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Atablet, in a religious context, is a term used for certainreligious texts.
Judaism and Christianity maintain thatMoses brought theTen Commandments down fromMount Sinai in the form of two tablets of stone. According to theBook of Exodus, God delivered the tablets twice, the first set having been smashed by Moses in his anger at theidol worship of theIsraelites.
The Preserved Tablet (al-Lawhu 'l-Mahfuz), the heavenly preserved record of all that has happened and will happen, containsqadar.Qadar (Arabic:قدر,transliteratedqadar, meaning "fate", "divine fore-ordainment", "predestination")[1] is the concept ofdivinedestiny inIslam.[2][3]
The term "tablet" is part of the title of many shorterworks ofBaháʼu'lláh, founder of theBaháʼí Faith, and his son and successorʻAbdu'l-Bahá.[4]