Ocean of Lights

Qayyumu'l-Asma'

Commentary on the Surah of Joseph

112000 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی نزل الکتاب علی عبده بالحق لیکون للعالمین سراجا وهاجا ان هذا صراط علی

Translation:

Official translation

All praise be to God Who hath, through the power of Truth, sent down this Book unto His servant [the Bāb], that it may serve as a shining light for all mankind

English (1)

Arabic (3)

#	Name		Source
#1	Báb, Qayyúmu’l-Asmá’ (excerpt)		Source Arabic

#	Name	Source	Translations
#1	تفسير سوره يوسف (قيوم الأسماء)	Source Arabic	Translations
#2	سورة الملک	Source Arabic	Translations
#3	مستخرجاتى از قيوم الأسماء (تفسير سوره يوسف)	Source Arabic	Translations English

Manuscripts (14)Publications (5)Translations (14)Musical interpretations (3)Notes (13)

INBA. Iranian National Bahá’í Archives volumes. Two-digit entries are from the 105-volume private printing, Iran, 1975. Digitally reprinted by the Afnan Library: https://afnanlibrary.org/inba/, with typed volumes available at https://oceanoflights.org/chapter/manuscripts-fa/. Four- digit entries suffixed by “C” are taken from SRC Appendix 1; 6007C can be found at http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/INBA.6007C.pdf

INBA03

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v003/?page=7

INBA_6020C

Not yet online

INBA_6016C

Not yet online

PR. Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series (William McElwee Miller Collection). https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47

PR41.002-192

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0285

CMB. Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, E.G. Browne collection. See BRHL for details. Link to catalog entries: https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/subject_sh2009116570

CMB_F23.150r14-153r11 (53)x

Not yet online

CMB_F11

Not yet online

BLIB. Manuscripts in the British Library, London, listed by Or number. For a handlist of works of the Báb see Chapter 25 of https://archive.org/details/descriptivelisto00brituoft/page/n3. Regarding manuscripts in the series Or16590 through Or15740, which together comprise half of all known works of Bahá’u’lláh, including some 4,000 items which are uniquely accessible in this series: These were the bequest of a descendent of the family of Bahá’u’lláh; were mostly transcribed by Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alí, and are likely to have been derived in part from the two stolen satchels of Bahá’u’lláh’s papers mentioned in GPB p.249 and MMK4#189 p.276. While included here owing to their importance, their degree of fidelity to the originals has not yet been ascertained

BLIB_Or3539

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-qayyum-al-asma-maintainer-of-the-names

BLIB_Or6681

Not yet online

BN. Manuscripts at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Listed by manuscrits Arabe number. Searchable here by shelfmark: https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/advancedSearch/

BN_6435

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10030381g/f2.image

BN_5780

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10032060r/f3.image

MKI4496

Not yet online

IOM. Bábí Manuscripts in the Institute of Oriental Languages (later Institute of Oriental Manuscripts), St. Petersburg. See "Die Sammlung von Morgenlandischen Handschriften" (1865), pp. 57ff. and http://www.orientalstudies.ru/eng/images/pdf/p_wmo_2_2015.pdf

IOM.089-090

http://www.orientalstudies.ru/eng/images/pdf/p_wmo_2_2015.pdf#page=89

KB. Digital images of books and manuscripts orginally hosted at the Kitábkhániy-i-Bahá’í website (bahailib.com), now hosted at https://bahai-library.com/bahailib

KB_qayyum

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/321.pdf

BYC. Manuscript images of Writings of the Báb hosted at www.bayanic.com. Polemical source

BYC_qayyum

http://bayanic.com/lib/scan/sacred/Point/Qayum

ASH. ‘Abbás, Qásim Muḥammad. al-Áyát al-Shírázíyyih. Damascus: Al Mada, 2009. Introduction to the Báb, featuring the full text of the Qayyúmu’l-Asmá’. https://archive.org/details/54345_201703

ASH.055-370

https://archive.org/details/54345_201703

RHQM. Ishráq-Khávarí, Abdu'l-Ḥamíd. Raḥíq-i Makhtúm (2 vols.). Bahá'í- Verlag, 2007. Commentary on the “Lawḥ-i-Qarn” (101 B.E. Naw-Rúz message) of Shoghi Effendi. Entries in this catalog refer to three different editions respectively: BPT Iran 103 B.E., BPT Iran 130 B.E., Verlag 2007. 103 B.E. edition: Vol. 1, https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/652.pdf; Vol. 2, https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/653.pdf

RHQM1.019-021x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/652.pdf#page=22

MBA. Tabrízí, Muḥammad Mahdí Khán. Miftáḥ-i Báb al-Abváb yá Táríkh-i Báb va Bahá. Iran, 1967. Polemical work

MBA.309-314x

https://tinyurl.com/u44wb8t

SWBP. Muntakhabát-i Áyát az Áthár-i Ḥaḍrat-i Nuqṭih-yi Úlá. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1984. Persian edition of SWB. https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/the-bab/selections-writings-bab

SWBP#08 (p.026-050x)

http://www.bahai.org/r/934398960

OOL. “Ocean of Lights”. Website containing Bahá’í Writings and translations. https://oceanoflights.org/. Typescripts of individual named Tablets of the Bab: https://oceanoflights.org/table/the-bab-place-and-year-fa/, Baha’u’llah: https://oceanoflights.org/table/bahaullah-special-titles-fa/, and ‘Abdu’l-Baha: https://oceanoflights.org/table/abdul-baha-best-known-works-fa/

OOL.A003

https://oceanoflights.org/file/Bab-BKW-03.pdf

SWB. Selections from the Writings of the Báb. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1976. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/the-bab/selections- writings-bab/

SWB#08 (p.041-074x)

http://www.bahai.org/r/622930835

GPB. Shoghi Effendi. God Passes By. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1944. History of the first century of the Bahá’í Faith. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/shoghi-effendi/god- passes-by/

GPB.005-006x

http://www.bahai.org/r/109322314

GPB.023x

http://www.bahai.org/r/488745356

GPB.376x

http://www.bahai.org/r/550232766

WOB. Shoghi Effendi. The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh: Selected Letters. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1938. Pagination refers to 1991 edition. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/shoghi-effendi/world- order-bahaullah/

WOB.101x

http://www.bahai.org/r/776389441

WOB.126x

http://www.bahai.org/r/338825449

GOH. Saiedi, Nader. Gate of the Heart. Wilfrid Laurier, 2008. Exposition on the teachings of the Báb, with numerous provisional translations. http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf

GOH.passim (see index)

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf

MNP. Lawson, Todd and Ghaemmaghami, Omid, eds. A Most Noble Pattern: Essays in the Study of the Writings of the Báb. George Ronald, 2012. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MNP.pdf

MNP.001-027n

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MNP.pdf#page=16

MNP.088x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MNP.pdf#page=103

MNP.110-114x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MNP.pdf#page=125

MNP.127-134x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MNP.pdf#page=142

HURQ. Lambden, Stephen. Academic website with texts, provisional translations, and notes. https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/scholarship/haykal- writings-b%C4%81b

HURQ.BB02x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/103/

LOIR. Lights of Irfan. Canadian Association for Bahá’í Studies, 1998 - . Academic journal. http://irfancolloquia.org/publications/

LOIR06.047x

Not yet online

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_PT#074x

https://bahai-library.com/bab_qayyum_asma

T. Ellis

https://dawnbreakercollective.bandcamp.com/track/power

unknown

https://youtu.be/pEpkDh2EThg

friends in Jordan

https://youtu.be/8AESD-l2HEM

FHR. Kitáb-i-Fihrist of the Báb, index of contents as listed in SRC pp.50-53. Items on this list are all dated 1845 or earlier

FHR#01

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=12

NSS. Rafati, Vahid. Nasím-i-Saḥarí. Bahá'í-Verlag, 171 B.E. [2014]. Shaykhí concepts in the Bábí and Bahá’í Writings. https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/nss.pdf

NSS.023-024

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/nss.pdf#page=21

DB. Nabíl Zarandí. The Dawn-Breakers: Nabíl’s Narrative of the Early Days of the Bahá’í Revelation. Shoghi Effendi, ed. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1932. http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/nz/DB/

DB.061x

https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/nz/DB/db-22.html#pg61

DB.179x

https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/nz/DB/db-28.html#pg179

BRHL. Browne, E.G. Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts Belonging to E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932. Includes list of mss in the Cambridge “F” series. https://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/LO/AA/00/56/59/00001/PDF.pdf

BRHL.59

https://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/LO/AA/00/56/59/00001/PDF.pdf#page=81

MSBR. Browne, E.G. Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion. Cambridge, 1961. https://bahai-library.com/browne_materials_study_babi

MSBR.202-203

https://bahai-library.com/browne_materials_study_babi

AHDA. Afnán, Abu'l-Qásim. ‘Ahd-i A`lá. Oneworld, 1999. Biography of the Báb. https://oceanoflights.org/table/the-bab-published-03-fa (selected typescripts), http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf

AHDA.445.4

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf#page=459

MMAH. Ḥisámí, Ḥabíbu'lláh. Manabi'-i-Maṭáli'-i-Amrí, Bakhsh-i-Avval: Áthár. n.p., n.d. Summaries of best-known Works, with sources. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf

MMAH.009

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf#page=21

SRC. MacEoin, Denis. The Sources for Early Bábí Doctrine and History. Brill, 1992. https://books.google.com/books?id=xqV9-zmMxsUC. Appendix 1 contains the most complete previous inventory of the Báb’s Writings

SRC.055-057

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=14

SRC.195

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=47

GOH.030

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=37

GOH.111-159

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=118

KKD. Ávárih, ‘Abdu'l-Ḥusayn. al-Kavákibu'd-Durríyyih (2 vols.). Cairo: al- Sa'adah, 1923. History. Vol. 1: http://www.h- net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol4/kd/KDV1.pdf, Vol. 2: https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/kavakib-ad-durriyyah-vol-2-complete.pdf

KKD1.228.08x

https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol4/kd/KDV1.pdf#page=119