In February 2019 an authorized translation of both titles was published by the Baháʼí World Centre in the collection The Call of the Divine Beloved.
Baháʼu'lláh had recently returned from the mountains of Kurdistan where he had spent two years studying with various Sufi sheikhs using the pseudonym Darvish Muhammad-i-Irani.
[3][4] The Four Valleys was written in response to questions of S͟hayk͟h ʻAbdu'r-Rahman-i-Talabani, the "honored and indisputable leader" of the Qádiríyyih Order of Sufism.
[6] There is some difficulty in translating a text written in a poetic style, with references to concepts of Sufism that may be foreign in the West.
[6] Throughout the book Baháʼu'lláh exhorts men to education, goodly character and divine virtues.