Tablets Revealed on the Topics Related to Covenant, Tests, and Difficulties

Abstract

A number of Tablets revealed in Baghdad period deal with distinctive features of the revelation of Bahá'u'lláh and various aspects of the Covenant. They also cover such other topics as tests and tribulations and the difficulties that the believers will be encountering and have to endure. These Tablets are Madínatu'r-Ridá (City of Radiant Acquiescence), Súriy-i-Sabr (Patience) or Lawh-i-Ayyúb (Tablet of Job), Lawh-i-Bulbulu'l-Firáq (Tablet of the Nightingale of Bereavement), Lawh-i-Fitnih (Tablet of the Test), Súriy-i-Qadír (Omnipotence), Sahífiy-i-Shattíyyih (Book of the River) and Lawh-i-Malláhu'l-Quds (Tablet of Holy Mariner). These tablets will be briefly introduced and their main points presented.