Ocean of Lights

100 words

وجهم بانوار وجهت متوجه و قلبم بشطر عنایتت مقبل و از تو میطلبم عطای قدیمت و

Translation:

Provisional translation

My face is illumined by the lights of Thy Countenance, and my heart is turned toward the realm of Thy favor, and I beseech from Thee Thine ancient bounty [3.5s]

Manuscripts (4)Publications (2)

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

INBA65:041

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v065/?page=43

INBA30:090x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v030/?page=49

INBA81:006a

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v081/?page=9

NLAI. Manuscripts held at the National Library and Archives of Iran, Tihran. https://www.nlai.ir/ Includes “BH1” (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH1_.pdf), “BH2” (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH2_.pdf), “BH3” = KB_622 (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NLAI.BH3_.pdf), “BH4” = KB_834 (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NLAI.BH4_.pdf), “BH_AB” (http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH_AB_misc.pdf), and “NLAI_22848” = KB_833 (https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/833.pdf)

NLAI_BH_AB.020

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH_AB_misc.pdf#page=20

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.336

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AHM/ahm-336.html

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/

AQMJ1.153

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MMQ1/mmq1-155.html