Lawh-i Ra'is Farsi. Written in late summer 1868 in Akka upon Baha'u'llah's imprisonment in the fortress there, for Ottoman First Minister Mehmed Emin Ali Pasha (1815-1817). This version from Baha'u'llah, Majmu`ih-i Matbu`ih-i Alvah-i Mubarakih. Ed. Muhyi'd-Din Sabri. (Cairo: Matba`at as-Sa`adah, 1920), pp. 102-116.

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