Ocean of Lights

Khutba writen near the staging post of al-Safra 1

960 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی قد عرف ذاته بذاته و لا یعلم احد کیف هو الا هو لا اله الا هو قد انشأ

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise be to God Who hath known His Own Self through His Self, and none knoweth His Reality save Him. There is no God but Him [3.5s]

Manuscripts (4)Notes (3)

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

INBA91:036.08-041.10

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v091/?page=38

INBA_5006C:320-322

Not yet online

INBA_5019C:324-326

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

PR04.040v06-043v03

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#06.07?

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.063

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=18

SRC.187

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=43