Ocean of Lights

1460 words

ای حبیب من دنیا را قراری نه و وفائی نیست و صاحبان افئده نباید در این ایام

Translation:

Provisional translation

O My beloved! The world hath neither permanence nor fidelity, and they who possess hearts should not in these days [3.5s]

Manuscripts (4)Publications (4)

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

INBA38:005b

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v038/?page=7

INBA65:279

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v065/?page=281

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_Or15722.235

Not yet online

NLI. Manuscripts held at the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem. Includes Arc.Ms.Var.1288, no. 32 (https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH002764084/NLI), Arc.Ms.Var.1288, no.50 (https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH002781925/NLI)

NLI.32p011v

https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH002764084/NLI

LHKM. La'álíy-i Ḥikmat (3 vols.). Editora Baha’i-Brasil, 1991. Collection of Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh assembled in part from the papers of Vahid Behmardi. Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/561.pdf, https://oceanoflights.org/table/bahaullah-published-13-fa (typescript); Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/562.pdf, https://oceanoflights.org/table/bahaullah-published-14-fa (typescript); Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/563.pdf

LHKM2.005

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/LH2/lh2-5.html

PYB. Payám-i Bahá'í. Beausoleil, France: Mahfil-i Ruhání-i Millí-i Faránsah Bará-yi Bahá’íyán, 1979- . Periodical journal. https://www.h- net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/Payam-i_Bahai.htm

PYB#148 p.03x

http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/148.PDF#page=3

TABN. Mudarris, Fathullah. Táríkh-i Amr-i-Bahá'í dar Najafábád. Asr-i-Jadid, 2004. Regional history. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/627.pdf

TABN.205-208

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/627.pdf#page=205

YMM. Rafati, Vahid. Yádnámiy-i Miṣbáḥ-i-Munír. Bahá'í-Verlag, 2006. Biography and notes of Abdi Misbah. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf

YMM.346x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=354