Ocean of Lights

250 words

قد اشرقت شمس البهی عن افق البقا بطراز الله المقتدر العلی الاعلی قل موتوا یا

Translation:

Provisional translation

The Sun of Glory hath dawned from the horizon of eternity, adorned with the ornament of God, the Almighty, the Most Exalted of the Most Exalted. Say: Perish, O ye [3.5s]

Manuscripts (3)Publications (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

INBA42:259

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v042/?page=261

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_Or15725.258

Not yet online

OSAI. Ottoman State Archives in Istanbul. OSAI_TC refers to “Turkish Presidency State Archives of the Republic of Turkey” (T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Devlet Arşivleri Başkanlığı), manuscript HR.SFR.4 982/5. OSAI I.MMS refers to Irade-Meclis-i Mahsus ms 36/1475 (confiscated in Istanbul from the Bahá'ís who were sent by Bahá'u'lláh from Edirne to sell a few horses; these Writings were in the saddlebags of the horses)

OSAI I.MMS

Not yet online

ASAT. Mázandarání, Fáḍil. Asráru’l-Áthár (5 vols.). BPT Iran, 1973. Encyclopedic glossary of Bahá’í terminology.
Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/427.pdf, Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/428.pdf, Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/429.pdf, Vol. 4: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf, Vol. 5: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/431.pdf

ASAT5.350x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/431.pdf#page=180