Ocean of Lights

390 words

یا سمندر لعمرک قد تجددت مصیبه محمد رسول الله فی الجنه العلیا و رزیه البتول

Translation:

Provisional translation

O Samandar! By thy life! The calamity of Muhammad, the Apostle of God, hath been renewed in the Most Exalted Paradise, and likewise the tribulation of the Pure One [3.5s]

Manuscripts (2)Publications (5)Notes (3)

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

INBA97:039

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v097/?page=23

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_Or15697.191

Not yet online

AYBY. Áyát-i-Bayyinát. Dundas, Canada: Association for Bahá’í Studies in Persian, 1999. Tablets to Samandar, Nabíl ibn-i-Nabíl, and their families. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/386.pdf

AYBY.044b

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-53.html

NNY. Ishráq-Khávarí, Abdu'l-Ḥamíd. Kitáb-i Núrayn-i Nayyirayn. BPT Iran, 123 B.E. [1966]. Biographies of the King and Beloved of martyrs. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/484.pdf

NNY.169-171

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/282.pdf#page=179

SAM. Samandar, Shaykh Káẓim. Táríkh-i-Samandar. BPT Iran, 131 B.E. [1974]. Memoirs. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/673.pdf

SAM.180

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/673.pdf#page=180

TRZ. Ṭaráz-i Iláhí (2 vols.). Canadian Association for Bahá’í Studies, 2002. Biography of Tarazullah Samandari. Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/72.pdf, vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/73.pdf

TRZ1.074a

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/72.pdf#page=1

LDR. Fayḍí, Muḥammad-'Alí. La'álíy-i Darakhshán. BPT Iran, 1966. Commentary on Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Lawh-i-Sultan. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/395.pdf

LDR.152x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/395.pdf#page=80

ROB. Taherzadeh, Adib. The Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh (4 vols.). George Ronald, 1974-1987. Vol. 1: https://d9263461.github.io/cl/Baha'i/Others/ROB/V1/Cover.html, Vol. 2: https://d9263461.github.io/cl/Baha'i/Others/ROB/V2/Cover.html, Vol. 3: https://d9263461.github.io/cl/Baha'i/Others/ROB/V3/Cover.html, Vol. 4: https://d9263461.github.io/cl/Baha'i/Others/ROB/V4/Cover.html

ROB4.088b

https://d9263461.github.io/cl/Baha'i/Others/ROB/V4/Contents.html

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#006

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#6

LL#241

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#241