائک کما آنس الحبیب بذکرک و ثنائک و | O my God! Bahá hath found solace in tribulation for love of Thee and Thy good-pleasure, even as the beloved findeth comfort in Thy remembrance and praise [3.5s] | INBA92:337 | AQA6#236 p.135, ASAT1.157x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love of God; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH05298 | 180 | ان یا رحیم فاخرج عن تلک الارض من قبل ان یخرج الغلام عن بینکم و کذلک نامرک ان | O Rahim! Depart thou from that land ere the Youth goeth forth from your midst. Thus do We bid thee [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15696.120f, | ASAT5.078x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Fellowship with the wayward and ungodly; Knowledge; recognition of God; Love of God; Personal instructions; Priestcraft; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| BH05305 | 180 | ان یا ورقتی اذا هبت علیک اریاح فضلی من مشرق عنایتی و حضر تلقاء وجهک لوح امری | O My leaf! When the winds of My grace waft upon thee from the Dayspring of My loving-kindness, and before thy face appeareth the Tablet of My Command [3.5s] | INBA34:308 | AQA1#178, ASAT2.005x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH05320 | 180 | Translation List | ای امه الله حمد کن خداوند یکتا را که ترا موید فرمود بر امریکه اکثر اماء ارض | O handmaid of God! Yield praise unto the peerless Lord that He hath confirmed thee in a Cause whereof most of the world’s women are deprived | INBA15:358a, INBA26:361 | ASAT3.199x | ADMS#212 | Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering; rejection of Christ | - | - | ||||||
| BH05461 | 180 | قد غدر شیاطین البیان فی امر ربهم الرحمن و احتالوا الی ان اشتعلت نار الافتتان | The demons of utterance have indeed betrayed the Cause of their Lord, the All-Merciful, and schemed until the fire of sedition was kindled [3.5s] | INBA73:070a, NLAI_BH1.466, NLAI_BH2.212a | BRL_DA#147, AVK4.481ax, QT108.126, ASAT4.519x | Consolation and comfort; Predictions and prophecies; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH05463 | 180 | قد کنا تفکرنا فی الارض و سمعنا حدیثها و اخبارها اذا طلعت من غرفه من غرفات | We had indeed contemplated the earth and hearkened unto its tale and its tidings, when there arose from one of the chambers [3.5s] | INBA19:188b, INBA32:171b, BLIB_Or15696.010d, , BLIB_Or15734.2.055, | AVK3.156.02x, AKHB.046, ASAT1.195x, ASAT3.136x | Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Suffering and imprisonment; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light | - | - | ||||||||
| BH05473 | 180 | قلم قدم احبای خود را که در تربت ساکنند ذکر می فرماید تا کل از نار ذکر الهی | The Ancient Pen maketh mention of His loved ones who dwell in Turbat, that all may be enkindled by the fire of divine remembrance [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15719.037a, | ASAT2.153x | Love of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| BH05545 | 180 | هذا کتاب نزل بالحق من لدن عزیز حکیم ینطق بانی انا المسجون فی هذا السجن العظیم | This is the Book which hath been sent down in truth from the presence of One Who is Mighty, All-Wise. It proclaimeth: "Verily, I am the Prisoner in this mighty prison." [3.5s] | INBA34:317, BLIB_Or15707.174, , BLIB_Or15735.323, | AQA1#191, ASAT4.416x, HYK.232 | Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Consolation and comfort; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH05571 | 180 | Prayers and Meditations | یا الهی تری عبدک جالسا فی السجن منقطعا عن دونک و ناظرا الی افق عنایتک و | Thou beholdest, O my God, Thy servant who dwelleth in this prison-house, wholly detached from any one but Thee | INBA35:021a, INBA48:154, INBA49:049, INBA92:167b, BLIB_Or15739.278, | PMP#063, AQMJ1.116, ASAT1.021x | PM#063 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Suffering and imprisonment; Thankfulness; gratitude | - | - | ||||||
| BH05638 | 170 | اگرچه دفتر عاشقان ببیان طی نشود و نامه مشتاقان بقلم امکان اتمام نپذیرد ولکن | Though the book of lovers cannot be traversed by mere narration, and the epistle of the yearning ones findeth not completion through the pen of the world, yet [3.5s] | INBA38:050a, INBA36:377, NLAI_BH1.335 | BRL_DA#616, ASAT4.016x, YBN.030c | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart | - | - | ||||||||
| BH05664 | 170 | ان قلم الاراده اراد ان یذکر احبائه فی آباده الذین نبذوا العالم و اقبلوا الی | The Pen of Will hath desired to make mention of His loved ones in Ábádih, who have cast aside the world and turned towards Him [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15713.261, , BLIB_Or15730.089b, | VAA.209-209, ASAT1.011x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH05692 | 170 | ای ذبیح از شاه میرزا نوشته بودی اینفقره بر آنجناب معلوم است که از شطر قدم حکم | O Dhabíh! Thou hast written concerning Shah-Mirza. This matter is known to that honored one, for from the Divine Court the decree hath [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#243, , BLIB_Or15722.073a, | AVK3.227.11x, ASAT4.186x, PYB#191 p.03 | Contention and conflict; Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Justice and wrath of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | ||||||||
| BH05761 | 170 | سبحان الذی جعلنی مسجونا فی هذه الارض التی سمیت بالبقعه الحمراء فی کتاب | Glorified be He Who hath made Me a prisoner in this land which hath been named the Crimson Spot in the Book [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15734.2.001, | ASAT1.255x, ASAT2.066x, ASAT4.164x | Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH05833 | 170 | قد شهد الله کتابک و اطلع بما فی سرک من حبه و ارسل الیک من هذا الرضوان نسایم | God hath indeed witnessed thy letter and perceived the love that dwelleth in thy heart for Him, and hath sent unto thee from this Ridván the gentle breezes [3.5s] | INBA36:076, INBA71:237b | RHQM1.150-151 (190) (112x), ASAT3.106x | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | ||||||||
| BH05876 | 170 | کتاب من لدی القیوم لقوم یفقهون و فیه کوثر الحیوان الذی جری من اصبع ربکم | The Book from the presence of the Self-Subsisting unto a people who understand, wherein floweth the Water of Life from the finger of your Lord [3.5s] | INBA34:305a | AQA1#173, ASAT4.492x | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH05905 | 170 | هذا حین فیه یغسلون الابن امام الوجه بعد الذی فدیناه فی السجن الاعظم | At this very moment My son is being washed before My face, after Our having sacrificed him in the Most Great Prison | INBA65:071x, BLIB_Or11095#128, , NLAI_BH1.532 | BRL_DA#248, BSHN.039, MHT2b.063, MAS4.108x, RHQM2.0788-789 (204) (125-126x), ASAT4.083x, AHB_127BE #03-04 p.068, AKHA_120BE #04 p.b, FBAH.226 | TDH#064.9x, GPB.188x, GPB.348x | Consolation and comfort; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ROB3.216, LL#179, LL#180 | ||||||
| BH06057 | 160 | ان یا غلام فاعلم بانا ارسلنا الیک کتابا من قبل انه لکتاب مبین ولکن المشرکین | O My servant! Know thou that We did send unto thee aforetime a Book - verily it was a manifest Book, yet the ungodly [3.5s] | INBA15:282a, INBA26:283b, NLAI_BH1.038 | ASAT4.026x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Rendering assistance to God; victory [nusrat]; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| BH06068 | 160 | انسان متحیر است چه که جمیع اهل بیان کذب و مفتریات قبل اهل فرقانرا دیده و شنیده‌اند | Man is bewildered, inasmuch as all the people of the Bayán have witnessed and heard the falsehoods and calumnies of the followers of the Qur'an before them [3.5s] | ASAT5.020x | Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||
| BH06096 | 160 | ای غلام مالک انام و سلطان ایام میفرماید طوبی از برای نفسیست که الیوم بذکر | O bondsman! The Lord of all names and the Sovereign of days proclaimeth: Blessed is the soul that today hath arisen to remember [3.5s]... ...The Mystic Wine of the one true God hath a different intoxication and imparteth another exhilaration. The one diminisheth the intelligence of man, the other increaseth it | INBA28:262, BLIB_Or11096#147, , BLIB_Or15696.035c, , BLIB_Or15734.2.120a, | AVK3.040.07, HDQI.010, ASAT4.252x, AHB_120BE #08 p.276, AKHA_123BE #08 p.b, AKHA_127BE #08 p.a | COC#1786x, ADMS#027 | Call to action; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||
| BH06102 | 160 | این انت یا ایها السائر فی البلاد این انت یا ایها الذاکر باسمی بین العباد | Where art thou, O thou who journeyest through the land? Where art thou, O thou who maketh mention of My Name amongst the servants [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15738.099, , NLAI_BH1.010 | ASAT2.041x | Consolation and comfort; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Praise and encouragement; Thankfulness; gratitude | - | - | ||||||||
| BH06114 | 160 | بنویس بجناب مهدی انا انطقنا النبیل قبل علی فی صغره لیشهدن الناس قدرتی و | Write, O Mahdi! Verily, We caused Nabil-i-'Ali to speak forth in his childhood that men might witness My power and [3.5s]... ...He, verily is but one of My servants... Should he for a moment pass out from under the shadow of the Cause | BRL_DA#105, MAS4.361x, MAS8.040a, ASAT5.100x | WTAB.006x, GPB.251x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Word of God the cause of creation | - | - | LL#246 | |||||||
| BH06228 | 160 | قد تجلی الرحمن علی طور الاکوان و تنطق سدره السبحان فطوبی لمن سمع نغماتها قد | The All-Merciful hath manifested Himself upon the Mount of all existence, and the Sacred Lote-Tree doth speak forth its melodies. Blessed, indeed, is he who heareth them [3.5s] | INBA27:483 | DWNP_v3#03-4 p.021-022, DWNP_v3#08 p.065, ASAT4.208x | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Suffering and imprisonment; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH06239 | 160 | قد طلعت شمس البقاء عن جبین البهاء طوبی لمن استشرق باشراقاها قد ظهرت طلعة القدس | The Sun of eternity hath dawned from the brow of Glory. Blessed be he who is illumined by its effulgent rays. The holy Countenance hath appeared [3.5s] | NLAI_BH2.060a | ASAT5.079 | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Presence of; reunion with God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH06423 | 150 | ان اشکر الله بما وفقک علی الطواف حول البیت الاعظم و فزت بالحج الاکبر ان احمد و | Give thanks unto God for having enabled thee to circle round the Most Great House and for having granted thee the bounty of attaining unto the Most Great Pilgrimage. Render praise and [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#279, | ASAT5.202x | Law of pilgrimage; Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Permission for visit; pilgrimage; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | ||||||||
| BH06432 | 150 | ان یا حبیب انا قد کنا احبک من قبل و نحبک حینئذ و سنحبک من بعد و ما کنا فی شان | O My beloved! Verily, We have loved thee from before, and We love thee now, and We shall love thee hereafter, and We have never wavered in this [3.5s] | ASAT1.132x, ASAT5.119x, ASAT5.146x | Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Mystical themes; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||
| BH06507 | 150 | حبیب روح و جان امر بدیع منیع مقدس از ذکر و بیان است و منزه از اشارۀ این و آن لم‌یزل این شمس | O beloved of spirit and soul! This wondrous and exalted Cause, sanctified above all mention and utterance, and hallowed beyond the allusions of any and all, hath from time immemorial been as a Sun [3.5s] | ASAT3.177x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love of God; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||||
| BH06619 | 150 | علیک سلام الله و رحمته قد راینا کتابک و قرئناه لا تحزن عما ذکر فی الکوز ان ربک لهو البحار | Upon thee be the peace of God and His mercy! We have beheld thy letter and read its contents. Grieve thou not over that which was mentioned concerning the cup, for verily thy Lord is the Ocean [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#284, | ASAT5.200x | Consolation and comfort; Praise and encouragement; Predictions and prophecies | - | - | ||||||||
| BH06839 | 1150 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh | یا زین علیک بهائی و عنایتی مکتوب شما و اسم کریم علیه بهائی را عبد حاضر لدی العرش | O Zayn, upon whom rest My glory and loving-kindness! the servant in attendance before the Throne hath received thy letter and the name of the honored one, upon whom rest My glory [3.5s]... ...All praise be to God Who hath adorned the world with an ornament, and arrayed it with a vesture, of which it can be despoiled by no earthly power | BRL_DA#653, GWBP#163 p.219bx, AVK3.409.17x, AVK4.266.07x, MAS8.046x, ASAT4.092ax, ASAT4.388x, ASAT5.257x | GWB#163x | Consultation; Order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | LL#365, LL#449 | ||||||
| BH06917 | 140 | امپراطور فرانسه شخصی بود در مقام قول اعظم از جبال و در مقام عمل اقل از خردل | The Emperor of France was one who, in words, soared higher than the mountains, yet in deeds, was accounted as less than a mustard seed [3.5s] | ASAT5.187x, ASAT5.187-188x | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Words vs deeds | - | - | |||||||||
| BH06927 | 140 | امین اگر تفصیل این ارض را خواسته باشید ان الذباب فیها استنسر لذا اوقعه الله | O Trustworthy One! If thou desirest a detailed account of this land, verily therein the fly hath deemed itself an eagle, wherefore God did cast it down [3.5s] | BLIB_Or11096#137, | ASAT3.267x | Consolation and comfort; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Justice and wrath of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | ||||||||
| BH06954 | Lawh-i-Karim 3 | 140 | Translation List | Lawh-i-Karim (Tablets to Karim) | ان یا کریم ان استمع ندآء ربک الابهی من السدره المنتهی ینطق انه لا اله الا هو | O Karím! Hear thou the voice of thy Lord, the Most Glorious, coming from the Divine Lote-Tree; it proclaimeth | INBA34:323, BLIB_Or15707.187, , BLIB_Or15735.333, , NLAI_BH3.185 | AQA1#200, ASAT5.030x, HYK.333, NSS.200, OOL.B050c | ADMS#233 | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | * | - | ||||
| BH06963 | 140 | انا دخلنا البستان و استوینا علی العرش الواقع علی الماء و کانت الشمس تلعب فی | We entered the garden and established Ourselves upon the throne that rested above the waters, whilst the sun played therein [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15715.041a, | ASAT4.330x | Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Predictions and prophecies; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH06970 | 140 | انسان بمثابه معدن که دارای احجار کریمه است مشاهده میشود بتربیت جواهر اخلاق | Man is even as a mine rich in precious gems; through education can its treasures of character be revealed [3.5s] | ASAT2.196x, PYB#219 p.03 | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Education and the development of capacity; Exhortations and counsels; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||||||
| BH06979 | Ziyarat-Namiy-i-Jinab-i-Ukht | 140 | اول ذکر خرج من لسان العظمه و الکبریاء علیک یا ایتها الورقه العلیا و المشرقه | The first remembrance uttered by the Tongue of Majesty and Grandeur rest upon thee, O thou exalted leaf shining from the horizon of Command | Majlis210461.101-102 | NNY.090, ASAT4.079x, AKHT1.376 | LTDT.269 | Chastisement and requital; Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Praise and encouragement; Visitation Tablets | - | - | ||||||
| BH07075 | 140 | ذکر من لدی المذکور لکل ذاکر قام علی نصره امر الله لیجد عرف الرحمن من هذا | The remembrance from the One who is Remembered be unto every mindful one who hath arisen to aid the Cause of God, that he may inhale the fragrance of the All-Merciful from this [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15715.141a, | ASAT5.143x | Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power of the Manifestation of God; Praise and encouragement; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH07147 | Tablet of the Hair 1 | 140 | Tablets of the Hair | Alvah-i-Sha'arat (Tablets of the Hair) | شهد شعری لجمالی بانی انا الله لا اله الا انا قد کنت فی ازل القدم الها فردا | My hair beareth witness for My Beauty that verily I am God and that there is none other God but Me. | BLIB_Or11098.029a | LHKM3.068, MUH3.272, ASAT3.023x, OOL.B191.01, OOL.B191.03 | BLO_PT#202 | God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | LL#400 | |||
| BH07320 | 140 | یا احبائی فی الهاء و المیم ان استمعوا ندآء ربکم الرحمن الرحیم انه ما غفل عنکم قد ذکرکم | O My loved ones in Há and Mím! Hearken unto the voice of your Lord, the All-Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Verily, He hath not been unmindful of you, and hath remembered you [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15730.037c, | ASAT5.271x | Call to action; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Praise and encouragement | - | - | ||||||||
| BH07404 | 140 | یا غلام الحمد لله موفق شدید برضای دوست یکتا و عمل نمودید آنچه را که امر فرمود | O Ghulam! Praise be to God that thou hast been enabled to attain unto the good-pleasure of the One True Friend and hast acted according to His command [3.5s] | INBA28:266 | ASAT4.427x | Attaining good pleasure of God; Belief and denial; Condition of search; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Purpose; goal of creation; Scarcity of receptive souls | - | - | ||||||||
| BH07485 | 130 | ان البیان ینادی بهذا الاسم و یطوف حول اراده ربه ولکن القوم فی وهم مبین انا | Verily, the Bayan calleth out unto this Name and circleth round the will of its Lord, yet the people remain in manifest error [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15696.004b, , BLIB_Or15734.2.039b, | ASAT2.105x | Belief and denial; Chastisement and requital; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH07723 | 130 | فسبحانک اللهم یا الهی انک لتعلم بان العباد کلهم اتفقوا علی ذلتی و انت ایدتهم | Glorified art Thou, O my God! Thou verily knowest that all the servants have united to humble me, whilst Thou hast strengthened them [3.5s] | INBA92:040b | ASAT2.054x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; The cloud ['ama] | - | - | ||||||||
| BH07725 | 130 | قال القائم ان القیوم یاتی بالحق و انه اذا قام یقوم الناس لرب العالمین انه | The Forerunner hath proclaimed: "Verily, the Self-Subsisting shall come with truth, and when He ariseth, the people shall arise for the Lord of all the worlds." [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15734.2.029a, | ASAT4.531x | Knowledge; recognition of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| BH07747 | 130 | قد سمعنا ندائک و تجلینا علیک من افق هذا السجن العظیم ان اشکر الله ربک بما توجه الیک طرفه | We have heard thy call, and have manifested Ourselves unto thee from the horizon of this mighty Prison. Give thanks unto God, thy Lord, inasmuch as His glance hath been directed towards thee [3.5s] | ASAT2.177x, ASAT4.130x, YBN.228a | Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Thankfulness; gratitude | - | - | |||||||||
| 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 | - | - | ||||||||
| BH07924 | 130 | یا ایها المتشبث بذیل عنایتی ان استمع ندائی من شطر فضلی | O thou who clingest to the hem of My loving-kindness! Hearken unto My call from the realm of My grace [3.5s] | INBA41:008 | ASAT2.135x, MSBH3.431x | Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| BH08261 | 120 | سبحانک یا الهی تری بانی حبست فی هذه المدینه التی لم یسکن فیها احد الا اهلها و | Glorified art Thou, O my God! Thou seest how I am imprisoned in this city wherein none dwelleth save its inhabitants [3.5s] | INBA51:293, INBA49:073b, INBA92:327b | SFI04.008a, QT108.059-060, ASAT4.347x, FBAH.207 | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| BH08369 | 120 | قل ان یا احبائی ثم اصفیائی اسمعوا ندآء هذا الحبیب المسجون فی هذا السجن | Say: O My beloved ones and My chosen ones! Hearken unto the call of this Beloved Prisoner in this prison [3.5s] | INBA38:100a | ASAT4.126x | Avoidance of Covenant-Breakers; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | - | - | ||||||||
| BH08537 | 200 | ملکوت حمد و شکر و جبروت ذکر و ثنا اولیای مالک اسما و فاطر سما … یا حاجی در بیت الهی که الیوم مطاف عالم است تفکر نما در اول ایام | The Kingdom of praise and thanksgiving, and the Realm of remembrance and glorification, belong to the chosen ones of the Lord of Names and Creator of Heaven... O pilgrim! Reflect thou upon the House of God, which in this Day is the Point of Adoration for all the world, in the beginning of days [3.5s] | ASAT2.108x, YIA.120ax | Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||
| BH08586 | 120 | یا محسن کلما اضرمنا علیک النار انک لاتشتعل اذا بعهنا نار الخلد علی هیکل اللوح | O Mohsen! Every time We kindle the fire against Thee, Thou art not consumed. Thus have We ignited the Fire of Eternity upon the Temple of the Tablet [3.5s] | ASAT4.068x, YMM.215x | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||||
| BH08655 | 110 | امروز جذب اعمال عشاق آفاقرا اخذ نموده و جمیع اشیا بذکر و ثنای منقطعین ناطق | In this day the magnetic power of the deeds of the lovers hath seized the horizons, and all things speak forth in praise and glorification of them that are detached [3.5s] | INBA23:099c, BLIB_Or15703.053, | BRL_DA#234, LHKM2.184, PZHN v2#1 p.119, ASAT3.168x, AHB_131BE #01-02 p.141, BSHI.020, TISH.023 | Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| BH08736 | 110 | ای کنیز الهی انشاء الله لم یزل و لایزال بذکر محبوب متعال مشغول باشی ذکر حق | O handmaid of God! God willing, mayest thou be ever and eternally occupied with the remembrance of the Most Exalted Beloved [3.5s] | INBA65:230, INBA35:050b, BLIB_Or03116.081.01, , BLIB_Or11096#176, , BLIB_Or15710.019b, | ASAT1.049x, AHB_121BE #09 p.292 | Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||
| BH08741 | 110 | Translation List | ای کنیز خدا جمال قدم در سجن اعظم مستقر و عشرین نفس از اماء الهی حبا لله با | O handmaid of God! The Ancient Beauty dwelleth in the Most Great Prison, and twenty handmaids of the Divine… Arise ye in the Cause like unto men. Many are the women regarded today as men in the sight of God, while some of the men have been accounted as women | BLIB_Or11096#187, , BLIB_Or15710.021b, | ASAT4.128x, PYM.232bx | ADMS#266 | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Role and station of women; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||
| BH08834 | 110 | سبحانک اللهم یا الهی ترانی بین ایدی الاعدا و الابن محمرا بدمه امام وجهک یا من | Glorified art Thou, O Lord, my God! Thou seest me in the hands of Thine enemies | INBA92:405a | BRL_DA#265, NFR.171, ASAT4.416x, FBAH.227 | TDH#064.11x, GPB.188x, JHT_S#194 | Sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world; Suffering and imprisonment; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ROB3.213, LL#485 | ||||||
| BH09036 | 110 | مظلوم عالم از افق سجن اعظم دوستان الهی را ندا میفرماید و ببیانات مقدسه متذکر | The Wronged One of the world calleth, from the horizon of the Most Great Prison, unto the friends of God and remindeth them through sacred utterances [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15715.106b, | ASAT3.059x | Chastisement and requital; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH09086 | 110 | یا الهی هذا غصن انشعب من دوحه فردانیتک و سدره وحدانیتک تراه یا الهی ناظرا | This is the Branch that hath extended from the bower of Thy Oneness... ...Thou knowest, O my God, that I desire for Him naught except that which Thou didst desire | INBA81:090, BLIB_Or15696.127d, | BRL_DA#402, AHM.109, HDQI.006a, AHDW.009, KKD2.002, ASAT4.414x, AHB_128BE #06-11 p.197, ANDA#03 p.47 | GPB.243x, WOB.136x, SW_v04#13 p.235, SW_v05#15 p.226, SW_v08#14 p.184 | Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant | - | - | LL#353 | ||||||
| BH09144 | 110 | یا غصنی الاعظم قد حضر لدی المظلوم کتابک و سمعنا ما ناجیت به الله رب العالمین | O thou my Greatest Branch! Thy letter was surely presented before this oppressed one, and I heard that which | INBA81:087b | BRL_DA#440, AHM.105, HDQI.007, AHDW.008, YHA1.012-013, ASAT4.412x, AHB_128BE #06-11 p.197, ANDA#03 p.48, ANDA#43-44 p.02, QALAM.014 | GPB.243x3x, WOB.135-136x, SW_v04#14 p.239, SW_v05#15 p.228, SW_v08#14 p.184 | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for the spiritual progress of others | - | - | LL#091 | ||||||
| BH09154 | 110 | یا محمد قبل حسن این ایام نار ظلم بید ظالم برافروخته شد و دماء مطهره جمعی از | O Muhammad-Qablí-Hasan! In these days the fire of tyranny hath been kindled by the hand of the oppressor, and the pure blood of a company of [3.5s] | ASAT5.306x, YBN.028a | Chastisement and requital; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Justice and wrath of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||||
| BH09193 | 100 | از همشيره بيچاره ميپرس که با چند نوع از علّت ناخوشی از آن بيت خارج شده و در خانهٴ جناب کليم بکمال فرح | Ask of that hapless sister, who, afflicted with various maladies and ailments, departed from that house and, with utmost joy, entered the home of Jinab-i-Kalim [3.5s] | ASAT5.222x | Consolation and comfort; Personal instructions; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||
| BH09214 | 100 | امروز آیات عظمت از سماء مشیت الهی بمثابه غیث هاطل نازل و عرفش عالم معانی و | In this day the verses of grandeur are descending from the heaven of divine Will like unto a copious rain, and their fragrance perfumeth the realm of inner meaning [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15695.021, | ASAT3.218x | Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH09304 | 100 | اینکه در باره شخص اجنبی از اهل اروپا نوشته بودند عرض شد فرمودند امثال آن نفوس | Concerning that which was written regarding the foreigner from among the people of Europe, it was presented [before Him], and He declared that such souls [3.5s] | ASAT1.278x | Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Review of publications; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | |||||||||
| BH09430 | 100 | صبح امید دمید و فجر یوم ظاهر و قلم اعلی باین کلمه مبارکه ناطق انشاء الله در | The dawn of hope hath broken, the morn of this Day is manifest, and the Most Exalted Pen speaketh forth these blessed words: God willing [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15696.033c, , BLIB_Or15734.2.114b, | LHKM1.179, ASAT4.232x, PYB#125 p.05 | Knowledge; recognition of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH09464 | 100 | قد حضر عبد الحاضر لدی الوجه ... ان یا زین نحمد الله بأن قدسک من شین المشرکین | The servant in attendance presented himself before the Countenance... O Zayn! We render praise unto God that He hath sanctified thee from the blemish of the ungodly [3.5s] | MAS8.011x, ASAT4.091x, MSBH5.449x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Call to action; Law of pilgrimage; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||
| BH09544 | 100 | کتاب نزل من سماء مشیه الله و زین دیباجه بهذا الاسم الذی به حدث الاضطراب فی کل | The Book hath descended from the heaven of God's Will, adorned with this Name whereby all things were thrown into consternation [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15715.149a, | ASAT2.116x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Chastisement and requital; Thankfulness; gratitude; Word of God and human limitations | - | - | ||||||||
| BH09628 | 100 | یا امتی قد رقم لک کتاب کریم انه من لدی الرحمن الرحیم و حالت بینک و بینه حجب | O My handmaiden! A glorious Book hath been inscribed for thee, verily it proceedeth from the All-Merciful, the Most Compassionate, and veils have interposed between thee and it [3.5s] | NLAI_BH1.031a | ASAT2.005x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | ||||||||
| BH09882 | 90 | شهد القلم الاعلی بانک توجهت الی الملکوت و سمعت ندآء الله رب العالمین و شربت | The Supreme Pen beareth witness that thou hast turned unto the Kingdom and hearkened unto the call of God, the Lord of the worlds, and hast drunk [3.5s] | BLIB_Or15696.089f, | ASAT4.448x | Praise and encouragement; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | ||||||||
| BH10068 | 760 | Huqúqu'lláh | ذکر من لدنا عباد الذین ذکرت اسمائهم لدی المظلوم الذی سجن فی هذا الحصن المتین… یا حزب الله فی فاران انا ذکرناکم من قبل بما لا تعادله ... اینکه ارادۀ زیارت بیت نمودید نزد مظلوم مقبول و محبوبست ... یا قوم اول امر عرفان حق جل جلاله | This is a remembrance from Our presence unto those servants whose names were mentioned before the Wronged One, Who hath been imprisoned in this mighty fortress [3.5s]... ...Thine intention to pay a visit to the blessed House is acceptable and well-pleasing in the sight of this Wronged One, provided it is accomplished in a spirit of joy and radiance | BRL_DA#387, BRL_HUQUQP#002x, AVK4.135.13x, MAS8.025ax, ASAT4.430x, FRH.040-042 | BRL_HUQUQ#002x, COC#1129x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Permission for visit; pilgrimage; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Twin duties of recognition and obedience | - | - | |||||||
| BH10302 | 80 | شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو العزیز الجمیل و ان نقطه البیان لعبده و بهائه لمن | God testifieth that there is none other God but Him, the Mighty, the Beauteous, and that the Point of the Bayán is verily His servant and His Glory [3.5s] | INBA36:077b, INBA71:238b | ASAT2.103x | Praise and encouragement; Suffering and imprisonment; Thankfulness; gratitude; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab | - | - | ||||||||
| BH10335 | 80 | فلما ختم الله النبویة حبیبه وعد العباد لقائه یوم القیامة کما انتم فی الکتاب تقرؤون بحیث ما احصینا | When God sealed Prophethood through His Beloved One, He promised His servants that they would attain His presence on the Day of Resurrection, even as ye read in the Book, where nothing hath been left unrecorded [3.5s] | ASAT5.068x | Chastisement and requital; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BH10404 | 80 | و ان رأیت الهآء قل اف لک و بما اکتسبت فی ایام الله تالله هذه لأیام وعدتم بها فی الألواح | And shouldst thou behold the letter Há, say: Woe betide thee and that which thou hast wrought in the Days of God! By God! These are indeed the Days whereof ye were promised in the Tablets [3.5s] | ASAT5.354x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Prayer for forgiveness; Prayer for nearness to God; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | |||||||||
| BH10465 | 80 | یا عباس ملیک ناس امروز با کمال فرح و نشاط ذکر اهل بساط مینماید ایشان هفت | O Abbas, King of men! On this day, with utmost joy and gladness, He maketh mention of the companions of the Divine Court. They are seven [3.5s] | ASAT5.306x, YBN.027b | Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | |||||||||
| BH10780 | 60 | اول نفحة تضوعت من الوحی و اول نور سطع من افق الوجه علیک یا من فزت بایام المظلوم | The first fragrance that wafted from Revelation and the first light that shone forth from the horizon of the Countenance be upon thee, O thou who hast attained unto the days of the Wronged One [3.5s] | ASAT2.159x, ASAT4.084x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Presence of; reunion with God; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||||
| BH10816 | 60 | در حفظ کتاب الهی سعی بلیغ مبذول دارند چه که مجدد امام وجه قرائت شده | Let them strive with utmost endeavor to preserve the Divine Book, for it hath again been recited before His Countenance [3.5s] | ASAT1.278x | Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings | - | - | |||||||||
| BH10823 | 60 | سبحان الذی ظهر بالحق و اظهر ما اراد بامره کن فیکون انه لهو الذی به ظهر | Glorified be He Who hath appeared with the truth and hath revealed whatsoever He willeth through His command "Be, and it is!" Verily, He is the One through Whom manifestation hath appeared [3.5s] | ASAT2.097x | Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BH10837 | 60 | طوبی لک انت الذی فی صغرک اعترفت بکبریاء الله و عظمته طوبی لام رضعتک و قامت | Blessed art thou who in thy tender youth hast recognized the greatness and majesty of God. Blessed be the mother who nursed thee and arose [3.5s] | INBA19:107a, INBA32:098b, BLIB_Or15696.090e, | ASAT4.043x | Education of children; moral education; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God | - | - | ||||||||
| BH10867 | 60 | لله الحمد یوم اول عید بمبارکی اعمال صحیحه مستقیمه حضرت سلطان عبد الحمید ایده الله | Praise be to God! This first day of the Festival hath been made blessed through the righteous and steadfast deeds of His Majesty Sultan Abdul-Hamid, may God strengthen him [3.5s] | ASAT3.025x | Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Praise and encouragement | - | - | |||||||||
| BH10881 | 60 | هذا ذکر من لدنا للذی عاشر مع ربه و ما عرفه و سمع ندآءالله و ما اجابه و فی کل حین | This is a remembrance from Us unto him who hath companioned with his Lord yet knew Him not, who hath heard the Call of God yet answered it not, at every moment [3.5s] | ASAT5.106x | Chastisement and requital; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Manifestation of God as sun | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11000 | 50 | ان قلمی الاعلی اراد ان یذکر فی الاول افنانه الذی اقبل فی اول ایامه و قام علی | Verily, My Most Exalted Pen desireth to make mention, at the outset, of My Afnán who advanced in his earliest days and arose [3.5s] | ASAT1.158x | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Prayer for the spiritual progress of others | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11004 | 230 | ان یا امتی ان اجتذبی من نغماتی ثم اشربی من کاس عنایتی ثم استظلی فی ظل سحاب | O My handmaiden! Be thou attracted by My melodies, then drink from the cup of My loving-kindness, and abide beneath the shade of My clouds [3.5s] | NLAI_BH2.033 | ASAT1.224x | Love of God; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Mindfulness; concentration; focus; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| BH11023 | 50 | ای دوستان تفکر نمائید در آنچه ظاهر شده و وارد گشته مطلوب ظاهر و جمیع عباد | O friends! Reflect upon that which hath appeared and come to pass. The Desired One is manifest, and all are His servants [3.5s] | ASAT4.331x | Chastisement and requital; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Idle fancies; lust and passion; Praise and encouragement; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11038 | 120 | یا اسم جود علیک بهائی دو نامه از جناب جواد علیه بهاء الله و عنایته ... ایشان از نفوسی هستند که در اول ایام بوجه الهی توجه نمودند | O Ism-i-Júd! Upon thee be My glory! Two letters have been received from His honor Javád, upon him rest the glory of God and His loving-kindness... He is among those souls who in the early days turned towards the countenance of God [3.5s] | ASAT3.057-058x, YIA.198-199x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Power of the Manifestation of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11041 | 50 | آب زندگانی بیان الهی است و همچنین بیناتش جهد نمائید شاید اهل عالم از این کوثر | The water of life is the divine utterance, and likewise His clear evidences. Strive ye, that perchance the peoples of the world from this heavenly stream [3.5s] | AVK2.183.07x, ASAT5.049x | Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Love of God; The power of words; of speech; Unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11059 | 50 | ذکر من لدی المظلوم الی الذین آمنوا بالله المهیمن القیوم لیاخذهم فرح ذکری | A remembrance from the Wronged One unto those who have believed in God, the Protector, the Self-Subsisting, that they may be seized with the joy of My remembrance [3.5s] | ASAT1.167x | Exhortations and counsels; Praise and encouragement; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11082 | 1900 | الهی الهی بهجرک ذابت الاکباد و بفراقک احترقت افئده العباد الهی الهی ... طوبی لأهل خآء الذین سمعوا الندآء و اجابوا ربهم الناطق العلیم | O my God, my God! Hearts have melted at Thy separation, and through estrangement from Thee the souls of Thy servants are consumed. O my God, my God! ... Blessed are the people of Khá who have hearkened unto the Call and answered their Lord, the All-Speaking, the All-Knowing [3.5s] | BRL_DA#518, ASAT3.161.05x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Personal instructions; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11118 | 50 | لعمر الله از حزب شیعه ظلمی بر حضرت خاتم وارد که جز حق احدی احصا ننموده | By the life of God! Such injustice hath been inflicted by the Shí'ih faction upon the Seal of the Prophets as none save God alone can reckon [3.5s] | ASAT4.225x | Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Seal of the Prophets; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11123 | 50 | لم یزل یبدع ما یشآء کما یشآء و یخترع ما یرید بما یرید لم یکن علة الا انشائک | He hath ever created whatsoever He willeth, as He willeth, and fashioned whatsoever He desireth through whatsoever means He desireth. No cause existed save His creation [3.5s] | ASAT2.030x | Creation of the world; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Word of God the cause of creation | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11136 | 50 | یا احمد قبل علی ان استمع ندآء مالک القدم الذی ارتفع من شطر سجنه الاعظم و قل | O Ahmad-'Ali! Hearken thou unto the Voice of the Ancient of Days, which hath been raised from the direction of His Most Great Prison, and say [3.5s] | ASAT5.246x | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for assistance; intercession | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11145 | 50 | یا الهی اسئلک باسمک الدی جعلته مهیمنا علی کل الاسماء بان تقدر لی ما ینفعنی | O my God! I beseech Thee by Thy Name which Thou hast made sovereign over all names, to ordain for me that which shall profit me [3.5s] | ASAT5.177x | Prayer for forgiveness; Service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11151 | 50 | یا اولیاء الله فی ارضه و اصفیائه فی بلاده اسمعوا ندا المظلوم انه یذکرکم بما | O ye chosen ones of God in His earth and His sincere ones in His lands! Hearken unto the call of Him Who hath been wronged; verily He remembereth you with that which [3.5s] | ASAT4.300 | Call to action; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11176 | 50 | Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh | یا غصن اعظم لعمر الله نوازلک کدرتنی ولکن الله یشفیک و یحفظک و هو خیر کریم | O Most Great Branch! By My life! Thy tribulations have grieved Me, but God shall heal thee and preserve thee, for He is the Best, the All-Bountiful [3.5s]... ...The glory of God rest upon Thee and upon whosoever serveth Thee and circleth around Thee | INBA81:087a | BRL_DA#244, AHM.106, HDQI.006b, AHDW.009, ASAT4.413x, AHB_128BE #06-11 p.196, ANDA#03 p.46 | BRL_ATBH#42, WOB.135x | almunajat.com [item 20] | Chastisement and requital; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Praise and encouragement | - | - | LL#092 | ||||
| BH11187 | 50 | یا محمود بشارت اولی که در این ایام ظاهر توجه حضرت علی قبل اکبر بسجن فی سبیل | O Mahmud! The first glad-tidings manifested in these days is the turning of His Holiness 'Alí-Qablí-Akbar towards imprisonment in the path of God [3.5s] | ASAT1.202x | Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11190 | 50 | یا مهدی علیک بهائی الیوم باید جناب سید مصطفی علیه بهائی | O Mihdi! Upon thee be My Glory! Today, His honor Seyyed Mustafa, upon him be My Glory [3.5s] | ASAT5.259x | Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Knowledge; recognition of God; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11221 | 40 | ان یا اسم الرحیم فلا تنظر الى من فی البیان الا بسر الله و حجابه فانا کنا ساترین | O Thou Who art named the Merciful! Look not upon them that are in the Bayán except through the mystery of God and His veil, for verily We have been the Concealer [3.5s] | ASAT3.219x | Proclamation to people of the Bayan | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11235 | 40 | ای دوست به طراز جعد مشکینت که مسکینان وادی طلب را شوکت بلای جدید از ساحت رجا | O friend! By the ornament of Thy musk-scented locks, which have brought upon the destitute ones in the valley of search fresh affliction from the realm of hope [3.5s] | ASAT1.019x | Pain of love; love as veil; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11247 | 40 | بقدرت خود کاذب را یعنی صادق ارض طا را اخذ نموده و | By His power He seized the false one - namely, the truthful one of the Land of Ṭá - and [3.5s] | ASAT4.275x | Rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11256 | 40 | دستخط حضرت محبوبی جناب عندلیب علیه بهآء الله الأبهی که از سجن مرقوم فرموده بودند رسید | The missive penned by the Beloved Lord, addressed to His honor 'Andalíb - upon him be the Glory of God, the Most Glorious - which was inscribed from the prison, hath arrived [3.5s] | ASAT4.397x | Justice and wrath of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11326 | 40 | یا اولیائی چون اسم قریه نزد مظلوم پسندیده بود لذا تغییر ندادیم امید هست که از قلم اعلی به ام القری | O My loved ones! Since the name of the village was pleasing unto the Wronged One, We therefore made no change therein. It is Our hope that from the Most Exalted Pen it may be designated as the Mother of Cities [3.5s] | ASAT1.187.14x | Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11373 | 30 | از جمله در سورهٴ مبارکهٴ هیکل که بعض آن از ارض سر بعراق رفته و بعضی اجزاء بعد از ورود سجن اعظم ارسال شده ملاحظه فرمايند | Consider thou, for instance, the blessed Surih of the Temple, of which certain portions were revealed in Iraq and some parts subsequent to arrival in the Most Great Prison [3.5s] | ASAT5.277.11x | Banishment to; life in 'Akka | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11380 | 30 | ان لا تعتنوا الذین یدعون العلم فی انفسهم و لا یخافنکم کبر عمائمهم | Pay no heed to those who claim knowledge unto themselves, nor let the grandeur of their turbans inspire you with fear [3.5s] | ASAT5.226x | Rejection, opposition and persecution; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11383 | Lawh-i-Zaynu'l-Muqarrabin(?) | 30 | ان یا زین المقربین فاعلم بان کل ما سمعت فی هذالامر قد ظهر بامری العزیز المقتدر | O Zaynu'l-Muqarrabin! Know thou that whatsoever thou hast heard concerning this Cause hath appeared through My mighty and powerful Command [3.5s] | ASAT4.091x, ASAT4.530x | Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; High station of the true believer; Power of faith; power of the spirit; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||
| BH11384 | 30 | ای جواد این سنه شداد است للعباد سنه قضاست لاجلنا ان ورد علینا فانا خیر راض و | O Javád! This is a year of grievous trials for the servants, a year of destiny ordained for Us. Should it come upon Us, verily We are well-content [3.5s] | ASAT4.193x | Law of Huququ'llah; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11387 | 30 | ای دوستان از شوکت علمای جاهل خائف مشوید این ارض و آنچه در او موجود است | O friends! Be not afraid of the pomp of the ignorant divines. This earth and whatsoever existeth therein [3.5s] | ASAT4.374-375x | Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Power of prayer; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11392 | 180 | ذکری عبدی الذی حبس فی سبیلی و سبی لذکری و طرد لحبی لتجذبه آیاتی... ایاک ان یحزنک شوکة الأعدآء عن ذکر ربک الأبهی | Call thou to mind My servant who was imprisoned in My path, taken captive for My remembrance, and banished for love of Me, that My verses might draw him... Let not the thorns of thine enemies grieve thee in the remembrance of thy Lord, the All-Glorious [3.5s] | NLAI_BH1.061 | ASAT1.153-154x | Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| BH11394 | 30 | این ذکری است از سدره حب که بر ساحت دل نازل است و ناری است از مکمن قرب که در طور | This is a remembrance from the Lote-Tree of Love that hath descended upon the plain of the heart, and a fire from the sanctuary of nearness that blazeth upon the Mount [3.5s] | ASAT1.019x | Love as fire; Mystical themes; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11398 | 30 | تلک آیات الکتاب نزلت بالحق من جبروت الله العلی العظیم ... و اصدق ما عندکم من سنن الل | These are the verses of the Book, sent down in truth from the dominion of God, the Most High, the Most Great... and the most trustworthy of what ye possess of God's ordinances [3.5s] | ASAT4.182x | Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11409 | Seal of Baha’u’llah #09 | 30 | شهد الله لنفسه بنفسه باننی انا حی فی الافق الابهی و اذا ینطق فی هذا الافق فی کلشیئ بانی | Verily, God testified of Himself through His self that I am living in the most glorious horizon. Whereupon I announce to all things that verily I am God | INBA51:532a | KHSH04.016, ASAT3.169x, AMIN.017#4 | KSHK#19 | Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||
| BH11415 | 30 | فسبحان الذی رفع هذا السماء بغیر عمد و دحی الارض علی الما و سخر الاریاح و صرف | Glorified be He Who hath raised up this heaven without pillars, and spread forth the earth upon the waters, and subjected the winds and caused them to flow [3.5s] | ASAT4.440x | Chastisement and requital; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Proclamation to people of the Bayan; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11429 | 30 | م ی ل ان قد نزل عن جهة العرش للذی سمی بابراهیم | That which hath descended from the direction of the Throne unto him who hath been named Ibrahim [3.5s] | ASAT5.183x | The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11438 | 30 | یا حرف الجیم ان استمع ما تنطق به کلمه الله فی السجن | O Letter Jim! Hearken unto that which the Word of God doth speak from within the prison [3.5s] | ASAT3.003x | Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcending the material condition; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11445 | 30 | یا محمد جعفر انشاءالله بعنایت الهی فائز باشی حق جل جلاله عباد خود را در کتب و صحف و زبر نصیحت فرمود | O Muhammad-Ja'far! May thou be favored through divine bounties. The True One, exalted be His glory, hath counseled His servants in the Books, the Scriptures and the Psalms [3.5s] | ASAT3.208x | Exhortations and counsels; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11472 | 20 | ان یا ورقه الفردوس ان استمعی ندآء مالک البریة | O Leaf of Paradise! Hearken thou unto the call of the Lord of creation [3.5s] | ASAT5.291x | - | - | ||||||||||
| BH11480 | 20 | این وجودات رذلیه دنیه که فصلهٴ جمیع مفقودین و مردودین | These base and abject beings who are the quintessence of all the lost and rejected ones [3.5s] | ASAT5.356x | Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11492 | 20 | ذکر الله فی شجره الفردوس للملاء العالین و ینطق بالحق فی جبروت الامر لعل | The remembrance of God hath been raised from the Tree of Paradise unto the Concourse on High, and proclaimeth the truth in the dominion of His Cause, that haply [3.5s] | ASAT4.018x | Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11501 | 20 | طوبی از برای امائی که بحبل متین تمسک جستند | Blessed are the handmaidens who have clung fast to the mighty cord [3.5s] | ASAT3.075x | Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11517 | 20 | مقصود از آفرینش عرفان الله بوده و چون نور ساطع و عرف متضوع کل غافل الا من شاء الله | The purpose of creation hath ever been the recognition of God, and like unto a radiant light and a wafting fragrance, all remain heedless save whom God willeth [3.5s] | ASAT2.159x | Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Knowledge; recognition of God; Purpose; goal of creation | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11523 | 1560 | یا علی قبل اکبر علیک بهاء الله مالک القدر ان افنانی علیه بهائی... هر هنگام بروح و ریحان وافع شود و بحکمت موافق توجه | O 'Alí-Qabli-Akbar! Upon thee be the glory of God, the Lord of Destiny. Verily, My Afnán, upon him be My glory... whenever he approacheth with spirit and sweet fragrance, and turneth with wisdom [3.5s] | ASAT4.198x, TISH.064-068 | Acting according to the exigencies of the day; pragmatism; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11525 | 20 | و کذلک اظهرنا تیهور الأمر عن هذا التاهور الذی ارتفع فی هذا الهوآء ثم احصرت منه دیجور القدس فی هذا البلد الأمین | Thus have We revealed the manifestation of the Cause from this Epiphany that hath been raised in this atmosphere, whereupon the sanctified darkness was confined in this trusted land [3.5s] | ASAT5.197-198x | Chastisement and requital; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Prayer for protection; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11564 | 10 | فاستمع ندآء ربک عن یمین العرش خلف الف حجاب من الحریر الدِمَقس المنیر | Hearken thou unto the Call of thy Lord from the right of the Throne, beyond a thousand veils of luminous damask silk [3.5s] | ASAT3.254x | Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light | - | - | |||||||||
| BH11571 | 10 | یا ارض الخضراء استمع ندآء مالک الاسماء انه یذکرک بما | O Verdant Land! Hearken unto the Call of the Lord of Names, for verily He maketh mention of thee with that which [3.5s] | ASAT3.207x | - | - |
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