Ocean of Lights

660 words

انشاء الله لم یزل و لایزال از زلال سلسال معارف محبوب لایزال بنوشی و بنوشانی

Translation:

Provisional translation

God willing, thou hast ever drunk and wilt ever continue to drink, and cause others to drink, from the sweet-flowing stream of divine knowledge of the Eternal Beloved [3.5s]... ...The never-ending sprinkling of the showers of Revelation fall continuously from the leaves of the Divine Lote-Tree, and are made manifest in Words and revealed in the Holy Tablets

Manuscripts (6)Publications (7)Translations (2)

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

INBA35:138

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v035/?page=72

INBA51:153

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v051/?page=156

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_Or15710.165b

Not yet online

BLIB_Or15719.044

Not yet online

BLIB_Or15722.132

Not yet online

KB. Digital images of books and manuscripts orginally hosted at the Kitábkhániy-i-Bahá’í website (bahailib.com), now hosted at https://bahai-library.com/bahailib

KB_620:146-149

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/620.pdf#page=146

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#401

http://www.bahai.org/r/439839771

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

AVK2.354.17x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-355.html

AVK3.114.03x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-118.html

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

LHKM2.178

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/LH2/lh2-178.html

HDQI. Ḥadíqiy-i `Irfán. Andalib board, 1994. Tablets printed in past issues of ‘Andalíb. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/667.pdf

HDQI.097

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/HI/hi-102.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

MAS8.042x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MAS8/mas8-42.html

VUJUD. Rafati, Vahid. Malakút-i-Vujúd. Asr-i-Jadid, 1998. Writings of Ali-Murad Davudi on the subject of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Tablet to Dr. Forel. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf

VUJUD.141.05x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf

BRL_ATBH#11x

http://www.bahai.org/r/599268978

VUJUDE. Rafati, Vahid. The Kingdom of Existence (Malakút-i-Vujúd). Fundación Nehal, n.d. English translation of VUJUD. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf

VUJUDE.156x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf