Ocean of Lights

Fi Istifhamat al-Qur'an

1100 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابدع جوهریات ذوات اهل الانشاء لا من شیئ بامره لیعرفه کل من فی ملکوت الارض والسموات

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise be to God Who hath brought forth, through His Command, the essential realities of created beings out of nothingness, that all within the kingdom of earth and heaven might know Him [3.5s]

Manuscripts (7)Notes (4)

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

INBA14:395-400

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v014/?page=397

INBA40:192-196

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v040/?page=194

INBA53:406-411

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v053/?page=408

INBA67:273-279

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v067/?page=275

INBA_6010C:393-398

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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_F21.100.03-104.17#13

Not yet online

Berlin. Manuscripts held at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Ms or. Oct. 1237 found at at https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN1740194756&PHYSID=PHYS_0007. Ms or. Oct. 3655 found at: http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0002E63E00000000

Berlin3655.118r-120v

http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0002E63E00000000

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.62

https://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/LO/AA/00/56/59/00001/PDF.pdf#page=84

MSBR. Browne, E.G. Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion. Cambridge, 1961. https://bahai-library.com/browne_materials_study_babi

MSBR.208-209

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.079

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=26

SRC.194

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