Ocean of Lights

1380 words

ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما رسید مضمون بسیار عجیب زیرا این شبهات تازه اشتهار

Translation:

Provisional translation

O one who is firm in the Covenant! Your letter has arrived. Its contents are very strange, for these doubts are not newly widespread… As to the differences among human beings

Publications (9)Translations (2)

BRL. “Bahá'í Reference Library”: Authoritative source of original texts and authorized translations, maintained and frequently updated and expanded by the Bahá’í World Centre. Subsections defined for this catalog: BRL_APBH (Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh), BRL_ATBH (Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh), BRL_ATE (Additional Tablets, Extracts, and Talks of Abdu’l-Bahá), BRL_CHILD (Prayers and Tablets for Children), BRL_CONF2018 (Compilation for the 2018 Counsellor’s Conference), BRL_CONSULT (Consultation; original quotations here), BRL_CUHJ (Compilation on the Universal House of Justice; original language version COMP_CUHJP), BRL_CRISIS (Crisis and Victory), BRL_DA (Digar Alvah – Additional Tablets Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh), BRL_DAK (Digar Alvah va Khitabat – Additional Tablets and talks by Abdu’l-Bahá), BRL_FAM (Family Life), BRL_FIRE (Selections from Fire and Light [=NANU]), BRL_IOA (Compilation on the Importance of the Arts in Promoting the Faith), BRL_IOPF (Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting), BRL_LSA (The Local Spiritual Assembly), BRL_MASHRIQ (The Institution of the Mashruqu’l-Adhkár; original quotations COMP_MASHRIQP), BRL_MEET (Bahá’í Meetings), BRL_PDL (Prayer and Devotional Life; original lquotations COMP_PDLP), BRL_PEACE (Peace; original quotations COMP_PEACEP), BRL_PMDA (Prayer, Meditation and the Devotional Attitude), BRL_SOCIAL (Compilation on Social Action), BRL_SCHOLAR (Compilation on Scholarship), BRL_TTT (Twelve Table Talks by Abdu’l-Bahá), BRL_SWO (To Set the World in Order: Building and Preserving Strong Marriages). Sequential numbering may be introduced based on order of entry. https://reference.bahai.org [legacy version with many additional texts]; https://www.bahai.org/library/

BRL_DAK#0659

https://www.bahai.org/r/484483813

MKT. Makátíb-i-'Abdu'l-Bahá' (9 vols.). BPT Iran, 121 B.E.–135 B.E. [1965- 1978]. Full texts of Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá; first three volumes originally published in Cairo in 1910, 1911 and 1921. Vols. 1-8: https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/, Vol. 9: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf

MKT1.374

https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-373.html

MKT9.077

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=39

MNMK. Min Makátíb-i-`Abdu'l-Bahá. Bahá’í Publishing Trust of Brazil, 1982. Collection of Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/

MNMK#145 p.265

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-263.html

AKHA. Akhbár-i Amrí (mult. vols.). BPT Iran, 1922-1980. Periodical journal. Digitally reprinted in 2017 by the Afnan Library, Sandy, UK: https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/

AKHA_105BE #11 p.02

https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/

PYM. Ishráq-Khávarí, Abdu'l-Ḥamíd. Payám-i Malakút. BPT Iran, 130 B.E. [1973], republished by NSA India, 1985. Compilation on the coming of Bahá’u’lláh. https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/download.html

PYM.305

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/pm2-305.html

MJTB. Muntakhabátí az Áthár-i Mubárakih dar bárih yi-Ta'lím va Tarbíyat. BPT Iran, 1974. Compilation on education. https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/mjtb.pdf

MJTB.032

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/mjtb.pdf

VAA. Ábádih’í, Qábil. Vaqáyi`-i Amríy-i Ábádih. Bahá'í-Verlag, 2007. Regional history. https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/vaa.pdf

VAA.082-086

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/vaa.pdf#page=102

MJDF. Javáb-i Prufisir-i Almání Duktúr Fúrál bá Chand Lawḥ-i Dígar. Egypt, 1921. Tablet to Dr. Auguste Forel and various other Tablets of Abdu’l-Bahá. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/594.pdf [Tablet to Dr. Forel only]

MJDF.040

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/594.pdf#page=40

COC. The Compilation of Compilations (3 vols.). Bahá’í Publishing Trust of Australia, 1991, 2000. Inventory refers to the continuous numbering of original publications, which is lost in the online version. Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/compilation_compilations_1, Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/compilation_compilations_2, Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/compilation_compilations_3

COC#0587x

Not yet online

KSHK. “Kashkul”. Blog with provisional translations by W. McCants. Aug. 2010- . http://www.kashkul.org/. Translations of several dozen brief Writings of the Báb are posted at http://www.kashkul.org/brief-writings- of-the-bab/ (accessible via archive.org)

KSHK#30

https://web.archive.org/web/20211026145946/http://www.kashkul.org/2018/05/06/on-darwin-and-iranian-naturalists/