Command and Creation (Amr va Khalq)

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Abstract:

Translation of Mazandarani’s Table of Contents for his compilation of Baha’i Writings from 1945 — some not published elsewhere — and a catalog of the contents of each section by McCants, with some notes and partial translations of select passages.

Notes:

Mirrored with permission from kashkul.org [archive.org]. Summary by Arjen Bolhuis (2022).


The selections in all four volumes of Amr va Khalq are cataloged in the Partial Inventory with the abbreviations AVK1, AVK2, AVK3, and AVK4.


See more information and links at bahaipedia.org and wikipedia.org.


Condensed version (summary):



Volume I


    Chapter 1: Theology


    Chapter 2: Worlds of Creation


    Chapter 3: Regarding the Worlds of Souls and the Human World



Volume II


    Chapter Four: Regarding the Divine Manifestations and religions, matters and affairs connected with them

    Part 1: In explanation of the Holy, Divine Manifestations

    Part 2: Regarding Religions

    Part 3: How to solve the symbols of the holy religious scriptures and making beliefs agree with reason and the science of the modern age

    Part 4: Regarding some of the prophecies of the religions about this Cause and others that are recorded in the scriptures

    Part 5: On some of the events of this Cause mentioned in the scriptures

    Part 6: On the proofs mentioned in the wondrous scriptures regarding the truth of this Cause, the status of the miracles
    attributed to Bahá’u’lláh, His lack of training in school in the scholarship of the day, and His arising with a Cause and accepting tribulations




Volume III


    Chapter Five: On the teachings about the health of the body, education, manners, morals and various matters related to them

    Part 1: On preserving health, warding off disease, taking care not to fall prey to harmful habits

    Part 2: On manners and morals

    Part 3: On cleanliness

    Part 4: Regarding knowledge and education

    Part 5: In explanation of the minute specifics of the conditions and necessities of religion

    Part 6: Explaining punishments in the scriptures




Volume IV


    Chapter Six: Explanation of matters related to the new calendar, different acts of worship, marriage, divorce, inheritance, the rules of burial, financial matters, and others

    Part 1: Explanation of the calendar, important days and their regulations

    Part 2: On acts of worship

    Part 3: Unlawful things, marriage, and divorce

    Part 4: The laws regarding the dead, consisting of two principles

    Part 5: Huquqallah

    Part 6: Regarding other financial matters



Chapter Seven: Regarding a number of matters that have been explicitly abrogated and changed relative to previous religions



Chapter Eight: Regarding the roots and formation of this Cause and the world


    Part 1: Bahá’u’lláh’s explanations of prior manifestations, the center (of the covenant) after him, the establishment of consultative bodies, the House of Justice, and rulers

    Part 2: Abdu’l-Bahá’s explanations of the above mentioned matters, the center who is to be obeyed after him, the formation and duties of the spiritual assemblies and the House of Justice, and sacred melodies

    Part 3: The Guardian’s explanations of the administrative order of this Cause and the world



Chapter Nine: Prophecies of what’s to come



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