Tablet catalog
The Appearance of the Spirit in the Body
OOL 05 10434 Phelps: AB 00919
AB 00919•‘Abdu’l-Bahá•Persian
The Appearance of the Spirit in the Body
Some Answered Questions #052
410 words

حکمت ظهور روح در جسد اینست روح انسانی ودیعهء رحمانیست

Question:
What is the wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body?
Translation:
Official translation
The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a divine trust
# Name Source Translations
#1 Some Answered Questions, The Appearance of the Spirit in the Body Source Persian Translations Arabic
# Name Source Translations
#1 مفاوضات - حكمة ظهور الروح في الجسد Source Persian Translations English
# Name Source Translations Resources
#1 مفاوضات - حکمت ظهور روح در جسد Source Persian Translations English Arabic Resources
MFD. Mufáviḍát-i-‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Mir'at, 1993. Original Persian text of SAQ. In this catalog each of the 84 chapters is given its own ID.  https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/ and https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1541.pdf
MFD#52
https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-145.html
SAQ. Some Answered Questions. Revised translation, U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 2014. English translation of MFD. In this catalog each of the 84 chapters is given its own entry. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative- texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/
SAQ#52
http://www.bahai.org/r/852749203
BWF. Bahá’í World Faith: Selected Writings of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1943. https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up
BWF.313-314
https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up