| Work
| Field/Rank
| Explanation of Ranking
|
| Kitáb-i-Aqdas
| (legal/institutional)
| ("this "Most Holy Book,"...may well be regarded as the brightest emanation of the mind of Bahá'u'lláh" (GPB 213); see also GPB 213-216)
|
| Kitáb-i-Íqán
| "doctrinal writings"
| "of unsurpassed preeminence among...doctrinal writings" (GPB 140)
|
| "spiritual significance of the Cause"
| “The Íqán is the most important book written on the spiritual significance of the Cause.” (LDG, vol. i., p. 37)
|
| “...the most important book wherein Bahá’u’lláh explains the basic beliefs of the Faith.”
| (On behalf of Shoghi Effendi, 28 June 1930)
|
| “...the most fundamental book on the Bahá’í Revelation."
| From a postscript in the hand of Shoghi Effendi on a letter written on his behalf to an individual believer, 25 August 1932
|
| "foremost among...priceless treasures"
| “Foremost among the priceless treasures cast forth from the billowing ocean of Bahá’u’lláh’s Revelation ranks the Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude)...” (GPB 138)
|
| Hidden Words
| "ethical writings"
| "of unsurpassed preeminence among...ethical writings" (GPB 140)
|
| Seven Valleys
| "Greatest Mystical Composition"
| "To these two outstanding contributions to the world's religious literature, occupying respectively, positions of unsurpassed preeminence among the doctrinal and ethical writings of the Author of the Bahá'í Dispensation, was added, during that same period, a treatise that may well be regarded as His greatest mystical composition, designated as the "Seven Valleys,"") (GPB 140)
|
| Súriy-i-Mulúk
| "most momentous Tablet"
| "The Súriy-i-Mulúk, the most momentous Tablet revealed by Bahá'u'lláh (Súrih of Kings)" (GPB 171)
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