Ocean of Lights

Tafsir-i-Nubuvvat-i-Khassih

Treatise on Specific Prophethood

15400 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی جعل طراز الواح کتاب الاذن طراز النقطة التی عینت بعد ما شیئت

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise be to God who made the ornament of the Tablets the Book of Authorization which is the ornament of the Point singled out after such was willed and decreed [by God]

Manuscripts (11)Publications (2)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

INBA14:321-384

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v014/?page=323

INBA40:081-132

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v040/?page=83

INBA_6010C:311-382

Not yet online

INBA_4011C.001-060

Not yet online

INBA_4012C.013-076

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

PR02.115v05-130v22

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

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_F23.169v02-171v02 (57)x

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_nubuwwah (=INBA14)

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/

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

BYC_nubuva

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

BYC_nubuva2

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

BYC_three.016-092

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

ESCH. Eschraghi, Armin. Frühe Šaiḫī- und Bābī-Theologie. Die Darlegung der Beweise für Muḥammads besonderes Prophetentum (Ar-Risāla fī Iṯbāt an-Nubūwa al-Ḫāṣṣa). In Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science: Texts and Studies, Band 57. Leiden: Brill, 2004

ESCH.357

Not yet online

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.A020

https://oceanoflights.org/file/Bab-BKW-20.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.091x

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=98

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

HURQ.BB50x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/527/

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.014-015x

Not yet online

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.202x

https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/nz/DB/db-29.html#pg202

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.448.9

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf#page=462

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.042

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf#page=54

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.076

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=25

SRC.196

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

GOH.034

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=41

GOH.199

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=206