Tablet catalog
Lawh-i-Pap
OOL 01 00369 Phelps: BH 00347
BH 00347•Bahá’u’lláh•Arabic
Lawh-i-Pap
Tablet to Pope Pius IX
1900 words

ان یا پاپا ان اخرق الاحجاب قد اتی رب الارباب فی ظلل السحاب و قضی الامر من

Notes:
Included in the Suriy-i-Haykal
Translation:
Official translation
O Pope! Rend the veils asunder. He Who is the Lord of Lords is come overshadowed with clouds, and the decree hath been fulfilled by God
Abstract:
Announces the return of Christ, ‘come down from Heaven even as He came down from it the first time’; warns of the ‘veils of human learning’ that threaten to obscure this truth; calls on the monks to come forth from their seclusion; summons the people of all religions to hasten unto the most great Ocean; asserts the power of His revelation to overcome all opposition; bids the Pope to abandon his worldly riches and adornments; and proclaims to the Christians that John the Baptist has reappeared in the person of the Báb while the promised Father foretold by Isaiah and the Comforter promised by Christ has appeared in the person of Bahá’u’lláh.
# Name Source
#1 Lawḥ-i-Páp (Tablet to the Pope) Source Arabic
# Name Source Translations Resources
#1 لوح البابا بيوس التاسع Source Arabic Translations English 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
INBA34:026
https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v034/?page=28
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_Or15705.018
Not yet online
CMB. Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, E.G. Browne collection. See BRHL for details. Link to catalog entries: https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/subject_sh2009116570
CMB_F31.032
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
PR11.026a-031a
https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0181
NRJ. Nidá-i-Rabb-i-Junúd. Bahá’í World Centre, n.d. Original language texts corresponding to SLH. https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/summons-lord-hosts
NRJ#1a
http://www.bahai.org/r/605295696
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#001a
https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/Q1/q1-6.html
RHQM. Ishráq-Khávarí, Abdu'l-Ḥamíd. Raḥíq-i Makhtúm (2 vols.). Bahá'í- Verlag, 2007. Commentary on the “Lawḥ-i-Qarn” (101 B.E. Naw-Rúz message) of Shoghi Effendi. Entries in this catalog refer to three different editions respectively: BPT Iran 103 B.E., BPT Iran 130 B.E., Verlag 2007. 103 B.E. edition: Vol. 1, https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/652.pdf; Vol. 2, https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/653.pdf
RHQM1.141-142 (180) (106-106x)
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/652.pdf#page=82
SLH. The Summons of the Lord of Hosts. Haifa: Bahá’í World Centre, 2002. Bahá’u’lláh’s call to the monarchs of the world. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/summons-lord- hosts/
SLH#01a
http://www.bahai.org/r/991628547
BSC. Bahá'í Scriptures. Brentanos, 1923. Compilation of Writings and talks by Bahá’u’lláh and Abdu’l-Bahá. Early translations, some unreliable. http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/
BSC.098 #041
http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/
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
ROB3.116
https://d9263461.github.io/cl/Baha'i/Others/ROB/V3/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.166
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf#page=178
MMAH.229
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf#page=241
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.124
https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/GS/gs-124.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#208
http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#208