Ocean of Lights

200 words

هذا لیل فیه اشرقت شمس البیان و هطلت امطار العرفان و ماج بحر العلم و هاج عرف

Translation:

Provisional translation

This is the night wherein hath dawned the Sun of utterance, and the showers of divine knowledge have rained down, and the ocean of wisdom hath surged, and fragrant breezes have wafted [3.5s]

Manuscripts (3)

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

INBA19:101b

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v019/?page=53

INBA32:093

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v032/?page=49

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_Or15713.171b

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