Ocean of Lights

Reported Utterance

The Cruel Indifference of People towards the Suffering of Foreign Races: Words spoken on 1911-11-24 in Paris

430 words

میگویند یک ترن در رود سن افتاده بیست و پنج نفر غرق شده و امروز در پارلمان

Notes:

translated by Dr. Zia Bagdadi

Translation:

Provisional translation

I have just been told that there has been a terrible accident in this country. A train has fallen into the river and at least twenty people have been killed.

Publications (4)Translations (4)

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#1241

https://www.bahai.org/r/545600566

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.197 (207)

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)

KHTB1.204

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-206.html

KHTP. Khiṭábát-i Ḥaḍrat-i `Abdu'l-Bahá. BPT Iran, 1970. Collection of talks; a subset of KHTB1. Pocket edition

KHTP.152

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#37 p.115

http://www.bahai.org/r/975437645

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_v07#11 p.106-107

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_11

SW_v16#08 p.616

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_16/Issue_8

ABS. Abdu’l-Bahá Speaks: Authentic Talks of Abdu’l-Baha. Personal blog of Sen McGlinn with provisional translations. https://abdulbahatalks.wordpress.com/

ABS#13

https://abdulbahatalks.wordpress.com/1911/11/23/the-italian-attack-on-tripoli-and-human-heartlessness/