Ocean of Lights

Reported Utterance

Words to reporter from the San Francisco Examiner, spoken on 1912-10-03

1050 words

اقلیم امریکا اقلیم معموری است. اسباب تربیت موجود است. مدارس عالیه دارد و تلامذه تربیت می شوند و تحصیل می کنند

Question:

Are you pleased with the United States?... What do you think about women's fashions?

Translation:

Provisional translation

The continent of America is most progressive. The means of instructions are prepared.... Divine civilization is a symposium of the perfections... We do not look upon the dresses of women

Publications (2)Translations (7)

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_v14#05 p.160

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_5

ZSM. Bushru’i, Soheil and Monfared, Ashkan, eds. Dar Ẓill-i-Shajariy-i- Mítháq (In the Shade of the Tree of the Covenant). Fundación Nehal, [2019]. Pilgrim notes of Badí` Bushru'í covering particularly the years 1914-1916. Catalog entries are by date rather than page number. https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf

ZSM.1915-09-26

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf

DAS. Diary notebooks and letters of Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Dec. 1912 – Jun. 1915. English and Persian diary notebooks and letters held in the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Often quoted in other sources such as SW. Catalog entries are indexed by date and include only the English notebooks and letters. Letters from 1 Jul 1913 through 19 Oct. 1914 found here: https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914

DAS.1913-07-23

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_02.pdf#page=59

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_v04#12 p.206-207

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_12

SW_v07#07 p.054

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_7

SW_v07#15 p.134

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_15

ABIE. Sohrab, Ahmad. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Egypt. New History Foundation, 1929. Based on DAS. https://afnanlibrary.org/abdul-baha-in-egypt (scanned), https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt (typed)

ABIE.099

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm

VLAB. Honnold, Annamarie. Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. George Ronald, 1982. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VLAB.pdf

VLAB.032x

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

BLO. Bahá’í Library Online (www.bahai-library.com). Private, independent repository of Bahá’í-related resources including provisional translations (BLO_PT) and pilgrims’ notes (BLO_PN). Numbering follows the 16 Nov 2019 snapshot available at https://web.archive.org/

BLO_PN#007

https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt