Source: Bahá'í Library Online (bahai-library.com), curated by Jonah Winters. Used by permission of the curator. Original citation: Bahá'u'lláh, Hidden Words: Early English Translations, bahai-library.com.
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Hidden Words:

Early English Translations

Bahá'u'lláh

1921-1929

1921 edition:
Hidden Words from the Supreme Pen of Baha'u'llah,
translated by Jean Stannard

with the assistance of some Baha'is in Egypt (Oriental Advertising Company: Cairo, Egypt)

bahaullah_hidden-words_1921.pdf

[13 MB]

bahaullah_hidden-words_1921_reduced.pdf

[4 MB]

1923 edition:
Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah,
translated by Shoghi Effendi (Baha'i Assembly, London), with

Baha'u'llah's "Words of Wisdom" and miscellaneous prayers from Baha'u'llah and Abdu'l-Baha appended

bahaullah_hidden-words_1923.pdf

[15 MB]

bahaullah_hidden-words_1923_reduced.pdf

[9 MB]

1924 edition:
Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah,
translated by Shoghi Effendi (New York City: Baha'i

Publishing Committee), prefaced with Baha'u'llah's "Words of Wisdom"

bahaullah_hidden-words_1924.pdf

[10 MB]

bahaullah_hidden-words_1924_reduced.pdf

[4 MB]

1925 edition:
Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah,
translated by Shoghi Effendi (New York City: Baha'i

Publishing Committee)

bahaullah_hidden-words_1925.pdf

[7 MB]

bahaullah_hidden-words_1925_reduced.pdf

[2 MB]

1929 edition:
The Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah,
translated by Shoghi Effendi with the assistance of some

English friends (National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: London)

bahaullah_hidden-words_1929.pdf

[8 MB]

bahaullah_hidden-words_1929_reduced.pdf

[2 MB]

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