Ocean of Lights

Tablet to Varqa I

8000 words

حمد مقدس از ذکر تقدیس و تنزیه و فوق آن بساط حضرت مقصودی را لایق و سزاست که

Translation:

Provisional translation

Sanctified praise, transcendent above all mention of glorification and exaltation, beseemeth the court of that Divine Object of all desire, Who [3.5s]... ...This heedless and prattling have understood this Revelation to be like unto the events of the past. Up to this moment they have not comprehended

Manuscripts (2)Publications (8)Translations (1)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

INBA41:158x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v041/?page=160

INBA41:379bx

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v041/?page=381

MAS. Má'idiy-i Ásmání (8 vols.). BPT Iran, 129 B.E. Reprinted in 3 volumes by Bahá’í Publishing Trust of India 1984-1985 (new vol. 2, writings of ‘Abdu’l- Bahá, = old vols. 2, 5, 9; new vol. 3, writings of Shoghi Effendi, = old vols. 3, 6) and Mir’át 2005 (new vol. 1, writings of Bahá’u’lláh, = old vols. 1, 4, 7, 8). Vols. 1, 4, 7, 8: https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/; vols2. 2, 5, 9: https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/. Vol. 9 exists in two different typesettings and paginations; this catalog uses the pagination contained in the BPT India reprint, which trails the online version by several pages

MAS4.032x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MAS4/mas4-32.html

MAS4.141bx

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MAS4/mas4-141.html

MAS4.348x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MAS4/mas4-348.html

AYI. Áyát-i-Ilahi (2 vols.). Bahá'í-Verlag, 1996. Daily readings: short passages from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh. Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/12.pdf, Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/13.pdf

AYI2.003x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2--11.html

ABDA. Ardikani, S. Navvabzadeh. Amr-i-Bahá’í dar Ardakán. Bahá'í-Verlag, 2009. Regional history. https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/abda.pdf

ABDA.093-094x

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/abda.pdf#page=101

TSAY. Mohabbaty, Afshan. Taríkh-i-Saysán. Asr-i-Jadid, 2009. History of Saysan. Handwritten

TSAY.472x

Not yet online

MSHR. Rafati, Vahid. Ma'ákhidh-i Ash`ár dar Áthár-i Bahá'í. 5 vols. Canadian Association for Bahá’í Studies, 2004- . Vol 1: http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH1/; Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/649.pdf, Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/650.pdf, Vol. 4: http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf , Vol. 5: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf

MSHR2.027.01x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-29.html

MSHR5.381bx

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=377

KFPT. “Khazeh Fananapazir: Provisional Translations”. Personal web site (archived). https://web.archive.org/web/20150127162047/http://fananapazir.co.nr/translations.html

KFPT#03.1x

https://web.archive.org/web/20160308184005/http://fananapazir.co.nr/sixtranslations.html

LL. “The Leiden List of the Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh”. Sen McGlinn, ed. Index of ~500 Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh. This catalog references the March 1999 version: https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai- library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html

LL#259

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#259