REFERENCES

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

CHAPTER 1: BAHÁ'U'LLÁH AT THE MANSION OF MAZRA'IH

1. Blomfield, Chosen Highway, pp. 100-101.
2. Bihjatu's-Sudúr, pp. 251-2.

CHAPTER 2: THE GARDEN OF RIDVÁN

1. Psalms 46:4 and 5.
2. Isaiah 33:21.
3. The story of Hájí Yahúdá was given to the present writer by his nephew Mr Nusrat'u'lláh Majzub.
4. Blomfield, Chosen Highway, p. 97.
5. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 121-2.
6. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 4, p. 25. This English translation is published in Trustworthiness, compilation by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, p. 3, no. 12.
7. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p.37.
8. ibid, pp. 120-21.
9. ibid. p. 121.
10. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 28, p. 58.
11. The story of Hájí Muhammad's travel to Jaddih was given to the present writer by his son, Mr Azíz Yazdí.
12. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 9, pp. 106-7. This English translation, Trustworthiness, p. 13, no. 47.
13. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 9, p. 96. This English translation, Trustworthiness, p. 14, no. 48.

14. Gleanings, CXIV.
15. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 63.
16. Maxwell, An Early Pilgrimage, pp. 32-4.
17. Khátirát-i-Habíb, vol. 1, pp. 458-9.

CHAPTER 3: LAWH-I-HIKMAT

1. Memorials of the Faithful, pp. 4-5.
2. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 137-8.
3. ibid. p. 138.
4. Áthár-i-Qalam-i-A'lá, vol. 5, pp. 110-11.
5. Qur'án 15:99.
6. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee no. 38, p. 251.
7. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 138-9.
8. Letter dated 4 November 1931.
9. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 139-40.
10. ibid.
11. Áthár-i-Qalam-i-A'lá, vol. 7, p. 113.
12. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 140.
13. Some Answered Questions, ch. 80, p. 280.
14. ibid. p. 281.
15. Gleanings, LXXXI, p. 157.
16. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 140.
17. ibid.
18. Readers are referred to a scholarly article in Persian by Dr Vahíd Ra'fatí, published in 'Andalíb, no. 19.
19. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 4, p. 24.
20. John 1:1.
21. Isaiah 55:10-11.
22. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 141.
23. ibid. pp. 140-41.
24. Some Answered Questions, ch. 53, p. 203.
25. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 142.
26. Mu'assisiy-i-Ayádíy-i-Amru'lláh, vol. 2, pp. 64-7.
27. Qur'án 10:94.
28. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, pp. 165, 167.
29. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 148-9.

30. ibid. p. 143.

CHAPTER 4: VARQÁ, APOSTLE OF BAHÁ'U'LLÁH

1. Memorials of the Faithful, pp. 85-6.
2. Related by Varqá's son, the Hand of the Cause of God Valíyy'u'lláh Varqá, to the Hand of the Cause of God Dhikru'lláh Khadem.
3. Qur'án 22:5.
4. Hidden Words, Persian no. 59.
5. Bihjatu's-Sudúr, p. 413.
6. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee no. 19, p. 279.
7. Hidden Words, Arabic no. 42.
8. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 65.
9. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee no. 19, pp. 303-4.
10. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee no. 32, p. 317.
11. Iqtidárát, p. 301.
12. Hidden Words, Arabic no. 59.
13. ibid. Persian no. 27.
14. ibid. Persian no. 26.
15. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 2.
16. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 219.
17. Áthár-i-Qalam-i-A'lá, vol. 2, pp. 48-9.
18. Unpublished; dated 29 Rabí'u'l-Avval 1304 (26 December 1886).
19. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee no. 19, p. 338.
20. Gleanings, LXI.
21. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 84.

CHAPTER 5: THE KING AND BELOVED OF THE MARTYRS

1. Núrayn-i-Nayyirayn, p. 147.
2. ibid. pp. 131-2.
3. ibid. p. 135.

4. Hidden Words, Persian no. 53.
5. Núrayn-i-Nayyirayn, p. 136.
6. Iqtidárát, p. 27.
7. Gleanings, CXLII, pp. 308-9.
8. ibid. C, p. 204.
9. Núrayn-i-Nayyirayn, p. 139.
10. ibid. pp. 146-7.
11. ibid. pp. 169-70.
12. ibid. pp. 185-6.
13. ibid. p. 151.
14. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 28, P. 517.

CHAPTER 6: A DIVINE REBUKE: LAWH-I-BURHÁN

1. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 207.
2. ibid. p. 205.
3. ibid. p. 207.
4. ibid. p. 209.
5. ibid. p. 210.
6. ibid. p. 213.
7. ibid. p. 205.
8. ibid. p. 207-8.
9. ibid. p. 208-9.
10. ibid. p. 214.
11. ibid. p. 215.
12. ibid. p. 214.
13. ibid. pp. 215-16.
14. ibid. p. 211.
15. ibid. p. 213.
16. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come, p. 19.
17. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 28, P. 364.
18. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 61-2.
19. Synopsis, p. 26.
20. God Passes By, pp. 232-3.

CHAPTER 7: THE MANSION OF BAHJÍ

1. God Passes By, p. 193.
2. Áthár-i-Qalam-i-A'lá, vol. 5, p. 135.
3. Masábih-i-Hidáyat, vol. 5, pp. 456-7.
4. Asráru'l-Áthár, vol. 4, p. 52.
5. Áthár-i-Qalam-i-A'lá, vol. 1, p. 302.
6. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 73, p. 338.
7. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 8, pp. 147-8.
8. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 15, p. 1.
9. God Passes By, p. 216.

CHAPTER 8: THE DAY OF GOD: TAJALLÍYÁT

1. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 49.
2. God Passes By, p. 300.
3. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 64.
4. ibid. p. 65.
5. ibid. p. 67.
6. ibid. p. 66.
7. ibid.
8. Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 106-7.
9. ibid. p. 104.
10. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 53.
11. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 41, p. 4.
12. 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 112-13.
13. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, ibid. p. 113.
14. ibid.
15. Prayers and Meditations, no. 176.
16. ibid. no. 183.
17. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 9, p. 24.
18. Amr Va Khalq, vol. 1 , p. 71.

19. Bahá'í World Faith, pp. 342-3.
20. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 109.
21. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 65.
22. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 104.
23. ibid. p. 113.
24. Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand, p. 41.
25. Bihjatu's-Sudúr, pp. 72-3.
26. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 47.
27. Synopsis, p. 27, also in Gleanings, LXX.
28. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 50.
29. ibid. p. 51.
30. Ishráqát (A compilation of the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh), p. 196.

CHAPTER 9: SPLENDOURS OF THE REVELATION: ISHRÁQÁT

1. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 2, pp. 74-5.
2. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 103.
3. ibid. p. 105.
4. ibid. pp. 106-7.
5. ibid. p. 108.
6. Kitábu'l-Fará'id, pp. 492-3. An edited version of a translation made by Dr Kházeh Fanánápazir.
7. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 107.
8. ibid, pp. 117-18.
9. Daniel 12:8-9.
10. Qur'án 7:34.
11. Gleanings, LXI.
12. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 41, p,. 331.
13. Áthár-i-Qalam-i-A'lá, vol. 5, pp. 113.
14. ibid. vol. 4, p. 19.
15. Gleanings, CIII.
16. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 129.
17. Nafahát-i-Quds, pp. 5-8.

CHAPTER 10: GLAD-TIDINGS TO ALL PEOPLES: BISHÁRÁT

1. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 27, p. 491.
2. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 22.
3. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 4, p. 33.
4. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 24.
5. ibid. p. 26.
6. ibid. p. 24.
7. Quoted by A. Sulaymání, Masábih-i-Hidáyat, vol. 1, p. 488.
8. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 2, p. 105.
9. ibid. p. 88.
10. Dawn of a New Day, pp. 77-8.
11. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 28.

CHAPTER 11: TRUTHS OF THE CAUSE: TARÁZÁT

1. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 33.
2. Khátirát-i-Habíb, vol. 1, p. 81.
3. ibid. p. 449.
4. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 33.
5. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 41, p. 241.
6. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 35.
7. ibid. p. 42.
8. ibid.
9. ibid p. 79.
10. ibid. p. 42.

CHAPTER 12: THE LIGHT OF FAITH REACHES INDIA AND BURMA

1. Táríkh-i-Samandar, p. 213.
2. Masábih-i-Hidáyat, vol. 8, pp. 134-6.
3. Memorials of the Faithful, p. 136.
4. ibid. pp. 136-7.
5. ibid. pp. 137-8.
6. Zarqání, Badáyi'u'l-Áthár, vol. 2. p. 158.

CHAPTER 13: THE MEANING OF UNITY

1. Quoted in a letter from the Universal House of Justice to the Persian Bahá'ís, 10 February 1980.
2. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 143.
3. Áthár-i-Qalam-i-A'lá, vol. 8, p. 57.
4. Ishráqát (A compilation of the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh), p. 230.
5. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 18, p. 382.
6. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 9, p. 129.
7. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 64.
8. Gleanings, CXXXII.
9. Lawh-i-Maqsúd, Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 164.
10. Gleanings, CXXXI.
11. ibid. CXI.
12. ibid. XCIII.
13. Qur'án 4:33.
14. Women (comp.), p. 1.
15. ibid. p. 2.
16. ibid.
17. ibid. pp. 2-3.
18. Selections, p. 302.
19. ibid. pp. 79-80.

CHAPTER 14: SÚRIY-I-VAFÁ

1. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 187-8; also Gleanings LXXIX.
2. ibid. p. 185.
3. ibid. p. 182.
4. ibid. p. 186.
5. ibid. pp. 184-5.
6. Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 223.
7. See The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 256-65.
8. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 183, 184, 185 passim.
9. ibid. p. 189.
10. ibid. p. 190.
11. ibid. p. 188.
12. Synopsis, p. 22.

CHAPTER 15: KALIMÁT-I-FIRDAWSÍYYIH

1. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 64.
2. Long Obligatory Prayer, Prayers and Meditations no. 183.
3. Quoted by May Maxwell, An Early Pilgrimage, p. 40.
4. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 61-2.
5. ibid. pp. 78-9.
6. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 28, p. 292.
7. Áthár-i-Qalam-i-A'lá, vol. 5, p. 63.
8. ibid. vol. I, p. 309.
9. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 74-5.
10. ibid. p. 75.
11. ibid. pp. 75-6.
12. ibid. p. 61.
13. Dated AH 1339.
14. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 69.
15. Quoted by Lady Blomfield, The Chosen Highway, p. 184.
16. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 59-60.

CHAPTER 16: OTHER OUTSTANDING TABLETS

1. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 11.
2. ibid. pp. 9-10.
3. ibid. p. 14.
4. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come, pp. 104-5 .
5. ibid. p. 105.
6. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 13.
7. Quoted by David Hofman, A Life of George Townshend, p. 49.
8. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 13.
9. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 'America and the Most Great Peace', The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 74-5.
10. Citadel of Faith, p. 130.
11. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 16-17.
12. ibid. p. 169.
13. ibid. p. 200.
14. Bihjatu's-Sudúr, p. 184.

CHAPTER 17: 'THE DOORS OF MAJESTY...WERE FLUNG WIDE OPEN'

1. God Passes By, p. 193.
2. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 227-8.
3. God Passes By, pp. 193, 195-6.
4. Unpublished compilation in the handwriting of Zaynu'l-Muqarrabín.
5. Áthár-i-Qalam-i-A'lá, vol. 1, p. 310.
6. Iqtidárát, p. 292.
7. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 18, p. 24.
8. ibid. p. 546.
9. ibid. no. 31, p. 168.
10. ibid. p. 169.
11. ibid. p. 205.
12. Áthár-i-Qalam-i-A'lá, vol. 7, p. 236.
13. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 56.
14. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 25.
15. ibid. pp. 19-20, 26.
16. Huqúq'u'lláh, no. 10.
17. ibid. no. 18.
18. ibid. no. 80.
19. ibid. no. 9.
20. ibid. no. 27.
21. Iqtidárát, p. 292.
22. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 27, pp. 206-7.
23. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 28, p. 482. Translation by the author, approved at the Bahá'í World Centre.

CHAPTER 18: NOTABLE TEACHERS OF THE FAITH

1. Quoted by R. Mehrábkhání, Sharh-i-Ahvál-i-Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl-i-Gulpáygání, pp. 88-9.
2. ibid. pp. 89-91.
3. Bahá'í World, vol. IX, pp. 857-8.

4. Quoted by Mehrábkhání, op. cit. p. 94. The quotation from the Qur'án is from Súrih 7, v. 180.
5. Bahá'í World, vol. IX, p. 859.
6. Quoted by Mehrábkhání, op. cit. pp. 119-24.
7. ibid.
8. Bihjatu's-Sudúr, pp. 219-20.
9. ibid. p. 220.

CHAPTER 19: THE ROLE OF THE HANDS OF THE CAUSE OF GOD

1. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 27, p. 281.
2. ibid. no. 22, p. 9.
3. Iqtidárát, p. 249.
4. Hidden Words, Persian no. 56.
5. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 15, p. 96.
6. Khánidán-i-Afnán, p. 221.
7. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 23, p. 273.
8. Áthár-i-Qalam-i-A'lá, vol. 6, p. 327.
9. Cited in Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 2, p. 13.
10. ibid.
11. ibid. vol. 7, p. 36.
12. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 15, p. 385.
13. Mu'assisiy-i-Ayádíy-i-Amru'lláh p. 11.
14. ibid. p. 12.
15. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 83.
16. Letter dated 19 May 1969 to a National Spiritual Assembly.
17. Mu'assisiy-i-Ayádíy-i-Amru'lláh , p. 425.
18. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 15, p. 71.

CHAPTER 20: LIVES OF THE HANDS OF THE CAUSE APPOINTED BY BAHÁ'U'LLÁH

1. A good deal of research on their lives has been carried out by the

learned scholar of the Faith, Dr Shápúr Rásekh, and published in Persia in the Bahá'í periodical Ahang-i-Badí', Nos. 3-5 (BE 107) and Nos. 7-12 (BE 129). The author is indebted to Dr Rássekh for much of the material in this chapter.
2. Memorials of the Faithful, pp. 9-10.
3. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 27, p. 394.
4. Memorials of the Faithful, p. 10.
5. ibid. pp. 10-11.
6. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 4, p. 360.
7. Mu'assisiy-i-Ayádíy-i-Amru'lláh, p. 391.
8. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 19, p. 421.
9. Mu'assisiy-i-Ayádíy-i-Amru'lláh, pp. 394-5.
10. Memorials of the Faithful, p. 11.
11. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 15, p. 435.
12. ibid. p. 414.
13. Memorials of the Faithful, pp. 11-12.
14. Mu'assisiy-i-Ayádíy-i-Amru'lláh, p. 466.
15. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 27, p. 351.
16. ibid. p. 314.
17. ibid. p. 222.
18. Shoghi Effendi in The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 70.
19. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 27, p. 178.
20. Mu'assisiy-i-Ayádíy-i-Amru'lláh, p. 422.
21. ibid. p. 424.
22. ibid. p. 442.
23. Tablet inscribed on the photograph of Ibn-i-Abhar.
24. Mu'assisiy-i-Ayádíy-i-Amru'lláh, pp. 430-31.

CHAPTER 21: TABLETS TO THE HANDS OF THE CAUSE

1. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 27, p. 354. Shoghi Effendi's English translation is well-known to

Bahá'ís and appears on the title-page of Bahá'í Prayers (Wilmette, Illinois: Bahá'í publishing Trust, 1982).
2. Bahá'í Meetings, p. 21.
3. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 28, p. 157.
4. ibid. p. 190.
5. ibid. no. 27, p. 394.
6. ibid. p. 419.
7. ibid. pp. 379-80.
8. ibid. no. 28, p. 3.
9. ibid. no. 27, p. 297.
10. ibid. no. 28, pp. 7-8.
11. ibid. no. 27, p. 226.
12. ibid. no. 15, p. 395.
13. Hidden Words, Persian no. 11.
14. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 28, p. 190.
15. ibid. no. 27, p. 230.
16. ibid. no. 28, p. 191.
17. ibid. no. 27, p. 264.
18. ibid. no. 28, p. 179.
19. ibid. no. 15, pp. 423-4.
20. Quoted by Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí, Bihjatu's-Sudúr, pp. 426-7.
21. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 27, p. 314.
22. Quoted by Nabíl-i-A'zam, The Dawn-Breakers, p. 94.
23. Bihjatu's-Sudúr, pp. 316-17.
24. Bahá'í News (later Star of the West), 1910, vol. I, no. 18. The author is grateful to Mr. Rahbar Agah for supplying the photograph of Saráju'l-Hukamá and William Patchin on page 327.

CHAPTER 22: 'FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE WORLD': LAWH-I-DUNYÁ

1. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 83.
2. ibid. pp. 86, 89.
3. ibid. p. 88.
4. ibid. pp. 87-8.

5. Persian no. 3.
6. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 87.
7. ibid. p. 94.
8. ibid. pp. 96-7.
9. ibid. pp. 90-91.
10. Ustád 'Alí-Akbar-i-Banná, unpublished history of 'Ishqábád.
11. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 85.
12. God Passes By, pp. 201-2.
13. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 4, pp. 129-30. The extract printed here has been authorized by the Universal House of Justice.

CHAPTER 23: THE CHARTER FOR THE WORLD CENTRE: LAWN-I-KARMIL

1. Gleanings, XI.
2. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 13.
3. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 19, pp. 262-3.
4. ibid. no. 73, p. 363.
5. Gleanings, XI.
6. Isaiah 35:1-2.
7. Gleanings, XI.
8. ibid.
9. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 84.
10. Gleanings, XI.
11. God Passes By, p. 194.
12. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 276.
13. Citadel of Faith, p. 95.
14. Bahá'í World, vol. XII, p. 239.
15. Gleanings, XI.
16. Isaiah 2:2-4.
17. God Passes By, p. 348.
18. Messages to the Bahá'í World, pp. 74-5.

CHAPTER 24: EPISTLE TO THE SON OF THE WOLF

1. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, pp. 3-8.
2. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 148-9.

3. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 11.
4. ibid.
5. ibid. p. 12.
6. ibid p. 13.
7. ibid.
8. ibid. p. 14.
9. ibid.
10. ibid.
11. ibid. p. 15.
12. ibid.
13. ibid. p. 23.
14. ibid.
15. ibid. p. 24.
16. ibid.
17. ibid. p. 26.
18. ibid. p. 27.
19. ibid. p. 50.
20. ibid. p. 54.
21. ibid. p. 137.
22. ibid. p. 135.
23. ibid. pp. 93-4.
24. ibid. pp. 21-2.
25. ibid. p. 25.
26. ibid.
27. ibid. p. 29.
28. ibid. pp. 88-9.
29. ibid. p. 137.
30. ibid. p. 74.
31. ibid. pp. 71-2.
32. ibid. p. 72.
33. ibid.
34. ibid. p. 73.
35. God Passes By, p. 201.
36. Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 219.
37. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, pp. 63-4.
38. ibid. pp. 76-7.
39. ibid. p. 94.

CHAPTER 25: EPISTLE TO THE SON OF THE WOLF (continued)

1. Gleanings, XLVI.
2. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, pp. 33-5.
3. ibid. pp. 122-3.
4. ibid. pp. 125-6.
5. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 19, p. 455.
6. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, pp. 108-10.
7. Unpublished compilation, National Archives Committee, no. 15, pp. 404-5.
8. ibid. no. 27, pp. 343-4.
9. ibid. no. 31, p. 32.
10. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 5, pp. 18-19.
11. Asráru'l-Áthár, vol. 1, p. 21.
12. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 108.
13. ibid. p. 106.
14. ibid. pp. 67-8.
15. Memorials of the Faithful, pp. 21-2.
16. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 41.
17. Qur'án, 112.
18. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, pp. 41-2.
19. ibid. p. 43.
20. ibid. p. 116.
21. ibid. pp. 144-5.
22. ibid. pp. 145-6.
23. ibid. pp. 141, 142.
24. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, pp. 118-19.
25. ibid. p. 17.
26. ibid. p. 18.
27. ibid. p. 36.
28. ibid. p. 42.
29. ibid. p. 67.
30. ibid. p. 76.
31. ibid. pp. 105-6.
32. ibid. p. 96.
33. ibid. pp. 139-40.
34. ibid. pp. 113-14.

CHAPTER 26: THE ASCENSION OF BAHÁ'U'LLÁH

1. Hidden Words, Persian no. 15.
2. Ishráq Khávarí, Ayyám-i-Tis'ih, pp. 399-406.
3. God Passes By, pp. 222-3.
4. Ishráq Khávarí, Ayyám-i-Tis'ih, pp. 404-5.
5. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 'The Unfoldment of World Civilization', The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 204-5.
6. ibid. p. 205.

APPENDIX I: THE PEOPLE OF 'ÁD AND THAMÚD; HUD; SÁLIH AND THE SHE-CAMEL

1. Qur'án, 69:6.
2. Qur'án, 7:77-8.
3. Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. 2, pp. 99-100.
4. Kitáb-i-Íqán, pp. 5-6.
5. ibid. pp. 9-10.