# Tablet of the Veil (Lawh-i-Qina')

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> 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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> — *Tablet of the Veil (Lawh-i-Qina') (Used by permission of the curator)*