Ocean of Lights

180 words

ای نوش پر جوش و خروش صد کرور شعرا و فصحا و بلغا در این توده غبرا آمدند

Translation:

Provisional translation

O thou lively and fervent spirit! A myriad poets, eloquent orators and masters of rhetoric have emerged amidst this dust-laden throng [3.5s]

Publications (5)

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#0500

https://www.bahai.org/r/350960003

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

MKT1.451

https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-450.html

TSQA. Bayḍa’í, Ni’matu’lláh Dhaká’í. Tadhkiriy-i Shu`aráy-i Qarn-i Avval-i Bahá'í (4 vols.). BPT Iran, 1964. Biographies of poets in the first Bahá'í century. Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/278.pdf, Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/279.pdf, Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/280.pdf, Vol. 4: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/281.pdf

TSQA3.562

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/

YARP2.210 p.197

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-203.html

PPAR. Píshgámán-i Pársí-Nizhád dar `Ahd-i Rasúlí. Canadan Association for Bahá’í Studies, 1999. Biographies of Zoroastrian Bahá’ís. https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ppar.pdf

PPAR.171

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ppar.pdf#page=173