TY  - CHAP
ID  - 3237
UR  - https://bahai-library.com/sharon_clouds_hiding_god
WT  - Baha'i Library Online
T1  - Clouds and the Hiding God: Observations on some Terms in the Early Writing of Bahá'u'lláh
T2  - Lights of Irfán
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A1  - Sharon,Moshe
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Y1  - 2012
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VL  - 13
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SP  - 363
EP  - 379
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PB  - Haj Mehdi Armand Colloquium
CY  - Wilmette, IL
M1  - 
M3  - Articles
SN  -         
LA  - English
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AB  - Metaphorical usage of clouds and rain in the mystical Tablets Rashh-i-Amá, Lawh Kullu't-Ta'ám, and Qasídiyyih-Varqá'iyyih.
N1  - This paper was first posted in Word format at Hebrew University of Jerusalem [archive.org], where the author is the Chair in Bahá'í Studies. It was later published in Lights of Irfan, and is mirrored here with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/sharon_clouds.
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KW  - Ama (cloud)
KW  - Clouds
KW  - Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'ám (Tablet of All Food)
KW  - Metaphors and allegories
KW  - Mysticism
KW  - Qasidiyyih-Varqaiyyih (Ode of the Dove)
KW  - Rain
KW  - Rashh-i-Ama (Sprinkling from the Cloud of Unknowing)
KW  - Symbolism
ER  -