Tablet catalog
Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-18
OOL 06 30112 Phelps: ABU 1531
ABU 1531•‘Abdu’l-Bahá•Persian
Reported Utterance
Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-18
200 words

اطفال خیلی مایهٴ سُرور و تسلی هستند من طفلی داشتم حسین افندی سه چهار ساله بود وقتی خواب بودم

Notes:
Zarqani and Sohrab have different wording
Translation:
Provisional translation
Children give to a person the greatest consolation. No matter how much the father is sad or cross, as soon as his darling child laughs or speaks, he is made happy.
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
BDA2.149x
http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-157.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.1913-02-18
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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
MHMD2.187x
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