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Lawḥ-i-Hirtík (Tablet of Hirtik) by Bahá’u’lláh — book cover

Lawḥ-i-Hirtík

Tablet of Hirtik

لوح هرتيك

Bahá’u’lláh

Arabic 690 words Best-Known Work Awaiting Translation

Briefly addresses the 104 head of the German Templers of Haifa, calling him to consider with insight the ascendancy and sweetness of the word of God, the mysterious processes by which the abased become exalted and the exalted abased, and the lessons of the past; employs the science of letters and their numerical equivalents in explaining the significance of certain names; and affirms that He and the recipient are moved by the same divine spirit.

multiple meanings; interpretations in scripturemystery of the great reversalthe Word of God; influence and centrality ofsuffering and imprisonmentheedlessness and ignorance of the peoplespiritual emotions and susceptibilities

قَدْ حَضَرَ كِتابُكَ الْمَخْتُوْمُ لَدى الْمَظْلُوْمِ وَوَجَدْنا مِنْهُ عَرْفَ خُلُوْصِكَ للهِ الْمُهَيْمِنِ الْقَيُّوْمِ، نَسْئَلُ اللهَ أَنْ يُعَرِّفَكَ ما هُوَ الْمَسْتُوْرُ فِيْ لَوْحٍ مَسْطُوْرٍ وَيُسْمِعَكَ هَدِيْرَ الْوَرْقاءِ عَلى الأَفْنانِ وَخَرِيْرَ ماءِ الْحَيَوانِ الَّذِيْ جَرى مِنْ مَع

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