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Work #1354 · Late

Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih)

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)
c. 1890 · Persian
Tablet / Practical-religious wisdom · Bahá'í Faith

Bahá'u'lláh's tablet — eleven leaves of practical-religious wisdom

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Attribute Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih) (Late)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Total
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Revelation
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Reversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Discrete

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

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Time

Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih)

Composed c. 1890; late-Bahjí-period; two years before Bahá'u'lláh's death in 1892.

Space

Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih)

Bahjí composition near Akká, Ottoman Palestine; subsequent transmission across the entire global Bahá'í community.

Matter

Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih)

Practical-religious wisdom across ethical, religious, political, social, and educational topics; the 'eleven leaves' structure.

Observer

Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih)

Late Bahá'u'lláh as Manifestation-of-God in the final-Bahjí period, addressing the practical-application of the Bahá'í Revelation to the world.

Energy

Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih)

Practical-prescriptive, religious-political, ecumenical-universalising energies.

Information

Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih)

Persian tablet structured in eleven 'leaves' (varaqát); aphoristic-prescriptive content; topical organisation.

Internal Tensions

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Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih)

Words of Paradise is foundational to the practical-social Bahá'í teaching alongside the major doctrinal Kitáb-i-Aqdas. The tablet exemplifies the characteristic Bahá'í emphasis on unity, consultation, education, and the abolition of religious sectarian strife as practical-religious imperatives — emphases that shape contemporary Bahá'í engagement with global-development, religious-pluralism, and inter-faith-cooperation work.