Ocean of Lights

1900 words

قد اتی الوعد و الموعود یقول یا ایها المذکور لدی العرش و القائم امام الوجه

Translation:

Provisional translation

The Promise hath come, and the Promised One declareth: O thou who art mentioned before the Throne and who standest before the Face [3.5s]

Manuscripts (2)Publications (6)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

INBA65:064x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v065/?page=66

INBA30:103x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v030/?page=56

AVK. Mázandarání, Fáḍil. Amr va Khalq (4 vols.). Bahá'í-Verlag, 1985. Thematic compilation of extracts. http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ English translation of table of contents: https://bahai-library.com/mazandarani_mccants_khalq_contents

AVK3.418.06x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-422.html

AHM. Ad‘íyy-i Ḥaḍrat-i Maḥbúb. Egypt, 1339 A.H. [1920]. Prayers and Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh. Often reprinted. Pagination refers to original typesetting. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/556.pdf (Century Press 2004 reprint, with i'rab), https://oceanoflights.org/table/bahaullah-prayers-and-meditations-02-fa/ (typescript)

AHM.357x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AHM/ahm-357.html

DWNP. Syed Mustafa Roumi, ed. The Dawn: A monthly Bahá'í journal of Burma. Sept. 1923 – May 1929. English and Persian sections cataloged separately. Digitally reprinted in 2017 by the Afnan Library, Sandy, UK: https://afnanlibrary.org/the-dawn-burma-vol-1-6/

DWNP_v6#09 p.001x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928

AQMJ1. Áthár-i Qalam-i A`lá: Majmú'iy-i-Munáját, vol. 1. BPT Iran, 123 B.E. [1966]. Collection of prayers of Bahá’u’lláh. Last section (pp. 139-185) corresponds to Persian section of AHM (pp. 307-377). http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MMQ1/

AQMJ1.168ax

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MMQ1/mmq1-170.html

MSHR. Rafati, Vahid. Ma'ákhidh-i Ash`ár dar Áthár-i Bahá'í. 5 vols. Canadian Association for Bahá’í Studies, 2004- . Vol 1: http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH1/; Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/649.pdf, Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/650.pdf, Vol. 4: http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf , Vol. 5: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf

MSHR5.297x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=293

YIA. Rafati, Vahid. Yádnámiy-i Ibn-i-Abhar. Bahá'í-Verlag, 2016. Includes Tablets to, history and writings of Ibn-i-Abhar. https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf

YIA.149-154

https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=145

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#493

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#493