Tablet catalog
Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-10-11
OOL 06 10365 Phelps: ABU 0861
ABU 0861•‘Abdu’l-Bahá•Persian
Reported Utterance
Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-10-11
350 words

در طول حیات و قصر حیات اهمیتی نیست انسان صد سال در این دنیا بماند

Translation:
Provisional translation
The tragic passing of Bashir was indeed sudden.... The length and shortness of life is not considered important. Whether man lives a few years or a hundred years
KHH. Mu'ayyad, Ḥabíb. Kháṭirát-i Ḥabíb (2 vols.). BPT Iran, 118 B.E., reprinted Bahá'í-Verlag, 2004. Pilgrim notes from various times between 1907 and 1915. Catalog entries refer to both paginations (118 B.E. edition second). Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf, Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/355.pdf; 118 B.E. edition: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/515.pdf
KHH1.106-107 (1.148-150)
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=137
KHHE. Mu’ayyad, Ḥabíb. Eight Years Near ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. n.p., 2007. English translation of KHH. Vol. 3 of “Witnesses to Bábí and Bahá’í History”. https://bahai- library.com/pdf/r/rabbani_diary_habib_muayyad_2013_hidden.pdf
KHHE.160-162
http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.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.1914-10-11
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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_v08#02 p.027x
https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_2
PN. Pilgrim notes from the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Arranged by year with occasional additional identifiers. https://bahai-library.com/pilgrims- notes_us_archives_1898-1959
PN_1914 p062
https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1914.pdf#page=62