Ocean of Lights

210 words

یا معشر العلماء اتقوا الله ثم انصفوا فی امر هذا الامی الذی شهدت له کتب الله

Translation:

Official translation

Lay not aside the fear of God, O ye the learned of the world, and judge fairly the Cause of this unlettered One

Manuscripts (2)Publications (3)Translations (1)Notes (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

INBA51:186b

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v051/?page=189

KB. Digital images of books and manuscripts orginally hosted at the Kitábkhániy-i-Bahá’í website (bahailib.com), now hosted at https://bahai-library.com/bahailib

KB_620:179-180

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/620.pdf#page=179

GWBP. Muntakhabátí-az-Áthár-i-Ḥaḍrat-i-Bahá’u’lláh. Bahá'í-Verlag, 2006. Persian/Arabic edition of GWB. https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/gleanings- writings-bahaullah/ and https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/15.pdf

GWBP#044 p.070

http://www.bahai.org/r/225190293

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

LHKM3.339

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/LH3/lh3-337.html

YFY. Rafati, Vahid. Yádnámiy-i-Fáḍil-i-Yazdí. Bahá'í-Verlag, 170 B.E. [2013]. Remembrance of Fáḍil-i-Yazdí. https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/yfy.pdf

YFY.264-265

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/yfy.pdf#page=262

GWB. Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1935. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative- texts/bahaullah/gleanings-writings-bahaullah/

GWB#044

http://www.bahai.org/r/388942935

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#410

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#410