“O Nightingales” (Ay Bulbulán)

Introduction What follows is a provisional translation of a Persian poem by Bahá’u’lláh, “Ay Bulbulán” or “O Nightingales,” in which He describes His advent through the various classical motifs of Persian literature. As scholar Julio Savi notes, this poem is attributed to the period when Bahá’u’lláh was residing in Iraqi Kurdistan. Although Juan Cole had […]