Ocean of Lights

Du’a’ li’s-Sab’a

2700 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحان الذی یبدع ما فی السموات و ما فی الارض بامره و انه لعزیز حکیم یا الهی ان وجودک اعلی وجود لایشابهه شیء و ان وجودی ادنی وجود لایساویه شیء

Translation:

Provisional translation

Glorified be He Who createth, by His command, whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is on earth, and verily He is the Mighty, the All-Wise. O my God! Verily Thy Being is the most exalted of all being, naught can be likened unto it, and my being is the lowliest of all being, naught can equal it [3.5s]

Manuscripts (8)

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

INBA67:109-121

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v067/?page=111

INBA78:105-138

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v078/?page=107

INBA82:035-053

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v082/?page=37

INBA98:001.03-011.02

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v098/?page=3

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

PR03.043v-043vx

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

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_6518 p.320v

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b100304611/f324.image

MKI4511.014b-017x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/MKI-34-Ae-Arabi-4511.pdf

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

BYC_tablets.042.10-052.04

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