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Súriy-i-Asmá’ (Sura of the Names) by Bahá’u’lláh — book cover

Súriy-i-Asmá’

Sura of the Names

سوره اسماء

Bahá’u’lláh

Persian 3,983 words Best-Known Work Awaiting Translation

Responds to objections to His claims raised by some Bábís, implores them not to be shut out from the truth by the veil of names, acknowledges the outward differences between sacred scriptures while asserting that this derives from the varying capacity of humanity, extols at length the revelation and the crucifixion of Jesus as having infused ‘a fresh capacity into all created things’, compares the Báb to John the Baptist and announces Himself to be the return of Christ, and declares that the purpose of His revelation, like Christ’s, is to bestow eternal life.

rejection by the people of the Bayanthe Word of God; influence and centrality ofexhortations and counselsteaching the Cause; call to teachexpressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

رائحه احزان جمال رحمن را احاطه نموده و ابواب فرح و بهجت از ظلم اهل طغیان من ملأ البیان مسدود شده اف لهؤلآء این بسی مسلم و واضح و مبرهن است که هر ظهور قبلی ناس را بظهور بعد بشارت فرموده علی قدر مقاماتهم و استعداداتهم بعضی باشاره و بعضی بتلویحات خفیه و اما ظهور قبل فوق آنچه تعقل و ادراک شود در نصیحت و

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