Ocean of Lights

Reported Utterance

Words to Helen Goodall and Woodson Allen, spoken on 1912-10-10

130 words

Question:

We need the nightingale. Can you not send them over to us from Persia?

Translation:

Provisional translation

Nothing makes a man so happy as love…. There will come a day when you will see how the nightingales of Persia will sing their songs

Translations (2)

MAB. Brown, Ramona Allen. Memories of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: Recollections of the Early Days of the Baháʹí Faith in California. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1980. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MAB.pdf

MAB.047

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MAB.pdf#page=72

ECN. Notes of Ella Cooper, "‘Abdu’l-Bahá in California". n.p, 1912. Pilgrim notes held in U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. https://bahai- library.com/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912

ECN.473

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=473