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tag name Oceans and seas type: Metaphors and allegories

web link bahai-library.com/tags/Oceans_and_seas
variations or
mis-spellings baḥr, lujjih, yamm
related tags Bahá'u'lláh, Revelation of; Nature; Water (metaphor)
referring tags Drop into ocean, atom into star, gnat into eagle; Fishes; Lawh-i-Hawdaj (Tablet of the Howdah); Pearls; Two seas
notes "... My holy, My divinely ordained Revelation may be likened unto an ocean in whose depths are concealed innumerable pearls of great price, of surpassing luster. It is the duty of every seeker to bestir himself and strive to attain the shores of this ocean, so that he may, in proportion to the eagerness of his search and the efforts he hath exerted, partake of such benefits as have been preordained in God’s irrevocable and hidden Tablets.... This most great, this fathomless and surging Ocean is near, astonishingly near, unto you. Behold it is closer to you than your life-vein! Swift as the twinkling of an eye ye can, if ye but wish it, reach and partake of this imperishable favor, this God-given grace, this incorruptible gift, this most potent and unspeakably glorious bounty..." – Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, CLIII (Tablet of Ahmad, Persian; BH00249)
"O wayfarer in the path of God! Take thou thy portion of the ocean of His grace, and deprive not thyself of the things that lie hidden in its depths. Be thou of them that have partaken of its treasures. A dewdrop out of this ocean would, if shed upon all that are in the heavens and on the earth, suffice to enrich them with the bounty of God, the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. With the hands of renunciation draw forth from its life-giving waters, and sprinkle therewith all created things, that they may be cleansed from all man-made limitations and may approach the mighty seat of God, this hallowed and resplendent Spot..." – Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, CXXIX (BH00144)

references www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=sea; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=ocean

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2024-12. Translating the Bahá'í Writings into Languages Other Than English. Craig Alan Volker, Mary Goebel Noguchi. — Challenges in translation, including questions about spelling, terminology, politeness strategies em... Articles.
2013. Seas Not Oceans. Moshe Sharon. — References to "seas" and "oceans" in classical literature, Judaism, Islam, and metaphors in the Baha... Articles-unpublished.
2005-11. Collected Essays. John Wiegley. — Dozens of essays on numerous topics of Baha'i thought and practice. Books.
1996. Passing Comments on the Long Obligatory Prayer of Bahá'u'lláh, Some. Bill Washington. — An exploration of the Long Obligatory Prayer, examining the purpose of prayer, spiritual detachment,... Articles.

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1823-00-00 — Baha'u'llah's father dreamed that his son was swimming in a sea with multitudes of fish clinging to ...

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tag name	Oceans and seas	type:	Metaphors and allegories
web link	bahai-library.com/tags/Oceans_and_seas
variations or mis-spellings	baḥr, lujjih, yamm
related tags	Bahá'u'lláh, Revelation of; Nature; Water (metaphor)
referring tags	Drop into ocean, atom into star, gnat into eagle; Fishes; Lawh-i-Hawdaj (Tablet of the Howdah); Pearls; Two seas
notes	"... My holy, My divinely ordained Revelation may be likened unto an ocean in whose depths are concealed innumerable pearls of great price, of surpassing luster. It is the duty of every seeker to bestir himself and strive to attain the shores of this ocean, so that he may, in proportion to the eagerness of his search and the efforts he hath exerted, partake of such benefits as have been preordained in God’s irrevocable and hidden Tablets.... This most great, this fathomless and surging Ocean is near, astonishingly near, unto you. Behold it is closer to you than your life-vein! Swift as the twinkling of an eye ye can, if ye but wish it, reach and partake of this imperishable favor, this God-given grace, this incorruptible gift, this most potent and unspeakably glorious bounty..." – Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, CLIII (Tablet of Ahmad, Persian; BH00249) "O wayfarer in the path of God! Take thou thy portion of the ocean of His grace, and deprive not thyself of the things that lie hidden in its depths. Be thou of them that have partaken of its treasures. A dewdrop out of this ocean would, if shed upon all that are in the heavens and on the earth, suffice to enrich them with the bounty of God, the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. With the hands of renunciation draw forth from its life-giving waters, and sprinkle therewith all created things, that they may be cleansed from all man-made limitations and may approach the mighty seat of God, this hallowed and resplendent Spot..." – Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, CXXIX (BH00144)
references	www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=sea; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=ocean