Ocean of Lights

Reported Utterance

Words to some Persians living in Paris, spoken on 1913-05-05

260 words

حیات انسان خیلی عزیز است انسان باید این حیات عزیز را در امری عظیم صرف نماید

Notes:

Zarqani and Sohrab have different wording

Translation:

Provisional translation

The life of man is very precious; so he must spend it in a precious cause. To study the sciences of commerce, agriculture and medicine is very praiseworthy but to concentrate all our time on such things is not good.

Publications (1)Translations (2)

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

BDA2.285

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-293.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.1913-05-05

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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

MHMD2.375-376

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