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Tafsir-i-Suratu'l-Baqarah

Kitab al-Ahmadiyya

Commentary on the Surah of the Cow I

43700 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الم ذلک الکتاب لا ریب فیه هدی للمتقین هذه الایة لاهل الحقیقة معرفة الله سبحانه

Translation:

Provisional translation

"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

Manuscripts (16)Publications (1)Translations (6)Notes (10)

INBA. Iranian National Bahá’í Archives volumes. Two-digit entries are from the 105-volume private printing, Iran, 1975. Digitally reprinted by the Afnan Library: https://afnanlibrary.org/inba/, with typed volumes available at https://oceanoflights.org/chapter/manuscripts-fa/. Four- digit entries suffixed by “C” are taken from SRC Appendix 1; 6007C can be found at http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/INBA.6007C.pdf

INBA69:157-377

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v069/?page=159

INBA_6004C:002-178

Not yet online

INBA_6014C:001-296

Not yet online

INBA_6012C.060-257

Not yet online

PR. Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series (William McElwee Miller Collection). https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47

PR02.001v21-044v14

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0002

PR03.043r-043rx

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0045

PR40.003v-095v

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0281

CMB. Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, E.G. Browne collection. See BRHL for details. Link to catalog entries: https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/subject_sh2009116570

CMB_F08

Not yet online

BLIB. Manuscripts in the British Library, London, listed by Or number. For a handlist of works of the Báb see Chapter 25 of https://archive.org/details/descriptivelisto00brituoft/page/n3. Regarding manuscripts in the series Or16590 through Or15740, which together comprise half of all known works of Bahá’u’lláh, including some 4,000 items which are uniquely accessible in this series: These were the bequest of a descendent of the family of Bahá’u’lláh; were mostly transcribed by Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alí, and are likely to have been derived in part from the two stolen satchels of Bahá’u’lláh’s papers mentioned in GPB p.249 and MMK4#189 p.276. While included here owing to their importance, their degree of fidelity to the originals has not yet been ascertained

BLIB_Or5277

Not yet online

BN. Manuscripts at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Listed by manuscrits Arabe number. Searchable here by shelfmark: https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/advancedSearch/

BN_5780

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10032060r/f3.image

BN_5805

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10032085t/f4.image

BN_6610

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10031655h/f4.image

LEID. Manuscripts at Leiden University, Netherlands, listed by Or number

LEID.Or4371-8

Not yet online

OXF. Bodlean Library, Oxford University. Manuscripts indexed at https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/subject_sh85010741

OXF.MS.Arab.e.59-60

Not yet online

IOM. Bábí Manuscripts in the Institute of Oriental Languages (later Institute of Oriental Manuscripts), St. Petersburg. See "Die Sammlung von Morgenlandischen Handschriften" (1865), pp. 57ff. and http://www.orientalstudies.ru/eng/images/pdf/p_wmo_2_2015.pdf

IOM.090-091x

http://www.orientalstudies.ru/eng/images/pdf/p_wmo_2_2015.pdf#page=90

HBH. H-Bahai: Scanned images of manuscripts and publications hosted by H-Net at Michigan State University. http://www.h- net.org/~bahai/index/diglib/arapub.htm

HBH_baqarah (=INBA 69)

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/

ASAT. Mázandarání, Fáḍil. Asráru’l-Áthár (5 vols.). BPT Iran, 1973. Encyclopedic glossary of Bahá’í terminology.
Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/427.pdf, Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/428.pdf, Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/429.pdf, Vol. 4: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf, Vol. 5: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/431.pdf

ASAT2.064x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/428.pdf#page=33

TAME. Lawson, Todd. Tafsir as Mystical Experience: Intimacy and Ecstasy in Quran Commentary: Tafsír Súrat al-Baqara of Sayyid ‘Alí Muḥammad Shírází, the Báb. Brill, 2019. Monograph. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/TAME.pdf

TAME

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/TAME.pdf

BLO. Bahá’í Library Online (www.bahai-library.com). Private, independent repository of Bahá’í-related resources including provisional translations (BLO_PT) and pilgrims’ notes (BLO_PN). Numbering follows the 16 Nov 2019 snapshot available at https://web.archive.org/

BLO_PT#216.019-020

https://bahai-library.com/kazemi_mysteries_alast

GOH. Saiedi, Nader. Gate of the Heart. Wilfrid Laurier, 2008. Exposition on the teachings of the Báb, with numerous provisional translations. http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf

GOH.119-121x

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=126

GOH.204x

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=211

GOH.251-252x

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=258

HURQ. Lambden, Stephen. Academic website with texts, provisional translations, and notes. https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/scholarship/haykal- writings-b%C4%81b

HURQ.BB01x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/48

FHR. Kitáb-i-Fihrist of the Báb, index of contents as listed in SRC pp.50-53. Items on this list are all dated 1845 or earlier

FHR#09

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=12

NSS. Rafati, Vahid. Nasím-i-Saḥarí. Bahá'í-Verlag, 171 B.E. [2014]. Shaykhí concepts in the Bábí and Bahá’í Writings. https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/nss.pdf

NSS.021-022

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/nss.pdf#page=19

BRHL. Browne, E.G. Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts Belonging to E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932. Includes list of mss in the Cambridge “F” series. https://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/LO/AA/00/56/59/00001/PDF.pdf

BRHL.59

https://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/LO/AA/00/56/59/00001/PDF.pdf#page=81

MSBR. Browne, E.G. Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion. Cambridge, 1961. https://bahai-library.com/browne_materials_study_babi

MSBR.202-203

https://bahai-library.com/browne_materials_study_babi

AHDA. Afnán, Abu'l-Qásim. ‘Ahd-i A`lá. Oneworld, 1999. Biography of the Báb. https://oceanoflights.org/table/the-bab-published-03-fa (selected typescripts), http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf

AHDA.455.05

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf#page=469

MMAH. Ḥisámí, Ḥabíbu'lláh. Manabi'-i-Maṭáli'-i-Amrí, Bakhsh-i-Avval: Áthár. n.p., n.d. Summaries of best-known Works, with sources. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf

MMAH.011

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf#page=23

SRC. MacEoin, Denis. The Sources for Early Bábí Doctrine and History. Brill, 1992. https://books.google.com/books?id=xqV9-zmMxsUC. Appendix 1 contains the most complete previous inventory of the Báb’s Writings

SRC.046-047

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=9

SRC.201

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=50

GOH.030

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=37

GOH.118

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=125