Ocean of Lights

570 words

ای بندگان چشمه های بخشش یزدانی در جوش است از آن بنوشید تا بیاری دوست یکتا

Translation:

Official translation

O servants! The wellsprings of divine bestowal are streaming forth. Quaff ye therefrom, that by the aid of the incomparable Friend

Manuscripts (5)Publications (9)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

INBA35:108

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v035/?page=57

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_Or11096#040

Not yet online

BLIB_Or15722.087

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.32p007v

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

Majlis934.042-046

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Tablets_934.pdf

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_TBUP#4

http://www.bahai.org/r/244490679

ZYN. [Majmú`iy-i mubárakih: alváḥ-i-khaṭṭ-i-zayn]. India, 196-. Compilation of Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh. Published without title, photostatically reproduced from a manuscript in the hand of Zaynu’l-Muqarrabín

ZYN.277

Not yet online

MJMM. Majmú`ih-yi Maṭbú`ih-yi Alváḥ-i Mubárakih-yi Ḥaḍrat-i Bahá'u'lláh. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1978. Collection of Tablets originally published in Cairo 1920. https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MR/download.html, https://oceanoflights.org/table/bahaullah-published-01-fa/ (typescript)

MJMM.251

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MR/mr-252.html

YARP. Yárán-i Pársí. Bahá'í-Verlag, 1998. Tablets to Bahá’ís of Zoroastrian background. YARP1 and YARP2 refer to the Bahá’u’lláh and Abdu’l-Bahá sections, respectively. https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/

YARP1.002

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-8.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_v4#01 p.001-002

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-4-burma-1926

UAB. Uṣúl-i `Aqáyid-i Bahá'íyán. Bahá'í-Verlag, 1983. Basic principles of the Bahá’í Faith. http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/UAB.pdf

UAB.058ax

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/UAB.pdf#page=31

DRD. Daryáy-i Dánish. Bahá’í Publishing Trust of India, 1985. Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh in pure Persian. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/17.pdf

DRD.032

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/DD/dd-35.html

AKHA. Akhbár-i Amrí (mult. vols.). BPT Iran, 1922-1980. Periodical journal. Digitally reprinted in 2017 by the Afnan Library, Sandy, UK: https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/

AKHA_133BE #10 p.221

https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/

ANDA. ‘Andalíb (mult. vols.). Andalib board, 1981-2010. Periodical journal. Digitally reprinted in 2018 by the Afnan Library, Sandy, UK: https://afnanlibrary.org/andalib/

ANDA#71 p.03

https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-71

TBU. Bahá’u’lláh. The Tabernacle of Unity. Bahá’í World Centre, 2006. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/tabernacle- unity/

TBU#4

http://www.bahai.org/r/489755150