REFERENCES

Full details of authors and titles are given in the Bibliography.

CHAPTER I: BAHÁ'U'LLÁH'S ARRIVAL AT 'AKKÁ

1. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 185.
2. Unpublished Tablet of Bahá'u'lláh.
3. Arabic no. 4.
4. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, Advent, p. 67.
5. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 184.
6. God Passes By, pp. 183-4.
7. Quoted by Ishráq Khávarí, Rahíq-i-Makhtúm, vol. 2, p. 771.
8. Reported in Fádil-i-Mázindarání, Asráru'l-Áthár, vol. 4, p. 349.
9. Quoted in Rahíq-i-Makhtúm, vol. I, p. 367.
10. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 186.
11. Unpublished Tablet of Bahá'u'lláh.
12. Fará'id, pp. 523-4, translated by Kházeh Fanánápazir.
13. Unpublished memoirs.
14. Gleanings, CXXXIX, 6.
15. Synopsis, p. 27.
16. Asráru'l-Áthár, vol. I, p. 103.
17. Gleanings, XIII, 1.

CHAPTER 2: 'THE CAUSE OF GOD WILL FLOURISH THROUGH PERSECUTION'

1. Unpublished.
2. Gleanings, XVII, 5.
3. Unpublished Tablet of Bahá'u'lláh.
4. Unpublished Tablet of Bahá'u'lláh.
5. Gleanings, XVI, 3.
6. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 5, p. 156.
7. The Hidden Words, Persian no. 57.
8. Unpublished memoirs, translated by Habíb Taherzadeh.

9. Unpublished.
10. Unpublished, except for the last part, a prayer translated by Shoghi Effendi, Prayers and Meditations of Bahá'u'lláh, no. 153.
11. Qur'án, ii. 154-5.
12. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, Advent, p. 67.
13. God Passes By, p. 324.
14. Will and Testament.
15. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, Bahá'í Administration, pp. 21-2.

CHAPTER 3: THE PRISONER

1. Published in Ishráq Khávarí, Risáliy-i-Ayyám-i-Tis'ih, p. 313.
2. Gleanings, CXXIV, 2.
3. 27 October 1914, reported by Mu'ayyad, Khátirát-i-Habíb, pp. 171-2.
4. Unpublished memoirs.

CHAPTER 4: TRUSTEES OF BAHÁ'U'LLÁH

1. Memorials of the Faithful, p. 46.
2. The Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 22.
3. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 219.
4. Zarqání, Badáyi'u'l-Áthár, vol. 2, pp. 395-7.
5. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 83.

CHAPTER 5: LAWH-I-FU'ÁD

1. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come, p. 63
2. Gleanings, CLIV, I.
3. Synopsis, pp. 15-16.
4. Quoted by Samandar, Táríkh-i-Samandar, p. 204.
5. Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 3 (Brit.), p. 3 (US).
6. From a treatise known as Risáliy-i-Iskandaríyyih.
7. From Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí's unpublished biography of Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl.
8. Synopsis, p. 14.
9. The Bahá'í World, vol. IX, p. 858.
10. Quoted by Mehrábkhání, Sharh-i-Ahvál-i-Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl-i-Gulpáygání, p. 342.
11. The Bahá'í World, vol. IX, p. 856.
12. ibid. p. 860.
13. Bahá'í Proofs, pp. 244-5.

CHAPTER 6: THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL RULERS

1. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 212.
2. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, p. 28.
3. ibid. pp. 29-30.
4. pp. 52-3.
5. Gleanings, CLVIII.
6. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 55.
7. The Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 83-5.
8. The Promised Day Is Come, pp. 55-6.
9. Proclamation, pp. 27-8.
10. ibid. p. 29.
11. ibid. p. 27.
12. Unpublished memoirs.
13. Proclamation, p. 33.
14. ibid. p. 34.
15. Gleanings, CXIX, 3.
16. 'The Unfoldment of World Civilization', The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 162-3.
17. Gleanings, CXX.
18. ibid.
19. 'The Goal of a New World Order', The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 33-4.
20. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 222.
21. Qur'án, viii. 63.

CHAPTER 7: SÚRIY-I-HAYKAL

1. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, pp. 47-8.
2. Quoted by Fádil-i-Mázindarání, Asráru'l-Áthár, vol. 5, p. 277.
3. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 109.
4. Gleanings, XIV, 16.
5. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 'Dispensation', idem, pp. 109-10.
6. ibid. p. 11O.
7. ibid. p. 109.
8. ibid. p. 138.
9. ibid. p. 107.
10. ibid. p. 117.
11. ibid.

12. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 250.
13. ibid. pp. 101-2.
14. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 'Dispensation', The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 109.
15. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, Advent, p. 66.
16. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 'Dispensation', The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 113.
17. ibid. p. 97.
18. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 'The Unfoldment of World Civilization', The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 169.

CHAPTER 8: KINGS AND ECCLESIASTICS

1. Synopsis, pp. 17-19.
2. ibid. p. 20.
3. ibid. p. 21.
4. ibid. p. 19.
5. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 'Unfoldment', The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 178.
6. Synopsis, p. 21.
7. 'Unfoldment', idem, pp. 173- 6.
8. Synopsis, pp. 20-21.
9. Gleanings, CXVIII, 6.
10. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, p. 72.
11. ibid.
12. Tablets, p. 28.
13. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, p. 76.
14. ibid. p. 73.
15. Synopsis, p. 19.
16. Unpublished memoirs.
17. Unpublished memoirs.
18. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, p. 91.
19. Synopsis, pp. 22-3.
20. ibid. pp. 26-7.
21. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, pp. 85-6.
22. ibid. pp. 76-7.
23. Qur'án, xxiii. 14.
24. From the memoirs of Mírzá 'Azízu'lláh-Jadhdháb, quoted by Sulaymání, Masábih-i-Hidáyat, vol. 7.

CHAPTER 9: THE PRIDE OF MARTYRS

1. Translated and quoted by Balyuzi, Bahá'u'lláh The King of Glory, p. 299.
2. Quoted in Faizi, L'álíy-i-Darakhshán, p. 396.
3. Áthár-i-Qalam-i-A'lá, vol. I, p. 166.
4. ibid. p. 169.
5. ibid. p. 189.
6. Bihjatu's-Sudúr, p. 243.
7. ibid. p. 244.
8. ibid. p. 245.
9. Quoted by Malik Khosroví, Táríkh-i-Shuhadáy-i-Amr, vol. 3, p. 368.
10. Translated by Balyuzi, Bahá'u'lláh The King of Glory, pp. 304-9.
11. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 4, pp. 175-6.
12. Unpublished History.
13. The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 245-8.
14. Áthár-i-Qalam-i-A'lá, vol. I, p. 208.
15. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 4, p. 34.
16. Quoted by Faizi, L'álíy-i-Darakhshán, p. 411-412.
17. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 4, p. 34.
18. Ishráqát, a compilation, p. 247.
19. Unpublished memoirs.
20. Áthár-i-Qalam-i-A'lá, vol. I, pp. 189-91.
21. Quoted by Muhammad'-'Alíy-i-Faizi, L'álíy-i-Darakhshán, p. 191.

CHAPTER 10: THE DEATH OF THE PUREST BRANCH

1. Unpublished memoirs.
2. ibid.
3. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 21 December 1939, 'The Spiritual Potencies of that Consecrated Spot', Messages to America, p. 34.
4. God Passes By, p. 188.
5. Letter to the believers in the East, 25 December 1939.
6. Letter to the believers in the East, Ridván 89 (= April 1933).
7. Quoted in Messages to America, p. 34.
8. 25 December 1939.
9. Messages to America, pp. 32-3.
10. Quoted in Messages to America, pp. 33-4.

11. Quoted by Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí, unpublished biography of Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl, p. 150.
12. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 126.
13. ibid. p. 257.
14. ibid. p. 88.

CHAPTER 11: THE WRONGED ONE OF THE WORLD

1. Qad Ihtaraqa'l-Mukhlisún (The Fire Tablet).
2. ibid.
3. Quoted in Ishráqát, a compilation, p. 15.
4. Gleanings, CXXX.
5. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, pp. 42-3.
6. Ibid. p. 47.
7. Unpublished.
8. God Passes By, pp. 189-91.
9. Synopsis, p. 22.
10. p. 190.
11. Gleanings, XXXVI.
12. Quoted by Fádil-i-Mázindarání, Asráru'l-Áthár, vol. 2, pp. 164-5.
13. Qur'án, vi. 59.
14. ibid. xix. 18.
15. ibid. iii. 183.
16. Risáliy-i-Iskandaríyyih, a treatise by Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl.
17. Bihjatu's-Sudúr, p. 158.
18. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 7, pp. 236-8.

CHAPTER 12: FIRST CONVERTS OUTSIDE THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY

1. The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 100-101.
2. ibid. pp. 147-8.
3. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 4, p. 362.
4. Memorials of the Faithful, p. 8.
5. 'History of the Faith in the Province of Yazd', unpublished.
6. God Passes By, pp. 93-4.
7. Táríkh-i-Samandar, p. 348.
8. Unpublished.
9. A Traveller's Narrative, p. 34.
10. Majmú'iy-i-Alváh, p. 259.
11. Gleanings, CVI.
12. Quoted in The Promised Day Is Come, pp. 79-80.

CHAPTER 13: KITÁB-I-AQDAS. 1. THE LAW OF GOD

1. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 216.
2. ibid.
3. Quoted by Fádil-i Mázindarání, Amr Va Khalq, vol. I, p. 8.
4. ibid. p. 10.
5. Synopsis, pp. 3-5.
6. God Passes By, p. 214.
7. Quoted in Principles of Bahá'í Administration, p. 7.
8. Letter of 23 February 1976.
9. Synopsis, p. 6.
10. ibid. p. ix.
11. Quoted in Principles of Bahá'í Administration, pp. 6-7.
12. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 7, p. 119.
13. Synopsis, p. 11.
14. ibid. pp. 11-12.
15. 'The Unfoldment of World Civilization', The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 199.
16. Synopsis, p. 11.
17. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 164.
18. The Hidden Words, Arabic no. 2.
19. Lawh-i-Maqsúd, in Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 164.
20. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 7, pp. 119-25.
21. Synopsis, p. 12.
22. ibid. p. 17.
23. ibid. pp. 24-5.
24. Unpublished memoirs.
25. ibid.
26. Unpublished memoirs.
27. ibid.
28. Mr. 'Alí-Akbar Furútan, Hand of the Cause of God, heard this story from Siyyid Mihdí several times and recorded it in one of his reminiscences.
29. Synopsis, p. 18.
30. The Báb, Selections, pp. 6-8.
31. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 2, p. 79.
32. Quoted in Selections from the Writings of the Báb, pp. 6-7.

CHAPTER 14: KITÁB-I-AQDAS. 2. A NEW WORLD ORDER

1. Synopsis, p. 27.

2. 'The Unfoldment of World Civilization', in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 190
3. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, ibid. p. 202.
4. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 'The Goal of a New World Order', The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 33.
5. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, p. 121.
6. 'The Unfoldment of World Civilization', The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 168-9.
7. The Promised Day Is Come, pp. 128- 9.
8. Synopsis, p. 13.
9. Lawh-i-Maqsúd, in Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 168.
10. Consultation: A Compilation, p. 3.
11. ibid.
12. ibid. p. 9.
13. ibid. pp. 8-9.
14. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 332.
15. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 128-9.

CHAPTER 15: KITÁB-I-AQDAS. 3. DIVINE EDUCATION

1. Prayer, Meditation and the Devotional Attitude, p. 1.
2. Synopsis, p. 27.
3. ibid. pp. 15-16.
4. Makátíb-i-'Abdu'l-Bahá, vol. 3, p. 333.
5. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 51-2.
6. ibid. p. 68.
7. Bahá'í Education, p. 2.
8. Selections, pp. 126-7.
9. ibid. p. 127.
10. ibid.
11. Bahá'í Education, p. 52.
12. From a letter written on his behalf, 7 June 1939, quoted in Bahá'í Education, p. 70.
13. See Synopsis, pp. 43-6.
14. Makátíb-i-'Abdu'l-Bahá, vol. 8, p. 51.
15. pp. 18-34.
16. Gleanings, CLVIII.
17. Tablets of the Divine Plan, p. 51.
18. Bahá'í Administration, p. 66.
19. Quoted by Fádil-i-Mázindarání, Amr va Khalq, vol. 3, p. 121.

20. Bihjatu's-Sudúr, p. 257.
21. Portals to Freedom, pp. 39-40.
22. ibid. pp. 54-9.

CHAPTER 16: KITÁB-I-AQDAS. 4. WORSHIP AND DAILY LIFE

1. Bahá'í Writings on Music, p. 3.
2. ibid.
3. Quoted in The Bahá'í World, vol. III, pp. 159-63.
4. Quoted by Fádil-i-Mázindarání, Amr Va Khalq, vol. 4, p. 92.
5. ibid. p. 93.
6. Bahá'u'lláh, Tablets, p. 26.
7. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 4, p. 33.
8. Tablets, p. 71.
9. ibid. p. 24.
10. ibid. pp. 24-5.
11. Synopsis, p. 24.
12. Persian no. 24.
13. Persian no. 25.
14. Persian no. 35.
15. Letter of 8 June 1948.
16. Unpublished memoirs.
17. Khátirát-i-Nuh-Sáliy-i-'Akká, p. 336.
18. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, pp. 26-7.
19. ibid. p. 25.
20. Synopsis. p. 17.
21. Selections, p. 117.
22. ibid. p. 118.
23. Bahá'í Writings on Music, p. 3.
24. Bahá'í World Faith, p. 378.
25. Synopsis, p. 25.
26. Arabic no. 68.
27. Persian no. 48.

CHAPTER 17: KITÁB-I-AQDAS. 5. THE COVENANT OF BAHÁ'U'LLÁH

1. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 221.
2. Synopsis, p. 27.
3. ibid. p. 24.
4. ibid. p. 16.
5. Quoted by The Universal House of Justice, 7 December 1969.

6. Synopsis, p. 23.
7. The Brilliant Proof, pp. 24-6.
8. Arabic no. 5.
9. Bihjatu's-Sudúr, pp. 242-3.
10. Arabic no. 42.
11. Synopsis, p. 16.
12. Lawh-i-Tibb (Tablet of Medicine) in Majmú'iy-i-Alváh.
13. Panj Sha'n.
14. Tablets, p. 84.
15. ibid. pp. 263-4.
16. Unpublished.
17. Gleanings, CXXIX, 3.
18. Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, p. 348, quoted in The Individual and Teaching, p. 9.
19. 28 March 1953, quoted in The Individual and Teaching, p. 32.
20. Synopsis, p. 14.
21. Unpublished memoirs.
22. Memorials, pp. 92-3.
23. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 5, p. 280.
24. Memorials, p. 93.
25. Tablets, pp. 148-9.
26. Qur'án, iv. 29. This spoken chronicle is published in Gulzár-i-Na'ím, p. 19.
27. Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 95.
28. God Passes By, pp. 93-4.
29. ibid. p. 216.
30. Synopsis, pp. 14-15.
31. ibid. pp. 16-17.
32. Bihjatu's-Sudúr, p. 249.
33. Synopsis, pp. 27-8.
34. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 9, p. 26.

CHAPTER 18: LAST DAYS WITHIN THE CITADEL

1. Bihjatu's-Sudúr, pp. 156-7.
2. Memorials, pp. 67-9.
3. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 1, pp. 59-60.
4. Makátíb-i-'Abdu'l-Bahá, vol. 4, p. 14.
5. Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 134.

6. Khátirát-i-Nuh-Sáliy-i-'Akká, pp. 331-6.
7. Unpublished memoirs.
8. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 8, p. 63.
9. Unpublished memoirs.
10. A Tablet to Bashíru's-Sultán.
11. Quoted in Esslemont, Bahá'u'lláh and New Era, pp. 34-5.
12. Memorials, pp. 26-7.
13. God Passes By, pp. 195-6.
14. Gleanings, XLV.

APPENDIX I: THE TRANSFER OF THE REMAINS OF THE BÁB

1. Nabíl-i-A'zam, The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 617-18.
2. God Passes By, p. 276.

APPENDIX II: MÍRZÁ ABU'L-FADL OF GULPÁYGÁN

1. Quoted in Kitábu'l-Fará'id, p. 424.
2. ibid. p. 429.
3. Unpublished biography of Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl.
4. Article in Majillatu'l-Bayán, a magazine, months of Shavvál and Dhíqa'dih, AH 1313.
5 . Mehrábkhání, Sharh-i-Ahvál-i-Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl-i-Gulpáygání, pp. 16-17.
6. ibid. pp. 328-9.
7. 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Selections, pp. 147-50.
8. Gleanings, CLIV, I.

APPENDIX III: THE BURIAL OF THE PUREST BRANCH AND THE MOTHER OF 'ABDU'L-BAHÁ

1. Printed in The Bahá'í World, Vol. VIII, pp. 253-8.