Ocean of Lights

Du’a’-i-Muttasil bi-Salat

1900 words

بسم الله المتعالی المنیع. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی انک خالق السموات و الارض و ما بینهما لم تزل کنت کائناً قبل کل شیء و لا تزال انک کائن بعد فناء کل شیء

Translation:

Provisional translation

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! Verily, Thou art the Creator of the heavens and the earth and all that lieth between. Thou hast ever existed before all things, and Thou shalt continue to exist after the extinction of all things [4o]

Manuscripts (4)

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

INBA58:121.05-130.07

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v058/?page=123

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

PR03.071v19-073v19

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

MKI4511.053v-064v

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_collect3.094-102

http://bayanic.com/lib/scan/sacred/Point/Collection3/Collection_3.pdf#page=50