Ocean of Lights

Ziyarat for the first to believe, on Thursday night

1400 words

بسم الله الامنع الاقدس. سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لاشهدنک و کل شیء فی هذه اللیلة لیلة الجمعة التی تنظر فیها الی داعیک فی البیان

Translation:

Provisional translation

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I and all things bear witness unto Thee in this night - the night of Friday - wherein Thou gazest upon him who calleth unto Thee [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.046-052

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_F14.110r03-114r03

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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