Category: Windflower Translations

Praised be my Lord, the Most High (Subhana Rabbiyya’l-A`la) is a 45-verse prose poem. Baha’u’llah invites readers into paradise to witness the activities of the divine houri, whose stunning beauty and power symbolise the creative forces of Baha’u’llah’s revelation. Read the Introduction. Watch on YouTube. Translation by Juan Cole (See also the translation by Alison…

Tablet to the Zoroastrians (Lawh-i Dustan-i Yazdani) is a short tablet in which Baha’u’llah explains the meaning of the symbol of fire in Zoroastrian scripture, and proclaims himself to be the primal fire foreshadowed in the Avesta. Read the introduction. Translation by Juan Cole To the Zoroastrians The beginning of every tale is the name…

Tablet to Salman on Detachment (Lawh-i Salman II) is a short tablet in which Baha’u’llah discusses the meaning of detachment. He says that one sign of humanity’s maturity is that no one will agree to bear autocractic rule. Read the Introduction. Watch on YouTube. Translation by Juan Cole [1] O Salman: In every affair, strive…

Tablet to Ashraf (Lawh-i Ashraf) is a dispatch that Baha’u’llah wrote for Siyyid Ashraf-i Zanjani at the end of Ashraf’s second visit with Baha’u’llah in Edirne (Adrianople). The context for the communication was that Ashraf was about to leave and travel back to Iran. The tablet contains instructions for Ashraf on what to do when…

Tablet on Understanding the Cause of Opposition (Lawḥ-i ʿirfān-i ʿillat-i iʿrāḍ) is a letter Baha’u’llah wrote for someone who had not grasped his teachings related to the cycle of opposition faced by the Manifestations of God. In this tablet, Baha’u’llah repeats, in one fast-paced, hard-hitting argument, key themes he covers in detail in the Kitab-i…

Tablet on the Right of the People (Lawh-i haqq al-nas) discusses the following question: how is a person’s rights, breached in the physical world, redressed in the spiritual worlds? What is the mechanism by which these personal rights are restored? How is this process to be understood and how does it occur in the Day…

Tablet of Unity (Lawh-i Ittihad) is a discussion about the various levels of unity and how these are reflected in religion, speech, deeds, station, persons and wealth, and souls. Read the introduction. Translation by Juan Cole He is God. Exalted be his station, of wisdom and utterance. [1] A letter reached this Wronged One from…

Tablet of the Vision (Lawh-i Ru’ya) is Baha’u’llah’s poetic description of a vision he had of the woman who symbolises the spirit of the Baha’i revelation. The tablet was written to commemorate the birth of the Bab. Read the Introduction. Watch on YouTube. Translation by Juan Cole In His Name, Who warbleth upon the twigs. [1]…

Tablet of the Son is a lengthy tablet containing important discussion on the nature and influence of the Word of God and the role it played in the Christian, Islamic, Babi, and Baha’i revelations. The tablet quotes a long passage from a letter Baha’u’llah wrote to a Christian priest, in which Baha’u’llah discusses the effect…

Tablet of the Sacred Night (Lawh-i Laylatu’l-Quds) is an extended prayer. The ‘sacred night’ refers to the night of the declaration of the Bab, which is commemorated on the evening of May 22, two hours after sunset. 📖 Translation by Juan Cole 🔗 Explore the Introduction ▶️ Watch on YouTube This tablet descended from the…