Ocean of Lights

Kitabu’l-Ahmad

380 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی یمن علی ما یشاء من عباده و انه لا اله الا هو ذو الفضل العظیم و اثنی علی محمد صلی الله علیه و اله بما اثناه الله فی قدم الذات و ذروة الصفات

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise be to God Who bestoweth His bounty upon whomsoever He willeth among His servants. Verily, there is none other God but Him, the Possessor of infinite grace. And I extol Muhammad—upon Him and His kindred be the blessings of God—with such praise wherewith God hath lauded Him in the eternity of His Essence and the summit of His attributes [3.5s]

Manuscripts (3)Publications (1)Notes (4)

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

PR07.031v-032r

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

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_F21.133.09-134.19#23

Not yet online

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

BYC_collect3.024-025

http://bayanic.com/lib/scan/sacred/Point/Collection3/Collection_3.pdf#page=15

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)

TZH3.460.14-461.16

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/497.pdf#page=466

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.095

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=34

SRC.204

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=52