Ocean of Lights

Reported Utterance

Words spoken at the Shrine of the Bab in Mar 1910

580 words

Question:

What is the attitude of ... Bahá'u'lláh to the contradiction between predestination and of the free will of man?...

Notes:

Fallscheer letter #21. Persian text is translated from the German

Translation:

Provisional translation

O my daughter, you ask so many things, that His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh could instruct you for many days and weeks!... The Lord God pleased to give the human being three great mysteries

Publications (1)Translations (2)

MSBH. Sulaymání, ‘Azízu’lláh. Maṣábíḥ-i Hidáyat (10 vols.). BPT Iran, mult. dates (106-132 B.E.). Vols. 1 and 2 exist in two editions. Biographies of prominent early believers. Digitally reprinted in 2018 by the Afnan Library, Sandy, UK: https://afnanlibrary.org/masabih-i-hidayat; vol. 10 at https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/authors/sulayman/masabih10/Masabih_Hidayat_v10.pdf

MSBH10.188-190

https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/authors/sulayman/masabih10/Masabih_Hidayat_v10.pdf#page=188

SDW. Sonne der Wahrheit [“The Sun of Truth”] Bahá’ís of Germany, 1921- 1935. Periodical. Includes pilgrim notes of Dr. J. Fallscheer in German. https://de.bahai.works/Sonne_der_Wahrheit

SDW v13#02 p.017-018

https://file.bahai.media/d/d7/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_13_Nr_02.pdf#page=7

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#047

https://bahai-library.com/fallscheer_schwarz-solivo_letter