Ocean of Lights

Kitab al-Vahid 01

Tablet to the first Letter of the Living

300 words

بسم الله العزیز المحبوب. سبحان الذی له ملک السموات و الأرض و ما بینهما قل کل الیه راجعون هو الذی یهدی من یشآء

Translation:

Official translation

Lauded and glorified is He Who is the sovereign Lord of the kingdoms of heaven and earth and whatever is between them.

Publications (3)Translations (2)Notes (1)

DB. Nabíl Zarandí. The Dawn-Breakers: Nabíl’s Narrative of the Early Days of the Bahá’í Revelation. Shoghi Effendi, ed. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1932. http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/nz/DB/

DB.xxii.01

https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/nz/DB/

SWBP. Muntakhabát-i Áyát az Áthár-i Ḥaḍrat-i Nuqṭih-yi Úlá. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1984. Persian edition of SWB. https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/the-bab/selections-writings-bab

SWBP#03 (p.003-004)

http://www.bahai.org/r/515779568

LABIB. Labib, Muhammad. Tawqí’át-i-Ḥaḍrat-i-Báb bi-Ḥurúf-i-Ḥayy. n.p., n.d. Includes typescripts of the Bab’s nineteen epistles to the Letters of the Living. https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/labib_epistles_of_bab_to_letters_of_living.pdf

LABIB

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/labib_epistles_of_bab_to_letters_of_living.pdf

SWB. Selections from the Writings of the Báb. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1976. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/the-bab/selections- writings-bab/

SWB#03 (p.009-010)

http://www.bahai.org/r/128588389

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

HURQ.BB47

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/871/

AHDA. Afnán, Abu'l-Qásim. ‘Ahd-i A`lá. Oneworld, 1999. Biography of the Báb. https://oceanoflights.org/table/the-bab-published-03-fa (selected typescripts), http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf

AHDA.460.03

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf#page=474