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y God! This is He Who hath at one time appeared in the name of the Spirit, thereafter in the name of the

Friend, then in the name of Al, and afterwards in this blessed, lofty, self-subsisting, exalted, and belovedName. In truth, this is usayn, Who hath appeared through divine grace in the dominion of justice, against Whomhave arisen the infidels, with what they possess of wickedness and iniquity. Thereupon they severed His head withthe sword of malice, and lifted it upon a spear in the midst of earth and heaven. Verily, that head is speaking fromatop that spear, saying: 0 assemblage of shadows! Stand ashamed before My beauty, My might, My sovereigntyand My grandeur. Turn your gaze to the countenance of your Lord, the Unconstrained, so that you may find Mecrying out among you with holy and cherished melodies.

Na r, O My servant! God, the Eternal Truth, beareth Me witness. The Celestial Youth hath, in this Day,

raised above the heads of men the glorious Chalice of Immortality, and is standing expectant upon His seat,wondering what eye will recognize His glory, and what arm will, unhesitatingly, be stretched forth to seize the Cufrom His snow-white Hand and drain it. Only a few have as yet quaffed from this peerless, this soft-flowing graceof the Ancient King. These occupy the loftiest mansions of Paradise, and are firmly established upon the seats ofauthority. By the righteousness of God! Neither the mirrors of His glory, nor the revealers of His names, nor anycreated thing, that hath been or will ever be, can ever excel them, if ye be of them that comprehend this truth.

O Na r! The excellence of this Day is immensely exalted above the comprehension of men, however extensive

their knowledge, however profound their understanding. How much more must it transcend the imaginations ofthem that have strayed from its light, and been shut out from its glory! Shouldst thou rend asunder the grievous vethat blindeth thy vision, thou wouldst behold such a bounty as naught, from the beginning that hath no beginningtill the end that hath no end, can either resemble or equal. What language should He Who is the Mouthpiece of Gochoose to speak, so that they who are shut out as by a veil from Him can recognize His glory? The righteous,inmates of the Kingdom on high, shall drink deep from the Wine of Holiness, in My name, the all-glorious. Noneother besides them will share such benefits.

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Studies in Bb an

Bah History

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahull

Tablet to Na r

Law -i-Na r Qazvnh s [1]

s [2]

Selections

Translations by Shoghi Effendi and Christopher Buck

B [3] [4][5] [6]

H

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O s [8]

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This paragraph translated by Dr. Buck. See Buck, Christopher. A Unique Eschatological Interface: Bahullh and Cross-Cultura

Messianism in . Studies in Bb and Bah History. Vol. 3. Peter Smith, ed. (n.p., Kalimt Press, 1986) pp. 157-180 (MWs

note).

Jesus Christ (CBs note).

Mu ammad (CBs note).

The Bb (CBs note).

Here, Bahullh speaks of Imm usayns head from the external point of view, but it is interesting to contrast this with His

mystical identification of Himself with the Imm in the (Tablet of Blood):

Shoghi Effendis translation. See , Section LIII, pp. 107-8 (MWs note).

Shoghi Effendis translation. , Section LXXV, pp. 143-144 (MWs note).

attempt on the life of N irid-Dn h in 1852 unleashed a wave of persecution against the Bbs. j Na r was arrested

in Qazvn and put in prison. But after some time he was released. Another imprisonment he suffered was in i rn, where

he was chained and fettered. When released from his ordeal, he found that all his possessions were gone. It was through the

help and co-operation of ay K im-i-Samandar that, in spite of much harassment by the enemy, j Na r continued

to earn a living, but he had to move his residence to the city of Ra t.

The crowning glory of his life was to attain the presence of Bahullh in Akk. On this pilgrimage he was accompanied

by the above-named ay K im. Bahullh showered His bounties upon him and assured him of His loving-kindness.

He spent the latter part of his life in the city of Ra t and was engaged in teaching the Cause of God by day and night. The

enemies once again cast him into prison. This time, because of old age, he could not endure the rigours of prison life and

his soul, after so many years of toil and suffering, took its flight to the abode of the Beloved. He died a martyrs death in

the prison of Ra t in the year 1300 A.H. (1888). ( Vol. 2, pp 245-6.

s Sh H s

T h

Sh kh z H s

sh

Sh kh z

sh

sh The Revelation of Bahullh

[3]

In Irn

[4]

[5] h

[6]

[7] H

Sriy-i-Damm

How bitter the humiliations heaped upon Me, in a subsequent age, on the plain of Karbil! How lonely did I feel amidst

Thy people! To what a state of helplessness I was reduced in that land! Unsatisfied with such indignities, My persecutors

decapitated Me, and, carrying aloft My head from land to land paraded it before the gaze of the unbelieving multitude, and

deposited it on the seats of the perverse and faithless. , Section XXXIX, p. 89

(MWs note).

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[9] Gleanings from the Writings of Bahullh

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