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Bisharat

Glad-Tidings

1320 words

حق شاهد و مظاهر اسماء و صفاتش گواه که مقصود از ارتفاع ندآء و کلمه علیا آنکه

Translation:

Official translation

God, the True One, testifieth and the Revealers of His names and attributes bear witness that Our sole purpose in raising the Call

Abstract:

Proclaims fifteen ‘glad-tidings’: the abolition of holy war, consorting in fellowship with the followers of all religions, the adoption of a universal auxiliary language, the obligation to faithfully serve just monarchs, obedience to government, the establishment of the ‘Lesser Peace’, freedom in choice of clothing and cut of beard, abandonment of monasticism, forbidding the confession of sins, abrogating a law of the Báb regarding the destruction of books, exalting useful work to the status of worship and forbidding mendicancy, entrusting the affairs of the people to the House of Justice, abrogating the requirement of making special journeys to visit the graves of the dead, and commending a combination of republicanism and monarchy in the governance of human affairs.

English (2)

Arabic (2)

Persian (2)

#	Name		Source	Translations
#1	Bishárát (Glad Tidings)		Source Persian	Translations Arabic
#2	Bishárát (Glad_Tidings)		Source Persian	Translations Arabic

#	Name		Source	Translations	Resources
#1	البشارات (سورة النداء)		Source Persian	Translations English	Resources
#2	سورة النداء (البشارات)		Source Persian	Translations English	Resources

#	Name		Source	Translations	Resources
#1	بشارات (لوح ندا)		Source Persian	Translations English Arabic	Resources
#2	سوره ندا (بشارات)		Source Persian	Translations English Arabic	Resources

Manuscripts (5)Publications (10)Translations (15)Notes (7)

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

INBA30:042

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v030/?page=25

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_Or07851.043b

Not yet online

KB. Digital images of books and manuscripts orginally hosted at the Kitábkhániy-i-Bahá’í website (bahailib.com), now hosted at https://bahai-library.com/bahailib

KB_262:033-041

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/262.pdf#page=033

PR. Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series (William McElwee Miller Collection). https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47

PR05.002b-007a

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0132

BN. Manuscripts at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Listed by manuscrits Arabe number. Searchable here by shelfmark: https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/advancedSearch/

BN_suppl.1753.069-075

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84470396/f78.image

ADM. Ad`íyyih Mubárakih (3 vols.). Editora Baha’i - Brazil, 2003. Prayers of Bahá’u’lláh. Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/557.pdf, Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/558.pdf, Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/559.pdf

ADM2#108 p.195x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/558.pdf#page=195

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

AVK3.431.02x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-435.html

AVK4.248.04x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-252.html

AVK4.282ax

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-286.html

MJMM. Majmú`ih-yi Maṭbú`ih-yi Alváḥ-i Mubárakih-yi Ḥaḍrat-i Bahá'u'lláh. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1978. Collection of Tablets originally published in Cairo 1920. https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MR/download.html, https://oceanoflights.org/table/bahaullah-published-01-fa/ (typescript)

MJMM.116

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MR/mr-117.html

UAB. Uṣúl-i `Aqáyid-i Bahá'íyán. Bahá'í-Verlag, 1983. Basic principles of the Bahá’í Faith. http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/UAB.pdf

UAB.057cx

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/UAB.pdf#page=30

BSHA. Bishárat-i `Uẓmá. BPT Iran, 1957. Prayer book, containing the obligatory prayers

BSHA.066x

Not yet online

PYB. Payám-i Bahá'í. Beausoleil, France: Mahfil-i Ruhání-i Millí-i Faránsah Bará-yi Bahá’íyán, 1979- . Periodical journal. https://www.h- net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/Payam-i_Bahai.htm

PYB#188 p.04x

http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/188.PDF#page=4

ADH. Adhkár al-Muqarrabín (2 vols., vol. 2 in two different editions). BPT Iran, 1959. Collection of prayers of Bahá’u’lláh (vol. 1) and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (vol. 2); vol. 2 superseded by MMG

ADH1.086x

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_1.pdf

TBP. Majmú`i'í az Alváḥ-i Jamál-i Aqdas-i Abhá kih ba`d az Kitáb-i Aqdas Názil Shudih. Bahá'í-Verlag, 1980. Original language version of TB. https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/tablets- bahaullah/

TBP#03

https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/tablets-bahaullah/tablets-bahaullah.pdf#page=6

TB. Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. Bahá’í World Centre, 1978. Republished by U.S. BPT under the title “Fountain of Wisdom”. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative- texts/bahaullah/tablets-bahaullah/

TB#03

http://www.bahai.org/r/675522240

LOG. Hornby, Helen, ed. Lights of Guidance (1994 ed.). Bahá’í Publishing Trust of India, 1994. http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance

LOG#0410x

http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=2#n410

LOG#2105x

http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2105

LOG#2116x

http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2116

GPB. Shoghi Effendi. God Passes By. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1944. History of the first century of the Bahá’í Faith. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/shoghi-effendi/god- passes-by/

GPB.218x

http://www.bahai.org/r/114849639

PDC. Shoghi Effendi. The Promised Day Is Come. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1980. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/shoghi- effendi/promised-day-come/

PDC.026x

http://www.bahai.org/r/659711686

PDC.118x

http://www.bahai.org/r/442668250

SW. Star of the West, 25 vols. (1910-1935). Periodical issued each Bahá’í month. Vols. 1-12 reprinted 1978 in 8 volumes by George Ronald. Each issue Includes a section in Persian. https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West

SW_v08#06 p.067

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_6

SW_v08#09 p.113

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_9

SW_v11#18 p.297

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_18

DWN. Syed Mustafa Roumi, ed. The Dawn: A monthly Bahá'í journal of Burma. Sept. 1923 – May 1929. English and Persian sections cataloged separately. Digitally reprinted in 2017 by the Afnan Library, Sandy, UK: https://afnanlibrary.org/the-dawn-burma-vol-1-6/

DWN_v5#04 p.001x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927

DWN_v5#09 p.001x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927

DWN_v6#01 p.001-002x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928

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#201

https://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_khan_tarazat_etc

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.141 #070-091

http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/

JRAS. Browne, E.G. “Catalogue and Description of 27 Bábí Manuscripts”. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: Cambridge, 1892. https://bahai- library.com/browne_catalogue_manuscripts_one

JRAS.676-679

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/b/browne_catalogue_manuscripts_one.pdf#page=245

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

ROB4.161-168

https://d9263461.github.io/cl/Baha'i/Others/ROB/V4/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.156

https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/GS/gs-156.html

GSH.191

https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/GS/gs-191.html

BSR. Bahá'í Studies Review. Association for Bahá’í Studies for English- Speaking Europe, 1991- . Academic journal. Selected individual articles posted at http://bahai-library.com/series/BSR

BSR_v16p03

https://bahai-library.com/buck_ioannesyan_bisharat_proclamation

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#013

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#13

LL#320

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#320