The Hidden Words - Composed in Baghdad in 1274 AH (1857-8 CE), Bah?'u'll?h describes The Hidden Words as a distillation of the spiritual guidance contained in the successive Revelations of God. Shoghi Effendi called it Bah?'u'll?h's pre-eminent ethical work. The Hidden Words is written in the form of a collection of short aphorisms, 71 in Arabic and 82 in Persian, in which Bah?ʼu'll?h claims to have taken the basic essence of certain spiritual...