Ocean of Lights

Letter to Mirza Hasan-‘Ali, uncle of the Bab

1600 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. قبله محترم دام عزکم تلاوت آیات کریمه را نموده ولی چه بسیار عجب است که اهل بصیرت ... والسلام خیرالکلام والحمد

Translation:

Provisional translation

O revered uncle, may thy glory endure! I have perused thy kind letter; yet how passing strange it is that the people of insight... Peace be upon the best of utterances, and praise be to [3.5s]... ...This lowly One hath completed the Commentary on the Súrih of Joseph in forty days, during which I wrote parts thereof each day

Manuscripts (2)Publications (1)Translations (2)

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

INBA91:170.11-180.06

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v091/?page=172

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

PR04.200r05-204r11

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0105

TZH. Mázandarání, Fáḍil. Táríkh-i Ẓuhúr al-Ḥaqq (9 vols.). Vols. 3 and 8 published in Iran 1941/42 and 1975/76; vols. 3 and 4 republished 2008 and 2011 by Bahá’í-Verlag. Encyclopedic history of the Faith. https://www.h- net.org/~bahai/index/diglib/mazand1.htm (ms images) and https://oceanoflights.org/chapter/historical-works-fa (typed volumes)

TZH3.283.09-286.11x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/497.pdf#page=289

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.124x

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=131

MNP. Lawson, Todd and Ghaemmaghami, Omid, eds. A Most Noble Pattern: Essays in the Study of the Writings of the Báb. George Ronald, 2012. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MNP.pdf

MNP.002x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MNP.pdf#page=17