Ocean of Lights

Answer to the son of Mulla ‘Ali-i-Nuri (Kayfiyyata’l-Mi’raj)

410 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی تجلی للممکنات بظهور المشیة لها بها لیعرفن کل الممکنات

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise be to God Who hath manifested Himself within and through existing realities by virtue of the theophany of His Divine Will

Manuscripts (7)Publications (1)Translations (1)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

INBA14:390-392

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v014/?page=392

INBA40:197-198

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v040/?page=199

INBA53:402-404

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v053/?page=404

INBA69:416-418

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v069/?page=418

INBA_6010C:388-390

Not yet online

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_F21.104.19-106.11#14

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

Berlin3655.120v-121v

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

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.397

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.BB13x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/553/

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.080

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=27

SRC.194

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