Tablet (religious)
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A tablet, in a religious context, is a term used for certain religious texts.
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In the Hebrew BibleEdit
Judaism and Christianity maintain that Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai in the form of two tablets of stone. According to the Book of Exodus, God delivered the tablets twice, the first set having been smashed by Moses in his anger at the idol-worship of the Israelites.
In IslamEdit
The Preserved Tablet (al-Lawhu 'l-Mahfuz), the heavenly preserved record of all that has happened and will happen, contains qadar. Qadar (Arabic: قدر, transliterated qadar, meaning "fate", "divine fore-ordainment", "predestination")[1] is the concept of divine destiny in Islam.[2]
In the Bahá'í FaithEdit
The term "tablet" is part of the title of many shorter works of Bahá'u'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith, and his son and successor `Abdu'l-Bahá.[3]
See alsoEdit
- Book of Life
- Emerald Tablet
- Stele
- World's largest book a stone book the pages of which are inscribed stone tablets
ReferencesEdit
- ^ J. M. Cowan (ed.) (1976). The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. Wiesbaden, Germany: Spoken Language Services. ISBN 0-87950-001-8
- ^ "Qadar". missionislam.com.
- ^ Momen, Moojan; Lawson, B.T. (2005). "Lawhḥ". Encyclopædia Iranica.
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