TB1

THE PERSIAN YEARS  OF THE BĀBI PERIOD

OF Bahā'-Allāh'S LIFETIME

1260-1269/ 1844-1853

        No reliable list of writings ascribed to Bahā'-Allāh during his earliest Bābī years (1844-1852) is available. Various historical and scriptural sources do mention writings of these years though most do not seem to be extant. The vacant listing here (TB1:001-020) is simply an indication of the lack of data regarding the earliest period. Even TB1: 010, the 81 (9x9) Badasht alwāḥ of Bahā'-Allāh may be more expressive of a theological position than a concrete record of his early revelations.

TB1: 001 (Per.) lawḥ-i

TB1: 002 (Per.) lawḥ-i

TB1: 003 (Per.) lawḥ-i

TB1: 004 (Per.) lawḥ-i

TB1: 005 (Per.) lawḥ-i

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TB1: 010 (Per.) Alwāḥ-i Badasht.

The writing or revelation of 81 (=9X9) alwāḥ  (scriptural Tablets) to Bābīs said to be present at the Conference of Bahā'-Allāhdasht (Khurasan, Iran 1848) is mentioned in the Tarikh-i Zarandi (Dawn-Breakers, XXX). These alwāḥ apparently allotteDīnew (presumably Bābī) names upon their recepients. They are not know to be still extant.

 TB1: 011 (Per.) lawḥ-i

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قصيده رَشْح عَمَاء

TB1: 012 (Per.) Qaṣīdih Rashḥ-i `amā'    

Opening hemistich:           رَشْح عَمَاء از جَزب مَا مِيرِزَد

Closing line:

 Most Bahā'ī sources regard this 19 or more (20/21) line poetical composition  (qaṣīdih) as the earliest extent piece of divine revelation coming from the person of Bahā'-Allāh at the time of his four month imprisonment (Oct./Nov. 1852--Jan./Feb 1853?) in the Siyāh Chāl (Black Pit) dungeon in Tehran in the (Bābi-Bahā'ī) year nine 9 = 1269 AH (began15th Oct. 1852-- ended 4th Oct. 1853). Versions of the (developing) text can be found scattered in various mss. and a few printed sources  including, for example;

(1) INBMC 36:

(2) Ma'idih 4:156-7

(3) Haifa typescript after a mss. in the hand of Zayn al-Muqarribīn, cf. Lambden Website + rev. BSB 3:2.

(4) Mss. deriving from Zarandi printed by Vahid Rafati in Per. `Lights of Irfan', X:XX.

Translations

The first complete English translation with brief introduction, commentary and an appendix on `amā'  was by SL in BSB 3/2, 4-114 (texts,           ; commentary, xx-xx + Appendix of `ama' pp. xx-104).

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TB1: 013 (Per.) lawḥ-i

TB1: 014 (Ar.) lawḥ-i

TB1: 015 (Per.) lawḥ-i

TB1: 016 (Per.) lawḥ-i

TB1: 017(Per.) lawḥ-i

TB1: 018 (Per.) lawḥ-i

TB1: 019 (Per.) lawḥ-i

TB2C: 020  (Per.) lawḥ-i

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