Rashh-i-'Amá

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Rashh-i-'Amá ("Sprinkling of the Cloud of Unknowing") is the first known tablet written by Bahá’u’lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith in 1852. It is also the only known tablet of Bahá’u’lláh written in Qajar dynasty Persia. It is a poem of 20 couplets in Persian, written when Bahá’u’lláh was imprisoned in the Síyáh-Chál in Tehran, after he received a vision of a Maid of Heaven, through whom he received his mission as a Messenger of God and as the One whose coming the Báb had prophesied.

References

• Cole, Juan. "Baha'u'llah and the Naqshbandi Sufis in Iraq, 1854-1856", from Iran East and West: Studies in Babi and Baha'i History, vol. 2 (edited, with Moojan Momen, and contributor); Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1984, pp. 10–12.
• Smith, Peter (2000). A Concise Encyclopedia of the Bahá'í Faith. Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications. ISBN 1-85168-184-1.
• Taherzadeh, A. (1976). The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, Volume 1: Baghdad 1853-63. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0-85398-270-8.

Further reading

• Savi, Julio (2012). Bahá'u'lláh's Persian Poems Written before 1863 in: Lights of Irfan, volume 13. Wilmette, IL. pp. 317–361.
• Sharon, Moshe. The Early Writings of Bahá’ulláh - Clouds and the hiding God: on the origins of some terms.
• Related documents on Bahá'í Library Online

External links

• Rashh-i-'Amá – a compendium