Tablet catalog
Words to Shaykh Salman, spoken on 1915-01-10
OOL 06 10297 Phelps: ABU 0793
ABU 0793•‘Abdu’l-Bahá•Persian
Reported Utterance
Words to Shaykh Salman, spoken on 1915-01-10
370 words

این مسئله مسلم عموم است که شر قویتر از خیر است شر شر سریع التاثیر است

Notes:
Alternative Eng texts: KHH and DAS
Translation:
Provisional translation
It is universally recognized that evil is stronger than good. Evil has a rapid effect, whereas good is slow in its impact.
KHH. Mu'ayyad, Ḥabíb. Kháṭirát-i Ḥabíb (2 vols.). BPT Iran, 118 B.E., reprinted Bahá'í-Verlag, 2004. Pilgrim notes from various times between 1907 and 1915. Catalog entries refer to both paginations (118 B.E. edition second). Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf, Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/355.pdf; 118 B.E. edition: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/515.pdf
KHH1.145-147 (1.202-203)
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=176
KHHE. Mu’ayyad, Ḥabíb. Eight Years Near ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. n.p., 2007. English translation of KHH. Vol. 3 of “Witnesses to Bábí and Bahá’í History”. https://bahai- library.com/pdf/r/rabbani_diary_habib_muayyad_2013_hidden.pdf
KHHE.217-218
http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf
DAS. Diary notebooks and letters of Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Dec. 1912 – Jun. 1915. English and Persian diary notebooks and letters held in the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Often quoted in other sources such as SW. Catalog entries are indexed by date and include only the English notebooks and letters. Letters from 1 Jul 1913 through 19 Oct. 1914 found here: https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914
DAS.1915-01-10
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BSR. Bahá'í Studies Review. Association for Bahá’í Studies for English- Speaking Europe, 1991- . Academic journal. Selected individual articles posted at http://bahai-library.com/series/BSR
BSR_v13 p.087
https://bahai-library.com/rabbani_abdulbaha_abu_sinan