REFERENCES

Full details of authors and titles are given in the Bibliography. Page numbers are given for both the American and British editions of Kitáb-i-Íqán and The Dawn-Breakers. See Notes and Acknowledgements regarding translations from Persian texts and the numbering of verses in the Qur'án.

CHAPTER 1: BAHÁ'U'LLÁH 1N CONSTANTINOPLE

1. Micah, vii. 12.
2. Amos, iv. 13.
3. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. VII, p. 192.
4. Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, pp. 137-8.
5. Browne, (ed.), A Traveller's Narrative, p. 92.
6. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. IV, p. 369.
7. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section lxvi.
8. Unpublished.
9. Hájí Mírzá Haydar 'Alí, Bihjatu's-Sudúr, pp. 70-71.
10. ibid., pp. 69-71.
11. Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí, unpublished memoirs.
12. Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí, Bihjatu's-Sudúr, p. 161.
13. A Traveller's Narrative, pp. xxxix-xl.
14. Quoted by Bahá'u'lláh in the Kitáb-i-Badí', p. 176.
15. Bahá'u'lláh, Majmú'iy-i-Alváh, pp. 272-4.
16. Qur'án, xxix. 23; quoted by Bahá'u'lláh in the Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 88 (Brit.), pp. 138-9 (U.S.).
17. ibid., xviii. III.
18. ibid., ii. 46.
19. ibid., xiii. 2.
20. Revelation, xxii. 3 and 4
21. ibid., xxi. 3 and 4.
22. Isaiah, xxxv. 2.
23. ibid., xxxv. 4.
24. ibid., xl. 5.
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25. ibid., lx. 2.
26. Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 63 (Brit.), p. 98 (U.S.).
27. Quoted in The Bahá'í World, vol. XIV, p. 632.
28. Qur'án, xxviii. 5.
29. Matthew, v. 5.
30. Qur'án, xi. 27.
31. Hájí Muhammad Táhir-i-Málmírí, unpublished memoirs.
32. Quoted by Fádil-i-Mázindarání in Asráru'l-Áthár, vol. III, p. 242.
33. Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 64 (Brit.), p. 99 (U.S.).
34. Quoted by Fádil-i-Mázindarání in Asráru'l-Áthár, vol. III, p. 243.
35. From an unpublished Tablet.
36. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. IV, pp. 31-2.
37. Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl, Kitábu'l-Fará'id, pp. 220-1.

CHAPTER 2: Mathnavíy-i-Mubárak

1. Bahá'u'lláh, Iqtidárát, pp. 90-91.
2. Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, no. 11, Arabic.
3. ibid., no. 11, Persian.
4. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. VII, p. 200.
5. Bahá'u'lláh, Iqtidárát, p. 272.
6. Quoted in The Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 95.
7. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. VIII, p. 29.
8. ibid., vol. IV, p. 26.
9. Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, no. 4, Arabic.
10. Bahá'u'lláh, Prayers and Meditations, clxxxi.
11. Quoted in Synopsis and Codification of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 12.
12. Mírzá 'Azízu'lláh-i-Misbáh, Díván-i-Misbáh, p. 337.
13. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section xcvi.
14. Bahá'u'lláh, Majmú'iy-i-Alváh, pp. 173-4.
15. Quoted in The Chosen Highway, p. 165.
16. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 139.
17. Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí, Bihjatu's-Sudúr, pp. 189-90.
18. Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 74.
19. Mírzá 'Azízu'lláh-i-Misbáh, Díván-i-Misbáh, p. 365.
20. ibid., p. 343.
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21. Quoted by Dr. Habíb Mu'ayyad, Habíb, vol. II, p. 310.
22. From the History of the Martyrs of Yazd, written by the author's father Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí; this version is edited and translated by Habíb Taherzadeh.
23. Unpublished, not to be confused with the published History of the Martyrs of Yazd by the same author.
24. Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí, Bihjatu's-Sudúr, pp. 168-9.
25. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. I, p. 68.
26. Quoted in The Dawn-Breakers, p. 96 (Brit.), p. 138 (U.S.).

CHAPTER 3: THE EXILE To ADRIANOPLE

1. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section lxv.
2. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, pp. 159-61.
3. 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Memorials of the Faithful, p. 149.
4. Quoted by Muhammad-'Alíy-i-Faizi, Hadrat-i-Bahá'u'lláh, p. 196.
5. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 161.
6. ibid.
7. ibid., pp. 161-2.
8. Quoted by Fádil-i-Mázindarání, Asráru'l-Áthár, vol. I, p. 77.

CHAPTER 4: Súriy-i-Asháb

1. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 151.
2. Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí, Bihjatu's-Sudúr, p. 23 ff.
3. ibid.
4. ibid., p. 51.
5. Shaykh Kázim-i-Samandar, Táríkh-i-Samandar, p. 228.
6. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 104, 109.
7. ibid., pp. 112-13.
8. Mírzá 'Azízu'lláh-i-Misbáh, Díván-i-Misbáh, p. 345.
9. ibid.
10. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 181.
11. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section xxix.
12. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. IV, p. 155.
13. Bahá'u'lláh, Iqtidárát, p. 85.
14. Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, no. 1, Arabic.
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15. From the Súriy-i-Asháb, translated by Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 108-9.
16. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section xcviii.
17. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. IV, p. 18.
18. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section xliii.
19. ibid., section v.
20. Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 195-9 passim.
21. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. IV, p. 47.
22. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section cxxviii.
23. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 67.
24. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section cxxviii.
25. ibid., section clviii.
26. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. IV, pp. 123-4.
27. Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, no. 31, Arabic.
28. Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 27.
29. ibid., p. 136.
30. Bahá'u'lláh, The Bahá'í Revelation, p. 138.
31. Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, nos. 46 and 47, Arabic.
32. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. I, p. 69.
33. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section clxiii.
34. Quoted by Fádil-i-Mázindarání in Asráru'l-Áthár, vol. IV, p. 19.
35. Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí, unpublished memoirs.
36. ibid.
37. ibid.
38. ibid.

CHAPTER 5: Tablet of Ahmad (ARABIC)

1. Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí, unpublished 'History of the Faith in the Province of Yazd'.
2. A report by the Bahá'í community of 'Ishqábád, quoted by Ishráq Khávarí in Muhádirát, p. 653 ff.
3. ibid.
4. Unpublished 'History of the Faith in the Province of Yazd'.
5. Account quoted in Muhádirát, p. 653 ff.
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6. Unpublished 'History of the Faith in the Province of Yazd'.
7. Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí, Bihjatu's-Sudúr, p. 254.
8. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section cxlii.
9. Bahá'u'lláh, Iqtidárát, pp. 294-5.
10. Bahá'u'lláh, 'Tablet of Ahmad', included in most Bahá'í prayer books.
11. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section lii.
12. Qur'án, ii. 23; quoted in the Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 131 (Brit.), p. 204 (U.S.).
13. Bahá'u'lláh, 'Tablet of Ahmad', included in most Bahá'í prayer books.
14. Qur'án, vii. 34.
15. Bahá'u'lláh, 'Tablet of Ahmad', included in most Bahá'í prayer books.
16. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. IV, p. 365.
17. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Fádil-i-Mázindarání in Amr Va Khalq, vol. III, p. 87.
18. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section clii.
19. Bahá'u'lláh, 'Tablet of Ahmad', included in most Bahá'í prayer books.
20. Quoted by Muhammad-'Alíy-i-Faizi, L'álíy-i-Darakhshán, p. 191.

CHAPTER 6: Lawh-i-Ahmad (PERSIAN)

1. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Fádil-i-Mázindarání, Asráru'l-Áthár, vol. V, p. 106.
2. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section cliii.
3. ibid., section clii.
4. Nabíl-i-A'zam, 'Panj Kanz', unpublished. It should not be assumed that the utterances of Bahá'u'lláh quoted are His exact words.
5. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 26.
6. Nabíl-i-A'zam, 'Panj Kanz'.
7. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section cliii.
8. Parts of this Tablet were translated by Shoghi Effendi and
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included in Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, sections lxxiii, lxxxiii and cxxiv.
9. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section lxxxiii.
10. ibid.
11. The Báb, quoted by Bahá'u'lláh in Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 141.
12. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section cliii.
13. ibid.
14. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. IV, p. 370.
15. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, pp. 407-8.
16. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section clii.
17. ibid., section cliii.

CHAPTER 7: THE FORCES OF EVIL GATHER MOMENTUM

1. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, pp. 165-6.
2. Quoted by Bahá'u'lláh in the Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 30 (Brit.), p. 46 (U.S.).
3. Quoted by Ni'matu'lláh-i-Baydá'í, Tadhkiriy-i-Shu'aráy-i-Qarn-i-Avval-i-Bahá'í, vol. II, p. 186.
4. Quoted by Ishráq Khávarí, Rahíq-i-Makhtúm, vol. II, p. 1201 ff.
5. ibid.
6. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 167.
7. ibid.
8. Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí, Bihjatu's-Sudúr, p. 76.
9. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, pp. 167-8.
10. ibid., p. 137.
11. Husayn-i-Áshchí, unpublished memoirs.

CHAPTER 8: THE PROMISED ONE OF THE Bayán: SOME TABLETS

1. Nabíl-i-A'zam, The Dawn-Breakers, p. 201 (Brit.), p. 181 (U.S.).
2. ibid., p. 203 (Brit.), pp. 283-4 (U.S.).
3. ibid., p. 195 (Brit.), pp. 273-5 (U.S.).
4. ibid., pp. 203-4 (Brit.), p. 284 (U.S.).
5. Shaykh Kázim-i-Samandar, Táríkh-i-Samandar, pp. 362-6.
6. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 67.
7. The Báb, quoted by Bahá'u'lláh in Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. VII, p. 213.
8. The Báb, Natíjatu'l-Bayán, p. 12.
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9. John, xii. 49.
10. Matthew, xvi. 27.
11. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted in The Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 93.
12. ibid., p. 27.
13. Bahá'u'lláh, Prayers and Meditations, clxxxiii.
14. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. VII, pp. 142-3.
15. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted in Synopsis and Codification of the Laws and Ordinances of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 11.
16. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section cxlvii.
17. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. IV, p. 352.
18. Mírzá 'Azízu'lláh-i-Misbáh, Díván-i-Misbáh, p. 366.
19. 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. IX, p. 128.
20. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section cxxviii.
21. ibid., section cxxxvi.

CHAPTER 9: SOME EARLY PILGRIMS

1. Qur'án, cxii.
2. Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí, Bihjatu's-Sudúr, p. 72 ff
3. ibid., p. 80 ff.
4. Nabíl-i-A'zam, The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 149-50 (Brit.), pp. 208-9 (U.S.).
5. The Bahá'í World, vol. VIII, pp. 261-2.
6. ibid.
7. Nabíl-i-A'zam, The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 315-16 (Brit.), pp. 431-3 (U.S.).
8. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 184.
9. Nabíl-i-A'zam, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 137.
10. Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, no. 59, Arabic.
11. ibid., no. 27, Persian.
12. ibid., no. 26, Persian.
13. ibid., no. 11, Persian.
14. ibid., no. 42, Arabic.
15. ibid., no. 7, Arabic.

CHAPTER 10: ILLUSTRIOUS MARTYRS

1. 'Abdu'l-Bahá, quoted by Fádil-i-Mázindarání in Asráru'l-Áthár, vol. V, p. 219.
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2. Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 73.
3. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 178.
4. Nabíl-i-A'zam, The Dawn-Breakers, p. 411 (Brit.), p. 562 (U.S.).
5. ibid.
6. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section lxix.
7. Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, pp. 73-4.
8. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section lii.
9. Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 124 (Brit.), pp. 194-5 (U.S.).
10. Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, no. 5, Arabic.
11. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section i.

CHAPTER 11: SOME SIGNIFICANT TABLETS

1. 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. II, p. 35.
2. Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, no. 57, Persian.
3. 'Abdu'l-Bahá, quoted in The Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 144.
4. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section xxxix.
5. Bahá'u'lláh, Áthár-i-Qalam-i-A'lá, vol. IV, pp. 368-72.
6. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section cxxxi.
7. ibid., section xlvi.
8. ibid., section lx.
9. Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 72.
10. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section lxxv.
11. ibid., section liii.
12. Qur'án, xli. 53.
13. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section xiv.
14. The Báb, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 30.
15. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section xliii.
16. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 171.
17. Quoted by Nabíl-i-A'zam, The Dawn-Breakers, p. 44 (Brit.), p. 65 (U.S.).
18. ibid., pp. 347-8 (Brit.), pp. 471-2 (U.S.).
19. ibid., pp. 348-9 (Brit.), p. 473 (U.S.).
20. Quoted by Muhammad 'Alíy-i-Faizi, L'álíy-i-Darakhshán, p. 458.
21. Matthew, xvii. 20.
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22. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. IV, pp. 175-6.
23. ibid., vol. I, p. 65.
24. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 242.
25. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. VIII, p. 40.
26. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 251.
27. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted in Synopsis and Codification of Laws and Ordinances of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 27.
28. Ustád Muhammad 'Alíy-i-Salmání, unpublished memoirs, quoted by Ishráq Khávarí, Rahíq-i-Makhtúm, vol. I, pp. 315-16.
29. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section xcvii.
30. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. I, p. 41.
31. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 171.

CHAPTER 12: TESTS OF FAITH

1. Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, pp. 131-2.
2. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come, p. 105.
3. ibid.
4. ibid., p. 72.
5. Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí, unpublished 'History of the Faith in the Province of Yazd'.
6. Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí, Bihjatu's-Sudúr, p. 74 ff.
7. ibid., pp. 75-6.
8. Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, no. 55, Arabic.
9. 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. II, p. 86.
10. Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, no. 51, Persian.
11. 'Abdu'l-Bahá, quoted by Mírzá Mahmúd-i-Zarqání, Kitáb-i-Badáyi'u'l-Áthár, vol. I, p. 185.
12. Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, nos. 80 and 82, Persian.
13. Bahá'u'lláh, 'Words of Wisdom', The Bahá'í Revelation, p. 138.

CHAPTER 13: Lawh-i-Salmán

1. Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí, Bihjatu's-Sudúr, p. 346.
2. Bahá'u'lláh, from a handwritten collection of Tablets.
3. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section lxxxi.
4. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 245.
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CHAPTER 14: CONFRONTATION WITH MÍRZÁ YAHYÁ

1. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, pp. 168-9.
2. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. VII, p. 240.
3. ibid., p. 241.
4. Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí, Bihjatu's-Sudúr, pp. 77-9.
5. II Thessalonians, ii. vv. 3, 4, 8; stated by Shoghi Effendi in a letter to Isfandíyár-i-Majzúb, 17 November 1935.
6. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, pp. 170-1.

CHAPTER 15: Súriy-i-Mulúk

1. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, p. 20.
2. Quoted by Lady Blomfield, The Chosen Highway, p. 123.
3. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section cv.
4. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, pp. 20-21.
5. ibid., p. 21.
6. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section cxvi.
7. ibid., section cxviii.
8. ibid.
9. ibid.
10. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, p. 1.
11. ibid., p. 121.
12. ibid.
13. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section cxvi.
14. ibid.
15. ibid., section cxiv.
16. ibid.
17. ibid.
18. ibid.
19. ibid., section lxv.
20. ibid.
21. ibid., section lxvi.
22. ibid.
23. ibid., section cxiii.
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24. ibid.
25. ibid.
26. ibid.
27. ibid.
28. ibid.
29. From an unpublished source.
30. Hájí Mírzá Haydar 'Alí, Bihjatu's-Sudúr, p. 164.

CHAPTER 16: TWO KINGS ARE SUMMONED

1. The Báb, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 21.
2. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, p. 70.
3. ibid., p. 41.
4. Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí, Bihjatu's-Sudúr, pp. 21-3.
5. Quoted by 'Azízu'lláh Sulaymání, Masábih-i-Hidáyat, vol. I, pp. 436-43.
6. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, pp. 40-41.
7. 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, p. 79 (Brit.), pp. 97-8 (U.S.).
8. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Fádil-i-Mázindarání, Asráru'l-Áthár, vol. II, pp. 17-18.
9. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, pp. 41-2.
10. ibid., p. 46.
11. Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 16.
12. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 117.
13. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, pp. 42-3.
14. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 186.
15. Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 17.
16. Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí, History of the Martyrs of Yazd, p. 95 ff.
17. ibid., p. 110.
18. Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí, unpublished 'History of the Faith in the Province of Yazd'.
19. Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, pp. 51-2.
20. ibid., p. 51.
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CHAPTER 17: THE Kitáb-i-Badí'

1. 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Memorials of the Faithful, pp. 24-5.
2. The Báb, quoted by Bahá'u'lláh, in the Kitáb-i-Badí', and also in English in Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 156.
3. ibid., p. 160.
4. ibid.
5. ibid., p. 141.
6. ibid., p. 160.
7. The Báb, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 30.
8. ibid., p. 29.
9. The Báb, quoted by Bahá'u'lláh, in the Kitáb-i-Badí', and also in English in Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 171.
10. ibid., pp. 154-5.
11. ibid., p. 153.
12. ibid., p. 155.
13. ibid., p. 153.
14. ibid., p. 159.
15. Nabíl-i-A'zam, The Dawn-Breakers, p. 139 (Brit.), pp. 191-2 (U.S.).
16. Quoted by Muhammad-'Alí Faizi, Khánidán-i-Afnán, pp. 169-70.
17. ibid., p. 161 ff.
18. ibid., pp. 165-6.

CHAPTER 18: Súriy-i-Ghusn

1. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 135.
2. ibid.
3. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 241.
4. 'Abdu'l-Bahá, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', op. cit., p. 133.
5. ibid., p. 138.
6. ibid., pp. 131-2.
7. ibid., p. 134.

CHAPTER 19: BAHÁ'U'LLÁH'S DEPARTURE FROM ADRIANOPLE

1. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 186.
2. Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, pp. 68-9.
3. Shaykh Kázim-i-Samandar, Táríkh-i-Samandar, p. 199.
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4. ibid., p. 268.
5. Bahá'u'lláh, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. IV, p. 173.
6. Bahá'u'lláh, Iqtidárát, p. 225.
7. 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. II, p. 12.
8. Quoted by Muhammad-'Alíy-i-Faizi, Hadrat-i-Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 195-6.
9. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 180.
10. Husayn-i-Áshchí, unpublished memoirs.
11. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, pp. 180-82.
12. Shaykh Kázim-i-Samandar, Táríkh-i-Samandar, pp. 222-3.
13. Quoted by Fádil-i-Mázindarání, Asráru'l-Áthár, vol. I, p. 131.
14. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, p. 62.
15. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, pp. 179-80.
16. ibid., p. 180.
17. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, p. 75.
18. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 105-6.
19. Qur'án, lv. 29. Quoted by Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 43 (Brit.), p. 67 (U.S.).
20. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section xvi.
21. Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come, pp. 14-15, 16, 121.

APPENDIX II: A VISIT TO ADRIANOPLE BY MARTHA L. ROOT

1. Martha Root, excerpts from an article in The Bahá'í World, Vol. V, p. 581.

APPENDIX III: HÁJÍ MÍRZÁ HAYDAR-'Alí OF ISFAHÁN

1. Hájí Mírzá Haydar 'Alí, Bihjatu's-Sudúr, p. 105.
2. ibid., p. 110.
3. ibid., p. 111.
4. ibid., p. 112.
5. ibid., p. 114.
6. ibid., p. 147.
7. ibid., pp. 147-8.
8. ibid., pp. 148-9.
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