Tablet catalog
There Can Be No True Happiness and Progress without Spirituality: Words spoken on 1911-11-21 in Paris
OOL 06 00273 Phelps: ABU 0276
ABU 0276•‘Abdu’l-Bahá•Persian
Reported Utterance
There Can Be No True Happiness and Progress without Spirituality: Words spoken on 1911-11-21 in Paris
770 words

درندگی سزاوار حیوانات وحشیه است و سزاوار انسان الفت و محبتست خدا جمیع انبیا

Translation:
Provisional translation
Ferocity and savagery are natural to animals, but men should show forth the qualities of love and affection. God sent all His Prophets into the world with one aim… Oh, trust in God! For His Bounty is everlasting
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#0956
https://www.bahai.org/r/495604294
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.204-207
Not yet online
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.049
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=52
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.188 (199)
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)
KHTB1.192
http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-194.html
KHTP. Khiṭábát-i Ḥaḍrat-i `Abdu'l-Bahá. BPT Iran, 1970. Collection of talks; a subset of KHTB1. Pocket edition
KHTP.139
Not yet online
PT. Paris Talks: Addresses given by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Paris in 1911. U.K. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1995. Catalog entries include both paragraph number and pagination. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/abdul- baha/paris-talks/1#733601770
PT#34 p.106
http://www.bahai.org/r/358841053
DWN. Syed Mustafa Roumi, ed. The Dawn: A monthly Bahá'í journal of Burma. Sept. 1923 – May 1929. English and Persian sections cataloged separately. Digitally reprinted in 2017 by the Afnan Library, Sandy, UK: https://afnanlibrary.org/the-dawn-burma-vol-1-6/
DWN_v1#12 p.007cx
https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-1-burma-1923
N. Ma'ani
https://nasimmaani.bandcamp.com/track/trust-in-god
Friends in Paris
https://youtu.be/GjW06lQGsTs