Ocean of Lights

Kitab al-Ruh

Book of the Spirit

36000 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد نزل الايات بالحق الي عبده لعل الناس بايات ربک يومنون ان اتبع ما اوحينا اليک

Notes:

The "Suratu'l-Ridvan" is a part of this work

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise be to God, Who hath revealed the verses in truth unto His servant, that perchance mankind might believe in the signs of their Lord. Follow that which We have revealed unto thee [3.5s]... ...This Book is a Dhikr (Remembrance) from God according to the Decree of a wondrous servant [the Bāb]. He is assuredly the True One within the heavens and the earth.

Manuscripts (6)Publications (3)Translations (2)Notes (7)

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

INBA78:069-076x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v078/?page=71

INBA_4011C.069-100

Not yet online

INBA_7005C

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

PR04.036r12-038r12x

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0105

MKI4507.001x

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.091

http://www.orientalstudies.ru/eng/images/pdf/p_wmo_2_2015.pdf#page=91

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

ASAT4.044-45x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf#page=24

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.198x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf#page=212

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.A017

https://oceanoflights.org/file/Bab-BKW-17.pdf

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

HURQ.BB05x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/497/

HURQ.BB15x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/410/

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#10

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

AHDA.446.5

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

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.064

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf#page=76

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.061

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=17

SRC.189

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

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.031

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=38

GOH.380fn3

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=387