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Khutba on gematria and its sister

‘ilmi’l-Huruf va Ukhtiha

1100 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد عرف ذاته بایاته المتجلیه فی غرا لفواد بغیر تشبیه و لا تفریق لیشهد الکل فی مقعد الفضل

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise be to God Who hath enabled the gnosis of His Essence to be realized through His verses which express theophanic self-disclosure within the grandeur of the inmost heart

Manuscripts (5)Translations (1)Notes (4)

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

INBA67:228-233

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v067/?page=230

INBA91:030.07-036.06

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v091/?page=32

INBA_5006C:315-317

Not yet online

INBA_5019C:322-324

Not yet online

INBA_6004C:209-213

Not yet online

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

HURQ.BB20x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/sites/hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/kh-ilm_al-huruf.pdf

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#06.09

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

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.063

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=18

SRC.187

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=43

SRC.191

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=45