BAHA'-ALLAH

Select Provisional Translations of الواح ( alwāḥ)

Scriptural Tablets

Mīrzā Ḥusayn `Alī Nūrī, Bahā'-Allāh (1817-1892).

Traces from the Musk Scented Pen:

A Chronological survey of select scriptural writings (alwaḥ) of Mīrzā Ḥusayn `Alī Nūrī Bahā'-Allāh (1817-1892)

From Alwāḥ to Ziyārā :

the literary forms and nature of the scriptural writings of the Sayyid `Alī Muhammad the Bāb (d. 1850)

and Mīrzā Ḥusayn `Alī Nūrī, Bahā’-Allāh (d. 1892).

The Persian years of the Bābī period

(1844-1852)

رَشْح عَمَاء

Selected Texts and translations of the Rashḥ-i `amā'

("The sprinkling of the Divine Cloud")

`An Early poem of Mīrzā Ḥusayn `Alī Nūrī Bahā'-Allāh, the Rashḥ-i `amā' (The Sprinkling of the Cloud of Unknowing)'

Rev. from BSB 3/2 Sept. 1984, 4ff Pt.1

Commentary on the Rashḥ-i `amā'

1st published Bahā'ī Studies Bulletin 3:2 Sept.1984 (Pt. 2)

Commentary on the Rashh-i `Ama',

Appendix 1

On the word `Ama' عَمَاء in Islamic and Babi-Baha'i Literatures

Rev. from Bahā'ī Studies Bulletin 3:2 Sept.1984 (Pt. 3)

The Iraq Period

(1852-1863)

Lawḥ-i kull al-ta`ām (The Tablet of All-Food, c. 1854)



Sūrat al-kifāya (The Surah of the Sufficiency, c. 1854?)



Lawḥ-i kīmīya (I):

An Alchemical Tablet to `Abbās (c.1856-60?).

Lawḥ-i kīmīya (II)

An Alchemical Tablet expository of a Saying of Mary the Copt /Jewess.

Lawh-i kīmīya (III)

An Alchemical Tablet about the Ḥajar ("Philosopher's Stone") with an introduction and a short work of the Bāb on the same subject.

Tafsir ayat al-Nūr

or

      Tafsīr al-ḥurūfāt al-muqaṭṭa`ah (Commentary on the Isolated Letters") .



Alchemy



Alchemical Gnosis in Babi-Baha'i Scripture.



Lawḥ-i ḥaqq (The Tablet of the Ultimately Real).

Haft vādī (The Seven Valleys):

An introduction and provisional translation with occasional notes, Pt. 01



Haft vādī (The Seven Valleys) Pt. 01., text, translation and commentary

Some Notes upon the word غوثيه ghawthiyya in the Arabic prolegomenon to the Seven Valleys.

Tafsīr-i Hu [Huwa]

هُوَ

Lawḥ-i madīnat al-tawḥīd

(The Tablet of the City of the Divine Unity)..



Halih, halih, halih, yā bishārat

(Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, O Glad-Tidings!)

Studies and Notes on the Jawāhir al-asrār (Gems of the Mysteries) and Kitāb-i īqān (The Book of Certitude)

of Mirza Ḥusayn `Alī Nūrī, Bahā'-Allāh (1817-1892)

Biblical citations in the Jawāhir al-asrār (Gems of the Mysteries) and Kitāb-i īqān (Book of Certitude).

Commentary on the basmala and Q. 68:1: "N" (Nūn). By the Pen!"

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The Istanbul Period

(1863)

Lawḥ-i nāqūs (The Tablet of the Bell)

Lawḥ-i Hawdaj [Samsun] (The Tablet of the Howdah)

Lawḥ-i jamāl-i ilāhī (The Tablet of the Sun of the Divine Beauty)

The Edirne (Adrianople) Period

(1863-1868)

Sūrat al-Fath

(The Surah of the Opening, c. 1865?).

Sūrat al-Khiṭāb (`The Surah of the Oration', c. 1865?)

Lawh-i Ahmad Arabic and Persian

Sūrat al-qadīr

(The Surah of the Omnipotent, c. 1865-6?)

Surat al-Ism

The Surah of the Name

لوح تقى

Lawḥ-i tuqā

(The Tablet of the Fear of God, c. 1867).

Lawḥ -i sayyāh

(The Tablet of the Traveler, c. 1867)

Sūrat al-qamīṣ

(The Surah of the Robe), c. 1865-6).

Lawh-i Sarrāj

The Tablet to `Alī Muhammad Sajjāj [Sirāj] (c. 1867).

The Tablet of the Hair

إِذْ أَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْهِمُ اثْنَيْنِ فَكَذَّبُوهُمَا فَعَزَّزْنَا بِثَالِثٍ

Commentary on Qur'ān 36:14a "And We strenghtened [the two of] them with a third"