Some Tablets of
Bahā'-Allāh
to
Persian Jews
In progress 2006
Bahā'-Allāh wrote hundreds if not thousands of scriptural Tablets to Jews in
both Arabic and Persian as did his son `Abd al-Baha' (d. 1921). These texts very
largely date from the time of the Persian Jewish conversions to the Baha'i
religion in the 1870s and 1880s. While there seem to have been very
few sporadic Jewish conversions to Bābism during the lifetime of the Bāb and in
the decade or so following his martyrdom (July 9th 1850), most notably in the
Persian province of Khurasan (Turbati Haydari, Mashad, etc), it was not until
Bahā'ī missionaries began to teach Jews in Iran and Iraq from around the time of
Baha'-Allah's declaration in the early -mid. 1860s, that Middle Eastern Jews
began to be addressed in weighty Tablets (alwāḥ) by the founder of the
Baha'i religion. He lovingly called them to service and faith within the
inclusive Bahā'ī religious universe of discourse which presupposed a full
acceptance of all the major Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam
as well as the religion of the Bab).
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Scriptural Tablets of Bahā'-Allāh to other Persian and Middle-Eastern Jews
The Ṣaḥīfat Allāh
of
Bahā'-Allāh
addressed to various Jews
of Hamadan
The Ṣaḥīfat Allāh
is a lengthy Tablet of Bahā'-Allāh w2hich seems to have been addressed
to a large number of Jewish converts to the Baha'i religion resident in Hamadan
(Persia/Iran). It contains a number of addresses to
humanity in general and is centered upon a series of addresses to a large number
of Jewish converts to the Baha'i Faith individually and collectively.
The Ṣaḥīfat Allāh
(The Scroll of God)
of
Mīrzā Ḥusayn `Alī
Nūrī, Bahā'-Allāh
[0]
This is the
Ṣaḥīfat Allāh
(The Scroll of God), the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
It was revealed for the
children [progeny] of the Friend [Ibrahim] (anbā' al-khalīl) and the legacy of the
Speaker [Moses] (wārith al-kalim)
on the part of One
Mighty, Beautiful.
[I]
[1]
In My Name, the Help in
Peril, through the Kingdom of Exposition
[2]
This is a Book revealed
from the heaven of the divine Will of the All-Merciful, unto whomsoever is
within Existence to the end that He might
bring them solace
in God, the Lord of all the worlds.
[3]
This is the Day in
which the Light hath risen brilliantly in view of the fact
that the Speaker on the Mount (Sinai) (mukallim al-ṭūr)
hath settled down upon
Throne of the Divine Theophany (`arsh al-ẓuhūr) and cries out before
all human countenances to the effect that earthly dominion
now belongs to God (al-mulk li-lāhī ),
the Mighty, the One Praised.
[4]
This indeed is the Day
about which the [Sinaitic] Speaker (Moses) gave glad-tidings as well as the Spirit
(of God, al-rūḥ, Jesus) and after him
Muhammad, the Messenger
of God, of the One who has come
from the Dawning-Place of the divine Command
(mashriq al-amr)
with manifest sovereignty (= Bahā'-Allāh).
IN PROGRESS
BAHA'U'LLAH baha'u'llah Bahá'u'lláh
Baha'-Allah Bahá
