Ocean of Lights

210 words

ای کنیز عزیز الهی نامه رسید و فریاد و فغان و ضجیج و اجیج تاثیر شدید نمود گمان

Translation:

Provisional translation

O cherished handmaiden of God! Your letter was received, and your lamentation, cry and passionate plea produced a profound effect [3.5s]... ...In this day the duty of everyone, whether man or woman, is to teach the Cause. In America, the women have outdone the men in this regard and have taken the lead in this field

Publications (4)Translations (2)

COMP. Thematic compilations of extracts from the Bahá’í Writings prepared by the Research Department at the Bahá’í World Centre, in translation and/or original texts, but not available at the official Reference Library web site (BRL). Typically only otherwise unsourced excerpts (“From a Tablet”) will be cataloged. Includes COMP_DEFENCE (Defense of the Faith and the Use of Language) and its Persian/Arabic source (COMP_DEFENCEP), and the Persian/Arabic sources for the compilations on the Covenant (COMP_COVP), Family Life (COMP_FAMP), Peace (COMP_PEACEP), Prayer and Devotional Life (COMP_PDLP), Trustworthiness (COMP_TRUSTP), the Universal House of Justice (COMP_CUHJP), and Women (COMP_WOMENP)

COMP_WOMENP#100x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/compilation_women_originals.pdf

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

MKT7.116b

https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA7/ma7-120.html

MSBH. Sulaymání, ‘Azízu’lláh. Maṣábíḥ-i Hidáyat (10 vols.). BPT Iran, mult. dates (106-132 B.E.). Vols. 1 and 2 exist in two editions. Biographies of prominent early believers. Digitally reprinted in 2018 by the Afnan Library, Sandy, UK: https://afnanlibrary.org/masabih-i-hidayat; vol. 10 at https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/authors/sulayman/masabih10/Masabih_Hidayat_v10.pdf

MSBH10.151cx

https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/authors/sulayman/masabih10/Masabih_Hidayat_v10.pdf#page=151

QIRT. Nusús-i-Mubárakih dar báriy-i-Qiyám-i-‘Imá al-Raḥmán bi-Tablígh. BPT Iran, 134 B.E. [1978]. Compilation on women and teaching. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/nusus-i-mubarakih_dar-bariy-i-qiyam-i-imair-rahman_bih_tabligh.pdf

QIRT.16ax

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/nusus-i-mubarakih_dar-bariy-i-qiyam-i-imair-rahman_bih_tabligh.pdf

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_WOMEN#100x

http://www.bahai.org/r/771697705

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#2191x

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