Ocean of Lights

Bayan 'illati Tahrimi'l-Maharim

800 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اشهد الله کشهادته لنفسه ان لا اله الا هو و هو العزیز الحکیم و اشهد لمحمد و احبائه سلام الله علیهم کما شاءالله

Translation:

Provisional translation

I bear witness before God, even as He beareth witness unto His Own Self, that there is none other God but Him, and He is the Mighty, the All-Wise. And I bear witness unto Muhammad and His loved ones - the peace of God be upon them - as God hath willed [3.5s]

Manuscripts (8)Translations (1)Notes (2)

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

INBA14:499-502

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v014/?page=501

INBA67:165-169

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v067/?page=167

INBA_4011C:159-163

Not yet online

INBA_5006C:352

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INBA_6006C:087?

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INBA_6010C:493-496

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PR. Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series (William McElwee Miller Collection). https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47

PR07.072r-073r

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

AEWB. Early works of the Báb (Sahifiy-i-A'mal al-Sana and others). Majlis Library, Iran. Kitabkhaniy-i-Baqir Naraqi, ms #12448. https://dlib.ical.ir/faces/search/bibliographic/biblioFullView.jspx?_afPfm=- lvp45vd4h; mirrored here: https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/aewb.pdf

AEWB.212-216

Not yet online

HURQ. Lambden, Stephen. Academic website with texts, provisional translations, and notes. https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/scholarship/haykal- writings-b%C4%81b

HURQ.BB09x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/1271/

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.072

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=23

SRC.184

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=42