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Lawh-i-Ahbab

3770 words

هذا کتاب من لدنا الی الذی اذا سمع الندا من شطر ربه الابهی قال بلی یا اله من

Translation:

Provisional translation

This is a Book from Our presence unto him who, when he heard the Call from the direction of his Most Glorious Lord, responded "Yea, verily, O my God!" [3.5s]... ...O Pen of Revelation! Call thou to mind the Baptizer. Say: The Day of baptism hath come. Blessed is the one who hath baptized himself with the baptism of God

Abstract:

Addresses various followers with words of advice and encouragement, calling them to be united, to be detached from the things of the world, and to promote the cause of God, and lamenting the Bábís and others who have rejected His message.

English (1)

Arabic (1)

#	Name		Source	Resources
#1	Lawh-i-Ahbab		Source Arabic	Resources

#	Name		Source	Translations	Resources
#1	لوح الاحباب		Source Arabic	Translations English	Resources

Manuscripts (2)Publications (6)Translations (2)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

INBA34:069

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v034/?page=71

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_Or11095#001

Not yet online

AQA. Áthár-i Qalam-i A`lá (7 vols). Bombay and BPT Iran, 1890-1978. Collection of Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh: Vol. 1 is the "Kitáb-i-Mubín" comprising the Súriy-i-Haykal and other Tablets in descending order of length; Vol. 2 also in descending order of length and based on earlier manuscripts containing the Kitáb-i-Aqdas as the first item; Vol. 3 includes early and mystical works; vol. 4 is best-known works from the Baghdad and Adrianople periods (two versions, 4a preceding 4); vol. 5 is Tablets mainly addressed to Bahá’ís in Qazvín. Republished by the Canada Association for Bahá’í Studies (2002- 2006) in 3 volumes, vol. 1 = old Vol. 1 (https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/565.pdf), vol. 2 = old vols. 2,3,4 (https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/566.pdf), vol. 3 [typescript] = old vols. 5,6,7 (https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/567.pdf). Pagination in this catalog follows the old series but Tablet numbering follows the new series

AQA1#002

https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/Q1/q1-7.html

AVK. Mázandarání, Fáḍil. Amr va Khalq (4 vols.). Bahá'í-Verlag, 1985. Thematic compilation of extracts. http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ English translation of table of contents: https://bahai-library.com/mazandarani_mccants_khalq_contents

AVK4.476ax

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-480.html

MAS. Má'idiy-i Ásmání (8 vols.). BPT Iran, 129 B.E. Reprinted in 3 volumes by Bahá’í Publishing Trust of India 1984-1985 (new vol. 2, writings of ‘Abdu’l- Bahá, = old vols. 2, 5, 9; new vol. 3, writings of Shoghi Effendi, = old vols. 3, 6) and Mir’át 2005 (new vol. 1, writings of Bahá’u’lláh, = old vols. 1, 4, 7, 8). Vols. 1, 4, 7, 8: https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/; vols2. 2, 5, 9: https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/. Vol. 9 exists in two different typesettings and paginations; this catalog uses the pagination contained in the BPT India reprint, which trails the online version by several pages

MAS4.159x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MAS4/mas4-159.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

ASAT3.071x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/429.pdf#page=38

BCH. Barnámiy-i Jashnháy-i Mu'avíy-i I`lán-i Amr-i Ḥaḍrat-i Bahá'u'lláh. BPT Iran, 1967. Centenary program for the Declaration of Bahá’u’lláh. https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/bch.pdf

BCH.032x

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/bch.pdf#page=29

PYK. Rafati, Vahid. Payk-i Rástán. Asr-i-Jadid, 2005. Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to Ismulláh al-Asdaq and family. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1484.pdf

PYK.031x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1484.pdf#page=48

ADMS. Personal web site of A. Masumian, with provisional translations and original texts. https://adibmasumian.com/translations/

ADMS#244

https://adibmasumian.com/translations/bh00130/

BTO. Provisional translations posted inter alia at the web site http://bahaiteachings.org

BTO#02x

https://bahaiteachings.org/gods-colors-color-god/

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

ROB3.258

https://d9263461.github.io/cl/Baha'i/Others/ROB/V3/Contents.html

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.187

https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/GS/gs-187.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#038

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#38