Ocean of Lights

Fi Bayani’l-I’tiqad

930 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی یهدی من یشاء و یضل من یشاء و الیه کل الخلق یرجعون و ان الصلوة علی محمد رسول الله و اوصیائه الذین قد جعلهم الله ائمة الدین و ارکان اهل الیقین ... و بعد لما سمعت ان بعض الناس قد عرضوا بمحضر حضرة العالی

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise be to God, Who guideth whom He willeth and leadeth astray whom He willeth, and unto Whom all created things shall return. And blessings rest upon Muhammad, the Apostle of God, and His chosen ones, whom God hath made the Imams of the Faith and the pillars of them that are assured... And further, when I heard that certain ones had made representations in the presence of [3.5s]

Manuscripts (8)Publications (2)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

INBA14:385-390

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v014/?page=387

INBA40:133-136

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v040/?page=135

INBA69:411-416

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v069/?page=413

INBA_6010C:383-388

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

PR02.130v24-131v26

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0002

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_F21.089.01-093.01#11

Not yet online

BYC. Manuscript images of Writings of the Báb hosted at www.bayanic.com. Polemical source

BYC_collect4.017-020

http://bayanic.com/lib/scan/sacred/Point/Collection4/Collection_4.pdf#page=17

BYC_three.092-097

http://bayanic.com/lib/scan/sacred/Point/Three

ESCH. Eschraghi, Armin. Frühe Šaiḫī- und Bābī-Theologie. Die Darlegung der Beweise für Muḥammads besonderes Prophetentum (Ar-Risāla fī Iṯbāt an-Nubūwa al-Ḫāṣṣa). In Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science: Texts and Studies, Band 57. Leiden: Brill, 2004

ESCH.393

Not yet online

TZH. Mázandarání, Fáḍil. Táríkh-i Ẓuhúr al-Ḥaqq (9 vols.). Vols. 3 and 8 published in Iran 1941/42 and 1975/76; vols. 3 and 4 republished 2008 and 2011 by Bahá’í-Verlag. Encyclopedic history of the Faith. https://www.h- net.org/~bahai/index/diglib/mazand1.htm (ms images) and https://oceanoflights.org/chapter/historical-works-fa (typed volumes)

TZH2.082-084

https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/arabic/vol4/2tzh/2tzh.htm

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.077

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=25

SRC.193

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