Ocean of Lights

250 words

ای بندگان دیرین خسرو چرخ برین چراغ یزدان روشن است و پرتو مهر آسمان روشنی بخش

Translation:

Provisional translation

O ye ancient servants of the celestial King! The lamp of God is luminous, and the radiance of the heavenly sun doth shed its light [3.5s]

Manuscripts (1)Publications (5)

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

INBA59:251b

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=253

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#1126

https://www.bahai.org/r/681887629

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

MKT1.440

https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-439.html

ALPA. Majmú`iy-i Alváḥ-i Mubárakih bi-Iftikhár-i Bahá'íyán-i Pársí. BPT Iran, 1976. Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha to Parsee believers. Superseded by YARP. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/544.pdf

ALPA.010

Not yet online

YARP. Yárán-i Pársí. Bahá'í-Verlag, 1998. Tablets to Bahá’ís of Zoroastrian background. YARP1 and YARP2 refer to the Bahá’u’lláh and Abdu’l-Bahá sections, respectively. https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/

YARP2.012 p.070

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-76.html

RMT. Muhandis ‘Ináyat Khudá Sifídvash. Alváḥ Raqá’im va Madárik-i-Taríkhí Marbúṭ bih Dawrán-i-Ḥayát-i-Arbáb Síyávash Sifídvash. n.p., 1997. Biographical materials; contains many facsimiles of original Tablets. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/alvah_raqaim_va_madarik-i-tarikhi_marbut_bih_dawran-i-hayat-i-arbab_siyavash_sifidvash.pdf

RMT.212-213

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/alvah_raqaim_va_madarik-i-tarikhi_marbut_bih_dawran-i-hayat-i-arbab_siyavash_sifidvash.pdf