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TB Qur'ān 36:14a Introduction

 

 

Commentary on Qur'ān 36:14a

"And We strenghtened [the two of] them with a third"

 

Introduction and Notes

Stephen Lambden UCMerced.

198X= 2015 - being completed.

This scriptural Tablet (lawh) of Baha'-Allah commences with the following neo-Babi basmala

In the Name of God, the Most Creative, the Most Inaccessible, the Most Holy, the Most Glorious.

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"Whereupon the Tongue of God cried out in all things (kulli shay'), "I, verily, am the One Who Liveth (al-ḥayy) in this Horizon which hath, in very truth, appeared. In the Supreme Concourse (al-malā' al-a`lā) was he named with the Name of "Exalted One" (= `Alī), the Transcendent (al-alīyy al-a`lā).  Then, in the cities of Names (madā'in al-asmā') with the name of the One Resplendent, All-Glorious (al-bahiyy al-abhā) [= Bahā-Allāh]. Then [also] among the concourse of things originated (malā' al-inshā') with this Name [Ḥusayn] by virtue of which the [eschatological] tumult (al-ajāj) hath been raised up...