Lawḥ-i-‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz-Va-Vukalá
Lawḥ-i-‘Abdu'l-‘Azíz-Va-Vukalá was a Tablet addressed to Sultán ‘Abdu'l-‘Azíz revealed by Bahá’u’lláh in Constantinople. Its text has been lost.
It was revealed on the same day that an edict that Bahá’u’lláh was to be further exiled from Constantinople to Adrianople was received from an envoy by Mírzá Músá and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and delivered to the Grand Vizier the following day. Shoghi Effendi wrote about the delivery and contents of the Tablet in God Passes By:
"“I know not what that letter contained,” Shamsí Big subsequently informed Áqáy-i-Kalím, “for no sooner had the Grand Vizir perused it than he turned the color of a corpse, and remarked: ‘It is as if the King of Kings were issuing his behest to his humblest vassal king and regulating his conduct.’ So grievous was his condition that I backed out of his presence.” “Whatever action,” Bahá’u’lláh, commenting on the effect that Tablet had produced, is reported to have stated, “the ministers of the Sulṭán took against Us, after having become acquainted with its contents, cannot be regarded as unjustifiable. The acts they committed before its perusal, however, can have no justification.”
That Tablet, according to Nabíl, was of considerable length, opened with words directed to the sovereign himself, severely censured his ministers, exposed their immaturity and incompetence, and included passages in which the ministers themselves were addressed, in which they were boldly challenged, and sternly admonished not to pride themselves on their worldly possessions, nor foolishly seek the riches of which time would inexorably rob them."[1]
References[edit]
- Effendi, Shoghi (1944). God Passes By. Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Bahá’í Publishing Trust. ISBN 0-87743-020-9. p 160
- Balyuzi, H. M. (1980). Baha'u'llah: The King of Glory. Oxford: George Ronald. p 206
