Editing Revelation (section)

===Bahá'í Faith===
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[[File:Revelation-writing.jpg|thumb|'Revelation writing': The first draft of a tablet of [[Bahá'u'lláh]], recorded in shorthand script by an [[amanuensis]]]]
[[Báb|The Báb]], [[Bahá'u'lláh]] and [[`Abdu'l-Bahá]], the central figures of the [[Baháʼí Faith|Bahá'í Faith]], received thousands of written enquiries, and wrote thousands of responses, hundreds of which amount to whole and proper books, while many are shorter texts, such as letters. In addition, the Bahá'í Faith has large works which were divinely revealed in a very short time, as in a night, or a few days.<ref>{{cite web
| title = Book of Certitude: Dating the Iqan
| publisher= Kalimat Press
| year=1995
| url = http://bahai-library.com/wilmette_kitab_iqan_date | access-date = 2007-02-26}}</ref> Additionally, because many of the works were first recorded by an [[amanuensis]],<ref>{{cite book
| title = The Writings of Baha'u'llah, Published in The Bahá'í World|volume=14|pages=  620–32
| publisher= Bahá'í World Centre
| url = http://bahai-library.com/khavari_writings_bahaullah | access-date = 2007-02-26}}</ref> most were submitted for approval and correction and the final text was personally approved by the revelator.

Bahá'u'lláh would occasionally write the words of revelation down himself, but normally the revelation was dictated to his amanuensis, who sometimes recorded it in what has been called ''revelation writing'', a shorthand script written with extreme speed owing to the rapidity of the utterance of the words. Afterwards, Bahá'u'lláh revised and approved these drafts. These ''revelation drafts'' and many other [[transcription (linguistics)|transcriptions]] of Bahá'u'lláh's writings, around 15,000 items, some of which are in his own handwriting, are kept in the [[International Archives|International Bahá'í Archives]] in [[Haifa]], [[Israel]].<ref>{{cite web | title = A new volume of Bahá'í sacred writings, recently translated and comprising Bahá'u'lláh's call to world leaders, is published | date = May 2002 | publisher = Bahá'í World Centre | url = http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story.cfm?storyid=163 | access-date = 2007-02-26 | archive-date = 2008-12-22 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081222030707/http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story.cfm?storyid=163 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last = Taherzadeh |first = A. |year = 1976 |title = The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, Volume 1: Baghdad 1853–63 |publisher = George Ronald |location = Oxford, UK |isbn = 0-85398-270-8}}</ref><ref>For extended comments on the divine revelation of the [[Báb]], [[Bahá'u'lláh]], and [[`Abdu'l-Bahá]] see [http://bahai-library.com/number_tablets_bahaullah Number of tablets revealed by Bahá'u'lláh] by Robert Stockman and Juan Cole, [http://bahai-library.com/uhj_numbers_sacred_writings Numbers and Classifications of Sacred Writings texts] by the [[Universal House of Justice]], and Horace Holley's preface of [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_bahai_revelation The Bahá'í Revelation, including Selections from the Bahá'í Holy Writings and Talks by `Abdu'l-Bahá].</ref>