Ocean of Lights

250 words

ایتها المنجذبه بانوار ساطعه من ملکوت الله انی قرئت رقیمتک البلیغه و نمیقتک

Translation:

Provisional translation

O thou who art attracted by the lights shining from the Kingdom of God! Verily I have read thy eloquent letter and wonderful epistle... Know thou, verily, I say unto thee that the conditions of this mortal world

Manuscripts (1)Translations (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

INBA89:221

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=224

DAS. Diary notebooks and letters of Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Dec. 1912 – Jun. 1915. English and Persian diary notebooks and letters held in the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Often quoted in other sources such as SW. Catalog entries are indexed by date and include only the English notebooks and letters. Letters from 1 Jul 1913 through 19 Oct. 1914 found here: https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914

DAS.1913-07-14

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_02.pdf#page=30

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_v04#15 p.252-153x

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_15

ABIE. Sohrab, Ahmad. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Egypt. New History Foundation, 1929. Based on DAS. https://afnanlibrary.org/abdul-baha-in-egypt (scanned), https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt (typed)

ABIE.064

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm

BLO. Bahá’í Library Online (www.bahai-library.com). Private, independent repository of Bahá’í-related resources including provisional translations (BLO_PT) and pilgrims’ notes (BLO_PN). Numbering follows the 16 Nov 2019 snapshot available at https://web.archive.org/

BLO_PN#007

https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt

BSTW. Dwight Barstow collection. Collection of miscellania in English, mostly old translations and pilgrim’ notes. http://bahai- library.com/file.php?file=lovejoy_dwight_barstow_collection

BSTW#110a

http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_101-150.pdf#page=19