| Work
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Field/Rank
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Explanation of Ranking
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| Qayyúmu'l-Asmá |
""the first, the greatest, and mightiest of all books" in the Bábí Dispensation" |
"Bahá'u'lláh has characterized as "the first, the greatest, and mightiest of all books" in the Bábí Dispensation, the celebrated commentary on the súrih of Joseph, entitled the Qayyúmu'l-Asmá'," God Passes By, p. 23
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| Nine commentaries on the whole of the Qur'án |
"surpassed in some respects a book as deservedly famous as the Qayyúmu'l-Asmá" |
"It was during His incarceration in the fortress of Máh-Kú that He...revealed no less than nine commentaries on the whole of the Qur'án--commentaries whose fate, alas, is unknown, and one of which, at least the Author Himself affirmed, surpassed in some respects a book as deservedly famous as the Qayyúmu'l-Asmá." God Passes By, p. 24
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| Dalá'il-i-Sab'ih |
"the most important of the polemical works of the Báb" |
"the most important of the polemical works of the Báb" (God Passes By, p. 26)
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| Bayán (Persian) |
"the chief and best-preserved repository of His laws" |
"The Persian Bayán, the chief and best-preserved repository of His laws" - Shoghi Effendi, World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 62
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