Lawḥ-i-Ghulámu'l-Khuld
Lawh-i-Ghulámu'l-Khuld, officially translated as Tablet of the Immortal Youth, is a Tablet revealed by Bahá'u'lláh partly in Arabic and partly in Persian to celebrate the Declaration of the Báb.
Adib Taherzadeh has explained that the Tablet honors the Declaration of the Báb and that in the Tablet the Báb's station is described as is Bahá'u'lláh's in allegorical language and symbolic terms.
John Walbridge has written that the Tablet begins with an Arabic section written in an Arabic literary form which uses rhyme and is between poetry and prose, and ends in formal Persian prose. Regarding the topic of the Tablet Walbridge states that in the Arabic section it commemorates the Declaration of the Báb, describing the Báb and the Maid of Heaven personifying revelation coming forth from heaven, and in the Persian section it instructs people to follow the Báb and alludes to Bahá'u'lláh's station.
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References[edit]
- Adib Taherzadeh Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, Vol. 1, pp 213-218.
- John Walbridge, Erotic Imagery in the Allegorical Writings of Baha'u'llah, 1997, accessed online April 17th, 2019.
