Ocean of Lights

Sahifiy-i-Ja'fariyya

Epistle of Ja'far

19300 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی شهد بذاته لذاته ان لا اله الا هو الذی قد علا بعلو نفسه علی کل شیء و استتر من علو ظهوره عن کل شیء الذی کان لم یزل کان بلا ذکر شیئ

Translation:

Provisional translation

All praise be to God Who hath testified through His Own Self unto His Self that there is none other God but Him, Who hath ascended through the sovereignty of His Being above all things, and Who, through the loftiness of His Revelation, hath concealed Himself from all things - He Who hath everlastingly been, and existed ere the mention of aught else [3.5s]... ...The fifth station testifieth unto God in the mirror of the Letter Há’, and it is the Word that consisteth of the Twin Alifs

Manuscripts (4)Publications (3)Translations (3)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

INBA60:057-154

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v060/?page=59

INBA98:048.15-110.05x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v098/?page=50

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

PR14.001-060

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0217

Berlin. Manuscripts held at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Ms or. Oct. 1237 found at at https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN1740194756&PHYSID=PHYS_0007. Ms or. Oct. 3655 found at: http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0002E63E00000000

Berlin3655.008r-051v

http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0002E63E00000000

TZH. Mázandarání, Fáḍil. Táríkh-i Ẓuhúr al-Ḥaqq (9 vols.). Vols. 3 and 8 published in Iran 1941/42 and 1975/76; vols. 3 and 4 republished 2008 and 2011 by Bahá’í-Verlag. Encyclopedic history of the Faith. https://www.h- net.org/~bahai/index/diglib/mazand1.htm (ms images) and https://oceanoflights.org/chapter/historical-works-fa (typed volumes)

TZH3.280.06-282.21x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/497.pdf#page=286

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.184ax

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/nss.pdf#page=182

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.A010

https://oceanoflights.org/file/Bab-BKW-10.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.224x

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=231

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.199-212x (infra)

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MNP.pdf#page=214

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

LOIR20.248

http://irfancolloquia.org/lights20/

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.030-035

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/nss.pdf#page=28

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.453.4

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf#page=467

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.066-067

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=19

SRC.198

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=48

GOH.021-022

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=28

GOH.032

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=39

GOH.235

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=242