Ocean of Lights

Lawh-i-Abdu'r-Razzaq

5390 words

مکتوب آنجناب بمنظر اکبر وارد و از قمیص کلماتش نفحات حب مالک اسما و صفات

Translation:

Provisional translation

Thy letter hath attained unto the Most Great Horizon, and from the garment of its words wafted the sweet-scented fragrance of love for the Lord of Names and Attributes [3.5s]... ...As to thy question concerning the origin of creation. Know assuredly that God’s creation hath existed from eternity, and will continue to exist forever… Thou hast asked Me whether man, as apart from the Prophets of God…

Abstract:

Addresses some misconceptions of the Bábís and answers questions concerning the origin of creation, the soul after death, and the absence of historical records prior to Adam.

English (1)

Persian (1)

#	Name		Source
#1	Lawḥ-i-Abdur-Razzáq		Source Persian

#	Name		Source	Translations	Resources
#1	لوح عبدالرزاق		Source Persian	Translations English	Resources

Manuscripts (6)Publications (21)Translations (8)Notes (2)

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

INBA38:144

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v038/?page=146

BLIB. Manuscripts in the British Library, London, listed by Or number. For a handlist of works of the Báb see Chapter 25 of https://archive.org/details/descriptivelisto00brituoft/page/n3. Regarding manuscripts in the series Or16590 through Or15740, which together comprise half of all known works of Bahá’u’lláh, including some 4,000 items which are uniquely accessible in this series: These were the bequest of a descendent of the family of Bahá’u’lláh; were mostly transcribed by Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alí, and are likely to have been derived in part from the two stolen satchels of Bahá’u’lláh’s papers mentioned in GPB p.249 and MMK4#189 p.276. While included here owing to their importance, their degree of fidelity to the originals has not yet been ascertained

BLIB_Or15698.044

Not yet online

BLIB_Or15720.046

Not yet online

BLIB_Or15740.038

Not yet online

NLAI. Manuscripts held at the National Library and Archives of Iran, Tihran. https://www.nlai.ir/ Includes “BH1” (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH1_.pdf), “BH2” (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH2_.pdf), “BH3” = KB_622 (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NLAI.BH3_.pdf), “BH4” = KB_834 (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NLAI.BH4_.pdf), “BH_AB” (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH_AB_misc.pdf), and “NLAI_22848” = KB_833 (https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/833.pdf)

NLAI_BH3.047

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NLAI.BH3_.pdf#page=47

BN. Manuscripts at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Listed by manuscrits Arabe number. Searchable here by shelfmark: https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/advancedSearch/

BN_suppl.1754.021-030

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b100877777/f24.image

BRL. “Bahá'í Reference Library”: Authoritative source of original texts and authorized translations, maintained and frequently updated and expanded by the Bahá’í World Centre. Subsections defined for this catalog: BRL_APBH (Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh), BRL_ATBH (Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh), BRL_ATE (Additional Tablets, Extracts, and Talks of Abdu’l-Bahá), BRL_CHILD (Prayers and Tablets for Children), BRL_CONF2018 (Compilation for the 2018 Counsellor’s Conference), BRL_CONSULT (Consultation; original quotations here), BRL_CUHJ (Compilation on the Universal House of Justice; original language version COMP_CUHJP), BRL_CRISIS (Crisis and Victory), BRL_DA (Digar Alvah – Additional Tablets Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh), BRL_DAK (Digar Alvah va Khitabat – Additional Tablets and talks by Abdu’l-Bahá), BRL_FAM (Family Life), BRL_FIRE (Selections from Fire and Light [=NANU]), BRL_IOA (Compilation on the Importance of the Arts in Promoting the Faith), BRL_IOPF (Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting), BRL_LSA (The Local Spiritual Assembly), BRL_MASHRIQ (The Institution of the Mashruqu’l-Adhkár; original quotations COMP_MASHRIQP), BRL_MEET (Bahá’í Meetings), BRL_PDL (Prayer and Devotional Life; original lquotations COMP_PDLP), BRL_PEACE (Peace; original quotations COMP_PEACEP), BRL_PMDA (Prayer, Meditation and the Devotional Attitude), BRL_SOCIAL (Compilation on Social Action), BRL_SCHOLAR (Compilation on Scholarship), BRL_TTT (Twelve Table Talks by Abdu’l-Bahá), BRL_SWO (To Set the World in Order: Building and Preserving Strong Marriages). Sequential numbering may be introduced based on order of entry. https://reference.bahai.org [legacy version with many additional texts]; https://www.bahai.org/library/

BRL_DA#030

http://www.bahai.org/r/944985721

GWBP. Muntakhabátí-az-Áthár-i-Ḥaḍrat-i-Bahá’u’lláh. Bahá'í-Verlag, 2006. Persian/Arabic edition of GWB. https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/gleanings- writings-bahaullah/ and https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/15.pdf

GWBP#078 p.101bx

http://www.bahai.org/r/351036680

GWBP#080 p.103x

http://www.bahai.org/r/106229538

GWBP#087 p.114x

http://www.bahai.org/r/953563038

AVK. Mázandarání, Fáḍil. Amr va Khalq (4 vols.). Bahá'í-Verlag, 1985. Thematic compilation of extracts. http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ English translation of table of contents: https://bahai-library.com/mazandarani_mccants_khalq_contents

AVK1.113ax

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-138.html

AVK1.213.04x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-238.html

AVK1.222.10x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-247.html

AVK1.272x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-297.html

AVK2.042.10x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-43.html

AVK2.073.12x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-74.html

IQT. Iqtidárát va Chand Lawḥ-i Dígar. BPT Iran, 1970. Collection of Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/24.pdf

IQT.044

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/IQT/iqt-44.html

RSBB. Rosen, Baron Victor, ed. al-Majmú` al-Awwal min Risá'il al-Shaykh al- Bábí Bahá'u'lláh. St. Petersburg: Daru’l-‘Ulúm, 1908. Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh. https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/RS/

RSBB.104

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/RS/rs-105.html

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

MAS4.174ax

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MAS4/mas4-174.html

ASAT. Mázandarání, Fáḍil. Asráru’l-Áthár (5 vols.). BPT Iran, 1973. Encyclopedic glossary of Bahá’í terminology.
Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/427.pdf, Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/428.pdf, Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/429.pdf, Vol. 4: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf, Vol. 5: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/431.pdf

ASAT1.013x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/427.pdf#page=12

ASAT2.019x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/428.pdf#page=11

ASAT2.103x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/428.pdf#page=53

ASAT4.317x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf#page=160

ASAT4.296x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf#page=150

ASAT4.530x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf#page=267

ASAT5.270x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/431.pdf#page=140

ASAT5.355x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/431.pdf#page=183

BRL_ATBH#75x

http://www.bahai.org/r/451587047

GWB. Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1935. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative- texts/bahaullah/gleanings-writings-bahaullah/

GWB#078x

http://www.bahai.org/r/311686200

GWB#080x

http://www.bahai.org/r/427779012

GWB#087x

http://www.bahai.org/r/002898837

ROL. Dawud, Yuhanna. The River of Life: A Selection from the Teachings of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. London: Cope & Fenwick, 1914. With facimiles of original Arabic and Persian texts. https://bahai- library.com/pdf/d/dawud_river_of_life.pdf (English translations only)

ROL.016-021x

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/d/dawud_river_of_life.pdf

BSC. Bahá'í Scriptures. Brentanos, 1923. Compilation of Writings and talks by Bahá’u’lláh and Abdu’l-Bahá. Early translations, some unreliable. http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/

BSC.228 #453-459x

http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/

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

HURQ.BH57x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/458/

HURQ.BH58x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/444/

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#036

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#36

LL#411

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#411