Ocean of Lights

230 words

نسئل الله بان یبعث احدا من عباده و ینقطعه عن الامکان و یزین قلبه بطراز

Notes:

Instructions to Badi' re delivery of the Lawh-i-Sultan

Translation:

Provisional translation

We ask God to send one of His servants, and to detach him from Contingent Being, and to adorn his heart

Manuscripts (2)Publications (7)Translations (1)Notes (1)

NLI. Manuscripts held at the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem. Includes Arc.Ms.Var.1288, no. 32 (https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH002764084/NLI), Arc.Ms.Var.1288, no.50 (https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH002781925/NLI)

NLI.32p099r

https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH002764084/NLI

PR. Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series (William McElwee Miller Collection). https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47

PR11.000b

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0181

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#182

http://www.bahai.org/r/629665509

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/

SFI03.155

https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_03.pdf#page=155

BCH. Barnámiy-i Jashnháy-i Mu'avíy-i I`lán-i Amr-i Ḥaḍrat-i Bahá'u'lláh. BPT Iran, 1967. Centenary program for the Declaration of Bahá’u’lláh. https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/bch.pdf

BCH.032

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/bch.pdf#page=29

TSHA. Malik-Khusraví, Muḥammad 'Alí. Táríkh-i-Shuhadá-yi-Amr (3 vols). BPT Iran, 130 B.E. [1973]. History of the martyrs. Vol. 1: https://www.h- net.org/~bahai/areprint/authors/malikkhusravi/shuhadi/Shuhadi_1.pdf; Vol. 2: https://www.h- net.org/~bahai/areprint/authors/malikkhusravi/shuhadi/Shuhadi_2.pdf

TSHA3.365

https://adibmasumian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/tsha3.pdf#page=373

DLH. Ishráq-Khávarí, Abdu'l-Ḥamíd. Durj-i La'álíy-i Hidáyat (3 vols.). BPT Iran, 132 B.E. [1975]. Talks. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/729.pdf

DLH2.150

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/729.pdf#page=77

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.416

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/395.pdf#page=212

NJB. Najm-i Bákhtar (mult. vols.). George Ronald, 1978. Persian pages from Star of the West (1910-1935). https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1412.pdf and https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol4/starwest/starwest.htm

NJB_v03#02 p.5

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_2

BKOG. Balyuzi, Hasan. Bahá’u’lláh: The King of Glory. George Ronald, 1980

BKOG.299

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BKOG.pdf#page=23

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#067

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#67