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Author	Vahid Rafati
Title of item	Lawh-i-Hikmat
Subtitle of item	The Two Agents and the Two Patients
Volume	5:19
Pages	29-38
Parent publication	Andalib
Editor, translator, etc.	Keven Brown, trans
Date of this edition	2002
Language	English
Language of first ed.	Persian
Permission	translator
Posted	2016-11-23 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Published Articles and Study Guides
URL	bahai-library.org/rafati_hikmat_agents_patients
Abstract	Discussion of the two terms fa`ilayn (the active force / "the generating influence") and munfa`ilayn (its recipient / "such as receive its impact") in Islamic philosophy, and their later use in Shaykhi and Bahá'í texts.
Notes	Translated by Brown in 2002; actual date of Andalib issue 5:19 not given. See also Brown's translation of A Tablet of 'Abdu'l-Bahá Explaining Three Verses in the Lawh-i-Hikmat.
Tags	Active force and its recipient; Cosmology; Creation; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom); Philosophy; Philosophy, Greek; Philosophy, Islamic; Science; Tablets of Bahaullah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas
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Phelps inventory	Partial Inventory catalog ID no: BH00020; BH00629; BH00843; BH02784; BH11218; AB00373; BH00548, see bahai-library.org/phelps_loom_reality
Last edited	2022-06-23 01:49 EDT. See previous versions [archive.org].

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