Ras͟hḥ-i-ʻAmá ("The Clouds of the Realms Above" or "Sprinkling of the Cloud of Unknowing") is the first known tablet written by Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Baháʼí Faith, in 1852. It is also the only known tablet of Baháʼu'lláh written in Qajar dynasty Persia. It is a poem of 20 couplets in Persian, written when Baháʼu'lláh was imprisoned in the Síyáh-Chál in Tehran, after he received a vision of a Maid of Heaven, through whom he received his mission as a Messenger of God and as the One whose coming the Báb had prophesied.

In February 2019 an authorized translation was published by the Baháʼí World Centre in the collection The Call of the Divine Beloved.[1]

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Further reading

  • Cole, Juan. "Baha'u'llah and the Naqshbandi Sufis in Iraq, 1854-1856", from Iran East and West: Studies in Babi and Baha'i History, vol. 2 (edited, with Moojan Momen, and contributor); Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1984, pp. 10–12.
  • Savi, Julio (2012). Baháʼu'lláh's Persian Poems Written before 1863 in: Lights of Irfan, volume 13. Wilmette, IL. pp. 317–361.
  • Sharon, Moshe. The Early Writings of Baháʼulláh - Clouds and the hiding God: on the origins of some terms.
  • Smith, Peter (2000). A Concise Encyclopedia of the Baháʼí Faith. Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications. ISBN 1-85168-184-1.
  • Taherzadeh, A. (1976). The Revelation of Baháʼu'lláh, Volume 1: Baghdad 1853-63. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0-85398-270-8.
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