Epistle to the Son of the Wolf

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The Epistle to the Son of the Wolf is the last major work of Bahá'u'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith, before his death in 1892. It is a letter written to a Muslim cleric, a violent opponent of the Bahá'ís who, along with his father (called by Bahá'u'lláh "the wolf"), also a Muslim cleric, had put to death a number of Bahá'ís.^{[citation needed]} In this work Bahá'u'lláh quotes extensively from his own previously revealed scriptures. This makes a large portion of the work a summary of excerpts on critical concepts expressed in previous works in a condensed form.

Shaykh Muhammad-Baqir, given the title of 'The Wolf'

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Bahá'u'lláh [1892] (1988). Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Paperback, Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Bahá'í Publishing Trust. ISBN 0-87743-182-5.

Hatcher, J.S. (1997). The Ocean of His Words: A Reader's Guide to the Art of Bahá'u'lláh. Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Bahá'í Publishing Trust. ISBN 0877432597.