Ocean of Lights

140 words

ای منادی باسم الله در سبیل الهی گردنرا وقف زنجیر نمودی و پای را مرهون کند

Translation:

Provisional translation

O thou who callest out in the name of God! In the divine path thou hast offered up thy neck to chains and thy feet to fetters [3.5s]

Manuscripts (2)Publications (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

INBA85:422a

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=424

INBA88:222

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=256

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#0175

http://www.bahai.org/r/594670492

AHB. Áhang-i-Badí` (mult. vols.). BPT Iran, 1946-1980. Periodical journal. Individual issues listed at https://bahai-library.com/bahailib_archive

AHB.127BE #07-08 p.186

Not yet online

YIA. Rafati, Vahid. Yádnámiy-i Ibn-i-Abhar. Bahá'í-Verlag, 2016. Includes Tablets to, history and writings of Ibn-i-Abhar. https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf

YIA.243

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=239

YIA.456-457

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=452

MYD. ‘Alá’í, ‘Abdu’l-‘Alí. Mu'assisiy-i Ayádíy-i Amru'lláh. BPT Iran, 1974. Biographies of the Hands of the Cause. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/390.pdf

MYD.433

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/390.pdf#page=439