Tablets of the Divine Plan

Texts and scriptures
of the Baháʼí Faith
From Baháʼu'lláh
From the Báb
From ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
From Shoghi Effendi

The Tablets of the Divine Plan collectively refers to 14 letters (tablets) written between March 1916 and March 1917 by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to Baháʼís in the United States and Canada. Included in multiple books, the first five tablets were printed in America in Star of the West - Vol. VII, No. 10, September 8, 1916, and all the tablets again after World War I in Vol. IX, No. 14, November 23, 1918, before being presented again at the Ridván meeting of 1919.[1]

Four of the letters were addressed to the Baháʼí community of North America and ten subsidiary ones were addressed to five specific segments of that community. Of primary significance was the role of leadership given to its recipients in establishing their cause throughout the planet by pioneering — introducing the religion into the many countries and regions and islands mentioned.

These collective letters, along with Baháʼu'lláh's Tablet of Carmel and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's Will and Testament were described by Shoghi Effendi as three of the "Charters" of the Administrative Order of the Baháʼí Faith.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Tablets, Instructions and Words of Explanation Revealed by Abdul Bahá Abbas (presented in talks given by Mirza Ahmad Sohrab at the eleventh Annual Maskrekol-Azkar Convention, Baháʼí Congress, And Feast of El-Rizwan, April Twenty-Sixth to April Thirteenth, Inclusive, Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen, Hotel McAlpin, New York City).
  2. ^ Effendi, Shoghi. "God Passes By | Bahá'í Reference Library". www.bahai.org. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  3. ^ "25 November 2020 – To the Bahá'ís of the World | Bahá'í Reference Library". www.bahai.org. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  4. ^ "27 November 2021 – On the Occasion of the Centenary Commemoration of the Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Bahá | Bahá'í Reference Library". www.bahai.org. Retrieved 2023-01-29.