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Tag "Clouds (metaphor)"

tag name: Clouds (metaphor) type: Metaphors and allegories
web link: Clouds_(metaphor)
references: bahai9.com/wiki/Cloud; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud#In_culture_and_religion; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Cloud
related tags: Nature; Words and phrases
referring tags: Ama (cloud); Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Rain (metaphor)

"Clouds (metaphor)" appears in:

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  1. Todd Lawson. Bahá'í Tradition, The: The Return of Joseph and the Peaceable Imagination (2012). Overview of the status of violence in the Bahá'í tradition, and the historical/social conditions in which these doctrines were articulated.
  2. Bahá'u'lláh. Call of the Divine Beloved (2019). Seven Tablets revealed before 1863, including a retranslation of the Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys, the poem Rashh-i-‘Amá (The Clouds of the Realms Above) revealed in the Síyáh-Chál, and four other newly translated Tablets on the mystic journey.
  3. Moshe Sharon. Clouds and the Hiding God: Observations on some Terms in the Early Writing of Bahá'u'lláh (2012). Metaphorical usage of clouds and rain in the mystical Tablets Rashh-i-Amá, Lawh Kullu't-Ta'ám, and Qasídiyyih-Varqá'iyyih.
  4. Michael W. Sours. Immanence and Transcendence in Theophanic Symbolism (1992). Bahá'u'lláh uses symbols to depict theophanies — the appearance of God and the divine in the realm of creation — such as "angel," "fire," and the prophets' claims to be incarnating the "face" or "voice" of God; these convey the transcendence of God.
  5. Bahá'u'lláh. Shoghi Effendi, comp, Arjen Bolhuis, ed. Key Passages from the Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude) in Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (2022). Cross-reference compilation of 40 passages from the Kitáb-i-Íqán selected by Shoghi Effendi for inclusion in Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, adapted from Hooper Dunbar's Companion to the Study of the Kitáb-i-Íqán.
  6. Bahá'u'lláh. Shoghi Effendi, trans. Kitáb-i-Íqán: The Book of Certitude (1931). Major theological work by Baháʼu'lláh, written prior to his declaration of mission.
  7. Bahá'u'lláh. Shoghi Effendi, comp, Arjen Bolhuis, ed. Passages uit de Kitáb-i-Íqán (Boek van Zekerheid) in Bloemlezing uit de Geschriften van Bahá'u'lláh (2022). Compilatie van 40 passages uit de Kitáb-i-Íqán door Shoghi Effendi geselecteerd voor opname in Bloemlezing uit de Geschriften van Bahá'u'lláh.
  8. David Russell Garcia. Kees Poolman, trans. Reis naar het Hart van de Qur'án: Het Heilige Boek van de islam voor hen die nadenken (door een niet-moslim) (2022). Een overzicht van de Koran en zijn thema's: islam versus het christendom; wetten, geestelijke en sociale principes; heilige oorlog en vechten; redenen achter de reputatie van de islam als een oorlogsreligie; apocalypse.
  9. Jonah Winters. Sprinkling from a Cloud (Rashh-i-Amá): Tablet study outline (1999).
  10. Robert W. McLaughlin. These Perspicuous Verses: A passage from the Writings of Baha'u'llah (1982). Detailed study of a section from Ishraqat and Epistle to the Son of the Wolf.
  11. David Russell Garcia. Voyage to the Heart of the Koran: The Holy Book of Islám for Thinking Minds (By a Non-Muslim) (2003-10). A lengthy overview of the Qur'án and its themes for a Bahá'í audience; holy war and fighting; reasons behind Islám's reputation as a war-like religion; theology of Islám vs. Christianity; laws and admonitions; spiritual and social principles; apocalypse.
 
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