Tablet catalog
Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-07-03
OOL 06 80785 Phelps: ABU 3569
ABU 3569•‘Abdu’l-Bahá•Persian
Reported Utterance
Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-07-03
10 words

سلطنت الهی قدیم است و مادام خالق بوده خلق هم داشته

Translation:
Provisional translation
The Kingdom of God is pre-existent and, since He is the Creator; without doubt He has always had a creation.
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
BDA1.144.16
http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-144.html
MHMD1. Sobhani, Mohi (trans). Mahmud's Diary: The Diary of Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání Chronicling ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Journey to America. George Ronald, 1998. English Translation of BDA1. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf, https://bahai-library.com/zarqani_mahmuds_diary (typescript)
MHMD1.155-156
http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=180