Ocean of Lights

620 words

الحمد لله از دریای عنایت الهی آشامیدی و بافق اعلی توجه نمودی جمیع احزاب

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise be to God! Thou hast drunk from the ocean of divine bounty and turned thy face toward the Most Exalted Horizon, while all the peoples [3.5s]... ...Behold, how the divers peoples and kindreds of the earth have been waiting for the coming of the Promised One. No sooner had He, Who is the Sun of Truth, been made manifest

Manuscripts (1)Publications (2)Translations (1)Notes (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_Or15730.080

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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#652

https://www.bahai.org/r/435525504

GWBP. Muntakhabátí-az-Áthár-i-Ḥaḍrat-i-Bahá’u’lláh. Bahá'í-Verlag, 2006. Persian/Arabic edition of GWB. https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/gleanings- writings-bahaullah/ and https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/15.pdf

GWBP#006 p.014x

http://www.bahai.org/r/418773944

GWB. Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1935. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative- texts/bahaullah/gleanings-writings-bahaullah/

GWB#006x

http://www.bahai.org/r/316576698

LL. “The Leiden List of the Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh”. Sen McGlinn, ed. Index of ~500 Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh. This catalog references the March 1999 version: https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai- library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html

LL#439

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#439