Lawh-i-Ahmad (Arabic)
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To be read when under exceptionally difficult circumstances[edit]
"The Tablet of Ahmad was revealed by Bahá'u'lláh to be read when one feels himself in exceptionally difficult circumstances."
- (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the Bahá'ís of Kenosha, April 14, 1932, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1608)
Invested with a special potency and significance and recited with unquestioned faith and confidence[edit]
"These daily obligatory prayers, together with a few other specific ones, such as the Healing Prayer, the Tablet of Ahmad, have been invested by Bahá'u'lláh with a special potency and significance, and should therefore be accepted as such and be recited by the believers with unquestioned faith and confidence, that through them they may enter into a much closer communion with God, and identify themselves more fully with His Laws and precepts."
Not obligatory to use or memorize[edit]
"There is nothing obligatory about its use, and every person has to decide for himself whether he desires to learn it by heart or not...."
- (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the Bahá'ís of Kenosha, April 14, 1932, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1608)
Tablet of Ahmad--the word "ungodly"[edit]
"In the passage 'eschew all fellowship with the ungodly,' Bahá'u'lláh means that we should shun the company of those who disbelieve in God and are wayward. The word 'ungodly' is a reference to such perverse people. The words 'Be thou as a flame of fire to My enemies and a river of life eternal to My loved ones' should not be taken in their literal sense. Bahá'u'lláh's advice is that again we should flee from the enemies of God and instead seek the fellowship of His lovers."
- (Shoghi Effendi: Dawn of a New Day, p. 200, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1608)
