Ocean of Lights

110 words

یا غصنی الاعظم قد حضر لدی المظلوم کتابک و سمعنا ما ناجیت به الله رب العالمین

Translation:

Provisional translation

O thou my Greatest Branch! Thy letter was surely presented before this oppressed one, and I heard that which

Manuscripts (1)Publications (10)Translations (5)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

INBA81:087b

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v081/?page=90

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#440

http://www.bahai.org/r/894735071

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.105

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AHM/ahm-105.html

HDQI. Ḥadíqiy-i `Irfán. Andalib board, 1994. Tablets printed in past issues of ‘Andalíb. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/667.pdf

HDQI.007

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/HI/hi-12.html

AHDW. al-`Ahd al-Awfá. Beirut, 1971. Compilation on the Covenant

AHDW.008

Not yet online

YHA. Maḥmúdí, Húshang. Yád Dáshtháy dar bárih-yi Ḥaḍrat-i-‘Abdu’l-Bahá (2 vols.). BPT Iran, 130 B.E. [1973]. Notes on ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf; Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/684.pdf

YHA1.012-013

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=14

ASAT. Mázandarání, Fáḍil. Asráru’l-Áthár (5 vols.). BPT Iran, 1973. Encyclopedic glossary of Bahá’í terminology.
Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/427.pdf, Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/428.pdf, Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/429.pdf, Vol. 4: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf, Vol. 5: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/431.pdf

ASAT4.412x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf#page=208

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

AHB_128BE #06-11 p.197

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/

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.48

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

ANDA#43-44 p.02

https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-43-44

QALAM. Mishkin Qalam, XIX Century Artist and Calligrapher. Persian Arts and Letters Society, 1995. Calligraphic examples. http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/mishkin-qalam_calligraphy_book.pdf

QALAM.014

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/mishkin-qalam_calligraphy_book.pdf

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.243x3x

http://www.bahai.org/r/565667412

WOB. Shoghi Effendi. The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh: Selected Letters. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1938. Pagination refers to 1991 edition. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/shoghi-effendi/world- order-bahaullah/

WOB.135-136x

http://www.bahai.org/r/217612255

SW. Star of the West, 25 vols. (1910-1935). Periodical issued each Bahá’í month. Vols. 1-12 reprinted 1978 in 8 volumes by George Ronald. Each issue Includes a section in Persian. https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West

SW_v04#14 p.239

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_14

SW_v05#15 p.228

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_15

SW_v08#14 p.184

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_14

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#091

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181707/http://bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.list.html#91