Ocean of Lights

1030 words

شهد الله لنفسه بوحدانیه نفسه و لذاته بفردانیه ذاته و نطق بلسانه فی عرش بقائه

Translation:

Official translation

God testifieth to the unity of His Godhood and to the singleness of His own Being.... Praise be to Thee, to Whom the tongues of all created things have, from eternity, called

Manuscripts (3)Publications (6)Translations (3)Notes (1)

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

INBA49:271

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v049/?page=273

INBA92:253

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v092-dark/?page=128

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_Or15739.141

Not yet online

PMP. Munáját, Majmú`ah Adhkár wa Ad`íyah min Áthár Ḥaḍrat Bahá'u'lláh. Editora Bahai-Brasil, 1997. Arabic texts of PM. https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/prayers-meditations/

PMP#057x

http://www.bahai.org/r/258902783

PMP#058x

http://www.bahai.org/r/258902786

TSBT. Ishráq-Khávarí, Abdu'l-Ḥamíd. Risáliy-i Tasbíḥ va Tahlíl. Bahá’í Publishing Trust of India, 1982. Occasional prayers of Bahá’u’lláh, in Arabic. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/552.pdf, typescripts available at https://oceanoflights.org/table/bahaullah-prayers-and-meditations-03-fa

TSBT.182

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/RTT/rtt-181.html

NFF. Nafaḥát-i Faḍl (5 vols.). Canadian Association for Bahá’í Studies, 1987. Core texts: Obligatory Prayers, Tablet of Visitation, Long Healing Prayer, Fire Tablet, Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Hidden Words, prayers for the Fast, etc., with commentary in Persian. Vol. 1: https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/NF1/, vol. 2: https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/NF2/, vol. 3: https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/NF3/, vol. 4: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1417.pdf, vol. 5: https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/NF5/

NFF5.082

https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/NF5/nf5-86.html

ABMK. Abwáb al-Malakút. Beirut, 1975. Occasional prayers and Tablets. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/365.pdf

ABMK.031

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/365.pdf#page=34

AMB. Ayyám-i-Mutabarrakiy-i-Bahá’í: Muntakhabátí az Áthár-i-Názilih az Qalam-i-Ḥaḍrat-i-Bahá’u’lláh. Original language version of Days of Remembrance (DOR). https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/days-remembrance/

AMB#04

https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/days-remembrance/3#555471582

PM. Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh . U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 2001. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/prayers- meditations/

PM#057x

http://www.bahai.org/r/699264838

PM#058x

http://www.bahai.org/r/539838247

DOR. Days of Remembrance: Selections from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh for Bahá’í Holy Days. Bahá’í World Centre, 2016. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/days- remembrance/

DOR#04

http://www.bahai.org/r/663212869

MMAH. Ḥisámí, Ḥabíbu'lláh. Manabi'-i-Maṭáli'-i-Amrí, Bakhsh-i-Avval: Áthár. n.p., n.d. Summaries of best-known Works, with sources. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf

MMAH.105

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf#page=117