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Tafsir-i-Hadith-i-Nahnu Wajhu'llah

520 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم ما تفسیر قوله علیه السلام نحن وجه الله. فاعلم ان عرباً من العرباء من اهل البادیه سئل عن علی ع عن وجه الله فی قوله

Translation:

Provisional translation

And know thou that an Arab among the Arabs of the Bedouin people asked [Imam] `Alī about the Wajh Allāh (the Face of God) as indicated in His statement: "So wherever you turn there is the Face of God!"

Manuscripts (7)Translations (1)Notes (3)

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

INBA14:489-491

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v014/?page=491

INBA53:056-058

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v053/?page=58

INBA67:138-140

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v067/?page=140

INBA_4011C:115-118

Not yet online

INBA_6004C:195-197

Not yet online

INBA_6006C:069-070

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

PR07.061r-061v

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0145

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

HURQ.BB40x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/1011/

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.459.17

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf#page=473

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.072

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=23

SRC.200

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