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Featured writings
Bahá'u'lláhBahá'u'lláh · 1857/58
The Hidden Words
A work consisting of short passages revealed by Bahá'u'lláh in Persian and Arabic during His exile in Baghdad, translated by Shoghi Effendi.
Download PDF →The library
Sacred writings & lettersThe Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys
Two works written in Baghdad after Bahá'u'lláh returned from Kurdistan in 1856, addressed to the Sufi mystics He had been in contact with in Sulaymáníyyih.
Download PDF →Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
A Tablet addressed to Shaykh Muhammad-Taqiy-i-Najafí, revealed at the Mansion of Bahjí and translated by Shoghi Effendi.
Download PDF →Prayers and Meditations by Bahá'u'lláh
A selection of prayers and meditations revealed by Bahá'u'lláh, compiled and translated by Shoghi Effendi.
Download PDF →Some Answered Questions
Transcriptions of table talks given by ʻAbdu'l‑Bahá in ʻAkká in response to questions posed by Laura Dreyfus-Barney. The extensively retranslated edition was published in 2014.
Download PDF →Tablets of the Divine Plan
Fourteen letters addressed by ʻAbdu'l‑Bahá to the North American Baháʼí community as a whole and by region.
Download PDF →The Summons of the Lord of Hosts
A collection of Bahá'u'lláh's tablets addressed to the kings and rulers of the world — including Napoleon III, Queen Victoria, Czar Alexander II, Pope Pius IX, and the Sháh of Persia — proclaiming His mission and calling them to justice.
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