Ocean of Lights

190 words

ای امه الله در این کور عظیم و دور بدیع اماای مبعوث شدند که ایات توحید بودند و

Translation:

Official translation

In this great Cycle and wondrous Dispensation some women have been raised up who were the emblems of unity and ensigns of oneness

Persian (1)

#	Name		Source	Resources
#1	هُو الأبهی - ای امة الله، در اين کور عظيم و دور بديع…		Source Persian	Resources

Manuscripts (1)Publications (2)Translations (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

INBA17:039

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=41

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#096

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

MKT7.052

https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA7/ma7-56.html

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#096

http://www.bahai.org/r/330202663

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#2187

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