Ocean of Lights

Lawh-i-Baytu'l-'Adl

570 words

قد کتب علی کل مدینه بان یجعلوا فیها بیت العدل و یجتمع فیه النفوس علی عدد البهاء

Translation:

Official translation

Addressing the nations, the Ancient Beauty ordaineth that in every city in the world a house be established in the name of justice wherein shall gather pure and steadfast souls to the number of the Most Great Name

Manuscripts (5)Publications (8)Translations (10)

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

INBA35:037

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v035/?page=21

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_Or15722.053

Not yet online

PR. Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series (William McElwee Miller Collection). https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47

PR05.007a-009a

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0132

Majlis934.026-031

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

BN. Manuscripts at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Listed by manuscrits Arabe number. Searchable here by shelfmark: https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/advancedSearch/

BN_suppl.1753.076-078

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84470396/f85.image

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#228

http://www.bahai.org/r/371649689

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

LHKM2.068

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/LH2/lh2-68.html

GHA. Ishráq-Khávarí, Abdu'l-Ḥamíd. Ganjínih-yi Ḥudúd va Aḥkám. Bahá’í Publishing Trust of India, 1980. Elucidation and commentary on laws and ordinances of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/63.pdf

GHA.214x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/GHA/gha-223.html

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.011dx

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/UAB.pdf#page=8

PYB. Payám-i Bahá'í. Beausoleil, France: Mahfil-i Ruhání-i Millí-i Faránsah Bará-yi Bahá’íyán, 1979- . Periodical journal. https://www.h- net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/Payam-i_Bahai.htm

PYB#203 p.03x

http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/203.PDF#page=3

AHB. Áhang-i-Badí` (mult. vols.). BPT Iran, 1946-1980. Periodical journal. Individual issues listed at https://bahai-library.com/bahailib_archive

AHB_120BE #03-06 p.001

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1073.pdf#page=1

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_087BE #05 p.001

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

PYM. Ishráq-Khávarí, Abdu'l-Ḥamíd. Payám-i Malakút. BPT Iran, 130 B.E. [1973], republished by NSA India, 1985. Compilation on the coming of Bahá’u’lláh. https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/download.html

PYM.130x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/pm2-130.html

BRL_SOCIAL#012x

http://www.bahai.org/r/958614199

BRL_LSA#02x

http://www.bahai.org/r/259167522

BRL_LSA#15x

http://www.bahai.org/r/514956072

BW. The Bahá’í World. Yearbook, published intermittently in 34 volumes between 1925-2006. Volumes 1-20 available at https://www.bahai.org/library/other-literature/periodicals-supplementary-materials/bahai-world/. Volumes 1-34 available at https://bahai.works/Bah%C3%A1%E2%80%99%C3%AD_World

BW_v25p021-022x

https://file.bahai.media/b/b2/BW_Volume25.pdf#page=21

COC. The Compilation of Compilations (3 vols.). Bahá’í Publishing Trust of Australia, 1991, 2000. Inventory refers to the continuous numbering of original publications, which is lost in the online version. Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/compilation_compilations_1, Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/compilation_compilations_2, Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/compilation_compilations_3

COC#0562x

Not yet online

COC#1356x

http://bahai-library.com/compilation_local_spiritual_assembly#1356

COC#1368x

http://bahai-library.com/compilation_local_spiritual_assembly#1368

COC#1369x

http://bahai-library.com/compilation_local_spiritual_assembly#1369

LOG. Hornby, Helen, ed. Lights of Guidance (1994 ed.). Bahá’í Publishing Trust of India, 1994. http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance

LOG#0007x

http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=1#n7

LOG#0156x