Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas

3 Jesus.

4 Je­sus.

5 Qur'án 81:6, 10.

6 Mírzá Hádí Dawlat-​Ábádí, one of the di­vines of Is­fáhán, who be­came a fol­low­er of the Báb, lat­er sup­port­ed Mírzá Yahyá, and was ap­point­ed his rep­re­sen­ta­tive in Írán and his suc­ces­sor. Dur­ing the per­se­cu­tions against the Bábís he re­cant­ed his faith.

7 The in­signia of a mul­lá.

8 Qur'án 6:91.

9 Ustád 'Alí-​Ak­bar, one of the staunch be­liev­ers in Yazd. He de­signed the Mashriqu'l-​Adhkár of Ishqábád and his de­sign was ap­proved by 'Ab­du'l-​Bahá. Ustád 'Alí-​Ak­bar of­fered up his life as a mar­tyr in Yazd in 1903.

10 Ara­bic.

11 Hájí Mírzá Hay­dar-'Alí, out­stand­ing Per­sian Bahá'í teach­er and au­thor. He spent nine years in prison and ex­ile in Khártúm, trav­elled ex­ten­sive­ly in Írán, and passed away in 1920 in the Holy Land. West­ern pil­grims knew him as the An­gel of Mount Carmel.

12 Qur'án 34:12.

13 Je­sus.

14 Hájí Mul­lá Hádí Sabzí­varí, a renowned philoso­pher and po­et of Írán con­tem­po­rary with Bahá'u'lláh. He passed away in 1873.

15 Mírzá Abu'l-​Qásim Faráhání, the Qá'im Maqám, a dis­tin­guished po­et and schol­ar dur­ing the reign of Fath 'Alí Sháh. He was a friend of Mírzá Buzurg, fa­ther of Bahá'u'lláh. Qá'im Maqám be­came Prime Min­is­ter of Per­sia in 1821, but in 1835 he was put to death by or­der of Muham­mad Sháh, at the in­sti­ga­tion of Hájí Mírzá Aqásí.

16 cf. Qur'án 4:129.

17 Qur'án 59:9.

18 Muham­mad Javád-​i-​Qazvíní, up­on whom Bahá'u'lláh be­stowed the ti­tle Is­mu'lláhi'l-​Júd (The Name of God, Boun­ty). He tran­scribed nu­mer­ous Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh dur­ing His Min­istry, but sub­se­quent­ly broke the Covenant. (See God Pass­es By pages 247 and 319.)

19 A vil­lage near Is­fáhán.

20 Mírzá Hádí Dawlat-​Ábádí, one of the di­vines of Is­fáhán, who be­came a fol­low­er of the Báb, lat­er sup­port­ed Mírzá Yahyá, and was ap­point­ed his rep­re­sen­ta­tive in Írán and his suc­ces­sor. Dur­ing the per­se­cu­tions against the Bábís he re­cant­ed his faith.

21 Mírzá Ashraf, who was mar­tyred in the city of Is­fáhán. (See God Pass­es By p. 201.)

22 The two Hands of the Cause of God, Hájí Mul­lá 'Alí-​Ak­bar Sháh­mírzádí and Hájí Abu'l-​Hasan Ar­dakání, Amín-​i-​Iláhí (Trustee of Huqúqu'lláh), were orig­inal­ly ar­rest­ed in Tihrán, im­pris­oned in Qazvín in the year 1891, and then trans­ferred to prison in Tihrán.

23 Prince Mah­múd Mírzá, the Jalálu'd'Dawlih, Gov­er­nor of Yazd, Per­sia.

24 Jamálu'd-​Dín-​i-​Afghání. (See God Pass­es By pp. 296, 317.)

25 i.e., the let­ter 'B', the sec­ond let­ter of the al­pha­bet.

26 The open­ing chap­ter of the Qur'án, which be­gins with the let­ter 'B': Bis­mi'lláhi'r-​Rah­máni'r-​Rahím (In the Name of God, the Com­pas­sion­ate, the Mer­ci­ful). This chap­ter of the Qur'án was re­vealed twice, once in Mec­ca and once in Med­ina.

27 The open­ing chap­ter of the Qur'án, which be­gins with the let­ter 'B': Bis­mi'lláhi'r-​Rah­máni'r-​Rahím (In the Name of God, the Com­pas­sion­ate, the Mer­ci­ful). This chap­ter of the Qur'án was re­vealed twice, once in Mec­ca and once in Med­ina.

28 Je­sus.

29 Moses.

30 This Tablet was ad­dressed to Jalíl-​i-​Khú'í, one of the ear­ly be­liev­ers in Ád­hir­bayján, Per­sia. Af­ter the As­cen­sion of Bahá'u'lláh he broke the Covenant.

31 cf. Qur'án 14:33.

32 cf. Qur'án 21:23.

33 Mec­ca.

34 Qur'án 3:91.

35 Muham­mad.

36 Mírzá Yahyá.

37 Muham­mad.

38 Qur'án 83:6.

39 Moses.

40 Qur'án 14:5.

41 Je­sus.

42 Adri­anople.

43 Ara­bic.

44 Per­sian.

45 Muham­mad.

46 The Imáms.

47 The Báb.

48 Kitáb-​i-​Aq­das.

49 One of the ear­ly be­liev­ers who is best known to the friends for his re­li­able tran­scrip­tions of the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh. (See Memo­ri­als of the Faith­ful pp. 150-153.)

50 Such loans as bear no in­ter­est and are re­payable when­ev­er the bor­row­er pleas­es.

51 In a Tablet Bahá'u'lláh states, 'The Holy Tree [Sadrat] is, in a sense, the Man­ifes­ta­tion of the One True God, ex­alt­ed be He. The Blessed Tree in the land of Za'farán re­fer­reth to the land which is flour­ish­ing, blessed, holy and all-​per­fumed, where that Tree hath been plant­ed.'

52 In many of the pas­sages that fol­low con­cern­ing the Greek philoso­phers, Bahá'u'lláh quotes ver­ba­tim from the works of such Mus­lim his­to­ri­ans as Abu'l-​Fath-​i-​Sháhristání (1076-1153 A.D.) and Imá­du'd-​Dín Abu'l-​Fidá (1273-1331 A.D.).

53 In one of His Tablets Bahá'u'lláh wrote: 'The first per­son who de­vot­ed him­self to phi­los­ophy was Ídrís. Thus was he named. Some called him al­so Her­mes. In ev­ery tongue he hath a spe­cial name. He it is who hath set forth in ev­ery branch of phi­los­ophy thor­ough and con­vinc­ing state­ments. Af­ter him Báli­nus de­rived his knowl­edge and sci­ences from the Her­met­ic Tablets and most of the philoso­phers who fol­lowed him made their philo­soph­ical and sci­en­tif­ic dis­cov­er­ies from his words and state­ments...'. In the Qur'án, Súrá 19, vers­es 57 and 58, is writ­ten: 'And com­mem­orate Ídrís in the Book; for he was a man of truth, a Prophet; And we up­lift­ed him to a place on high.'

54 In many of the pas­sages that fol­low con­cern­ing the Greek philoso­phers, Bahá'u'lláh quotes ver­ba­tim from the works of such Mus­lim his­to­ri­ans as Abu'l-​Fath-​i-​Sháhristání (1076-1153 A.D.) and Imá­du'd-​Dín Abu'l-​Fidá (1273-1331 A.D.).

55 Qur'án 20:106.

56 Muham­mad.

57 Mec­ca.

58 Ara­bic.

59 Moses.

60 Muham­mad Husayn, one of the ear­ly be­liev­ers of Shíráz, sur­named 'Vafá (Fi­deli­ty) by Bahá'u'lláh.

61 The Most Great Name.

62 Mul­lá Husayn.

63 The mak­er of the Gold­en Calf. See Qur'án 20:87-98.

64 Siyyid Mi­hdíy-​i-​Dahájí, to whom this Tablet was ad­dressed, had been giv­en by Bahá'u'lláh the ti­tle Is­mu'lláhi'l-​Mi­hdí, 'The Name of God, Mi­hdí. He lat­er broke the Covenant. (See God Pass­es By, page 319.)

65 Nabíl-​i-​Ak­bar. See p. 135.

66 Mec­ca.

67 Fá­tim­ih, daugh­ter of Muham­mad.

68 Je­sus.

69 Qur'án 4:96.

70 Je­sus.

71 The Sa­cred Lote-​Tree, the Tree be­yond which there is no pass­ing (See Qur'án 53:8-18). A sym­bol of the Man­ifes­ta­tion of God. (See God Pass­es By p. 94.)

72 Qur'án 2:88.

73 Moses.

74 Je­sus.

75 Napoleon III.

76 Qur'án 40:29.

77 Muham­mad.

78 Fá­tim­ih, daugh­ter of Muham­mad.

79 Adri­anople.

80 The Imám-​Jum'ih of Is­fáhán, see page 203.

81 Fá­tim­ih.

82 The King of Mar­tyrs and the Beloved of Mar­tyrs.

83 Je­sus.

84 Ish­mael.

85 Qur'án 104:1-2.

86 Beirut. This Tablet is 'a let­ter dic­tat­ed by Bahá'u'lláh and ad­dressed by Mírzá Áqá Ján, His amanu­en­sis, to 'Ab­du'l-​Bahá while the lat­ter was on a vis­it to Beirut.' (The World Or­der of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 136.)

87 Qur'án 7:139.

88 Muham­mad Javád-​i-​Qazvíní, up­on whom Bahá'u'lláh be­stowed the ti­tle Is­mu'lláhi'l-​Júd (The Name of God, Boun­ty). He tran­scribed nu­mer­ous Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh dur­ing His Min­istry, but sub­se­quent­ly broke the Covenant. (See God Pass­es By pages 247 and 319.)

89 Hájí Mírzá Hay­dar-'Alí, out­stand­ing Per­sian Bahá'í teach­er and au­thor. He spent nine years in prison and ex­ile in Khártúm, trav­elled ex­ten­sive­ly in Írán, and passed away in 1920 in the Holy Land. West­ern pil­grims knew him as the An­gel of Mount Carmel.

90 Psalms 59:9; 108:10.

91 Qur'án 14:5.

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