Lawḥ-i-Náqús
Lawḥ-i-Náqús also known as Subḥánika-Yá-Hú, officially translated as Tablet of the Bell, is an Arabic Tablet revealed by Bahá’u’lláh in Constantinople. It has been officially translated and published in Days of Remembrance.
The Tablet was revealed on the lunar date of the Declaration of the Báb in 1863 with Bahá’u’lláh writing it Himself. It was revealed for Aqa Muhammad-'Ally-i-Tambaku-Furush-i-Isfahani who requested it through ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Adib Taherzadeh writes that is was chanted collectively by the believers, with an individual chanting and others joining to chant the refrain (Taherzadeh notes that this is distinct from the concept of congregational prayer). R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram notes that a melody which was used to chant the Tablet for communal devotions in Tehran in the 1930's and 1940's dated back to at least 1906, with sheet music for the chant being stored in the Chicago Bahá'í archives.
Taherzadeh describes the Tablet as asserting and celebrating Bahá’u’lláh's Station being revealed. Stephen Lambden states that Náqús is a non-Qur'anic Aramaic-Syriac loan word and notes that Bahá’u’lláh uses the term to refer to Himself in other writings, representing the Bell which summons believers to enter the Abha paradise.
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References[edit]
- Wilmette faculty notes for Subhánika-Yá-hu, also known as the Lawh-i-Naqus, by Stephen Lambden & R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram
- Taherzadeh, Adib, Revelation of Baha'u'llah, Vol. II, pp 19-21.
