Ocean of Lights

Ziyarat for Friday and Thursday nights

2300 words

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. و اذا کنت لیلة الجمعه او یومها بین یدی نقطة البیان او احد من مظاهر الحی

Translation:

Provisional translation

And when thou findest thyself, on the eve of Friday or during its day, in the presence of the Point of the Bayán or any one of the Manifestations of the Living One [3.5s]

Manuscripts (2)Notes (5)

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

INBA_6007C.030-040

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/INBA.6007C.pdf

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_F14.114r05-121v01

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JRAS. Browne, E.G. “Catalogue and Description of 27 Bábí Manuscripts”. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: Cambridge, 1892. https://bahai- library.com/browne_catalogue_manuscripts_one

JRAS.457

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/b/browne_catalogue_manuscripts_one.pdf#page=26

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.60

https://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/LO/AA/00/56/59/00001/PDF.pdf#page=82

MSBR. Browne, E.G. Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion. Cambridge, 1961. https://bahai-library.com/browne_materials_study_babi

MSBR.206-207

https://bahai-library.com/browne_materials_study_babi

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.099

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=36

SRC.210

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=54