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Clouds and the Hiding God

Author	Moshe Sharon
Title of item	Clouds and the Hiding God
Subtitle of item	Observations on some Terms in the Early Writing of Bahá'u'lláh
Volume	13
Pages	363-379
Parent publication	Lights of Irfan
Publisher of this ed.	Wilmette, IL: Haj Mehdi Armand Colloquium
Date of this edition	2012
Language	English
Permission	editor and publisher
Posted	2011-03-26 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Published Articles
URL	bahai-library.org/sharon_clouds_hiding_god
Abstract	Metaphorical usage of clouds and rain in the mystical Tablets Rashh-i-Amá, Lawh Kullu't-Ta'ám, and Qasídiyyih-Varqá'iyyih.
Notes	This paper was first posted in Word format at Hebrew University of Jerusalem [archive.org], where the author is the Chair in Bahá'í Studies. It was later published in Lights of Irfan, and is mirrored here with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/sharon_clouds.
Tags	Allegories and metaphors; Ama (cloud); Clouds; Lawh Kullut-Taam (Tablet of All Food); Mysticism; Qasidiyyih-Varqaiyyih (Ode of the Dove); Rain (general); Rashh-i-Ama (Sprinkling from the Cloud of Unknowing); Symbolism
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Edit quality	high: carefully proofread and edited
Format quality	high: well formatted
Last edited	2021-08-12 00:05 EDT. See previous versions [archive.org]. Documents posted between 2003-2012 had various slightly different URLs and sometimes can be found in archive.org with addresses like bahai-library.org/file.php5?file=sharon_clouds_hiding_god.

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