Ocean of Lights

110 words

ای یار عزیز در این ایام مصمم دیار غربم شاید در عبودیت آستان احدیت نفسی برآرم

Translation:

Provisional translation

O dearly beloved friend! In these days I am resolutely bound for the Western realms, that perchance I may draw a breath in servitude at the threshold of the one true God [3.5s]

Manuscripts (2)Publications (3)

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

INBA85:465

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=467

BLIB. Manuscripts in the British Library, London, listed by Or number. For a handlist of works of the Báb see Chapter 25 of https://archive.org/details/descriptivelisto00brituoft/page/n3. Regarding manuscripts in the series Or16590 through Or15740, which together comprise half of all known works of Bahá’u’lláh, including some 4,000 items which are uniquely accessible in this series: These were the bequest of a descendent of the family of Bahá’u’lláh; were mostly transcribed by Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alí, and are likely to have been derived in part from the two stolen satchels of Bahá’u’lláh’s papers mentioned in GPB p.249 and MMK4#189 p.276. While included here owing to their importance, their degree of fidelity to the originals has not yet been ascertained

BLIB_Or.08117.016

Not yet online

BSHI. Bashír-Iláhí, Náṣir. Tablets Revealed in Honor of Mírzá Áqá Khán Bashír-Iláhí. Private printing, 2010. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/alvah_bih_bashir-i-ilahi.pdf

BSHI.008

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/alvah_bih_bashir-i-ilahi.pdf#page=8

BSHI.120

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/alvah_bih_bashir-i-ilahi.pdf#page=120

NJB. Najm-i Bákhtar (mult. vols.). George Ronald, 1978. Persian pages from Star of the West (1910-1935). https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1412.pdf and https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol4/starwest/starwest.htm

NJB_v02#11 p.001

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_11