Ocean of Lights

3520 words

تعالی الرحمن الذی اجتذب بکلمته العلیا من فی الارض و السماء و هدی الکل بها فی

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Provisional translation

Glorified be the All-Merciful Who hath, through His Most Exalted Word, drawn unto Him all that are in earth and heaven, and guided all therewith unto His path [3.5s]... ...The majesty and glory of the Cause are as great as its trials and afflictions are intense. However, trials and afflictions are scarce noticed in this day

Manuscripts (1)Publications (9)Translations (1)

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_Or15732.070

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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#777

https://www.bahai.org/r/149218074

NANU. Nár va Núr. Bahá'í-Verlag, 139 B.E. [1982]. “Fire and Light”: Compilation on sacrifice and martyrdom. https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/compilations/nar-va-nur and https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/nanu.pdf. Partially translated and published in The Baha’í World, vol. 18, pp. 9-30, available online at BRL_FIRE

NANU_BH#13x

https://www.bahai.org/r/663754524

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

AYI2.010x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2--4.html

AYI2.015x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-1.html

AYI2.114x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-100.html

AYI2.115x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-101.html

AYI2.116x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-102.html

AYI2.117x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-103.html