Tablet catalog
Suriy-i-Qalam
OOL 01 00355 Phelps: BH 00334
BH 00334•Bahá’u’lláh•Arabic
Suriy-i-Qalam
1970 words

ان یا قلم الاعلی ان اشهد فی نفسک بانه هو الله لا اله الا انا المهیمن القیوم

Translation:
Official translation
O Pen of the Most High! Bear thou witness, in thine own self, that verily He is God and that there is none other God but Me
Abstract:
A celebration of the festival of Riḍván, taking the form of a series of apostrophes to His Pen, the denizens of earth and heaven, the concourse of monks, and the Maid of Heaven.
# Name Source Resources
#1 سورة القلم Source Arabic 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
INBA37:115
https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v037/?page=122
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_Or15692.012
Not yet online
BLIB_Or15706.001
Not yet online
BLIB_Or15714.049
Not yet online
BLIB_Or15725.239
Not yet online
NLAI. Manuscripts held at the National Library and Archives of Iran, Tihran. https://www.nlai.ir/ Includes “BH1” (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH1_.pdf), “BH2” (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH2_.pdf), “BH3” = KB_622 (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NLAI.BH3_.pdf), “BH4” = KB_834 (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NLAI.BH4_.pdf), “BH_AB” (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH_AB_misc.pdf), and “NLAI_22848” = KB_833 (https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/833.pdf)
NLAI_BH1.083
http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH1_.pdf#page=105
NLAI_BH2.204
http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH2_.pdf#page=204
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
AQA4#089 p.258
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/566.pdf
SFI. Safíniy-i-`Irfán. Asr-i-Jadid, 1998-2020 (22 vols.). Papers presented in Persian at Irfán colloquia. http://irfancolloquia.org/publications/ (index only); https://oceanoflights.org/table/Collections-Publications-02-fa/
SFI14.036-045n
https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_14.pdf#page=36
TZH. Mázandarání, Fáḍil. Táríkh-i Ẓuhúr al-Ḥaqq (9 vols.). Vols. 3 and 8 published in Iran 1941/42 and 1975/76; vols. 3 and 4 republished 2008 and 2011 by Bahá’í-Verlag. Encyclopedic history of the Faith. https://www.h- net.org/~bahai/index/diglib/mazand1.htm (ms images) and https://oceanoflights.org/chapter/historical-works-fa (typed volumes)
TZH4.268-270
http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/arabic/vol2/tzh4/tzh4.htm
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.124
http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/RTT/rtt-123.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
ASAT1.111x
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/427.pdf#page=62
ASAT3.015x
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/429.pdf#page=10
ASAT3.136x
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/429.pdf#page=70
ASAT4.508x
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf#page=256
AMB. Ayyám-i-Mutabarrakiy-i-Bahá’í: Muntakhabátí az Áthár-i-Názilih az Qalam-i-Ḥaḍrat-i-Bahá’u’lláh. Original language version of Days of Remembrance (DOR). https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/days-remembrance/
AMB#23
https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/days-remembrance/4#514114322
DOR. Days of Remembrance: Selections from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh for Bahá’í Holy Days. Bahá’í World Centre, 2016. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/days- remembrance/
DOR#23
http://www.bahai.org/r/370567443
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#095
https://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_surah_pen
HURQ. Lambden, Stephen. Academic website with texts, provisional translations, and notes. https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/scholarship/haykal- writings-b%C4%81b
HURQ.BH47
https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/3221/
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
ROB2.397
https://d9263461.github.io/cl/Baha'i/Others/ROB/V2/Contents.html
SFI. Safíniy-i-`Irfán. Asr-i-Jadid, 1998-2020 (22 vols.). Papers presented in Persian at Irfán colloquia. http://irfancolloquia.org/publications/ (index only); https://oceanoflights.org/table/Collections-Publications-02-fa/
SFI14.036-045
https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_14.pdf#page=36
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.159
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf#page=171
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.192
https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/GS/gs-192.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#324
http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#324