Item record: Tablet of the 'Light Verse' (Lawh-i-Áyiy-i-Núr), also known as Commentary on the Disconnected Letters

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Tablet of the 'Light Verse' (Lawh-i-Áyiy-i-Núr), also known as Commentary on the Disconnected Letters

Author	Alison Marshall
Title of item	Tablet of the 'Light Verse' (Lawh-i-Áyiy-i-Núr), also known as Commentary on the Disconnected Letters
Subtitle of item	What on earth is a disconnected letter? Baha'u'llah's commentary
Date of this edition	1999-07
Language	English
Permission	author
Posted	1999-07 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Essays and short articles and Study Guides
URL	bahai-library.com/marshall_disconnected_letters
Abstract	The meaning of the Arabic letters alif, lam, mim, as explained in Bahá'u'lláh's tablet Tafsir hurufat al-maqatt’ah. Includes List of disconnected letters in the Qur'an and Abjad values of the Arabic letters.
Notes	Presented as a homework assignment for the Wilmette Institute's "Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh" Course, year two
Tags	Abjad; Commentary on the Disconnected Letters; Disconnected letters of the Quran; Huruf (letters); Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Lawh-i-Ayiy-i-Nur (Tablet of the Light Verse); Letters of the Living; Light verse; Nuqta (Point); Pen (metaphor)
Cross-references	See also Revised and expanded introduction and translation by Stephen Lambden.
Page views	29452 hits since 1999-07
Edit quality	medium: minimally proofread or edited
Format quality	high: well formatted
Last edited	2022-01-29 02:13 EST. See previous versions [archive.org]. Documents posted prior to October 2003 were at bahai-library.org [archive.org] and had completely different URLs.

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