Ocean of Lights

3390 words

هذا کتاب نزل من سماء مشیة الرحمن علی من فی الامکان ... یا ایلیا اراضی جرزه لایق بذر حکمت الهی

Translation:

Provisional translation

This is a Book that hath been sent down from the heaven of the will of the All-Merciful unto all who dwell within the realm of possibility [3.5s]... ...By the one true God, Elijah hath hastened unto My court and hath circumambulated

Manuscripts (4)Publications (14)Translations (2)Musical interpretations (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

INBA65:042x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v065/?page=44

INBA30:091ax

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v030/?page=50

INBA81:006bx

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v081/?page=9

NLAI. Manuscripts held at the National Library and Archives of Iran, Tihran. https://www.nlai.ir/ Includes “BH1” (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH1_.pdf), “BH2” (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH2_.pdf), “BH3” = KB_622 (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NLAI.BH3_.pdf), “BH4” = KB_834 (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NLAI.BH4_.pdf), “BH_AB” (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH_AB_misc.pdf), and “NLAI_22848” = KB_833 (https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/833.pdf)

NLAI_BH_AB.018x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH_AB_misc.pdf#page=18

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#395

http://www.bahai.org/r/886765183

AHM. Ad‘íyy-i Ḥaḍrat-i Maḥbúb. Egypt, 1339 A.H. [1920]. Prayers and Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh. Often reprinted. Pagination refers to original typesetting. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/556.pdf (Century Press 2004 reprint, with i'rab), https://oceanoflights.org/table/bahaullah-prayers-and-meditations-02-fa/ (typescript)

AHM.337x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AHM/ahm-337.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_v6#05 p.001bx

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928

AQMJ1. Áthár-i Qalam-i A`lá: Majmú'iy-i-Munáját, vol. 1. BPT Iran, 123 B.E. [1966]. Collection of prayers of Bahá’u’lláh. Last section (pp. 139-185) corresponds to Persian section of AHM (pp. 307-377). http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MMQ1/

AQMJ1.154x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MMQ1/mmq1-156.html

AQMJ1.176ax

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MMQ1/mmq1-178.html

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

AYI2.325x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-311.html

AYI2.326x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-312.html

AYI2.327x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-313.html

AYI2.328x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-314.html

AYI2.330x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AI2/ai2-316.html

ADH. Adhkár al-Muqarrabín (2 vols., vol. 2 in two different editions). BPT Iran, 1959. Collection of prayers of Bahá’u’lláh (vol. 1) and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (vol. 2); vol. 2 superseded by MMG

ADH1.021x

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_1.pdf

ADH1.027x

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_1.pdf

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_131BE #13 p.ax

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

TAH. Ishráq-Khávarí, Abdu'l-Ḥamíd. Tárikh-i Amríy-i Hamadán. Bahá'í- Verlag, 2004. Regional history. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/682.pdf

TAH.011bx

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/682.pdf#page=15

WOB. Shoghi Effendi. The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh: Selected Letters. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1938. Pagination refers to 1991 edition. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/shoghi-effendi/world- order-bahaullah/

WOB.105x2x

http://www.bahai.org/r/441987268

HURQ. Lambden, Stephen. Academic website with texts, provisional translations, and notes. https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/scholarship/haykal- writings-b%C4%81b

HURQ.BH73x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/229/

unknown

https://youtu.be/XykZjrwd7Ak