The Khuṭba al-Jalīliyya ("The Literary Oration of the Divine Majesty")
The Opening of the Khuṭba Jaliliyya from the ms. in INBMC 40.
This Khuṭba as found in INBMC 67 :1-5 immediately precedes the Bab's Tafsir Surat al-`Aṣr.
Trans. Stephen Lambden. UC Merced.
Last updated 02-05-2021.
The full text of the Kh-Jalīliyya can be found in INBMC 40:1-5. It is a literary oration or (loosely) "sermon" which in several mss preceeds the Tafsir Surat al-`asr (Q. ) of the Bab
In the Name of God, the Exalted, the Mighty
Praised be to God Who shed the radiance of the divine Splendor (al-ḍiyā') and divulged His theophany (tajallī) nigh the theophanic Cloud (al-amā’) through the Divine Splendour-Glory (bi'l-bahā'). And He caused to be made manifest the lauditive Doxophany (al-thanā') through the divine Resplendence (al-sanā') before the theophanic Cloud (li’l-`amā’). This such that heaven (al-samā’) withdrew neath the shadows of the divine Sublimity (zalāla al-kubriyā'). Wherefore, the first thing that he bequeated of the Book of Existent Being (kitab al-kawn) within the brocade [or proem] of realization, was (dibaja al-insha') … (INBMC 40:1).
Older Trans.
In the Name of God, the Exalted, the Mighty
Praised be to God Who shed the radiance of the Divine Splendor (al-ḍiyā') and divulged Himself (tajalli) in the Occulted Cloud through the Divine Glory (bi'l-baha'). And He manifested Existence (insha') through the Divine Resplendence (al-sanā') and ADD beneath the shadows of the Divine Sublimity (zalāla al-kubriyā')
