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Original full brown morocco binding with blind tooled decorative rules.
Persian and Arabic manuscript on paper, 141 leaves, incomplete at end, 15 lines to the page written in a neat naskh script in black with Arabic text written in red.
, Ink smudging on second page, Minor discoloration, occaisional light staining, worn, stamp impression of the Kaveh Library.
An early important manuscript of this major work of Baha’u’llah the prophet founder of the Baha’i Faith. The fact that the book is incomplete is probably an indication that the scriber did not have access to the last part of the book considering that this copy is written shortly after the revealing of the original text.
The Kitáb-i-Íqán (\\\\\\\"The Book of Certitude\\\\\\\") is one of many books held sacred by followers of the Bahá\\\\\\\'í Faith; it is the second most important work after The Most Holy Book the Kitab-i-Aqdas by the pen of Baha’u’llah. One Bahá\\\\\\\'í scholar states that it can be regarded as the \\\\\\\"most influential Quran commentary in Persian outside the Muslim world,\\\\\\\" because of its international audience. It is sometimes referred to as the Book of Iqan or simply The Iqan.
The work was composed partly in Persian and partly in Arabic in 1861 when He was living as an exile in Baghdad, then in a province of the Ottoman Empire. The Íqán constitutes a major theological work of Bahá\\\\\\\'u\\\\\\\'lláh, and hence of the Bahá\\\\\\\'í Faith. It is sometimes referred to as the completion of the Persian Bayán by The Bab (the forerunner of Baha’u’llah). When it was lithographed in Bombay in 1882, it was the first work of Bahá\\\\\\\'í scripture to be published. It was first translated into English in 1904, one of the first works of Bahá\\\\\\\'u\\\\\\\'lláh to appear in English. Shoghi Effendi (Baha’u’llah’s great grandson), who retranslated the work into English in 1931, referred to the work as follows:
A model of Persian prose, of a style at once original, chaste and vigorous, and remarkably lucid, both cogent in argument and matchless in its irresistible eloquence, this Book, setting forth in outline the Grand Redemptive Scheme of God, occupies a position unequalled by any work in the entire range of Bahá\\\\\\\'í literature, except the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Bahá\\\\\\\'u\\\\\\\'lláh\\\\\\\'s Most Holy Book.
This book is written in response to the uncle of the Báb, Ḥájí Mírzá Siyyid Muḥammad. He had been perplexed to hear that the promised one of the Islam was his own nephew. When he was told that this was the same objection voiced by the uncle of the prophet of Islam, he was shaken and decided to investigate the matter. In 1861 he traveled to Karbila, Iraq, to visit his brother, Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥasan-\\\\\\\'Alí, and then went to Baghdad to meet Bahá\\\\\\\'u\\\\\\\'lláh. There he posed four questions about the signs of the appearance of the promised one in writing to Bahá\\\\\\\'u\\\\\\\'lláh. The 200 pages (in original languages) of the Kitáb-i-Íqán were written in the course of at most two days and two nights in reply about January 15, 1861.
The book is in two parts: the first part deals with the foundational discourse that divine revelation is progressive and religions are related to one another, with each major monotheistic religion accepting the previous ones and, often in veiled terms, prophesying the advent of the next one. Since the questioner is a Muslim, Bahá\\\\\\\'u\\\\\\\'lláh uses verses from the Bible to show how a Christian could interpret his own sacred texts in allegorical terms to come to believe in the next dispensation. By extension the same method of interpretation can be used for a Muslim to see the validity of the claims of the Báb. The second and larger part of the book is the substantive discourse and deals with specific proofs, both theological and logical, of the mission of the Báb. One of the best-known and best-loved passages of this part is known as the \\\\\\\"Tablet of the True Seeker.\\\\\\\"
Shoghi Effendi has offered the following lengthy description of the book\\\\\\\'s content:
Within a compass of two hundred pages it proclaims unequivocally the existence and oneness of a personal God, unknowable, inaccessible, the source of all Revelation, eternal, omniscient, omnipresent and almighty; asserts the relativity of religious truth and the continuity of Divine Revelation; affirms the unity of the Prophets, the universality of their Message, the identity of their fundamental teachings, the sanctity of their scriptures, and the twofold character of their stations; denounces the blindness and perversity of the divines and doctors of every age; cites and elucidates the allegorical passages of the New Testament, the abstruse verses of the Qur\\\\\\\'án, and the cryptic Muhammadan traditions which have bred those age-long misunderstandings, doubts and animosities that have sundered and kept apart the followers of the world\\\\\\\'s leading religious systems; enumerates the essential prerequisites for the attainment by every true seeker of the object of his quest; demonstrates the validity, the sublimity and significance of the Báb\\\\\\\'s Revelation; acclaims the heroism and detachment of His disciples; foreshadows, and prophesies the world-wide triumph of the Revelation promised to the people of the Bayán; upholds the purity and innocence of the Virgin Mary; glorifies the Imams of the Faith of Muhammad; celebrates the martyrdom, and lauds the spiritual sovereignty, of the Imam Husayn; unfolds the meaning of such symbolic terms as \\\\\\\"Return,\\\\\\\" \\\\\\\"Resurrection,\\\\\\\" \\\\\\\"Seal of the Prophets\\\\\\\" and \\\\\\\"Day of Judgment\\\\\\\"; adumbrates and distinguishes between the three stages of Divine Revelation; and expatiates, in glowing terms, upon the glories and wonders of the \\\\\\\"City of God,\\\\\\\" renewed, at fixed intervals, by the dispensation of Providence, for the guidance, the benefit and salvation of all mankind. Well may it be claimed that of all the books revealed by the Author of the Bahá\\\\\\\'í Revelation, this Book alone, by sweeping away the age-long barriers that have so insurmountably separated the great religions of the world, has laid down a broad and unassailable foundation for the complete and permanent reconciliation of their followers.
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Original brown and red full morocco binding with blind tooled decorative rules.
Persian and Arabic manuscript on paper, 140 leaves, 19 lines to the page written in a neat naskh script in black ink, significant words picked out in red, catchwords in wide margins, slight waterstaining restricted to outer margins, brown morocco., A very good copy of this important religious and historical work., 8vo (115mm x 195mm),
Text was composed in Baghdad in AH 1278/AD 1861-62.
The manuscript bears two notes: one of possession by a certain Badi Baha’I (Badi’ullah Agah) on 29th safar 1329/1st March 1911, with his seal impression; and another presenting it to a certain Fazl’ali Khan in AH 1338/AD 1919-20.
The Kitáb-i-Íqán (\\\\\\\"The Book of Certitude\\\\\\\") is one of many books held sacred by followers of the Bahá\\\\\\\'í Faith; it is the second most important work after The Most Holy Book the Kitab-i-Aqdas by the pen of Baha’u’llah. One Bahá\\\\\\\'í scholar states that it can be regarded as the \\\\\\\"most influential Quran commentary in Persian outside the Muslim world,\\\\\\\" because of its international audience. It is sometimes referred to as the Book of Iqan or simply The Iqan.
The work was composed partly in Persian and partly in Arabic in 1861 when He was living as an exile in Baghdad, then in a province of the Ottoman Empire. The Íqán constitutes a major theological work of Bahá\\\\\\\'u\\\\\\\'lláh, and hence of the Bahá\\\\\\\'í Faith. It is sometimes referred to as the completion of the Persian Bayán by The Bab (the forerunner of Baha’u’llah). When it was lithographed in Bombay in 1882, it was the first work of Bahá\\\\\\\'í scripture to be published. It was first translated into English in 1904, one of the first works of Bahá\\\\\\\'u\\\\\\\'lláh to appear in English. Shoghi Effendi (Baha’u’llah’s great grandson), who retranslated the work into English in 1931, referred to the work as follows:
A model of Persian prose, of a style at once original, chaste and vigorous, and remarkably lucid, both cogent in argument and matchless in its irresistible eloquence, this Book, setting forth in outline the Grand Redemptive Scheme of God, occupies a position unequalled by any work in the entire range of Bahá\\\\\\\'í literature, except the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Bahá\\\\\\\'u\\\\\\\'lláh\\\\\\\'s Most Holy Book.
This book is written in response to the uncle of the Báb, Ḥájí Mírzá Siyyid Muḥammad. He had been perplexed to hear that the promised one of the Islam was his own nephew. When he was told that this was the same objection voiced by the uncle of the prophet of Islam, he was shaken and decided to investigate the matter. In 1861 he traveled to Karbila, Iraq, to visit his brother, Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥasan-\\\\\\\'Alí, and then went to Baghdad to meet Bahá\\\\\\\'u\\\\\\\'lláh. There he posed four questions about the signs of the appearance of the promised one in writing to Bahá\\\\\\\'u\\\\\\\'lláh. The 200 pages (in original languages) of the Kitáb-i-Íqán were written in the course of at most two days and two nights in reply about January 15, 1861.
The book is in two parts: the first part deals with the foundational discourse that divine revelation is progressive and religions are related to one another, with each major monotheistic religion accepting the previous ones and, often in veiled terms, prophesying the advent of the next one. Since the questioner is a Muslim, Bahá\\\\\\\'u\\\\\\\'lláh uses verses from the Bible to show how a Christian could interpret his own sacred texts in allegorical terms to come to believe in the next dispensation. By extension the same method of interpretation can be used for a Muslim to see the validity of the claims of the Báb. The second and larger part of the book is the substantive discourse and deals with specific proofs, both theological and logical, of the mission of the Báb. One of the best-known and best-loved passages of this part is known as the \\\\\\\"Tablet of the True Seeker.\\\\\\\"
Shoghi Effendi has offered the following lengthy description of the book\\\\\\\'s content:
Within a compass of two hundred pages it proclaims unequivocally the existence and oneness of a personal God, unknowable, inaccessible, the source of all Revelation, eternal, omniscient, omnipresent and almighty; asserts the relativity of religious truth and the continuity of Divine Revelation; affirms the unity of the Prophets, the universality of their Message, the identity of their fundamental teachings, the sanctity of their scriptures, and the twofold character of their stations; denounces the blindness and perversity of the divines and doctors of every age; cites and elucidates the allegorical passages of the New Testament, the abstruse verses of the Qur\\\\\\\'án, and the cryptic Muhammadan traditions which have bred those age-long misunderstandings, doubts and animosities that have sundered and kept apart the followers of the world\\\\\\\'s leading religious systems; enumerates the essential prerequisites for the attainment by every true seeker of the object of his quest; demonstrates the validity, the sublimity and significance of the Báb\\\\\\\'s Revelation; acclaims the heroism and detachment of His disciples; foreshadows, and prophesies the world-wide triumph of the Revelation promised to the people of the Bayán; upholds the purity and innocence of the Virgin Mary; glorifies the Imams of the Faith of Muhammad; celebrates the martyrdom, and lauds the spiritual sovereignty, of the Imam Husayn; unfolds the meaning of such symbolic terms as \\\\\\\"Return,\\\\\\\" \\\\\\\"Resurrection,\\\\\\\" \\\\\\\"Seal of the Prophets\\\\\\\" and \\\\\\\"Day of Judgment\\\\\\\"; adumbrates and distinguishes between the three stages of Divine Revelation; and expatiates, in glowing terms, upon the glories and wonders of the \\\\\\\"City of God,\\\\\\\" renewed, at fixed intervals, by the dispensation of Providence, for the guidance, the benefit and salvation of all mankind. Well may it be claimed that of all the books revealed by the Author of the Bahá\\\\\\\'í Revelation, this Book alone, by sweeping away the age-long barriers that have so insurmountably separated the great religions of the world, has laid down a broad and unassailable foundation for the complete and permanent reconciliation of their followers.
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