Ocean of Lights

270 words

ایتها المنجذبه بنفحات الله انی قرئت تحریرک المورخ ۲۵ ینایر سنه ۱۹۰۳ و اطلعت

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Official translation excerpt

...It behoveth the servant to pray to and seek assistance from God, and to supplicate and implore His aid. Such becometh the rank of servitude, and the Lord will decree whatsoever He desireth, in accordance with His consummate wisdom

Publications (2)Translations (4)

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#0228

http://www.bahai.org/r/295121616

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_PDLP#24x

Not yet online

BRL_ATE#100x

http://www.bahai.org/r/423554814

BRL_PMDA#24x

http://www.bahai.org/r/736884845

BRL_PDL#24x

http://www.bahai.org/r/826767521

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#1746x

http://bahai-library.com/compilation_prayer_meditation_devotion#1746