Ocean of Lights

Reported Utterance

Words to Florence Khan, spoken on 1906-06-13

210 words

Question:

Are these people who claim to surpass the other Christian sects in charity and good deeds to be considered possessors of a special excellence or are they one of the new sects of Christianity?

Translation:

Provisional translation

Whatever good deeds man performs in this world have been originally inculcated by the Prophets and Manifestations of God. Were it not for the Prophets' teachings

Translations (3)

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_1906 p035

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1906.pdf#page=35

SUR. Gail, Marzieh. Summon Up Remembrance. George Ronald, 1987. Memoirs. https://bahai- library.com/pdf/g/gail_summon_up_remembrance.pdf

SUR.232

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/g/gail_summon_up_remembrance.pdf#page=239

BLO. Bahá’í Library Online (www.bahai-library.com). Private, independent repository of Bahá’í-related resources including provisional translations (BLO_PT) and pilgrims’ notes (BLO_PN). Numbering follows the 16 Nov 2019 snapshot available at https://web.archive.org/

BLO_PN#001

https://bahai-library.com/ali-khan_pilgrim-notes_1906