# Effulgences: Tablet study outline

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> Name of Tablet in Arabic or Persian: 
> Lawh-i-Tajallíyát
> 
> Translation into English: 
> Tablet of Effulgences ("Tajallíyát" can be translated effulgences, splendors, radiances, 
> etc.)
> 
> Significance of Name: 
> The Tablet expounds upon four 'Tajallíyát' which, in the words of the _Basic Bahá'í 
> Dictionary_ 122, are "the knowledge of God, which is attainable only through His 
> Manifestation; steadfastness in the Cause of God through faith in His wisdom; the 
> value of those arts and sciences which profit mankind, 'not those which begin with 
> words and end with words'; and recognition of Divinity in its Manifestation."
> 
> 
> Tablet was revealed in: 
> The first couple pages were revealed in Arabic, and the remainder in Persian. 
> Bahá'u'lláh Himself explains: "We shall now cease using the eloquent language. 
> [Arabic] Truly thy Lord is the Potent, the Unconstrained. We would fain 
> speak in the Persian tongue that perchance the people of Persia, one and all, may 
> become aware of the utterances of the merciful Lord, and come forth to discover the 
> Truth." (p. 49)
> 
> 
> Name of Recipient:
> Revealed in honour of Ustad `Alí-Akbar, a martyr of Yazd who had been instrumental 
> in the design and building of the first House of Worship, in Ishqabad.
> 
> 
> Reason for Revelation of the Tablet:
> Taherzadeh doesn't specify any specific reasons for which this Tablet was revealed. 
> But given the importance of the Tablet, its topics, and the clearly organized way in 
> which the four Tajalli are presented, it seems possible that Bahá'u'lláh might have been 
> referring to four questions He had been asked earlier, or to four topics under 
> discussion in the Bahá'í community.
> 
> 
> Date of Revelation:
> Around AH 1303 (AD 1885-86)
> 
> Place of Revelation:
> Revealed while Bahá'u'lláh was living at Bahji, near Akká
> 
> Role of Amanuensis or Secretary:
> Presumably transcribed by Mírzá Áqá Jan. Bahá'u'lláh also included some pages of 
> "revelation writing" of the Tablet along with its transcription. One of these pages has 
> been reproduced in Taherzadeh's _Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh_ vol. 1, facing page 110.
> 
> 
> Style, subject, and genre of the Tablet: [?]
>         I.  Tone of Tablet
>                 1.  Tablets with the tone of command and authority.
>         II.  Subject Covered by Tablet
>                 3.  Mystical Writings.
>                 5.  Tablets dealing with subjects of learning and 
>                         knowledge, divine philosophy, mysteries 
>                         of creation, medicine, alchemy, etc.
>                 6.  Tablets exhorting men to education, goodly character 
>                         and divine virtues.
>         III.  Literary Genre of Tablet:
>                 1.  Letter (or essay) to an individual. 
> 
> 
> Voice of Tablet: [?]
> Bahá'u'lláh
> 
> 
> Tablet's relationship to other tablets:
> This Tablet is just one of the twenty-seven Tablets Bahá'u'lláh revealed in his honor. 
> Abdu'l-Bahá also revealed Tablets for him. As well, since this Tablet has been included 
> in the compilation "Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh revealed after the Aqdas," most of which 
> include further elaboration on the teachings of the Aqdas, it is possible that this 
> Tablet could be seen as complementing the Most Holy Book.
> 
> 
> Biography or bio note of the recipient of the Tablet:
> Taherzadeh provides a detailed biography of Alí-Akbar in _Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh_ 
> vol. 4, pp. 118-125
>
> — *Effulgences: Tablet study outline (Used by permission of the curator)*