Ocean of Lights

790 words

الحمد لله الذی انشا فی عالم الکیان غیب الاکوان حقیقه ثابته نورانیه فائضه علی

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise be unto Him Who hath brought forth, in the realm of being, from the unseen worlds, a luminous and steadfast Reality that doth overflow with grace [3.5s]

Manuscripts (1)Publications (8)

INBA. Iranian National Bahá’í Archives volumes. Two-digit entries are from the 105-volume private printing, Iran, 1975. Digitally reprinted by the Afnan Library: https://afnanlibrary.org/inba/, with typed volumes available at https://oceanoflights.org/chapter/manuscripts-fa/. Four- digit entries suffixed by “C” are taken from SRC Appendix 1; 6007C can be found at http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/INBA.6007C.pdf

INBA89:258

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=261

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#0565

https://www.bahai.org/r/118864522

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

MKT2.130

https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-130.html

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#013 p.080

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-78.html

MILAN. Mílání, ‘Alí Akbar. Majmu`ih-'i Mubárakih. Tehran, 1326 [1908]. Letters about the Constitutional Revolution. https://www.h- net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/milani.htm

MILAN.195

https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/195.jpg

AVK. Mázandarání, Fáḍil. Amr va Khalq (4 vols.). Bahá'í-Verlag, 1985. Thematic compilation of extracts. http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ English translation of table of contents: https://bahai-library.com/mazandarani_mccants_khalq_contents

AVK2.158.12

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-159.html

AVK2.192.12x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-193.html

AVK2.206.16x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-207.html

AVK4.119.13x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-123.html