Ocean of Lights

300 words

حمد و ثنا مالک ممالک فضل و عطا را سزا که بید عنایت در حدیقه مکرمت اشجاری غرس

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise and glorification befit the Lord of the realms of grace and bounty, Who hath, with the hand of divine favor, planted trees in the garden of munificence [3.5s]

Manuscripts (1)Publications (4)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

INBA81:182x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v081/?page=185

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

LHKM3.352ax

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/LH3/lh3-350.html

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.267x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/395.pdf#page=138

MSBH. Sulaymání, ‘Azízu’lláh. Maṣábíḥ-i Hidáyat (10 vols.). BPT Iran, mult. dates (106-132 B.E.). Vols. 1 and 2 exist in two editions. Biographies of prominent early believers. Digitally reprinted in 2018 by the Afnan Library, Sandy, UK: https://afnanlibrary.org/masabih-i-hidayat; vol. 10 at https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/authors/sulayman/masabih10/Masabih_Hidayat_v10.pdf

MSBH5.218-219x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/sulaymani_masabih-i-hidayat_vol_5

QIRT. Nusús-i-Mubárakih dar báriy-i-Qiyám-i-‘Imá al-Raḥmán bi-Tablígh. BPT Iran, 134 B.E. [1978]. Compilation on women and teaching. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/nusus-i-mubarakih_dar-bariy-i-qiyam-i-imair-rahman_bih_tabligh.pdf

QIRT.02cx

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/nusus-i-mubarakih_dar-bariy-i-qiyam-i-imair-rahman_bih_tabligh.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#1.16x

http://www.bahai.org/r/051169678