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added under the English where there is translation??, then title above
will have "Dutch" added
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Selections from the Writings of The Báb
Compiled by the Research department of
the Universal House of Justice
(translated by Habib Tazerzadeh with assistance)
Bahá´í World Centre, Haifa, 1976, W
& J Mackay Limited, U.K.,
ISBN: 0-85398-066-7. Contents:
Tablets and Addresses, Excerpts from the Qayyúmu'l-asmá,
Excerpts from the Persian Bayán, Excerpts from the Seven Proofs,
Excerpts from the Book of Names, Excerpts from Various Writings, Prayers
and Meditations. 222 pages.
Dates and Themes
The Seven Valleys by Bahá'u'lláh
The Four Valleys by Bahá'u'lláh
The Hidden Words by Bahá'u'lláh
The Tablet of the Holy Mariner by Bahá'u'lláh
The Fire Tablet by Bahá'u'lláh
The Tablet of Ahmad by Bahá'u'lláh
The Book of Certitude by Bahá'u'lláh
(The Kitáb-i Iqán)
Published by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá´ís
of the U.S.A. Translated by Shoghi Effendi.
Numerous reprints.
Written 1862
An academic examination of this book.
The Most Holy Book by Bahá'u'lláh
(The Kitáb-i-Aqdas)
Bahá´í World Centre, Haifa, 1992, ISBN: 0-85398-999-0.
Contents: Introduction by the Universal
House of Justice, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, An extract from the Tablet
of Ishrá1át, The Long Obligatory Prayer, the Medium Obligatory
Prayer, The Short Obligatory Prayer, Prayer for the Dead, Questions and
Answers, Synopsis and Codification of the Law and Ordinances of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas,
Notes. 296 pages.
Written c. 1873
"O ye peoples of the world! Know assuredly that My commandments are
the lamps of My loving providence among My servants, and the keys of My
mercy for My creatures...
Think not that We have revealed unto you a mere code of laws. nay, rather,
We have unsealed the choice Wine with the fingers of might and power..."
(Pages 20 -21)
"...Hair doth not invalidate your prayer, nor aught from which the
spirit hath departed, such as bones and the like... We have commanded
you to pray and fast from the age of maturity...exempted from this are
those who are sick..." (Pages 22 -23)
"You have been forbidden to commit murder or adultery, or to engage
in backbiting..." (Pages 26)
"Make not your deeds as snares wherewith to entrap the object of your
aspiration." (Page 31)
"The days of your life flee away as a breath of wind... Reflect O People!"
(Page 33)
"Lament not your hours of trial, neither rejoice therein; seek ye the
Middle Way which is the remembrance of Me in your afflictions and reflection
over that which may befall you in future..." (Page
35)
Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
(revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas)
Compiled by the Universal House of Justice
Translated by Habib Tazerzadeh with assistance.
Bahá´í World Centre, Haifa, 1978, Camelot Press Limited,
Southampton, U.K., ISBN: 0-85398-137-X and 0-85398-077-2.
Contents: Tablet of Carmel, The Most Holy Tablet, Glad-Tidings,
Ornaments, Effulgences, Words of Paradise, Tablet of the World, Splendours,
Tablet of Wisdom, Words of Wisdom, Tablet of Maqsúd, Tablet of
Vafá, Tablet of Siyyid Mihdíy-i-Dahají, Tablet of
the Proof, Book of the Convenant, Tablet of the Land of Bá, Excerpts
from other Tablets. 298 pages. Dates
and themes
Epistle
to the Son of the Wolf by Bahá'u'lláh
Published by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá´ís
of the U.S.A. Translated by Shoghi Effendi.
Numerous reprints since 1941.
"...They whose
sight is keen, whose ears are retentive, whose hearts are enlightened,
and whose breasts are dilated, recognize both truth and falsehood and
distinguish one from the other... ponder thereon with a heart free from
attachment, and with ears that are pure and sanctified, be attentive to
its meaning, that haply thou mayest inhale the breath of deatachment and
have pity upon thyself and upon others..."
(page 9, 1979 edition.) Written 1891-2
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