inventory # | BH00112 - Bahá'u'lláh 3990 words |
title | Inventory data is still being added, check back February 2025 |
title transliterated |
Suriy-i-Asma' (=Lawh-i-Ibn?) |
title translated |
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language | Arabic; Persian |
opening, English |
The fragrance of sorrows hath encompassed the Beauty of the All-Merciful, and the gates of joy and delight have been shut fast through the tyranny of the people of rebellion [3.5s]... ...Know thou that when the Son of Man yielded up His breath to God, the whole creation wept with a great weeping.... |
abstract | Responds to objections to His claims raised by some Bábís, implores them not to be shut out from the truth by the veil of names, acknowledges the outward differences between sacred scriptures while asserting that this derives from the varying capacity of humanity, extols at length the revelation and the crucifixion of Jesus as having infused ‘a fresh capacity into all created things’, compares the Báb to John the Baptist and announces Himself to be the return of Christ, and declares that the purpose of His revelation, like Christ’s, is to bestow eternal life. |
in catalog | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; River of Life, The |
in tags | Suriy-i-Asma' (Surah of Names) |
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BB = The Báb, BH = Bahá'u'lláh, AB = Abdu'l-Bahá |
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