Tablet catalog
Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-11
OOL 06 10424 Phelps: ABU 0921
ABU 0921•‘Abdu’l-Bahá•Persian
Reported Utterance
Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-11
330 words

فی الحقیقه این مدت بیفایده گذشت باز در امریکا که بودیم مشغول بودیم

Notes:
Alternative Eng texts: KHH and DAS
Translation:
Provisional translation
How spiritual and glorious were those divine days spent amongst the believers of God in the Western world!... Truly, this period has not been productive. At least when we were in America, we were busy and constantly met with people
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
KHH1.209-210 (1.293-295)
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=240
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.307-308
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.1915-04-11
https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_13.pdf#page=82
BSR. Bahá'í Studies Review. Association for Bahá’í Studies for English- Speaking Europe, 1991- . Academic journal. Selected individual articles posted at http://bahai-library.com/series/BSR
BSR_v13 p.099
https://bahai-library.com/rabbani_abdulbaha_abu_sinan