Kitab-i-Iqan, The Book of Certitude

Kitab-i-Iqan is a major work of Baha'u'llah. He wrote this book in defense of the religious claims of Bab.

Baha’u’llah wrote about Iqan in Iqan:

“…in as much as the things We have already mentioned suffice the world and that is therein. In fact, all the Scriptures and the mysteries thereof are condensed into this brief account. So much so, that were a person to ponder it a while in his heart, he would discover from all that hath been said the mysteries of the words of God, and would apprehend the meaning of whatever hath been manifested by that ideal king”. 

(English Translation of Iqan by Shoghi Effendi (Pocket Size Edition page No.237)

Bahā’u’llāh stated that Iqan is a Bābi Lawh-e- estedlāliya (Proof-offering Tablet), that is, a treatise written in proof of the messianic claims and religious doctrines of the Bāb. 
(Fāżel Māzandarāni, 1967, I, p. 276).

Shoghi Effendi Wrote About Iqan

"...the most important book written on the spiritual significance of the Cause"

(The light of Divine Guidance, Vol.1,37) 

Iqan is Lord of Books

Iqan is called as "Lord of books" (Sayyed-e- kotob)  and called as Divine Revelation.   “The Ketāb-e iqān is in reality the Lord of Books and issued forth from the Most Elevated Pen (Qalam-e Aa’lā)”.

English Translation

Ali Kuli Khan has translated the Iqan in English and its revised 1934 Cairo edition is available. Shoghi Effendi, the First Guardian of Bahai Faith and the second successor of Baha’u’llah has also translated it in English and Baha’i Publishing Trust of Wilmette, Illinois 600091 (USA) has printed it. Its first edition was published in 1931 and then in 1950 and subsequently printed seven times. First pocket size edition 1983 and reprinted in 1985 in 257 pages. At the end of the book Glossary and Notes and Index is added.

Dr. A. Parikh

Secretary, National Baha'i Council of India.

To Live............The Life

"To be no cause of grief to anyone.

To be kind to all people and to love them with a pure spirit.

Should opposition or injury happen to us, to bear it, to be as kind as ever can be, and through all, to love the people.   Should calamity exist in the greatest degree, to rejoice, for these things are the gifts and favors of God.

To be silent concerning the faults of others, to pray for them, and to help them, through kindness, to correct their faults.

To look always at the good and not at the bad.  If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, look at the ten and forget the one. And if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.

Never to allow ourselves to speak one unkind word about another, even though that other be our enemy.

To do all of our deeds in kindness.

To cut our hearts from ourselves and from the world.

To be humble.

To be servants of each other, and to know that we are less than anyone else.

To be as one soul in many bodies, for the more we love each other, the nearer we shall be to God; but to know that our love, our unity, our obedience must not be by confession, but of reality.

To act with cautiousness and wisdom.

To be truthful.

To be hospitable.

To be reverent.

To be the cause of healing for every sick one,
          a comforter for every sorrowful one,
          a pleasant water for every thirsty one.
          a heavenly table for every hungry one,
          a star to every horizon,
          a light for every lamp,
          a herald to everyone who yearns for the kingdom of God"

Abdu'l-Baha