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حمد و ثنا مقصود یکتا را لایق و سزاست که بیک کلمه علیا اشیا را از عدم بحت

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise and glorification beseemeth the One True Object of all desire, Who through a single exalted Word hath called all things into being from utter nothingness [3.5s]... ...My God, independent of all things, most generous and merciful, my Sovereign supreme! All are Thy servants

Manuscripts (4)Publications (5)Translations (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

INBA65:047x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v065/?page=49

INBA30:094x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v030/?page=51

INBA81:009

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v081/?page=12

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_Or15703.085

Not yet online

AHM. Ad‘íyy-i Ḥaḍrat-i Maḥbúb. Egypt, 1339 A.H. [1920]. Prayers and Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh. Often reprinted. Pagination refers to original typesetting. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/556.pdf (Century Press 2004 reprint, with i'rab), https://oceanoflights.org/table/bahaullah-prayers-and-meditations-02-fa/ (typescript)

AHM.341x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AHM/ahm-341.html

DWNP. Syed Mustafa Roumi, ed. The Dawn: A monthly Bahá'í journal of Burma. Sept. 1923 – May 1929. English and Persian sections cataloged separately. Digitally reprinted in 2017 by the Afnan Library, Sandy, UK: https://afnanlibrary.org/the-dawn-burma-vol-1-6/

DWNP_v5#12 p.001-002x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927

AQMJ1. Áthár-i Qalam-i A`lá: Majmú'iy-i-Munáját, vol. 1. BPT Iran, 123 B.E. [1966]. Collection of prayers of Bahá’u’lláh. Last section (pp. 139-185) corresponds to Persian section of AHM (pp. 307-377). http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MMQ1/

AQMJ1.157x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MMQ1/mmq1-159.html

BCH. Barnámiy-i Jashnháy-i Mu'avíy-i I`lán-i Amr-i Ḥaḍrat-i Bahá'u'lláh. BPT Iran, 1967. Centenary program for the Declaration of Bahá’u’lláh. https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/bch.pdf

BCH.141

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/bch.pdf#page=138

ADH. Adhkár al-Muqarrabín (2 vols., vol. 2 in two different editions). BPT Iran, 1959. Collection of prayers of Bahá’u’lláh (vol. 1) and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (vol. 2); vol. 2 superseded by MMG

ADH1.022x

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_1.pdf

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

ADMS#144x

https://adibmasumian.com/translations/bh01334/