Ocean of Lights

Reported Utterance

Words spoken on board the SS Celtic at sea, 1912-12-05

90 words

باید در کشتی الهی سوار شد زیرا این عالم دریای پر انقلاب است جمیع خلق روی زمین که بیش از دو ملیاردند

Translation:

Provisional translation

One must ride in the ship of God; for this life is a stormy sea, and all the people on earth--that is, over two billion souls--will drown in it before a hundred years have passed.

Publications (1)Translations (3)

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

BDA2.009

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-17.html

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

MHMD2.011-012

Not yet online

BW. The Bahá’í World. Yearbook, published intermittently in 34 volumes between 1925-2006. Volumes 1-20 available at https://www.bahai.org/library/other-literature/periodicals-supplementary-materials/bahai-world/. Volumes 1-34 available at https://bahai.works/Bah%C3%A1%E2%80%99%C3%AD_World

BW_v13p1187

http://dl.bahai.org/bahai-world/the-bahai-world-vol13-1954-1963.pdf#page=118

VLAB. Honnold, Annamarie. Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. George Ronald, 1982. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VLAB.pdf

VLAB.048

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VLAB.pdf