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Category: Alison Marshall's Column
Created: Saturday, 26 August 2006 16:20
Published: Saturday, 26 August 2006 16:20
Written by Alison Marshall
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Dr. Stephen N. Lambden

The other day, I discovered to my delight that Stephen Lambden has begun putting his translations up on his website Hurqalya.

One translation I found there was of Baha'u'llah's Commentary on the Isolated Letters or Tablet about the Light Verse (Tafsir [al-] hurufat al-muqatt`at).

I've had many people ask me for this and so now I can finally say: "It's online!"

Stephen Lambden says that the version on his website supersedes the one he posted on H-Baha'i on 10 September 1997, and that that version should be "binned". He also says that that version constituted only one third of the whole translation. By golly, it must be a large tablet, because that version came to 30-odd pages.

Baha'u'llah refers to his Commentary on the Isolated Letters in his Suriy-i-Ra'is, in Summons of the Lord of Hosts, page 155, paragraph 36.

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Baha'u'llah's message to the Christians

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Category: Alison Marshall's Column
Created: Wednesday, 16 August 2006 02:32
Published: Monday, 14 August 2006 02:32
Written by Alison Marshall
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I have made a podcast of this blog entry, which you can download. It's 22 minutes long.

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The music used in the podcast is by Kevin MacLeod and is taken from the site incompetech.com, which contains royalty-free music. The file used here is "Overture", which is found in the New Age Piano section.


This message is addressed to the followers of Jesus Christ.

My name is Alison Marshall and I am a Baha'i. That means I am a follower of a person named Baha'u'llah. The name 'Baha'u'llah' is an Arabic title that means 'Glory of God'.

The reason I am addressing you is because Baha'u'llah has a very important message for the peoples of the world, including the world's Christians. He said that he was the one that Jesus promised would come in the last days, who would throw human affairs into commotion and judge everyone. Baha'u'llah makes this proclamation in many places in his writings. I will read you one of these passages.

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Thoughts on the Israel/Lebanon conflict

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Category: Alison Marshall's Column
Created: Saturday, 29 July 2006 03:34
Published: Saturday, 29 July 2006 03:34
Written by Alison Marshall
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I have made a podcast of this blog entry, which you can download. It's 20 minutes long.

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The music used in the podcast is by Kevin MacLeod and is taken from the site incompetech.com, which contains royalty-free music. The file used here is "Awaiting Return", which is found in the New Age Piano section. It is a piano derivative of Holst's "Thaxted".


I had made a rule with myself that I would not talk about politics on my blog. The rule that Baha'is should not get involved in divisive politics is a wise one in my view. It took me ages to fathom Abdu'l-Baha's wisdom that if two people argued about something, then both were wrong. I assume that this principle is based on Baha'u'llah's principle that, in this day, conflict and contention are categorically forbidden. It helped when I saw that there was an important difference between 'disagreeing' and 'arguing'. You can politely disagree with someone. You see Baha'u'llah doing this in the Iqan, when he patiently suggests to narrow-minded divines that there is another way of looking at things. But that is a far cry from getting on your high horse and sustaining an argument. That is morally wrong because it entwines us and others in self and passion. Winning and seeking an advantage over others becomes the order of the day, and not simply uncovering the truth and seeking answers.

{josquote}Put bluntly, I didn't recognise the Administration's right to get it wrong.{/josquote}

Something like this characterised the way I used to think about, and deal with, the Baha'i administration. I thought they had strayed from the straight path (and still do), but back then I thought it was important to go on about this in a bid to demonstrate that I was right and provoke change. Put bluntly, I didn't recognise the Administration's right to get it wrong. There was, and is, so much at stake for the future of humanity. But that's the world stage God has provided for us, to demonstrate, in the way we live our lives, who we really are spiritually. If members of the administration choose to make bad decisions when so much is at stake, then the Lord has supplied them with the stage on which their actions will condemn them beyond question.

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Surah of the Companions (intro and audio)

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Category: Alison Marshall's Column
Created: Thursday, 20 July 2006 01:36
Published: Thursday, 20 July 2006 01:36
Written by Alison Marshall
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Here is the introduction to, and the readings for, Baha'u'llah's Surah of the Companions. It is a long tablet. In reading it, Mark has had to divide it into 5 parts, making 5 audio files to download. The introduction, also, is quite long. I've had to gloss many important issues, but I intend to treat those issues in more depth in essays that I will write for my forthcoming website for studying the writings.

Download the audio of Mark Choveaux reading Surah of the Companions - part 1

Download the audio of Mark Choveaux reading Surah of the Companions - part 2

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Baha'u'llah's lament for the Bab

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Category: Alison Marshall's Column
Created: Friday, 07 July 2006 16:08
Published: Friday, 07 July 2006 00:00
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Dear all,

To commemorate the martyrdom of the Bab, I have recorded Baha'u'llah's lament for the Bab in his Tablet of Sorrows. Because it is a provisional translation, it isn't well known by the Baha'is, but it is a perfect reading for this holy day.

A couple of things that I think are magical about this passage are the way Baha'u'llah channels the Bab's lament for Baha'u'llah. Baha'u'llah quotes what the Bab says from the next world about Baha'u'llah's sufferings. After that, the Ancient Beauty tells Baha'u'llah to stop lamenting because it's causing all creation to mourn. So Baha'u'llah goes back to discussing his original topic. It seems to me that this is Baha'u'llah's transcendent spirit (the Holy Spirit) speaking to his human spirit or rational soul. (For details on the difference between these two, see Some Answered Questions, chapter 38.)

Listen to the reading here:

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lament.mp3

The music is by Kevin MacLeod and is taken from the site incompetech.com, which contains royalty-free music. The file used here is loss.mp3, which is found in the New Age Piano section.

If you click on the " read more" link, you'll find the text of the reading and the link to the tablet.

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