To our knowledge Bahá'u'lláh's first Tablet was a poem in
Persian, Rashh-i-'Ama [The Mist of Unknown] revealed in the Siyah-Chal of
Tihran soon after the descent of the Most Great Spirit upon His radiant soul.
It is a song of victory and joy. Although its language is allusive, His divine
experience is clearly proclaimed. In every line He extols the glory of God of
which He had become the embodiment, and in every phrase He unveils the
spiritual worlds which were then manifested within His soul.
Although consisting of only twenty lines, this poem in
itself constitutes a mighty book. Within it are contained the potentialities,
the character, the power and the glory of forty years of Divine Revelation to
come. It announces the glad-tidings of the release of spiritual energies which
are described by Bahá'u'lláh in such terms as the wafting of the divine
musk-laden Breeze, the appearance of the Ocean of the Cause of God, the
sounding of the Trumpet Blast, the flow of the Living Waters, the warbling of
the Nightingale of Paradise and the appearance of the Maid of Heaven. In
language supremely beautiful and soul-stirring, He attributes these energies to
Himself. His choice of words, and the beauty, power, depth and mystery of this
poem and, indeed, of others which were revealed later, are such that they may
well prove impossible to translate. …Read more
- Adib Taherzadeh (‘The Revelation of Baha’u’llah, vol. 1)