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== Use in Baháʼí sources == [[Baháʼí Faith|Baháʼí]] sources state that the 100th name was revealed as "[[Baháʼí symbols#The Greatest Name|Baháʼ]]" ({{langx|ar|بهاء}} "glory, splendor"), which appears in the words [[Bahá'u'lláh]] and Baháʼí. They also believe that it is the greatest name of God.<ref name="lambden"/><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last= Smith |first= Peter |encyclopedia= A concise encyclopedia of the Bahá'í Faith |title= greatest name |year= 2000 |publisher=Oneworld Publications |location= Oxford |isbn= 1-85168-184-1 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pYfrAQAAQBAJ |pages= 167–8}}</ref> The [[Báb]] wrote a noted pentagram-shaped [[tablet (religious)|tablet]] with 360 [[morphological derivation]] of the word "Baháʼ" used in it.<ref name="lambden" /> According to Baháʼí scholar [[‘Abdu’l-Hamíd Ishráq-Khávari]], [[Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī]] adopted the [[Pen name#Persian and Urdu poetry|Persian poetic pen name]] "Bahāʾ" after being inspired by the words of the fifth [[Imamate (Twelver doctrine)|Twelver Imam]], [[Muhammad al-Baqir]], and the sixth Imam, [[Ja'far al-Sadiq]], who stated that the greatest name of God was included in either the ''[[Du'a al-Baha|Duʿāʾu l-Bahāʾ]]'', a dawn prayer for [[Ramadan]], or the ''ʾAʿmal ʿam Dawūd''.<ref name="lambden">{{cite journal |journal=Baháʼí Studies Review |volume=3 |issue=1 |year=1993 |first=Stephen |last=Lambden |title=The Word Baháʼ: Quintessence of the Greatest Name |url=https://bahai-library.com/lambden_quintessence_greatest_name }}</ref> In the first verse of the ''[[dua|duʿāʾ]]u l-Bahāʾ'', the name "Bahāʾ" appears four times.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Bahá'u'lláh and His Most Holy Shrine |first=Dhikru'llah |last=Khadem |author-link=Dhikru'llah Khadem |journal=Baháʼí News |date=March 1976 |pages=4–5 |url=http://www.teachingandprojects.com/meansandmaterials.htm |issue=540 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620121705/http://www.teachingandprojects.com/meansandmaterials.htm |archive-date=2017-06-20 }}</ref>
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