Several years ago, I provisionally translated this substantial, and in many respects remarkable, supplication by Bahá’u’lláh.
Month: January 2023
The Tablet of the Manifestation
Introduction In the following Tablet, Bahá’u’lláh describes the metaphysical reality of the Manifestation of God. As affirmed in the Bahá’í Writings, the Manifestations of God are those figures—such as Zoroaster, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, and Bahá’u’lláh—who mediate between God and humanity, and reflect the attributes and perfections of the absolute and transcendent Deity in the contingent […]
The Tablet on the Simple Reality
In the first decade of the ‘Akká period, a believer known to us now only as Ḥusayn asked Bahá’u’lláh—on behalf of a disciple of the then-contemporary philosopher Mullá Hádí Sabzivárí (1797-1893)—for an interpretation of a famous dictum from the influential Persian philosopher Mullá Ṣadrá (1571-1636).