Ocean of Lights

300 words

الحمد لله الذی انزل من سماء المعانی فواکه البیان و اظهر من سدره التبیان...اعمالیکه منسوب بکتاب الهی است مابین اعمال واضح و هویداست

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise be to God Who sent down from the heaven of signification the bounties of exposition...I give peace and blessings to the first point that appeared from the Mother Book and the first utterance divulged from the will of our Lord, the Merciful…. These are the days of the Fast

Publications (4)Translations (4)

SFI. Safíniy-i-`Irfán. Asr-i-Jadid, 1998-2020 (22 vols.). Papers presented in Persian at Irfán colloquia. http://irfancolloquia.org/publications/ (index only); https://oceanoflights.org/table/Collections-Publications-02-fa/

SFI18.285ax

https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_18.pdf#page=285

AYI. Áyát-i-Ilahi (2 vols.). Bahá'í-Verlag, 1996. Daily readings: short passages from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh. Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/12.pdf, Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/13.pdf

AYI2.048x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-34.html

AYI2.062x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-48.html

MMUH. Mukhtárát fi Bayán-i-Muḥammad Rasúl Alláh. Bahá’í International Community – London, n.d. Short compilation on the station of Muḥammad. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/mukhtarat-minan-nususul-bahaiyya-fi-bayani-maqam-i-muhammad-rasulullah.pdf

MMUH#03x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/mukhtarat-minan-nususul-bahaiyya-fi-bayani-maqam-i-muhammad-rasulullah.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_IOPF#1.15x

http://www.bahai.org/r/238013837

LOIR. Lights of Irfan. Canadian Association for Bahá’í Studies, 1998 - . Academic journal. http://irfancolloquia.org/publications/

LOIR20.183ax

http://irfancolloquia.org/pdf/lights20_rafati_maqam_farahani.pdf#page=23

KSHK. “Kashkul”. Blog with provisional translations by W. McCants. Aug. 2010- . http://www.kashkul.org/. Translations of several dozen brief Writings of the Báb are posted at http://www.kashkul.org/brief-writings- of-the-bab/ (accessible via archive.org)

KSHK#20x

https://web.archive.org/web/20211026145946/http://www.kashkul.org/2010/12/19/peace-be-upon-muhammad/

JHT. Personal web site with provisional translations by Joshua Hall. March 2017- . http://joshuahalltranslations.com/. JHT_S, “Supplications by Bahá’u’lláh”, contains 200 translations

JHT_B#012x

http://joshuahalltranslations.com/eulogy-for-the-prophet-mu%e1%b8%a5ammad/