Ocean of Lights

4690 words

حمدا لمن نور العالم بانوار اسمه الاعظم لیعرف الامم ما یقربهم الیه فضلا من

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise be unto Him Who hath illumined the world through the splendors of His Most Great Name, that all peoples might recognize that which draweth them nigh unto Him through His grace [3.5s]... ...As to what thou hast written concerning the Right of God: The binding injunction of God is set forth in the Book, but this matter is conditional upon the willingness of the individual

Manuscripts (3)Publications (10)Translations (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

INBA28:404

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v028/?page=213

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_Or15727b.326

Not yet online

BLIB_Or15732.002

Not yet online

ADM. Ad`íyyih Mubárakih (3 vols.). Editora Baha’i - Brazil, 2003. Prayers of Bahá’u’lláh. Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/557.pdf, Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/558.pdf, Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/559.pdf

ADM3#078 p.093x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/559.pdf#page=94

GHA. Ishráq-Khávarí, Abdu'l-Ḥamíd. Ganjínih-yi Ḥudúd va Aḥkám. Bahá’í Publishing Trust of India, 1980. Elucidation and commentary on laws and ordinances of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/63.pdf

GHA.106ax

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/GHA/gha-115.html

GHA.107bx

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/GHA/gha-116.html

UAB. Uṣúl-i `Aqáyid-i Bahá'íyán. Bahá'í-Verlag, 1983. Basic principles of the Bahá’í Faith. http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/UAB.pdf

UAB.022bx

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/UAB.pdf#page=13

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

AYI2.164x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-150.html

AYI2.165x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-151.html

AYI2.166x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-152.html

AYI2.167x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-153.html

AYI2.168x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-154.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.080-081x

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/abda.pdf#page=88

COC. The Compilation of Compilations (3 vols.). Bahá’í Publishing Trust of Australia, 1991, 2000. Inventory refers to the continuous numbering of original publications, which is lost in the online version. Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/compilation_compilations_1, Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/compilation_compilations_2, Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/compilation_compilations_3

COC#1151x

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JHT. Personal web site with provisional translations by Joshua Hall. March 2017- . http://joshuahalltranslations.com/. JHT_S, “Supplications by Bahá’u’lláh”, contains 200 translations

JHT_S#073x

https://joshuahalltranslations.com/jalal/2017/10/Supplications-by-Bahaullah-1.pdf#page=35