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On 13 Oct 2009 at 19:52, anarchist hiker wrote:
> Can anyone confirm that Persian was the original language of the W&T?
> citation?
Photostats have been made of the original, but so far as I know they
have not been published and are not available on line. You can
probably find some in the Wilmette archives and in the UK archives.
But if a citation will suffice:
""The second aspect, the literary style of the Will, can only be
properly judged by one who is familiar with the Persian language
because most of the Master's Tablets that are published in English
are in early translations that leave great room for improvement.
Abdu'l-Bahá had a very characteristic, inimitable style and there is
no doubt at all in the minds of the Persian Bahá'ís (who, until the
time of Shoghi Effendi's passing, composed the majority of the
followers of Bahá'u'lláh) that the Will and Testament is written in
that style."
(Adib Taherzadeh, The Covenant of Baha'u'llah, p. 348)
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