Ocean of Lights

Reported Utterance

Words spoken at Morse home in Paris, 1913-03-13

1450 words

خوش آمدید من وقتی کتاب شما را دیدم خیلی مسرور شدم میخواستم شما را ملاقات و... شما از شرق خیر دارید که چه قدر افق شرق را ظلمت تعصب و نادانی احاطه کرده بود

Translation:

Provisional translation

You are aware of the situation in the East; you know how grievously its horizon was enveloped with the darkness of ignorance and prejudice

Publications (4)Translations (1)

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.155

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=158

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)

KHTB3.068

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-70.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_v05#13 p.001

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_13

BDA. Zarqání, Maḥmúd. Kitáb-i Badáyi`u'l-Áthár (2 vols.). Bahá'í-Verlag, 1987. Vol. 1 (translated as MHMD1): https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/241.pdf, Vol. 2 (translated as MHMD2): https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/242.pdf

BDA2.200-203

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-208.html

MHMD2. Masumian, Adib (trans.). ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Europe 1912-1913: The Talks and Travels of the Master as Recorded by Mírzá Maḥmúd Zarqání. George Ronald, 2024. English Translation of BDA2

MHMD2.256-258

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