“He Who Shall Arise”. Arabic for Raised
Judge: civil, criminal, and ecclesiastical
A pipe for smoking through water.
A cousin of
Moses, who having believed in Moses, turned against Him and with his fellow-rebels was destroyed by the wrath of God. (See Numbers Ch. 16).
Arabic for Raiser
Revealed in 1844, this work is characterized by
Bahá’u’lláh as “the first, the greatest, and mightiest of all books” in the Bábí
Dispensation.
For an outline of its contents, see
Shoghi Effendi,
God Passes By, page 23.
“That which one faces; prayer-direction; point of adoration”. The focus to which the faithful turn in prayer.
An Islamic term meaning "retaliation in kind", "eye for an eye", or retributive justice.
(Wikipedia: Qisas)
1822(?) — 16 May 1849
He received the title Jináb-i-Quddús (“Most Holy”) at the
Conference of Badasht. Quddús was also a participant at the
Battle of Fort Ṭabarsí. He met his death shortly after at the hands of a mob in Barfurú
sh, who tore him into pieces.
“Quddús, immortalized by Him [the
Báb] as Ismu’lláhu’l-Á
khar (the Last Name of God); on whom
Bahá’u’lláh’s
Tablet of Kullu’t-Tá’am later conferred the sublime appellation of Nuqtiy-i-Ukhrá (the Last Point); whom He elevated, in another Tablet, to a rank second to none except that of the Herald of His
Revelation; whom He identifies, in still another Tablet, with one of the ‘Messengers charged with imposture’ mentioned in the Qur’án; whom the Persian
Bayán extolled as that fellow-pilgrim round whom mirrors to the number of eight
Vaḥíds revolve; on whose ‘detachment and the sincerity of whose devotion to God's will God prideth Himself amidst the Concourse on high;’ whom
‘Abdu’l-Bahá designated as the ‘Moon of Guidance;’ and whose appearance the Revelation of St. John the Divine anticipated as one of the two ‘Witnesses’ into whom, ere the ‘second woe is past,’ the ‘spirit of life from God’ must enter”.
An imagined fifth “essence of heaven” in addition to the four elements of earth: hence, the last or highest essence of anything.
The verses are built up into chapters called
súrihs. It contains 77,974 words and is slightly longer than the New Testament; it was revealed over a period of 23 years.
The whole book was not arranged until after the Prophet’s death, but He is believed to have Himself divided the súrihs and to have given most of them their present titles.
“Sacrifice.”
Qurratu’l-‘Ayn