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Subḥánaka-Yá-Hú (Praised Be Thou, O He!) by Bahá’u’lláh — book cover

Subḥánaka-Yá-Hú

Praised Be Thou, O He!

سبحانك يا هو (لوح الناقوس)

Bahá’u’lláh

Arabic 1,040 words Best-Known Work Awaiting Translation

Proclamatory tablet, with repeated refrain celebrating the name ‘He’, commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the declaration of the Báb.

heaven and paradise; heaven and helltranscendence; unknowability of God, God’s oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]monasticism; asceticismthe Kingdom of God [Malakut]nearness and remotenessprayer for detachment, Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu’l-muntaha

هَذِهِ رَوْضَةُ الفِرْدَوْسِ ارْتَفَعَتْ فِيهَا نَغْمَةُ اللّٰهِ المُهَيمِنِ الْقَيُّومِ، وَفِيهَا اسْتَقَرَّتْ حُورِيَاتُ الخُلْدِ مَا مَسَّهُنَّ أَحَدٌ إِلَّا اللّٰهُ الْعَزِيزُ الْقُدُّوسُ، وَفِيهَا تَغَرَّدَ عَنْدَلِيبُ الْبَقآءِ عَلَى أَفْنَانِ سِدْرَةِ الْمُنْتَهَى بِالنَّغْمَةِ الَّتِي تَتَحَ

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