Ocean of Lights

200 words

ای منیر نیرات بر چند قسم منقسم یکی جرمش مظلم و تاریک ولی اقتباس نور از غیر

Translation:

Provisional translation

O Luminous One! The luminaries are divided into several kinds: one hath a body dark and obscure, yet deriveth its light from another [3.5s]

Manuscripts (1)Publications (2)

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

INBA13:104

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=52

AYBY. Áyát-i-Bayyinát. Dundas, Canada: Association for Bahá’í Studies in Persian, 1999. Tablets to Samandar, Nabíl ibn-i-Nabíl, and their families. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/386.pdf

AYBY.439 #169

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-448.html

YMM. Rafati, Vahid. Yádnámiy-i Miṣbáḥ-i-Munír. Bahá'í-Verlag, 2006. Biography and notes of Abdi Misbah. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf

YMM.454x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=462