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Already in the very midst of that grievous crisis, and even before it came to a head, Tablets unnumbered were streaming from the pen of Baha'u'llah, in which the implications of His newly- asserted claims were fully expounded. The Suriy- i- Amr, the Lawh- i- Nuqtih, the Lawh- i- Ahmad, the Suriy- i- Ashab, the Lawh- i- Sayyah, the Suriy- i- Damm, the Suriy- i- Hajj, the Lawhu'r- Ruh, the Lawhu'r- Ridvan, the Lawhu't- Tuqa were among the Tablets which His pen had already set down when He transferred His residence to the house of Izzat Aqa. Almost immediately after the "Most Great Separation" had been effected, the weightiest Tablets associated with His sojourn in Adrianople were revealed. The Suriy- i- Muluk, the most momentous Tablet revealed by Baha'u'llah (Surih of Kings) in which He, for the first time, directs His words collectively to the entire company of the monarchs of East and West, and in which the Sultan of Turkey, and his ministers, the kings of Christendom, the French and Persian Ambassadors accredited to the Sublime Porte, the Muslim ecclesiastical leaders in Constantinople, its wise men and inhabitants, the people of Persia and the philosophers of the world are separately addressed; the Kitab- i- Badi', His apologia, written to refute the accusations levelled against Him by Mirza Mihdiy- i- Rashti, corresponding to the Kitab- i- Iqan, revealed in defense of the Babi Revelation; the Munajathay- i- Siyam (Prayers for Fasting), written in anticipation of the Book of His Laws; the first Tablet to Napoleon III, in which the Emperor of the French is addressed and the sincerity of his professions put to the test; the Lawh- i- Sultan, His detailed epistle to Nasiri'd- Din Shah, in which the aims, purposes and principles of His Faith are expounded and the validity of His Mission demonstrated; the Suriy- i- Ra'is, begun in the village of Kashanih on His way to Gallipoli, and completed shortly after at Gyawur- Kyuy -- these may be regarded not only as the most outstanding among the innumerable Tablets revealed in Adrianople, but as occupying a foremost position among all the writings of the Author of the Baha'i Revelation.
(171:1)
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