| Name of Tablet |
Add'l info from the Leiden
List |
Primary Sources |
Secondary sources: first key
texts,
then supplementary texts |
| Kitab-i -Aqdas (The Most Holy
Book) |
Arabic edition with Persian notes, 1995
Haifa. For a summary of earlier published editions see 'Rituals' 81-2 n2.
|
English trans. Baha'i World Centre 1992.
Two earlier official sources are (1) Baha'i World volume XV: 1968-73, which has brief letters from the Universal House of Justice
regarding the publication of the Synopsis and Codification..., the
Synopsis itself, and other related official statements, and (2)
the separate book publication of the Synopsis and Codification...
(1973) which also adds a lengthy letter from the House introducing and
summarizing the Aqdas.
Other English translations done by
Anton Haddad, Earl Elder, and Marzieh Gail. Two of these can be found
online in parallel with the official translation at bahai-library.com/ provisionals. French Ms trans. by Dreyfus 190?, 62pp, and
separate Ms trans. of Questions and Answers, n.d.; for the former see
Paris Archives Boite 11107, Grand cahier noir:122 (according to Laura
Dreyfus-Barney, "Hippolyte Dreyfus. Article for Baha'i World": "He
[Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney] trans....the Aqdas which he annotated during
a sojourn in 'Akka with the aid of 'Abdu'l-Baha".); brief comments by
Ruhiyyih (Rabbani) Khanum about the Guardian's translation in The
Guardian of the Baha'i Faith 237-38. |
definition in Basic Baha'i Dictionary
132-33; date in A Basic Baha'i Chronology 99; 120, 138; 145;
166; 476; Some Answered Questions 64; explanation of verse 1 in
ibid 238; explanation of verse 47 in ibid. 171-74; brief mention in
Promulgation of Universal Peace 454 and elsewhere, passim; biography of
Zaynu'l-Muqarrabin in Memorials of the Faithful 150-153; God
Passes By 14, 139, 177, 206-09, 213-16, 219, 254-55, 326,
328, 411; Promised Day is Come 39-42, 58-60, 64-65, 92, 94-95, 100, 118-21, 133-37 (page numbers differ in different editions); World Order of Baha'u'llah passim; 3
sentences about translation and punishments in Unfolding
Destiny 455; discussion of the relationship between the
Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice as elucidated in the
Aqdas in Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1968-1973 37-44, reprinted in Covenant of Baha'u'llah 438-40;
coverage in Rev. of Baha'u'llah vol.1 26, 60, 153, 160, 212, 301;
vol.2 120, 122, 130, 240, 354-55, 389; vol.3 147, 164, 240, 275-399;
vol.4 114, 116, 123, 138-39, 160, 212, 248-56, 299-300, 321, 399,
400, 417, 421, 423, 433; Baha'u'llah: King of Glory 245, 319,
351-53, 382, 422, 425; Covenant of Baha'u'llah 24, 68, 99, 141,
143, 155-56, 175-76, 212, 218-19, 240, 264, 266-67, 310-13, 378,
382, 386, 390, 396, 401-02; Eminent Baha'is 189, 259; 'Abdul-Baha: Centre of the Covenant 49, 51, 163, 492
full
discussion of the Kitab-i-Aqdas in John Walbridge "The Kitab-i-Aqdas"
available online at bahai-library.com/ encyclopedia/aqdas.html; discussion of the Aqdas' gendered
language in Baharieh Ma'ani "The Effect of Philosophical and Linguistic
Gender Biases..." Journal of Baha'i Studies 8:1 59-61; examination
of some of the significances of the Aqdas and the possible impact of its
publication upon its Western audience in Udo Schaefer "'The Balance
hath been Appointed': Some Thoughts on the Publication of the Kitab-i-Aqdas" Baha'i Studies Review 3:1 (1993), also available online at
bahai-library.com/ articles/balance.aqdas.html; discussion
of the "twin duties," social action, and other topics in John S. Hatcher
"Unsealing the Choice Wine..." in Journal of Baha'i Studies 6:3 27-36; examination of the legal aspects and social principles of the Aqdas
in Martha Schweitz "The Kitab-i-Aqdas: Baha'i Law, Legitimacy, and
World Order" in Journal of Baha'i Studies 6:1 35-59; Robert
Stockman discusses the translation of the Aqdas in "Revelation,
Interpretation, and Elucidation in the Baha'i Writings" in Scripture
and Revelation (Baha'i Studies vol.3) 63-66; John Walbridge offers
an extended discussion of the Aqdas in Sacred Acts... (Baha'i
Studies vol.1) xiii, 3-4, 16-22, 248-252, and numerous other pages,
passim; brief comments on an early translation in Robert Stockman,
Baha'i Faith in America vol.1 160; vol.2 11, 27, 363, 438n.38; see
also other minor citations, esp. concerning the establishment of local
"Houses of Justice," in ibid. passim; history in Hatcher/Martin's
Baha'i Faith...Global Religion 46-47, 153-56; full introduction in
Anonymous "The Kitab-i-Aqdas: Its Place in Baha'i Literature" in The
Baha'i World 1992-93 103-18; discussion of "socio-cultural
constructs" given in the Aqdas in R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram "The
Provisions for Sexuality in the Kitab-i-Aqdas in the Context of Late
Nineteenth Century Eastern and Western Sexual Ideologies" available
online at bahai-library.com/ conferences/sex.aqdas.html;
analysis of the treatment of homosexuality in the Kitab-i Aqdas and its
background in Kamran Hakim "Commentary on Kitab-i Aqdas verse 107"
available online at bahai-library.com/ essays/aqdas.107.html; exploration of philosophical
framework by William Hatcher in "The Kitab-i-Aqdas: The Causality
Principle in the World of Being" in The Baha'i World 1993-94
189-236; random observations in Juan Cole Modernity and the
Millennium 38, 64-66, 68, 73, 76, 91, 95, 149, 158, 171-73, 186; David S. Ruhe Door of Hope... 46-48, 51, 56; discussion of the
style of Writings on the Covenant, including the Aqdas, in John S.
Hatcher The Ocean of His Words 153-64; passing mentions in ibid.
11, 16, 71, 79, 99, 122, and other places, passim; a few studies
examining the inheritance laws in the Aqdas include Bahiyyih
Nakhjavani "Exemption" in Baha'i Studies Review 3.1 (1993) 75-78, available online at bahai-library.com/ articles/exemption.html, Seena Fazel "Inheritance" in ibid. 4.1 (1994) 71-75, Sen McGlinn
"Some considerations relating to the inheritance laws of the Kitab-i-Aqdas" in ibid 5.1 (1995) 37-50, available online at bahai-library.com/ articles/inheritance.BSR.html and bahai-library.com/ articles/inheritance.arjmand.html, Linda and John Walbridge
"Baha'i Laws on the Status of Men" in World Order 19:1-2 (1984)
25-36, John and Linda Walbridge "A Question of Gender" in
Dialogue 1987 32-34, and Martha Leach Schweitz "Of Webs and
Ladders: Gender Equality in Baha'i Law" in World Order 27:1
(1995) 22; Suheil Bushrui's The Style of the Kitab-i-Aqdas is a
lengthy meditation with occasional literary analysis; more analysis is
provided in Sen McGlinn's review of this book in Baha'i Studies
Review 6 (1996) 93-96, also available online at bahai-library.com/ reviews/; some opinions on Baha'u'llah's teachings on
politics in the Aqdas in Juan Cole "Iranian Millenarianism and
Democratic Thought in the 19th Century" in International Journal of
Middle East Studies 24 (1992) 1-26 passim; 1/2 page on the
meaning of "irfan" in verse 1 in Jalil Mahmoudi "`Irfan, Gnosis, or
Mystical Knowledge" in World Order 7:4 (1973) 14; discussion of
Baha'i law in the Aqdas in Afshin Khavari "Parallels Between Islamic
and Baha'i laws and Constitutional Principles" at bahai-library.com/ articles/parallels.html; some philosophical meditations on
the introductory verse of the Aqdas by Sen McGlinn in "Commentary on
Kitab-i Aqdas verse one" at bahai-library.com/ articles/ aqdas.verse1.html; more information can be found
in an online translation project of the Aqdas at bahai-library.com/ provisionals. |
| Lawh-i -Ahbab (Tablet of the
Friends) |
AQA1 96-113. |
(no primary source) |
Rev. of Baha'u'llah vol.3 258-59. |
| Lawh-i -Fu'ad (Tablet on death of
Fu'ad Pasha) |
Dated 1869. Rosen2 231-3; Mubin. |
Sentence trans. Promised Day is
Come 106; prov. trans. available on request; WebCole. Trans.
with commentary by J Cole posted H-Bahai May 97; idem at WebCole;
Addressee Shaykh Kazim-i-Samandar of Qazvin. |
mention of subject in God Passes By
28, 231; Promised Day is Come 100-01, 106; Rev. of
Baha'u'llah vol.1 225; discussion in vol.2 375; vol.3 87-107, 151,
419; vol.4 437; illustration of subject Baha'u'llah: King of Glory
254; bio of subject ibid. 471; mention of subject ibid. 154, 199, 254,
458, 469, 476, 484; 'Abdul-Baha: Centre of the Covenant 20-21;
summary of Tablet in Adib Taherzadeh "Three Momentous Years of the
Heroic Age--1868-1870" in Baha'i World XV: 1968-73
768.
mention of subject Hatcher/Martin's Baha'i Faith...Global
Religion 38n.16, 46; discussion and mention of subject Juan Cole
Modernity and the Millennium 31, 56, 58-60, 61, 72, 89-90, 148,
157; discussion of Tablet's prophecy in Gary Matthews Challenge
of Baha'u'llah 49-50; some comments on Baha'u'llah's address of
subject in this Tablet in Juan Cole "Iranian Millenarianism and
Democratic Thought in the 19th Century" in International Journal of
Middle East Studies 24 (1992), 1-26 passim. |
| Lawh-i -Haft Pursish (Tablet of
Seven Questions) |
MaM 240-248 and reprod. in BSB 7:3-4 53-59; incomplete text (without introduction) in Zapiski Imperatorskoy
Academii nauk S. Petersburg 8th series, Vol. 3, No. 6 (1899) 100-108,
with Russian trans., and minor variant readings from MaM. Persian,
|
trans. with notes Shahriar Razavi Baha'i Studies Bulletin 7:3-4, 48-68. |
Rev. of Baha'u'llah vol.3, 272;
Baha'u'llah: King of Glory 9.
mention in Christopher Buck
"Baha'u'llah and Cross-Cultural Messianism" in In Iran (SBBR
vol.3) 168. |
| Lawh-i -Malik-i -Rus (Tablet to
Czar Alexander II of Russia) |
AQA1 57-61; Alw-Braz 121-128. Arabic.
|
Trans. in Proclamation of
Baha'u'llah 27-30, Promised Day is Come 47-48, 52-55; by
E.G. Brown in (?), also printed in Kheirella and McNutt 1900. A second
Tablet to the Czar, written much later in Baha'u'llah's ministry, is
available in provisional translation at h-net2.msu.edu/~bahai
/trans/vol2/tsar2.htm. |
mention in Basic Baha'i Dictionary
13 and photograph of subject in ibid. 131; explanation from 'Abdu'l-Baha
of a line in this Tablet in Ali Akbar Furutan Stories of Baha'u'llah 48-49; God
Passes By 106, 207, 226-27; Promised Day is Come 32, 90-91; Rev. of Baha'u'llah vol.3 111, 113, 118-123; Baha'u'llah:
King of Glory 445-47; 'Abdul-Baha: Centre of the Covenant
109.
discussion of Tablet and subject Juan Cole Modernity and
the Millennium 60, 65, 75, 126; passing mentions in John S. Hatcher
The Ocean of His Words 129; some comments on Baha'u'llah's
address of subject in this Tablet in Juan Cole "Iranian Millenarianism
and Democratic Thought in the 19th Century" in International Journal
of Middle East Studies 24 (1992), 1-26 passim. |
| Lawh-i -Malikih (Tablet to Queen
Victoria) |
AQA1 61-66; Alw-Braz 131-141 (and
reprod. in BSB 7:3-4, 11-21); Leiden Ms Or 4970 item 4; partially in
Rosen2 p. 147-8. Arabic. |
Trans. in Baha'i Scriptures 111-115;
sections transl. Gleanings CXIX-CXX; Epistle to the Son of the
Wolf 59-64; Promised Day is Come 42-43, 55-58;
Proclamation of Baha'u'llah 33-35; prov. trans. by Shahrokh
Monjazeb Baha'i Studies Bulletin 7:3-4; by Browne in (?). Browne's trans. also published in
Kheirella and McNutt 1900. |
mention in Basic Baha'i Dictionary
13, 131; date in A Basic Baha'i Chronology 88, 148; God Passes
By 206, 207-8, 211; Promised Day is Come 32, 106; brief
comments from the Universal House of Justice on the Queen's response
to this Tablet at bahai-library.com/ uhj/napoleon.victoria.html; discussion in Rev. of
Baha'u'llah vol.3 123-132; mention of subject in vol.4 388, 434;
Baha'u'llah: King of Glory 153, 445, 451; 'Abdul-Baha: Centre of
the Covenant 163, 370.
brief discussion in Baharieh Ma'ani
"The Effect of Philosophical and Linguistic Gender Biases..." in
Journal of Baha'i Studies 8:1 60; mentions of subject in
Hatcher/Martin Baha'i Faith...Global Religion 43, 45;
Gouvion/Jouvion Gardeners of God 58-59; discussion of
Tablet and subject Juan Cole Modernity and the Millennium 41,
60, 63, 65, 93, 98, 100, 129, 152; discussion of Tablet's prophecy in
Gary Matthews Challenge of Baha'u'llah 47-48; some comments on
Baha'u'llah's address of subject in this Tablet in Juan Cole "Iranian
Millenarianism and Democratic Thought in the 19th Century" in
International Journal of Middle East Studies 24 (1992), 1-26
passim; an article originally written for an encyclopedia by Juan Cole on "Baha'u'llah's Tablets to the Rulers" is available online at bahai-library.com/ encyclopedia/kings.html. |
| Lawh-i -Manikchi Sahib (Tablet to
Manikchi) |
MaM 259-267. |
Gleanings CVI; prov. trans. available on
private request Cole, for Abha. Partial translation by E.G.
Browne, "Three Epistles to the Zorastrians," in Journal of the Royal
Asiatic Society 24 (1892). |
Rev. of Baha'u'llah vol.3 269-71.
relatively detailed biography of subject in Gol Aidun
"Manekji Limji Hataria and the Baha'i Faith" in Baha'i Studies
Notebook 1:1 (1980), 47-62; paragraph about Manekji in context of
larger discussion on Zoroastrianism and the Baha'i Faith in Michael
Fischer "Social Change and the Mirrors of Tradition: Baha'is of Yazd" in
Debating Muslims... 233-34, also found in The Baha'i Faith and
Islam 36; mention in Christopher Buck "Baha'u'llah and Cross-Cultural Messianism" in In Iran (SBBR vol.3) 167-68, 174-75;
mention of subject Juan Cole Modernity and the Millennium 147,
150. |
| Lawh-i- Napulyun II (2d Tab.
Napoleon III) |
Dated 1869. AQA1 47-57; Alw-Braz 95-117; KHay; one of the tablets to Napoleon is in Leiden Or Ms 4970 item
5; one tablet to Napoleon in Rosen2 Ms247 item 2. The section trans. in
Promised Day is Come 46-49 (page numbers differ in different editions) is extracts from the text trans. in
Proclamation of Baha'u'llah 17-23, with minor variations, but
Promised Day is Come 48 has one paragraph beginning "Abandon
thy palaces" which is is not in Proclamation of Baha'u'llah. A
section included in Epistle to the Son of the Wolf 49-50 as part
of this tablet is separately presented in Proclamation of
Baha'u'llah 95-6 with numerous significant trans. differences some
affecting content. |
Sections trans. Gleanings CLVIII and Epistle to
the Son of the Wolf 46-56. French
trans. by Dreyfus (published?). The French trans. by Louis Catafago may
be in Paris State Archives. Trans. Proclamation of Baha'u'llah 17-23 based on self-citation Epistle to the Son of the Wolf 46ff.,
omitting two paragraphs Epistle to the Son of the Wolf 52-3
beginning "And if anyone ask them:" and another 2 paragraphs Epistle
to the Son of the Wolf 54-55 beginning "Doth it behoove you to
relate yourselves..." The first of these may not be from the Tablet to
Napoleon, although the form implies it is. The latter has a close parallel
in Gleanings CXXVIII (Suriy-i-Bayan). |
mention in Basic Baha'i Dictionary
13 and photograph of subject in ibid. 131; date in A Basic Baha'i
Chronology 88; Some Answered Questions 32-33;
Promulgation of Universal Peace 27-28, 211, 223; God Passes
By 207; Promised Day is Come 32, 77, 79-84, 92; comments
from the Universal House of Justice on Napoleon's response to this
Tablet at bahai-library.com/ uhj/napoleon.victoria.html;
discussion in Rev. of Baha'u'llah vol. 2 369; vol.3 81, 110-115,
149, 201; mention of subject in vol.4 95, 249, 388, 434; Baha'u'llah:
King of Glory 320, 352, 392, 426; Covenant of Baha'u'llah 21-22; 'Abdul-Baha: Centre of the Covenant 63.
mention of
subject in Hatcher/Martin's Baha'i Faith...Global Religion 45-46;
discussion of Tablet and subject Juan Cole Modernity and the
Millennium 60, 63-64, 76, 124, 127, 131, 155; discussion of
Tablet's prophecy in Gary Matthews Challenge of Baha'u'llah 43-44; some comments on Baha'u'llah's address of subject in this Tablet in
Juan Cole "Iranian Millenarianism and Democratic Thought in the 19th
Century" in International Journal of Middle East Studies 24
(1992), 1-26 passim. |
| Lawh-i -Pap (Tablet to Pope Pius
IX) |
Dated around 1869. AQA1 38-46; Alw-Braz 73-90; Leiden Ms Or 4970 item 2; Rosen2 Ms 247 item 2. Arabic.
|
Trans. Proclamation of Baha'u'llah
83-6; Promised Day is Come 49-52, 173-74; by E. G. Browne in
(?); also printed in Kheirella and McNutt 1900; summary of impressions
of the Tablet by a non-Baha'i reprinted in Moojan Momen, "...Christian
Missionaries and the Babi and Baha'i Communities," in Studies in Babi
and Baha'i History (SBBR vol.1) 63-64. |
mention in Basic Baha'i Dictionary
13 and photograph of subject in ibid. 131; date in A Basic Baha'i
Chronology88, 94; God Passes By 209, 227; Promised Day
is Come 20, 32, 43-44, 79-80, 85-90, 165-68 (related quotations);
Rev. of Baha'u'llah vol.3 116-118, 133.
mention in
Christopher Buck "Baha'u'llah and Cross-Cultural Messianism" in In
Iran (SBBR vol.3) 165-66; mention of subject in Hatcher/Martin's
Baha'i Faith...Global Religion 44-45; Gouvion/Jouvion
Gardeners of God 60; passing mentions in John S. Hatcher The
Ocean of His Words 129-30; Gary Matthews Challenge of
Baha'u'llah 62. |
| Lawh-i -Pisar -`Amm (Tablet to
the Cousin) |
IQT 174-182. |
(no primary source) |
Rev. of Baha'u'llah vol.3 216-18. |
| Lawh-i -Qad Ihtaraqa'l- Mukhlisun
(The Fire Tablet) |
T&T 219-224; AHM 169-79; INBA30;
published separately as Qad-Ihtaraqa'l -Mukhlisun, London, 1980.
Addressee is Haji Siyyid 'Ali-Akbar-i -Dahaji. |
Trans. Baha'i Prayers, 1982 and 1991 USA
editions, pages 214-20; alternate prov. trans. also exists MacEoin,
in Rituals in Babism and Bahaism 134-7 |
date in A Basic Baha'i Chronology
95; Rev. of Baha'u'llah vol.3 226-31; Baha'u'llah: King of
Glory 321-22.
mention of subject Juan Cole Modernity
and the Millennium 94. |
| Lawh-i -Ra'is II (Tablet to 'Ali
Pasha) |
MaM 102-116. Persian.
(Note:
Rev. of Baha'u'llah vol.3 34, footnote, writes that "Shoghi Effendi
generally referred to [the two Tablets to Ali Pasha] in this order [as
"Suriy-i-Ra'is and Lawh-i-Ra'is"], although occasionally he used the
designation Surih for Lawh and vice versa"; hence, some of the sources
listed here might actually refer to the earlier Tablet.) |
one sentence in World Order of
Baha'u'llah 194. Full provisional translation, published in Star of
the West Vol.2 No.2, April 9 1911, page 3, available online at
bahai-library.com /provisionals/lawh.rais.2.html. |
definition in Basic Baha'i Dictionary
217, mention in ibid. 13; date in A Basic Baha'i Chronology 86,
88; God Passes By187, 231; Promised Day is Come 73-74,
99, 120; mention of subject Rev. of Baha'u'llah vol.1 225, 227,
244; vol.2 55, 57, 312, 398, 401, 411, 413-14; discussion in vol.3 20,
33-34, 36-7, 87, 91, 99n., 100n., 103, 109, 419; vol.4 437; illustration
of subject Baha'u'llah: King of Glory 206; bios of subjects ibid. 469 and 471;
mention of subject ibid. 13, 62, 154, 199, 206-07, 283, 458, 471;
'Abdul-Baha: Centre of the Covenant 20-21; summary of Tablet
and subject in Adib Taherzadeh, "Three Momentous Years of the Heroic
Age--1868-1870," in Baha'i World XV: 1968-73
768.
mention of subject Hatcher/Martin's Baha'i Faith...Global
Religion 38n.16, 46; discussion and mention of subject Juan Cole
Modernity and the Millennium 30, 31, 54-59, 61, 68, 72, 75, 90,
157; David S. Ruhe Door of Hope 28-31, 205, 224, 228;
discussion of Tablet's prophecy in Gary Matthews Challenge of
Baha'u'llah 49-51; some comments on Baha'u'llah's address of
subject in this Tablet in Juan Cole "Iranian Millenarianism and
Democratic Thought in the 19th Century" in International Journal of
Middle East Studies 24 (1992), 1-26 passim. |
| Lawh-i -Ridvan (Leiden List gives
as Lawh-i -Ridvan III) |
Dated prob. 9th day Ridvan 1869. AyT 313.
|
|
Rev. of Baha'u'llah vol.3 53-57.
Walbridge describes at length the meaning of Ridvan in
Sacred Acts... (Baha'i Studies vol.1) 233-41. |
| Lawh-i -Ru'ya (Tablet of
Vision) |
Dated 1 Muharram 1290 / 1 March 1873.
AyT 16-20. |
Prov. trans. available on private request
posted Juan Cole Talisman 8/96, for the anniversary of the birth of
the Bab; summary of the Tablet's contents in John Walbridge,
Sacred Acts... (Baha'i Studies vol.1) 161 |
God Passes By 221; Rev. of
Baha'u'llah vol.3 223-24; Baha'u'llah: King of Glory
246.
brief mention in David S. Ruhe Door of Hope 111. |
| Lawh-i -Salman (Tablet of Salman
II) |
Akka, early in imprisonment. MaM 124-128. |
paragraph in Juan Cole Modernity and the Millennium
60; prov. trans. available on private request.posted Juan Cole, Irfan
9/96 |
biography of subject in Memorials of
the Faithful 13-16; discussion Rev. of Baha'u'llah vol.3 25-28; 174-75; mention of subject vol.1 109-13, 255-56; vol.2 67, 168,
208, 263, 283, 384, 400; vol.4 172; Covenant of Baha'u'llah 63-64, 87; 'Abdul-Baha: Centre of the Covenant 96.
discussion Juan Cole Modernity and the Millennium 60, 73; mention of subject in Stories from the Delight of Hearts
133. |
| Lawh-i -Siyyid-i -Mihdiy-i -Dahaji
I (Tablet to Siyyid-i- Mihdiy-i -Dahaji I) |
AlA-Be 163-8. |
Translation in Tablets of Baha'u'llah
193-202. |
Rev. of Baha'u'llah vol.4 236-37;
mention of subject Covenant of Baha'u'llah 166, 216-17,
252. |
| Lawh-i -Tibb (Tablet to the
Physician or Tablet of Medicine). |
MaM 222-226 (reproduced Baha'i Studies Bulletin 6:4-7:2 25-29). Arabic-Persian, early 1870s. |
Prov. trans. by Khazeh Fananapazir and
Stephen Lambden Baha'i Studies Bulletin 6:4-7:2 (1992) 17-65. Paragraphs translated in Esslement, Baha'u'llah and the New Era 106, 108, 112.
|
Rev. of Baha'u'llah vol.3 358-360;
on health and healing see Some Answered Questions 158-59,
254-59, Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha 150-56,
Promulgation of Universal Peace 204-05, and Lights of
Guidance (3rd ed.) 276-99.
lengthy commentary on this
Tablet by Khazeh Fananapazir and Stephen Lambden in Baha'i Studies
Bulletin 6:4-7:2 (1992) 17-65; very brief mention in Stephen
Lambden, "The Word Baha..." in Journal of Baha'i Studies 8:2 39-40; mention in Baharieh Ma'ani "The Effect of Philosophical and
Linguistic Gender Biases..." in Journal of Baha'i Studies 8:1 63;
many other secondary sources discuss health and healing without
mentioning this Tablet--write to Jonah Winters for research
assistance. |
| Suriy-i -Haykal, Suratu'l -Haykal
(Surah of the Temple, Surah of the Body) |
First written in Edirne but revised in
'Akka, probably in 1869 (UHJ memo). AQA1 2-38; AQA4(i) 268-300;
Mubin 2-38, with numerous variations; Rosen2 Ms 247, reproduced in
full pp. 149-192; revised AQA1. Baha'u'llah had this tablet and those to
Pius IX, Napoleon III, Alexander II and Nasiri'd-Din Shah written in the
form of a pentacle (see God Passes By 212-3)--see also Baha'i
World Center, "Questions about the Suratu'l-Haykal," unpublished memo,
5 September 1993. Arabic. |
Paragraphs trans. by Shoghi Effendi in
Promised Day is Come 76; World Order of Baha'u'llah
(1955) 109-10, 117, 138-39, 169 and God Passes By 101-2
(maiden passage). Early trans. by Anton Haddad circulated widely in
mimeo--this trans. available online at bahai-library.com/ provisionals; summary of the Tablet's contents in John
Walbridge, Sacred Acts... (Baha'i Studies vol.1) 166-68;
Paragraphs trans. in Style of the Kitab-i-Aqdas 40, 62. |
definition in Basic Baha'i Dictionary
216; one paragraph history of Tablet in Some Answered Questions
32-33; brief mention in Promulgation of Universal Peace 433;
Promised Day is Come 75-76, 79 (page numbers differ in different editions); God Passes By 212-13
(very brief mention); Rev. of Baha'u'llah vol.1 42, 121-22; vol.3
132-147; vol.4 133; Covenant of Baha'u'llah 38-39,
130.
John Walbridge provides a full description of this Tablet in
Sacred Acts... (Baha'i Studies vol.1) 165-69 and an article "Tablet
of the Temple (Suratu'l-Haykal)" available online at bahai-library.com/ encyclopedia/haykal.html; brief summary and description in
Robert Stockman Baha'i Faith in America vol.2 27, 438n.37;
delineation of the nine-fold categorization of the Writings of
Baha'u'llah in Suheil Bushrui The Style of the Kitab-i-Aqdas 40-41; lengthier coverage of same in John S. Hatcher The Ocean of His
Words 97-100; discussion of allegory in Tablet in ibid. 138-39;
passing mentions in ibid. 50-51; discussion of Tablet's prophecy in Gary
Matthews Challenge of Baha'u'llah 42-44, 83. |