The Persian Hidden Words

About this film

LibriVox recording of The Persian Hidden Words, by Bahá'u'lláh. Translated by Anton Haddad. Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater. Kalimát-i-Maknúnih (کلمات مکنونه) or The Hidden Words is a book written in Baghdad around 1857 by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. This work is written partly in Arabic and partly in Persian. The Hidden Words is written in the form of a collection of short utterances, 71 in Arabic and 82 in Persian, in which Bahá'u'lláh claims to have taken the basic essence of certain spiritual truths and written them in brief form. Bahá'ís are advised by `Abdu'l-Bahá, the son of Bahá'u'lláh to read them every day and every night and to implement its latent wisdom into their daily lives. He also said that "The Hidden Words is a treasury of divine mysteries" and that when one ponders its contents, "the doors of the mysteries will open." The text of the Hidden Words is divided up into two sections: one from Arabic, and another from Persian. Each consist of several short, numbered passages. The Arabic has 71 passages, and the Persian has 82. This audiobook only contains the Persian section. Each passage begins with an invocation, many of which repeat. Some commo…

Directors & creators

Bahá'u'lláh

Subjects

librivox; audiobook; religion; faith; Bahá'í; Baha'i; Bahai; Bahá'u'lláh; Kalimát-i-Maknúnih; Hidden Words; Anton Haddad

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