Ocean of Lights

80 words

ان یا قلم نریک تحب الاختصار فی الالواح ای و نفسک یا ربی المختار لو اذن واعیه

Translation:

Provisional translation

O Pen! We behold Thee inclining towards brevity in the Tablets. Yea, by Thy Self, O My chosen Lord, if there be ears to hearken [3.5s]

Manuscripts (3)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

INBA51:012

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v051/?page=15

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_Or15696.071e

Not yet online

KB. Digital images of books and manuscripts orginally hosted at the Kitábkhániy-i-Bahá’í website (bahailib.com), now hosted at https://bahai-library.com/bahailib

KB_620:005-005

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/620.pdf#page=005

LHKM. La'álíy-i Ḥikmat (3 vols.). Editora Baha’i-Brasil, 1991. Collection of Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh assembled in part from the papers of Vahid Behmardi. Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/561.pdf, https://oceanoflights.org/table/bahaullah-published-13-fa (typescript); Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/562.pdf, https://oceanoflights.org/table/bahaullah-published-14-fa (typescript); Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/563.pdf

LHKM2.097a

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/LH2/lh2-97.html

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

AKHT1.363

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/ATA1/ata1-363.html