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Khutba on the 'Id al-Fitr written in Masqat

Khutbiy-i-Qamariyyih

1800 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد تفرد بالعزة و توحد بالعظمة و تعظم بالکبریاء و تعالی عن مشاهدة الانظار الاحد القیوم والصمد المعبود

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise be to God, Who hath singled Himself out in might, and united Himself in grandeur, and exalted Himself in majesty, and transcendeth the vision of all eyes—the One, the Self-Subsisting, the Eternal [3.5s]

Manuscripts (2)Notes (3)

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_4011C:359-366

Not yet online

INBA_5006C:326-330

Not yet online

FHR. Kitáb-i-Fihrist of the Báb, index of contents as listed in SRC pp.50-53. Items on this list are all dated 1845 or earlier

FHR#06.04

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=12

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.063

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=18

SRC.187

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=43