Lights of Irfan volume 19

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'Irfán Colloquia
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175 B.E. 2018 C.E.
ISBN 978-3-942426-34-3

                                     Table of Contents 
     
Preface and title pages.......................................................... 3

Some Reflections on the Principle of Unity/Oneness
     Hooshmand Badee............................................................. 5

Bahá'u'lláh's Life and Mission: "This is the One Who Hath Glorified the Son"
     JoAnn Borovicka ........................................................... 23

Laozi: A Lost Prophet?
     Roland Faber .............................................................. 41

Freedom and the Baha'i Writings
     Ian Kluge ................................................................ 111

The Kitáb-i-Iqán (The Book of Certitude): Revolutionizing the Concepts of
           Religion, Eschatology and Theology
     Sohrab Kourosh............................................................ 183

Power and the Bahá'í community
     Moojan Momen.............................................................. 209

A Tablet by Bahá'u'lláh
     provisional translation by Julio Savi and Faezeh Mardani.................. 233

Ancient Poems as Means of Revelation, in an Early Tablet by Bahá'u'lláh
     Julio Savi and Faezeh Mardani ............................................ 237

The Mathnaví of Ru?hu'lláh, the Martyr
     translated by Julio Savi and Faezeh Mardani .............................. 269

The Mathnaví by Ru?hu'lláh Varqá, the Martyr: A Few Notes on Its
           Historical Context and Poetical Content
     Julio Savi and Faezeh Mardani ............................................ 273

The Countenance of the Blessed Beauty in the Mirror of Mawlu?d Tablets
     Foad Seddigh ............................................................. 285

End of Days
     Moshe Sharon.............................................................. 313
 
Elucidations

     Bahá'í Fast: a compilation................................................ 327

     Persian translation of Arabic verses...................................... 337
           Universal House of Justice

In Memoriam

     Dr. Muhammad Afnan (1930 – 2017) ......................................... 339 

     Dr. Heshmat Shariary (1934 – 2018) ....................................... 342


Appendices

     Bibliography of Bahá'í Writings and Their Abbreviations .................. 345

     Contents of Lights of 'Irfán Books 1-18 .................................. 347

     Publications and Distributors of the 'Irfán Colloquia .................... 361

     Vision and Aims of the Irfan Colloquia.................................... 362