قصيده رَشْح عَمَاء
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(Per.) Qaṣīdah rashḥ-i `amā' ("The Sprinkling of the Theophanic Cloud")
Opening line:
رَشْح عَمَاء از جَزب مَا مِيرِزَد
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Most Bahā'ī sources regard this 19 or more (20/21+) line poetical composition (qaṣīdih) as the earliest extent piece of divine revelation coming from the person of Bahā'-Allāh at the time of his four month imprisonment (Oct./Nov. 1852--Jan./Feb 1853?) in the Siyāh Chāl (Black Pit) dungeon in Tehran in the (Bābi-Bahā'ī) year nine 9 = 1269 AH (began15th Oct. 1852-- ended 4th Oct. 1853). Versions of the (developing) text can be found scattered in various mss. and a few printed sources including, for example;
- (1) INBMC 36:
- (2) Ma'ida-yi asmani, 4:156-7
- (3) Haifa typescript after a mss. in the hand of Zayn al-Muqarribīn, cf. Lambden Website + rev. BSB 3:2.
- (4) Mss. deriving from Zarandi printed by Vahid Rafati in Per. `Lights of Irfan', X:XX.
