Writings The Báb by date

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By date[edit]

1844[edit]

Before Máh-Kú[edit]

(Need to see Dawn-Breakers for date of Revelation and Selections from the Writings of the Báb to correctly match names with already wiki-named Tablets)

  • first Tablet to Muhammad Sháh
  • Tablets to Sultán `Abdu'l-Majíd and to Najíb Páshá, the Valí of Baghdád
  • Sahífiy-i-baynu'l-Harámayn, revealed between Mecca and Medina, in answer to questions posed by Mírzá Muhít-i-Kirmání
  • The Epistle to the Sheríf of Mecca;
  • The Kitábú'r-Rúh, comprising seven hundred Súrahs;
  • The Khasá'il-i-Sab`ih, which enjoined the alteration of the formula of the adhán;
  • The Risáliy-i-Furú-i-`Adlíyyih, rendered into Persian by Mullá Muhammad-Taqíy-i-Haratí;
  • The commentary on the Súrah of Kawthar, which effected such a transformation in the soul of Vahíd; (see Kawthar)
  • The commentary on the Súrah of Va'l-`Asr, in the house of the Imám-Jum'ih of Isfahán; (see Va'l-`Asr)
  • The dissertation on the Specific Mission of Muhammad, written at the request of Manúchihr Khán;
  • The second Tablet to Muhammad Sháh, craving an audience in which to set forth the truths of the new Revelation, and dissipate his doubts;
  • The Tablets sent from the village of Síyáh-Dihán to the `ulamás of Qazvín and to Hájí Mírzá Aqásí, inquiring from him as to the cause of the sudden change in his decision.

Mar./Jul. 1847- July 1848 (in Máh-Kú)[edit]

In Chihríq (July 1848+)[edit]

  • Lawh-i-Hurúfat (Tablet of the Letters) was revealed, in honor of Dayyán GPB 27
  • soon after His return from Tabríz, His denunciatory Tablet to Hájí Mírzá Aqásí. GPB 27 (1850?)

Need to check[edit]

"to AzÍM He divulged, in the Kitáb-i-Panj-Sha'n" GPB 28

  • `O God, my God, my Beloved, my heart's Desire' date of Revelation?
  • Kitáb-i-Asmá date of Revelation?