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Bahá'u'lláh
The writings of Bahá'u'lláh (1817–1892), founder of the Bahá'í Faith, in their authorized English texts.
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Epistle to the Son of the Wolf — Bahá'u'lláhBahá'u'lláh's last major work (about 1891), a long letter to a leading cleric of Isfahan in which he recounts his imprisonment and exiles, quotes his letters to the kings of his day and his earlier writings, and restates his teachings; the complete Bahá'í Reference Library edition.Gems of Divine Mysteries — Bahá'u'lláhGems of Divine Mysteries (Javáhiru'l-Asrár), the long Arabic epistle Bahá'u'lláh wrote in Baghdad on the return of the Promised One, the reading of scripture and the stages of the mystic's search, in the Bahá'í World Centre translation of 2002.Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláhAn anthology of 166 passages from the writings of Bahá'u'lláh (1817–1892), founder of the Bahá'í Faith, on the knowledge of God, His Messengers, the Day of God, the soul and its life after death, and his counsels to individuals, peoples and rulers; the complete Bahá'í Reference Library edition.Prayers and Meditations — Bahá'u'lláhOne hundred and eighty-four prayers and meditations by Bahá'u'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith, including the three obligatory prayers, the Prayer for the Dead and the Tablet of Visitation, in the Bahá'í Reference Library English edition.Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitáb-i-AqdasSixteen tablets and twenty-three excerpts from other tablets written by Bahá'u'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith, in the last years of his life after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, among them the Tablet of Carmel, the Tablet of Wisdom and the Book of the Covenant, in the Bahá'í Reference Library English edition.The Hidden Words — Bahá'u'lláhThe Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh, written in Baghdad around 1858: seventy-one short counsels from the Arabic and eighty-two from the Persian on love of God, detachment, justice and the soul, complete with their preambles and invocations.The Kitáb-i-Aqdas — Bahá'u'lláhThe Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book), the book of laws Bahá'u'lláh wrote in Arabic in 'Akká around 1873, in its authorized English edition of 1992 with the introduction, supplementary texts, Questions and Answers, Synopsis and Codification, notes and glossary.The Kitáb-i-Íqán — Bahá'u'lláhBahá'u'lláh's Kitáb-i-Íqán, the Book of Certitude, written in Persian in Baghdad around 1861–62: his argument on why each age rejected its prophets and how the symbols of scripture are to be read, complete with the edition's 186 footnotes.The Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláhThe Universal House of Justice's 1967 centenary selection from Bahá'u'lláh's letters to the kings, rulers and religious leaders of his time (Napoleon III, Alexander II, Queen Victoria, Pius IX and others) and to mankind, with its introduction; the complete Bahá'í Reference Library edition.The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys — Bahá'u'lláhTwo mystical letters that Bahá'u'lláh wrote in Persian in Baghdad before 1863: the Seven Valleys, on the soul's journey from search to absolute nothingness, and the Four Valleys, on four kinds of wayfarer, with the edition's 139 notes on their sources.The Summons of the Lord of Hosts — Bahá'u'lláhBahá'u'lláh's tablets to the kings and rulers of his age, written in Adrianople and ‘Akká in the late 1860s: the Súriy-i-Haykal with its messages to Pope Pius IX, Napoleon III, Czar Alexander II, Queen Victoria and Náṣiri'd-Dín Sháh, the tablets to the Ottoman ministers, and the Súriy-i-Mulúk, in the authorized English translation.