Ocean of Lights

200 words

علیک بهائی و ذکری و رحمتی ثم ثناء کل شیء فی کل حین قد قرء بین یدینا کتابک

Translation:

Provisional translation

Upon thee be My glory, My remembrance and My mercy; then the praise of all things at every moment. We have read before Us thy letter [3.5s]... ...We hear thy cry and supplication at thy remoteness from the Dawning-Place of Light.

Manuscripts (2)Translations (2)

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

INBA42:250

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v042/?page=252

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_Or15725.346b

Not yet online

EBTB. Balyuzi, H.M. Eminent Bahá’í's in the Time of Bahá’u’lláh. George Ronald, 1985. https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/ebtb.pdf

EBTB.244

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/ebtb.pdf#page=244

BLO. Bahá’í Library Online (www.bahai-library.com). Private, independent repository of Bahá’í-related resources including provisional translations (BLO_PT) and pilgrims’ notes (BLO_PN). Numbering follows the 16 Nov 2019 snapshot available at https://web.archive.org/

BLO_PT#065x

https://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_lawh_mirza_haydar-ali