Fire and Light was first published in 1986 by the Universal House of Justice in The Bahá’í World, Volume XVIII, 1979 – 1983, pp. 9 – 38. The selections from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, and Shoghi Effendi that appear in that volume are drawn from Nár va Núr (Fire and Light), a compilation prepared by the Universal House of Justice for the Bahá’ís of Iran and published in 1982 by Bahá’í Verlag, the Bahá’í Publishing Trust of Germany. Fire and Light includes those selections in Nár va Núr that have been translated into English. The translations of all but extract XI in Section I were prepared by Mr. Habib Taherzadeh, with the assistance of a Committee at the Bahá’í World Centre.
Translated by Shoghi Effendi, in The Advent of Divine Justice (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1984), p. 85.
Translated by Shoghi Effendi, in The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh: Selected Letters, rev. ed. (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1982), p. 111.