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How has the Tablet of Aḥmad impacted you and your life?
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“Dorothy Baker once asked Martha Root how she was able to accomplish so much in the face of so many difficulties. According to an unsigned typed document found among Baker’s papers, Martha replied, ‘Dorothy, when I encounter a difficulty, I use the Tablet of Aḥmad every day for nine days, asking God, in the name of that Sacred Tablet, to remove the difficulty. If I am faced with an extremely difficult problem, I recite the Epistle of Aḥmad three times a day for nine days. And when I’m confronted with a problem that is completely impossible, and exists and there may be no solution, I use the Tablet of Aḥmad nine times a day for nine days, and the problem is always solved.'”
in “From Copper to Gold”, by Dorothy Freeman Gilstrap
“[it is reported that] when Martha Root would arrive in a new place, she would say this tablet nine times before venturing forth on her teaching projects.”
in “Deliver This Clear Message”, by John Kolstoe
“You’ve asked for stories of the use of this tablet. When my wife and I met, we were merely 17 and 18 years of age. During the fast of 1974 we said the Tablet of Ahmad nine times a day for 19 days to decide whether or not we should be married. We have been happily, romantically, spiritually, passionately married for 50 years. We recited the Tablet of Ahmad nine times a day for 19 days in a decision to go pioneering at the age of 20 and 21. She was eight months pregnant.
The Tablet of Ahmad has guided us through our difficult decisions in life, to guide and protect our daughters […]. We used it to put [my wife] through Physician Assistant college, to get me through electrical engineering college, through medical school, through 30 years of conjoined medical practice. After retirement, we said the Talent of Ahmad nine times a day for 19 days to decide if we should go pioneering again as elders. At the end of the 19 days we made our decision and we know that we are where we are supposed to be as pioneers in the jungle of [country].
We now say the Tablet of Ahmad every day for the strength and support of the Baha’i’s of Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, and Yemen.
We just finished the book of H. Richard Gurinski [sic], Learn Well This Tablet; thank you for mentioning his work on your website. The Tablet of Ahmad continues to provide us with strength and fortitude to finish out our lives. Thank you for making this website available.”
Sent via e-mail by C.K.
“I learned the Tablet of Ahmad by memory 20 years before writing this. Two years ago after finding the Utterance Project on YouTube, I decided to learn how to recite the Tablet of Ahmad by memory in the original Arabic. I don’t speak Arabic but I’ve always had the desire to recreate the sounds of the Blessed Beauty. After about a year I had it memorized.
What I didn’t expect was the life changing experiences I would encounter. I was in a dead end job and had no plans of leaving. The pay was lousy, management was poor and I wasn’t taken seriously when requesting Holy Days off. There was a job opening at another company but I wasn’t even considering it. By the time I had learned most of the Tablet of Ahmad in Arabic, things at work started to turn worse and I finally decided to leave.
I went down to the new job and got accepted immediately. The offer they gave me was a lot better than what I had at my current job, but I didn’t take it because I was uncertain. Two weeks later they made an even better offer and I accepted.
I love my new job and will never have to work during another Holy Day again. I get great respect from management and the pay is higher than anywhere else. I also have flexible hours that allow me more time to serve the Faith.
I never asked God to dispel my sadness, solve my difficulties, or remove my afflictions. I learned the Tablet completely out of love, and I firmly believe that my experience was the result of saying it with absolute sincerity.”
Sent via e-mail by D.S.