Ocean of Lights

Answer to Mirza Muhammad Yazdi

1200 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الواحد الاحد الفرد الذی لا اله الا هو العلی العظیم والصلوة من الله علی محمد و اوصیائه کماهو اهله انه هو العلی الحکیم در حاشیه شبیه خط مبارک

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise be to God, the One, the Single, the Peerless, beside Whom there is no God, the Most High, the Most Great. May the blessings of God rest upon Muhammad and His chosen ones, as befitteth His grace, for verily He is the Most High, the All-Wise [3.5s]

Manuscripts (5)Notes (1)

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

INBA14:452-459

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v014/?page=454

INBA67:160-165

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v067/?page=162

INBA_4011C:149-156

Not yet online

INBA_6006C:083-085

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

PR07.069v-072r

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0145

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.192?

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=46