Ocean of Lights

Reported Utterance

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-03-08

450 words

و وقتی بمناسبت سئوالات حاضرین فرق مابین مطالب و اقوال انبیا و متصوفین بیان می‌نمودند ... شخصی پرسید فرق این امر و صوفیه چیست فرمودند من آنرا بیان کردم حضرات صوفیه به دو مقام مومنند مقام حق و مقام خلق

Question:

[regarding the difference between Sufism and the Baha'í Faith]

Translation:

Provisional translation

I have explained the philosophical aspect of this subject. It is this: In Sufism there are only two stations... Do you know in what Day you are living? Do you realize in what Dispensation you are alive?

Publications (1)Translations (9)

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

BDA2.174x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-182.html

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.1913-03-08

Not yet online

BSC. Bahá'í Scriptures. Brentanos, 1923. Compilation of Writings and talks by Bahá’u’lláh and Abdu’l-Bahá. Early translations, some unreliable. http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/

BSC.266 #551x

http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/

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#06 p.098x

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_6

SW_v06#15 p.118-119x

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_15

SW_v13#01 p.006x

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_1

SW_v08#14 p.191x

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_14

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_v3#01 p.002x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-3-burma-1925

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

MHMD2.219

Not yet online

ADP. Chamberlain, Isabel Fraser. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá on Divine Philosophy. Boston: The Tudor Press, 1918. https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1

ADP.038-039x

https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA38