Source: Bahá'í Library Online (bahai-library.com), curated by Jonah Winters. Used by permission of the curator. Original citation: Bahá'u'lláh, Tablet of the Veil (Lawh-i-Qina'), London: British Academic Press, 1994, bahai-library.com.
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Tablet of the Veil (Lawh-i-Qina')

Bahá'u'lláh

Denis MacEoin, translator
published in Rituals in Babism and Bahá'ísm p. p. 147 (Appendix XXI

London: British Academic Press, 1994

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate!

I reply that it has been transmitted that, after the expiry of alif lam mim
sad by alif lam mim ra, the Mahdi shall arise, upon him be peace.
And the alif has come upon the end of the sad and the sad
is with you, wider than the two thighs, and how can it be one of the two? And
also, the waw is [composed of] three letters, six and an alif and
six. Six days have elapsed and the alif is the completion, no more need
be said, and the [other] six refers to the other days. Otherwise, why was the
going back produced, for it's the mystery of inversion for the cipher of the
chief (sirr al-tankís li-ramz al-ra`is)? And if there should be
acknowledgement on the part of someone else to the remaining six, the matter
will end in the Proof and the Greatest Name will appear in the two alifs
standing upright in the word which is two letters from God, for they are both
11 and with them [i.e. the two alifs] they are 13. And there hath
appeared the waw which is ha, and where is the division? But the
unity between the six and the six is decreed for the expiration of the mim
sad by the mim ra and the secret of the six and the 60 has appeared
in a sixth of it, which is a quarter of it, and all the sixth which is the
quarter with the alif both inserted in it. And its mystery is the
descent of the alif from the wide point with the six and the six, and
the second descended in the blessed night with the 11, which [? The night] is
that which is the mystery and the first concealed name manifest in the mystery
of Thursday; and the mystery shall be completed on Friday. And the pure water
shall flow forth upon the day when the sky shall come with manifest smoke. All
of this is in the waw inverted from the mumbled ha, so where is
the union before the confirmer of the disjunction? There is no other in the
single nor between it, otherwise it would be other than single. And We make
such parables for the people, but only the knowledgeable shall comprehend them.

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