Ocean of Lights

Answer to Mirza Muhammad 'Ali Qazvini

180 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. فاعلم یا اخ الجلیل و اثبت قدمیک علی صراط الله الجمیل و اعرف ان الله سبحانه ما خلق شیئا

Translation:

Provisional translation

Know thou, O noble brother! Plant thy feet firmly upon the beauteous path of God, and know that God, glorified be He, created naught [3.5s]

Manuscripts (3)Notes (1)

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

INBA67:177-178

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v067/?page=179

INBA_4011C:163-164

Not yet online

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

PR07.073r-073v

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

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.192

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