Tablet catalog
Hurufat-i-'Alin
OOL 01 00071 Phelps: BH 00064
BH 00064•Bahá’u’lláh•Arabic and Persian
Hurufat-i-'Alin
Kalimat-i-'Uliya; the Exalted Letters
5270 words

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی کیف یتحرک القلم و یجری المداد بعد ما انقطعت نسائم

Translation:
Official translation
Pure and sanctified art Thou, O my God! How can the pen move and the ink flow after the breezes of loving-kindness have ceased
Abstract:
A meditation on mortality, death, suffering, and theodicy, in remembrance of a cousin who had recently died.
# Name Source Resources
#1 الحروفات العاليات (الجزء العربي) Source Arabic Resources
# Name Source Resources
#1 حروفات عاليات (جزء فارسي) Source Persian Resources
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
INBA36:281
https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v036/?page=282
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_Or15714.157
Not yet online
BRL. “Bahá'í Reference Library”: Authoritative source of original texts and authorized translations, maintained and frequently updated and expanded by the Bahá’í World Centre. Subsections defined for this catalog: BRL_APBH (Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh), BRL_ATBH (Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh), BRL_ATE (Additional Tablets, Extracts, and Talks of Abdu’l-Bahá), BRL_CHILD (Prayers and Tablets for Children), BRL_CONF2018 (Compilation for the 2018 Counsellor’s Conference), BRL_CONSULT (Consultation; original quotations here), BRL_CUHJ (Compilation on the Universal House of Justice; original language version COMP_CUHJP), BRL_CRISIS (Crisis and Victory), BRL_DA (Digar Alvah – Additional Tablets Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh), BRL_DAK (Digar Alvah va Khitabat – Additional Tablets and talks by Abdu’l-Bahá), BRL_FAM (Family Life), BRL_FIRE (Selections from Fire and Light [=NANU]), BRL_IOA (Compilation on the Importance of the Arts in Promoting the Faith), BRL_IOPF (Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting), BRL_LSA (The Local Spiritual Assembly), BRL_MASHRIQ (The Institution of the Mashruqu’l-Adhkár; original quotations COMP_MASHRIQP), BRL_MEET (Bahá’í Meetings), BRL_PDL (Prayer and Devotional Life; original lquotations COMP_PDLP), BRL_PEACE (Peace; original quotations COMP_PEACEP), BRL_PMDA (Prayer, Meditation and the Devotional Attitude), BRL_SOCIAL (Compilation on Social Action), BRL_SCHOLAR (Compilation on Scholarship), BRL_TTT (Twelve Table Talks by Abdu’l-Bahá), BRL_SWO (To Set the World in Order: Building and Preserving Strong Marriages). Sequential numbering may be introduced based on order of entry. https://reference.bahai.org [legacy version with many additional texts]; https://www.bahai.org/library/
BRL_DA#035
http://www.bahai.org/r/162709905
AHM. Ad‘íyy-i Ḥaḍrat-i Maḥbúb. Egypt, 1339 A.H. [1920]. Prayers and Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh. Often reprinted. Pagination refers to original typesetting. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/556.pdf (Century Press 2004 reprint, with i'rab), https://oceanoflights.org/table/bahaullah-prayers-and-meditations-02-fa/ (typescript)
AHM.217
http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AHM/ahm-217.html
BSHN. Bisháratu'n-Núr. Bahá'í-Verlag, 140 B.E. (1st edition) and 144 B.E. (2nd edition). Prayers and Tablets relating to life after death. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/225.pdf (1st edition). https://oceanoflights.org/table/bahaullah-prayers-and-meditations-04-fa/ (2nd edition typescript) https://oceanoflights.org/table/bahaullah-prayers-and-meditations-05-fa/ (3rd edition typescript)
BSHN.054
Not yet online
MHT1a. Muntakhabátí az Alváḥ va Áthár-i-Mubárakih: Maḥáfil-i Tadhakkur. BPT Iran, 121 B.E. [1964]. Prayers and Tablets for memorial gatherings, superseded by BSHN. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf
MHT1a.002
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=3
MHT2b. Muntakhabát-i-Áthár-i-Mubárakih, vol. 2 (Maḥáfil-i Tadhakkur). BPT Iran, 134 B.E. [1978]. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/184.pdf
MHT2b.007x
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/184.pdf#page=7
TSBT. Ishráq-Khávarí, Abdu'l-Ḥamíd. Risáliy-i Tasbíḥ va Tahlíl. Bahá’í Publishing Trust of India, 1982. Occasional prayers of Bahá’u’lláh, in Arabic. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/552.pdf, typescripts available at https://oceanoflights.org/table/bahaullah-prayers-and-meditations-03-fa
TSBT.242
http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/RTT/rtt-241.html
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
ASAT3.087x
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/429.pdf#page=46
BRL. “Bahá'í Reference Library”: Authoritative source of original texts and authorized translations, maintained and frequently updated and expanded by the Bahá’í World Centre. Subsections defined for this catalog: BRL_APBH (Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh), BRL_ATBH (Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh), BRL_ATE (Additional Tablets, Extracts, and Talks of Abdu’l-Bahá), BRL_CHILD (Prayers and Tablets for Children), BRL_CONF2018 (Compilation for the 2018 Counsellor’s Conference), BRL_CONSULT (Consultation; original quotations here), BRL_CUHJ (Compilation on the Universal House of Justice; original language version COMP_CUHJP), BRL_CRISIS (Crisis and Victory), BRL_DA (Digar Alvah – Additional Tablets Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh), BRL_DAK (Digar Alvah va Khitabat – Additional Tablets and talks by Abdu’l-Bahá), BRL_FAM (Family Life), BRL_FIRE (Selections from Fire and Light [=NANU]), BRL_IOA (Compilation on the Importance of the Arts in Promoting the Faith), BRL_IOPF (Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting), BRL_LSA (The Local Spiritual Assembly), BRL_MASHRIQ (The Institution of the Mashruqu’l-Adhkár; original quotations COMP_MASHRIQP), BRL_MEET (Bahá’í Meetings), BRL_PDL (Prayer and Devotional Life; original lquotations COMP_PDLP), BRL_PEACE (Peace; original quotations COMP_PEACEP), BRL_PMDA (Prayer, Meditation and the Devotional Attitude), BRL_SOCIAL (Compilation on Social Action), BRL_SCHOLAR (Compilation on Scholarship), BRL_TTT (Twelve Table Talks by Abdu’l-Bahá), BRL_SWO (To Set the World in Order: Building and Preserving Strong Marriages). Sequential numbering may be introduced based on order of entry. https://reference.bahai.org [legacy version with many additional texts]; https://www.bahai.org/library/
BRL_APBH#01x
http://www.bahai.org/r/961798779
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#015x
https://bahai-library.com/shahzadeh_four_tablets_maryam
BLO_PT#090
https://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_hall_exalted_letters
HURQ. Lambden, Stephen. Academic website with texts, provisional translations, and notes. https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/scholarship/haykal- writings-b%C4%81b
HURQ.BH18x
https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/718/
ADMS. Personal web site of A. Masumian, with provisional translations and original texts. https://adibmasumian.com/translations/
ADMS#163x
https://adibmasumian.com/translations/bh00064_selected_persian_passages/
JHT. Personal web site with provisional translations by Joshua Hall. March 2017- . http://joshuahalltranslations.com/. JHT_S, “Supplications by Bahá’u’lláh”, contains 200 translations
JHT_B#005
http://joshuahalltranslations.com/the-suffering-of-the-most-exalted-letters/
ROB. Taherzadeh, Adib. The Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh (4 vols.). George Ronald, 1974-1987. Vol. 1: https://d9263461.github.io/cl/Baha'i/Others/ROB/V1/Cover.html, Vol. 2: https://d9263461.github.io/cl/Baha'i/Others/ROB/V2/Cover.html, Vol. 3: https://d9263461.github.io/cl/Baha'i/Others/ROB/V3/Cover.html, Vol. 4: https://d9263461.github.io/cl/Baha'i/Others/ROB/V4/Cover.html
ROB1.122
https://d9263461.github.io/cl/Baha'i/Others/ROB/V1/Contents.html
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.216
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf#page=228
GSH. Ishráq-Khávarí, Abdu'l-Ḥamíd. Ganj-i Sháyigán. BPT Iran, 124 B.E. [1967]. Summaries of best-known works of Bahá’u’lláh. https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/GS
GSH.025
https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/GS/gs-25.html
LL. “The Leiden List of the Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh”. Sen McGlinn, ed. Index of ~500 Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh. This catalog references the March 1999 version: https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai- library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html
LL#019
http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#19
LL#272
http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#272