Lawh-i-Huriyyih
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Tablet of the Maiden, Tablet of the Houri
Baghdád.
Refers to "far remoter future" (than the Tablet of the Holy Mariner)
"the "Tablet of the Holy Mariner," in which Bahá'u'lláh prophesies the severe afflictions that are to befall Him; the "Lawh-i-Huríyyih" (Tablet of the Maiden), in which events of a far remoter future are foreshadowed...contributed...to swell the "rivers of everlasting life" which poured forth from the "Abode of Peace" and lent a mighty impetus to the expansion of the Báb's Faith in both Persia and Iraq, quickening the souls and transforming the character of its adherents."
- (Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, pp. 140-141)
Information Adapted from the Leiden List
Athar-i-Qalam-i-A`la Vol. 4(i) 342-350; Athar-i-Qalam-i-A`la Vol. 4(rev) 379-391. Arabic, dialogue form. Translated J Cole posted Irfan 6/96 and at Juan Cole's web page and http://bahai-library.com/provisionals/houri.html (or http://www.omphaloskepsis.com/ebooks/pdf/houri.pdf ?). The following letter of the House of Justice mentions its reservations about the translation, however: http://bahai-library.com/provisionals/lawh.huriyyih.uhj.html . Brief discussion Taherzadeh, 'Revelation' vol. 1 125; Balyuzi, 'King' 167, where it is called the 'Prayer of the Maiden'; Walbridge, 'Sacred' 159-61; Walbridge 'Erotic Imagery in the Allegorical Writings of Bahá'u'lláh' at http://www.bahai-library.com/unpubl.articles/erotic.allegory.html ; Walbridge, Walbridge, 'Sacred' 158-61. Included in BWC Best Known. Further discussions of the Maiden, though without mention of this Tablet, include Kamran Ekbal 'Maid of Heaven' BS3; Ross Woodman 'The Inner Dimensions of Revelation' BS3 347-49, 353-56, 362-64; Michael Sours 'The Maid of Heaven', JBS 4:1 (1991) passim; Paula A. Drewek 'Feminine Forms' JBS 5:1 (1992) passim; Michael Sours 'Immanence and Transcendence' JBS 5:2 (1992) 40-44. See also Themes of 'the Erotic' in Sufi Mysticism at http://bahai-library.com/personal/jw/my.papers/Erotic.mystcsm.html
