Ocean of Lights

1840 words

الحمد لله الذی توحد بسلطان وحدانیته و تفرد بملیک فردانیته الذی کان مقدسا عن

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise be to God Who hath singled Himself out through the sovereignty of His oneness and distinguished Himself through the dominion of His uniqueness, Who hath ever been sanctified from [3.5s]... ...Lo, through His pervasive Will, He hath built the House of His Cause on the foundation of utterance and the basis of exposition

Manuscripts (2)Publications (7)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_Or11097#015

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_BH4.065-074

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NLAI.BH4_.pdf#page=65

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

AVK4.422x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-426.html

AVK4.424x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-428.html

AVK4.425x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-429.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

MAS8.138ax

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MAS8/mas8-138.html

MAS8.138bx

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MAS8/mas8-138.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

ASAT3.243x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/429.pdf#page=124

MYD. ‘Alá’í, ‘Abdu’l-‘Alí. Mu'assisiy-i Ayádíy-i Amru'lláh. BPT Iran, 1974. Biographies of the Hands of the Cause. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/390.pdf

MYD.012x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/390.pdf#page=18

ADMS. Personal web site of A. Masumian, with provisional translations and original texts. https://adibmasumian.com/translations/

ADMS#138x

https://adibmasumian.com/translations/tablet-bahaullah-hands-of-the-cause-2/