Ocean of Lights

Reply to Mirza hadi Qazvini and Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali Qazvini

1500 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی کیف ادعوک و انت تعلم سری و کیف لا اقول ما خطر علی قلبی و انت امرتنی بالدعاء و وعدت المتکبرین کلمة العذاب فی کتابک

Translation:

Provisional translation

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! How can I call upon Thee when Thou knowest mine inmost secrets, and how can I refrain from uttering that which hath stirred within my heart when Thou hast commanded me to pray and hast decreed for the proud the word of chastisement in Thy Book [3.5s]

Manuscripts (3)Notes (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

INBA91:130.10-139.03

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v091/?page=132

INBA_5019C:305-308

Not yet online

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

PR04.032v15-036r10

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

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#12.08

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.191

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=45