Tablet of the Holy Mariner
- Read the Arabic section online at https://bahai-library.com/compilations/prayers/BP-171.html
- Provisional translation of the Persian section at https://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_lawh_mallah_quds
Study Materials[edit]
- https://bahai-library.com/study/mariner/ (compilation and thematic study)
Holy Mariner is a reference to Bahá'u'lláh, and the Ark is His Cause[edit]
"The Tablet of the Holy Mariner was revealed by Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdad. The Holy Mariner is a reference to Bahá'u'lláh Himself, and the Ark mentioned in that Tablet is the Ark of His Cause."
- (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, March 8, 1936, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1609)
Refers to the sad events that were to transpire as to the defection of Subh-i-Azal[edit]
"Concerning the Tablet of the Holy Mariner, it is one of the most significant Tablets revealed by Bahá'u'lláh during the last days of His stay in Baghdad, and refers to the sad though momentous events which were to transpire soon after His arrival in Adrianople. Its main significance lies in the fact that in it Bahá'u'lláh clearly foreshadows the grave happenings which eventually led to the defection of Subh-i-Azal, and to the schism which the latter thought to create within the ranks of the faithful."
- (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, August 10, 1934, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1609)
The Tablet foreshadows own afflictions and transformed the characters of His Faith's adherents[edit]
...the "Tablet of the Holy Mariner," in which Bahá'u'lláh prophesies the severe afflictions that are to befall Him; the "Lawh-i-Huríyyih" (Tablet of the Maiden), in which events of a far remoter future are foreshadowed;...and a host of other writings, in the form of epistles, odes, homilies, specific Tablets, commentaries and prayers, contributed, each in its own way, to swell the "rivers of everlasting life" which poured forth from the "Abode of Peace" and lent a mighty impetus to the expansion of the Báb's Faith in both Persia and `Iráq, quickening the souls and transforming the character of its adherents.
- (Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, pp. 140-141)
