Ocean of Lights

Panj Sha'n

Book of the Five Modes

98000 words

بسم الله الائله الائله. اننی انا الله لا اله الا انا الائله الائله بسم الله الاله الاله بالله الله الاله الاله بسم الله الموله الموله

Notes:

Last part is known as the Lawh-i-Hurufat

Translation:

Provisional translation

Verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the Most High, the Most High. In the Name of God, the Divine One, the Divine One. By God, the Divine One, the Divine One. In the Name of God, the Lord Supreme [3.5s]... ...God has not created anything without creating a trace of the elixir within it

Manuscripts (24)Publications (11)Translations (13)Notes (12)

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

INBA01:001-088x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v001/?page=3

INBA64:085.02-094.05x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v064/?page=87

INBA82:002-016x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v082/?page=4

INBA82:066-078x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v082/?page=68

INBA_6007C.494-541x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/INBA.6007C.pdf

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

PR02.053v07-060r04x

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0002

PR02.069r01-075r17x

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0002

PR02.154r01-159v28x

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0002

PR03.040v05-042v06x

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0045

PR03.089v26-136r16x

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0045

PR03.241v07-245r27

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0045

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_F23.002v04-076r03x

Not yet online

CMB_F15

Not yet online

CMB_F25.3

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_Or5612

Not yet online

BLIB_Or6680

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_6143

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b100314816/f3.image

BN_6518 p.002v

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b100304611/f6.image

MKI4488.134r-315rx

Not yet online

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_panj

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/525.pdf

HBH. H-Bahai: Scanned images of manuscripts and publications hosted by H-Net at Michigan State University. http://www.h- net.org/~bahai/index/diglib/arapub.htm

HBH_panjshan

http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/bab/M-R/panj/panjshan.htm

HBH_panjshan2

http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/bab/M-R/panj/panjshan2.htm

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

BYC_collect3.045-062x

http://bayanic.com/lib/scan/sacred/Point/Collection3/Collection_3.pdf#page=25

BYC_panj

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

PANJ. Panj Sha'n. Iran, 196-. Full text of a late work of the Báb. https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/bab/M-R/panj/panjshan.htm

PANJx

https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/bab/M-R/panj/panjshan.htm

MAS. Má'idiy-i Ásmání (8 vols.). BPT Iran, 129 B.E. Reprinted in 3 volumes by Bahá’í Publishing Trust of India 1984-1985 (new vol. 2, writings of ‘Abdu’l- Bahá, = old vols. 2, 5, 9; new vol. 3, writings of Shoghi Effendi, = old vols. 3, 6) and Mir’át 2005 (new vol. 1, writings of Bahá’u’lláh, = old vols. 1, 4, 7, 8). Vols. 1, 4, 7, 8: https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/; vols2. 2, 5, 9: https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/. Vol. 9 exists in two different typesettings and paginations; this catalog uses the pagination contained in the BPT India reprint, which trails the online version by several pages

MAS7.114-18x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MAS7/mas7-114.html

RBB. MacEoin, Denis. Rituals in Babism and Baha'ism. Cambridge, 1994. Monograph. https://bahai-library.org/maceoin_rituals_babism_bahaism

RBB.098-100x

https://bahai-library.org/maceoin_rituals_babism_bahaism

RBB.109x

https://bahai-library.org/maceoin_rituals_babism_bahaism

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

MBA.203-209x

https://tinyurl.com/u44wb8t

MBA.276-293x

https://tinyurl.com/u44wb8t

MBA.301x

https://tinyurl.com/u44wb8t

MBA.314-326x

https://tinyurl.com/u44wb8t

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.467x?

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf#page=481

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.A012

https://oceanoflights.org/file/Bab-BKW-12.pdf

OOL.A019x

https://oceanoflights.org/file/Bab-BKW-19.pdf

RBB. MacEoin, Denis. Rituals in Babism and Baha'ism. Cambridge, 1994. Monograph. https://bahai-library.org/maceoin_rituals_babism_bahaism

RBB.015-016x

https://bahai-library.org/maceoin_rituals_babism_bahaism

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.174-178x

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=181

GOH.184-185x

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=191

GOH.393fn17x

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=400

GOH.191x

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=198

GOH.245x

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=252

GOH.292x

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=299

GOH.348-349x

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=355

GOH.368x

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=375

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.220-222x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MNP.pdf#page=235

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

HURQ.BB59x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/97

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#046x

https://bahai-library.com/walbridge_kitab_panj-shan_commentary

BLO_alchemy

https://bahai-library.com/brown_reflection_theory_alchemy

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.60

https://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/LO/AA/00/56/59/00001/PDF.pdf#page=82

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

MSBR.206-207

https://bahai-library.com/browne_materials_study_babi

AHDA.446.6

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf#page=460

AHDA.459.01x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf#page=473

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.038

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf#page=50

MMAH.062

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf#page=74

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.088-090

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=31

SRC.093-095

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=33

SRC.189

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=44

SRC.190

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=44

SRC.281

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=90

GOH.036

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=43