Ocean of Lights

Reported Utterance

Words spoken on 1914-07-28 in Haifa

240 words

Translation:

Provisional translation

Profitless discussions fatigue and weary a person. People who call on me almost every day carry on a stream of profitless, unspiritual talk.... Man's speech is the revealer of his heart…. There are persons with whom we associate and converse whose utterances are life-imparting

Translations (3)

LOG. Hornby, Helen, ed. Lights of Guidance (1994 ed.). Bahá’í Publishing Trust of India, 1994. http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance

LOG#1139x

http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=2#n1139

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.1914-07-28

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_11.pdf#page=78

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.024-025

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_2