Ocean of Lights

3830 words

اشکو بثی و حزنی الی الله مالک الانام قد انقلبت الامور و اضطربت البلدان و ضعف

Translation:

Provisional translation

I pour out my grief and sorrow unto God, Lord of all mankind. Affairs have been overturned, lands thrown into turmoil, and weakened hath become [3.5s]... ...Moderation is indeed highly desirable. Every person who in some degree turneth towards the truth can himself later comprehend most of what he seeketh

Manuscripts (3)Publications (4)Translations (3)

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

INBA27:257

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba-v027/?page=129

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_Or15704.183

Not yet online

Majlis210461.116-117x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/majlis_210461.pdf

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

AYI2.037x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-23.html

PYK. Rafati, Vahid. Payk-i Rástán. Asr-i-Jadid, 2005. Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to Ismulláh al-Asdaq and family. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1484.pdf

PYK.104

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1484.pdf#page=121

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

MSHR2.101x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-103.html

MMUH. Mukhtárát fi Bayán-i-Muḥammad Rasúl Alláh. Bahá’í International Community – London, n.d. Short compilation on the station of Muḥammad. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/mukhtarat-minan-nususul-bahaiyya-fi-bayani-maqam-i-muhammad-rasulullah.pdf

MMUH#14x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/mukhtarat-minan-nususul-bahaiyya-fi-bayani-maqam-i-muhammad-rasulullah.pdf

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_ATBH#26x

http://www.bahai.org/r/101304057

BRL_ATBH#48x

http://www.bahai.org/r/408066910

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#1900x

http://bahai-library.com/compilation_guidelines_teaching#1900