The Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh Volume 2

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The Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh  (1977) by Adib Taherzadeh Volume 2 Adrianople 1863–68

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Contents

ILLUSTRATIONS
NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD

1. BAHÁ’U’LLÁH IN CONSTANTINOPLE

   Lawḥ-i-Hawdaj

   Subḥánika-Yá-Hú

2. MATHNAVÍY-I-MUBÁRAK

   Detachment

   The Veil of Ego

   Courage and Sacrifice

3. THE EXILE TO ADRIANOPLE
4. SÚRIY-I-AṢḤÁB

   The State of the Bábí Community

   The Station of Bahá’u’lláh

   The Command to Avoid Sedition

   The Command to Teach

5. TABLET OF AHMAD (ARABIC)
6. LAWḤ-I-AḤMAD (PERSIAN)
7. THE FORCES OF EVIL GATHER MOMENTUM

   The ‘Most Great Separation’

8. THE PROMISED ONE OF THE BAYÁN: SOME TABLETS

   Lawḥ-i-Bahá

   Lawḥ-i-Rúḥ

   Lawḥ-i-Laylatu’l-Ouds

9. SOME EARLY PILGRIMS

   Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥaydar-‘Alí

   Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alíy-i-Nahrí

   Mírzá ‘Alíy-i-Sayyáḥ

10. ILLUSTRIOUS MARTYRS

    Áqá Najaf-‘Alíy-i-Zanjání

    Siyyid Ashraf and Abá-Baṣír

    Lawḥ-i-Ashraf

11. SOME SIGNIFICANT TABLETS

    Súriy-i-Damm

    Súrihs of Ḥajj

    The Story of the Nightingale and the Crow

    Lawḥ-i-Naṣír

    Lawḥ-i-Khalíl

    Lawḥ-i-Siráj

12. TESTS OF FAITH

    The Falling Stars

    Súriy-i-‘Ibád

    The Test of Gold

13. LAWḤ-I-SALMÁN
14. CONFRONTATION WITH MÍRZÁ YAḤYÁ
15. SÚRIY-I-MULÚK

    Some Important Themes of the Súriy-i-Mulúk

    The responsibility of the kings

    General counsels to the kings

    The consequences of rejection

    To the Christians

    To the Sultan of Turkey

    To the ministers of the Sultan

    To the citizens of Constantinople

    To the divines and philosophers

    To the French Ambassador

    To the Persian Ambassador

    Moves Towards a Further Banishment

    Interrogations in Constantinople

    Persecution in Egypt and ‘Iráq

16. TWO KINGS ARE SUMMONED

    Themes of the Lawḥ-i-Sulṭán

    Persecution of the Bábís

    The Station of Bahá’u’lláh

    The Challenge to the Divines

    The ‘Sword of Wisdom and Utterance’

    The Sufferings of Bahá’u’lláh

    The Story of a Martyr

    Bahá’u’lláh’s First Tablet to Napoleon III

17. THE KITÁB-I-BADÍ‘

    Condemnation of the Covenant-breakers

    Writings of the Bab concerning ‘Him Whom God shall make Manifest’

    Khadíjih-Bagum

18. SÚRIY-I-GHUṢN
19. BAHÁ’U’LLÁH’S DEPARTURE FROM ADRIANOPLE

    Súriy-i-Ra’ís

APPENDIX I: The Star-fall of 1866
APPENDIX II: A Visit to Adrianople by Martha L. Root
APPENDIX III: Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥaydar-‘Alí of Iṣfahán

BIBLIOGRAPHY
REFERENCES
INDEX