Tablet catalog
Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-12
OOL 06 30192 Phelps: ABU 1613
ABU 1613•‘Abdu’l-Bahá•Persian
Reported Utterance
Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-12
190 words

مردم از قول حق خاضع نمیشوند ولی اگر عمل حق ببینند خاضع میشوند

Notes:
Alternative Eng texts: KHH and DAS
Translation:
Provisional translation
People do not become submissive because of virtuous dictums; but rather, when they observe righteous deeds, they grow submissive. (DAS: Generally the people are not impressed by the words of the Divine Manifestation but if they hear about His actions they will humble themselves immediately.)
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
KHH1.212 (1.297)
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=243
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.310-311
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.1915-04-12
https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_13.pdf#page=84
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.100
https://bahai-library.com/rabbani_abdulbaha_abu_sinan