Ocean of Lights

180 words

الحمد لله الذی خلق الخلق بکلمه من عنده و ارسل الیهم الرسل و انزل علیهم الکتب

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praise be to God Who hath created all created things through His Word, and hath sent unto them His Messengers, and hath caused to descend upon them His Books [3.5s]... ...Hear thou Me once again! God is well pleased with thee, as a token of His grace and a sign of His mercy. He hath made thee to be His companion in every one of His worlds

Manuscripts (1)Publications (6)Translations (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

INBA65:085

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v065/?page=87

BRL. “Bahá'í Reference Library”: Authoritative source of original texts and authorized translations, maintained and frequently updated and expanded by the Bahá’í World Centre. Subsections defined for this catalog: BRL_APBH (Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh), BRL_ATBH (Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh), BRL_ATE (Additional Tablets, Extracts, and Talks of Abdu’l-Bahá), BRL_CHILD (Prayers and Tablets for Children), BRL_CONF2018 (Compilation for the 2018 Counsellor’s Conference), BRL_CONSULT (Consultation; original quotations here), BRL_CUHJ (Compilation on the Universal House of Justice; original language version COMP_CUHJP), BRL_CRISIS (Crisis and Victory), BRL_DA (Digar Alvah – Additional Tablets Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh), BRL_DAK (Digar Alvah va Khitabat – Additional Tablets and talks by Abdu’l-Bahá), BRL_FAM (Family Life), BRL_FIRE (Selections from Fire and Light [=NANU]), BRL_IOA (Compilation on the Importance of the Arts in Promoting the Faith), BRL_IOPF (Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting), BRL_LSA (The Local Spiritual Assembly), BRL_MASHRIQ (The Institution of the Mashruqu’l-Adhkár; original quotations COMP_MASHRIQP), BRL_MEET (Bahá’í Meetings), BRL_PDL (Prayer and Devotional Life; original lquotations COMP_PDLP), BRL_PEACE (Peace; original quotations COMP_PEACEP), BRL_PMDA (Prayer, Meditation and the Devotional Attitude), BRL_SOCIAL (Compilation on Social Action), BRL_SCHOLAR (Compilation on Scholarship), BRL_TTT (Twelve Table Talks by Abdu’l-Bahá), BRL_SWO (To Set the World in Order: Building and Preserving Strong Marriages). Sequential numbering may be introduced based on order of entry. https://reference.bahai.org [legacy version with many additional texts]; https://www.bahai.org/library/

BRL_DA#433

http://www.bahai.org/r/353224651

SFI. Safíniy-i-`Irfán. Asr-i-Jadid, 1998-2020 (22 vols.). Papers presented in Persian at Irfán colloquia. http://irfancolloquia.org/publications/ (index only); https://oceanoflights.org/table/Collections-Publications-02-fa/

SFI20.014a

https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_20.pdf#page=14

RHQM. Ishráq-Khávarí, Abdu'l-Ḥamíd. Raḥíq-i Makhtúm (2 vols.). Bahá'í- Verlag, 2007. Commentary on the “Lawḥ-i-Qarn” (101 B.E. Naw-Rúz message) of Shoghi Effendi. Entries in this catalog refer to three different editions respectively: BPT Iran 103 B.E., BPT Iran 130 B.E., Verlag 2007. 103 B.E. edition: Vol. 1, https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/652.pdf; Vol. 2, https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/653.pdf

RHQM2.1040x (486) (299x)

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/653.pdf#page=215

ATB. Amákin-i Táríkhí-yi Bahá'í dar Arḍ-i Aqdas. BPT Iran, 125 B.E. [1971]. Corresponds to "Bahá’í Holy Places at the World Centre" https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/669.pdf

ATB.128

Not yet online

AKHT. Arbáb, Furúgh. Akhtarán-i-Tábán (2 vols.). Mir'at, 1999. Biographies of Bahá’í women. Vol. 1: https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/ATA1/ and https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/382.pdf, Vol. 2: https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/ATA2/ and https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/383.pdf

AKHT1.079x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/ATA1/ata1-79.html

FBAH. Fayḍí, Muḥammad-'Alí. Ḥaḍrat-i Bahá'u'lláh. Bahá'í-Verlag, 1994. Biography of Bahá’u’lláh. https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/HB2

FBAH.239

https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/HB2/hb2-243.html

TDH. Shoghi Effendi. This Decisive Hour. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 2002. Mostly coincident with the formerly titled Messages to America. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/shoghi-effendi/decisive- hour/

TDH#064.15x

http://www.bahai.org/r/406409213