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Lawh-i-Ard-i-Ba

400 words

حمدا لمن تشرف ارض الباء بقدوم من طاف حوله الاسماء بذلک بشرت الذرات کل

Translation:

Official translation

Praise be to Him Who hath honoured the Land of Bá through the presence of Him round Whom all names revolve.

Arabic (1)

#	Name		Source	Resources
#1	لوح ارض الباء (بيروت)		Source Arabic	Resources

Manuscripts (2)Publications (6)Translations (5)Musical interpretations (2)Notes (4)

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

INBA81:088x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v081/?page=91

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_Or15727a.043

Not yet online

AHM. Ad‘íyy-i Ḥaḍrat-i Maḥbúb. Egypt, 1339 A.H. [1920]. Prayers and Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh. Often reprinted. Pagination refers to original typesetting. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/556.pdf (Century Press 2004 reprint, with i'rab), https://oceanoflights.org/table/bahaullah-prayers-and-meditations-02-fa/ (typescript)

AHM.107x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AHM/ahm-107.html

HDQI. Ḥadíqiy-i `Irfán. Andalib board, 1994. Tablets printed in past issues of ‘Andalíb. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/667.pdf

HDQI.005x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/HI/hi-10.html

AHDW. al-`Ahd al-Awfá. Beirut, 1971. Compilation on the Covenant

AHDW.009x

Not yet online

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

ASAT4.413x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf#page=208

AHB. Áhang-i-Badí` (mult. vols.). BPT Iran, 1946-1980. Periodical journal. Individual issues listed at https://bahai-library.com/bahailib_archive

AHB_128BE #06-11 p.196x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/

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#16x

https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/tablets-bahaullah/tablets-bahaullah.pdf#page=73

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#16x

http://www.bahai.org/r/246337266

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.243x

http://www.bahai.org/r/565667412

WOB. Shoghi Effendi. The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh: Selected Letters. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1938. Pagination refers to 1991 edition. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/shoghi-effendi/world- order-bahaullah/

WOB.136x

http://www.bahai.org/r/553653426

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_v04#14 p.239x

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_14

SW_v08#14 p.185x

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_14

almunajat.com [item 21]

https://almunajat.com/chanting_collection_2.htm

L. Slott

https://lukeslott.bandcamp.com/track/tablet-of-the-land-of-b

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

ROB4.240

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

BKOG. Balyuzi, Hasan. Bahá’u’lláh: The King of Glory. George Ronald, 1980

BKOG.378

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BKOG.pdf#page=23

YMM. Rafati, Vahid. Yádnámiy-i Miṣbáḥ-i-Munír. Bahá'í-Verlag, 2006. Biography and notes of Abdi Misbah. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf

YMM.151

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=159

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#061

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#61