Part I of this index consists of the titles of Tablets and Writings of Bahá'u'lláh. Part II contains all other general entries. Titles of Tablets and books are italicized. Footnotes are indicated by the abbreviation 'n.' after the page number; if the name or subject occurs both in the text and in a note, this is indicated by 'p. -- and n.'. Principal themes are shown by bold figures.

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Key:

{BP}   = Bahá'í Prayers
{DBNN} = Dawn-Breakers, Nabíl's Narrative
{ESW}  = Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
{GL}   = Gleanings From The Writings Of Bahá'u'lláh
{GPB}  = God Passes By
{KA}   = The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
{KI}   = The Kitáb-i-Íqán
{PM}   = Prayers and Meditations
{ROB1} = The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, Volume 1 (Baghdad 1853-63)
{ROB2} = The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, Volume 2 (Adrianople 1863-68)
{ROB3} = The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, Volume 3 (Akka, The Early Years 1868-77)
{ROB4} = The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, Volume 4 (Mazra'ih & Bahjí 1877-92)
{SVFV} = The Seven Valleys And The Four Valleys
{SAQ}  = Some Answered Questions
{TOB}  = Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas

I. TABLETS AND WRITINGS OF BAHÁ'U'LLÁH 'Nine Categories' Alwáh-i-Maryam,

{ROB1: 13}
Maryam (cousin of Bahá'u'lláh), recipient of, {ROB1: 12-13, 61, 122, 124}

Asl-i-Kullu'l-Khayr (Words of Wisdom), see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Az-Bágh-i-Iláhí (ode), {ROB1: 211, 218-20}
Bahá'í Prayers,

index of prayers revealed by Bahá'u'lláh, {BP: Author Index}
see also Prayer(s)

Bishárát, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Epistle to the Son of the Wolf,

{GPB: 219, 238}
{ROB1: quoted, 10, 50, 249, 251-2, 253-4}
{ROB2: 206; quoted, 43, 95-6, 223, 230, 247, 270, 350, 400}
{ROB3: 390}
{ROB4: chs. 24-25, Appendix III}
{TOB: 203}
Anthology of Bahá'u'lláh's Writings,

on

calumnies of Azalís, {ROB4: 405}
Presence of God, {ROB4: 408}
suffering, {ROB4: 402}
use of force, {ROB4: 377-8}
worthlessness of world, {ROB4: 249}

re-revelation of Tablets,

{ROB4: 372-4}
quotes from His own Writings, {ROB4: 153n.}
Tablet for Hájí Muhammad-Ibráhím, {ROB4: 153n., 405}
To kings and rulers,

{ROB4: 388}
Bahá'u'lláh proclaims Himself as King of Kings, {ROB3: 111}
to Napoleon III,

{ROB4: 249, 434}
see also To The Kings and Rulers

to Queen Victoria,

{ROB4: 434}
see also To The Kings and Rulers

Teachings, exposition of, {ROB4: 371-2}

Divine Assurance, {ESW: 9, 18, 21, 36, 39, 53, 76, 85}
Doubters, {ESW: 131-134, 135}
Exhortations of, {ESW: 22, 23, 24, 29, 38, 75, 93}
Hádíy-i-Dawlat-Ábádí, addressed in,

{ROB4: 47}
Hájí Mírzá Hádíy-i-Dawlat Ábádí,

{ROB1: 251}
{ROB4: 174-6, 412, 435, 438}
{TOB: 42 and n., 43-4, 79}
see also Tarázát

Shaykh Muhammad-Taqí ('The Son of the Wolf', Aqa Najafi), addressed to,

{GPB: 201}
{ROB4: 79, 175, 314}
{TOB: 203}
God addresses the Son of the Wolf, {ROB4: 371}
prayer for, see Prayers
summons to, {ROB4: 409-12}
see also Lawh-i-Burhán/Muhammad-Báqir (Wolf)

Writings of The Báb quoted, {ROB4: 47-8}

Fire Tablet, see Lawh-i-QadIhtaraqa'l-Mukhlisún
Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh,

Kitáb-i-Aqdas, see Kitáb-i-Aqdas
Kitáb-i-Íqán, see Kitáb-i-Íqán

Lawh-i-'Abdu'l-Vahháb,

{ROB2: 286}
{ROB4: 41}

Lawh-i-Ahmad (Persian), see Lawh-i-Ahmad
Lawh-i-Ashraf,

{ROB2: 230-2; quoted, 120, 231}
Siyyid Ashraf-i-Zanjání, recipient of,

{ROB2: 175n., 223-30, 435}
{TOB: 79 and n.}
Sacrifice of, {GL: 135}
Story of, {GPB: 199-200, 233}
Umm-i-Ashraf, mother of,

{GL: 135}
{ROB2: 223-30 passim}
heroism of, {DBNN: 562}

Lawh-i-Dunyá (Tablet to Afnán), see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Lawh-i-Karmil, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Lawh-i-Khalíl (Tablet to Khalíl), {GL: XXXIII, XXXVIII, LXXVII, CXXVII, CXXXVI}

{ROB2: 259-61}
Hájí Muhammad-Ibráhím-i-Qazvíní (Khalíl), recipient of {ROB2: 259}

Lawh-i-Laylatu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Holy Night), {ROB2: 164, 188-90; quoted 188-9}
Lawh-i-Mánikchí Sáhib,

{ROB3: 270-71; quoted, 271}
'Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch', {ESW: 14}, {GL: 218, 288}, {ROB3: 270}, {ROB4: 196, 375}, {TOB: 127, 164}
Mánikchí Sáhib, recipient of {ROB3: 269-70}

Lawh-i-Maqsúd, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Lawh-i-Nasír (Tablet to Nasír) {GL: LIII, LXXV},

{ROB2: 39, 245, 247-55; quoted, 248-9}
{ROB4: 383}
Hájí Muhammad-Nasír of Qazvín, recipient of,

{ROB2: 245-7}
{ROB4: 383, 434}

Lawh-i-Ra'ís (Persian, Tablet to Ra'ís),

{ROB3: 33-4, 34n., 36, 87, 99n., 100n., 103}
{ROB4: 437}
'Alí Páshá, Muhammad Amin, Grand Vizir, Turkish Prime Minister, addressed to,

{GPB: 105, 141, 146}
{ROB1: 225, 227, 244}
{ROB2: 55, 57, 312, 398, 401, 411, 413-14}
{ROB3: 34, 36, 91, 99n., 100n., 109, 419}
Bahá'u'lláh foretells downfall of, {GPB: 208}
fate of, {GPB: 231}
Tablet to, {GPB: 174, 208}

Barracks of 'Akká, referred to, {ROB3: 36}
on Turkish Empire, {ROB3: 36-7}
'Show of Sultán Salím', {ROB3: 99 and n., 103}
see also Súriy-i-Ra'ís, Lawh-i-Fu'ád

Lawh-i-Salmán (Tablet to Salmán, Tablet to Shaykh), {GL: XXI, CXLVIII, CLIV, CLX}

I,

{ROB2: ch. 13, 291}
{ROB3: quoted, 89-90}
{ROB4: 172}
Bahá'u'lláh, on His sufferings, {ROB3: 26}
on those who refute arguments of enemies of Faith, {ROB3: 89}

II,

{ROB3: 25-6; quoted, 157}

Shaykh Salmán of Hindíyán, recipient of,

{ROB1: 109-113, 255-6}
{ROB2: 67, 168, 208, 263, 283, 384, 400}
{ROB3: 25-6, 174-5 and n.}
{ROB4: 325}
see also Tablet of Madínatu't-Tawhíd

Lawh-i-Siráj (Tablet of Siráj), {GL: L, XCVII}

{ROB2: 262-3, 269; quoted, 268}
{ROB3: 89}
Mullá 'Alí-Muhammad-i-Siráj, recipient of {ROB2: 262}

Súriy-i-Damm, {ROB2: 236-40}
Súriy-i-Vafá, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh

Tablet of Madínatu't-Tawhíd (The City of Unity),

{ROB1: 109, 113, 116, 117-19; quoted, 118}
Bahá'u'lláh describes God, {ROB1: 114-16}
Shaykh Salmán of Hindíyán, recipient of, see Lawh-i-Salmán

Tablet of Visitation to Baghdád House (Tablet to Muhammad),

Nabíl-i-A'zam, recipient of, see Gleanings/Tablet to Nabíl-i-A'zam

Tablet to 'Alí, {GL: C, CXLII}
Tablet to Constantinople, see Súriy-i-Mulúk
Tablet to Hájí Muhammad Ismá'íl-i-Káshání (Dhabíh)

Hájí Muhammad Ismá'íl-i-Káshání, recipient of, see Súriy-i-Ra'ís

Tablet to Hakim,
Tablet to Husayn,
Tablet to Javád,
Tablet to Kamál,

Hájí Mírzá Kamálu'd-Dín, recipient of, see Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'ám (Tablet of All Food)

Tablet to Kings, see Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Tablet to Queen Victoria
Tablet to Kings of Christendom, see Súriy-i-Mulúk
Tablet to Letter of the Living,

see also Letters of the Living

Tablet to Minister of Sháh, see Súriy-i-Mulúk
Tablet to Mírzá Hádí-i-Qazvíní, {GL: LXXIII, LXXXIII, CXXIV}

{ROB2: 144}
man's attainments dependent on spiritual capacity, {ROB3: 63-4}
Mírzá Hádí-i-Qazvíní (15th Letter of the Living, son of Mullá 'Abdu'l-Vahháb-i-Qazvíní),

The Báb's Tablet to, {DBNN: xxi}
see also Letters of the Living

Tablet to Muhammad, see Gleanings/Tablet of Visitation to Baghdád House
Tablet to Muhammad-'Alí,
Tablet to Mustafá,
Tablet to Nabíl-i-A'zam,

{ROB3: 26-7}
Mullá Muhammad i-Zarandí (Nabíl-i-A'zam, the chronicler), recipient of,

{DBNN: 169, 434, 580, 586, 592}
{GPB: 3, 9, 113, 125, 126, 134, 137, 138, 147, 152, 155, 156, 160, 161, 166, 167, 169, 171, 176, 188, 199}
{KA: n172, n178, n179}
{ROB1: 41, 48, 69, 91n., 117n., 131, 132, 202-6, 212, 221, 284}
{ROB2: 59, 114, 140, 166, 236, 240, 276, 293}
{ROB3: 5-10, 56-7, 60, 74, 176-7, 209}
{ROB4: 84, 106-8, 113, 210, 241, 243-4, 329-30}
{TOB: 73}
account of Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB4: 414-17, 418-19}
chosen to select passages for Tablet of Visitation, {GPB: 222}
describes Bahá'u'lláh at His declaration, {GPB: 153}
drowns himself, {GPB: 222}
The Dawn Breakers, his narrative,

{KA: n171-n172, n178-n179}
{ROB3: 240, 254-5, 419}

poetry about Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB4: 107-8}
quoted, {ROB1: 138, 204-5, 209, 220, 228-9, 265-6, 275-6, 281, 325-6, 327-30}
Tablet revealed in Alexandria, in honour of, {ROB3: 7}
thrown into prison, {GPB: 178}
see also Gleanings/Tablet of Visitation to Baghdád House, Unpublished or Untranslated Works

Tablet to Napoleon III (Second), see Tablet to Napoleon III
Tablet to Shaykh Mahmúd,

{ROB1: 33}
Shaykh Mahmúd-i-'Arrábí, recipient,

{ROB1: 32 and n., 33}
{ROB3: 65-8, 70, 109, 216}

Tablet to Sultán 'Abdu'l-'Azíz, see Súriy-i-Mulúk
Tablet to Tihrán, {GL: LV, LXIII, LXIV }

Tablet regarding visit to, {GL: LXIII}
see also Kitáb-i-Aqdas

Tablet to Turkish Ministers, see Súriy-i-Mulúk

Misc. Topics,

Herald, {GL: 43}
Holy Ghost, {GL: 103}
Poison, {GL: 189}
Rebirth, {GL: 196, 213, 231, 269}
Recompense, {GL: 6, 36, 46, 129, 278}
Sacrifice,

{GL: 265}
of Husayn, {GL: 76}

Soliciting, how regarded, {GL: 202}
"The Kingdom is God's", {GL: 11, 31, 33, 35, 42, 44, 199, 210, 260, 343}
Writing to defend Cause, {GL: 330}

Halih-Halih-Yá-Bishárat (ode), {ROB1: 211, 219}
Hidden Words, The,

{GPB: 140}
{KA: n23, n37}
{ROB1: ch. 6, 107n.}
{ROB2: quoted, 31-2, 36, 84, 95, 96-7, 216, 217, 219, 221, 233, 238, 280, 281-2, 350}
{ROB3: quoted, 10, 35, 325, 356-7, 370, 376, 378}
{ROB4: 53, 68, 82, 283, 319, 340, 414, 433}
{TOB: 36}
Bahá'u'lláh's reference to,

{ROB1: 78}
excerpts from, {ESW: 15, 16}

'Hidden Book' of Fátimih,

{ESW: 15, 81, 99, 100}
{ROB1: 71}
{GPB: 140}
Fátimih (Chaste One), daughter of the Prophet Muhammad,

{GPB: 347}
{ROB1: 71-2}
{ROB4: 91n., 433}
{TOB: 206 and n., 213 and n., 214 and n.}

major themes of, {ROB1: 72, 75, 77, 78-80}
manner of its Revelation, {ROB1: 71}
potential influence of, {ROB1: 77}
terms, see Terms in Holy Writings
various subjects:

Bahá'u'lláh's prescription for man, {ROB1: 78-80}
calamity, {ROB1: 79, 149}
Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB1: 80-2}
Covenant of God with man, {ROB1: 72, 79}
death, {ROB1: 79}
detachment,

{ROB1: 74-7, 79-80}
{ROB4: 68}

interpretations of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, {ROB1: 80-3}
love, {ROB1: 79, 80}
prayer at dawn, {ROB1: 79}
pride, {ROB1: 77, 79, 81}
purity of heart, {ROB1: 79}
soul of man, {ROB1: 72-5, 78-80}

Húr-i-'Ujáb (The Wondrous Maiden), {ROB1: 211, 218}
Hurúfát-i-'Állín (The Exalted Letters), also titled Musíbát-i-Hurúfát-i-'Álíyát

{ROB1: 122-5}
Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vazír (cousin of Bahá'u'lláh), to memory of {ROB1: 122-3}

Ishráqát, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Javáhiru'l-Asrár (The Essence of Mysteries), {ROB1: 151-2}
Kalimát-i-Firdawsíyyih, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Kitáb-i-'Ahdí, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Kitáb-i-Aqdas (The Most Holy Book, Most Great Book, Bahá'u'lláh's Book of Laws, Mother Book),

{ESW: 128, 148}
{GL: XXXVII, LVI, LXX, LXXI, LXXII, XCVIII, CV, CLV, CLIX, CLXVI}
{GPB: 14, 139, 177, 206, 207, 208, 209, 213-219, 254, 255, 326, 328}
{ROB1: 26, 60, 153, 160, 212, 301; quoted, 47, 124, 134, 280}
{ROB2: 120, 122, 130, 240, 354-5, 389; quoted, 36, 265, 304-5}
{ROB3: 108, 147, 240, 274, chs. 13-17, 399, 400}
{ROB4: 123, 138-9, 160, 212, 399, 400, 417}
{SAQ: 64, 171n, 238}
{TOB: 85, 93, 128 and n., 132, 200, 221, 262, 264, 267}

Character of, {KA: viii, 12-16}
Charter of world civilization, {ROB3: 294, 393}
Publication of,

circulation gradual, {KA: 8, n126}
original Arabic text, {KA: 9}
translation of,

{ROB3: 276n., 283-4}
English translation, {KA: vii-viii, 9-11}

withholding Kitáb-i-Aqdas, {ROB4: 249}

Relationship to past Dispensations,

anticipated by Prophet Isaiah, see Bahá'u'lláh
anticipated by writer of the Apocalypse, {KA: 12}
embraces all, {KA: 16}
Holy Books of, {KA: 2, 12-13}
Bayán, {KA: 7-8, K142, n108, n109}
laws of, see Abrogation of laws and practices
provisions rest on their foundations, {KA: 1-2}
see also Bahá'u'lláh

Relation to World Order, see New World Order of Bahá'u'lláh
Revealed in 'Akká (1873),

{GPB: 213-216}
{KA: 8-9, 12-13, 16, K98, n126}
{ROB3: 274, 393}
circumstances of, {ROB3: 279, 393}
date, {KA: 8, 12, K98, n126}
most signal act of Bahá'u'lláh's ministry, {KA: 12}
see also 'Akká/'Údí Khammár, house of, Bahá'u'lláh/His Revelation

Significance,

{KA: viii, 1, 12-16, K186}
brightest emanation of Author's mind, {KA: 12}
Charter of future world civilization,

{KA: 1-2, 12-14, n189}
see also New World Order of Bahá'u'lláh

Most Holy Book, {KA: 1, 162}
Mother Book of Bahá'í Dispensation,

{GL: 34, 99, 199}
{KA: 1, 11, 12, K103, n129}
{ROB3: 147, 164, 275}
{TOB: 21, 48, 51, 52, 74, 75, 104, 244, 247}

"Unerring Balance" established amongst men,

{KA: 13, 15}
Balance, Book of God as, {KA: 15, K99, K148, K183}

Synopsis and Codification of,

{GPB: 411}
{KA: vii-viii, 141-164}
{ROB3: 284}

Law(s) of, Ordinances, Precepts,

{KA: 2-9, 12-16, 145-162}
{ROB3: 276ff., 281, 292-4, 295-8}
{ROB4: 114, 116, 299-300, 321, 421, 423, 433}
"Govern three areas", {KA: 4}
Abrogation of laws and practices, Annulment of laws,

{KA: 4, 159}
supersede former laws and customs,

{KA: 1-2, K138, n93}
relation to laws of the Báb,

{KA: 7-8, K65, K129, K139-K142, K179, n108-n109, n163, n168}
see also Bayán

see also Relationship to past Dispensations

antecedents, {KA: n16, n20, n93, n168}
application, Implementation of laws,

mutatis mutandis, to men and women equally, {KA: 7, n38, n133}
progressive, {KA: 5-7, n89, n126}
in relation to Civil Law, {KA: 6}

binding on every Bahá'í and Bahá'í institution, {KA: 6-7}
brevity, {KA: 4-7}
Burial, Funeral, Graves,

{KA: 157}
burial rings, {KA: K128-K129, Q70, n149}
coffin,

{KA: K128, n149}
of Concrete, {KA: n149}
Wood for, {KA: K128, n149}

cremation prohibited, {KA: n149}
expenses, {KA: K28, Q9, Q69, n47}
one hour's journey, {KA: K130, Q16, n149, n152}
shroud, cloths, sheets, {KA: K130, Q56, n149, n151}
see also Prayer for the Dead

central themes, {KA: 4, 13-15}
characterized by Bahá'u'lláh,

{KA: 15-16}
breath of life, {KA: 16, K2}
hearts will rejoice through, {KA: K96}
keys of mercy, {KA: K3}
lamps of loving providence, {KA: K3, K29}
Most Great Law, {KA: K81}
not mere code of laws, {KA: 3, K5}
Water of Life, {KA: K29}
weightiest testimony unto all people, {KA: 3}

Commandments of God, {KA: n188}
designed for future state of society, {KA: 5-6, n78, n86}
elaboration,

by Bahá'u'lláh, {KA: 8-9, 91-92}
by Universal House of Justice see Bahá'í Faith
supplementary to the Kitáb-i-Aqdas,

{KA: viii, 8-9, 91-102}
Questions and Answers, on the laws of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas,

{GPB: 219, 383}
{KA: vii, viii, 9, 103-140}
{ROB1: 26}
{ROB3: 278-9, 284}
Zaynu'l-'Ábidín, Mullá (surnamed Zaynu'l-Muqarrabín), compilation made by,

{ROB1: 25-6}
{ROB2: 69, 335-6}
{ROB3: 223, 278, 359}
{ROB4: 105, 244}
{TOB: 133 and n.}

Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh

embedded in spiritual commentary, {KA: 2}
enjoins, prescribes,

amity with followers of all religions,

{KA: 14, K144}
{ROB3: 369}

Monogamy, see Marriage

Exemptions from,

not viewed as prohibitions, {KA: n20, n55}
see Fasting, Huqúq'u'lláh, Prayer(s), Pilgrimage

Fasting,

{GL: 337}
{GPB: 214}
{KA: 4, 14, K10, K16, 148-149}
{KI: 39-40}
{ROB2: 397}
{ROB3: 115, 281, 286, 293, 362}
{ROB4: 9}
{TOB: 109}
age of maturity for, {KA: K10, 148, n13, n25}
Bayán, laws of, confirmed, amplified or modified by Bahá'u'lláh, {KA: n20, n26}
conditions,

{KA: 148-149}
abstinence from food and drink,

{KA: K17, n25, n32}
includes smoking, {KA: n32}

duration, {KA: K16-K17, 148, n26-n27}
during days other than prescribed, {KA: Q71, 149}
exemptions from, due to

age, {KA: K10, 149, n14, n25, n31}
Bahá'í Holy Days, {KA: Q36, n138}
illness, {KA: K10, K16, Q93, 149, n14, n31}
hard labour, {KA: Q76, 149, n31}
menstruation, {KA: K13, 149, n20, n31, n34}
pregnancy and nursing, {KA: K16, 149, n31}
traveling, {KA: K16, Q22, Q75, 148-149, n30-n31}
verses alternative to, {KA: K13, n34}

nearness to God, through, {KA: n25}
prayer for, see Prayer(s)
significance, {KA: K17, Q76, Q93, 148, n25}
time for, definition,

hours, {KA: K17, n17, n25}
Sunrise, {KA: K17, n25, n32}
Morning, {KA: K17, n25, n32}
Sunset, {KA: K17, n25, n32}
Evening, {KA: K17, n25, n32}
Night, {KA: K10, K17, n25, n32}
see also 'Alá'

see also Naw-Rúz, Twin Holy Birthdays, Declaration of The Báb, Prayer(s)

forbids,

Abuse

physical, {KA: K56, K148, n81}
verbal, {KA: K19, 91, n37}

Confession of Sins, Faults,

{KA: 2, K34, 158, n58}
{ROB3: 353}
{TOB: 24-5}
Absolution of sins, {KA: K34, n58}
see also Bishárát

Contention and Violence, see Contention
Drinking, Liquors, Alcohol,

{GPB: 214}
{KA: 14, K119, n2, n144, n170}
see also Intoxicants, Wine

Gambling, Games of chance, Raffles,

{GPB: 214}
{KA: 14, K155, 158, n169}
Lotteries, {KA: n169}

Interpretation by followers, {ROB3: 374}
Monasticism, see Clergy
Opium, Habit-forming Drugs,

{GPB: 214}
{KA: 14, K155, K190, n170}
{ROB3: 282, 439}
Cannabis, Hashish, Heroin, LSD, Marijuana, Peyote, {KA: n170}
Intoxicants, {KA: 14, K119, 158, n2, n144, n170}

Penance, {GPB: 214}
Slave Trading, see Slavery

Huqúq'u'lláh, see Bahá'í Faith
Inheritance, Estate, Heirs,

{GPB: 214}
{KA: 4, 14, K20, Q5, 153-56, n38}
{ROB3: 281, 330}
absence of heirs, missing heirs, Intestacy,

{KA: n38, n136}
children,

female, {KA: Q37, Q54, n42}
male, {KA: K26, Q41, Q72, n42, n45}

inheritance law applies only in case of, {KA: n38}
other categories, {KA: K22-K24}
reversion to House of Justice,

{KA: K24, Q100, n42}
children's allocation, {KA: K21, Q7}
Local Houses of Justice, {KA: K21-K22, Q6-Q7, Q28, Q33, Q41, Q72, Q100, 154-156, n38-n39, n42-n44}
male heirs' allocation, {KA: Q41, Q72, n44}
other categories' allocation, {KA: K22-K23, Q28, n38, n43}

teachers, {KA: Q28, Q33}

allocation of shares and property,

{KA: K20, Q5, n38}
brothers,

{KA: K20, Q5, Q6, Q53, n38, n39}
half-brothers, {KA: Q6, Q53, n39}

children,

{KA: K20, K22, K29, Q5, Q28, Q33, n38, n41}
female, daughter(s), {KA: K23, Q37, Q41, Q54, Q72, n38, n44-n45}
male, son(s),

{KA: K25, n44}
eldest, {KA: n38, n44, n66}

under age, {KA: K27, n46}

cousins, {KA: K23, n38}
father, {KA: K20, Q5, n38}
grandchildren, {KA: K26, n45}
mother, {KA: K20, Q5, n38}
nephews and nieces, {KA: K23, n38}
Non-Bahá'í(s), {KA: Q34, n38, n158}
sisters,

{KA: K20, Q5, n38}
half-sisters, {KA: Q6, Q53, n39}

spouse, {KA: K20, Q5, Q55, n38}
teachers,

{KA: K20, Q5, n38, n40}
{ROB3: 330}
non-Bahá'í, do not inherit, {KA: Q33}

uncles and aunts, {KA: K23, n38}

Bayán, laws of, confirmed, amplified or modified by Bahá'u'lláh, {KA: K20, Q100, 153, n38, n41}
clothing, distribution of,

{KA: K25, n44}
used, of deceased woman, {KA: Q37, Q78, n44}

debts, payment of, {KA: K28, Q9, Q69, Q80, n47}
funeral and burial expenses, {KA: K28, Q9, n47}
God, Bounties of, evidenced by provisions of inheritance, {KA: K29, Q100}
Huqúq'u'lláh, payment of, see Bahá'í Faith
jewelry, {KA: Q37, Q78, n44}
non-Bahá'í relatives and intestacy, {KA: Q34, n38}
residence, principle, {KA: K25, Q34, n44}
trustees, appointment for underage inheritors, {KA: K27, n46}
Will and testament, {KA: K109, Q69, n38, n137}

institutions ordained by,

{KA: 3-7, 13-14}
Guardianship, see Shoghi Effendi
House of Justice, see House(s) of Justice

integrity, seals affixed, {KA: K117, n143}
law of God, {ROB3: 292-3, 297}
law of Huqúq'u'lláh, see Bahá'í Faith
Murder, punishment for, see Crime(s)
obedience to, observance of

{KA: K1}
all are charged with, {KA: Q10}
benefits, {KA: K7, K67, K97, K148}
brings True Liberty,

{GL: 92, 96, 99, 216, 260, 335, 336}
{GPB: 215}
{KA: 15, K122-K125, 163}
{ROB3: 298-300}
{TOB: 84, 89, 162}
moderation, {TOB: 169}

enjoined, {KA: K17, K29, K62, K67, K71, K147, K148, Q10}
linked with recognition of manifestation of God, {KA: K1}
love of God as motive for, {KA: K4, 163}
negligence,

{KA: K40, K134, K171}
warned against, {KA: K17, K30, K45, K106, K134, K138, K171, Q105, 160}

wisdom enjoined, {KA: 6}

particular to men see Men
particular to women see Women
Prohibitions, {KA: 4, 14, 16, 157-158}
purpose(s),

{KA: 2-3}
establishment of love, harmony, unity, {KA: K65, K70}
maintenance of order and security, {KA: K2}
protection and elevation of human station, {KA: K45, K97, K123-K125, K155, Q105}

Statutes of, {KA: 15-16}
summarized, {GPB: 214}
their implementation, {ROB3: 282, 286}
transgression forbidden, {KA: K2, K29, K30, K107}

Statements by Bahá'u'lláh,

Abasement, {KA: K138, K158, n57, n58, n171}
Addresses, Summons of Bahá'u'lláh to,

Human race, {KA: K59}
Kings and rulers:

{GL: CV}
{KA: K82}
{ROB3: 147-8, 156}
Francis Joseph (Franz Josef), Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary,

{GPB: 208}
{KA: 15, K85, 162, n116}
{ROB3: 150}
fate of, {GPB: 226}
reproved by Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 208}

Kaiser William I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig), Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia,

{GPB: 208, 218, 226}
{KA: 15, K86, 162, n117-n118}
{ROB3: 113, 148-9}

Presidents of American Republics,

{GPB: 207}
{KA: 15, K88}
{ROB3: 155-6}

see also To The Kings and Rulers

Mírzá Yahyá, see Yahyá, Mírzá
People of Bahá, {KA: K84}
Religious leaders, divines,

{GPB: 209}
{KA: K104}
{ROB3: 163-5, 240}
see also To The Kings and Rulers, Clergy

Summons to specific individuals and peoples, {KA: 15, 162-164}

Admonitions, {KA: 162}
Allegory, {KA: n2, n121, n127, n130}
Allusion(s), {KA: 164}
Anger,

{KA: K153, 161}
not to lose Temper, {KA: K153, 91-92, 161}

Antiques, {KA: n166}
Body

care of, {KA: K155, n104, n144, n170}
desires of the flesh, {KA: K2, K58, K64, n25}
respect for,

{KA: n149}
see also Burial

Feet, Foot,

travel on, {KA: Q75, n153}
washing of, see Cleanliness

Head, Hair,

Beard(s),

{KA: K159, 159, n175}
{TOB: 23}

Face see Ablutions, Qiblih
Hair does not invalidate prayer, {KA: K9, 148, n12}
Hair length, {KA: K44, n69}
shaving the head, {KA: K44, Q10, 158, n68, n69}

Hand(s),

kissing,

{KA: 14, K34, 157, n57}
{ROB2: 266n}

plunging into food, {KA: K46, 158, n73}
washing of see Ablutions

Nails, paring, {KA: K106, 162}
Semen, {KA: K74, 159, n103}
see also Cleanliness, Illness, Physicians

Business,

investment in, financial, {KA: K27}
place of, exempt from Huqúq, {KA: Q95}

Claim to Revelation,

{KA: K37, n62}
by Mírzá Yahyá, see Yahyá, Mírzá

Concepts, human, {KA: n93, n181}
Crystal, {KA: K50, K128, n15, n149}
Customs,

redefined and take on new meaning, {KA: n93}
see also Hadíth, Religion(s), Religious traditions

Debasement, {KA: K123}
Deceit, {KA: K165}
Denounces,

hypocrisy in religion, {ROB3: 355}
Turkish regime, {ROB3: 123, 151-2}

Desire,

corrupt, selfish, see Self
earthly, {KA: K89}
Passion(s), {KA: K2, K41, K64, K89, K184, 161}
wilderness of, {KA: K107}

Development, social and economic, {KA: K160, n53}
Differences,

between marriage partners, {KA: K69-K70, Q19, n100}
between people, {KA: K35}
between revealed verses, {KA: Q57, Q63, n109}
Disagreement, {KA: Q19, Q99}
resolution by reference to Sacred Text, {KA: K53}

Disbelief,

{KA: K141}
see also Recognition, Rejection

Discord, {KA: 92}
Discrimination, {KA: 14}
Disorder, spread not, {KA: K165}
Domestic help, Servant, {KA: K63, Q30, 157, n90}
Effigies, {KA: K31}
Eternity, {KA: K182}
exhortation(s),

{KA: 4, 14-15, 143, 156-162, K50, K55, K132, K134, K135, K136, K157, K183, n155, n172}
to clergy, {KA: K41, K100, K102, K165, K166}
to followers in, {GPB: 214, 215}
to kings, {KA: K82, K85, K86}
to people of Bayán, {KA: K137, K138, K139, K140, K141, K179}
first duty of human being, {KA: K1}

Expenses, {KA: K28, K69, Q47, Q69, n47, n125}
Family,

{KA: n76, n91, n133}
bedrock of society, {KA: n134}
Descendants,

{KA: Q6, n38}
Birthright of eldest son, {KA: K25, n44}
of Bahá'u'lláh,

{KA: n66}
see also Aghsán

of Muhammad, {KA: n85}

Father,

{KA: K45, K107, n133}
instruction of son and daughter enjoined on, {KA: K48, Q105, n76}
son should serve, {KA: Q104}

Forefathers, {KA: K10, K180}
Mother, first educator, {KA: n76}
see also Inheritance, Marriage

Foolishness, {KA: K51, K89, K178}
Forbearance, {KA: 14, K153}
Godliness, {KA: K108, Q106}
healing and medicine, see Lawh-i-Tibb
Harm,

{KA: K123, K155, Q94, n170}
see also Bahá'í Faith/opposition to, Bahá'u'lláh/His sufferings

Head of the Faith,

{KA: n66, n125}
see also 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Universal House of Justice, Shoghi Effendi

Heroes, {KA: K94}
His Covenant and succession, Bahá'u'lláh's successor, see Covenant, 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Mírzá Yahyá, Ahmad-i-Ahsá'í, Shaykh
Homemaking, {KA: n56}
Hospitality, {KA: 14, K16, K57, n29, n82}
House(s)

entering without permission of owner, {KA: K145, 158}
furnishings, renewal, {KA: K151, Q8, Q42, Q95, 162, n166}
Sacred, Twin, see Holy Places and Historical Sites

Imposter, {KA: K37}
Indulgence,

in carrying out laws, {KA: K45, 160}
of passions, {KA: K2, K64, 161}
see also Negligence

Invitations, {KA: K156, 161}
Jewellery,

{KA: Q37, Q78, n44, n166}
see also Inheritance

Journey,

Night, of Muhammad, {KA: n128}
of soul towards God, {KA: n92, n128, n149}
see also Travel

Judicial officer, religious, {KA: Q98}
Káf (the letter),

{KA: n188}
see also Land of Káf and Rá

lamentation,

{KA: K43, 161}
of Berlin see Berlin

Lost property, {KA: Q17, 157}
Lust, {KA: K64}
Marketplace,

{KA: K108, n135}
see also Public places

Material means, to make use of, {KA: K66, K113, 163}
Maturity, age of, Adult, Coming of age,

for Bahá'í administrative purposes, {KA: n49}
for betrothal and marriage, {KA: Q43, Q92, 150}
for performance of religious duties,

{KA: Q20, Q92, 146, n13, n25}
Prayer for the Dead and burial rings, see Prayer(s)

under-age inheritors, {KA: K27, n46}
see also Human race, coming of age

Medicine,

{KA: n144, n170}
see also Physicians

Middle Way, {KA: K43}
Neighbor,

behaviour towards, {KA: 2, 159, 161, n163}
treat neighbour as self, {TOB: 64}

Oppression,

{KA: K73, K88, K148, n170}
see also Bahá'u'lláh/His sufferings, Tyranny

Philanthropy,

{KA: n125}
see also Huqúq'u'lláh, Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Zakát

Power,

of God see God
of kings, {KA: K86, K93, n118}
rational, {KA: n130}
of the tongue, {KA: K160}

Pretender, {KA: K37, K117, K184, n190}
Problems,

personal, {KA: n52}
solution of, {KA: 91}

Promise(s),

of Divine assistance, {KA: K38, K53, K74, 164}
fulfillment of promise, {KA: K35, K80, K156, n160}
obligation to fulfill, {KA: K67, K156}
see also Promised One, Progressive Revelation

Reciting verses of God,

{ROB3: 323-4}
in Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, {ROB3: 343-4}
Radiance, attitude enjoined when reading Writings, {KA: K149, Q68, n165}

Relief of poor or suffering, {KA: n53, n161}
Remembrance of God, {KA: K40, K43}
Reproofs, {KA: 162}
Respect for people of learning and accomplishment, {KA: n110}
Reversal, Great,

{DBNN: 202}
{KA: K157, n171, n172}

Sea of Purification, {KA: K75, n106}
Silver,

utensils, {KA: K46, 159, n72}
see also Dowry

Six Year Plan, {KA: vii}
Sovereign, Sign of the, {KA: K157, n171}
Spot, in reference to,

'Akká, {KA: K37, K81, K100, n63, n127}
Baghdád, {KA: K133, Q32, n154}
Constantinople, {KA: K89, n120}
Garden of Ridván, {KA: n107}
Qiblih, {KA: K6, n7, n8}
Shíráz, {KA: K133, Q32, n154}

Standing,

to deliver talks, {KA: n168}
movements of Obligatory Prayer, see Prayer(s)
for recitation of Prayer for the Dead, see Prayer(s)

State, matters of,

{KA: 91}
see also House(s) of Justice

Stewards, Chief,

{KA: n183}
see also Hands of the Cause

Study of

arts and sciences, {KA: K77, 160, n110}
Kitáb-i-Aqdas, {KA: viii, 7}
languages, {KA: K118, 161}
teachings, {KA: K149, K182}
see also Language(s), Interpretation of Sacred Text

teaching His Faith, {ROB3: 331, 383}
tribute to the 'learned', {ROB4: 38}
Trustees, see Trustees
Unanimity in decision-making, {KA: Q99, n52}
'We are with You at all times', {ROB3: 383}
Writings of The Báb quoted,

{ROB3: 305-7}
Relationship to Bayán, see Bayán

Writings of Shaykh Muhammad-Hasan, {KA: n178}

Misc. Topics,

Next Manifestation of God, see Manifestation(s) of God
pride, {ROB3: 369-70}
prophecies,

{ROB3: 398}
future Bahá'í sovereigns, {ROB3: 159}

saintly life and character, {ROB3: 356-7}
standards set for Bahá'ís in Kitáb-i-Aqdas, {GPB: 214-215}
Statements by Shoghi Effendi,

{ROB3: 274, 281-2, 286, 294, 400, 420}
summary of contents, significance of, {GPB: 213-216}

Tihrán, {GL: LVI}
virtues, {ROB3: 356-7}

Kitáb-i-Badí',

{ROB1: 102, 250, 279}
{ROB2: ch. 17, 373-82}
Mírzá Mihdíy-i-Gílání, addressed to {ROB2: 370, 381}

Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude),

{ESW: 119}
{GL: XIII, XIX, XXII, XC, XCI, CXXV}
{GPB: 138, 139, 172}
{KA: n180, n182}
{ROB1: ch. 10, 152, 263, 332, see also Table of Contents}
{ROB2: 52, 68-70, 101, 219-20, 370; quoted, 232}
{ROB3: 39, 93, 98, 117, 245, 275, 302-3, 334, quoted 95}
{ROB4: 95, 136, 140, 152, 154, 207, 213, 295, 322, 329, 385, 421, 427-8, 438}
{SAQ: 110, 110n, 289}
{TOB: 210}
dissemination of, {ROB1: 160}
effect on reader, {ROB1: 158-9, 161-2}
former title (Risáliy-i-Khál), {ROB1: 158}
Hájí Mírzá Muhammad-Karím Khán-i-Kirmání, Hájí Mírzá Karím Khán, admonished in,

{KA: K170, 164, n182}
{KI: 184, 190}
{ROB1: 186n., Appendix IV}
{ROB2: 390, 438}
{ROB3: 255}

Hájí Mírzá Siyyid Muhammad (uncle of The Báb), recipient of,

{ROB2: 69, 71}
Bahá'u'lláh addresses,

{ROB1: 186-9; also 180, 189, 198n.}
{ROB4: 329}

importance of, {ROB1: 153, 197}
original copy, {ROB1: 159}
revealed in two days and two nights, {GPB: 138}
summary of contents, significance of, {GPB: 138, 139}
various subjects:

Beginning That Hath No Beginning, {KI: 161, 163, 167, 168}
contentment, {ROB1: 187}
End That Hath No End, {KI: 161, 167, 168}
fellowship with righteous, {ROB1: 187}
interpretation of former Scriptures, {ROB1: 162, 164-6, 171-2}
knowledge, {ROB1: 172-3, 185-6}
Life, true, {KI: 114, 120-21}
love, {ROB1: 187}
pride, {ROB1: 187}
purity of heart, {ROB1: 172, 187}
'seal' on Holy Books, see Terms in Holy Writings
unity of religions, {ROB1: 160-61}
Zíyárat, {KI: 240}

written for a Muslim, {ROB1: 162}
See also Certitude, Detachment, Spirit, Holy, Manifestations of God, Báb, The/Qá'im, True Seeker

Lawh-i-Ahbáb (Tablet of the Friends),

{ROB3: 258-9}
holy and dedicated souls will arise, {ROB3: 259}
Mullá Muhammad-Sádiq-i-Khurásání (Mullá Sádiq, Muqaddas, Ismu'lláhu'l-Asdaq), Hand of the Cause of God, recipient of,

{ROB1: 92-3}
{ROB2: 110, 293n., 388}
{ROB3: 62-3, 253-60, 266-7}
{ROB4: 286, 301}
'Abdu'l-Bahá, Statements on, {ROB3: 259-60}
arrested and tortured, {GPB: 10}
conversion of, {DBNN: 100, 145, 184}
father of Hand of the Cause Ibn-i-Asdaq,

{ROB3: 266}
see Hands of the Cause of God/Ibn-i-Asdaq

on human character, {ROB3: 259}
on His sufferings, {ROB3: 259}
on teaching, {ROB3: 259}

Tablet of Ahmad (Tablet of Ahmad),

Arabic,

{GPB: 172}
{ROB1: 66, 294}
{ROB2: ch. 5, 116, 119-20; quoted, 123, 126}
{ROB3: 257}
{ROB4: 141}
Ahmad-i-Yazdí, recipient of,

{ROB2: 107-16}
{ROB3: 257}

on steadfastness, {ROB4: 141}

Persian, {GL: CLII, CLIII}

{ROB2: ch. 6; quoted, 139, 143-4, 147-8, 150}
Hájí Mírzá Ahmad, recipient of, {ROB2: 137}

Lawh-i-Aqdas, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Lawh-i-Ard-i-Bá, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Lawh-i-Áyiy-i-Núr (Tablet of The Verse of Light),

also titled Tafsír-i-Hurúfát-i-Muqatta'ih (Interpretation of the Isolated Letters),
Alif, Lám, Mím, {KI: 202}
{ROB1: 125-8}
Mírzá Áqáy-i-Rikáb-Sáz, recipient of,

{DBNN: 156}
{ROB1: 125}

Lawh-i-Ayyúb, see Súriy-i-Sabr
Lawh-i-Bahá,

{ROB2: 171, 179-80}
Khátún Ján, revealed in honour of,

{ROB2: 171-80}
Hájí Asadu'lláh, father of, {DBNN: 281}

Lawh-i-Bulbulu'l-Firáq (Tablet of the Nightingale of Bereavement), {ROB1: 244-5}
Lawh-i-Burhán, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Lawh-i-Dunyá, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Lawh-i-Fitnih (Tablet of the Test),

{ROB1: 128-9, 135-6}
Princess Shams-i-Jihán (entitled Fitnih), recipient of {ROB1: 128-9}

Lawh-i-Fu'ád,

{ROB2: 375}
{ROB3: ch. 5, 151; quoted, 87}
{ROB4: 437}
Fu'ád Páshá (Foreign Affairs Minister of Sultan 'Abdu'l- Azíz of Turkey), addressed to

{ROB1: 225}
{ROB2: 312, 398}
{ROB3: 87, 419}
{ROB4: 242}
fate of, {GPB: 231}

on Turkish Empire, {ROB3: 87}
see also Súriy-i-Ra'ís, Lawh-i-Ra'ís

Lawh-i-Ghulámu'l-Khuld (Tablet of The Youth of Paradise), {ROB1: 211, 213-14}
Lawh-i-Haft Pursish (Tablet of Seven Questions), {ROB3: 272; quoted, 272}
Lawh-i-Hawdaj (Tablet of the Howdah),

{GPB: 157}
{ROB2: 6-7, 16}

Lawh-i-Hikmat, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Lawh-i-Hirtík (Tablet of Hirtík), {ROB3: 29-30}
Lawh-i-Húríyyih (Tablet of the Maiden),

{ROB1: 125}
{ROB3: 223}

Lawh-i-Ittihád (Tablet of Unity),

{ROB4: 191-6}
on power of unity, {ROB4: 194-5}
Muvását (Equality) is noblest quality of man, {ROB4: 195}

Lawh-i-Karmil, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'ám (Tablet of All Food),

{ROB1: 55-60 passim}
Hájí Mírzá Kamálu'd-Dín, recipient of,

{ROB1: 55-6, 60, 260n.}
see also Gleanings/Tablet to Kamál

see also World/spiritual worlds of God

Lawh-i-Malláhu'l-Quds (Tablet of The Holy Mariner),

{GPB: 140, 147-8, 157}
{ROB1: prologue, ch. 14}
{ROB2: 6}

Lawh-i-Maqsúd, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Lawh-i-Mubáhilih, quoted, {ROB2: 293 and n.}
Lawh-i-Nuqtih, {ROB2: 397}
Lawh-i-Pisar 'Amm (Tablet to the Cousin), {ROB3: 216-18}
Lawh-i-Qad Ihtaraqa'l-Mukhlisún or Lawh-i-Ihtiráq (The Fire Tablet),

{ROB2: 275 and n}
{ROB3: 226-30, 231; quoted, 228, 229}
Hájí Siyyid 'Alí-Akbar-i-Dahají, recipient of,

{ROB2: 275}
{ROB3: 226-7}

Lawh-i-Qiná' (Tablet of the Veil), {ROB1: 334 and n.}
Lawh-i-Ra'ís, see Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
Lawh-i-Ridván,

revealed in Adrianople {ROB2: 397}
revealed at Garden of Ridván ('Akká),

mentioned {ROB4: 11}
on plants, {ROB4: 12}

revealed in the barracks of 'Akká, {ROB3: 53-6}
see also Ridván

Lawh-i-Rúh (Tablet of the Spirit),

{ROB2: 181-8 passim, 260; major themes of, 181, 186, 187}
see also Adrianople/Ridá Big, house of

Lawh-i-Ru'yá (Tablet of Vision),

{ROB3: 223-4}
{ROB4: 417}

Lawh-i-Salmán, see Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
Lawh-i-Sayyáh, (Tablet of Sayyáh),

{ROB2: 210, 213-15}
quoted, {ROB3: 13}
Mírzá 'Alíy-i-Sayyáh-i-Marághihí (Mullá Ádí-Guzal), disciple of The Báb and Bahá'u'lláh, recipient of,

{DBNN: 431 (note 4), 432, 433}
{ROB1: 220}
{ROB2: 209-13, 328, 402, 408}
{ROB4: 101n.}

Lawh-i-Siyyid Mihdíy-i-Dahají, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Lawh-i-Sultán, see To The Kings and Rulers
Lawh-i-Tibb (Tablet of Medicine),

{ROB3: 357-60}
'Abdu'l-Bahá,

on medicine, {ROB3: 358, 361-3}
His powers of healing, {ROB3: 361-3}

Healing, ocean of, {TOB: 113}
if the believers had carried out His commandments, {ROB3: 360, 379}
Thy name is my healing...

{ROB3: 360}

Lawh-i-Tuqá, {ROB2: 397}
Madínatu'r-Ridá (City of Radiant Acquiescence), {ROB1: 108-9}
Madínatu't-Tawhíd, see Gleanings/Tablet of Madínatu't-Tawhíd
Mathnavíy-i-Mubárak,

{ROB2: ch. 2 passim}
{ROB4: 232}

Musíbát-i-Hurúfát-i-'Álíyát, see Hurúfát-i-'Állín
Nafahát-i-Quds,

God would be pleased if Arabic chosen as Universal Auxiliary Language, {ROB4: 159}

Nightingale and the Crow, The, {ROB2: 241-5}
Prayers and Meditations by Bahá'u'lláh,

{KA: n23}
Bahá'u'lláh, Book of, {PM: 37, 38, 43, 66, 69, 76, 80, 85, 143, 145, 207, 245, 249, 275, 284, 286, 293}
Giving, {PM: 33, 337}
Letters of Negation necessary, {PM: 325}
New creation, {PM: 171, 295}
Recompense, {PM: 223, 241, 287, 293}
see also Prayer(s)

Qasídiy-i-'Izz-i-Varqá'íyyih, Qasídiy-i-Varqá'íyyih,

{ROB1: 62-4, 84-5}
{ROB3: 206}
{ROB4: 390}

Questions and Answers, see Kitáb-i-Aqdas
Rashh-i-'Amá (poem),

{ROB1: 45-6, 51}
Bahá'u'lláh, on His Revelation, {ROB4: 406}

Ridvánu'l-Iqrár, {ROB2: 397}
Sahífiy-i-Shattíyyih (Book of the River), {ROB1: 105-8}
Sáqí-Az-Ghayb-i-Baqá (poem),

{ROB1: 64}
{ROB2: 141}

Seven Valleys and The Four Valleys, The,

Seven Valleys, The,

{GPB: 121, 140, 260, 383}
{ROB1: ch. 8, 151}
{ROB2: 26}
{ROB4: 142, 181}
Shaykh Muhyi'd-Dín, the judge of Khániqayn, recipient of,

{ROB1: 96}
{SVFV: xii}

1. Search, {ROB1: 96}
2. Love, {ROB1: 96-8}
3. Knowledge, {ROB1: 98-9}
4. Unity, {ROB1: 99}
5. Contentment, {ROB1: 99-101}
6. Wonderment, {ROB1: 101}
7. True Poverty and Absolute Nothingness, {ROB1: 101}

Four Valleys, The,

{GPB: 122, 140}
{ROB1: 104}
Shaykh 'Abdu'r-Rahmán-i-Karkúkí, recipient of,

{ROB1: 62, 104}
{SVFV: xiii}

Shikkar-Shikan-Shavand,

{ROB1: 147-50}
Siyyid Mírzá Husayn-i-Mutavallí, addressed to,

{ROB1: 147, 149-50}
betrays Quddús to enemy, {DBNN: 384, 398}

Subhána-Rabbíya'l-A'lá,

{ROB1: 211-13}
Hájí Mírzá Músáy-i-Javáhirí (owner of residence of Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdád), recipient of,

{ROB1: 211, 212-13}
{ROB2: 329}
Hájí Mírzá Hádí, father of, {ROB1: 211}

Subhánika-Yá-Hú or Lawh-i-Náqús (Tablet of the Bell), {ROB2: 18-19, 23-4}
Súratu'lláh (Súrih of God), {ROB1: 244-5}
Súriy-i-Ahzán, {ROB2: 397}
Súriy-i-Amr (Tablet of Command), {ROB2: 161-2, prologue}
Súriy-i-Asháb (Tablet of Companions),

{ROB1: 286}
{ROB2: ch. 4; 65, 72-7, 84, 86-7}

Súriy-i-Ayyúb, {DBNN: 477}
Súriy-i-Bayán, {ROB2: 397}
Súriy-i-Ghusn (Tablet of the Branch),

{ROB1: 135}
{ROB2: ch. 18}

Súriy-i-Hajj (Tablet of Pilgrimage),

{GPB: 177}
{KA: Q10, n54, n68}
{ROB1: 212}
I and II, {ROB2: 240}

Súriy-i-Haykal, see To The Kings and Rulers
Súriy-i-Hijr, {ROB2: 397}
Súriy-i-'Ibád (Tablet of the Servants), {ROB2: 272-4}
Súriy-i-Mulúk, see To The Kings and Rulers
Súriy-i-Nush, {ROB1: 137, 142, 146}
Súriy-i-Qadír (Tablet of the Omnipotent), {ROB1: 119-22}
Súriy-i-Qalam, {ROB2: 397}
Súriy-i-Qamís, {ROB2: 397}
Súriy-i-Ra'ís, (Arabic)

{GL: 39}
{ROB2: 411-17; quoted, 414, 415}
{ROB3: 34 and n., 87, 100n., 109, 123; quoted, 151}
'Álí Páshá, Grand Vizir, Turkish Prime Minister, addressed to, see Lawh-i-Ra'ís
Hájí Muhammad Ismá'íl-i-Káshání (Dhabíh - Sacrifice, Anís - Companion), recipient of,

{DBNN: 168}
{ROB2: 137, 411-13}
{ROB3: 99, 100n.}
see also Tablet to Hájí Muhammad Ismá'íl-i-Káshání (Dhabíh)

see also Lawh-i-Fu'ád

Súriy-i-Sabr (Tablet of Patience), also titled Lawh-i-Ayyúb (Tablet of Job),

{ROB1: 141 and n., 263-73 passim}
effect upon Bábís, {ROB1: 271-2}
Hájí Muhammad-Taqí of Nayríz (entitled Ayyúb), recipient of, {ROB1: 139-41, 263-4, 268-9 and n.}
see also Job

Tablet for 'Abdu'r-Rahím of Bushrú'íyyih,

{ROB3: 60-61}
'Abdu'r-Rahím of Bushrú'íyyih, {ROB3: 59-63}

Tablet of Ahmad, see Lawh-i-Ahmad
Tablet of Carmel, see Lawh-i-Karmil
Tablet of Ihtiráq (Fire Tablet), see Lawh-i-QadIhtaraqa'l-Mukhlisún
Tablet of Medicine, see Lawh-i-Tibb
Tablet of Ridván, see Lawh-i-Ridván
Tablet of Ru'yá, see Lawh-i-Ru'yá
Tablet of Salmán, see Lawh-i-Salmán
Tablet of Sayyáh, see Lawh-i-Sayyáh
Tablet of Siráj, see Lawh-i-Siráj
Tablet of The Holy Mariner, see Lawh-i-Malláhu'l-Quds
Tablet of Visitation,

Bahá'u'lláh and The Báb,

{PM: 310-313}
{ROB1: 30, 206 and n.}
{ROB4: 419}
see also Tablet to Nabíl-i-A'zam/Mullá Muhammad i-Zarandí,

see also Haifa/'Abdu'l-Bahá/Tablet of Visitation

Tablet to Badí',

{ROB3: 179-80, 183, 184, 199-200, 203}
Áqá Buzurg of Khurásán, Badí' ('Wonderful'), Fakhru'sh-Shuhadá ('Pride of Martyrs'),

{GPB: 199, 233}
{ROB2: 97, 128, 339}
{ROB3: 75, 176ff., 192, 198-203}
{ROB4: 39, 73, 299, 305, 386, 435}
Bahá'u'lláh extols, {ROB3: 179-80, 184, 198-9}
in interviews with Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 241}
Martyrdom of, {ROB3: 186-91, 198-203}
'Salt of My Tablets', {ROB3: 199ff.}

Tablet to Hájí 'Abdu'l-Majíd,

{KA: Q104}
{ROB3: 179-80, 202-3}
Hájí 'Abdu'l-Majíd-i-Níshápúrí, Abá Badí' ('Father of Badí'),

{DBNN: 325, 580}
{ROB2: 128-36}
{ROB3: 176-7, 202-3}
{ROB4: 386, 435}
discards treasure, {GPB: 39}

Tablet to Hájí Siyyid Javád-i-Karbilá'í,

quoted, {ROB3: 279-80}
Hájí Siyyid Javád-i-Karbilá'í, Siyyid-i-Núr,

{DBNN: 188 (notes 18 and 19)}
{ROB1: 155 and n., 157, 220, 221-4}
{ROB2: 9, 377, 390}
{ROB3: 279}
{ROB4: 438}

Tablet to Rada'r-Rúh,

{ROB3: 7-8}
Mullá Muhammad-Ridá of Manshád, Mullá Muhammad-Ridáy-i-Manshádí, Rada'r-Rúh,

{DBNN: 473}
{ROB1: 39-40, 84-5, 331}
{ROB2: 99 and n., 258}
{ROB3: 7-8 and n.}
{ROB4: 325}
Martyrdom of, {ROB3: 7}

Tablet to Siyyid Mihdíy-i-Dahají, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Tablet to The Times,

{ROB3: 195}
{ROB4: 348-50}

Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas,

{KA: 9, 89}
{ROB4: 33, 118, 167, 227-38}

Asl-i-Kullu'l-Khayr, (Words of Wisdom),

{GPB: 383}
quoted, {ROB2: 96}

Bishárát (Glad-Tidings) ,

{GPB: 216}
{KA: n58, n61, n173}
{ROB4: 116, 158, 159, ch. 10, 168}
on a true believer, {ROB4: 161-2}
on auxiliary language, {ROB4: 159-60}
on confession,

{ROB4: 164}
see also Kitáb-i-Aqdas

on monasticism, see Clergy
on unacceptable actions, {ROB4: 161}
quotes from His own, {ROB4: 162}
quoted, {ROB3: 353}

Ishráqát (Splendours),

{ESW: 26}
{GPB: 216, 383}
{KA: 89, 91-92, n75, n109}
{ROB3: 270n.; quoted, 219, 319}
{ROB4: 18, 116, ch. 9, 162, 168, 405}
'Abdu'l-Bahá interprets, {ROB4: 147}
contains passage from Tablet to,

Hájí Mírzá Buzurg-i-Afnán, see Tarázát
Hájí Muhammad-Ibráhím (Muballigh), see Epistle to the Son of the Wolf

Hájí Jalíl-i-Khu'í, addressed to,

{ROB4: 145-7, 149}
{TOB: 106 and n., 117, 121, 122, 124, 131}

on auxiliary language, {ROB4: 159-60}
on human character, {ROB3: 219-20}
on infallibility, see Infallibility
on Islámic prophecies, {ROB4: 153-4}
on steadfastness, {ROB4: 141}
on Trustworthiness, {ROB4: 17-18, 437}
quotes from His own, {ROB4: 162}

Kalimát-i-Firdawsíyyih (Words of Paradise),

{GPB: 216}
{KA: n61}
{ROB4: 117, 175-6, 196, ch. 15, 374}
Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí ('Angel of Carmel'), revealed in honour of,

{KA: K80, n114}
{ROB1: 28-9}
{ROB2: 68-73, 77, 194-202, 332, 340, 370, 438-50}
{ROB3: 181, 352}
{ROB4: 214, 258, 270-3, 323, 325-6, 432}
{TOB: 57 and n., 70, 74, 243-4}
Bihjatu's-Sudúr, memoirs of,

{ROB3: 99-104, 182, 183-4, 218-19, 248-9, 335-6, 377, 397-8, 401-2, 434-5}
reminiscences of Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB4: 4-5, 14-15}
reminiscences of Varqá and Rúhu'lláh, {ROB4: 60-3}

met by Hájí Muhammad-i-Yazdí, see Muhammad-i-Yazdí, Hájí
on the Person of Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB4: 135-6}
teaching work of, {ROB4: 238, 270-3}
quoted, {ROB2: 7-10, 11-12, 42-3, 52-3, 68-73, 116-17}
see also Tablet to Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí

on fear of God, {ROB4: 28}
on misdeeds of believers, {ROB4: 225}
quoted, {ROB3: 352-3}

Kitáb-i-'Ahdí (The Book of My Covenant, Book of the Covenant, Book of Bahá'u'lláh's Covenant, Book of His Covenant, Crimson Book, Epistle of the Covenant, Will and Testament of Bahá'u'lláh, Most Great Tablet),

{GPB: 238-240}
{KA: n37, n66, n145, n183}
{ROB1: 37, 80, 134, 137}
{ROB2: 389}
{ROB3: 81, 371}
{ROB4: 69, 388, 419-420, 434}
'Abdu'l-Bahá as being the One to Whom all must turn, {SAQ: 60 and n}
and Most Holy Book, {GPB: 326}
"Crimson Book",

{GPB: 238}
{TOB: 89, 90, 220, 242}

on worldly goods, {ROB3: 81}

Lawh-i-Aqdas (The Most Holy Tablet, Tablet to the Christians),

{GPB: 209, 210, 216}
{ROB3: 11 and n.}
{ROB4: 117, 227-35, 352, 353}
addressed to church aristocracy, {ROB4: 229-30}
explanation of 'stars', {ROB4: 229}

Lawh-i-Ard-i-Bá (Tablet of the Land of Bá (Beirut)),

{ROB4: 240-1}
see also Beirut

Lawh-i-Burhán (Tablet of the Proof),

{GPB: 200, 219, 232}
{ROB4: ch. 6, 425, 435}
Muhammad-Báqir, Shaykh of Isfahán ("Dhi'b" - Wolf), addressed to,

{GPB: 201, 232}
{ROB2: 130-4}
{ROB3: 163}
{ROB4: 75-6, 79, 91-102, 297, 368, 384-5}
{TOB: 203, 213 and n., 215-16}
Shoghi Effendi describes end of the Wolf and the She-Serpent, {ROB4: 100-101}
see also Epistle to the Son of the Wolf/Shaykh Muhammad-Taqí (Son of the Wolf)

to divines, {ROB4: 97-9}
to enemies, {ROB4: 95}

Lawh-i-Dunyá (Tablet of the World),

{GL: XLIII}
{GPB: 216}
{ROB3: 85n.; quoted, 85-6, 220, 380}
{ROB4: 117, 288, ch. 22, 401, Appendix II}
Áqá Mírzá Áqáy-i-Afnán (Núru'd-Dín), recipient of,

{ROB1: 155}
{ROB2: 383 and n.}
{ROB3: 85n., 202 and n.}
{ROB4: illus. 331; 7, 284, 329-37, 429-31}
'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet to, to restore the House of The Báb, {ROB4: 430}
Bahá'u'lláh meets with, {ROB4: 330-37}
Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet to, about Mazra'ih, {ROB4: 7}
Maryam Sultán Bagum, wife of, {ROB4: 332, 337}

burning of books, {ROB4: 341}
counsels of, to followers, {ROB4: 338-42}
on future of the Cause, {ROB4: 72}
on wickedness, {ROB4: 340}
response to martyrdoms in Yazd, {ROB4: 347}
to Hájí Muhammad-Ridá, {ROB4: 342-4}

Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom),

{GPB: 219}
{ROB1: 20-21}
{ROB3: quoted, 389}
{ROB4: ch. 3, 192, 373}
Mullá Áqá Muhammad-i-Qá'iní (Áqá Muhammad, Nabíl-i-Akbar), Hand of the Cause, Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh, recipient of,

{ROB1: 91-5, 145n.}
{ROB2: 42, 341}
{ROB3: 97, 389}
{ROB4: 33-4, 38, 39, 45, 48-9, 118n., 237, 258, 286, 313}
{TOB: 135, 137, 151, 198}
'Abdu'l-Bahá's tribute to, {ROB4: 34}
at 'Akká, {ROB4: 33}
dear to Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB4: 48}
travels of, {ROB4: 177}

ancient Greek philosophers, {ROB4: 46}
deplores condition of the world, {ROB4: 34-5}
description of nature, {ROB4: 45}
differs from historical records, {ROB4: 46}
for mankind, {ROB4: 34-5}
on creation, {ROB4: 39-40, 42, 45}
on His own knowledge, {ROB3: 389}
on knowledge of the Manifestations, {ROB4: 48}
on misdeeds of believers, {ROB4: 37}
on speech, {ROB4: 192}
on worship, {ROB4: 36}
philosophical terminology of, {ROB4: 33}
teaching, advice on, {ROB4: 192}
teachings to spiritualize the human race, {ROB4: 35-7}

Lawh-i-Karmil (Tablet of Carmel),

{GL: XI}
{GPB: 194, 219, 345}
{ROB3: 215 and n.}
{ROB4: ch. 23, 423}
'Angel of Carmel', see Kalimát-i-Firdawsíyyih/Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí
Bahá'í Community addressed in, {ROB4: 356-7}
Shoghi Effendi's interpretation of, {ROB4: 347-8}
Mount Carmel,

{ESW: 38, 145}
{GL: 14-16, 211}
{GPB: 194}
{ROB1: 15, 19, 29, 200, 268}
{ROB2: 2}
{ROB3: 16, 22, 28, 56, 57, 75, 172, 183, 211, 215, 305, 418, 430-32, 442, 446-8}
{ROB4: illus. 363; 70n., 123, 170-1, 332, 351}
{SAQ: 32}
{TOB: 3-4}

'Abdu'l-Bahá,

Burial, Shrine of

{GPB: 313}
see also Haifa/Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Bahá

on prophecies concerning, {ROB4: 170-1}

Bahá'u'lláh at,

{GPB: 194}
{ROB3: 28, 30-31, 418}
{ROB4: 351, 332-7}

Elijah, cave of,

{GPB: 277}
{ROB4: 351, 359}

future site of Bahá'í institutions,

{GPB: 316}
property on, {GPB: 346}
school to be on, {GPB: 307}
Mashriqu'l-Adhkár on, {ROB4: 352, 363}
see also Bahá'í Faith/World Administrative Centre

Shoghi Effendi on

transfer of remains of Purest Branch and Navváb to,

{GPB: 348}
{ROB3: 201-11, Appendix III}

see also Bahá'u'lláh/Mírzá Mihdí, Bahá'u'lláh/Navváb

Shrine of the Báb,

{GPB: 263, 267, 273, 275, 276, 277, 346}
{KA: n114}
{ROB1: 15, 200, 206}
{ROB3: 86, 107, 389, 430-32, 443, 446-7}
{ROB4: illus. 363, 364; 123, 165, 170-1, 358-65, 419}
'Abdu'l-Bahá, on,

{ROB3: 430-32}
{ROB4: 358-9}
His troubles in building the Báb's Shrine, {GPB: 275}

dome, {GPB: 411}
Mausoleum on Mt. Carmel, {GPB: 194}
remains of The Báb,

{GPB: 273, 275-278, 346}
{ROB4: 358-60}
'Abdu'l-Bahá

on interment of,

{ROB3: 432}
{ROB4: 359}

places on Mt. Carmel, {GPB: 241, 273, 275, 276, 314}

Russian Consul,

has artist picture remains of Báb, {GPB: 54}
ordered to investigate Bábí Movement, {GPB: 55}
views remains of the Báb, {GPB: 54}

transfer of,

Bahá'u'lláh on,

{ROB3: 424 ff.}
orders bodies of Báb and Quddús brought to Tihrán,

{DBNN: 519}
{GPB: 54, 273}
{ROB4: 299}

to Mt. Carmel, {GPB: 54, 177, 241, 262, 273, 275, 276, 314}

see also Sháh-Muhammad-i-Manshádí, Hájí (Amínu'l-Bayán)

Pilgrimage to, {ROB4: 170-1}
Shoghi Effendi, on, {ROB4: 360-1}

Lawh-i-Maqsúd (Tablet of Maqsúd),

{GL: CXII}
{GPB: 216}
{ROB4: 117, 235-6}
Mírzá Maqsúd, recipient of,

{ROB4: 235-6}
{TOB: 159, 174-6}

on justice, {ROB3: 295-6}
on power of unity, {ROB4: 196}
quoted, {ROB3: 294}

Lawh-i-Síyyid-i-Mihdíy-i-Dahají (Tablet to Siyyid Mihdíy-i-Dahají),

{ROB4: 236-8}
Siyyid Mihdíy-i-Dahají, addressed to,

{ROB2: 118-19, 272-4, 290}
{ROB3: 209, 226, 227, 234 and n.}
{ROB4: 236-8, 287n.}
{TOB: 195 and n.}

Súriy-i-Vafá (Tablet to Vafá),

{GL: LXXIX}
addresses leaders of religion, {ROB4: 212}
on spiritual worlds,

{ROB4: ch. 14}
see also World/spiritual

Shaykh Muhammad-Husayn (Vafá), recipient of,

{ROB4: 205-6}
{TOB: 179 and n., 181}

Tajallíyát (Effulgences),

{GPB: 216}
{ROB3: 120 n.}
{ROB4: 117, ch. 8, 168}
Book of, {ESW: 26}
on recognizing God, {ROB4: 139}
on sciences which begin and end in words, {ROB4: 143-4, 236}
Ustád 'Alí-Akbar-i-Banná, recipient of,

{ROB3: 120}
{ROB4: illus. 121; 30, 118-25}
{TOB: 48 and n., 49-53 passim}
'Abdu'l-Bahá,

meets with, {ROB4: 122}
writes tablets to, {ROB4: 122, 123, 125}

Bahá'u'lláh meets with, {ROB4: 120}
in 'Ishqábád, {ROB4: 119-23, 124}
twenty-seven Tablets, revealed for, {ROB4: 124-5}

Tarázát (Ornaments),

{GPB: 216}
{ROB4: 16, 18, 117, ch. 11}
exhortation to Bahá'ís, {ROB4: 173}
full of Significances, {ROB4: 168}
contains passage from Tablet to Hájí Mírzá Buzurg-i-Afnán, {ROB4: 16, 333, 337}
on Trustworthiness, {ROB4: 17-18, 437}
on 'veils' and 'oppressors', {ROB4: 172-3}
to Hádíy-i-Dawlat-Ábádí,

{ROB4: 47, 174}
see also Epistle to the Son of the Wolf

Other Tablets,

Tablet in honour of Bahá'ís
Tablet to 'Alí Haydar
Tablet to Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí,

see also Kalimát-i-Firdawsíyyih

Tablet to Javád
Tablet to Muhammad Husayn
Tablet to Muhammad-Javád-i-Qazvíní (Ismu'lláhi'l-Júd - The Name of God, Bounty),

{TOB: 74 and n.}
Muhammad-Javád-i-Qazvíní, addressed to {ROB2: 275-6}
see also Unpublished or Untranslated Works/Muhammad-Báqir-i-Qazvíní, Hájí

Misc. Topics,

Abode, pristine, {TOB: 268}
Adorer and Adored One, {TOB: 53}
Anguish, {TOB: 112}
Animosity,

{TOB: 23, 44}
fire (Flame) of hatred, {TOB: 88, 132, 219}

Atmosphere, contamination of, {TOB: 69}
'B' (letter), {TOB: 101 and n.}
Bahá, city of, {TOB: 120}
Bahá'u'lláh,

hidden, {TOB: 143}
investigation of, {TOB: 12, 157, 188, 211, 236}
Kingdom of, {TOB: 231}
laws changed by, {TOB: 28, 132}
letters and questions to, {TOB: 183, 196-7, 267}
love of, {TOB: 17}
loves mankind, {TOB: 148, 171}
requested interview with learned, {TOB: 139}

Balínús, {TOB: 147-8}
Breeze,

{TOB: 13, 14, 16}
of God, {TOB: 137, 177, 214}

Burning Fire, {TOB: 116}
City,

{TOB: 4, 246, 260}
of Bahá, {TOB: 120}
strong, {TOB: 259}

Counsellor, Counselor. {TOB: 44, 134, 170}
Dawn, {TOB: 41, 51, 75, 233}
Dawning-Place, {TOB: 109, 113, 149, 210, 234}
Discoveries and Inventions of various ages, see Knowledge
Doubt,

{KA: K134, K163, K164}
{TOB: 138}

Dust, writhing in, {TOB: 112}
Educator, {TOB: 149}
Educators, Teachers, {TOB: 35, 96-7, 109}
Error, source of, {TOB: 156}
Eternity, {TOB: 246}
Father, {TOB: 11, 14}
Fathers, {TOB: 25, 128}
Festival, {TOB: 78}
Finger, {TOB: 156}
Fisherman, {TOB: 10}
Force concealed in world of being, {TOB: 221}
Force similar to lightning, {TOB: 69}
Fruit of one tree, {TOB: 127, 164}
Future,

{TOB: 102, 241}
dreams about, {TOB: 187-8}

Generation, this perverse, {TOB: 85}
Glory,

{TOB: 155}
pavilion of, {TOB: 112}
realm of, {TOB: 137, 181, 219}

Good, {TOB: 155, 169, 170}
Guidance, {TOB: 138}
Hidden Secret, {TOB: 231}
Husayn, {TOB: 77, 234}
Leaves of one tree, bough, {TOB: 27, 127, 129}
Letters, manifestations of, {TOB: 101}
Light,

{TOB: 13, 14, 33, 41, 92, 108, 119, 169, 240}
and darkness, {TOB: 138}

Lion, {TOB: 197}
Mother Tablet, {TOB: 213}
Murád, Muhammad, {TOB: 16}
Murtus, {TOB: 150}
Mystery(ies),

{TOB: 24, 142, 145}
divine, {TOB: 106, 139, 151, 188}
Hidden, {TOB: 47, 50}
impenetrable, {TOB: 77, 101, 231}
of creation, {TOB: 147}
of God, see 'Abdu'l-Bahá
revealed (laid bare), {TOB: 4, 5, 39, 47, 50, 76, 107, 231, 241}
strange and astonishing things, {TOB: 69}

Prudence, {TOB: 85}
Qualities,

desirable, Bahá'u'lláh is Dayspring of,

{TOB: 47}
see also Bahá'í(s)

undesirable, see Backbiting, Corruption, Cursing, Dishonesty, Hypocrisy, Idleness, Imposture, Jealousy, Materialism, Pride, Selfishness, Slander

Questions and letters to Bahá'u'lláh, {TOB: 183, 196-7, 267}
Rank, no glory in, {TOB: 68}
Rock, {TOB: 177, 208}
Samandar, son of, {TOB: 73}
Sign(s),

{TOB: 239}
Most Mighty, {TOB: 47, 209}

Stones groaned, {TOB: 254}
Straight Path,

{KA: 15, K14, K112, K186}
{TOB: 35-6, 61, 101, 116, 121, 132, 168, 171, 205, 209, 248, 251}

Tablet, {TOB: 79, 244, 247, 267}
Treasured Symbol, {TOB: 47, 50}
True One, {TOB: 11, 79, 117}
Turkey, Sultán of, {TOB: 210, 213}

Tajallíyát, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Tarázát, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Words of Wisdom, (Asl-i-Kullu'l-Khayr) see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh

To The Kings and Rulers,

{ESW: 28, 30-32, 39-40, 45, 53, 54, 89, 91-92, 104, 128}
{GL: 206}
{GPB: 171-176, 206, 385}
{ROB4: 421}
{SAQ: 33}
'Each one of them, hath been designated by a special name', {ROB3: 110}
Bahá'u'lláh's proclamation to, {GPB: 158, 159, 170-176, 206-213}
power seized from kings and ecclesiastics, {GPB: 230}

King(s), Rulers,

{KA: 13, 15, K85, K86, K88, K89, K91, n118}
{PM: 36}
{ROB2: chs. 15, 16 passim; 416, 418}
{ROB3: 147-8, 156, 157, 161}
{ROB4: 98, 179, 235, 291, 388, 421}
{TOB: 50, 70, 93, 113, 125, 126, 127, 130, 206, 220-1, 238, 252}
addressed collectively, {KA: K78-K83, K87}
cause of impotence, {GL: 223, 255}
chosen perdition for their people, {TOB: 106}
faults and favours of, {TOB: 65}
duty of, {GL: 216, 218, 232, 247, 249, 250, 254}
God beseeched to aid, {TOB: 29, 39, 65, 127}
God's retributive justice

to kings and ecclesiastics, {GPB: 230}
to tyrants, {GPB: 224}

Great Peace, {TOB: 165}
injustice of, {GL: 222-224, 229, 253}
justice of, {TOB: 164, 166}
justice enjoined upon, {GL: 219, 222, 223, 247, 251, 252}
loyalty to, {TOB: 22-3, 65, 221}
majesty of, {TOB: 28}
message to Persian ambassador, {GPB: 160}
Monarchy, Royalty,

{ROB3: 118, 156, 157-9}
constitutional, {ROB4: 162}
Kingship,

{KA: n194}
plus republic (i.e. constitutional monarchy), {TOB: 28, 93}

Prophecies of future just ruler, {GL: 110, 111, 212}
received Bahá'í literature, {GPB: 384}
sovereign will arise to protect Bahá'ís,

{GPB: 411}
loyalty of believers to King who will arise, {GL: 207, 112}
station of one who will arise, {GL: 111, 207, 212}
who will arise to aid Cause, {KA: K84, 163}

visited by Martha Root, {GPB: 387, 388, 389}

obedience to, {GL: 207, 229, 240, 241}
of Eternity, {TOB: 123}
of Kings, {TOB: 215}
of Revelation, {TOB: 118}
on Persian authorities, {ROB4: 222}
perpetrate tyranny, {TOB: 85}
shall pass away, {TOB: 265-6}
should enforce laws of God, {TOB: 29, 90}
should reform society, {TOB: 168}
should uphold religion, {TOB: 63, 130}
station of, {GL: 212, 218, 219, 241, 249, 251, 304}
Sultán of Turkey joins Shah to stamp out Bábí Faith, {GPB: 112}
unity enjoined upon, {GL: 216, 249, 254, 255}
world gathering of rulers, {GPB: 218}
see also Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf

To Religious Leaders

proclamations to, {GPB: 158, 170-176, 206, 209-213}
Tablet to Pope Pius IX,

{GPB: 209}
{ROB3: 116-18, 133; quoted 116-17}
Bahá'u'lláh proclaims Himself as Lord of Lords, {ROB3: 116}
fate of, {GPB: 227}

to Kings of Christendom, see Súriy-i-Mulúk
to the Jews, {GPB: 211}
to Muslim ecclesiastics, {GPB: 175, 210}
to Zoroastrian priests, {GPB: 211}
see also Lawh-i-Aqdas

Kitáb-i-Aqdas,

Addresses Kings and Rulers, see Kitáb-i-Aqdas
Addresses Religious Leaders, see Kitáb-i-Aqdas

Lawh-i-Sultán, (Tablet to Násiri'd-Dín Sháh, Epistle to the Sháh, Epistle to Násiri'd-Dín Sháh),

{ESW: 11, 39, 124-125}
{GPB: 26, 102, 143-4, 172-4, 185}
{ROB1: 21}
{ROB2: 337-40, 349, 351; quoted, 340, 346, 349, 355-6}
{ROB3: 21, 38, 109, 133, 174ff., 182-91, 199-200, 209-10; quoted, 232}
{ROB4: 374, 388}
{SAQ: 85}
Násiri'd-Dín Sháh (the Vali-'Ahd, reigned 1848-96), addressed to,

{DBNN: 314 (note 4), 358, 365, 400, 500, 539}
{GPB: 296}
{KA: n177, n182}
{ROB1: 8, 10, 11, 13 and n., 26-7, 37, 40-1, 225, 258 and n.}
{ROB2: 246, 304, 326, 337-9}
{ROB3: 21, 26, 38, 85, 109, 174-6, 182, 184-6, 187-91, 199, 200, 201-2, 245, 269, 425}
{ROB4: 38, 76, 102, 186, 297n., 381, 383, 387, 401-2, 439}
{SAQ: 33, 85n}
attempt on the life of,

{DBNN: 599}
{GPB: 62, 78, 104}
{ROB4: 124, 378, 379}

Bahá'u'lláh's declaration to, {GPB: 102}
exiles Bahá'u'lláh from Persia, {GPB: 106}
fate of,

{GPB: 225}
assassinated, {GPB: 296}

fate of his son, {GPB: 232}
Hujjat's petition to, {DBNN: 554}
mistrust of, {ROB4: 379-80}
persecuted Bahá'ís, {GPB: 197, 198}
"Prince of Oppressors," {GPB: 197, 225}
Sháh warned, {TOB: 15}
see also Hands of the Cause of God/'Alí-Akbar-i-Sháhmírzádí, Hájí

see also Áqá Buzurg, of Khurásán (Badí')

Súriy-i-Haykal, or Súratu'l-Haykal (Súrih of the Temple),

{ROB1: 121-2}
{ROB3: ch. 7, quoted 147 passim.}
{ROB4: 133, 278}
{SAQ: 32-33}
nine different styles or categories of verses of God, enumerated by Jináb-i-Fádil-i-Mázindarání (Mírzá Asadu'lláh),

{ROB1: 42}
see also Bahá'u'lláh

Kitáb-i-Haykal, {SAQ: 33}
"Maiden"

appears to Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 101}
personified the Spirit of God, {GPB: 101, 121, 221}

on nature of God and His Manifestations, {ROB4: 133-5}

Súriy-i-Mulúk, (Súrih of the Kings), {GL: LXV, LXVI, CXIII, CXIV, CXVI, CXVIII}

{GPB: 171}
{ROB1: 146-7}
{ROB2: ch. 15 passim, 337, 418; quoted, 56, 62, 301}
{ROB3: 109, 146, 238, 242, 251; quoted, 156}
{ROB4: 27}
to Constantinople, {GL: LXV, LXVI, CXIII}
to Kings of Christendom, {GL: CXVI}
to Minister of Sháh, {GL: CXIII}
to Sultán 'Abdu'l-'Azíz, {GL: CXIV}
to Turkish Ministers, {GL: LXV}

Tablet to Czar Alexander II,

{ESW: 56-59}
{GPB: 106, 207}
{ROB3: 118-22, 133; quoted, 119, 120}
{ROB4: 434}
Nicolaevitch Alexander II, Czar of Russia, addressed to,

{ROB3: 111, 113, 118-23}
{ROB4: 346, 388, 434}
fate of, {GPB: 226, 227}
sent Consul to investigate Bábí Movement, {GPB: 55}

Tablet to Napoleon III,

{ESW: 45-56, 124-5}
{GPB: 173, 207}
{KA: n118}
{TOB: 210}
I,

{ROB2: 337, 368-9}
{ROB3: 109, 110}
{ROB4: 249, 434}

II,

{ROB2: quoted, 35, 93-4}
{ROB3: 81, 110-15, 133; quoted, 111-13, 115}
on teaching, {ROB3: 331-2}
on worldly goods, {ROB3: 81}

Napoleon III, Emperor of France, addressed to,

{KA: 15, K86, 164, n118}
{ROB2: 369}
{ROB3: 81, 109, 110-15, 149, 201}
{ROB4: 95, 249, 388, 434}
{SAQ: 32-33}
fate of, {GPB: 225}
Prophecies concerning,

{SAQ: 32-33}
fall of, {KA: n118}

result of attitude toward Bahá'u'lláh, {ESW: 51}

see also Epistle to the Son of the Wolf

Tablet to Queen Victoria {GL: CXIX, CXX},

{ESW: 59-64}
{GPB: 206, 207, 211}
{ROB3: 123-8, 133; quoted, 123-4, 125, 127, 128}
{ROB4: 434}
Victoria, Queen of England, addressed to,

{ROB3: 123-5}
{ROB4: 388, 434}

see also Epistle to the Son of the Wolf

Tablet to Sultán 'Abdu'l-'Azíz,

{GPB: 172-3}
{ROB3: 147}
'Abdu'l-'Azíz, Sultán of Turkey, addressed to,

{KA: n120}
{ROB2: 1, 61, 304, 312, 401}
{ROB3: 14, 37-8, 69, 87 and n., 91, 99 and n., 100 and n., 101-2, 123, 151-4, 191, 418-19}
{ROB4: 27, 95, 104, 105, 240, 241-2, 421}
edict condemning Bahá'u'lláh to life imprisonment,

{ROB3: 18, 19, 52, 252, 410, 413, 414, 417}
{ROB4: 240, 241}
exiles Bahá'u'lláh to 'Akká, {GPB: 179, 195}
edict of Sultán meaningless, {ROB3: 18-19}

fate of, {GPB: 225}
see also 'Abdu'l-Hamíd

see also Súriy-i-Ra'ís, Lawh-i-Ra'ís, Lawh-i-Fu'ád

Unpublished, Untranslated, or Unnamed Works:

Amr va Khalq, a compilation of the writings of Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Persian, {ROB4: 45}
confers title on Quddús, {ROB4: 210}
depicting perversity of humanity,

{ROB4: 70}
see also Mankind

for Anniversary of Birth of the Báb, see Báb, The
for Bahá'í women, {ROB4: 202-3}
for chief of Templers, {ROB4: 351}
for Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí,

{ROB4: 323}
and Mullá Muhammad i-Zarandí (Nabíl-i-A'zam), {ROB4: 108}

for Hájí Mullá Mihdíy-i-'Atrí,

{ROB4: 51}
Mihdíy-i-'Atrí, Hájí Mullá,

{ROB1: 331}
{ROB4: 50-3}
'Abdu'l-Bahá on, {ROB4: 52-3}

for Mírzá Hasan, {ROB4: 53}
for Mullá Muhammad i-Zarandí (Nabíl-i-A'zam), and Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí, {ROB4: 108}
'He doeth what He pleaseth', {ROB3: 26}
His Message destined to envelop whole world, {ROB3: 13, 380}
high standard of behaviour demanded, {ROB4: 83}
holy and dedicated souls will arise,

{ROB3: 33, 381}
see also Lawh-i-Ahbáb

Iqtidárát, A compilation of the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh. 1310 A.H. (A.D. 1892-3),

{ROB2: 30, 32, 84, 118, 401}
{ROB4: 68, 83, 246, 253, 278}

Ishráqát, A compilation of the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, 1310 A.H. (A.D. 1892-3),

{ROB3: 201, 230}
{ROB4: 141, 195}

message to Amínu's-Sultán
on 'Akká,

{ROB3: 1, 13, 16, 21, 81, 419}
Bahjí,

{ROB4: 104}
revealed at, {ROB4: 114-15}

believers in, {ROB3: 20}
Faydí Páshá, Governor of, {ROB3: 25, 413-14}
healing prayer, revealed in barracks of, see Prayers/Healing
leaving, {ROB4: 105}

on 'Alí, Mullá, the teacher, {ROB3: 91}
on calumnies of Azalís, {ROB4: 399}
on character, human, {ROB3: 230, 258}
on chastisement, divine, {ROB3: 200-202}
on chastity, {ROB3: 364}
on children, duties of towards parents, {ROB3: 203}
on Christ, {ROB4: 152}
on circumambulation, {ROB4: 108-13}
on conduct, {ROB3: 230-31, 237}
on consultation, {ROB4: 289-90}
on countryside,

{ROB3: 416}
{ROB4: 7}

on creation, {ROB4: 42}
on detachment, {ROB4: 246-7}
on equality of men and women,

{ROB4: 199-204}
see also 'Abdu'l-Bahá

on forgiveness, {ROB4: 85-6}
on God 'the Incomparable', {ROB4: 199}
on Hands of the Cause,

{ROB4: 287-8, ch. 21, 337-8}
on believers as Hands of the Cause, {ROB4: 285}
to Hands of the Cause,

{ROB4: 253-5, 277-8, 284, 287-8, 315-28}
Áqá Siyyid Áqá,

{ROB4: 284}
see also Hands of the Cause of God

Hájí 'Abu'l-Hasan-i-Amín,

{ROB4: 116, 284, 290}
see also Hands of the Cause of God

Hájí Mírzá Muhammad-Taqí (Ibn-i-Abhar),

{ROB4: 289, 305-7, 315-28}
see also Hands of the Cause of God

Hájí Mullá 'Alí-Akbar-i-Sháhmírzádí (Hájí Ákhúnd),

{ROB4: 255, 287, 315-28}
see also Hands of the Cause of God

Mírzá 'Alí-Muhammad-i-Khurásání (Ibn-i-Asdaq),

{ROB4: 254, 275, 277, 296, 302-4, 315-28}
see also Hands of the Cause of God

Mírzá 'Alí-Muhammad-i-Varqá,

{ROB4: 17-18, 51, 64-72, 88-9}
Tablets for Varqá's children, {ROB4: 59}
see also Hands of the Cause of God

on His exile, {ROB3: 21, 419-20, 420-21}
on House of The Báb, {ROB4: 429}
on Huqúq'u'lláh,

{ROB4: 252-3, 256}
see also Bahá'í Faith

on inner realities of prominent people, {ROB4: 286-7}
on invincibility of Cause, {ROB3: 33}
on Islám, {ROB3: 245}
on Jesus, {ROB3: 243-4, 247-8}
on Manifestation, attaining presence of, {ROB3: 404}
on Manifestations of God, {ROB3: 243-8}
on martyrdom, {ROB4: 87, 302-3, 305}
on Mírzá Áqá Khán and Shaykh Ahmad, {ROB4: 399-400}
on Obligatory Prayers, see Prayer(s)
on punishment,

{ROB3: 296-7}
of mankind, {ROB4: 157}

on Purest Branch,

{ROB3: 210, 213}
see also Bahá'u'lláh/Mírzá Mihdí

on religion, {ROB4: 155-6}
on self and passion, worst human characteristics, {ROB3: 35}
on Shaykh Muhammad-i-Yazdí, {ROB4: 394, 395, 399}
on steadfastness, {ROB3: 258, 259, 267}
on strife, {ROB3: 230}
on suffering, {ROB4: 105, 157}
on teaching, {ROB4: 275, 305, 319}
on the heart, {ROB4: 35}
on Turkish Empire, {ROB3: 87, 100ff.}
on unknowable Essence, {ROB4: 130}
on wisdom, {ROB4: 319, 320-3}
on worthlessness of world, {ROB4: 249}
proclamation of Mission, {ROB1: 17, 109n.}
proclamation to the Kings, {ROB3: 161}
prophecies easing of restrictions, {ROB3: 55, 108}
revealed in the home of Áqáy-i-Kalím, {ROB4: 242-3}
'the Cause will flourish through persecution', {ROB3: 32-3}
to Afnáns,

{ROB4: 285}
to Hájí Muhammad 'Alíy-i-Afnán, {ROB4: 247}

to 'Andalíb, {ROB4: 83-4}
to Hájí Áqá Muhammad-i-'Aláqih-band, {ROB4: 26, 218-9}
to Hájí Mullá 'Alíy-i-Kání,

{ROB4: 297}
Hájí Mullá 'Alíy-i-Kání, {ROB3: 191}

to Indian believers, {ROB4: 181}
to Karbilá'í Áqá Ján,

{ROB4: 271}
Karbilá'í Áqá Ján, recipient of, {ROB4: 100, 348, 429}

to Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl, {ROB4: 260}
to Muhammad-Báqir (from Káshán), {ROB4: 247}
to Muhammad-Báqir-i-Qazvíní, Hájí, {ROB2: 276-9}
to People Of The Bayán, {GPB: 211}
to Shaykh Kázim-i-Samandar, {ROB4: 88}
to Sulaymán Khán,

{ROB4: 181}
Sulaymán Khán-i-Tunukábání (Jamálu'd-Din, Jamal Effendi),

{ROB4: illus. 179; 177-89}
'Abdu'l-Bahá and, {ROB4: 183, 185, 188}
Bahá'u'lláh and, {ROB4: 177-84}
in 'Akká, see 'Akká
teaching, see Bahá'í Faith, Persia

to The King and Beloved of the Martyrs,

{ROB4: 89-90}
{TOB: 203-5, 214 and n.}
The King and Beloved of Martyrs,

recounting story of, {ROB4: 73, 80-90}
and Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB4: 73-5, 80-90}
and The Báb, {ROB4: 74}
martyrdoms of, at Isfahán, {ROB4: 73-90, 384}
Mírzá Muhammad-Hasan, 'Sultánu'sh-Shuhadá' (King of the Martyrs),

{GPB: 200, 201}
{ROB1: 103n., 259}
{ROB2: 203 and n., 205, 334}
{ROB3: 388}
{ROB4: illus. 77; 16, 58, 73-90, 91, 99-100, 101, 119, 254, 368, 384, 434}
prayer for, see Prayer(s)
tablet to, {ROB4: 87}

Mírzá Muhammad-Husayn, 'Mahbúbu'sh-Shuhadá' (Beloved of the Martyrs),

{GPB: 200, 201}
{ROB1: 103n., 259}
{ROB2: 204 and n., 205, 334}
{ROB4: illus. 78; 16, 58, 73-90, 91, 99-100, 101, 119, 368, 384, 434}

see also Ismá'íl, Mírzá

to Umm-i-'Attár, {ROB2: 127}

Destroyed/Lost Works:

{GPB: 138}
{KA: n9}
{ROB1: 50, 69}
{ROB2: 269}
{ROB3: 302}
{ROB4: 151}
Tablets of Hakím Masíh,

{ROB3: 267}
Hakím Masíh, {ROB3: 265-8}

See also Bahá'u'lláh/His Tablets and Writings, Prayer(s)

'Abá-Basír, Áqá Naqd-'Alí,

{ROB2: 226-7}
{ROB4: 386, 435}
Nabíl gives acknowledgment in his account of upheaval of Zanján, {DBNN: 580}

Ábádih,

{ROB1: 77 and n., 266}
{ROB4: 314, 325-6, 385}

'Abbás, Mírzá (Qábil, of Ábádih), {ROB1: 77-8}
'Abbas-Qulí Khán, instigates martyrdom of Vahid at Nayríz, {DBNN: 494}
'Abbas-Qulí-Khán-i-Láríjání, {DBNN: 339, 341, 375, 386, 391}
'Abdu'l-'Alí Hájí, Shaykh,

{DBNN: 476, 498}

'Abdu'l-'Ali-Khán-i-Marághiyí,

{DBNN: 290, 324}

'Abdu'l-'Azim-i-Khu'í, Siyyid,

{DBNN: 362, 471}

'Abdu'l-Bahá, 'Abbás Effendi, Most Great Branch,

{DBNN: 209, 440}
{KA: 3, n184, 252}
{ROB1: 16, 19, 29, 35, 40, 41-2, 199-201 passim, 205, 206, 212, 219}
{ROB2: 14-15, 58, 161, 196, 199, 238, 392-3}
{ROB3: 7, 12, 30, 48, 50, 52-3, 86, 106-7, 138, 159-60, 162, 171, 187, 204, 214, 241, 268, 307, 333, 402, 405-9, 435}
{ROB4: 16, 73, 85, 93, 185-6, 222, 273, 275, 313, 326, 328, 363, 377n., 430}

Biographical

and,

Abu'l-Qásim, see Ridván
Dr Habíb Mu'ayyad, see Habíb Mu'ayyad, Dr.
Hájí Muhammad-i-Yazdí, see Muhammad-i-Yazdí,Hájí
Jalálu'd-Dawlih, see Yazd
Jamálu'd-Din, {ROB4: 402}
King Feisal, see Feisal, King
Sulaymán Khán, see Unpublished or Untranslated Works
Ustád Ali-Akbar, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Tajallíyát
Varqá and his children, see Unpublished or Untranslated Works
Zillu's-Sultán, see Mas'úd Mírzá

as a child and youth,

{ROB1: 9, 13, 100}
{ROB2: 14, 389-91}

Ascension of, see Haifa
Bahá'ís describe interviews with, {GPB: 258}
commentator describes Him, {GPB: 290}
first public appearance, {GPB: 283, 284}
guests at His table, {GPB: 269}
His family,

Bahá'u'lláh, father of, see Bahá'u'lláh
marriage,

{ROB2: 205, 207}
{ROB3: 400-401}
Munírih ('Illumined') Khánum, Fátimih Khánum, wife of,

{ROB2: 204, 205, 206-9, 384, 386}
{ROB3: 400}
{ROB4: 16, 73, 430}
Prince Mírzá Muhammad-'Alíy-i-Nahrí (Mírzá Muhammad-'Alí), father of,

{DBNN: 159, 161, 208, 461}
{ROB2: 202-5}
{ROB3: 254}
{ROB4: 73-4}
Mírzá Ibráhím, brother of, {DBNN: 208}

Rádíyih, sister of, {ROB4: 15-16}

Navváb, mother of, see Bahá'u'lláh/Navváb
Purest Branch, brother of, see Bahá'u'lláh/Mírzá Mihdí
Shoghi Effendi, grandson of, see Shoghi Effendi
Tuba Khánum, daughter of, reminiscences about 'Abdu'l-Bahá, {ROB4: 2-4, 13-14}
Varaqiy-i-'Ulyá, the Greatest Holy Leaf, sister of, see Bahá'u'lláh/Bahá'íyyih Khánum

highlights of His life, {GPB: 240-243}
His ministry,

{GPB: 235-320}
{ROB3: 84, 90, 172, 265}
achievements, outstanding, {GPB: 296; summary of, 314, 315}
effect of work of, {GPB: 295-309}
mission of, {GPB: 252}
prestige of Faith, {GPB: 242}
schools built during, {ROB4: 122n.}

in,

'Akká, see 'Akká
Baghdád, see Baghdád
Constantinople, see Constantinople
Garden of Ridván, see Ridván

incident related by, {DBNN: 616}
interviews with rulers and notables, {GPB: 283-290}
memories of, {GPB: 292-294}
recites prayer of the Báb continually, {GPB: 276}
stories attributed to, {ROB4: 170}
travels,

{GPB: 279-294}
Beirut, see Beirut
Egypt, see Egypt
West,

America, see America
England, see Britain
Paris, see Paris
Stuttgart, see Stuttgart
Vienna, see Vienna
see also West, The

Townshend's poem to, see Hands of the Cause of God

His Qualities,

admired by officials, {ROB3: 18, 19, 24, 52-3, 71-2, 107, 251, 252, 410, 411-12, 414n.}
austerity of His life, {ROB3: 81-4}
boundless vitality of, {GPB: 287, 288}
example of His serenity, {GPB: 269}
gifts,

His attitude to, {ROB3: 83-4}
refuses gifts and contributions, {GPB: 282}

His care for others,

{ROB3: 20, 70, 222, 252}
helps people receive justice, {ROB4: 3}

His detachment, {ROB2: 40-1}
His effect on people, {ROB3: 66, 70, 71-2, 159-60, 253}
His health, {ROB2: 391-2}
His humility, {ROB3: 337}
His knowledge, {ROB3: 70}
His leadership and guidance, {ROB3: 52-3, 410-11}
His love, {ROB3: 336}
His magnanimity, {ROB3: 82}
His methods of teaching, {ROB3: 336-42}
His power and majesty, {ROB3: 337, 340}
His powers of healing, see Lawh-i-Tibb
protects Bahá'ís, {GPB: 267}
sorrow at human slaughter, {GPB: 304}

His Services to Bahá'u'lláh,

{ROB1: 25, 159}
{ROB2: 63, 200, 392-3}
arranges Bahá'u'lláh's release from 'Akká, {GPB: 241}
deputy of Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 241}
shields Bahá'u'lláh from outside world, {ROB4: 1-2, 4-5, 336}

His Station and Titles,

{GPB: 239, 240, 242, 243, 245, 263}
{ROB1: 14, 134-5, 313}
{ROB2: 15, 261, 388-92, 394-6}
{ROB3: 106, 405-9}
{ROB4: 56-7, 240-1, 304, 336}, 414n.}
Bahá'u'lláh,

'Abdu'l-Bahá appointed by,

{KA: 3, 13, K121, K174, 145, n1}
{ROB1: 134-5}

'Abdu'l-Bahá Interpreter of Writings of,

{ROB3: 283, 374, 406}
Interpreter of Word of God, {KA: K174, n130, n184}

'Abdu'l-Bahá Vicegerent of, {GPB: 245}
'Abdu'l-Bahá's relationship to {ROB3: 207-8, 225, 249-50, 252}
'Abdu'l-Bahá's station disclosed in Covenant of, {GPB: 239, 240}
describes station of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, {ROB4: 56-7}
entitles 'Abdu'l-Bahá as,

Áqá (Master),

{GPB: 242}
{ROB3: 20, 106, 209, 252, 268, 362, 411n., 437, 446}

heir, {TOB: 221-2}
He Whom God hath purposed, {KA: K121, n145}
Most Great Branch,

{GPB: 239, 243}
{ROB3: 122, 207, 336, 371}
{TOB: 222}

Most Mighty Branch,

{KA: n145}
{TOB: 221, 227}

Mystery of God (Sirru'lláh)

reveals prayer for 'Abdu'l-Bahá, {GPB: 243}
statement about 'Abdu'l-Bahá by, {ROB3: 142-3}

Centre of the Covenant, see Covenant
Exemplar of Teachings, Exemplar of Faith of Bahá'u'lláh,

{GPB: 242, 245}
{KA: 3}
{ROB1: 14, 100, 134}

Father of the Poor,

{GPB: 269}
{ROB3: 252}

infallibility of, see Infallibility
knighted by British authorities, {GPB: 306}
Master of 'Akká, {ROB4: 2}
on His own station, {ROB3: 405}
prestige of, {ROB4: 239-41, 421}
rank unparalleled in religious history, {GPB: 314}
spiritual titles of, {ROB1: 13-14, 100, 132, 134-5}

His Sufferings,

{GPB: 250}
Bahá'u'lláh foresees trials of 'Abdu'l-Bahá,

{GPB: 250}
"lightnings", "thunders", "earthquake", {GPB: 249}

enemies of, {GPB: 317-320}
imprisoned, {ROB3: 237}
investigation of (1907), {GPB: 269-272}
re-incarcerated, {GPB: 263-272}
released from imprisonment in 1908, {GPB: 272}
see also Lawh-i-Karmil

His Writings,

{ROB1: 50, 77, 80-81, 91, 95, 127n., 201, 239}
{ROB3: 107, 139, 140, 280, 284, 332, 350-51, 445}
{ROB4: 198}

Books and Tablets,

Amr va Khalq, see Unpublished or Untranslated Works
Bahá'í Prayers,

index of prayers revealed by 'Abdu'l-Bahá

Lawh-i-Hizár Baytí,

{ROB1: 127n.}
{ROB4: 146}

Memorials of the Faithful

{KA: n183}
{ROB4: 405-6}

Risáliy-i-Síyásíyyih (Treatise on Politics), {ROB4: 304}
Some Answered Questions,

{KA: n75, n86}
{ROB3: 187, 191, 339}
{ROB4: 41, 45, 152}
Laura Dreyfus-Barney (Laura Clifford Barney), translates,

{GPB: 260}
{ROB3: 187, 191}

Tablet of Purity (Lawh-i-Dukhán), {ROB3: 437-9}
Tablets of the Divine Plan,

{GPB: 255, 296, 305, 406}
{ROB4: 358}
a charter for teaching of Bahá'í Faith, {ROB4: 358}
Divine Plan of, {KA: 4}
Prayers for Teaching, see Prayer(s)

A Traveller's Narrative
Will and Testament,

{GPB: 325-328; outline of, 328}
{KA: 3, n49, n66, n125, n183}
{ROB1: 137, 241n.}
{ROB3: 372n., 446}
{ROB4: 286, 288, 377n.}
appoints Shoghi Effendi as Guardian, {KA: 3, n66, n130}
outline of contents, {GPB: 328}
pens His Will and Testament, {GPB: 268}
successors to, {KA: 3}

Tablets of visitation, for specific individuals {ROB4: 165}
Tablet to

Áqá Mírzá Áqá, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Dunyá
Central Organization for a Durable Peace (The Hague),

{GPB: 308}
{ROB4: 304}

Covenant-breakers, see Covenant-breakers
Dr August Forel, see Forel, Dr. Auguste
Hájí Áqá Muhammad-i-'Aláqih-band, see Unpublished or Untranslated Works
Hands of the Cause, see Hands of the Cause of God/'Abdu'l-Bahá/Tablets to
Mírzá Áqá Khán, see Áqá Khán, Mírzá (Qá'im Maqámí)
Ustád 'Alí-Akbar, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Tajallíyát

Tablets on

creation, {ROB4: 40, 41, 44-5}
relationship of God to the Manifestations, {ROB4: 132}
trustworthiness, {ROB4: 26-7}

unaddressed, {ROB4: 325-6}
writes Tablets,

{ROB4: 326}
daily writing of Tablets, {GPB: 267}

Interpretations by,

{ROB1: 82-2}
of a hadíth, {ROB4: 39n.}
of The Hidden Words, see The Hidden Words
of 'Ishráqát, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Ishráqát
of Scripture, {ROB4: 147, 289, 357, 375n., 427}

not accounted "verses of God," {KA: n165}
quotations from, {GPB: 49, 55, 57, 72, 75, 92, 99, 107, 124, 150, 159, 183, 193, 196, 197, 201, 238, 250, 251, 253, 254, 255, 257, 271, 275, 276, 282, 288, 293, 308, 309, 310, 311, 316, 332, 347, 351, 354, 355, 377, 389, 397}

Statements by,

{ROB1: 62, 100, 120, 127, 208, 214, 230, 254-5, 257, 260 and n., 262, 268, 276-7, 284, 288-9, 290, 309}
on

'Abu'l-Fadl, Mírzá, see Abu'l-Fadl, Mírzá
Afnán-i-Kabír, see Afnáns
attributes,

{ROB4: 198}
of God, {ROB4: 132}

The Báb

interment, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Karmil
Shrine of, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Karmil

Bahá'u'lláh, see Bahá'u'lláh
Christ, {ROB4: 152}
consultation,

{ROB3: 51, 318}
{ROB4: 290}

courage, {ROB3: 35}
covenant-breakers, see Covenant-breakers
edict of Sultán meaningless, see To The Kings and Rulers/Tablet to Sultán 'Abdu'l-'Azíz
education and upbringing of children, {ROB3: 327, 328-9, 331}
emanation and

incarnation, {ROB4: 40}
Manifestation, {SAQ: 205-07}

equality of men and women,

{KA: 7}
{ROB4: 203-4}
see also Unpublished or Untranslated Works, mutatis mutandis

faith, {ROB4: 217}
future, {ROB4: 423-4}
Hájí Mullá Mihdíy-i-'Atrí, see Unpublished or Untranslated Works
Hands of the Cause,

Hájí Mullá 'Alí-Akbar, see Hands of the Cause of God
Ismu'lláhu'l-Asdaq, see Hands of the Cause of God
marriage of Ibn-i-Abhar, see Hands of the Cause of God
Nabíl-i-Akbar, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Hikmat
see also Hands of the Cause of God, 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Statements on, Tablets to

historical records, {ROB4: 46}
holy souls to arise, {ROB3: 381}
House of Justice, see House(s) of Justice
importance of the West, see West, The
laws of Báb and Bahá'u'lláh, see Báb,The
marriage,

{ROB3: 366-7}
marriage of Ibn-i-Abhar, see Hands of the Cause of God

Mashriqu'l-Adhkár,

{ROB3: 345}
of 'Ishqábád, {ROB4: 122}

medicine, see Lawh-i-Tibb
Muhammad Khán-i-Balúch, see Muhammad-Khán-i-Balúch, Hájí
music, {ROB3: 368-9}
nature of God, {ROB4: 41, 44-5, 131-2}
nuclear energy, {ROB4: 225}
pilgrimage,

{ROB3: 64}
makes arrangements for pilgrims, {ROB4: 2}
permission for, sought from, {ROB4: 87}

prayer,

and resting places of departed, see Prayer(s)/Departed
obligatory, see Prayer(s)

regeneration of world, {ROB3: 312}
relation of Báb to Bahá'u'lláh, see Báb,The
sacrifice, {ROB3: 211, 405}
Sháh-Muhammad, Hájí, {ROB3: 76}
smoking {ROB3: 437-9}
Spiritual Assemblies, see Bahá'í Faith/Assemblies
spiritual capacity, see Capacity/spiritual
surrendering one's will to the will of God, see God
Táqí Khán, Mírzá, see Taqí Khán, Mírzá
teaching the Faith,

{ROB3: 332, 381}
guidance to teachers, {ROB4: 296}
sends teachers to India, {ROB4: 183, 184}
travel teachers during the ministry of, {ROB4: 276, 304, 310-11, 314}

unity, {ROB4: 2-4}
wisdom, {ROB4: 322}

prophecies of,

{GPB: 315, 316}
anticipates persecution of Jews in Europe, {GPB: 282}
dream, prophetic, {GPB: 270, 271}
Mount Carmel, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Karmil
predicts radical changes in Europe, {GPB: 282}
prophesies attacks on Cause, {GPB: 354, 355}
warns of World War I, {GPB: 303}
see also 'Abdu'l-Bahá/Ascension of

promises divine assistance, {ROB3: 383}
sends message to Amínu's-Sultán, {ROB4: 187-8}
subject matter of His talks, {GPB: 281, 282}

'Abdu'l-Báqí, Siyyid,

{DBNN: 219, 221}

'Abdu'l-Ghaffár-i-Isfahání,

{GPB: 182}
{ROB1: 287-8}
{ROB2: 329, 402, 408, 411}
{ROB3: 12n., 36n.}

'Abdu'l-Hamid Khán

asks the Báb's forgiveness, {GPB: 13}
son was healed by the Báb, {DBNN: 195, 197, 372}

'Abdu'l-Hamíd, Shaykh, {ROB1: 283}
'Abdu'l-Hamíd II, Sultán of Turkey,

{ROB3: 153, 154, 418}
{ROB4: 418}
Young Turks Revolution,

'Abdu'l-Hamíd condemned by, {GPB: 272}
saved life of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, {GPB: 271, 272}

made prisoner of state, {GPB: 272}
see also To The Kings and Rulers/'Abdu'l-'Azíz

'Abdu'l-Husayn-i-Samandar, Mírzá, {ROB4: 395}
'Abdu'l-Husayn-i-Tihrání, Shaykh (also known as 'Iráqí),

{ROB1: 142-7 passim, 225}
{ROB2: 332, 341-4}
stigmatized by Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB1: 148}

'Abdu'l-Karím-i-Máhút Furúsh {ROB3: 92-4, 96-104, passim}
'Abdu'l-Karím-i-Qazvíní, Mullá, Mírzá Ahmad,

{DBNN: 159, 162, 163, 168, 170, 176, 212, 227, 439}
{ROB1: 53-4, 330}
{ROB2: 247n.}
{ROB3: 424, 425}
{ROB4: 439}

'Abdu'l-Kháliq-i-Yazdí, Mullá, {ROB2: 109-10}
'Abdu'lláh Khán-i-Turkamán, {DBNN: 359, 360 (note 44)}
'Abdu'lláh, Hájí Mírzá, {ROB1: 41, 42}
'Abdu'lláh-i-Núrí, Mírzá, {ROB4: 56}
'Abdu'lláh-i-Sahíh Furúsh, Hájí Mírzá, {ROB3: 390}
Abdu'lláh-i-Ubayy, {GL: 25, 83}
'Abdu'l-Majíd-i-Marághi'í, {ROB4: 84-5}
'Abdu'l-Majíd-i-Shírází, Hájí,

{ROB1: 94, 155, 157}
{ROB4: 45-6}

'Abdu'l-Qasím-i-Aláqih-Band-i-Isfáhání, {DBNN: 587}
'Abdu'l-Vahháb, Hájí, {DBNN: 7}
'Abdu'l-Vahháb-i-Shírází, {DBNN: 87}
'Abdu'r-Rahím, Mírzá (of Burújird), {ROB3: 64}
'Abdu'r-Rahím-i-Qannád, {ROB4: 23}
'Abdu'r-Rahmán-i-Baraqúqí, {ROB3: 436}
'Abdu'r-Rasúl-i-Qumí, Áqá,

{ROB2: 333}
{ROB3: 178}

Abhá Kingdom, {ROB4: 34, 223}
'Ábid, Hájí Siyyid, {DBNN: 490}
Abú-'Alí Síná, {ROB4: 434}
Abú-Bakr, Caliph, see Clergy
Abú-Dhar, {ROB4: 433}
Abú 'Amír, {GL: 25}
Abu Jahl, condemned to damnation, {KI: 121}
Abú-Lahab, {ROB1: 156 and n.}
Abu'l-'Aliy-i-Harátí, {DBNN: 159, 161}
Abú-Nasr, {ROB4: 434}
Abú-Tálib, Siyyid, {DBNN: 407, 408, 481}
Abú-Turáb-i-Qazvíní, Shaykh,

{DBNN: 39 note 22, 293, 299, 347}
{ROB1: 205, 332}

Abu'l-Fath-i-Shahristání, {TOB: 144 n.}
Abu'l-Hasan Mírzá, Prince (The Shaykhu'r-Ra'ís), {ROB2: 132 and n.}
Abu'l-Hasan-i-Bazzáz, Hájí, {DBNN: 156}
Abu'l-Hasan-i-Shírází, Hájí,

{DBNN: 130}
{ROB3: 202}

Abu'l-Qásim, (servant of Mírzá Yahyá), {ROB1: 247}
Abu'l Qasím, Mírzá, investigates the message of Bahá'u'lláh, {DBNN: 114, 116}
Abu'l-Qásim-i-Baydá, Siyyid, {ROB2: 51-2}
Abu'l-Qásim-i-Faráháni, Mírzá (Qá'im Maqám),

{ROB4: illus. 224; 221-2, 223}
{TOB: 65 and n.}

Abu'l-Qásim-i-Hamadání (servant of Bahá'u'lláh), {ROB1: 62, 67}
Abu'l-Qásim-i-Káshí,

{ROB1: 252}
{ROB4: 439}

Abu'l-Qásim-i-Názir, {ROB4: 395-6, 398}
Abu'l-Qásim-i-Sultán Ábádí, {ROB3: 20}
Acquiescence,

{GL: 133, 290, 299}
{PM: 11, 54}

'Ád,

{ROB4: 96, 425-6}
{TOB: 214}

Ádhirbáyján,

{ROB2: 60, 147, 212}
{ROB4: 84, 145-6, 186, 210, 435, 439}
Navváb Hamzih Mírzá, Governor of, {DBNN: 504}

Adrianople, Edirne, 'Land of Mystery',

{ESW: 132}
{GL: 114}
{GPB: 159-182}
{KA: K37, Q100, n33, n63, n190}
{ROB2: 152, 427-37}
{ROB3: 1, 5, 16, 21, 27, 50, 64, 109, 110, 123, 151, 174, 176, 177, 205, 225n., 243, 250-51, 279, 415}
{ROB4: 1, 5, 6, 81, 108, 115, 154, 233, 247, 257, 393, 421}
{TOB: 118, 213}
Bábí community in, {ROB2: 138-9}
Bahá'ís in, {ROB1: 27, 28, 203, 287-8}
Bahá'u'lláh,

exile to,

{GPB: 159-162}
{ROB1: 17, 24, 37, 97, 102, 203, 246, 255}
{ROB2: 57, 61-2, 63, 152, 194, 291, 331}

in,

{ROB3: 5, 26, 251}
{ROB4: 247, 393, 421}
His proclamation in,

{GPB: 158, 170-177}
{GPB: 158, 166}

Murádíyyih, quarter of,

{ROB2: 427}
houses occupied by Bahá'u'lláh in,

{ROB2: 62}
Amru'lláh, house of, {ROB2: 62, 162, 210, 291, 295, 427, 433, 435}
'Izzat Áqá, house of, {ROB2: 291, 427, 433, 436}
Ridá Big, house of, {ROB2: 162, 164, 171, 181, 210, 291, 427, 436}

mosque of Sultán Salím, in, {ROB2: 62, 63, 293, 294, 428, 437}

His Writings in,

{GPB: 171-176}
{ROB1: 102, 279-80}
see Lawh-i-Ridván

departure from, {ROB2: 356, 398, 401-11}

Governor(s) of,

{ROB3: 251}
Khurshíd Páshá, {ROB2: 167, 296, 331, 391, 398, 401, 402, 404}

Adversity, Tests, Trials,

{GL: 12, 27, 72, 285}
{TOB: 17, 138, 177}
adversity followed by success, {TOB: 138}
of Bahá'ís, see Bahá'ís
torment, two kinds of, {SAQ: 265}
yearning for, {TOB: 14, 15}
see also Báb,The, Christ, Bábís, Martyrs, Martyrdom

Afghanistan,

{ROB4: 183}
see also Badakhshán, Balkh

Africa, {ROB4: 233, 423}
Agah, Rahbar, {ROB4: 459}
Age

coming of see Human Race
of maturity see Maturity, age of
old. elderly, {KA: K10, Q74, 146, n14, n25, n31}
of retirement, {KA: n56}

Agnostic, {ROB3: 36, 326n.}
Agriculture,

{ROB4: 341}
{TOB: 90}

Ahmad Effendi, {ROB4: 24}
Ahmad-i-Ahsá'í, Shaykh, Shaykh-i-Ahsá'í, Shaykh Ahmad,

{DBNN: ch. 1 (notes 1, 2, 3), 1-18, 140, 201}
{ESW: 120}
{KA: K157, n171, n172, n182}
{ROB1: 169n., 204, 221, 299n.}
{ROB2: 180}
{ROB4: 436}
Shaykhí School, {KA: n171, n182}

Ahmad-i-Azghandí, Mírzá,

{DBNN: 125, 127, 184, 504, 587}
{ROB1: 194}
{ROB3: 27-8}
his conversion to the Faith, {GPB: 12}

Ahmad-i-Káshání, Hájí Mírzá, {ROB2: 67, 118, 127, 137, 159}
Ahmad-i-Khurásání, Shaykh, {ROB2: 60}
Ahmad-i-Níshápúrí, Shaykh (Shaykh-i-Fání), {ROB3: 177}
Ahmad-i-Ruhi, Shaykh, {ROB4: 399-402}
Akhtar (newspaper), {ROB4: 396, 400-401, 436}
'Akká, Acre, Crimson Spot, Most Great Prison,

{ESW: 33, 56, 68, 69, 79, 106, 119, 125, 128, 134, 144, 145, 177-180}
{KA: K85, K132, K136, n8, n63, n116, n127, n192}
{PM: 17, 31, 34, 35, 70, 73, 101, 105, 106, 111, 145, 153, 200, 218}
{ROB1: 17, 24, 27, 42, 98, 204, 286-9 passim}
{ROB2: 2, 214, 325, 356, 398-411 passim}
{ROB3: 1, 9, 12, 14-16, 21, 24-5, 58, 63, 64, 153, 159-60, 171, 203, 211, 248-9, 251, 252, 257-8, 301-2, 384-6, 403n., 414-15, 418, 419, 443}
{ROB4: 9, 11, 14, 25, 31, 51, 58, 103, 107, 115, 170, 205, 244n., 303, 325, 343, 362, 392, 398, 400, 402, 405, 416, 417, 421, 430}

'Abdu'l-Bahá in,

Bahjí, see 'Akká/Bahjí
barracks, {ROB3: 17-20}
House of 'Abdu'lláh Páshá
Khán-i-'Avámíd (Inn of the Pillars), {ROB3: 159, 222-3}
life in 'Akká,

{ROB1: 100, 132, 201}
{ROB3: 66}
{ROB4: 1-6, 45}

'Master of', see 'Abdu'l-Bahá

Bahá'u'lláh exile to,

{GPB: 179-222}
{ROB1: 17, 204, 286-9 passim}
{ROB3: 1, 11-16, 27-8, 114}
{ROB4: 6, 77, 242, 278, 351, 353}
{SAQ: 31, 32, 36n}

Bahá'u'lláh in,

{ROB3: 16}
{ROB4: 105, 242-3}
arrival {ROB4: 351}
Barracks,

{ROB3: 16-21, 23, 52-3, 56, 66, 179, 210, 216, 221, 243}
conditions in, {ROB3: 16-21}
death of Purest Branch in, see Bahá'u'lláh
Healing Prayer revealed in, see Prayer(s)
interrogation of Bahá'u'lláh in, {GPB: 190}
Lawh-i-Ridván revealed in, see Lawh-i-Ridván
pilgrims to, {ROB3: 16, 54-8, 60, 67-8}
referred to in Lawh-i-Ra'ís, see Lawh-i-Ra'ís
water, in, {ROB3: 17}

difficulty entering, {ROB3: 54-7, 58, 60-61, 179, 225}
donkey of, {ROB4: 105, 106, 336}
feasts held in honour of, {ROB4: 9-10}
Garden of Ridván, see Ridván
houses lived in,

{ROB3: 221}
'Abbúd, house of,

{ROB3: 24, 52, 69, 221, 238, 400-403, 410, 413}
{ROB4: 33, 106, 242}
'Abbúd, Christian merchant of 'Akká, residence of,

{ROB3: 24, 238, 413}
{ROB4: 248}

Bahá'u'lláh at, {ROB3: 400-403}

Bahjí, Mansion of,

{KA: n8, n54}
{ROB1: 24, 276n., 319}
{ROB3: 22, 160}
{ROB4: illus. 109, 110, 111, 112, 422; 30, 103-17, 405, 416}
and 'Abdu'1-Bahá, {ROB4: 1, 5, 104, 106, 108}
Bahá'u'lláh at,

{ROB4: 9n., 85, 103-17, 242, 245, 333, 351, 414, 418, 423}
His Ascension,

{GPB: 221-233}
{KA: 1, K38, K53, K121, n9, n54, n125, n139}
{ROB1: 24, 132-3, 205}
{ROB3: 153, 224, 372n., 383}
{ROB4: 107n., 185, 300, 351, 413-24}
'Abdu'l-Bahá on, see Bahá'u'lláh
effect of ascension of, {GPB: 222-223, 244, 404-405}
expresses desire to leave world, {GPB: 221}
Nabíl-i-A'zam's account of, see Tablet to Nabíl-i-A'zam
Shoghi Effendi describes events after, see Shoghi Effendi
see also Tablet Of Visitation (Section I), Bahá'í Faith/Holy Days

His Shrine, Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh, Most Holy Shrine,

{KA: K6, n8, n54}
{ROB1: 206 and n., 318-19}
{ROB3: 22, 348n.}
{ROB4: illus. 422; 30n., 103, 165, 170, 362n., 418, 419}
Abu'l-Qásim-i-Khurásání, Mírzá, caretaker at, {ROB4: 30n.}
circumambulation of, {ROB4: 107-8}
pilgrimage to,

{GPB: 300}
{ROB4: 103}

Qiblih (point of adoration), Most Holy Tomb, Holy Court,

{GPB: 214, 348, 355, 369}
{KA: 14, K6, K137, 145-146, n7}
{ROB2: 60-1, 135}
{ROB3: 170 and n., 281, 348 and n., 408}
{ROB4: 362}
focus for Obligatory Prayers, {KA: K6, 92, 99, Q67, n7}
identified by the Báb as Bahá'u'lláh, {KA: K137, 145, n7}
law of, unaltered by Manifestations, {KI: 51}
and non-obligatory prayers, {KA: Q14}
and Prayer for the Dead, {KA: Q85, n10, n19}
reason why, changed by Muhammad, {KI: 49-51, 52}
resting place of Bahá'u'lláh, {KA: K6, 145, n8}

Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí describes events at, {ROB4: 106-8}
Holy Family does not go to, {ROB4: 1, 106}
inscription over entrance of, {ROB4: 104}
Shoghi Effendi discusses, {ROB4: 104}
'Údí Khammár, merchant of 'Akká, residence of, see 'Akká/'Údí Khammár, house of
see also Unpublished or Untranslated Works

Khavvám, Mansúr, house of, {ROB3: 221}
Malik, house of, {ROB3: 221}
Mazra'ih, mansion of,

{ROB1: 290-91}
{ROB3: 389, 401n., 416, 418}
{ROB4: 52}
'Abdu'lláh Páshá, summer residence of, {ROB4: 1}
Bahá'u'lláh at, {ROB4: 1-10, 11, 50, 73, 103, 104-5, 181, 186, 244, 421}
Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet about, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Dunyá/Áqá Mírzá Áqáy-i-Afnán (Núru'd-Dín)
pilgrims at, {ROB4: 9}
room of Bahá'u'lláh at, {ROB4: 248}
scenery at, {ROB4: 7}

Rábi'ih, house of, {ROB3: 221}
'Údí Khammár, house of,

{ROB3: 29, 221-2, 224-6, 234, 253, 274, 275}
'Údí Khammár, merchant of 'Akká, residence of,

{KA: 12}
{ROB4: 103-4, 108}

Kitáb-i-Aqdas revealed in,

laws of World Order revealed in, see New World Order of Bahá'u'lláh
see also Kitáb-i-Aqdas

see also 'Akká/Bahjí

inn of Siyyid Habíb, {ROB3: 250}
interrogated by Governor, {ROB3: 238, 242-3}
interviews Governor, {ROB3: 249-50}
interviews Mufti of 'Akká, {ROB3: 70-71}
Khán-i-Shávirdí, {ROB3: 237}
life in, {ROB4: 1-2, 104-5, 241-4}
major crisis begins in 'Akká, {GPB: 185}
Most Great Prison,

{DBNN: 304}
{GPB: 179, 182, 183-220, 196, 224}
{ROB1: 17, 98, 290}
{ROB3: 1, 11 ff., 16-17, 19-21, 32, 36, 52-3, 55, 60, 74, 108, 205-6, 208, 210, 216, 221, 386}
{ROB4: 5, 6, 104, 105, 242, 335, 401, 412}
{SAQ: 28, 31, 32, 36n}
{TOB: 21, 52, 77, 78, 83, 89, 95, 210, 227, 233, 254, 264, 267}
Prisoner of 'Akká, a title of Bahá'u'lláh, see Bahá'u'lláh
twenty-four years' incarceration in 'Akká, {GPB: 104}

Muhammad-Hasan, Áqá, caretaker of Pilgrim House, {ROB3: 362}
ordered to 'Akká, {GPB: 179}
pilgrims, {ROB4: 83-7}
proclamation of His Mission from 'Akká, {GPB: 206-213}
prophecies an end to imprisonment,

{ROB3: 33}
see also Unpublished or Untranslated Works

leaves the prison-city, {ROB3: 416-18}
see also Unpublished or Untranslated Works

climate, {ROB3: 21-2}
description of, {GPB: 185, 186}
history of, {GPB: 185}
Holy Family in,

{ROB4: 106}
Ásíyih Khánum (Navváb), resting-place in, see Bahá'u'lláh
Mírzá Mihdí (The Purest Branch), resting-place in, see Bahá'u'lláh

inhabitants of,

{ROB3: 12-13, 19, 21, 22-3, 69-72, 225, 235, 236-7, 238, 252, 400}
Bahá'ís,

{ROB1: 26, 27, 29, 35, 39, 204, 287-91 passim}
{ROB3: 54-5, 65-72, 160, 401-4, 407, 410-12}
{ROB4: 2}
'Abdu'lláh Tu'zih, {ROB3: 13}
Nabíl-i-Akbar at, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Hikmat
'Uthmán Effendi, {ROB3: 72}

Christian community, {ROB3: 22, 221, 225}
Covenant-breakers,

{ROB1: 201, 315-19}
Azalís in,

{ROB3: 56-7}
murder of three Azalís, {ROB3: 69, 224-5, 234-9, 242-3, 400, 407}

Khalíl Ahmad 'Abdú, {ROB3: 12-13}
mourn death of Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 222}
Sálih Effendi, {ROB3: 70}

its authorities and leaders,

{ROB3: 11, 14, 17-19, 20, 52-3, 65-6, 69, 70-72, 235, 237-9, 242, 411-12 n., 416-18}
Clergy, Islám,

{ROB1: 32}
{ROB3: 70}
Mahmúd-i-'Arrábí, Shaykh, see Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Jarráh,

Ahmad-i-, officer in the Turkish Army, {ROB3: 68-9}
Amín-i-, Commander of the Guard, {ROB3: illus. 60; 69}
Khálid-i-, physician, {ROB3: 69}

Governor of,

{ROB4: 7, 336}
Ahmad Big Tawfíq,

{ROB3: 24-5, 251-2, 410}
directed to restore aqueduct, {GPB: 192}

Faydí Páshá, see Unpublished or Untranslated Works
respects Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 191}

Mufti of,

{ROB3: 70-72, 238, 242}
{ROB4: 239}
Shaykh 'Alíy-i-Mírí,

{ROB3: 70-71, 410-412, 413, 417}
{ROB4: 245}

Mutasarrif, {ROB3: 17-19, 235, 237-8, 249-50}
officials governing, {TOB: 125, 127}

Junaynih, Garden of ,

{ROB4: 30, 105, 244, 335}
Bahá'u'lláh in, {ROB4: 336}

land gate, {ROB3: 57, 225}
Muslim Cemetery, {ROB3: 20}
Mosque of, {ROB3: 18, 66, 179}
pilgrims, pilgrimages to,

{GPB: 198}
{ROB1: 37, 48, 50n., 111, 131-2}
{ROB4: 8, 12, 33, 84-5, 87, 120, 178, 217}
Siyyid Asadu'lláh's pilgrimage to, see Asadu'lláh, Siyyid

prophecies and traditions concerning,

{GPB: 183, 184}
{ROB1: 32n.}
{ROB3: 13, 14-16, 28, 65-6, 67, 68}
{ROB4: 387}

public bath, {ROB3: 19, 74-5}
Shaykh Yúsuf visits, {ROB4: 239}
Strong City, {TOB: 259}
Sulaymán Khán in, {ROB4: 178, 181, 185, 189}
Súq-i-Abyad (White Market),

{ROB4: 106, 243}
Khán-i-Súq-i-Abiyad, {ROB1: 131}

Tablets revealed in, {ROB3: 25, 29, 32, 34, 45, 87, 100n., 110, 114, 116, 118, 123, 133, 147, 174, 179, 199, 216, 223, 226, 230, 258, 270, 272, 279, 358, 379, 420-21}
water, in 'Akká, {ROB3: 22-5}

Al-Azhar, University of,

{ROB3: 435}
{ROB4: 151, 265}

Aleppo, {ROB4: 418}
Alexander the Great, {ROB4: 46}
Alexandria, Egypt,

{ROB2: 411}
{ROB3: 5-11, 56}
{ROB4: 23, 24}
Bahá'í agency in, {GPB: 195}
Constantine (an Alexandrian Christian), {ROB3: 4, 7}
Tablet revealed in, in honour of Nabíl-i-A'zam see Tablet to Nabíl-i-A'zam

'Alí (minister of Sultán 'Abdu'l-'Azíz), {ROB4: 242}
'Alí' Hájí, {ROB3: 183}
'Ali Khán, Siyyid, arrest at Zanján, {DBNN: 557}
'Alí Khán-i-Máh-Kú'í, {DBNN: 230, 243, 247, 256, 302}
'Alí Sháh, Prince, {ROB1: 258}
'Alí, Áqá (martyr of Yazd), {ROB4: 347}
'Alí, Mírzá, Mulla, Shaykh, 'Azim,

{DBNN: 125, 155, 172, 306, 313, 505, 587, 599}
{GPB: 28}
{ROB1: 327 and n., 328}
{ROB4: 437}

'Alí, Mullá (Mu'allim), {ROB3: 90}
'Alí, Shaykh, {ROB4: 23-4}
'Alí, Siyyid (brother-in-law of the wife of 'Abdu'l-Bahá), {ROB4: 16}
'Alí-Akbar, Mullá, of Manshád, {ROB2: 100-2}
'Alí-Akbar-i-Ardistání, Mullá, {ROB3: 256}
'Alí-Akbar-i-Hakkák, {ROB2: 46}
'Alí-Akbar-i-Muhibb'us-Sultán (Rawhání), {ROB4: 293}
'Alí-Asghar (first martyr of Yazd), {ROB4: 347}
'Alí-Asghar (sixth martyr of Yazd), {ROB4: 348}
'Alí-Asghar-i-Hikmát, {ROB4: 314}
'Alí-Asghar-i-Khán, the Amínu's-Sultán, {ROB4: 185-8}
'Ali-Askar, Hájí,

relates account of Martyrdom of the Báb, {DBNN: 518}
visits Báb in Tabríz when imprisoned, {DBNN: 239, 240}

'Alí-'Askar-i-Shál-Báf, Ustád, {ROB2: 103-4}
'Alí-Khán, {ROB3: 196-8}
Ali-Kuli Khán,

{ROB3: 105-6}
{ROB4: 261, 265}

'Alí-Naqíy-i-Níshápúrí, Mullá, {ROB2: 61}
'Alí-Ridáy-i-Mustawfí, Mírzá, {ROB2: 388}
'Alíy-i-Misrí, Hájí, {ROB3: 52}
'Alíy-i-Mudhahhib, Mullá, {DBNN: 490}
'Alíy-i-Sabzivárí, Mullá (martyr of Yazd), {ROB4: 347, 349}
'Alíy-i-Yazdí, Hájí, {ROB4: 248}
'Alíy-i-Yazdí, Siyyid, {ROB4: 23-5}
'Alíy-i-Zunúzí, Siyyid, {DBNN: 307, 509}
Alláh-Yár, Hájí,

{DBNN: 519}
{ROB3: 423-4}

Allenby, General,

extends sympathy at passing of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, {GPB: 312}
instructed to protect 'Abdu'l-Bahá, {GPB: 306}
visits 'Abdu'l-Bahá, {GPB: 306}

Alpha and Omega, {SAQ: 219, 281}
Amanuensis,

of The Báb,

Mullá 'Abdu'l-Karím-i-Qazvíní, see 'Abdu'l-Karím-i-Qazvíní, Mullá
Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí, see Letters of the Living

of Bahá'u'lláh,

Khádimu'lláh, see Áqá Ján, Mírzá (Khádimu'lláh)
Mírzá Mihdí (The Purest Branch), see Bahá'u'lláh/Mírzá Mihdí

America,

{ROB3: 155}
{ROB4: 233, 260-1, 262, 265, 285, 358}
Bahá'ís of,

{ROB3: 345, 431, 432}
accomplishments of, {GPB: 255-256, 329-345, 348-353, 372-374}
community, {GPB: 396, 400}
community of the Most Great Name, {GPB: 316}
distinguishes itself, {GPB: 396-401}
Divine Plan of, {GPB: 296, 305}
evolved pattern of Administrative Order, {GPB: 255}

Canada, {GPB: 336}

foundation of Faith laid by May Bolles, see Maxwell, May Ellis Bolles

conferred special favor by 'Abdu'l-Bahá, {GPB: 305}
continent will lead all nations spiritually, {GPB: 254}
early history of Faith in, {GPB: 256-263}
introduction of Faith in (1893), {GPB: 256}
Latin America, establishment of Faith in, {GPB: 399, 400}
Mexico, Spiritual Assembly in, {GPB: 336}
North America,

achievements of Bahá'ís in, {GPB: 255, 256}
establishment of Faith in, {GPB: 253, 256-262}
will lead all nations spiritually, {GPB: 254}

United States of America,

{ROB3: 82, 83-4, 106, 337}
'Abdu'l-Bahá in,

{GPB: 281-283, 287-292}
addresses at public gatherings, {GPB: 288, 289}
Bowery (New York), visit to, {GPB: 291}
lays dedication stone of Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, see Chicago
proof of His love for American believers, {GPB: 288}
resolves to visit America, {GPB: 259}

Chase, Thornton, Thábit (Steadfast),

Abdu'l-Bahá visits grave of, {GPB: 288, 292}
first American believer, {GPB: 257, 267}
see also Disciples of 'Abdu'l-Bahá

Englewood, New Jersey, souvenir feast at, {GPB: 288}
first Bahá'í Convention, see Bahá'í Faith
government,

Bahá'u'lláh addresses Presidents of, see Kitáb-i-Aqdas
President of the United States, uses Bahá'u'lláh's peace principles, {GPB: 294}
presidential system, {ROB4: 162}
recognizes the Faith, {GPB: 372, 373}
Roosevelt, Pres. Franklin D., {GPB: 344}

Kenosha, Wisconsin, Faith taught in, {GPB: 257}
Mashriqu'l-Adhkár in, see Chicago
Muskegon, Michigan, endowment in, {GPB: 337}
New York City,

{ROB3: 83-4}
called "City of the Covenant," {GPB: 288}
introduction of Faith in, {GPB: 257}

Philadelphia, introduction of Faith in, {GPB: 257}
Pine Valley, Colorado, endowments in, {GPB: 337}
Schools,

Colorado Springs, {GPB: 340, 341}
Geyserville,

endowments in, {GPB: 337}
summer school established (1927), {GPB: 340}

Green Acre,

'Abdu'l-Bahá visits, {GPB: 288}
endowments in, {GPB: 337}
first summer conference (1894), {GPB: 261}
summer school established (1929), {GPB: 340}

Louhelen, {GPB: 340}

states recognizing Bahá'í marriage, {GPB: 373, 374}
Turner, Robert C., Disciple of 'Abdu'l-Bahá,

{GPB: 259}
see also Disciples of 'Abdu'l-Bahá

West Englewood, endowments in, {GPB: 337}
Wilson House, Malden, Mass., {GPB: 337}

world mission of, {GPB: 305, 396, 397}

Amír-Nizám-Taqí Khán, Mírzá, {DBNN: 332, 500, 504, 506, 526, 539, 547, 595}
Amos,

{ROB3: 15}
{ROB4: 408}
prophecies of, {ESW: 145}

Ámul,

{ROB3: 68}
{ROB4: 148, 389, 435}

Annas,

{GL: 83}
{TOB: 210}

Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh,

{GPB: 254}
{ROB1: 16, 26, 27 and n., 36, 41n., 95, 202, 259}
{ROB2: 42, 44, 77n., 175n.}
{ROB3: 76, 88, 104, 181}
{ROB4: 49, 50, 53, 88n., 105, 294, 394, 414, 438}

1. Mírzá Músá (Áqáy-i-Kalím), the brother of Bahá'u'lláh, see Bahá'u'lláh
2. Mírzá Buzurg (Badí)
3. Siyyid Hasan (Sultánu'sh-Shuhadá')
4. Hájí Mullá Abu'l-Hasan-i-Ardikání, see Hands of the Cause of God
5. Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl-i-Gulpáygání,

{GPB: 195, 261}
{ROB1: 7, 221}
{ROB2: 16, 27-8, 44-5, 219-20}
{ROB3: 16, 21-2, 88, 91-107, 246, 270, 293, 304, 374-6, Appendix II}
{ROB4: 14, 99, 151-2, 258-79, 343}
'Abdu'l-Bahá's Statements on,

{ROB3: 106}
an example, {ROB4: 36}

dialogues of, with clergy {ROB4: 262-9}
Fará'id, his book, {ROB3: 16, 22, 434, 440}
exposes errors of Maqálih-Fí-Al-Islám (Treatise on Islám), {ROB4: 151}
imprisonment of, {ROB4: 379}
influence of prayers on, see Prayer(s)
Kashfu'l-Ghitá,

{DBNN: 72 (note 16), 79 (note 31), 81 (note 36), 101 (note 6), 175 (note 5), 183 (note 14), 188 (note 18), 272 (note 7), 285 (note 19), 293 (note 5), 431 (note 4), Appendix #26}
{ROB1: 329}

on certitude, see Certitude
simple life of, {ROB4: 258-61}
teaching work of, {ROB4: 258-70}
travels of, {ROB4: 177, 258-70}
see also Unpublished or Untranslated Works

6. Mírzá 'Alí-Muhammad-i-Varqá, see Hands of the Cause of God
7. Mírzá Mahmúd Furúghí, Mírzá Mahmúd-i-Fúrúghi, an indomitable spirit and jealous defender of the Faith

{ROB2: 115}

8. Mullá 'Ali-Akbar (Hájí Ákhúnd)
9. Mullá Muhammad (Nabíl-i-Akbar), see Lawh-i-Hikmat
10. Hájí Mírzá Muhammad-Taqí, Hájí Mírzá Muhammad-Taqíy-i-Afnán, Kabír-i-Afnán, the Vakílu'd-Dawlih

{ROB1: 158, 198-201}
{ROB4: 120, 122, 123, 394}

11. Hájí Mírzá Muhammad-Taqí (Ibn-i-Abhar)
12. Mulla Muhammad (Nabíl-i-A'zam)
13. Shaykh Kázim-i-Samandar,

{ROB1: 36}
{ROB2: 73-4, 175, 246, 260}
{ROB3: 88-91, 257-8, 266, 381}
{ROB4: 88, 178, 191, 394}
see also Unpublished or Untranslated Works, Shoghi Effendi

14. Mírzá Muhammad Mustafa, brave and vigilant custodian and bearer of the remains of the Báb
15. Mírzá Husayn, of Isfahán, Áqá Husayn-i-Isfahání (Mishkín-Qalam),

{ROB1: 26-8}
{ROB2: 213, 328, 402, 408}
{ROB3: 223, 431}
{ROB4: 244, 333}

16. Mírzá Hasan (Adíb)
17. Shaykh Muhammad- Ali, eloquent and learned champion of the Faith in Russian Turkistán
18. Mullá Zaynu'l-'Ábidín (Zaynu'l-Muqarrabín)
19. Mírzá 'Ali-Muhammad (Ibn-i-Asdaq, Shahid Ibn-i-Shahíd)

Apperson, Ann, niece of Mrs. Hearst, {GPB: 257}
Áqá Ján (Kaj Kuláh),

{ROB2: 326, 397, 402}
{ROB3: 56, 178, 224-5, 235}

Áqá Ján Khán-i-Khamsih, {DBNN: 514}
Áqá Ján, {GPB: 179, 181, 189}
Áqá Ján, Mírzá, Khádimu'lláh,

{DBNN: 460}
{GPB: 115, 116, 138, 166, 171, 247}
{KA: n192}
{ROB1: 24, 35-8, 40, 69, 92, 131, 157, 205, 228, 278}
{ROB2: 6, 153, 162, 294, 329}
{ROB3: 7, 37, 45 and n., 57, 122, 179, 205 and n., 206, 236, 251, 279, 304n., 386, 404}
{ROB4: 8, 9, 24, 73, 105, 106, 114, 246, 248, 254-5, 300, 332, 339, 400}
{TOB: 159, 174}
amanuensis of Bahá'u'lláh, records revelation, {ROB4: 125, 219, 333, 334}
biography, {ROB1: 24, 40-41}
breaks Bahá'u'lláh's Covenant,

{ROB1: 315-19}
downfall of, {ROB4: 247}

his important testimony, {ROB1: 42}
'Revelation Writing ',

{ROB1: 24-5, 35-6}
{ROB3: 7}
{ROB4: 125, 334}

Tablets dictated to, {TOB: 159}
"the first to believe" in Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 115}

Áqá Ján, Siyyid, {GPB: 200}
Áqá Khán, Mírzá (Qá'im Maqámí),

{ROB4: illus. 224; 222-5}
'Abdu'l-Bahá, Tablet to, {ROB4: 223-5, 400}

Áqá Khán, Mírzá, Persian Prime Minister, {ROB1: 10-11}
Áqá Khán-i-Kirmání, Mírzá, {ROB4: 399-402}
Áqá Khán-i-Núrí, Mírzá, {DBNN: 120, 279, 502, 522, 598, 650}
Áqá Ridá, of Shíráz, {ROB1: 288-8}
Aqásí, Háji Mirza,

{DBNN: 120, 121, 204, 226, 231, 244, 254, 259, 280, 301, 525, 531}
{GPB: 6, 13}
{TOB: 65 n.}
Anti-Christ of the Báb's Revelation, {GPB: 164}
attacks upon the Báb, caused by, {GPB: 15}
The Báb's return to Chihríq and His epistle to, {DBNN: 323}
death of, {GPB: 82}
falls in disgrace, {GPB: 37}
persecutor of Bábís, {GPB: 82}
plots against the Báb, {GPB: 15}

Áqáy-i-Káshání, Mírzá (Ismu'lláhu'l-Muníb),

{ROB1: 283-7 passim}
{ROB2: 59, 65, 72-7 passim, 114}
{ROB3: 425}

Arabia, Arab(s), Arab tribes,

{KA: Q74, n192}
{ROB1: 22, 214-15}
{ROB3: 74, 131-2, 179, 237}
{ROB4: 25, 208, 325, 425, 426}
barbarism of, {SAQ: 19-20}
Muhammad educated, {SAQ: 24, 49-51}
see also Hadhramaut, Jaddih, Kaaba, Mecca

Arák, {ROB4: 222, 223}
Arawaka, Viscount, {ROB4: 225}
Ardabíl, {ROB4: 186}
Ardikán, {ROB4: 245}
Arguments, {ROB3: 336-7}
Armenian, {ROB3: 121}
Asadu'lláh, Mírzá; Dayyán,

{DBNN: 303, 304}
{ROB1: 249-52}
{ROB4: 439}

Asadu'lláh, Siyyid, {ROB4: 191}
Asadu'lláh-i-Farhádí, Hájí, {ROB2: 171-2}
Asadu'lláh-i-Isfahání, Mírzá, {ROB3: 427-30}
Asadu'lláh-i-Káshání, Mírzá, {ROB2: 302-3}
Asadu'lláh-i-Qumí, Siyyid,

{ROB1: 35; quoted, 35-6, 87-9}
{ROB4: 14, 185-7, 222-3, 333}
in Tihrán, {ROB4: 186}
Prophecies of, {ROB4: 185-6}

Ascetic, asceticism, Seclusion,

{KA: 14, K36, 157, n61}
{ROB3: 281, 347}
{TOB: 71}
prohibited, {GPB: 214}
see also Detachment

Ashraf, Áqá Mírzá, (of Ábádih),

{ROB4: 175-6, 384, 385-6, 435}
{TOB: 79 and n.}

Asia, {ROB4: 233, 394, 423}
Ásíyih, {GPB: 347}
Assistance, Aid,

to Cause of God, {KA: K84, K159}
divine, {KA: K53, K74, K157, 164}
to king who will arise, {KA: K84}
of laws, {KA: K4}
see also Prayer(s)

Association,

with followers of all religions, {KA: K144, 159}
between people of Bahá, {KA: n82, n95}

Astrology,

{SAQ: 245-47}
Sun of Reality rises from various signs of Zodiac, {SAQ: 76}

Astronomy,

{KA: n147}
curvature of horizon, {SAQ: 187-88}
elements of universe are interconnected, {SAQ: 245-47}
in Qur'án, {SAQ: 23}

'Atá'u'lláh, Saráj'u'l-Hukamá, Mírzá, {ROB4: illus. 327; 326-8, 459}
Atheist(s),

{ROB3: 36, 326}
God and, {ROB2: 313-14}

Athím, {KI: 190}
Atom(s),

{GL: 16, 177, 192, 267, 300, 324, 325}
{TOB: 5, 76, 130, 176}
similar to greatest beings of universe, {SAQ: 182}

Atonement, {ROB3: 211}
Attachment,

to the next world, {ROB2: 36-9}
to the Kingdom of Names, {ROB2: 39-43}
to this world, {ROB3: 10, 48, 180, 193}

Attributes, see God, attributes of God and/or Bahá'u'lláh
Australasia, {ROB4: 233}
Australia,

Hazíratu'l-Quds, {GPB: 338}
Dunn, Hyde,

buried in Sydney, {GPB: 400}
pioneer to, {GPB: 308}

National Assembly in, {GPB: 333, 336}
opened to Faith, {GPB: 315}

Austria,

{KA: 15, K85, n116}
Austrian officer witnesses persecution, {GPB: 65, 66}
emperor of, see Kitáb-i-Aqdas

Authority,

{KA: 13-14}
of 'Abdu'l-Bahá,

{KA: 3, 13, K121, K174, n66, n130, n145}
see also 'Abdu'l-Bahá

of God, {KA: K93, K161, K162, K163, 94, 95, 99, 100, 101, Q83, Q100}
of Holy Text, {KA: 4-5, 13, K53, K99, Q10}
of House of Justice,

{KA: 3, 4-5, 13, K42, 91, n95}
see also House(s) of Justice

of interpretation,

{KA: n130}
see also Interpretation of Sacred Text

of Manifestation of God, {KA: 14, K7, K47, K53, K81, K82, K132, K143, K183, n75, n160}
of Shoghi Effendi,

{KA: 3, 13-14, n66, n130}
see also Guardianship; Shoghi Effendi

those in, injunction not to contend with, {KA: K95, 161}
see also Infallibility

'Azím-i-Tafrishí, Áqá,

{ROB3: 23-4}
{ROB4: 255}

'Aziz Khan-i-Mukrí; Sardár-i-Kull, his meeting with Hujjat, {DBNN: 556}
'Azízu'lláh (son of Varqá), {ROB4: 55, 58, 59}
'Azízu'lláh-i-Jadhdháb, Mírzá,

{ROB3: 168-73, 179}
{ROB4: 398}

Azízu'lláh-i-Misbáh, Mírzá, {ROB2: 38-9, 44, 81, 191}
Báb, The (Siyyid 'Alí-Muhammad, {DBNN: Mírzá 'Alí Muhammad of Shíráz}),

{DBNN: 27, 30, 52}
{GL: 73, 74, 101, 102, 259}
{ROB1: 3, 20, 56, 61, 169, 207, 213, 325, 326}
{ROB2: 86, 119, 202-4, 210-11, 303, 321, 354, 375-6, 382-7 403}
{ROB3: 9, 10, 42, 58, 75, 88, 115, 141, 142, 152, 188n., 196-8, 223, 240, 254, 257, 262, 350, 386n., Appendix I}
{ROB4: 101n., 120, 122, 123, 126, 128, 137, 147, 148, 150, 175, 207-10, 305n., 405, 406, 436, 437, 438, 439, 440}
{SAQ: 25-26, 54}
{TOB: 101-3, 233}

Biographical,

and,

'Abdu'l-Bahá,

statements, on

laws of Báb and Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB3: 278, 281}
relation of Báb to Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB3: 306}

Alí Khán (warden of Máh-Kú) impressed with Báb's influence, {GPB: 19}
Bahá'u'lláh,

{ROB2: 76, 119, 182, 242n., 305, 376-81}
corresponds with the Báb, {GPB: 31}
desire of, to be wiling sacrifice to the Báb, {KI: 252}
focal point for Bábís, {GPB: 127, 128}
identifies Himself with Bábí Faith,

{GPB: 67}
{PM: 308}

on

House of The Báb, see Shíráz
transfer of the remains of The Báb, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Karmil
Writings of The Báb, {ROB4: 47-8, 373}

prayer for The Báb, {PM: 300}
receives documents of the Báb, {GPB: 69}
recognized, assisted the Báb, {SAQ: 27-28}
refers to the Báb, {KA: K135, K136, K140, K141, K142, K143}
tribute to martyrs of Bábí Faith, {GPB: 79}

governor of Isfahán, guest of, {GPB: 15}
King and Beloved of Martyrs, see Unpublished or Untranslated Works
Manúchihr Khán, the Mu'tamidu'd-Dawlih,

{DBNN: 199, 203, 205, 211, 213, 214}
The Báb's letter to, {DBNN: 199}
His prediction of the approaching death of Manúchihr Khán, {DBNN: 213}
visit of, to, {GPB: 14, 15}

Mírzá Yahyá,

{ROB2: 242n.,247}
The Báb nominate Mírzá Yahyá as figurehead, {GPB: 28, 29}
see also Báb, The/His Tablets and Writings, Bahá'u'lláh/Mírzá Yahyá

Muhammad Shah, letter from, see Persia/Kings
Mu'tamid,

foretells death of, {GPB: 16}
protected by, {GPB: 15}

Siyyid Yahyáy-i-Dárábí, addressed by, see Yahyáy-i-Dárábí
Vahíd, interviews with, {GPB: 11, 12}

birth of, see Shíráz
constancy and fearlessness of, {KI: 230}
distinguished people proclaim His Cause, {GPB: 20}
erudition of, {SAQ: 25}
forerunners of, {KI: 65-66}
great effect on multitude, {GPB: 14}
half of ministry remote from followers, {GPB: 127}
His farewell to His guards, {DBNN: 236}
His warning to the Farrásh-Báshí, {DBNN: 508-9, 513}
honors accorded to,

{DBNN: 202}
{GPB: 15}

influence on people of Isfahán, {GPB: 14}
His family,

{ROB1: 153-9 passim, 198-201 passim, 206n., 249, 251}
Fátimih-Bagum, mother of, {ROB1: 154-7 passim, 159, 200}
final separation from, {GPB: 14}
Afnáns ('twigs', The Báb's kindred),

{ROB1: 134 and n., 155, 158-9, 198-9}
{ROB4: 50, 73, 119-20, 248, 284-5}
{TOB: 73, 84, 221-3, 231, 232}

Áqá Mírzá Áqáy-i-Afnán (Núru'd-Dín), see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Dunyá
Áqá Siyyid Ahmad-i-Afnán,

{ROB3: 172}
{ROB4: 396, 398-9}

Fátimih Khánum-i-Afnán, {ROB1: 159}
Hájí Mírzá Buzurg-i-Afnán, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Tarázát
Hájí Mírzá Habíb'u'lláh-i-Afnán,

{ROB1: 155}
{ROB3: 202}
{ROB4: 101, 332-6}

Hájí Mírzá Mahmúd, {ROB1: 199}
Hájí Mírzá Siyyid 'Alí, Khál-i-A'zam (The Greatest Uncle, the Most Great Uncle), one of The Seven Martyrs of Tihrán,

{DBNN: 143, 151, 175, 442, 446}
{GPB: 11, 13}
{ROB1: 153, 154, 327, 329}
{ROB4: 429}

Hájí Mírzá Siyyid Hasan-'Alí (Afnán-i-Kabír, The Great Afnán), uncle of The Báb

{ROB1: 156-7, 159}
{ROB3: 257}
{ROB4: illus. 404; 330, 396, 401, 402-6, 334}
'Abdu'l-Bahá's statement on, {ROB4: 405-6}
Siyyid 'Alí, son of (son-in-law of Bahá'u'lláh), see Bahá'u'lláh

Hájí Mírzá Siyyid Muhammad, uncle of The Báb, see Kitáb-i-Íqán

Hájí Mírzá Muhammad-Taqíy-i-Afnán (Vakílu'd-Dawlih), son of, see Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh
Hájí Mírzá Muhammad 'Alí, son of,

{ROB1: 198}
{ROB4: 120-2, 394}

Hájí Muhammad 'Alíy-i-Afnán, see Unpublished or Untranslated Works
Hájí Siyyid Mírzáy-i-Afnán,

{ROB3: 101}
{ROB4: 107}

Hájí Siyyid 'Alíy-i-Afnán, {ROB1: 41}
Mírzá 'Alí-Akbar, paternal cousin of The Báb,

{ROB1: 251-252}
{ROB4: 439}

Mírzá Muhsin-i-Afnán, {ROB4: 396}

establish trading company in Istanbul, {ROB4: 394-6}
in India, {ROB4: 178-81}
Tablet to,

{GL: 92}
prayer for protection of, {PM: 154}

take counsel on community affairs, {ROB4: 119n.}
see also Unpublished or Untranslated Works

reference to His mother and wife, {DBNN: 191}
Siyyid Muhammad-Ridá, father of, {DBNN: 14}
wife of,

Khadíjih-Bagum,

{ROB1: 155, 206n.}
{ROB2: 382-7}
{ROB4: 329, 331, 404, 405, 429, 430}

Fátimih, second wife of, {ROB1: 249 and n.}
marriage, {DBNN: 76}

farewell to His relatives and departure from Shíráz, {DBNN: 198}
see also 'Iráq, Genealogy Of The Báb

in,

Búshihr, see Búshihr
Chihríq, see Chihríq
Isfahán, see Isfahán
Káshán, see Jání, Hájí Mírzá
Máh-Kú, see Máh-Kú
Mecca, see Mecca
Medina, see Medina
Shíráz, see Shíráz
Tabriz, see Tabríz

personal relics of,

{GPB: 347}
portrait of, {GPB: 347}
Seals of, {ROB2: 147, 164}

popularity of, {GPB: 15}
Russian poetess produces drama "The Báb", {GPB: 56}
Shrine of, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Karmil
steadfastness of, {KI: 233-34}
tributes to, {GPB: 55, 56}

His Cause,

claim, public, {GPB: 21, 22}
Covenant of, see Covenant
Declaration of, see Shíráz
disciples of,

{ROB3: 88}
bestows station of Imám on believers, {ROB4: 209}
First Váhid (Unity) of, see Letters of the Living
'Mirrors' of, {ROB2: 376-7}
see also Bábís, Lawh-i-Sayyáh

Dispensation of,

{KA: 8, n109, n172}
{ROB1: 23n., 34, 93n., 191 and n., 280, 293, 294}
{ROB3: 28, 192}
{ROB4: 166-7, 305n., 377, 437}
birth of, {GPB: 3-17}
chief historical characters, summarized, {GPB: 4, 5}
duration foretold, {GPB: 92}
early days of {ROB1: 222-3, 327-30}
effect of crises on, {GPB: 61-62}
His Faith,

{ROB3: 68, 200, 217, 257}
Islám and Bábí Faith, {ROB2: 352}

name discarded, {GPB: 299}
opening scene, {GPB: 5}
protected, {TOB: 102}
significance of, {GPB: 3, 7, 54-60}
six years' ministry, {GPB: 17}
testimonials by observers, {GPB: 55, 56}

laws of,

{ROB3: 227, 352}
{TOB: 132}
abolishes old laws, {GPB: 59}
Bábís and, {ROB4: 166-7}
formulated by the Báb, {GPB: 17}
Shoghi Effendi and, {ROB4: 166-7}
see also Bayán

ministry, last three years, {GPB: 17, 18, 31}
Prophecies concerning,

all correspond to one another, {SAQ: 71}
Bahá'u'lláh,

{ESW: 141, 142, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 159, 162, 165, 167, 168, 171, 173, 175, 176, 177}
{TOB: 43, 53, 76, 77-8}
Báb's prophecies fulfilled, see Bahá'u'lláh
Bahá'u'lláh is return of, {TOB: 182, 185}
foretells date of Bahá'í Revelation, {GPB: 28, 29}
prophesies an act of the Promised One, {GPB: 138}
prophesies Order of Bahá'u'lláh,

{GPB: 25}
{KA: n189}

sufferings of Bahá'u'lláh foreshadowed, {KA: n1}

date of advent, {SAQ: 41-43, 46, 54, 69-72}
fulfils scriptural prophecies, {GPB: 58}
martyrdom of, {SAQ: 55}
perfect offspring born from Law of Muhammad, {SAQ: 69}
second woe is appearance of, {SAQ: 56}

Purpose of His mission,

{GL: 146, 245, 291, 292-294}
{PM: 86, 129}
{ROB2: 14, 378}
Herald of a New Era, {GPB: 57}
Herald of Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh,

{GL: 10, 96, 147, 294}
{PM: 119, 128, 180}
{ROB1: 7-8, 217}
announces station of Bahá'u'lláh,

{GPB: 98}
{ROB4: 17, 127, 128, 206, 262}
extols Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB1: 295-8, 300, 301-3, 307}
first to adore Bahá'u'lláh, {TOB: 75}
gives titles to Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 94, 97}
'Him Whom God shall make manifest', see Bahá'u'lláh

begins Bahá'í Dispensation, {ROB4: 155}
His joy at the gift and message from Bahá'u'lláh, {DBNN: 227}
identity with Bahá'u'lláh,

{GL: 147, 244, 293}
oneness with Bahá'u'lláh, {PM: 85, 119}

prepares the way for Bahá'u'lláh,

{ROB4: 81, 147, 408}
prepares disciples for the Promised One, {GPB: 28}

proclaimed Bahá'u'lláh, {PM: 40, 85, 276, 285}
sends documents and seals to Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 51}

inaugurates universal prophetic cycle, see cycle
mission of, twofold, {GPB: 27, 328}
transmuting influence of, {KI: 234-35}
warnings of,

{KA: n180}
to Bábís, {GPB: 29}

Revelation of,

{GPB: 4, 6, 7, 10}
{ROB1: 81, 108 and n., 190-4, 329 and n.}
{ROB2: 14, 75, 182}
{ROB4: 166-7, 209, 329}
effect of, on Persia, {ROB4: 166-7}
Hájí Mírzá Áqásí, Anti-Christ of the Báb's Revelation, see Aqásí, Háji Mirza
likened to sign of Aries, {GPB: 99}
significance of, {GPB: 3, 7, 54-60}

His Station and Titles,

{GPB: 57-60}
{PM: 128, 300}
{ROB1: 214, 223, 294-5, 313}
{ROB4: 207, 210}
extolled by Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB1: 119, 190-93, 214, 272, 294}
proclaims His station at examination, {GPB: 21, 22}
spiritual titles of, {ROB1: 60, 67, 221, 222 and n., 294, 307}

Baqíyyatu'lláh,
Crier, {TOB: 12, 103, 118}
Jamál-i-Qidám (Ancient Beauty), {GL: 77}
Hadrat-i-A'lá, Hadrat-i-'Alá, {SAQ: 25n}
Herald, {TOB: 75, 132}
King of the Messengers, {ROB1: 294}
Lord of the Realms of Grace and Bounty, {TOB: 65}
Luminary, {TOB: 102}
Master Hero of Heroic Age, {GPB: 3}
Mouthpiece of God, {GL: 145}
Point,

{TOB: 65, 75, 77, 101, 102, 103, 124, 161, 184}
Point of the Bayán,

{KA: K129, K140, n150, n159}
{ROB4: 206-7, 208}

Primal Point,

{KA: Q8, Q29, Q32, Q100}
{PM: 84, 300}
{ROB3: 137}
{SAQ: 69}

Prophet of Shíráz,

{GPB: 56}
Martyr Prophet of Shíráz, {GPB: 276}

Qá'im, Twelfth Imám, Hidden Imám,

{ESW: 112, 121, 163}
{GL: 12}
{GPB: 33, 57}
{ROB1: 126, 128n., 152 and n., 155, 156, 158, 169n., 180-81, 326, 331}
{ROB2: 68n., 75, 86 and n., 101, 108, 352}
{ROB3: 16, 27, 65, 254, 258, 301n.}
{ROB4: 174}
attributes of, {KI: 240, 245, 254}
dissertation of the Báb about, {GPB: 14}
Mihdí, awaited by the Sunnís,

{GL: 114}
{GPB: 58}
{SAQ: 39}
Abú-'Abdi'lláh, describes character of, {KI: 240}

persecution of followers of, {KI: 245}
prophecies concerning,

in Arba'in, {KI: 242}
in 'Aválim, {KI: 241, 243}
in Biháru'l-Anvár, {KI: 243, 254}
will excel all Prophets, {KI: 244}

promise to Shi'ahs, {GPB: 57}
Sáhibu'z-Zamán,
signs of, {GPB: 80}
sovereignty of, {KI: 106-07}
traditions about,

{ROB1: 185, 194, 216, 267}
Persians would slaughter Qá'im's followers, {KI: 247}
rising of, marks Day of Resurrection,

{KI: 144}
see also Terms in Holy Writings

Tablet of Fátimih, {KI: 245}
will reveal twenty-five remaining letters of knowledge,

{KI: 243-44}
{ROB1: 216}

word of, {TOB: 258}

Remembrance, {TOB: 13}
Return of,

Elias (Elijah),

{GPB: 58, 276}
{SAQ: 39, 288}
John the Baptist was return of, {SAQ: 132-34, 288}

John the Baptist,

{ESW: 157, 158, 171}
{GPB: 58}
{ROB1: 169}
{SAQ: 91, 93-95}
see also Christ

through Whom all knowledge revealed, {PM: 84}
transcendent power of,

{KI: 234}
iron rod of, {SAQ: 70}

His Sufferings,

{PM: 40}
arrested in Shíráz,

{GPB: 11, 13}
and outbreak of the plague, {DBNN: 196}
release of, {DBNN: 197}

assigned to Máh-Kú (prison), {GPB: 16}
attacks upon, caused by Hájí Mírzá Áqásí, see Aqásí, Háji Mirza
aware of impending trials, {GPB: 14}
Banishment,

{TOB: 65}
for three years to Ádhirbáyján, {GPB: 17-34}
proves to be prophetic fulfilment, {GPB: 18}

bastinadoed, {GPB: 22}
captivity proves fruitful, {GPB: 91}
death warrant issued by 'ulamas of Isfáhán, {DBNN: 209, 211, 212, 510}
denounced and condemned to death, {GPB: 52}
effects of the Mázindarán disaster on Him, {DBNN: 430}
enemies of, {GPB: 81-85}
examination of, in Tabriz, see Tabríz
His confinement in the barracks, {DBNN: 507}
imprisonment in Máh-Kú, {GPB: 17-19}
indignities inflicted upon Him, {DBNN: 319}
Martyrdom of, see Tabríz
multitude gathers at prison to hear His teachings, {GPB: 20}
opponents, {KA: K166, K170, n178, n182}
parallel of His life to Christ's, {GPB: 56, 57}
persecution of, by divines and dignitaries, {KI: 234}
prophesies His own martyrdom,

{GPB: 51}
{KI: 231-32}

sorrow at persecution of disciples, {GPB: 49}
woes, {GPB: 49-51}

His Tablets and Writings,

{ESW: 169}
{GPB: 6, 14, 23-28}
{ROB1: 23 and n., 34, 48, 54, 55, 60, 68, 102, 116-17, 207, 251-2, 255-6, 280, 294-303, 307}
{ROB3: 88, 98, 135, 254, 258, 305-7, 429}
{ROB4: 47, 128, 329, 373, 408}

Bahá'í Prayers,

index of prayers revealed by The Báb

Bayán,

{ESW: 152, 153, 154, 157, 158, 159, 162, 165, 171, 172, 174, 176}
{GL: 10, 44, 46, 101, 102, 244, 270, 292}
{PM: 39, 44, 86, 181, 275, 276, 284, 285, 308}
{ROB1: 23, 68, 85, 93n., 190, 280}
{ROB3: 30, 308}
{ROB4: 47, 127, 166, 220, 305, 330}
{TOB: 12, 51, 52, 76, 78, 190}
admonition to people of, {KI: 92-93, 248, 249-50}
announces Bahá'í Faith, {GPB: 59}
as Word of God, {KI: 199}
Báb's statements about, {GPB: 30}
Bahá'u'lláh completes text of, {GPB: 138}
description,

{KA: K179, n108, n129, n158, n186, 252}
Arabic and Persian, {KA: 252}
outline of contents of, {GPB: 23}

effect on defenders of Fort of Shaykh-Tabarsí, {GPB: 24}
heaven of, {TOB: 245}

'lawful is it', {TOB: 75}

laws and teachings of,

{GPB: 25}
{KA: 2, 8, K142, n109, n158}
{ROB3: 278}
abrogated by Bahá'u'lláh,

{KA: 8}
Destruction of books, see Book(s)
fine for causing sadness to another, see Sadness
Him Whom God will make manifest,

offering priceless gifts to, see Bahá'u'lláh
prohibition of asking questions, see Bahá'u'lláh

marriage with a non-believer {KA: K139, n158}
restrictions on travel, {KA: K131, n153}

confirmed, amplified or modified by Bahá'u'lláh,

{KA: 8}
burial,

{KA: n11, n149, n151}
see also Burial

burial ring, inscription on, {KA: K129}
calendar,

{KA: n26, n139, n147-n148}
see also Calendar, Bahá'í, Holy Days

carrying of arms, {KA: n173}
dowry, amount of, {KA: n95}
fasting, see Fasting
gold and silver vessels, use of, {KA: n72}
hair and bones do not invalidate prayer, {KA: n12}
Huqúq'u'lláh, see Bahá'í Faith
inheritance, see Inheritance
marriage, consent for, {KA: K65}
mithqál, weight of, see Gold
Nineteen Day Feast, see Bahá'í Faith
Obligatory prayer, see Prayer(s)
pilgrimage, {KA: n55}
prostration, {KA: n15}
pulpits, prohibition of, {KA: 14, K154, 157, n168}
Qiblih,

{KA: K137, 145, n7}
see also Qiblih

renewing furnishings of home, {KA: n166}
wearing of silk, see Clothes

reason for severity, {KA: n109, n158}

'Letters' of, {ROB1: 308}
Mother Book of Bábí Dispensation, {ROB1: 296}
must not become a barrier to acceptance of Bahá'u'lláh, {KA: K179}
people of, see Bábí(s)
Persian,

{ROB2: 68, 70, 120, 379}
reference to journey of Báb to Mecca and Medina in, {DBNN: 130}

'Point' of, {ROB1: 298, 307}
purpose of,

{GL: 147, 149}
{ROB1: 296}

quotations from, {KA: K135, K137, K139, n7, n48, n156, n157, n158, n179, n189}
relationship to Kitáb-i-Aqdas, {KA: 2, 7-8, K142, n108, n109, n189}
summary of, {GPB: 24-26}
tabernacle of God raised in, {KI: 3}
understanding of, {KA: K180}
'Váhid' of, {ROB1: 298-300 passim}
'Witnesses' to, {ROB1: 93n.}
'year nine', {ROB1: 298-300}
see also Bahá'u'lláh/'Him Whom God shall make manifest'

Dalá'il-i-Sab'ih (Seven Proofs), {GPB: 26}
Kitáb-i-Asmá' (The Book of Names)
Qayyúmu'l-Asmá', Qayyúm-i-Asmá,

{GL: 284}
{KA: n1, n115, 253-254}
{KI: 231}
{GPB: 6, 11, 12, 24, 51, 59, 67, 74, 82, 151, 157, 206, 253, 316, 376, 396}
{ROB1: 280, 293, 302 and n.; quoted, 302}
{ROB2: 179, 303}
{ROB4: 361, 437}
{TOB: 120}
prophesies martyrdom of the Báb, {KI: 231}
summary of, {GPB: 23}
see also Qur'án

commentary on Súrih of Va'l-'Asr, see Qur'án
quotations from, {GPB: 4, 6, 7, 8, 21, 23, 25, 29, 30, 31, 49, 50, 52, 53, 57, 84, 97, 98, 151, 253, 324, 325, 376, 396}
Remover of Difficulties,

Bahá'u'lláh asks people to recite, {GPB: 119}

{GPB: 119}
Selections from the Writings of the Báb, {KA: n185, n186}
Tablet addressed to Bahá'u'lláh, {KA: K175, K176, n185, n186}
Tablet to Nineteenth Letter of the Living (The Báb Himself), {DBNN: xxi}

and destruction of religious books, see Book(s)
astonishes people by His Writings, {GPB: 14}
confiscation of His books, {GPB: 13}
corresponds with Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 31}
disposal of His documents, {DBNN: 504}
His epistles,

to the believers, {DBNN: 269}
to divines, {KI: 229}

manuscripts in hands of Mirza Yahyá, {GPB: 167}
most monumental work of, {GPB: 22, 24-26}
on power of God, {ROB4: 324-5}
state of His Writings after martyrdom, {GPB: 90}
Statements and injunctions, {ROB3: 3, 380}
words of, {GL: 292-294}
see also Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Letters of the Living/Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí, Prophecies

Bábá, Hájí, {ROB3: 59}
Bábá'í, Áqá Mullá, {ROB2: 99-l00}
Babel, {GL: 173}
Bábí(s), People Of The Bayán, Followers of the Bayán,

{KA: K137, K140, K176, n178, n179, n185, n187}
{ROB1: 39n., 56, 84, 92, 101-2, 142, 169n., 191n., 194, 202}
{ROB3: 76, 88, 109, 140 and n., 168, 176, 186, 188, 200, 201, 254-7, 262, 267, 269, 306-7, 415}
{ROB4: 53, 64, 147-8, 174, 206-7, 219-20, 412, 401, 421}
agonies unsurpassed, {GPB: 44}
and Bahá'ís, see Bahá'í(s)
and Covenant-breaking, {ROB4: 81, 150, 174-5}
and laws of The Báb, see Báb, The
and Mírzá Yahyá, see Bahá'u'lláh/Mírzá Yahyá
attempt on the life of the Sháh, see To The Kings and Rulers
Bahá'u'lláh,

addresses 'People of The Bayán',

{KA: K137-K143, K176-K180}
{ROB1: 109, 194-5, 245, 286}
{ROB4: 147-8, 174, 206-7, 219-20, 412}
{TOB: 41-3, 190}
blindness of, {GL: 106}
disbelievers among, {TOB: 74, 79, 185, 190, 236}
forbidden contact, {TOB: 43}
should accept Bahá'u'lláh, {TOB: 74-5, 103-5}
unsheathed swords of, {TOB: 85}
see also Súriy-i-Sabr, Unpublished or Untranslated Works

call to, {GL: 102, 106}
conduct of, {GL: 244, 273, 274, 293, 294}
declares His mission to,

{ROB1: 261-2}
{ROB4: 329}

focuses message on, {ROB4: 81}
on Bábí Faith (Dispensation of Bayán), {TOB: 182}
rebukes, {ROB4: 219-20}
Bábís were heedless of Revelation of, {ROB4: 81, 148}

community

disintegration of, {GPB: 89-91, 112-115}
divided, {ROB1: 68, 248-51}
in 'Iráq, see 'Iráq
in Persia, see Persia
in Adrianople, see Adrianople
joyous gatherings of, {GPB: 135, 137}
regeneration of, {GPB: 132-134}

Hájí Mullá 'Alí-Akbar meets, see Hands of the Cause of God
march towards Mázindarán, see Mázindarán
Mullás, list of, who recognized the Báb, {KI: 223}
persecutions and martyrs,

{GPB: 35-38, 46-48, 63-66, 71-85, 89-91, 180}
{KI: 235-36}
{ROB1: 7, 11, 138, 264-8, 278-9}
{ROB2: 46-51, 340-6, 357}
{ROB4: 6}
{SAQ: 25, 28}
condition of, after persecutions, {GPB: 113}
see also Mázindarán, Nayríz, Zanján

steadfastness of, {ROB4: 140-1}
turn to Quddús, see Letters of the Living
use of force by,

{ROB2: 258, 351-5}
{ROB4: 377-8}
allowed to defend themselves, {ROB4: 377-8}

see also Báb, The, Bayán

Backbiting, Gossip, 'unseemly talk',

{GL: 265}
{HW: A26, A27}
{KA: 15, K19, 158, n37}
{ROB1: 79, 187}
{ROB3: 281}
{TOB: 219-20}
Calumny, {KA: 14, K19, 158, n37}
quenches light of heart and life of soul, {KI: 193}
Slander,

{KA: n37}
{TOB: 220}

Badakhshán, {ROB4: 183}
Badasht (Hamlet of), Conference of,

{DBNN: 288, 293}
{GPB: 17, 31-34, 403}
{ROB1: 8, 293}
{ROB2: 71, 146, 174n., 204, 246, 353}
{ROB4: 16, 73}
significance of gathering,

{DBNN: 293, 297}
{GPB: 33}

departure of Bahá'u'lláh from, {DBNN: 298}

Badí'u'lláh (son of Varqá), {ROB4: 59}
Badru'd-Dín-i/Al-Ghazzí, Shaykh

{ROB3: 436}
{ROB4: 151}

Baghdád,

{DBNN: 271, 650}
{ESW: 166, 167, 176}
{GL: 229, 230}
{KA: Q29, n54, n107, n138, n154}
{PM: 23, 105, 176}
{ROB1: 17, 25, 62, 104, 105, 108, 119, 125, 137, 148, 149, 215, 219, 244, 246, 255, 280, 287, 288}
{ROB2: 215, 240, 274, 332-4}
{ROB3: 15, 23, 25, 28, 38, 50n., 54, 61-2, 64-5, 73, 88, 177-8, 204-5, 222, 250-51, 266, 270, 415}
{ROB4: 4, 108, 115, 244, 247, 305}
{TOB: 240}

'Abdu'l-Bahá in,

{ROB1: 13, 16, 25}
at Garden of Ridván, see Ridván

as "Abode of Peace," {KI: 22, 174}
Bahá'u'lláh in,

{GL: 119}
{ROB1: 16, 53-5, 85, 92-5, 210, 225-9, 259, 273}
{ROB3: 28, 88, 108-10, 205, 250, 257, 273}
{ROB4: 245-6, 295}
{TOB: 40, 131, 143, 240}
absents Himself, {ROB1: 55, 57}
at Garden of Ridván, see Ridván
"days of tests", {GPB: 115}
His sojourn, exile in,

{GPB: 104-155}
{ROB1: 16, 165, 258-9}
Russian official accompanies Bahá'u'lláh to, {GPB: 108}

His House, Baghdád House, Bayt-i-A'zam (Most Great House)

{GL: 111}
{KA: K32, K133, Q25, Q29, Q32, n54, n154}
{PM: 176}
{ROB1: 94, 211-12, 259, 260}
{ROB3: 178, 250}
{ROB4: 165}
humble abode charms prince, {GPB: 134, 135}
humiliation of, predicted,

{GL: 114, 115}
seizure of, {GPB: 356-360}

Shrine, future,

{GL: 115}
pilgrimage to,

{GPB: 177, 300}
blessing of, {GL: 114}
Tablet of Visitation to, {GL: 111-114}

restoration of, {GPB: 307}
Station of, {GL: 112, 113, 114}

see also Súrihs of Hajj

immortalizes, {GPB: 110}
release and banishment to Baghdad, {DBNN: 650}
returns from Kurdistán,

{GPB: 125-133}
{ROB1: 25, 41, 63, 67-9 passim, 84, 96}
see also Kurdistán

visitors to,

{ROB1: 39 and n., 56, 68, 84, 85, 91-2, 97, 102, 128, 141, 150, 151, 153, 156-7, 198, 202, 206, 269 and n., 284, 289}
Muhammad-Ridá, {ROB3: 65}
pilgrims meet Bahá'u'lláh in, {ROB4: 51, 53, 74, 80, 88, 245-6, 301, 439}

departs,

{GPB: 147-149}
{ROB1: 16, 55, 57, 97, 203, 225-7, 243-4, 260-62, 281-2}
disciples mourn His departure, {GPB: 148}

Bahá'í Community of, {ROB3: 54, 62, 64-5, 178}
events in, {ROB1: 142-7, 206-10, 219-20, 225-7, 228-9}
its authorities and leaders,

Buzurg Khán, Mírzá, Persian consul-general in,

{ROB1: 143, 146-7, 225, 226}
{ROB2: 323-4, 332, 333}
fate of, {GPB: 232}

Governors,

{ROB3: 64}
assures Bahá'u'lláh protection en route to Constantinople, {GPB: 149}
Námiq Páshá,

{GPB: 131, 149}
{ROB1: 226, 229, 244, 285}
regards Bahá'u'lláh in high esteem, {GPB: 131}

Mírzá Yahyá's actions,

{ROB1: 54-5, 247-54}
see also Yahyá, Mírzá

see also 'Iráq

Bahá'í Faith,

{ROB2: 20-1, 53, 98, 127, 186, 191, 262-5, 268, 286, 289, 320-1}
{PM: 66, 67, 69, 97, 104, 115, 128, 253, 284, 307}
{ROB3: 40, 42, 77, 135-6, 152-4, 164, 200, 212, 239, 263, 310-1}
{TOB: 119, 168, 249}
Ages,

1. Apostolic (1844-1921),

{GPB: xiii}
Heroic (1844-1921),

{GPB: xiii, 46, 50, 55, 157, 158, 256}
{ROB3: 48, 325}
{ROB4: 119, 123, 182, 233, 366}
Bahá'ís in, {ROB3: 325}
ended, {GPB: 223, 256, 309}

drawn to a close, {GPB: 309, 324}
Primitive (1844-1921), {GPB: xiii}

2. Transitional (1921- ),

{GPB: xiii, 325}
Formative (1921- ),

{GPB: xiii, xv, 26, 158, 252, 324, 329, 330, 388}
{ROB3: 48, 285}
{ROB4: 182, 286, 367}
see also Shoghi Effendi

Iron (1921- ), {GPB: xiii, 324}

3. Golden (future),

{GPB: 26, 60, 158, 324, 411}
{ROB3: 125}
{ROB4: 366}

Century, first,

{GPB: 106, 223, 378, 379, 402}
chain of events in, {GPB: xvi-xviii}
most dramatic and tragic event in, {GPB: 55}
one of the most brilliant achievements of, {GPB: 300}
retrospect and prospect, {GPB: 402-412}
thirty-four independent nations hear of Faith, {GPB: 378}
turning point of, {GPB: 127}

Periods,

first period (1844-1853), {GPB: xiv, 3-85}
second period (1853-1892), {GPB: xiv, 89-253}
third period (1892-1921), {GPB: xv, 237-320}
fourth period (1921-1944), {GPB: xv, 323-412}

Badí' Calendar, of the Bahá'í Dispensation,

{KA: 14, n26, n27, n147, n148, 156, 157}
{ROB1: 116-17, 228n.}
{ROB3: 352n.}
Covenant Library Bahá'í Dates Calendar
Based on solar year,

Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary days),

{KA: 14, K16, 148, n27, n29, n147}
position in calendar, {KA: K16, n25, n27}
see also Prayer(s)

Leap Year, {KA: n27, n147}
length of, {KA: n27, n62, n147}
of patience see Divorce
of waiting see Lost Property

Day,

period of, {KA: n26}
Sunrise

prayer at dawn,

{KA: K33}
in the Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, {KA: K115, Q15, n142}

time for Obligatory Prayer, see Prayer(s)
times for Fast, see Fasting

Morning,

determining time, {KA: Q64}
recitation of verses,

{KA: K149, Q68, n165}
see also Recitation of sacred Writings and verses

time for Obligatory Prayer, see Prayer(s)
times of the Fast, see Fasting

Noon, Midday,

time for Obligatory Prayer, see Prayer(s)
see also Recitation of sacred Writings and Verses

Sunset, Sundown,

determining date of Naw-Rúz, {KA: Q35}
time for Obligatory Prayer, see Prayer(s)
times for Fast, see Fasting

Evening,

prayer, {KA: K33}
recitation of verses, {KA: K149, Q68, n165}
time for Obligatory Prayer, see Prayer(s)
times of the fast, see Fasting
see also Recitation of sacred Writings and Verses

Night,

determining of time for prayer and fasting, {KA: K10}
recitation of Verses,

{KA: K149, Q68, n165}
see also Recitation of sacred Writings and Verses

times of the Fast, see Fasting

Clocks, Watches, {KA: K10, Q64, Q103, 147, n17}

Holy Days, Anniversaries, Festivals, Celebrations,

{KA: K110, K112, Q1-Q2, 156, n138, n139, n140}
Naw-Rúz, (Bahá'í New Year), March 20/21,

{KA: K16, K111, Q35, n26, n139, n147, 148}
{ROB1: 228 and n., 259 and n.}
{ROB2: 112, 211}
{ROB3: 431, 432}
{ROB4: 182, 359, 414, 417}
Aries, sign of, {KA: Q35, n26}
Day of God, {KA: n26}
feast of, {DBNN: 191, 219, 256, 466}
immediately follows Fast, {KA: K16, 148, n25, n26}
method of determining date,

{KA: Q35, n26}
Tihrán selected as the standard

Spring Equinox, Vernal Equinox,

{KA: n26, n147}
{SAQ: 73-74, 78, 145, 242}

timing of, {KA: Q35, n26, n147}
see also Prayer(s)

Ridván, Most Great Festival,

First day, April 20/21 2 hours before sunset (Standard Time), see Ridván
Ninth day, April 28/29, see Ridván
Twelfth day, May 1/2, see Ridván

Declaration of the Báb, May 23/24 2 hours after sunset on preceding day, see Shíráz
Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh, May 28/29 3 a.m. (Standard Time), see 'Akká
Martyrdom of the Báb, July 9/10 12 noon, see Tabríz
Twin Holy Birthdays,

{KA: K110, Q2, n138}
Birth of the Báb,

{KA: Q2}
Celebrated on the 1st day after the 8th new moon after Naw-Rúz (mid-October to mid-November), see Shíráz
see also UHJ Message July 2014

Birth of Bahá'u'lláh,

{KA: Q2}
Celebrated on the 2nd day after the 8th new moon after Naw-Rúz (mid-October to mid-November), see Tihrán
see also UHJ Message July 2014

during the Fast, {KA: Q36, n138}
Muharram, {KA: Q2, n138}
Universal House of Justice to decide whether to celebrate on solar or lunar basis,

{KA: n138}
see also UHJ Message July 2014

Day of the Covenant, November 25/26,

{KA: n139}
see also UHJ Message July 2014

Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, November 27/28 1 a.m. (Standard Time), see Haifa
two Most Great Festivals, {KA: K110, n138}

Months,

names,

{KA: K127, n139, n148}
'Alá', month of Fast,

{KA: Q71, n25, n26, n27}
see also Fasting

Bahá,

{KA: K111, K127}
{ROB1: 116-117}

see also Covenant Library Bahá'í Dates Calendar

number of, in a year, {KA: K127, n27, n147}
number of days in, {KA: n27, n147}

Nineteen Day Feast,

{ROB3: 281}
Kitáb-i-Aqdas on,

{GPB: 214, 342}
{KA: 14, K57, n82, Q48}
{ROB3: 352}
Consultation at, {KA: n82}
Meetings, Bahá'í, {KA: n19, n168}

Unity Feast

North, South, extreme, {KA: K10, n17, n26}
Universal House of Justice to fill in details, {KA: n26, n138}
Week, {KA: n147}

Bahá'í

Cemetery, {GPB: 369}
Center, Hazíratu'l-Quds,

{GPB: 261}
importance of, {GPB: 339}
in America, {GPB: 338}
in Australia, {GPB: 338}
in Egypt, {GPB: 338}
in India, {GPB: 338}
in 'Iraq, {GPB: 338}
in Tihrán, {GPB: 338}

Civilization, {ROB4: 138, 233, 366, 413, 423}
Courts, to be established, {GPB: 411}
Endowments, national and local,

{GPB: 337-339}
{KA: K42, n66-n67}

Literature,

Bahá'í Bulletin, {GPB: 260}
Bahá'í News, {GPB: 260}
Bahá'í World, a biennial international record,

{GPB: 382}
{KA: n27, n139, n143, n147}

banned in Persia, {GPB: 345}
in many libraries, {GPB: 385, 386}
publications, {GPB: 380-384}
Star of the West, {GPB: 260}
to royalty, {GPB: 384}
translated into English and many languages, {GPB: 260, 380-382}
wide circulation of, {GPB: 384}

schools,

site for on Mt. Carmel, {GPB: 307}
see also Persia

Cause of God,

{ESW: 62, 102-103, 104, 105, 114, 121, 134, 144, 147, 152, 153, 157, 158, 162}
{TOB: 51, 54, 60, 84, 104, 119, 212, 222, 246, 249, 255, 260, 264}
"Crimson Ark" refers to, Terms in Holy Writings
not to be taken lightly, {GPB: 115}

Institutions of,

{ROB3: 50-51, 124, 310-21, 344, 379}
Administrative Order,

{GPB: 268, 323-353, 411}
{KA: 3-4, 12-13, n52, n82, n114, n189}
{ROB3: 49-51, 138, 241, 316-21}
{ROB4: 233, 276-7, 286, 423}
elections for see Elections, Bahá'í
enemies failed, {GPB: 327}
nature of, {GPB: 326, 327}
not yet completed, {GPB: 411}
outlined by 'Abdu'l-Bahá, {GPB: 268}
source of, {GPB: 324-326}
unique in government, {GPB: 326}
unique in religious systems of past, {GPB: 326}
see also Guardianship Hands of the Cause, House(s) of Justice, Huqúq'u'lláh, Marriage, Mashriqu'l-Adhkár

attacks on, {GPB: 354-363}
Bahá'í International Bureau, at Geneva, {GPB: 342, 380}
Bahá'í Publishing Committee, {GPB: 334}
Bahá'í Publishing Company, {GPB: 382}
Funds, Financial Support,

Bahá'í Fund,

{KA: n125, n161, n169}
{ROB3: 79-80, 82}
{ROB4: 248, 253, 256, 259, 263}
International, {ROB4: 256}
see also Prayer(s)

Huqúq'u'lláh, Huqúqu'lláh, Right of God,

{GPB: 214}
{KA: 14, K97, 156, n125}
{ROB3: 73n., 74, 82, 84, 86, 281}
{ROB4: 59, 248-56}
and Hands of the Cause of God, {ROB4: 253-4}
Bahá'u'lláh,

Bayán, laws of, confirmed, amplified or modified by Bahá'u'lláh, {KA: Q8}
Instituted in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas by, {ROB4: 248-56}
on payment of Huqúq'u'lláh,

conditions for payment, {KA: Q8, Q44-Q45, Q89-Q90, n125}
estate of deceased, {KA: K28, Q9, Q69, Q80, n47}
exemptions, {KA: Q8, Q42, Q95}
Property, Real estate,

{KA: Q8, Q42}
real estate yielding no income, {KA: Q102}

Universal House Of Justice receives, {KA: n125}
Wealth, {KA: Q90}

statements on, {ROB3: 372}
see also Unpublished or Untranslated Works

Shoghi Effendi, statement on, {ROB4: 252}
Trustee(s) of Huqúq'u'lláh, Trustee(s) of Bahá'u'lláh,

{ROB3: 57, 73ff., 91, 327}
{TOB: 83 n.}
Shoghi Effendi appoints, {ROB3: 86}
see also Sháh-Muhammad-i-Manshádí, Hájí (Amínu'l-Bayán), Hájí Abu'l-Hasan-i-Ardikání (Amín-i-Ilahí), Valíyy'u'lláh Varqá

see also Lost property

see also Zakát

Head of see 'Abdu'l-Bahá, House(s) of Justice, Shoghi Effendi
Holy Places see Holy Places and Historical Sites
House(s) of Justice, Seat of Justice, Baytu'l-Adl, "Rulers",

{GPB: 218, 219, 331, 332}
{KA: 3-6, 13, n183}
{ROB2: 122, 272}
{ROB3: 91, 316, 319, 320, 327, 375}
{ROB4: 38, 321}
{TOB: 26-7, 68, 69-70, 93, 125, 128-9, 130, 134}
'Abdu'l-Bahá, statement on,

{ROB3: 50, 319}
{SAQ: 172, 172n, 173}

Assemblies, Spiritual,

{GPB: 331, 332, 333, 336}
{ROB3: 51, 285, 316-21, 366}
'Abdu'l-Bahá, Statements on,

{ROB4: 290}
establishes first elected Assembly of Tihrán, {ROB4: 290}

first in America, {GPB: 260}
incorporated under United States government, {GPB: 335, 336}
Local Spiritual Assemblies, LSAs, Local Houses of Justice,

{KA: 3-4, n183}
{ROB4: 193-4, 275, 276, 290-1}
duties, powers, characteristics of,

{GPB: 331, 332}
{KA: n51}
administers divorces, {KA: Q98, 152, n100}
financial assistance to the poor, {KA: K147, n56, n162}
inheritances from missing heirs, see Inheritance

instituted in Persia,

{ROB4: 276}
of Tihrán,

{ROB4: illus. 292; 290-3, 311-12}
'Abdu'l-Bahá establishes first elected Assembly, see Assemblies/'Abdu'l-Bahá
Hands of the Cause of God establish first elected assembly in Tihrán, {ROB4: 290, 311}

of Bahá'í Women, {ROB4: 312}

National Spiritual Assemblies, NSAs, National Houses of Justice (Secondary),

{GPB: 332-336}
{KA: n49-n51, n80, n183}
{ROB4: 193-4, 275, 276, 290}
archives, {GPB: 342}
Bahá'í Temple Unity Board, {GPB: 262}

'Abdu'l-Bahá addresses, {GPB: 288}
became National Assembly, {GPB: 333}

communications of, to governments and rulers, etc., {GPB: 343, 344}
committees, {GPB: 333, 334}
constitutions of,

{GPB: 335-6}
Declaration of Trust, {GPB: 335}

Convention,

annual, {GPB: 342}
delegates to, {GPB: 333}
first American,

{GPB: 262, 276}
{ROB3: 431}

in eight countries, {GPB: 333}
of Persia,

{GPB: 333}
{ROB4: 314}

ordained by Bahá'u'lláh, {KA: K30, n49}
powers and duties of, {KA: n51, n100, n162}
see also Prayer(s)

membership

composition, men and women eligible, {KA: n80}
number, {KA: n50}
referred to as Deputies, {KA: 13, K147, n56, n162}
referred to as Trustees, {KA: 91, Q50, Q98}

ordained in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, see ordained by Bahá'u'lláh
powers and duties,

{KA: n51}
assures education of children,

{KA: K48}
{TOB: 90, 128}

charged with affairs of the people, {KA: 91}
choose one language, {TOB: 127}
legislates on marriage between relatives, {KA: Q50, 150, n133}
matters of state to be referred to, {KA: 91}
promote Lesser Peace, {TOB: 89}
shelter for poor, {TOB: 128}
treasury,

{KA: Q72, n42}
receives fines for sexual offenses, {KA: K49, Q11, n77}
receives one-third of all fines, {KA: K52}
receives two-thirds of treasure trove, {KA: Q101}

term used non-specifically by Bahá'u'lláh, {KA: n42}
Universal House of Justice, International, Baytu'l-Adl-i-'Azam,

{GPB: 326, 335}
{ROB1: 201 and n., 241}
{ROB2: 122n., 265, 269}
{ROB3: 50, 139-40, 215, 268, 282, 319, 372-3, 375}
{ROB4: 38, 87, 159, 164, 215}
and institution of the Hands of the Cause, see Hands of the Cause of God
and the Ark, see Terms in Holy Writings
and World Administrative Center, Bahá'í World Centre,

{KA: n114}
{ROB3: 153, 214-15}
{ROB4: illus. 364; 351-67}
Bahá'í International Archives,

{GPB: 347}
{ROB1: 19, 159}
{ROB4: illus. 364; 248, 362}

development of, {ROB4: 362-7}
institutions to be erected on slope of Mt. Carmel, {GPB: 315}
International Teaching Centre, International Teaching Centre, {KA: n183}
Seat of the Universal House of Justice, {ROB4: illus. 364; 362}

Boards of Counsellors, Counselors,

{ROB4: 276, 288-9}
Continental Board of Counsellors, Learned Ones in Bahá,

{KA: n183}
Auxiliary Board,

{KA: n183}
Members, {ROB4: 277}

professional, {KA: n58}

Constitution, {KA: n51}
Election method, {KA: 4, n49}
Establishment, {KA: K42, n66-n67}
Infallibility of, see Infallibility
International Bahá'í Council
Membership,

confined to men, {KA: n80}
number, {KA: n50}

Powers and duties,

{KA: n51}
{ROB4: 162}
administers endowments, {KA: K42, n66-n67}
future legislation,

application of penalties for murder and arson, {KA: n86-n87}
application of penalties for sexual offences, {KA: Q49, n36, n77-n78, n134}
degrees of, and application of penalties for theft, {KA: Q49, n70-n71}
manner of applying various laws of Bahá'u'lláh, {KA: n31, n69, n81, n84, n95, n161, n169}
other matters requiring legislation, {KA: n56, n138, n169}

legislative functions defined, {KA: 6-7}
receives Huqúq'u'lláh, see Bahá'í Faith
repeals own legislation, {KA: 5}
Sacred Text, may not abrogate, {KA: 5}
to promote the Lesser Peace,

{ROB4: 341-2}
see also Peace

Quoted, {ROB3: 283-4}
Seat of Justice, {KA: K23}

Ordained by Bahá'u'lláh in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, {KA: 3-4, 12-14, K30, K42, 145, n49, n66, n67}
see also Guardianship, Interpretation of Sacred Text

opposition to,

{KA: K73, K135, K164, Q57, n109, n177, n182, n190, n192}
{ROB1: 142-7, 242}
{ROB3: 32, 59, 89-90, 166-7, 174, 176, 178, 199, 201-2, 263}
{ROB4: 320, 335}
and disbelief, {ROB2: 81}
blessings of tribulations of,

{GPB: 62}
Tribulations assist Cause, {GL: 42, 72, 270, 333 }
upheavals, meaning of to growth of Faith, {GPB: 61}

defence of, {ROB3: 89-90}
enemies of,

to be pitied, {ROB4: 93}
fate of,

{GPB: 81-85, 317-320}
{ROB2: 148-50}

those who rise up against, {ROB4: 318, 340}

eventual triumph of, victory of,

{ROB2: 356, 415-16, 418}
{TOB: 57, 197-8, 222}
through aid of believers, {KA: K42, K94, K164, K178}
through aid of Laws, {KA: K4}

if denied, what else worthy, {TOB: 131}
is irresistible, {ROB1: 105-6, 148-9, 192, 201}
none can protest what befalls, {TOB: 212}
predicted, {KA: K37, 163}
see also Egypt, Germany, Persia, Russia

Teaching of, promotion of, propagation,

{GPB: 376-379, 386-387}
{KA: 159, n183}
{ROB1: 161, 278-9}
{ROB2: 25, 91-106, 238, 267}
{ROB3: 94, 138, 331ff., 360, 379-81}
{ROB4: 120, 123, 124, 214, 319-20}
{TOB: 13, 16, 27, 35-6, 44, 129, 142, 143, 151, 156, 172, 190, 196-201, 237, 242, 255, 266-7}
Afnán must arise, {TOB: 84}
and station of martyrdom, {ROB4: 57}
assistance by God in, {TOB: 34, 49, 59}
assisting God, {TOB: 196}
Bahá'ís enjoined to teach, {ROB4: 274-7}
by Hands of the Cause, see Hands of the Cause of God

teaching tours of Ibn-i-Asdaq, see Hands of the Cause of God

deeds, influence of, {TOB: 57}
duty of, {ROB3: 10, 115, 331}
enjoined, {GL: 38, 196, 197, 205, 276, 278, 280, 281, 296, 303, 314, 330, 335 }
exhortations to arise,

to all, {KA: 14, K38, K53}
to kings, {KA: K84}
to "learned," {KA: K173}
to religious leaders, {KA: K169}
see also Service

exhortation to assist teachers, {KA: K117, 160}
importance, of, {ROB4: 237, 305, 317}
in Persia, {ROB4: 115}
in the past, {ROB3: 40, 59, 62, 94ff., 137-8}
Indians, {GPB: 380}
international expansion of, {GPB: 379-381}
invite receptive souls, {TOB: 236-7}
learning languages, for purpose of, {KA: K118, 161}
meaning of, {ROB4: 317}
memorization of verses, {TOB: 200}
methods of,

{GPB: 379}
{ROB4: 237, 262-3}
Bahá'u'lláh counsels Bahá'ís on,

{ROB4: 192}
Force, Violence, prohibited in teaching, {GL: 278, 303, 330}
Persuasion, {GL: 278, 279, 303, 329}

pre-requisites for,

{ROB4: 48-9, 161-2, 237}
detachment important for success in, see Detachment

Rúhu'lláh's method of, {ROB4: 58-60}
success in, {ROB4: 258, 261-2, 317}
through words, not violence, {GL: 278, 303, 330 }
training of, {GPB: 340}
travel teaching, {ROB4: 197-89, 237, 257-8, 260-2, 302, 303}
with kindness, {GL: 8, 279, 289 }
with wisdom,

{ROB2: 97-8}
{ROB4: 67, 305, 319-20}

minority groups, {GPB: 380}
moderation in, {TOB: 143, 172, 198-9}
of Sulaymán Khán, {ROB4: 177-89}
power of the tongue, {KA: K73, K160}
praiseworthy, {TOB: 198}
promise of divine assistance, {KA: K38, K53, K74}
promotion of, {ROB3: 80, 82, 138, 140, 157, 219, 331-2, 376}
release captives from chains, {TOB: 84}
spirit chilled by expositions, {TOB: 142}
Tablets of the Divine Plan, see 'Abdu'l-Bahá
to children,

{KA: K150, 160}
see also Children

women encouraged to teach, {ROB4: 202}
words (utterances), importance of, {TOB: 57, 85, 172-3, 197}
see also Bahá'í(s), Prayer(s), Root, Martha

Teachings of,

{ROB3: 158, 374-6}
{ROB4: 114, 146, 168, 172, 184, 212, 238, 257, 316-17, 388, 433}
Bahá'u'lláh's presentation of, {ROB4: 374-7}
carrying out, {ROB4: 142, 158}
designed to spiritualize human race, {ROB4: 35, 38}
explained to Náyibu's-Saltanih, {ROB4: 379}
exposition of, see Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
for rulers and ministers of the world, {ROB4: 154}
laws of, {ROB4: 116}
listed, {ROB4: 159-60, 161-7, 214-15, 341, 375-7}
on

creation, see Creation
living the life, {ROB4: 69, 83}
reconstruction of human society, {ROB4: 341}
worship, {ROB4: 36}

Principles of,

{GPB: 216-219, 281, 282}
{ROB4: 114, 146, 287, 320, 375-6, 423}
'Abdu'l-Bahá's "Twelve Points" {GPB: ix},

1. Unfettered search after truth,

{ROB4: 141-2, 197, 294}
condition for, {GL: 264, 323, 326}
Independent investigation of truth,

{TOB: 130, 157, 188, 236}
'let him who wisheth turn...', {TOB: 211}

see also True Seeker

2. The oneness of mankind.
3. Religion a cause of love and harmony.
4. Religion hand in hand with science, {ROB4: 156}
5. Universal peace.
6. An international language, see Language
7. Education for all.
8. Equal opportunities for both sexes, see 'Abdu'l-Bahá
9. Justice for all.
10. Work for all.
11. Abolition of extremes of poverty and wealth.
12. The Holy Spirit to be the prime motive power in life.

forbidding contention and strife, see Contention
revolve around principle of love and unity, {ROB4: 161, 190, 365, 388-9}
see also Bahá'u'lláh

understanding of, {ROB4: 212-13}
unity of see Unity

misc topics

a religion in its pure form, {ROB4: 156}
a universal religion, {ROB3: 138, 140}
acceptance, {KA: K1, K132, K166, K182, n179}
Afnán should serve, {TOB: 232}
all must aid, {TOB: 23}
allegiance to, {ROB4: 335}
Bahá'u'lláh's vision of, {ROB4: 169}
birth of, {GPB: 89-100, 127, 128}
Centre of the Cause, see Covenant
Commonwealth,

Bahá'í,

{ROB4: 362}
future seat of, {GPB: 315, 316}

World,

{KA: n173, n183, n189, n194}
{ROB3: 124 and n., 126, 347}
see also New World Order of Bahá'u'lláh

Community,

of Most Great Name,

{ROB1: 242, 281}
{ROB3: 108, 109, 312, 400}
{ROB4: 172, 237, 239, 257, 361}

World, {ROB1: 279}

conversion to, {ROB4: 184}
denial, {KA: K140, K167, K169, K170, K179, n171, n180}
direction of affairs of,

{KA: n67, n183}
see also 'Abdu'l-Bahá, House(s) of Justice, Shoghi Effendi

dissimulation (recantation) forbidden in, see Dissimulation
emancipation of, {GPB: 364-375}
features of,

{ROB1: 129, 133, 137}
{ROB3: 200}

former religions and, {GPB: 100}
fostering of, {ROB4: 320}
fundamental laws enunciated, {GPB: 214, 223}
future of, {ROB4: 72, 335}
future tasks, {GPB: 410, 411}
greatness of, {ROB4: 297}
growth of, {ROB4: 140-1, 177, 233, 250-1, 257, 320, 423, 431}
history of,

{GPB: 402-411}
{ROB3: 192}

independence of,

{GPB: 17, GPB: 365}
{ROB4: 184}

its establishment, {ROB2: 20, 30, 92, 124-5, 251}
its world mission, {ROB1: 217, 272-3}
love within the, {ROB4: 194}
Mankind encompassed by, {ROB4: 257}
name adopted, {GPB: 300}
pattern of growth (reverses and victories), {GPB: xiii, 61, 62, 409, 410}
potency of, {TOB: 264}
prestige of,

{GPB: 242}
{ROB4: 239}

primacy of, {KA: K167}
progress of, {ROB3: 380}
protection of,

{KA: n183}
{ROB4: 278, 287, 290, 320, 321}

purpose of, {TOB: 123, 168, 220}
recognition of Bahá'í Faith,

as state religion, {KA: n49}
by Office of Price Administration, {GPB: 374}
by United States government, {GPB: 373}
civil recognition, {GPB: 364-374}

relationship to Faith of the Báb, {KA: 8, K129, K136, K139, K140, K179, K180}
resplendent as sun, {TOB: 40, 79}
retrospect and prospect, {GPB: 402-412}
sacrifice for, {ROB3: 79}
service to,

{KA: 14-15, K35, K74, K184, 91, n2}
{ROB3: 83, 395-6}
attracts divine assistance, {KA: K38, K53, K74}
see also Assistance, Service

shielded by Most Great Infallibility, see Infallibility
spread of, {ROB4: 70, 171-2, 177, 233, 250-1}
steadfastness in, {ROB3: 26, 360}
tabernacle of, {TOB: 84}
True believers,

{ROB1: 237-9, 243}
{ROB2: 286}
see also Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Bishárát

universal adoption of, {ROB4: 56}
universal faith needed, {TOB: 69}

Bahá'í(s), Believers, followers of Bahá'u'lláh, Loved Ones, People of God, Servants of God,

{ROB1: 22, 88, 90}
{ROB2: 89, 142, 243-4}
{ROB3: 75, 77-8, 79-80, 128, 135, 181, 201-2, 226, 228, 229, 259, 279, 320, 323, 325, 360, 372n., 376-81, 382-3, 385n.}
{ROB4: 114, 119n., 186, 416}
{TOB: 76-7, 121, 138-9, 190-1, 207-10, 220, 238-43, 257, 262-3, 266}
and

Bábís,

{ROB4: 379}
become Bahá'ís, {GPB: 299, 300}
growth from Bábí community, {ROB2: 73-7, 179}

Bahá'u'lláh,

{ROB1: 109-10, 113, 203, 244}
{ROB3: 25, 55, 67, 68, 174-5, 390}
addresses in Tablet of Carmel, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Karmil
aid to Bahá'ís, beseeched, {TOB: 92, 94, 108, 117, 120, 130, 132, 233-4}
Bahá'u'lláh loves, love of Bahá'u'lláh for,

{PM: 61}
{TOB: 148}

Bahá'u'lláh remembers, {TOB: 49, 246, 254, 261, 264}
call to, {GL: 94, 96, 97, 148, 183, 288, 319, 325}
counsels to,

{ROB4: 159-60, 192, 338-42}
counselled to be wise, {ROB4: 322}
turn to 'Abdu'l-Bahá, {KA: K121, n145}

exhortations to, {ROB4: 173, 212-13, 237, 317, 375-7}
prayer for, see Prayers
Tablets to,

{ROB4: 323-4}
compared to bird, {GL: 327}
compared to wind, {GL: 339}
duty to know and obey God, {GL: 5, 289, 290, 330-331}
duty to proclaim Cause, {GL: 14, 201, 205, 276, 278, 280, 289, 296, 303, 312, 314, 316, 320, 330, 333, 338, 339}
first, faith of, {GL: 179, 180}
knowledge of, {GL: 70, 84, 170, 263, 267-269, 314, 331}
power of, {GL: 93, 96, 137, 183, 287, 319, 330}
to refute attacks against Cause, {GL: 329, 330}
tribulations of, {GL: 72, 116, 129, 305, 308, 313, 329}
unfaithful, {GL: 100, 118, 244, 308-310}
who clamorously assert their faith, {GL: 343}
who dissemble belief, {GL: 343}

Hands of the Cause, see Hands of the Cause of God
laws, {ROB4: 287}
love of Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB4: 190, 278-84}
pioneering, see Pioneering
politics, {ROB2: 88-91}
sacrifice, {ROB4: 190}
tests, {ROB3: 47-51, 192-4}

Blessings of, {PM: 52, 54, 117, 183, 190, 195, 205, 274, 287, 296, 311}
Calendar, see Bahá'í Faith
Cemetery, {ROB3: 273}
Community,

{ROB3: 24, 49ff., 132, 138, 139-40, 227, 273-4, 285-6, 312-13, 317, 346-7, 365}
development of, {ROB4: 289}
integration of, {ROB4: 291}
races represented, {GPB: 380}

Companions of the Crimson Ark, see Terms in Holy Writings
Conduct and life,

{GL: 7, 94, 240, 243, 271, 272, 275, 277, 278, 287, 296, 305, 307, 315, 316, 343}
{ROB3: 322, 365-6}
{ROB4: 380}
{TOB: 27, 35, 57, 64, 71, 85, 86-9, 91, 94, 129, 134, 138-9}
acquisition of saintly attributes, {ROB4: 173}
allegiance of, {ROB4: 335}
and non-Bahá'ís, {KA: K29, K75, K144, Q33, Q34, Q84, n38}
behaviour of,

{ROB4: 317}
see Qualities

business dealings among, {ROB4: 26-7}
character of, see Character
characteristics of, {GL: 7, 8, 13, 87, 100, 118, 242, 264, 268, 271, 272, 279, 285, 287, 289, 290, 296, 297, 298, 299, 304, 305, 307, 315, 323, 338}
concern of, {ROB4: 392}
conduct and character enjoined on, {KA: 14-15, 160-161}
conform to God's Will, {TOB: 116}
consultation, see Consultation
deeds of, {ROB4: 214, 317}
education,

{GL: 190}
see also Education

elections, {ROB3: 316-17, 319}
enjoined, exhorted, {KA: 14-15, 159-161}
forbidden various acts, {KA: 157-158}
gatherings of,

{ROB4: 316}
festivals and Holy Days, {ROB3: 115, 223, 281}

goal of, {PM: 89, 102, 258, 267, 270}
intercede for enemies, {TOB: 91}
intermarriage of, {ROB4: 291}
loyalty to Government, {TOB: 22-3, 87}
love,

among, {ROB4: 194, 317}
of humanity, {GL: 7, 95, 250, 260, 288, 316, 334}

misdeeds of,

{ROB4: 225-6, 391}
see also Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Kalimát-i-Firdawsíyyih, Lawh-i-Hikmat

obey God's laws, {TOB: 50, 62, 71, 72, 93, 108, 130, 132, 196, 197, 267, 268}
of Jewish descent, {ROB4: illus. 292; 12-13, 254, 271, 423}
of Muslim background, {ROB4: 291}
prejudices of, {ROB4: 291}
protect stations of men, {TOB: 38}
Qualities enjoined on Bahá'ís,

see Association, Charity, Chastity, Civility, Cleanliness, Constancy, Contentment, Courtesy, Detachment, Fairness, Faithfulness, Fear of God, Fellowship, Fidelity, Forbearance, Forgiveness, Godliness, Hospitality, Humility, Justice, Kindness, Knowledge, Love, Obedience, Parents, Patience, Perseverance, Piety, Propriety, Purity, Reason, Refinement, Remembrance of God, Respect, Service, Sincerity, Steadfastness, Tact, Tenacity, Tenderness, Trustworthiness, Truthfulness, Understanding, Unity, Uprightness, Virtue, Vision, Wisdom
see also Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh

schools built by, {ROB4: 122n.}
shining examples, {TOB: 138}
spiritual character of, see Character
spiritual obligations of, duties,

{KA: 145-162}
{ROB3: 74, 285-6, 379}
daily,

ablutions, see Prayer(s)
Obligatory Prayers, see Prayer(s)
repetition of "Alláh-u-Abhá" 95 times, see Bahá'u'lláh/Greatest Name
Recite the verses of God,

{KA: K149, Q68, n165}
twice a day, {ROB3: 323}
need to recite, {ROB4: 66}
see also Kitáb-i-Aqdas

enjoined to teach, {ROB4: 274}
Fasting, see Kitáb-i-Aqdas
Fund, see Bahá'í Faith
Huqúq'u'lláh, see Bahá'í Faith
Implore forgiveness for parents, see Parents
observance of laws {KA: 15, K1}
recognition of Manifestation of God {KA: 15, K1}
see also Pilgrimage

spirituality of

brilliant, {TOB: 88}
burn brightly, {TOB: 58}
eye to mankind, {TOB: 208}
happy, {TOB: 15, 52, 62, 235, 253, 257}
hear doves of Paradise, {TOB: 54}
jewel among men, {TOB: 13}
mirror radiance of Bahá, {TOB: 198}
one soul, {TOB: 264}
pass beyond sea of names, {TOB: 58}
sea moving by God's desire, {TOB: 34}
throbbing artery, {TOB: 143}

standards,

{ROB3: 125, 364-5}
of Bahá'u'lláh for, {ROB4: 82-3}
of detachment, see Detachment

steadfastness of, {ROB4: 140-1}
trustworthiness, {TOB: 37-8, 122}
two kinds,

{ROB2: 255-6}
true, {ROB4: 161, 296}

understanding of,

teachings, {ROB4: 212-13}
the Testaments, {ROB4: 267}

unity of,

{ROB1: 303}
{ROB2: 87, 191, 193}
{ROB4: 190-6, 317, 365}

view of,

life, {ROB3: 296}
world problems, {ROB3: 125-6}

virtues, {ROB3: 106}
well-being of, {ROB4: 289}
youth,

{ROB3: 365}
activities of, {GPB: 341, 342}
work of, {GPB: 341-342}

see also Deeds, Qualities

diversity of, {SAQ: 65}
dissimulation of, see Dissimulation
in Heroic age, see Age(s)
of

'Akká, see 'Akká
America, see America
Baghdád, see Baghdád
Cyprus, see Cyprus
India, see India
'Ishqábád, see 'Ishqábád
Mandalay, see Mandalay
Persia, see Persia

Darakhsh, see Darakhsh
Mashhad, see Mashhad
Qazvín, see Qazvín
Yazd, see Yazd

Rangoon, see Rangoon

'People of Bahá',

{GL: 16, 32, 35, 46, 94, 100, 111, 117, 118, 169, 170, 212, 278, 288, 289, 304, 305, 333}
{ROB1: 47, 94, 238-9, 275, 280}
{ROB2: 179}
{ROB3: 81, 97-8, 112, 115, 130, 159, 356, 364, 366, 372, 439}
Learned Ones in Bahá, Learned among people of Bahá,

{KA: K173, 163, n183}
{ROB3: 27}
{TOB: 138, 221}
duties, {KA: n183}
see also Hands of the Cause of God, Continental Board of Counsellors, Auxiliary Board, Rulers

leaves, {TOB: 254-5, 256}
may become people of Sun of Reality, {SAQ: 222}
mission unspeakably glorious, {GPB: 254}
prominent, {ROB4: 286}

persecution of, tribulations of,

{GPB: 178, 197-203, 296-299}
{PM: 23, 61, 145, 166, 167, 189, 197, 216, 234, 271}
{ROB1: 268, 279}
{ROB2: 53, 332-6, 358}
{SAQ: 35}
{TOB: 17, 42, 215, 246}
accusations against, {ROB4: 306, 393-402}
attitude of Persian Muslims to, {ROB3: 59}
Bahá'í men, in great danger, {ROB4: 119}
beset by enemies, {TOB: 243}
cursing of, {ROB4: 93}
held in teeth of wolves, {TOB: 106}
identification as Bahá'ís, {ROB4: 271n.}
imprisoned in Tihrán, see Tihrán
in Persia, {ROB4: 115, 349-50}
lamented and moaned, {TOB: 177}
positions seized by traitors, {TOB: 125}
protection of,

{ROB4: 323}
by God, {TOB: 35, 62, 88, 96}
victorious, {TOB: 57, 247}

scatter opposition, {TOB: 85}
unstoppable, {TOB: 44}

reveal station of believers, {PM: 155}
uprisings against, {ROB4: 123-4}
see also Martyrs

pilgrims, {ROB3: 17, 55, 57, 67-8}
power of, {PM: 191}
promotion of peace, {ROB4: 341-2}
relationship to Universal House of Justice, {ROB3: 50}
station of,

{GL: 6, 9, 10, 34, 87, 107, 108, 110, 149, 159, 167, 190, 196, 197, 214, 246, 288, 317, 323-324, 327, 330, 331, 340}
{PM: 62, 155, 209, 269, 298}
{ROB4: 92-3, 285}
{TOB: 58, 92, 96, 148, 259, 263, 268}
after death, {GL: 141, 153, 169-171, 329, 345, 346}
companions of Crimson Ark,, see Terms in Holy Writings
gaze of God toward, {TOB: 237}
glory on, {TOB: 44, 54, 80, 97, 132, 191, 198, 235, 240, 243, 247, 259, 264}
immortality of, {GL: 33, 74, 107, 141, 148, 157, 181, 213, 269, 282, 345}
memories immortalized, {TOB: 266}
names mentioned (recorded), {TOB: 5, 13, 262, 266}
peace of God upon, {TOB: 134}
reward of,

{GL: 36, 94, 117, 167, 219, 339}
{TOB: 86}

Teachers, Muballigh (Teacher-proclaimer),

{ROB1: 86, 107, 162, 203, 279, 283}
{ROB3: 27-8, 94, 96-7, 120, 161-2, 234, 331-6, 433ff.}
{ROB4: 257-8, 274-7}
{TOB: 198-9}
ablaze with fire, {TOB: 34}
assistance of, {GL: 280, 314 }
Bahá'í travelling, {ROB4: 177, 274-5, 423}
Bahá'í, took counsel on community affairs, {ROB4: 107n.}
Bahá'u'lláh's advice to, {ROB4: 237, 296}
character of, {GL: 201, 277, 278, 335}
exhorted to teach, {GPB: 376, 377}
in Persia, {ROB4: 254, 274-5}
influence of, {GL: 277, 334-335}
notable, {ROB4: 257-73}
of children,

{ROB3: 90, 330-31}
and spiritual education of child, {KA: n40}

preparation of, {GL: 210, 277, 334, 335, 339 }
qualifications of, {TOB: 58}
success due to Word of God, {GL: 277}
station of, {KA: K117}
training,

{GPB: 340}
for youth, {ROB4: 313}
institutes for women, {ROB4: 304}

traveling, {GL: 334 }
visiting graves of, {ROB4: 165}
with understanding, {ROB4: 257, 275}
who ruin Cause, {TOB: 58} who depart from the Writings, {KA: K117, 160}

Zillu's-Sultán offers to assist, see Mas'úd Mírzá
see also Bahá'í Faith

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Husayn-'Alí), Founder of the Bahá'i Faith,

{DBNN: 12, 32, 103, 118, 120, 269, 284, 286, 292, 297}
{ROB1: 33, 83, 158}
{ROB3: 22, 148, 180, 208, 348}
{ROB4: 122, 177, 178, 182, 363}
{SAQ: 27-35}
{TOB: 62, 74, 76, 103, 104, 107, 108}

Biographical,

Achievements of, {ROB4: 421-4}
and

Abu'l-Qásim, see Ridván
Áqá Mírzá Áqá, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Dunyá
'Azim, meeting with, {DBNN: 599}
The Báb, see Báb, The
Badí', see Tablet to Badí'
E. G. Browne, see Browne, Edward Granville
Hájí Jalíl-i-Khu'í, see Ishráqát
Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí', see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Kalimát-i-Firdawsíyyih
Hájí Mírzá Siyyid Muhammad, see Kitáb-i-Íqán
Hájí Muhammad-Ridá, see Muhammad-Ridáy-i-Isfahání, Hájí
Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí describes, see Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí, Hájí
Hájí Yahúdá, see Yahúdá, Hájí,
Ibn-i-Asdaq, see Hands of the Cause of God
King and Beloved of Martyrs, see Unpublished or Untranslated Works
Mullá 'Alí-Akbar, see Hands of the Cause of God
Mullá Husayn, see Letters of the Living
Nabíl-i-Akbar, dear to, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Hikmat
Nabíl's poetry about, see Tablet to Nabíl-i-A'zam
Siyyid Asadu'lláh, see Asadu'lláh, Siyyid
Sulaymán Khán, see Unpublished or Untranslated Works
Ustád 'Alí-Akbar, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Tajallíyát
Varqá, see Hands of the Cause of God

Rúhu'lláh, see Rúhu'lláh

and aqueduct, {ROB3: 24-5}
and gifts,

{ROB4: 246-8}
accepted gifts as token of grace to giver, {GL: 116, 201}

Ascension, see 'Akká
Birth of, see Tihrán
Companions of,

{ROB1: 27, 40, 95, 96-7, 206-9, 218}
{ROB2: 5-6, 7, 14, 16, 18, 19-20, 24, 372, 410}
{ROB3: 11, 12, 17, 34, 36, 52-4, 205, 208-9, 401-4}
death of three, {ROB3: 20, 34}
in Khán-i-'Avámíd, {ROB3: 222}
interrogation of, {ROB2: 328-32}
sickness in barracks, {ROB3: 19-21}
those exiled with Him to Baghdad, {GPB: 108}

describes Himself, {KA: n1, n160}
dream of, {GPB: 101}
educated thousands, {SAQ: 35}
forsakes His wealth, {GPB: 67}
four stages of His life, {GPB: 107}
guest of Grand Vizir, {GPB: 71}
His Family, Holy Family,

{GPB: 240}
{ROB1: 8-16 passim, 122-3, 130, 284, 305}
{ROB2: 205n., 260-1}
{ROB3: 55, 68, 80, 83-4, 153, 204, 207-8, 211, 214, 216-18, 243, 400, Appendix III}
{ROB4: 254, 419}

Ásíyih Khánum (Navváb, Most Exalted Leaf), wife of,

{GPB: 108, 348}
{ROB1: 12, 15, 19}
{ROB2: 6}
{ROB3: 204, 210, 442-8}
{ROB4: 1, 106, 362, 366}
resting-place, in 'Akká, {ROB4: 1, 106}
Shoghi Effendi on transfer of remains of Purest Branch and Navváb to Mount Carmel, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Karmil

Brothers of,

{ROB1: 10, 11, 15, 16}
Mírzá Muhammad-Hasan, faithful half-brother of,

{ROB1: 11, 16}
Abú-Tálib Khan, Mírzá, brother-in-law of, {DBNN: 639}
Shahr-bánú, daughter of, {ROB4: 438-9}

Mírzá Muhammad-Qulí, faithful half-brother of,

{ROB1: 15-16, 284}
{ROB2: 199, 332, 402}
{ROB4: 242}

Mírzá Músá, (Áqáy-i-Kalím, Jináb-i-Kalím), most faithful brother, and Apostle of Bahá'u'lláh,

{DBNN: 183, 255, 286, 288, 397, 432, 441, 582}
{ROB1: 15-16, 53, 67n., 131, 144, 205, 228, 247, 284, 316n.}
{ROB2: 58, 67, 154, 160, 163, 164, 200, 211, 247n., 332, 402, 405}
{ROB3: 23, 181, 225n., 361, 424-5}
{ROB4: 242, 420n., 438}
Mírzá Majdi'd-Dín (Majdu'd-Din), son of, Breaker of the Covenant,

{ROB1: 316}
{ROB4: 420}

Mírzá Ridá-Qulí, half-brother of,

{ROB1: 12}
{ROB3: 218-19}
{ROB4: 438}
Maryam, cousin of Bahá'u'lláh, wife of, see Alwáh-i-Maryam

Mírzá Yahyá (Subh-i-Azal), half-brother, Breaker of the Covenant,

{ESW: 157, 161, 167, 168, 169, 171}
{GPB: 112, 155, 163-170, 233}
{KA: 15, K184, K190, n177, n190-n192}
{PM: 132, 180, 286}
{ROB1: 40-41, 53-6, 133, 136, 246-56, 257, 284, 291}
{ROB2: 39, 66-75 passim, 161-70, 181-2, 241, 242n., 247, 262-3, 268, 269, 284, ch. 14, 326, 331, 376, 402}
{ROB3: 23, 88-9, 109, 141, 176, 225n., 359, 373-4}
{ROB4: 53, 81, 86, 115, 174, 211, 257, 399, 400, 401, 408n., 412, 421, 438, 439, 440}
{TOB: 43, 75, 111 and n.}
and The Báb,

Mírzá Yahyá claimed to be successor to, {GPB: 114}
nominated Mírzá Yahyá, {KA: n190}

and Bábís,

{ROB2: 165-6, 181-2, 226}
role of, {ROB4: 305}
see also Báb, The

and Bahá'u'lláh:

announces His mission to Mirza Yahyá,

{GPB: 166-167}
{KA: n190}

assurance of forgiveness should he repent, {KA: K184, 163}
Bahá'u'lláh addresses,

{ROB4: 220-1}
in Kitáb-i-Aqdas, {ROB3: 373-4}

Bahá'u'lláh's allusions to, {ROB1: 195-6, 218, 241-2, 244, 272}
establishes ascendency over Mírzá Yahyá, {GPB: 168, 169}
division of possessions with Mirza Yahyá, {GPB: 167}
Mirza Yahyá's opposition to,

{GPB: 163-165}
{ROB1: 16, 37, 54-5, 107, 120, 130, 133, 136, 195-6, 218, 241-2, 246-56}
{ROB2: 1, 152-5, ch. 14}
actions in Baghdád, see Baghdád
attempts on Bahá'u'lláh's life,

{ROB2: 152-5, 158-61}
plots to kill Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 166}
Bahá'u'lláh poisoned by, {GPB: 165, 166}

clandestine opposition of, {GPB: 117}
directs campaign against Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 124, 125}
rebellion of, {GPB: 163, 164, 165, 168}
rebellion stimulates Faith, {GPB: 204}

refuses to meet with Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 168, 169}
separation from Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB2: 161-70}
stigmatized by Bahá'u'lláh as

'Most Great Idol',

{GPB: 170}
{ROB2: 298}
{ROB3: 109}

'source of Perversion',

{GPB: 170}
{KA: K184, n190}
{ROB2: 298}

Azalís,

{KA: K164, n177, n190}
{ROB1: 10, 50, 68, 203}
{ROB3: 24, 44-6, 56, 98, 224-5, 227, 400}
{ROB4: 81-2, 174, 176, 191, 219-20, 225-6, 305, 314, 399, 401, 403, 412}
and Nabíl ibn-i-Nabíl, see Muhammad-'Alí, Hájí Shaykh
in 'Akká, see 'Akká

murder of, see 'Akká

in Constantinople, machinations of, see Constantinople
remnant of, {GPB: 246}
see also Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Unpublished or Untranslated Works

Badrí-Ján, wife of, {ROB3: 23, 225, 235, 251}
claims himself a Prophet, claim to Revelation,

{GPB: 167}
{KA: n190, n192}

fate of, {GPB: 233}
his Cyprus exile, see Cyprus
lives in disguise, {GPB: 114, 115}
recognizes transformation in Mírzá Áqá Ján, {GPB: 116}
Mustayqiz (Sleeper Awakened), {ROB1: 250}
see also Muhammad-i-Isfahání, Siyyid

Children of,

{ROB4: 5-6, 283}
Aghsán (Branches),

{KA: 3, K42, K61, 161, n66, n67, n85}
{ROB1: 134 and n.}
{ROB3: 372-3}
{ROB4: 10, 333}
{TOB: 221-2}
'Abdu'l-Bahá (Most Great Branch), son of, see 'Abdu'l-Bahá

Ásíyih Khánum, mother of, see Bahá'u'lláh, wife of
Statements, on Bahá'u'lláh,

{ROB3: 399, 415, 416-17, 418, 419}
'Abdu'l-Bahá pays tribute to, {ROB1: 308}
Ascension of, {ROB4: 414-24}
imprisonment of, {ROB4: 242}
in the Garden of Junaynih, see 'Akká
laws of Báb and Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB3: 278, 281}
relation of Báb to Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB3: 306}

Mírzá Badí'u'lláh, son of, Breaker of the Covenant,

{ROB1: 131-2}
{ROB3: 230}
{ROB4: 59, 377, 435}

Mírzá Díyá'u'lláh, son of, Breaker of the Covenant,

{ROB1: 131-2}
{ROB4: 58}

Mírzá Mihdí (The Purest Branch), son of,

{GPB: 188-189, 348}
{PM: 34, 35}
{ROB1: 19, 261}
{ROB2: 266 and n.}
{ROB3: 7, 204-16, 221}
{ROB4: 362, 366, 421}
As Bahá'u'lláh's amanuensis, {ROB3: 205}
Ásíyih Khánum, mother of, see Bahá'u'lláh, wife of
death of,

{GPB: 188}
{ROB3: ch. 10, Appendix III}

resting-place, in 'Akká,

{ROB3: 214-15, Appendix III}
Nabí Sálih, cemetery of, {ROB3: 209}

Shoghi Effendi on,

{ROB3: 211, 214-15}
transfer of remains of Purest Branch and Navváb to Mount Carmel, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Karmil

see also Unpublished or Untranslated Works, Prayer(s)

Mírzá Muhammad-'Alí, Greater Branch, son of, Arch-Breaker of Bahá'u'lláh's Covenant,

{GPB: 246-249}
{KA: n1, n9}
{ROB1: 131-3, 136, 261, 315, 316n., 319}
{ROB2: 260 and n., 267, 273, 276, 289}
{ROB3: 90, 122}
{ROB4: 5, 59, 145, 236, 420}
{TOB: 222}
Bahá'u'lláh's statements about, {GPB: 251}
caused 'Abdu'l-Bahá to be imprisoned, {GPB: 263, 264}
false claims of, {GPB: 248, 249}
falsified Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 249}
fate of, {GPB: 319, 320}
jealousy of, {GPB: 247}
rebellion of, {GPB: 245-251}
rebellion, results of, {GPB: 252}

Shoghi Effendi, great grandson of, see Shoghi Effendi

Bahá'íyyih Khánum (Varaqiy-i-'Ulyá, the Greatest Holy Leaf, {DBNN: Bahíyyih Khánum}), daughter of,

{GPB: 347, 350}
{ROB1: 12, 14-15, 19}
{ROB3: 17, 207-8, 210, 443, 445, 448}
{ROB4: 1, 59-60, 106, 311, 337, 362, 366}
Ásíyih Khánum, mother of, see Bahá'u'lláh, wife of
her resting-place, {ROB3: 210, 214, 442, 446-7}
see also {DBNN: Dedication page}

Fúrúghíyyih Khánum, daughter of, Breaker of the Covenant,

{ROB1: 41}
{ROB1: 387 and n.}
{ROB4: 405}
Siyyid 'Ali, husband of,

{ROB4: 405}
son of Hájí Mírzá Siyyid Hasan-'Alí, uncle of The Báb, see Afnáns

Cousins of,

Havvá, {ROB1: 122, 124-5}
Maryam, see Alwáh-i-Maryam
Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vazír, see Hurúfát-i-'Állín
see also Mírzá Hasan-i-Mázindarání

Parents of,

Khadíjih Khánum, mother of
Mírzá 'Abbás-i-Núrí (Mírzá 'Abbás of Núr), Mírzá Buzurg-i-Núrí, Mírzá Buzurg-i-Vazír, Mírzá Buzurg the Vizier, father of,

{DBNN: 11, 109, 234}
{ROB1: 7, 19, 305}
{TOB: 65 n.}
Mullá Mírzá Zaynu'l-'Ábidín, brother of (uncle of Bahá'u'lláh),

{ROB3: 68, 217}
Mírzá Hasan-i-Mázindarání (Muhammad Hasan), son of,

{ROB1: 50 and n.}
{ROB3: 68, 209n., 216-17}
{ROB4: 438}

Sisters of,

{ROB1: 49-51}
Khánum Buzurg (Sháh Sultán Khánum), Breaker of the Covenant,

{ESW: 169-171}
{ROB1: 50-51}
{ROB4: 438}

Sakínih Khánum (Tallán Khánum), faithful half-sister of Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB1: 50}
Sárih Khánum, faithful sister of Bahá'u'lláh,

{GL: 109}
{ROB1: 49-50}

Uncles of,

'Aziz, {DBNN: 113}
see also Mullá Mírzá Zaynu'l-'Ábidín

Covenant-breakers,

{ROB4: 5-6, 283}
Mírzá Mahmúd, nephew of, {ROB1: 9, 10}

in Tihrán, see Tihrán
incident in Níyálá as related by, {DBNN: 299, 301, 324}
journey to Karbilá, see Karbilá
replies to divines of Manshád, {ROB3: 44-6}
simplicity of life, {ROB2: 169-70}
stories attributed to, {ROB4: 170}
visit to Fort of Shaykh Tabarsí, see Tabarsí
warns Grand Vazír, {ROB3: 36-7}
Zillu's-Sultán's letter to, see Mas'úd Mírzá

His Person,

{ROB3: 133-5}
{ROB4: 134-6}
authority of, {TOB: 48, 75, 108, 131}
being of,

inner, {TOB: 72}
outer, {TOB: 72}

confirmations of, {ROB3: 193-4, 377}
contrast between inward and outward circumstances, {ROB3: 1, 4, 13-14, 26, 248}
His

claim,

{ROB3: 239-40, 263}
proofs of, {SAQ: 36-43}

courage, {ESW: 85, 87}
detachment,

{ESW: 36, 37, 41, 44, 59}
{ROB4: 246-8, 255}

effect on people, effect of presence of,

{ROB2: 7-13, 63, 66, 153, 195, 254, 277n.}
{ROB1: 94, 101-3, 145, 198, 206-9, 220, 257-9}
{ROB3: 58, 60, 67, 69, 75, 109, 160-61, 179-82, 238, 248-9, 300, 303, 304, 402}
{SAQ: 34, 36}
admirers of, diversified, {GPB: 128-132}
British official offers Him protection, {GPB: 131}
bystanders attest to His greatness, {GPB: 135}
government officials seek Him out, {GPB: 129}
governor assures protection enroute to Constantinople, {GPB: 149, 150}
mujtahid protects Him, {GPB: 143}
overwhelms conspirators and would-be murderer, {GPB: 142}
princes of royal blood seek Him out, {GPB: 129}
religious leaders seek Him out, {GPB: 123, 128-130}
respect of officials for, {ROB3: 218-19}
reverence shown Him by officials at 'Akká, {GPB: 192}
Russian minister offers assistance, {GPB: 104, 106}
sought by Shaykh in Sulaymáníyyih to interpret dream, {GPB: 121}
Sultán 'Abdu'l-Majíd protects Him, {GPB: 132}

false prophets supplicate His forgiveness, {GPB: 131}
human aspects, {ROB3: 2-3, 56, 349-50, 402-3, 414-17}
humour, {ROB4: 243-5, 256}
innate knowledge,

{GL: 58 , 122, 131, 199}
{ROB2: 57, 346}
{ROB3: 137, 389-90}
educated by God, {TOB: 148-50}
education, {ROB1: 18-19, 20, 22, 62-3}
erudition of, {SAQ: 28-29}
learned impressed with His knowledge, {GPB: 122-124}
knowledge of, beyond human knowledge, {KA: K39, K97, K175, K176, K177}
mastery of Arabic,

{KA: 9}
{SAQ: 34}

theology, lack instruction in, {KA: K104}
'ulamá could not reply to epistle of, {SAQ: 33}
"unlettered One,"

{GL: 98, 199}
{KA: K104}
unschooled, {ESW: 11, 129}

Justice of,

{GL: 175}
example, {GPB: 133}

leadership, {GPB: 67-70, 194, 195}
life, {ROB3: 239}
love of nature, {ROB3: 414-16}
magnanimity, {ROB4: 241-8}
majesty,

{ROB1: 148, 257-9, 282}
{ROB2: 8-10}
{ROB3: 1, 4, 12, 52, 58, 111, 116, 133, 156, 248ff., 397-8}

power,

{GPB: 141}
{ROB3: 1-2, 13, 60, 134, 141, 193, 195, 333, 377-9}
{SAQ: 35}

presence with martyrs, {ROB3: 193-6}
radiance, {ROB3: 13}
resignation, {ESW: 76, 79, 85, 95}
sovereignty, {ROB3: 134, 311, 315}
vision of, {KA: 1, 2, 11, K101}
wrath, {ROB3: 235-6}

followers consumed by love for Him, {GPB: 136, 137}
love of, {ROB4: 190, 194, 211, 234, 275, 283-4}
perfection of, {SAQ: 150}
personal relics of,

{GPB: 347}
clothes of,

{ROB4: 247, 248}
slippers of, {ROB4: 248}

portrait of, {GPB: 347}
purchases property associated with Jesus Christ, {GPB: 194}
Seals of,

{ROB1: illus. 78, 25 and n.}
{ROB2: 5 and n.}
Tablets embellished with, {KA: K117, n143}

relationship to his followers, {ROB3: 201-2}
tests of being close to, {ROB2: 7}

His Cause,

advent, {KA: K82, K85, K88, K165, K177, n33, n108, n153, n158, n160, n172}
appointment of Hands of the Cause, see Hands of the Cause of God
Apostles of, see Apostle(s) of Bahá'u'lláh
belief in, {ROB4: 194}
Declaration of, see Ridván
effect on believer, {KA: K38, K55}
His laws and ordinances, commandments,

{ROB2: 354}
{ROB3: 115, 124, 139, 276-86}
call to humanity

{GL: 38, 99, 104, 115, 127, 130, 163, 168, 171, 183, 205, 213, 217, 299, 316, 319-322, 322, 332, 342, 345}
to serve Cause, {GL: 14, 37, 43, 84, 92, 137, 184, 196, 246, 281, 296, 308, 310}

command

against sedition,

{GL: 335}
{ROB2: 86-91, 188, 190}

against use of force,

{KA: n170, n173}
{ROB2: 86, 258n., 351}

to teach,

{GPB: 376, 377}
{ROB2: 91-106, 238}

demands high conduct of His followers, {GPB: 133}
orders land to be purchased in 'Ishqábád, {ROB4: 120}
violence condemned by, {GPB: 134}
see also Kitáb-i-Aqdas

His Mission,

{GL: 85, 100, 108, 115, 130, 212, 217, 228, 238, 256, 286, 299}
{PM: 25, 74, 80, 103, 107, 137, 147, 153, 181, 185, 197, 202, 208, 301, 334}
divine origin of, {GPB: 102}
made known to Him, revealed to Him by God,

{ESW: 11, 12, 22}
{GL: 90, 99, 103}
{PM: 21, 121, 306}

His Revelation, Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh ,

{ESW: 14, 26, 38, 56, 60, 83, 87, 95, 96, 103, 104, 105, 107, 111, 114, 115, 120, 126, 127, 128, 140, 141-142, 143, 147, 151, 153, 155, 156, 157, 158, 161, 171, 172, 173}
{KA: K184, Q57}
{ROB3: 104-5, 110, 147-8, 205, 219, 371, 377}
{ROB4: 6, 53, 65-6, 95, 137, 138, 167, 172, 193, 198, 209, 300, 352, 357, 358, 372, 413, 423, 438}
{TOB: 3-5, 12, 41, 53, 72, 77, 78, 85, 91, 102, 103, 107, 182, 186-7, 214, 223, 233, 239, 244-5, 251, 261, 263}
after martyrdoms in Yazd, {ROB4: 347}
all may choose to believe, {TOB: 41}
and break-up of society, {ROB2: 417-21}
and The Báb,

foretold by Báb, {GL: 10, 96, 146, 147, 294}
receives Tablet from the Báb, {KA: K175, K176, n185, n186}
relationship to the Báb, {KA: K20, K110, K175, K179, n108, n109}
"School of Transcendent Oneness",

{KA: K175, K176, K177, n185}
{ROB3: 306}

see also Báb, The

and the West, {ROB4: 232-3}
Announcement, {TOB: 36, 61, 84, 103, 115, 116, 121, 181, 246, 248, 260}
Anti-Christ of, see Bahá'u'lláh/His Sufferings
anticipated, {ESW: 42}
attacks to be refuted, {GL: 329, 330}
awakened by breezes of All-Glorious, {SAQ: 85}
Bábís who were heedless of, see Bábí(s)
Bahá'u'lláh's apologia for, {ROB2: 370}
basis of unity of mankind, {GL: 97, 215, 286, 316, 333}
benefits of, {TOB: 132}
birth of, aee Tihrán/Síyáh-Chál
breathed new life into human frame, {TOB: 84}
brings tests,

{ROB1: 129}
{ROB2: 214}

Call to humanity,

{PM: 36, 74, 97, 104, 106, 107, 188, 197, 200, 207, 268, 295, 302}
{TOB: 61, 64, 78, 105, 122, 238, 241, 250, 261, 265}

canalized through the Administrative Order, {ROB4: 233}
Centre of the Cause, see Covenant
chalice,

{TOB: 196}
of loving-kindness, {TOB: 220}

compared to an ocean, {GL: 326-327}
consequences of rejection, {ROB2: 309-11}
Dawn, {TOB: 41, 51, 75}
Day of God, see Terms in Holy Writings
His Dispensation,

{KA: 1, 7, 12, 14, K142, K148, Q8, Q42, n19, n44, n126, n129, n160, n172}
{ROB1: 216-18, 279, 309-14}
{ROB3: 147, 192, 211, 317, 373}
{ROB4: 155}
culmination of past revelations,

{ROB3: 3-4, 119}
Bahá'í Cycle,

duration of 5000 centuries (500,000 years),

{GPB: 55, 100}
{ROB4: 209, 366, 424}

Bahá'í Era,

duration of at least 10 centuries (1,000 years),

{KA: 1, 12, 14, K37, 156, n62}
{ROB1: 309-11}
{ROB3: 154, 167}

consummation of all Dispensations, {GL: 244, 340}
most perfect expression of peoples of old, {TOB: 87}

Holy Dispensation, {TOB: 125}

distinguishing features of,

{ROB4: 340, 365}
{TOB: 94}

divine origin of, {ROB3: 114, 196}
Faith of God, {GL: 136, 217, 255, 293, 312, 319, 333}
fragrance of, {TOB: 13, 14, 15}
fruits of, {ROB3: 127}
glory of, {ROB4: 320, 353}
greatness of,

{GL: 10, 13, 37, 75, 77, 95, 99, 105, 106, 163, 245, 255, 319, 320, 325, 326, 328}
{PM: 43}
{ROB1: 18, 23, 64-7, 121-2, 213, 218, 236-7, 245, 301-2, 307-8, 311-14}
{ROB2: 16, 76, 151, 416}
{ROB4: 66, 108, 125, 127-9, 133, 150, 216, 218, 313, 318, 320, 335}
{TOB: 64, 237, 258-9}

Hádí should recognize, {TOB: 43}
hid in souls of Prophets, {TOB: 103}
history of, {ROB4: 115-6}
His description of, {ROB2: 143-4, 239}
His initial experience, {ROB1: 10, 12, 20, 21}
His language, {ROB3: 109, 111, 156, 270, 275-6, 349-50}
Hour, {TOB: 11, 107, 117, 131, 237, 244}
how received, {PM: 129, 180, 200, 276}
incomparable, {TOB: 3, 28, 80}
influence of, {ROB4: 353}
instrument for education, {TOB: 87, 130}
interpretation forbidden, see Interpretation of Sacred Text
its significance, {GPB: 91-103}
joyful tidings of, {TOB: 239, 242}
light of, {TOB: 13, 236, 244}
make mention of, {TOB: 142}
mankind will gather beneath tabernacle, {TOB: 84}
metaphor of "Hidden Treasure,"

{KA: K15, n23}
{TOB: 77}

moment of, {ROB3: 160, 171}
Most Great Infallibility disclosed, see Infallibility
Most Great Revelation, {ROB4: 141}
nature of,

{ROB1: 21}
{ROB4: 129, 150, 388}

none can protest what befalls, {TOB: 212}
ocean, {TOB: 33, 196}
oneness of, {PM: 274}
power of,

{PM: 126, 144, 170, 277, 295, 296, 304, 308}
{TOB: 200}

principle of progressive revelation, {KA: K98, K183, n89, n126, n180}
proclamation of His Message,

{KA: K75, K80, K103, K118, K132, K134, K143, K163, K168, n158}
{ROB3: 30, 109, 110ff., 138, 147, 156, 163-4, 167, 168, 174, 199-200, 239, 331-2, 364}
open proclamation of, {ROB2: 30, 64, 85}

profusion and power of,

{GL: 93, 96, 136, 140, 141, 189, 190, 197, 219, 286, 292, 319, 328, 332}
{ROB2: 34, 84-5, 192-3, 251-4, 269, 274, 286, 298-300, 348n.}

Prophecies concerning, see Promised One of All Ages
promotion by force forbidden, {GL: 278, 303, 330}
proofs of,

{GL: 49, 105, 179, 220, 259}
{KA: K136, K165, K167, K183}
{ROB4: 262-3}
{TOB: 74}

purpose of, objectives of,

{ESW: 24, 33, 34, 36, 39, 40, 45, 46, 88, 161, 163, 166}
{GL: 43, 85, 95, 144, 206, 215}
{KA: K172}
{ROB2: 30, 140, 150, 192-3, 304}
{ROB3: 214}
{ROB4: 158, 196, 365, 388}
{TOB: 21, 44, 72, 92, 96, 166, 168, 174, 219, 220, 223, 260}
unstoppable, {TOB: 14, 15, 44, 115, 123, 210, 233, 243}
reminder to people, {TOB: 137}
tyranny of world doesn't hinder, {TOB: 125}

quotes from previously revealed Tablets, {ROB4: 372-4}
recognition of,

{KA: n48}
{ROB1: 56, 68, 84, 91, 95}
{ROB3: 65, 77, 88, 103, 105, 127, 130, 132, 148-9, 161, 163-4, 272, 291-2, 315, 36, 377}
{ROB4: 142, 193, 198, 206-7, 212, 216, 305}
enjoined, {KA: 15, K1, K85-K86, K134, n1, n155}

recognition of God comes only through, {ROB4: 139-40}
redefines customs and concepts of past, {KA: 1, K138, n2, n93}
refused, {GL: 11, 39, 42, 58, 72, 90, 179, 221, 246, 256, 294, 324}
relationship to Administrative Order, {ROB3: 50}
released spiritual energies, {ROB1: 4-5, 18, 23, 45}
resplendent, {TOB: 40, 74, 79, 89}
reveals hidden mysteries, {TOB: 4, 5, 47, 241}
'Revelation Writing', see Áqá Ján, Mírzá
revolutionized mankind, {GL: 136, 139, 196}
shall endure, {TOB: 232}
signs of, {TOB: 13, 58, 75, 79, 118, 214}
speaking as the Manifestation, {ROB4: 319}
speaks not of His own volition,

{ESW: 11, 12, 39, 40}
{GL: 90, 99, 103, 108, 126}

Springtime, {TOB: 86, 257}
suffices all mankind, {TOB: 142}
symbolism of letter "vav," {KA: n172}
thanks for, inadequate, {TOB: 28}
theme of, pales all others, {TOB: 62}
throne of, {TOB: 50, 52}
to priests, bishops and monks, see Clergy
transcends others, {TOB: 74-5, 248, 259}
transforming power of, {ROB3: 140}
tribulations, value of {GL: 42, 72, 270, 333}
truth in, {ROB4: 141, 152, 339}
universality of,

{GL: 92, 96, 189, 256-259, 273, 282}
{TOB: 89}

veils to recognizing, {ROB4: 138}
victory of, foreordained, {GL: 248, 272, 287, 306, 319, 332, 341}
Way, {TOB: 266}
Word,

{TOB: 11, 21, 34, 50, 89, 178, 184, 256, 258}
Most Sublime, {TOB: 264}
of God, {TOB: 73, 91, 93-4, 123, 237, 242}

world depends on, {ROB4: 319}
world immersed in ocean of, {ROB4: 70}
world-vivifying, {ROB3: 213}
zenith,

{ROB2: 1}
{ROB4: 114}

see also Rashh-i-'Amá, His effect on people, Bahá'í Faith, Bahá'u'lláh, His Tablets and Writings, Dispensation, Kitáb-i-Aqdas

infallibility of, see Infallibility
institutions ordained by, {ROB3: 214-15}
ministry,

{ROB3: 10, 14, 80, 84, 110, 137, 143, 234, 241, 273, 400}
inauguration of, {GPB: 106-108}
first phase, {GPB: 109, 111}
forty-year ministry, {GPB: 183}
last phase of, {GPB: 183-185}

sends travel teachers, {ROB4: 275-6}
teachings and principles,

{ROB3: 78, 124-5, 126, 130, 131, 139, 158, 230-31, 298-9, 322, 339; also 153}
presentation of His teachings, {ROB4: 374-7}
see also Bahá'í Faith

His Station,

{ESW: 2, 41, 43, 47, 48, 155}
{GL: 33, 36, 99, 101, 102, 228, 244}
{GPB: 93-100}
{KA: K47, K142, K143, 162, n160}
{PM: 20, 46, 121, 128, 131, 139, 231, 233, 238, 275, 286, 294, 297, 306}
{ROB1: 10, 66-7, 295, 304-9, 313}
{ROB2: 77-86, 183-4, 185, 213, 301, 302-3 (revealing of), 346-9}
{ROB3: 132-4, 144-5, 231, 241, 264, 276, 336, 378, 397}
{ROB4: 66, 94, 108, 125-39, 141, 223, 320}
advent of,

{TOB: 4, 13, 15, 89, 101-4, 115-16, 182, 215, 231, 244-5, 247-8, 258-60}
came from heaven of eternity, {TOB: 9}
unconcealed (unveiled), {TOB: 40, 96, 123}

alludes to His own station,

{ROB1: 119, 142, 194-6, 210, 213, 218, 245, 273, 307-8}
{ROB3: 305}

authority of,

{GL: 55-56, 171, 176, 202}
{PM: 286}

bears trust of God, {TOB: 12}
Books of God mention, {TOB: 47, 50, 107, 231, 248}
conceals His station for ten years, {GPB: 103}
dependent only upon God, {GL: 37, 38}
disciples perceive His station, {GPB: 103}
discloses His station to Mírzá Áqá Ján, {GPB: 115}
ever-present, {GL: 137, 139, 316}
grateful for Station as Revelator, {PM: 20, 46, 238}
Kingdom of God embodied in, {TOB: 12}
man's relationship to, {ROB1: 73-4, 79-80}
never hidden, {GL: 286, 344}
new attire of Best Beloved, {TOB: 87}
one of claims to greatness, {GPB: 138}
other Announcements bow to, {TOB: 248}
power of,

{GL: 40, 72, 93, 137, 214, 219, 322}
{TOB: 107}

pre-eminent, {TOB: 259}
Prophethood, proof of,

{GL: 11, 49, 105, 179, 220, 259, 302}
{TOB: 74, 75, 117, 181, 245}
miracle(s) of,

are not decisive proofs, {SAQ: 37}
attributed to, {SAQ: 34, 37}
offers to perform, {SAQ: 29-30, 35}

relationship to God,

accused of identifying Himself with God, {ROB4: 125-6, 406-7}
Bahá'u'lláh identifies with God, {KA: K39, K86, K88, K132, K134, K143, K163, K168, n160}
'HE is I', {TOB: 258}
His will is God's will, {PM: 108, 182, 193}
represents Godhead, {KA: K1, K86, K132, K143, K172}

relationship to other Manifestations,

{ROB1: 64-6, 308-9}
Báb's laws may be changed by, {TOB: 132}
Bahá'u'lláh is Supreme Manifestation of God, see His Titles and Names
difference between, and other Manifestations, {SAQ: 150}
identity with Báb, see The Báb
oneness with all Prophets, {GL: 88-89, 101-102}
supreme Manifestation for Adamic cycle,

{SAQ: 161}
see also Supreme

Universal Manifestation,

{ROB4: 135}
{SAQ: 58}

reveals God's glory, {TOB: 197}
source of grace and gifts, {TOB: 245}
sovereignty,

{KA: K69, K82, K134, K167, n181}
over hearts of men, {KA: 13, K83}

transcends past and future, {TOB: 74-5}
see also Bahá'u'lláh, His Titles and Names

His Sufferings,

{ESW: 17, 20, 23, 34, 35, 37, 52, 53, 63, 72, 78, 85, 94-95, 122, 125, 157}
{GL: 37, 42, 58, 85, 88-89, 90, 98-100, 115, 116, 119, 120, 124, 129, 130, 148, 203, 219, 224-226, 229, 238, 239, 240, 242, 244, 247, 270, 274, 286, 296, 298, 307, 313, 342, 344}
{KA: 8, 12, 15, K86, K141, K158, K184, n1, n190, n192}
{ROB1: 10, 12-13, 51-2, 57, 61, 63, 148-9, 195-6, 249}
{ROB2: 209-10, 239-40, 244, 284, 355-7}
{ROB3: 141, 226-34, 420-21}
{ROB4: 6, 38, 148, 171, 388-90, 391-2, 402-5}
{TOB: 11, 15, 44, 75, 104, 122-3, 151}
are for sake of world,

{TOB: 10, 12}
sacrifice of, for mankind, {GL: 88, 99, 101, 307, 315}

as Joseph,

{KI: 212, 254}
{ROB2: 179, 269}
{ROB4: 81}
true Joseph,

{GPB: 23}
{KA: n1}

attempt on His life,

{KA: n190}
{ROB2: 107, 153-4}
{ROB3: 66-7}

banishment from Persia,

{KA: n33}
{ROB1: 11, 13, 16-17, 51-2, 224}
{SAQ: 30-32}
assisted Cause, {SAQ: 31, 36}
effects of, {SAQ: 13}
exile fulfilled prophecies, {GPB: 107}
famine in Persia, {ROB4: 299}
method of travel, {ROB2: 6}
refuses foreign protection, {ROB2: 406}
testimonies of His innocence of attack on Sháh, {GPB: 105, 106}
to,

Adrianople, see Adrianople
'Akká, see 'Akká
Alexandria, see Alexandria
Baghdád, see Baghdád
Constantinople (Istanbul), see Constantinople
Haifa, see Haifa
Kurdistán, see Kurdistán

bastinadoed, {GPB: 68}
battered by stones of idle fancy, {TOB: 139}
captivity, {KA: n192}
conspiracies against Him, {GPB: 142, 143, 146, 150, 159, 160}
cursing of, {ROB4: 92-3, 175}
faces mob of five hundred, {GPB: 68}
flight parallels others in religious history, {GPB: 107}
foretells His trials, {GPB: 147}
His submission to suffering, {ROB3: 1-2, 4, 52-3, 232-4, 243}
imprisonment,

{ESW: 20-22, 52, 56, 57, 63, 77}
{ROB4: 241-2}
{TOB: 10, 41, 49, 104, 151, 259, 260}
condemned to life imprisonment, {ROB3: 4, 18-19}
see also 'Akká, Tihrán

marks of sword on Tree, {TOB: 209}
martyrdom sought, {TOB: 14, 15}
Persecution, of Cause of God,

{ROB3: 14, 27, 56-7, 166, 224-5, 234-7, 243, 251}
{ROB4: 335}
{TOB: 15, 33}
adversaries, enemies,

{GPB: 142, 143, 146, 150, 159, 160, 224-233}
Bahá'u'lláh's statements about, {GPB: 224}
calls for wrath of God upon enemies, {PM: 121, 141, 301, 305}
confounded by His love, {GPB: 135-136}
enemies powerless, {PM: 74, 105}
of the Faith, two most powerful, {GPB: 17}
opposed by mother of the Sháh, {GPB: 70}
Mír Muhammad-Husayn (Imám-Jum'ih of Isfahán, 'Raqshá'- She-Serpent),

{DBNN: 201, 202}
{ROB4: 75-6, 79-80, 91, 96-7, 100, 297}
{TOB: 203, 214-16}
fate of, {GPB: 232}
see also Muhammad, Mír Siyyid

Shaykh Muhammad-Báqir, of Isfahán ("Dhi'b" - Wolf),

see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Burhán
see also Epistle to the Son of the Wolf

Siyyid Muhammad-i-Isfahání, Anti-Christ of Bahá'u'lláh's Revelation,

{GPB: 112, 164, 189}
{KA: K184, 164, n190, n192}
{ROB1: 27 and n., 54-5, 68, 107, 220, 223 and n., 224, 246-9, 254-5, 291}
{ROB2: 61, 66-75 passim, 118, 152-5, 165, 170, 242n., 291, 293, 325-8, 371, 375, 397, 402}
{ROB3: 24, 56, 178, 224-5, 234-7, 374}
{ROB4: 226, 412, 434, 435}
murder of, {KA: n192}
see also Yahyá, Mírzá

Attacks on Cause to be refuted, {GL: 329, 330}
fate of His opposers, {GPB: 231-233}
warning to opposers, {GPB: 251}

possessions plundered in Mázindarán, {DBNN: 637}
refuge, sole, {GL: 203}
rejection of, opposition to,

{GL: 58, 246, 256, 273}
{KA: K35, K41, K85, K139, K140, K141, K166}
{PM: 107, 152, 204}
{ROB2: 137, 413-14}
{TOB: 33, 61, 96, 107, 120, 131, 188, 207, 232, 235, 240-2, 248, 250-1, 261}
Bábís, {TOB: 79, 185, 190}
because of fear, {TOB: 61}
clergy, {TOB: 10, 110, 254, 259}
denies former Manifestations, {TOB: 248, 249}
kings and queens, {TOB: 252}
learned, {TOB: 256}
Muhammadans (people of Qur'án), {TOB: 15, 103-4}
people of tyranny, {TOB: 49, 54, 107, 255}
Persians, {TOB: 62, 84}
Shí'ih divines, {TOB: 79}
see also Non-believers

restrictions relaxed on, {GPB: 195}
source of His sorrow,

{ESW: 22, 33}
{GL: 100, 117, 153, 244, 308-310}
because of Covenant-breakers, {TOB: 58-60, 70, 121}
misdeeds of Bahá'ís, see Bahá'í(s)
sorrowed by grievances, {TOB: 139}
weeps, {TOB: 189}

Tribulations,

{ESW: 17, 29, 35, 53, 75, 85, 95, 123, 147}
{PM: 8, 17, 21, 25, 39, 40, 101, 139, 151, 181, 197, 204, 242, 285}
powerless, {PM: 36, 74, 104, 151, 153, 170, 187, 200, 208, 214, 219}
purpose of, {PM: 44, 71, 147, 162, 198, 230}
thanksgiving for, {PM: 146, 154, 230, 309}
welcomed, {PM: 18, 104, 108, 111, 140, 187, 192, 205, 213}

urges followers not to grieve for His sufferings, {ROB3: 26, 32}
victory assured,

{ESW: 21}
protected, {TOB: 102}

His Tablets and Writings, Sacred Text, Words of Bahá'u'lláh,

{ESW: 11, 13, 17, 22, 26, 27, 29, 30, 39, 45-56, 56-59, 59-64, 78, 79, 97, 124, 127, 136, 166}
{KA: 8-9, n189, n193, n194}
{ROB1: xv, 22}
{ROB2: 218}
{ROB3: 139-40, 263, 299, 323-6, 429 n.}
{ROB4: 125, 168, 396, 423}
{TOB: 120, 143, 210, 216, 245, 261}
quotations from,

{GPB: xii, x, xi, 3, 7, 22, 23, 28, 49, 57, 71, 72, 79, 80, 82, 92, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 112, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122, 124, 125, 126, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 140, 141, 143, 144, 145, 147, 149, 150, 153, 154, 155, 157, 160, 161, 163, 166, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 177, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 224, 225, 226, 227, 230, 231, 232, 233, 239, 240, 242, 243, 250, 251, 253, 254, 277, 278, 325, 331, 347, 348, 357, 360, 376, 377, 390, 395, 396}

Arabic, use of, {KA: 9-10}
authority and integrity, {KA: K53, K117, 160, n143}
cause souls to soar, {TOB: 119}
cheer eyes, {TOB: 9}
collected by non-believers, {TOB: 131}
composition of, {ROB4: 23n.}
counsels of, {TOB: 70, 86}
copious writings in two years, {GPB: 137, 138}
deviation from, {KA: K117, 160}
disparities between Tablets, {KA: Q57}
ended but theme unexhausted, {TOB: 119}
first fruits of His Divine Pen, {GPB: 121}
fragrance of, {TOB: 15, 220, 261}
gives knowledge of God, {TOB: 39, 50, 156, 195-6}
in which locations and cities are addressed, {ROB4: 352}
melodies of, would create havoc, {TOB: 106-7}
memorization of, {TOB: 200}
misrepresented, {ROB4: 150}
Odes and Tablets, {GPB: 120}
reading from pulpits prohibited,

{KA: n168}
see also Recitation of sacred Writings and Verses

reference to, in resolving differences, {KA: K53, 160}
repeats subjects in, {ROB4: