Ocean of Lights

Reported Utterance

Words spoken at Unitarian church in Dublin, 1912-08-11

2300 words

در نزد عموم عقلا مسلم است که عالم طبیعت ناقص است و محتاج تربیت ملاحظه میکنید

Translation:

Provisional translation

That the world of nature is imperfect and needs education is to the wise beyond question. Consider, man uneducated is in utmost barbarism

Persian (1)

#	Name		Source	Resources
#1	مورخ ١١ اگست ١٩١٢ در کليسای موحّدين در دوبلين: درباره لزوم تربیت روحانی و تشریح برخی تعالیم دیانت بهایی		Source Persian	Resources

Publications (10)Translations (1)

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#0639

https://www.bahai.org/r/141146088

AMK. Alváḥ, Munájáthá, va Khaṭábihá. n.p., 1907. Jellygraph of misc. Tablets, prayers and talks of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá chiefly in the hand of Ali-Akbar Milani

AMK.248-258

Not yet online

MJMJ. Majmú`iy-i Munáját (3 vols.). BPT Iran, 1970. Prayers of ‘Abdu’l- Bahá. Vol. 1 not same as https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA1=MJH; Vol. 2: https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA2/; Vol. 3: https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA3/

MJMJ1.090x

Not yet online

MMG. Majmú`iy-i Munájáthá. Bahá'í-Verlag, 1992 (1^st ed.), 2001 (2^nd ed.), 2009 (3^rd ed.). Standard book of prayers of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Reprinted with additional prayers and reordered, 2009. Numbering and pagination in this catalog refers to the 1992 (MMG1), 2001 (MMG2) or 2009 (MMG3) edition; page images link to the 2001 edition at https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA

MMG2#163 p.185x

https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-188.html

MJH. Munájátháy-i Ḥaḍrat-i `Abdu'l-Bahá. India, 1946. Collection of prayers, mostly superseded by MMG. https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/ and https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/548.pdf

MJH.036x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/mmai-37.html

KHF. Khiṭábát-i-Mubárakih. BPT Iran, 99 B.E.. Collection of talks by Abdu’l- Bahá; a subset of the 3-volume KHTB. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf

KHF.042

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=45

KHAB. Khuṭab-i- `Abdu'l-Bahá fí Úrúbá wa-Amríká. Reprinted Editora Bahá’í- Brasil, 1998. Arabic translations of selected talks, most from the Persian texts in KHTB; talks on pp. 56, 72, 74 translated from English. Talk on p. 76 unknown origin. Catalog entries give pagination for both editions. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf

KHAB.355 (362)

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf

KHTB. Majmú`iy-i Khiṭábát-i Ḥaḍrat-i `Abdu'l-Bahá (3 vols.). Bahá'í-Verlag, Collection of talks given in the U.S.and Europe; reprinted from same plates as earlier Egypt edition. Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/36.pdf (typescript), Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/37.pdf (typescript), Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/38.pdf (typescript)

KHTB2.212

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-214.html

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_v03#16 p.001

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_16

YFY. Rafati, Vahid. Yádnámiy-i-Fáḍil-i-Yazdí. Bahá'í-Verlag, 170 B.E. [2013]. Remembrance of Fáḍil-i-Yazdí. https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/yfy.pdf

YFY.141x

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/yfy.pdf#page=139

SW. Star of the West, 25 vols. (1910-1935). Periodical issued each Bahá’í month. Vols. 1-12 reprinted 1978 in 8 volumes by George Ronald. Each issue Includes a section in Persian. https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West

SW_v14#02 p.042-045

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_2