Tablet (religious)

A tablet, in a religious context, is a term used for certain religious texts.

In the Hebrew Bible

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 Islam

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 Baháʼí Faith

The term "tablet" is part of the title of many shorter works of Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Baháʼí Faith, and his son and successor ʻAbdu'l-Bahá.[3]

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gollark: Write down the things you're particularly good at, think about the most "interesting" things you can do with each of them, and combine them into one ultra-idea.
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See also

References

  1. J. M. Cowan (ed.) (1976). The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. Wiesbaden, Germany: Spoken Language Services. ISBN 0-87950-001-8
  2. "Qadar". missionislam.com.
  3. Momen, Moojan; Lawson, B.T. (2005). "Lawhḥ". Encyclopædia Iranica.


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