Ocean of Lights

Tafsir-i-Suratu'l-Kawthar

Commentary on the Surah of Kawthar

49500 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم و به نستعین. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الواح کتاب الفلق فی کل ما فتق و استفرق و استنطق طراز الازل

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praised be to God, who hath made the Ornament of the scriptural Tablets to be the Book of the Daybreak which is operative within everything such that it is cleft asunder and split apart

Manuscripts (6)Publications (3)Translations (6)Notes (9)

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

INBA53:181-383

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v053/?page=183

INBA_5019C:001-083x

Not yet online

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_F10

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_Or5080

Not yet online

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_tafkawthar

http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/bab/S-Z/tafkaw/tafkawthar.htm

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

BYC_kowthar

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

ASAT. Mázandarání, Fáḍil. Asráru’l-Áthár (5 vols.). BPT Iran, 1973. Encyclopedic glossary of Bahá’í terminology.
Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/427.pdf, Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/428.pdf, Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/429.pdf, Vol. 4: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf, Vol. 5: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/431.pdf

ASAT2.007-008x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/428.pdf#page=5

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.466x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf#page=480

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.A006

https://oceanoflights.org/file/Bab-BKW-06.pdf

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.069-075x

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=76

GOH.111-115x

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

GOH.177x

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=184

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.178x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MNP.pdf#page=193

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

HURQ.BB08x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/821/

KSHK. “Kashkul”. Blog with provisional translations by W. McCants. Aug. 2010- . http://www.kashkul.org/. Translations of several dozen brief Writings of the Báb are posted at http://www.kashkul.org/brief-writings- of-the-bab/ (accessible via archive.org)

KSHK#03x

https://web.archive.org/web/20211026145946/http://www.kashkul.org/2010/08/24/a-river-in-paradise-is-chinese-tea/

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.025-029

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/nss.pdf#page=23

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.174x

https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/nz/DB/db-28.html#pg174

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.455.03

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf#page=469

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.013

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf#page=25

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.071

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=22

SRC.201

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=50

GOH.033

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=40