The Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh Volume 3

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The Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh  (1983) by Adib Taherzadeh Volume 3 ‘Akká, The Early Years 1868–77

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Contents

ILLUSTRATIONS
NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD

1. BAHÁ’U’LLÁH’S ARRIVAL AT ‘AKKÁ

   The Alexandria Incident

   The Most Great Prison

   The Desolate City

   Lawḥ-i-Salmán (Tablet of Salmán)

   The Templers of Haifa

2. ‘THE CAUSE OF GOD WILL FLOURISH THROUGH PERSECUTION’

   Lawḥ-i-Ra’ís

   On Miracles

   Tests and Trials

3. THE PRISONER

   Believers in the Holy Land

   Some Early Pilgrims

   Citizens of ‘Akká

4. TRUSTEES OF BAHÁ’U’LLÁH
5. LAWḤ-I-FU’ÁD

   Shaykh Káẓim-i-Samandar

   The Conversion of Mírzá Abu’l-Faḍl

6. THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL RULERS

   Tablet to Napoleon III

   Tablet to Pope Pius IX

   #: Tablet to Czar Alexander II

   Tablet to Queen Victoria

   On World Unity

7. SÚRIY-I-HAYKAL
8. KINGS AND ECCLESIASTICS

   Kings Addressed in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas

   On Monarchy

   Religious Leaders Addressed in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas

   Proclamation to the Jewish Leadership

9. THE PRIDE OF MARTYRS

   Dispatch of the Lawḥ-i-Sulṭán

   The Story of Badí‘

   The Fortitude of the Martyrs

   The Station of Badí‘

   Divine Chastisement

10. THE DEATH OF THE PUREST BRANCH

    Lawḥ-i-Pisar-‘Amm (Tablet to the Cousin)

11. THE WRONGED ONE OF THE WORLD

    The Prison Gates Open

    Lawḥ-i-Ru’yá (Tablet of Vision)

    Lawḥ-i-Qad Iḥtaraqa’l-Mukhlisún (The Fire Tablet)

    Submission of the Manifestation of God to Trials

    Murder of Three Azalís

    Problems of Historical Evaluation

    The Majesty of Bahá’u’lláh

12. FIRST CONVERTS OUTSIDE THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY

    The Story of Ismu’llahu’l-Aṣdaq

    Lawḥ-i-Aḥbáb (Tablet of the Friends)

    Religious Minorities in Persia

    The Story of Ḥakím Masíḥ, the First Jewish Believer

    Zoroastrians Enter the Faith

    Lawḥ-i-Mánikchí Ṣáḥib

    Lawḥ-i-Haft Pursish (Tablet of Seven Questions)

13. KITÁB-I-AQDAS

    1. THE LAW OF GOD

    Obedience to the Laws of God

    The Covenant of God with Man

    Reward and Punishment

    Bahá’u’lláh’s View of Liberty

    The Infallibility of the Manifestation

14. KITÁB-I-AQDAS

    2. ANEW WORLD ORDER

    The Bahá’í Administrative Order

15. KITÁB-I-AQDAS

    3. DIVINE EDUCATION

    ‘Immerse Yourselves in the Ocean of My Words’

    Education of Children

    Teaching the Cause

16. KITÁB-I-AQDAS

    4. WORSHIP AND DAILY LIFE

    The Mashriqu’l-Adhkár

    The Obligatory Prayer

    Work as Worship

    The Nineteen Day Feast

    Abolition of Monasticism and Confession of Sins

    Health and Medicine: Lawḥ-i-Ṭibb (Tablet of Medicine)

    Marriage

    Music: ‘Spiritual Food of the Hearts and Souls’

    ‘That No One Should Exalt Himself over the Other’

17. KITÁB-I-AQDAS

    5. THE COVENANT OF BAHÁ’U’LLÁH

    Our Part in the Covenant

    ‘We Are With You at All Times’

18. LAST DAYS WITHIN THE CITADEL

APPENDIX I: The Transfer of the Remains of the Báb
APPENDIX II: Mírzá Abu’l-Faḍl of Gulpáygán
APPENDIX III: The Burial of the Purest Branch and the Mother of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. From an article by Rúḥíyyih Rabbani

BIBLIOGRAPHY
REFERENCES
INDEX