Ocean of Lights

420 words

الهی الهی استغفرک عن کل الشئون الا العبودیه لعتبتک السامیه و اتبرء عن کل ذکر

Translation:

Provisional translation

My God, my God! I ask thee to forgive everything save my servitude to Thy Supreme Threshold...O thou who art calling by the Testament, in the Pivot of the horizons!... I affirm that the true meaning, the real significance, the innermost secret of these verses

Manuscripts (1)Publications (4)Translations (4)

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

INBA13:327

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=164

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#001 p.007

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-5.html

HHA. Fayḍí, Muḥammad-'Alí. Ḥayát-i Ḥaḍrat-i `Abdu'l-Bahá. Bahá'í-Verlag, 1994. Biography of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/634.pdf

HHA.060

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/634.pdf#page=69

MSHR. Rafati, Vahid. Ma'ákhidh-i Ash`ár dar Áthár-i Bahá'í. 5 vols. Canadian Association for Bahá’í Studies, 2004- . Vol 1: http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH1/; Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/649.pdf, Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/650.pdf, Vol. 4: http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf , Vol. 5: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf

MSHR2.152x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-154.html

PTFP. Ives, Howard Colby. Dargah-yi-Dúst. BPT Iran, 127 B.E. [1970]. Persian translation of PTF. Most quotations by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá are back- translated into Persian. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/513.pdf

PTFP.281

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/513.pdf#page=286

WOB. Shoghi Effendi. The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh: Selected Letters. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1938. Pagination refers to 1991 edition. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/shoghi-effendi/world- order-bahaullah/

WOB.138x

http://www.bahai.org/r/497677543

BSC. Bahá'í Scriptures. Brentanos, 1923. Compilation of Writings and talks by Bahá’u’lláh and Abdu’l-Bahá. Early translations, some unreliable. http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/

BSC.265 #550

http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/

SW. Star of the West, 25 vols. (1910-1935). Periodical issued each Bahá’í month. Vols. 1-12 reprinted 1978 in 8 volumes by George Ronald. Each issue Includes a section in Persian. https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West

SW_v11#14 p.238-239

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_14

CUPAB. Compilation of Utterances from the Pen of Abdul-Baha Regarding His Station. n.p., 26 November 1906. https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_compilation_utterances_station

CUPAB.006-008

https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_compilation_utterances_station