Ocean of Lights

160 words

یا ایتها الورقه المبارکه النورآء غنی و تغنی علی افنان دوحه البهاء هذه الکلمه العلیا

Translation:

Official translation

Let these exalted words be thy love-song on the tree of Bahá, O thou most holy and resplendent Leaf

Publications (5)Translations (3)Notes (1)

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#754

https://www.bahai.org/r/192764298

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.116

Not yet online

AHB. Áhang-i-Badí` (mult. vols.). BPT Iran, 1946-1980. Periodical journal. Individual issues listed at https://bahai-library.com/bahailib_archive

AHB_119BE #04-06 p.001

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1063.pdf#page=1

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

AKHT1.080x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/ATA1/ata1-80.html

ANDA. ‘Andalíb (mult. vols.). Andalib board, 1981-2010. Periodical journal. Digitally reprinted in 2018 by the Afnan Library, Sandy, UK: https://afnanlibrary.org/andalib/

ANDA#03 p.27

https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-3

BW. The Bahá’í World. Yearbook, published intermittently in 34 volumes between 1925-2006. Volumes 1-20 available at https://www.bahai.org/library/other-literature/periodicals-supplementary-materials/bahai-world/. Volumes 1-34 available at https://bahai.works/Bah%C3%A1%E2%80%99%C3%AD_World

BW_v05p171

http://dl.bahai.org/bahai-world/the-bahai-world-vol05-1932-1934.pdf#page=171

GPB. Shoghi Effendi. God Passes By. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1944. History of the first century of the Bahá’í Faith. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/shoghi-effendi/god- passes-by/

GPB.347x

http://www.bahai.org/r/960339662

BHK. Bahíyyih Khánum: The Greatest Holy Leaf. Haifa, 1982. Letters and Tablets to and from Bahíyyih Khánum. http://bahai- library.com/bwc_bahiyyih_khanum

BHK_1#01

https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/bwc/BK/

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#073

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#73