Select writings of Mulla Muhammad `Ali Barfurushi, Quddus (d. c. 16th May, 1849). Texts and Translations:
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A Comforting Supplication for the Bābīs at the fort of Shaykh Tabarsī by Muhammad `Alī Barfurushī, (d.1849) entitled Quddūs (the Most Holy).
Translated by Stephen Lambden 19 October 2023 from the Arabic text printed in Hooshmand Dehqān, Ganj-i Pinhān: Sar Gudhasht wa āthār-i Jināb-i Quddūs (Adel Publishers, 2016). p.172.
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“In the Name of the Lord (al-rabb), the Wrathful (al-Qahhār)!
Glorified be He Who sent down the Healing (al-shifā’) through the Love of His Proof (muḥabbat ḥujjat) [the Bāb] since He is the One Who, No God is there except Him. And He is the One All-Forgiving (al-ghafūr), the All-Merciful (al-raḥīm).
Wherefore, O my God! Thou hast assuredly promised that Thou would respond positively to this Supplication (al-du`ā’) for the sake of whomsoever Thou hast accorded hopefulness (al-rajā’).
So O Our God! Send down Healing (shifā’) and dispel away from him whatsoever hath caused him sadness, just as He Himself willeth. This through the Truth of Thy Evident Mystery (bi-ḥaqq sirrika ẓāhir) which lieth within the Divine Ipseity (huwiyya) [or “He-ness”) exemplified in the [Letter] al-Hā’ (“H” = abjad 5 = abjad Bāb). Thou [Babis are] indeed are among the people of Grandeur (ahl al-kubriyā’) no one of which shall be unsuccessful by virtue of the fact that He made thee fit for the Meeting with God (li’l-liqā’)!
So glorified be Thou! The secret mystery (sirr) which He bestowed upon Thine Essence (dhāt) for there is no God except Him! And Thou art indeed the Lord of all the worlds (rabb al-`ālamīn)!”.
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