Ocean of Lights

60 words

عبادت را از ثمره وجود محروم منما و از بحر جودت قسمت عطا فرما توئی آن مقتدری که

Translation:

Provisional translation

O Lord! Deprive not Thy servants of the fruits of existence, and from the ocean of Thy bounty bestow their portion. Thou art verily He Who is the Omnipotent [3.5s]... ...My God, My Adored One! Deprive not Thy servants of the fruit of existence, and grant them their portion of the ocean of Thy generosity

Manuscripts (4)Publications (4)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

INBA65:021a

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v065/?page=23

INBA30:081

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v030/?page=44

INBA81:011

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v081/?page=14

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.017a

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH_AB_misc.pdf#page=17

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.307

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/AHM/ahm-307.html

DWNP. Syed Mustafa Roumi, ed. The Dawn: A monthly Bahá'í journal of Burma. Sept. 1923 – May 1929. English and Persian sections cataloged separately. Digitally reprinted in 2017 by the Afnan Library, Sandy, UK: https://afnanlibrary.org/the-dawn-burma-vol-1-6/

DWNP_v1#01 p.007

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-1-burma-1923

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/

AQMJ1.139a

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/MMQ1/mmq1-141.html

ADH. Adhkár al-Muqarrabín (2 vols., vol. 2 in two different editions). BPT Iran, 1959. Collection of prayers of Bahá’u’lláh (vol. 1) and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (vol. 2); vol. 2 superseded by MMG

ADH1.014

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_1.pdf

ADMS. Personal web site of A. Masumian, with provisional translations and original texts. https://adibmasumian.com/translations/

ADMS#089

https://adibmasumian.com/translations/bh10840/