Lawḥ-i-Ḥurúfát
Tablet of the Letters
لوح الحروفات
The Báb
Persian 9,759 words Best-Known Work Awaiting Translation
One of the Báb’s lengthiest works, known as Panj Sha’n (Book of the Five Modes), comprising five modes or grades of divine revelation. Themes include the transcendence of God, progressive revelation, the station of the Manifestation, divine unity, and the symbolism of letters and numbers.
transcendence; unknowability of Godpower and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of Godprogressive revelation; renewal of religionstation of the Manifestation of Goddivine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, God’s oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria)names and attributes of Godoneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of Godessential vs. actional attributes of God, Manifestation of God as mediator, The Primal Willwalking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life
[شأن الآيات] بسم الله الاعلم الاعلم بالله الله العلم العلم انني انا الله لا الٓه الا انا كنت من اول الذي لا اول له علاما مقتدرا انني انا الله لا الٓه الا انا لاكونن الى اخر الذي لا اخر له علاما مقتدرا بل اللهم ان لا الٓه الا انت انك كنت من اول الذي لا اول له علاما مقتدرا بل اللهم ان لا الٓه الا انت