Ocean of Lights

Letter to Mirza Hasan-i-Khurasani

720 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اقرء کتاب ذکر اسم ربک الذی لا اله الا هو العلی الحکیم و انه لکتاب قد تنزل من لدن بقیة الله امام حق

Translation:

Provisional translation

Read thou the Book wherein is remembered the Name of thy Lord, He besides Whom there is no God, the Most Exalted, the All-Wise. Verily it is a Book sent down from the presence of the Remnant of God, the true Imam [3.5s]

Manuscripts (3)Publications (1)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

INBA67:216-219

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v067/?page=218

INBA91:006.04-010.07

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v091/?page=8

INBA_5019C:319-321

Not yet online

NSS. Rafati, Vahid. Nasím-i-Saḥarí. Bahá'í-Verlag, 171 B.E. [2014]. Shaykhí concepts in the Bábí and Bahá’í Writings. https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/nss.pdf

NSS.078-080

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/nss.pdf#page=76

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#03.02

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.190

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=44

SRC.191

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=45