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Lawh-i-Basitatu'l-Haqiqah

1700 words

و ما سئل السائل فی قول الحکماء بسیط الحقیقه کل الاشیاء قل فاعلم ان المقصود

Translation:

Provisional translation

As to the question the enquirer hath asked concerning the sage’s assertion, saying: the Element of Simple Reality is all things… words without deeds are as bees that yield no honey

Abstract:

Elucidates a statement by the philosopher Mullá Ṣadrá that ‘the uncompounded reality is all things’, offers a middle position between the doctrines of ‘the oneness of being’ and ‘the oneness of appearances’, observes that both positions can be upheld with reference to different sacred scriptures, and suggests that nothing is to be gained from disputation in such matters.

Persian (1)

#	Name		Source	Resources
#1	لوح بسيط الحقيقه		Source Persian	Resources

Manuscripts (8)Publications (10)Translations (5)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

INBA39:034

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v039/?page=37

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_Or11096#012

Not yet online

BLIB_Or15698.105

Not yet online

BLIB_Or15720.105

Not yet online

BLIB_Or15740.083

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_BH3.213

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NLAI.BH3_.pdf#page=213

LEID. Manuscripts at Leiden University, Netherlands, listed by Or number

LEID.Or4971-7

Not yet online

Majlis934.291-307

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Tablets_934.pdf

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#714

https://www.bahai.org/r/198531166

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

AVK1.104.06x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-129.html

IQT. Iqtidárát va Chand Lawḥ-i Dígar. BPT Iran, 1970. Collection of Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/24.pdf

IQT.105

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/IQT/iqt-105.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/

SFI05.008

https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_05.pdf#page=8

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

MAS7.140b

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MAS7/mas7-140.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

ASAT1.078x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/427.pdf#page=45

ASAT5.176x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/431.pdf#page=93

ASAT5.250x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/431.pdf#page=130

TUM. Tumansky, Alexander G. Kitabe akdes "sviashchenneĭshaia kniga" sovremennykh babidov. 1899. Handlist, in Russian, with the full texts of some well-known Tablets of Bahá’u’láh revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. http://bahaiarc.org/images/Research/Aqdas-Tumansky.pdf

TUM.061-064

http://bahaiarc.org/images/Research/Aqdas-Tumansky.pdf#page=112

VUJUD. Rafati, Vahid. Malakút-i-Vujúd. Asr-i-Jadid, 1998. Writings of Ali-Murad Davudi on the subject of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Tablet to Dr. Forel. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf

VUJUD.099x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf

LOIR. Lights of Irfan. Canadian Association for Bahá’í Studies, 1998 - . Academic journal. http://irfancolloquia.org/publications/

LOIR11.203

http://irfancolloquia.org/u/momen_haqiqa

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#141

https://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_lawh_basit_haqiqa

VUJUDE. Rafati, Vahid. The Kingdom of Existence (Malakút-i-Vujúd). Fundación Nehal, n.d. English translation of VUJUD. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf

VUJUDE.133-134x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf

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

HURQ.BH65x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/236/

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#016

https://joshuahalltranslations.com/tablet-on-the-simple-reality-law%e1%b8%a5-i-basi%e1%b9%adul-%e1%b8%a5aqiqih/

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.121

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf#page=133

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.185

https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/GS/gs-185.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#077

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#77