Haykal - Writings of the Bāb

HAYKAL:

The Arabic and Persian Writings of the Bab : Introductions, Notes, Studies and Translations.

Stephen N. Lambden

IN PROGRESS 1980s-2023.

Under revision and completion - Last modified and updated 27-02-2023.

Many of the mss. texts or documents with the Pdf download image will be uploaded and made available  during 2023 - often now inside the appropriate webpages or adjacent folders. 

Biography, Bibliographies and Miscellaneous Notes and Papers.

• A Brief account of the Life and Writings of Sayyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi, the Bab (d. 1850).
• `An Episode in the Childhood of the Bab' in In Iran: Studies in Babi and Bahá'í History vol. 3, (Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1986) ed. Peter Smith, pp.1-32. PDf. SL-Bab- Childhood.pdf
• `An Episode in the Childhood of the Bab'. Revised, expanded version with Notes, Supplements and Appendicies.

• The Bab, the Bible and Edward Granville Browne (d. 1926). Partially Revised Web version 2017+2021. PDf.
• The Bab and the Bible : Ch. 7 from the Lambden Phd thesis [1987] 2002 revised 2021 : Phd Ch.7.pdf
• The Bab and the Bible : A partial, exegetical Persian-Arabic citation of Revelation 12:6b [11: 3b], the 1260/  1270 days/ years AH [ = 1844 CE].
• The Bab and Judaism I : The Bab and the Jews of the Early Qajar Persia, Shiraz, Bushire and elsewhere.
• The Bab and Judaism II : Possible Doctrinal Influences. 
• The Bab and Christianity I : The Bab and the Christians of Shiraz, Bushire and elsewhere.
• The Bab and Christianity II : The New Testament and Christian influences  in the Writings of the Bab.
• Some Christian rooted doctrines in the writings of the Bab (1819-1850): Trinity, Incarnation, Sonship and the form or Symbol of the cross.
• Uncorreted early Web1 version : Bab-Christianity.pdf
• The Bab and the Literary and Intellectual Milieu of 1820s early Qajar Shiraz.
• Islamic Philosophy and Sufism in early Qajar Shiraz.
• The Bab and his citation of Islamic Literatures, Shi`i-Shaykhi and Others.
• The Bab and the Mercantile Outreach of his family and associates.

    SELECT BABI MSS.

• Babi mss. in Persian, Middle Eastern, Indian, and other non-western localities.
• Babi mss. in British and other European Libraries.
• Edward Granville Browne (1862-1926) on the religion of the Bab.
• Babi mss. in American (USA) and Canadian Libraries.
• Babi mss. in Miscellaneous International Locations.
• Further Manuscripts and Printed texts of the writings of the Bab.
• From Alwāḥ to Ziyārā : The literaray forms and nature of the scriptural writings of the Bāb (d. 1850).

    ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES.

• Bibliography I : The Bab and the Babi Religion, Sources in Persian, Arabic and other oriental languages with Select PDfs.
• Bibliography II: The Bab and the Babi Religion -Select Western Sources with Select PDfs.
• Bibliography III. Mirza Yahya Nuri, Azali Babism, and the Neo-Azali Movements.
• Bibliography Supp. I . Pre-Islamic Abrahamic religions - Jewish, Christian and other responces to the Babi-Baha'i religions. 
• Bibliography Supp. II. Islamic Anti-Babi-Baha'i Polemic - Sunni, Shi`i and Shaykhi.

  THE WRITINGS OF THE BAB

• Some Notes on the Dating of Select Writings of the Bāb with a Brief Chronological Survey.
• Towards a Complete Annotated Alphabetical Listing of the Arabic and Persian Writings of the Bāb - with PDfs of select mss.
• Suggested Abbreviations for the writings of the Bab.

THE EVOLVING CLAIMS AND TITLES OF THE BAB.

• The Evolving Claims and Titles of Sayyid `Ali Muhamad Shirazi, the Bab (1819-1850),
• The Alphabetical Locus as the Point (Nuqta) of the Letter "B", its Abrahamic and Islamic backgound.
• The Alphabetical Locus as the Point (Nuqta) of the Letter "B" in the theology in the writings of the Bab (d. 1850).
• Baha'-Allah (d. 1892) as the theophanic return of the Nuqta. Some Aspects of Babi-Baha'i Theology.

THE EARLIEST WRITINGS

(1844-5).

The Qur'ānic Sūrat al-Baqara

• Tafsir Sūrat al-Baqara (Q.2) of the Bāb: Introduction, Extant mss., etc. 
• Tafsir Sūrat al-Baqara (Commentary upon the Surah of the Cow, Q. 2): Extracts in Translation.

The Qur'ānic Sūrat Yusuf (Surah of Joseph). Q. 12.
Trans. Arthur .J. Arberry (d.1969).pdf

THE QAYYUM AL-ASMA'

• The Qayyum al-asma', Some Introductory Notes.
• Select mss. of the Qayyum al-asma' .

^{Qayyum al-asma' I Surat al-Mulk, Opening Page}

•  Towards a Complete Translation of the Qayyūm al-asmā' of the Bab (I-CXI). 
• The Isolated Letters of the Qayyūm al-asmā' I-XII. 2015
• The Isolated Letters of the Qayyūm al-asmā', Tabulated and Introduced. 2015.
• Complete Pdf. from Web I = QA-Isolated Letters.pdf
• The Sūrah titles of the Qayyūm al-asmā': Gateways to the Earliest thought of the Bāb. Revised and Extended Mesa  Paper Montreal, 2008.
• Some comments on specific Sūrah titles in the Qayyūm al-asmā' and within their Bābi and Islamic background. Pt. I.
• Some comments on specific Sūrah titles in the Qayyūm al-asmā' and within their Bābi and Islamic background. Pt. II.
• The Tafsir Sūrat Yūsuf / Qayyūm al asmā’ of the Bāb as the Kitāb al-Ḥusayniyya. A Draft of a paper delivered in Istanbul in 2012.

Short Studies on the Qayyūm al-asmā'.

^{Joseph and Jacob reunited}

• The figure of Joseph in the Qayyūm al-asmā'. 
•  The motif of the beauty of Joseph in Islamic and Bābi-Bahā'i literatures.
• The eschatological כְּתֹנֶת פַּסִּים‎ "coat of many colors" in Islamo-biblical literatures and in the Qayyūm al-asmā'.
• The claims of the Bāb in the Qayyūm al-asmā'. 
• The Bahā'i Interpretation of the Qayyūm al-asmā. 

Select Tafsir and related Writings of the Bab. 

^{The Basmala}

• The Bab and esoteric Islamic Tafsir ...
• The Islamic basmala : An Introductory Note.
• The Islamic Basmala, Towards a bibliography.
• An Introduction to the Tafsir Huruf al-basmala of the Bāb.  PDfs of  mss. and printed texts of the Tafsir Huruf al-basmala.
• (1] Tafsir [Ḥurūf al‑] Basmalah (Bismillāh al‑raḥman al‑raḥīm),
• Towards a translation of the Tafsir Huruf al-basmala of the Bab.

• (2) The Tafsir al-Ha' I (Commentary upon the Letter "H" I) of the Bab.
• (3) The Tafsir al-Ha' II (Commentary upon the Letter "H" II) of the Bab.
• (4) Tafsir Surat al‑Ḥamd or al‑Fātiha (The Opening, Q.1). Introduction.
• (4) Tafsir Surat al-Hamd (The Commentary on the Surah of Praise, Q.1).
• (5) Tafsir Surat al‑Baqara (`The Cow’, Q. 2) dating from early 1260/1844.- See above
• (6) Tafsir Surat Yusuf (Commentary on the Surah of Joseph, Q. 12), the Qayyum al-asma' (The Self-Subsisting Upholder of the Divine Names") or the Kitab al-Husayniyya (The Husaynid Book) - See above.

On the Surat al-Nūr and the "Light Verse" (Q. 24:35)

• The Qur'ānic Light Verse, Q. 24: 35, and its Islamic Interpretations.
• (7) Commentary on the āyāt al-nūr ("Verse of Light "- Qur'ān 24:35) (p. 155-171).
• Tafsir ayat al-Nūr ("Commentary on the Light Verse" Q. 24:35). 2021.
• (8)Tafsir Surat al-Nur / Ayāt al‑Nūr  (Light Q. 24:35), (`the light Verse’) and a few others verses of Q. 24.

• (9). Tafsir wāw of wa'l-Sāffāt ("Commentarty on the [letter] wāw of وَالصَّافَّاتِ صَفًّا wa'l-saffāt", (Q. 37:1a, The Surah of `Those [angels] arrayed in rows') : وَالصَّافَّاتِ صَفًّا or "I call to witness those arrayed in rows". Some Introductory Notes .
• Tafsir wāw wa'l-Sāffāt ("Commentarty on the [letter] wāw of wa'l-saffāt"), Text and Translation.
• (10)  Tafsir on  Q. 50:16 and Q. 112:4 (for Ḥasan Waqā’ī`‑yi‑Nigār).

Q. 85:22.

• (11) The Lawh Maḥfūz ("The Preserved Tablet", Qur'an 85:22). Some Introductory Notes,
• (12) The Bāb in responce to a question about the Lawh Maḥfūz (Preserved Tablet).
• (13)  Tafsir Surat Laylat al‑Qadr   (Q.97 `The Night of Destiny’). Introduction.
• The Qur'anic Sūrat al-Qadr (The Surah of Destiny), Q. 97.
• The Tafsir Sūrat al-Qadr [Laylat al-Qadr] Q. 97 of the Bāb.

• (14)  Tafsir Surat al‑`Aṣr   (Q. 103 The Afternoon/ Era). Introduction.
• The Qur'ānic Surat al-`Asr (Surah of the Afternoon), Q. 103. Introduction and Notes.
• The Tafsir Surat al-`Asr (Surah of the Afternoon) of the Bāb. Mss. texts and Translation.

• (15) Tafsir Surat al‑Kawthar  (Q. 108, `The [Eschatological] Abundance’). Introduction.
• The Sūrat al-Kawthar (Surah of the Abundance), Q. 108.
• The Tafsir Sūrat al-Kawthar of the Bāb.
• (16) The Tafsīr Sūrat al-Tawhid (The Commentary on the Surah of the Divine Unity, Q. 112).

SELECT QUR'AN RELATED WRITINGS OF THE BAB

• The Surat al-Ridwan of the Bab - Introduction and Commentary.
• The Surat al-Ridwan of the Bab - Text and Translation. 
• PDf. Surat al-Ridwan.
• Sayyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi (d. 1850 CE), the Bab, on the Isra'-Mi`raj. Introduction.
• CUL F.21 [9] Q.14. `On the Mi'rāj (Night Journey) [cf. Qur'an 17:1f] in the Land of Ṣād (Isfahān) (pp. 104-106). PDf.
• Sharḥ Kayfiyyat al-Mi`rāj  (Commentary upon the  modality of the Mi`rāj [of the Prophet Muḥammad]), the Risāla fī'l-jasad al-nabī  (Treatise upon the [translocation] of the body of the Prophet [Muḥammad]). Lambden Translation. 

 SIX EARLY WRITINGS OF THE BAB

• The Ṣaḥīfa al-Ḥujjatiyya ("The Treatise of the Messianic Proof"), c. 1260 AH/1844 CE
• Bayān `Illat Taḥīrim wa Maḥarīm, A Short Treatise of the Bab on the Cause of things Forbidden and Permissible.

SAHIFAH BAYN AL-HARAMAYN

• Sahifa bayn al-haramayn (The Epistle [written] between the Twin Shrines), Introduction, Extant mss., Notes.
• Sahifa bayn al-Haramayn mss. PDfs of Arabic mss. Pdf.1 Haramayn-Majlis-lib.ms.pdf / Pdf.2
• Towards a Translation of the Sahifa bayn al-haramayn.

THE KITAB AL-RUH (THE BOOK OF THE SPIRIT).

• The Kitab al-ruh (Book of the Spirit), Introduction, Extant mss., Notes. 
• The Kitab al-ruh, Select texts and translations.

THE KHASA'IL-I SAB`AH (THE SEVEN RELIGIO-LEGAL DIRECTIVES)

• The Risala Khasa'il-i sab`a (The Treatise of the Seven Directives), mid. 1845. Mss., Introduction.
• The Risala Khasa'il-i sab`a (The Treatise of the Seven Directives), Translation and Commentary. Pdf.

THE RISALAH DHAHABIYYAS.

• The Risalah Dhahabiyya ("The Treatise for the Dhahabi Sufis") I of the Bab
• The Risalah Dhahabiyya ("The Golden/ Dhahabi Sufi related Treatise") II of the Bab
• The Risāla Dhahabiyya ("The Dhahabi Treatise") for Mulla Jawād Viliyānī (1847 CE).

THE `ULUM AL-GHAYB ("ESOTERIC SCIENCES") : ALCHEMY, TALISMANRY AND JAFR ...

Complex talismanic configuration of the Bab.

• Talismans and Amulets in the writings of the Bab.
• Talismanic gnosis in the Sahifa bayna al-haramayn (Epistle between the two shrines) and the Khasa'il-i sab'a (The Seven Directives) of the Bab.
• Talismans and Amulets in the writings of the Bab : Notes, Translations and commentary on Specific Talismans.
• Explanation of the [eschatological-chronological implications]  دائرة الايقغ , Dā'irat al-A+Y+Q-Gh (= abjad 1-10-100-1000), the Talismanic Circle of the Numerical series  1-10-100-1000") (pp. 63-65). 
• Talismanic gnosis in the Kitab-i panj sha'n.
• MacEoin, Nineteenth Century Babi Talismans. SI 14 (1985),  77-98  Maceoin Talismans. pdf 
• A short writing of the Bab on the Alchemical Elixir (al-iksir).

SOME EARLY KHUTBAS,

 LITERARY ORATIONS, DISCOURSES OF THE BAB.

• The al-Khuṭba al-Ṭutunjiyya of Imam `Ali and the Commentary of Sayyid Kazim Rashti.
• Sharḥ al-Khuṭba al-Ṭutunjiyya of the Bab - Introduction.
• Sharḥ al-Khuṭba al-Ṭutunjiyya of the Bab - Translation.
• Revealed in Bushire՝ : Mss. = (1) Tehran, INBA 4011C, pp. 341-48 Tehran, INBA 5006C, pp. 359-63.
• Khuṭba revealed in Banakān' No surviving manuscript is known. 'Khuṭba revealed in Kanakān' : Mss. = (1.) Tehran, IΝΒΑ 4011C, pp. 351-58 (2). Tehran, INBA 5006C, pp. 355-59. 
• Khuṭba on the `Īd al-Fiṭr (= 1st Shawwal 1260 at end of Ramadan = 1st October 1844?).
• Khuṭba fi'l-Masqat ("Sermon at Muscat"). Khuṭba written in Masqat [Musqat]. 
• Khuṭba on the sufferings of the Imam Husayn' (= Khuṭba fi'I safına). Lambden Translation
• Three khuṭbas revealed on the way to Mecca.
• Khuṭba for Mullā Ḥusayn revealed on board ship'  = 'A khuṭba revealed in Jidda at the time of the embarkation on the ship').

THE LITERARY ORATION- "SERMON" AT JEDDAH 

Khuṭba Jidda, Khuṭba nigh Jeddah

• Khuṭba  Jidda (The Sermon nigh Jeddah). Abstract of early paper. Kh-jiddah-Abstract.pdf 
• Kh-Jidda-Beta Introduction, Notes and Misc  kh-jiddah-Int-Notes-Misc.pdf
• Khuṭba Jidda (The Sermon at Jeddah), Text and Translation: INBMC 91:60-74. Kh-Jiddah txt.pdf 
• PDf. The Khuṭba al-Jiddah (Sermon at Jeddah) of Sayyid `Alī Muhammad, the Bāb (d. 1850 CE). Lambden Introduction and Translation c. 2006.   Khutba-jiddah-Beta.pdf   
• Translation printed Lawson et al. ed. A Most Noble Pattern (2012), 145-158 (Ch.9) :  Khutba_al-jiddah.pdf

THE LITERARY DISCOURSE ON THE `ILM AL-HURUF. THE GNOSIS OF THE LETTERS

• Khuṭba on  the `ilm al-ḥuruf ("The gnosis of the Letters"). Introduction.

• Kh- Huruf = Khuṭba on `ilm al-ḥurūf : Kh-Kh- `ilm al-huruf-W1.pdf

• Text and Lambden Beta trans. Beta Web I 2007 version.  Pdf. Khutba `ilm al-huruf.pdf 

• Kutba on the `ilm al-huruf ("The science of the letters") - revised 09-2014.

• An Abstract  for an Unpublished Paper : `The `Ilm al-Ḥurūf (Science of the Letters) among the `ulūm al-ghayb ("Esoteric Sciences") in the writings of the Bāb with special reference to the Qayyūm al-asmā' and the Khuṭba `Ilm al-Ḥurūf  (Sermon on the Science of the Letters).

FURTHER  EARLY KHUTBAS (LITERARY ORATIONS) OF THE BAB.

• The Khuṭba associated with the Tafsir Surat al-Baqara  of the Bab (late 1843).
• A Khuṭba (Sermon) of the Bāb composed near Medina.
• Khuṭba revealed one stage from Medina. 
• Two  khuṭbas revealed near the staging-post of al-Safra' 
• A Khuṭba [written] one stage from Medina  
• A Khuṭba written as a preface to the Tafsīr Sūrat al-kawthar (Q.  ) of the Bab (1845). 
• PDf.The Khuṭba al-Jalīliyya ("The Sermon of the Divine Majesty")  This Khuṭba in INBMC 67: 1-5 immediately precedes the Bab's Tafsir Surat al-`Asr. It is not listed in MacEoin's Sources.
• The Khuṭba al-Jalīliyya from INBMC 67. Kh-Jaliliyya.pdf
• The Khuṭba al-dhikriyya ("The Literary Oration of Remembrance"). 
• The Khuṭba-yi qahriyya (The Literary Oration or the "Sermon of Wrath". Introduction, Notes and Mss PDfs
• The Khuṭba-yi qahriyya, the Literary Oration or "The Sermon of Wrath". Translation from INBMC 64:127-50 and other mss.

SOME EARLY LETTERS OF THE BAB

• (i) Five addressed  to Mullā Ḥusayn Bushrū'ī, the first of the `Letters of the Living' (d. Tabarsī 1849 CE).
• (ii) Three addressed to Mīrzā Sayyid Ḥasan, the great Afnan and brother-in-law of the Bab (d. xxxx/xxxx CE).
• (iii) The Kitāb al-`Ulamā' ("Book of the Ulamā') primarily addressed to the divines (`ulama') of Qajar Persia and elsewhere'. 
• Extract translated by Nicholas, 1934 (=  Quelques Documents Relatifs au Babism), 114-118.. (from a mss. in the Bibliotheque Nationale).
• (iv) To Mullā Ḥasan Gawhar (d. 1266/1849 CE), a leading Shaykhī  and early opponent  of the Bāb.
• (v) To the Ottoman Sulṭān `Abd al-Majīd (d. 1861 CE). Text and Inrroduction. (1a) Partial French translation Nicholas (1934) Quelques Documents Relatifs au Babism.  (2) Translation Stephen Lambden : 

SELECT LETTERS TO THE FAMILY OF THE BAB

Letters to the Maternal uncle of the Bab, Ḥājī Mīrzā Sayyid `Alī (d. 1852 CE)

• Six Letters/Tablets addressed  to the maternal uncle of the Bab, Ḥājī Mīrzā Sayyid `Alī (d. 1852 CE), his guardian known as the Khāl-i A`ẓam ("the Greatest Uncle"). One of the seven martyrs of Tehran. (1) Add (6) Letter sent with Quddus to Shiraz for Hājj Mirza Sayyid `Alī. (6a) French trans. in  Nicolas, Séyyèd Ali Mohammed, (1905), pp. 214-18. (vii) 2 to Ḥājī Mullā Muhammad.

• Two for  Khadījah Bagum (d. 1882 CE), the wife of the Bab and cousin of the mother of the Bab. (1) The `First Letter to Khadījah Bagum, the wife of the Bab'. See Balyuzi, The Bab (1973); at the front is a good photograph of the autograph original text. (2) The Second Letter to Khadījah Bagum, the wife of the Bab. 

LETTERS TO ISLAMIC AND SHI`I-SHAYKHI NOTABLES

• Letter to Muhammad Kāẓīm Khān (d. CE). (xvii) to Shaykh Khalaf (d. XXXX CE). Letter to Shaykh Sulaymān [of Muscat?] (d. CE). (xviii) to Shaykh Sulaymān [of Muscat?] (d. CE). Partly translated in Selections, pp. 35-37.Letter to the Sharīf Sulaymān of Mecca (d. CE).
• Letter to Sharīf Sulaymān of Mecca (d. CE) = (1) Text partly published in translated in Selections From the Writings of the Bab (1978), pp. 29-30.
• Three Tablets to the Sunni Ḥanbalī, Maghribī, and Ḥanafī Imāms.
• Tablet to the Kirmani Shaykhī leader Ḥājī Mirza Muhammad Karīm Khān Kīrmānī (d. 1288/1871).
• Letter to Sayyid Ibrahīm [Mahāllatī?] (d. CE). 
• Letter to Sayyid `Alī Kirmānī (d. CE). Letter to Sulaymān Khān (d. CE).
•  Letter to Hajji Mirza Muhammad Kārīm Khān Kirmani (d. 1871CE).
• Tablet to the Sunni exegete and scholar Abū al‑Thanā’, Shihāb al‑Dīn al‑Ālūsī (d.1270 / 1854).
• الآلوسي The Letter of the Bab to Abū al‑Thanā’, Shihāb al‑Dīn al‑Ālūsī (d.1270 /1854).

LETTERS TO  SELECT LEADING BABIS

• Letter to Mina `Abd al-Bāqī Rashtī (d.   CE). (xiii) to Mīrzā Sayyid Ḥasan Khurāsānī (d.   CE). (xiv) to Shaykh Rafī` (d.   CE).
• Two Letters/Tablets to to Mullā Ṣādiq [Muqaddas] Khurāsānī. See Nicolas 1905 (french trans.) and Afnan `Ahd-i a`la,  101 (extract from the Second Letter).
• First Letter to Mullā Ṣādiq [Muqaddas] Khurāsānī
• Second Letter to Mullā Ṣādiq [Muqaddas] Khurāsānī. Text + Trans.  PDf. Bab -Khurasani No 2.pdf
• Qa'imiyya - A Letter, Scriptural Tablet of the Bab to Mullā Shaykh AIī Turshīzī entitled `Aẓīm (d. Tehran 1852).
• An Untitled Letter-Tablet of the Bab dealing with `Abd -component letters, `- b-d and other matters.

THE FOUR OR FIVE LETTERS TO MUHAMMAD SHAH QAJAR (1808-1848).

^{Extract from the Qayyum al-asma',  Surat al-Mulk (May 23rd, 1844).}

^{See further Qayyum al-asma',  Surat al-Mulk, verses 24-29.}

• An early Letter of the Bab to Muhammad Shah Qajar (d. 5th September 1848).

• A Letter to Muhammad Shah Qajar II - from Web I. Bab-Muhammad Shah II.pdf

• Letter to Muhammad Shah Qajar. III  Letter to Muhammad Shah Qajar. IV The Khuṭba Qahriyya - The Literary Sermon of Wrath. Letter to Muhammad Shah Qajar. V

Devotional Writings and Ziyārat-Nama ("Visiting Tablets")

• The Du`a-yi Alf ("Supplication of the Thousand") of the Bāb.
• The Bab   دعای الف  Du`a Alf -"The Supplication of the "Thousand" (c.1260/1845).
• Du`a-yi Ṣaḥīfa (The Supplication of the Scroll[s]) = Ṣaḥīfa-yi makhzūna ("The Treasured Scroll") 
• Ṣaḥīfa al·Ḥujjatiyya ("The Scroll of the Proof"). This Arabic work consists of fourteen du`as  "supplications" or "prayers" and is mentioned in both the the 1845 Kitab al-fihrist (Book of the Index) as well as the Khutba Dhikriyya within the Sahifa Radawiyya (1846). It consists of "fourteen Du`ās" ("supplications", "prayers") which "were manifest at the commencement (bad') of the [Babi] Cause (al-amr)" (Khutba Dhiktiyya Ar. text cited Afnan, 2000: 473).

• Ṣaḥīfa a`māl al-sana ("Treatise detailing the [Religio-Devotional] Acts of the Year"). Bushire, 1261/1845. In the Khutba al-dhikriyya this  text (the fifth of fourteen items) is referred to as the Ṣaḥīfa al-Fatimiyya ("The Fāṭimid Scroll-Treatise"). PDf. Sahifa a`mal al-sana - Tehran Majlis Lib. No.12448-c.pdf

SELECT PRAYERS IN REPLY TO QUESTIONS

• (1) Prayer in reply to twenty questions. (2) Prayer in  reply to al-`Alawiyya. (3) Prayer in  reply to Mullā `Abd al-KhāIiq [Yazdī] (d. XXX/XXX). (4) Prayer in  reply to Karbalā'ī `Alī Aṣghar (d. XXX/XXX). (5) Prayer in  reply to Mullā `Abd al-Jalīl [Urūmī] (d. XXX/XXX) on the sijdat al-shukr  ('thanksgiving prostration'). (6) Prayer in  reply to Mīrzā Muhammad `Alī Nahrī (d. XXX/XXX). (7) Prayer in  reply to Mullā Aḥmad Khurāsānī [Mu`āllim-i Ḥisārī?](d. XXX/XXX), Di`bil, and the son of Mīrzā `Alī al-Akhbarī (d. XXX/XXX). (8) Prayer in reply to Mīrzā Hādī (d. XXX/XXX) and Mīrzā Muhammad `Alī Qazvīnī (d. XXX/XXX). (9) Prayer in  reply to Mullā Ibrahīm Mahallatī (d. XXX/XXX). (10) Prayer in  reply to the Shi`i scholar Sayyid Ja`far Shubbar  (d. XXX/XXX). 

•  Ziyārat al-Zahrā : for Fatima daughter of the Prophet Muhammad :  
• Translation of the Ziyarat al-Zahra, the Tablet of Visitation for Fatima the Daughter of the Prophet Muhammad. 
• The Tasbih  ("Glorificatory Doxology") of Fatima and the Commentary of the Bab thereon.
• Sharh Tasbīḥ ("Commentary on the Glorification") of  Fāṭima Zahra (d. 11/633). 
• Introduction to the Imami Shi`i Lesser and Greater Comprehensive Ziyara, Visitation Tablets, along with those of  those of the Bab.
• The texts of the two main Imami Shi`i Comprehensive al-Ziyara texts deriving from the Imams.
• al-Ziyāra al-jāmi'a al- şaghīra  ("The Lesser  Comprehensive Visiting Tablet") of the Bab. Translation. PDf. Ziyarat JS - Majlis library Tehran No.12448.pdf
• As Chapter 1 of Risāla furū` al-'adliyya : (1) Tehran, INBA 5006C, p. 2. (2) Majlis Library ms.  
• al-Ziyãrat jāmi`a al-kabīra ("The Greater, Comprehensive Visiting Tablet") of the Bab. Translation, PDf. Ziyarat JK-Tehran-Majlis Lib_Ms_No.12448.pdf
• The Ziyarat-Nama (Visitation Supplication) of the Bab for Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsā’ī (d. 1241/1826).
• The Du`a al-Ḥājat
• An Acrostic Supplication of the Bāb for the fulfillment of one’s wishes.
• Du`a Tawassul (The Supplication of the Fervent Plea). 
• The reply of the Bab to Questions of Mirza Muhammad Zavarih [Zawara]. 
• A Letter for Mīrzā `Ali Muhammad al-Mudhahhib (The Goldmith, Guilder) or Risala fi Du`ā al-sabāḥ.  PDf. INBMC 40: XXX-XXX = Mudhahhib INBMC 40.pdf
• Jawāb al-masā'il : Replies to forty one Questions.