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Lawh-i-Mihraban

300 words

ای مهربان دوستی از دوستان یادت نمود یادت نمودیم امروز آنچه دیده می شود گواهی

Translation:

Official translation

O Mihrábán! One of the friends hath evoked thy remembrance; thus have We remembered thee.

Manuscripts (7)Publications (9)Translations (5)Notes (1)

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

INBA66:118

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v066/?page=121

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_Or15690.295

Not yet online

BLIB_Or15699.120

Not yet online

BLIB_Or15715.199b

Not yet online

BLIB_Or15722.097

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MKI4523.285

Not yet online

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.1753.068-069

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84470396/f77.image

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#124

http://www.bahai.org/r/257146716

ZYN. [Majmú`iy-i mubárakih: alváḥ-i-khaṭṭ-i-zayn]. India, 196-. Compilation of Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh. Published without title, photostatically reproduced from a manuscript in the hand of Zaynu’l-Muqarrabín

ZYN.257

Not yet online

ISH. Ishráqát va Chand Lawḥ Dígar. BPT Iran, 196-?. Collection of Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/27.pdf

ISH.285

http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/baha/G-L/I/ishraqat/ishr285.gif

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.303

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AHM/ahm-303.html

YARP. Yárán-i Pársí. Bahá'í-Verlag, 1998. Tablets to Bahá’ís of Zoroastrian background. YARP1 and YARP2 refer to the Bahá’u’lláh and Abdu’l-Bahá sections, respectively. https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/

YARP1.017

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-23.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.052bx

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/UAB.pdf#page=28

DRD. Daryáy-i Dánish. Bahá’í Publishing Trust of India, 1985. Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh in pure Persian. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/17.pdf

DRD.173

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/DD/dd-176.html

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

AHB_120BE #10 p.360

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1077.pdf#page=360

AKHA. Akhbár-i Amrí (mult. vols.). BPT Iran, 1922-1980. Periodical journal. Digitally reprinted in 2017 by the Afnan Library, Sandy, UK: https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/

AKHA_119BE #05-06 p.a

https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/

BRL_ATBH#64

http://www.bahai.org/r/506062722

BW. The Bahá’í World. Yearbook, published intermittently in 34 volumes between 1925-2006. Volumes 1-20 available at https://www.bahai.org/library/other-literature/periodicals-supplementary-materials/bahai-world/. Volumes 1-34 available at https://bahai.works/Bah%C3%A1%E2%80%99%C3%AD_World

BW_v01p037x

http://dl.bahai.org/bahai-world/bahai-year-book-vol01-1925-1926.pdf#page=37

BW_v02p057x

http://dl.bahai.org/bahai-world/the-bahai-world-vol02-1926-1928.pdf#page=57

BW_v18p967

http://dl.bahai.org/bahai-world/the-bahai-world-vol18-1979-1983.pdf#page=967

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#033x

https://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_lawh_mihraban

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#172

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#172