Ocean of Lights

200 words

شهد الله انه لا اله الا هو و الذی اتی من افق الاقتدار انه هو السر المکنون و الرمز المخزون به ماج بحر العلم

Translation:

Provisional translation

God beareth witness that there is none other God but Him, and He Who hath appeared from the horizon of might is verily the Hidden Mystery and the Treasured Symbol through Whom the ocean of knowledge hath surged [3.5s]

Manuscripts (4)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

INBA15:249a

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v015/?page=125

INBA26:249c

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v026/?page=125

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_Or15728.051

Not yet online

BLIB_Or15734.1.045

Not yet online

PYK. Rafati, Vahid. Payk-i Rástán. Asr-i-Jadid, 2005. Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to Ismulláh al-Asdaq and family. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1484.pdf

PYK.216

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1484.pdf#page=233