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.The actual Writings which are currently included in this library are linked by their names. Click here to switch to the flat version of this page.
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 Alwáh-i-Maryam,'Nine Categories' {ROB1: 13}Asl-i-Kullu'l-Khayr (Words of Wisdom), see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Maryam (cousin of Bahá'u'lláh), recipient of, {ROB1: 12-13, 61, 122, 124}
Az-Bágh-i-Iláhí (ode), {ROB1: 211, 218-20}
Bahá'í Prayers,index of prayers revealed by Bahá'u'lláh, {BP: Author Index}Bishárát, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
see also Prayer(s)
Epistle to the Son of the Wolf,
Fire Tablet, see Lawh-i-QadIhtaraqa'l-Mukhlisún{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,onDivine Assurance, {ESW: 9, 18, 21, 36, 39, 53, 76, 85}calumnies of Azalís, {ROB4: 405}re-revelation of Tablets,
Presence of God, {ROB4: 408}
suffering, {ROB4: 402}
use of force, {ROB4: 377-8}
worthlessness of world, {ROB4: 249}
{ROB4: 372-4}Teachings, exposition of, {ROB4: 371-2}
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}to Queen Victoria,
see also To The Kings and Rulers
{ROB4: 434}
see also To The Kings and Rulers
Doubters, {ESW: 131-134, 135}
Exhortations of, {ESW: 22, 23, 24, 29, 38, 75, 93}
Hádíy-i-Dawlat-Ábádí, addressed in,{ROB4: 47}Shaykh Muhammad-Taqí ('The Son of the Wolf', Aqa Najafi), addressed to,
Hájí Mírzá Hádíy-i-Dawlat Ábádí,{ROB1: 251}
{ROB4: 174-6, 412, 435, 438}
{TOB: 42 and n., 43-4, 79}
see also Tarázát{GPB: 201}Writings of The Báb quoted, {ROB4: 47-8}
{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)
Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh,Kitáb-i-Aqdas, see Kitáb-i-AqdasHalih-Halih-Yá-Bishárat (ode), {ROB1: 211, 219}
Kitáb-i-Íqán, see Kitáb-i-Íqán
Lawh-i-'Abdu'l-Vahháb,{ROB2: 286}Lawh-i-Ahmad (Persian), see Lawh-i-Ahmad
{ROB4: 41}
Lawh-i-Ashraf,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}Lawh-i-Laylatu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Holy Night), {ROB2: 164, 188-90; quoted 188-9}
Hájí Muhammad-Ibráhím-i-Qazvíní (Khalíl), recipient of {ROB2: 259}
Lawh-i-Mánikchí Sáhib,{ROB3: 270-71; quoted, 271}Lawh-i-Maqsúd, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Mánikchí Sáhib, recipient of {ROB3: 269-70}
Lawh-i-Nasír (Tablet to Nasír) {GL: LIII, LXXV},{ROB2: 39, 245, 247-55; quoted, 248-9}Lawh-i-Ra'ís (Persian, Tablet to Ra'ís),
{ROB4: 383}
Hájí Muhammad-Nasír of Qazvín, recipient of,{ROB2: 245-7}
{ROB4: 383, 434}
Lawh-i-Salmán (Tablet to Salmán, Tablet to Shaykh), {GL: XXI, CXLVIII, CLIV, CLX}{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}Barracks of 'Akká, referred to, {ROB3: 36}
{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}
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-Siráj (Tablet of Siráj), {GL: L, XCVII}I,{ROB2: ch. 13, 291}II,
{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}
{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
{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}Tablet of Visitation to Baghdád House (Tablet to Muhammad),
Bahá'u'lláh describes God, {ROB1: 114-16}
Shaykh Salmán of Hindíyán, recipient of, see Lawh-i-Salmán
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'ísTablet 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 LivingTablet to Minister of Sháh, see Súriy-i-Mulúk
Tablet to Mírzá Hádí-i-Qazvíní, {GL: LXXIII, LXXXIII, CXXIV}{ROB2: 144}Tablet to Muhammad, see Gleanings/Tablet of Visitation to Baghdád House
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-'Alí,
Tablet to Mustafá,
Tablet to Nabíl-i-A'zam,Tablet to Napoleon III (Second), see Tablet to Napoleon III{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}poetry about Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB4: 107-8}
{ROB3: 240, 254-5, 419}
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 Shaykh Mahmúd,{ROB1: 33}Tablet to Sultán 'Abdu'l-'Azíz, see Súriy-i-Mulúk
Shaykh Mahmúd-i-'Arrábí, recipient,{ROB1: 32 and n., 33}
{ROB3: 65-8, 70, 109, 216}
Tablet to Tihrán, {GL: LV, LXIII, LXIV }
Tablet regarding visit to, {GL: LXIII}Tablet to Turkish Ministers, see Súriy-i-Mulúk
see also Kitáb-i-Aqdas
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}Soliciting, how regarded, {GL: 202}
of Husayn, {GL: 76}
"The Kingdom is God's", {GL: 11, 31, 33, 35, 42, 44, 199, 210, 260, 343}
Writing to defend Cause, {GL: 330}
Hidden Words, The,Húr-i-'Ujáb (The Wondrous Maiden), {ROB1: 211, 218}{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}'Hidden Book' of Fátimih,
excerpts from, {ESW: 15, 16}
{ESW: 15, 81, 99, 100}major themes of, {ROB1: 72, 75, 77, 78-80}
{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.}
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}interpretations of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, {ROB1: 80-3}
{ROB4: 68}
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}
Hurúfát-i-'Állín (The Exalted Letters), also titled Musíbát-i-Hurúfát-i-'Álíyát{ROB1: 122-5}Ishráqát, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vazír (cousin of Bahá'u'lláh), to memory of {ROB1: 122-3}
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),
Kitáb-i-Badí',{ESW: 128, 148}Law(s) of, Ordinances, Precepts,
{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}Relationship to past Dispensations,
original Arabic text, {KA: 9}
translation of,{ROB3: 276n., 283-4}withholding Kitáb-i-Aqdas, {ROB4: 249}
English translation, {KA: vii-viii, 9-11}
anticipated by Prophet Isaiah, see Bahá'u'lláhRelation to World Order, see New World Order of 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
Revealed in 'Akká (1873),{GPB: 213-216}Significance,
{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
{KA: viii, 1, 12-16, K186}Synopsis and Codification of,
brightest emanation of Author's mind, {KA: 12}
Charter of future world civilization,{KA: 1-2, 12-14, n189}Most Holy Book, {KA: 1, 162}
see also New World Order of Bahá'u'lláh
Mother Book of Bahá'í Dispensation,{GL: 34, 99, 199}"Unerring Balance" established amongst men,
{KA: 1, 11, 12, K103, n129}
{ROB3: 147, 164, 275}
{TOB: 21, 48, 51, 52, 74, 75, 104, 244, 247}
{KA: 13, 15}
Balance, Book of God as, {KA: 15, K99, K148, K183}
{GPB: 411}
{KA: vii-viii, 141-164}
{ROB3: 284}
Statements by Bahá'u'lláh,{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}antecedents, {KA: n16, n20, n93, n168}
supersede former laws and customs,{KA: 1-2, K138, n93}see also Relationship to past Dispensations
relation to laws of the Báb,{KA: 7-8, K65, K129, K139-K142, K179, n108-n109, n163, n168}
see also Bayán
application, Implementation of laws,
mutatis mutandis, to men and women equally, {KA: 7, n38, n133}binding on every Bahá'í and Bahá'í institution, {KA: 6-7}
progressive, {KA: 5-7, n89, n126}
in relation to Civil Law, {KA: 6}
brevity, {KA: 4-7}
Burial, Funeral, Graves,{KA: 157}central themes, {KA: 4, 13-15}
burial rings, {KA: K128-K129, Q70, n149}
coffin,{KA: K128, n149}cremation prohibited, {KA: n149}
of Concrete, {KA: n149}
Wood for, {KA: K128, 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
characterized by Bahá'u'lláh,{KA: 15-16}Commandments of God, {KA: n188}
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}
designed for future state of society, {KA: 5-6, n78, n86}
elaboration,
by Bahá'u'lláh, {KA: 8-9, 91-92}embedded in spiritual commentary, {KA: 2}
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}Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
{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.}
enjoins, prescribes,amity with followers of all religions,Exemptions from,{KA: 14, K144}Monogamy, see Marriage
{ROB3: 369}
not viewed as prohibitions, {KA: n20, n55}Fasting,
see Fasting, Huqúq'u'lláh, Prayer(s), Pilgrimage
{GPB: 214}forbids,
{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}duration, {KA: K16-K17, 148, n26-n27}
abstinence from food and drink,{KA: K17, n25, n32}
includes smoking, {KA: n32}
during days other than prescribed, {KA: Q71, 149}
exemptions from, due to
age, {KA: K10, 149, n14, n25, n31}nearness to God, through, {KA: n25}
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}
prayer for, see Prayer(s)
significance, {KA: K17, Q76, Q93, 148, n25}
time for, definition,hours, {KA: K17, n17, n25}see also Naw-Rúz, Twin Holy Birthdays, Declaration of The Báb, Prayer(s)
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'AbuseHuqúq'u'lláh, see Bahá'í Faithphysical, {KA: K56, K148, n81}Confession of Sins, Faults,
verbal, {KA: K19, 91, n37}
{KA: 2, K34, 158, n58}Contention and Violence,
{ROB3: 353}
{TOB: 24-5}
Absolution of sins, {KA: K34, n58}
see also Bishárát
{ROB3: 369}Drinking, Liquors, Alcohol,
Contention, {GL: 9, 277, 279, 296, 304}
Violence, {GL: 277, 303 }
{GPB: 214}Gambling, Games of chance, Raffles,
{KA: 14, K119, n2, n144, n170}
see also Intoxicants, Wine
{GPB: 214}Interpretation by followers, {ROB3: 374}
{KA: 14, K155, 158, n169}
Lotteries, {KA: n169}
Monasticism, see Clergy
Opium, Habit-forming Drugs,{GPB: 214}Penance, {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}
Slave Trading, see Slavery
Inheritance, Estate, Heirs,{GPB: 214}institutions ordained by,
{KA: 4, 14, K20, Q5, 153-56, n38}
{ROB3: 281, 330}
absence of heirs, missing heirs, Intestacy,
{KA: n38, n136}allocation of shares and property,
children,female, {KA: Q37, Q54, n42}inheritance law applies only in case of, {KA: n38}
male, {KA: K26, Q41, Q72, n42, n45}
other categories, {KA: K22-K24}
reversion to House of Justice,{KA: K24, Q100, n42}teachers, {KA: Q28, Q33}
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}
{KA: K20, Q5, n38}Bayán, laws of, confirmed, amplified or modified by Bahá'u'lláh, {KA: K20, Q100, 153, n38, n41}
brothers,{KA: K20, Q5, Q6, Q53, n38, n39}children,
half-brothers, {KA: Q6, Q53, n39}
{KA: K20, K22, K29, Q5, Q28, Q33, n38, n41}cousins, {KA: K23, n38}
female, daughter(s), {KA: K23, Q37, Q41, Q54, Q72, n38, n44-n45}
male, son(s),{KA: K25, n44}under age, {KA: K27, n46}
eldest, {KA: n38, n44, n66}
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}spouse, {KA: K20, Q5, Q55, n38}
half-sisters, {KA: Q6, Q53, n39}
teachers,{KA: K20, Q5, n38, n40}uncles and aunts, {KA: K23, n38}
{ROB3: 330}
non-Bahá'í, do not inherit, {KA: Q33}
clothing, distribution of,{KA: K25, n44}debts, payment of, {KA: K28, Q9, Q69, Q80, n47}
used, of deceased woman, {KA: Q37, Q78, n44}
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}
{KA: 3-7, 13-14}integrity, seals affixed, {KA: K117, n143}
Guardianship, see Shoghi Effendi
House of Justice, see House(s) of Justice
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}particular to men see Men
all are charged with, {KA: Q10}
benefits, {KA: K7, K67, K97, K148}
brings True Liberty,{GL: 92, 96, 99, 216, 260, 335, 336}enjoined, {KA: K17, K29, K62, K67, K71, K147, K148, Q10}
{GPB: 215}
{KA: 15, K122-K125, 163}
{ROB3: 298-300}
{TOB: 84, 89, 162}
moderation, {TOB: 169}
linked with recognition of manifestation of God, {KA: K1}
love of God as motive for, {KA: K4, 163}
negligence,{KA: K40, K134, K171}wisdom enjoined, {KA: 6}
warned against, {KA: K17, K30, K45, K106, K134, K138, K171, Q105, 160}
particular to women see Women
Prohibitions, {KA: 4, 14, 16, 157-158}
purpose(s),{KA: 2-3}Statutes of, {KA: 15-16}
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}
summarized, {GPB: 214}
their implementation, {ROB3: 282, 286}
transgression forbidden, {KA: K2, K29, K30, K107}
Misc. Topics,Abasement, {KA: K138, K158, n57, n58, n171}
Addresses, Summons of Bahá'u'lláh to,Human race, {KA: K59}Admonitions, {KA: 162}
Kings and rulers:{GL: CV}Mírzá Yahyá, see Yahyá, Mírzá
{KA: K82}
{ROB3: 147-8, 156}
Francis Joseph (Franz Josef), Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary,{GPB: 208}Kaiser William I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig), Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia,
{KA: 15, K85, 162, n116}
{ROB3: 150}
fate of, {GPB: 226}
reproved by Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 208}
{GPB: 208, 218, 226}Presidents of American Republics,
{KA: 15, K86, 162, n117-n118}
{ROB3: 113, 148-9}
{GPB: 207}see also To The Kings and Rulers
{KA: 15, K88}
{ROB3: 155-6}
People of Bahá, {KA: K84}
Religious leaders, divines,{GPB: 209}Summons to specific individuals and peoples, {KA: 15, 162-164}
{KA: K104}
{ROB3: 163-5, 240}
see also To The Kings and Rulers, Clergy
Allegory, {KA: n2, n121, n127, n130}
Allusion(s), {KA: 164}
Anger,{KA: K153, 161}Antiques, {KA: n166}
not to lose Temper, {KA: K153, 91-92, 161}
Body
care of, {KA: K155, n104, n144, n170}Business,
desires of the flesh, {KA: K2, K58, K64, n25}
respect for,{KA: n149}Feet, Foot,
see also Burial
travel on, {KA: Q75, n153}Head, Hair,
washing of, see Cleanliness
Beard(s),Hand(s),{KA: K159, 159, n175}Face see Ablutions, Qiblih
{TOB: 23}
Hair does not invalidate prayer, {KA: K9, 148, n12}
Hair length, {KA: K44, n69}
shaving the head, {KA: K44, Q10, 158, n68, n69}
kissing,Nails, paring, {KA: K106, 162}{KA: 14, K34, 157, n57}plunging into food, {KA: K46, 158, n73}
{ROB2: 266n}
washing of see Ablutions
Semen, {KA: K74, 159, n103}
see also Cleanliness, Illness, Physicians
investment in, financial, {KA: K27}Claim to Revelation,
place of, exempt from Huqúq, {KA: Q95}
{KA: K37, n62}Concepts, human, {KA: n93, n181}
by Mírzá Yahyá, see Yahyá, Mírzá
Crystal, {KA: K50, K128, n15, n149}
Customs,redefined and take on new meaning, {KA: n93}Debasement, {KA: K123}
see also Hadíth, Religion(s), Religious traditions
Deceit, {KA: K165}
Denounces,hypocrisy in religion, {ROB3: 355}Desire,
Turkish regime, {ROB3: 123, 151-2}
corrupt, selfish, see SelfDevelopment, social and economic, {KA: K160, n53}
earthly, {KA: K89}
Passion(s), {KA: K2, K41, K64, K89, K184, 161}
wilderness of, {KA: K107}
Differences,between marriage partners, {KA: K69-K70, Q19, n100}Disbelief,
between people, {KA: K35}
between revealed verses, {KA: Q57, Q63, n109}
Disagreement, {KA: Q19, Q99}
resolution by reference to Sacred Text, {KA: K53}
{KA: K141}Discord, {KA: 92}
see also Recognition, Rejection
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}Expenses, {KA: K28, K69, Q47, Q69, n47, n125}
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}
Family,{KA: n76, n91, n133}Foolishness, {KA: K51, K89, K178}
bedrock of society, {KA: n134}
Descendants,{KA: Q6, n38}Father,
Birthright of eldest son, {KA: K25, n44}
of Bahá'u'lláh,{KA: n66}of Muhammad, {KA: n85}
see also Aghsán
{KA: K45, K107, n133}Forefathers, {KA: K10, K180}
instruction of son and daughter enjoined on, {KA: K48, Q105, n76}
son should serve, {KA: Q104}
Mother, first educator, {KA: n76}
see also Inheritance, Marriage
Forbearance, {KA: 14, K153}
Godliness, {KA: K108, Q106}
healing and medicine, see Lawh-i-Tibb
Harm,{KA: K123, K155, Q94, n170}Head of the Faith,
see also Bahá'í Faith/opposition to, Bahá'u'lláh/His sufferings
{KA: n66, n125}Heroes, {KA: K94}
see also 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Universal House of Justice, Shoghi Effendi
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}Imposter, {KA: K37}
furnishings, renewal, {KA: K151, Q8, Q42, Q95, 162, n166}
Sacred, Twin, see Holy Places and Historical Sites
Indulgence,in carrying out laws, {KA: K45, 160}Invitations, {KA: K156, 161}
of passions, {KA: K2, K64, 161}
see also Negligence
Jewellery,{KA: Q37, Q78, n44, n166}Journey,
see also Inheritance
Night, of Muhammad, {KA: n128}Judicial officer, religious, {KA: Q98}
of soul towards God, {KA: n92, n128, n149}
see also Travel
Káf (the letter),{KA: n188}lamentation,
see also Land of Káf and Rá
{KA: K43, 161}Lost property, {KA: Q17, 157}
of Berlin see Berlin
Lust, {KA: K64}
Marketplace,{KA: K108, n135}Material means, to make use of, {KA: K66, K113, 163}
see also Public places
Maturity, age of, Adult, Coming of age,for Bahá'í administrative purposes, {KA: n49}Medicine,
for betrothal and marriage, {KA: Q43, Q92, 150}
for performance of religious duties,{KA: Q20, Q92, 146, n13, n25}under-age inheritors, {KA: K27, n46}
Prayer for the Dead and burial rings, see Prayer(s)
see also Human race, coming of age
{KA: n144, n170}Middle Way, {KA: K43}
see also Physicians
Neighbor,behaviour towards, {KA: 2, 159, 161, n163}Oppression,
treat neighbour as self, {TOB: 64}
{KA: K73, K88, K148, n170}Philanthropy,
see also Bahá'u'lláh/His sufferings, Tyranny
{KA: n125}Power,
see also Huqúq'u'lláh, Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Zakát
of God see GodPretender, {KA: K37, K117, K184, n190}
of kings, {KA: K86, K93, n118}
rational, {KA: n130}
of the tongue, {KA: K160}
Problems,personal, {KA: n52}Promise(s),
solution of, {KA: 91}
of Divine assistance, {KA: K38, K53, K74, 164}Reciting verses of God,
fulfillment of promise, {KA: K35, K80, K156, n160}
obligation to fulfill, {KA: K67, K156}
see also Promised One, Progressive Revelation
{ROB3: 323-4}Relief of poor or suffering, {KA: n53, n161}
in Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, {ROB3: 343-4}
Radiance, attitude enjoined when reading Writings, {KA: K149, Q68, n165}
Remembrance of God, {KA: K40, K43}
Reproofs, {KA: 162}
Respect for people of learning and accomplishment, {KA: n110}
Reversal, Great,{DBNN: 202}Sea of Purification, {KA: K75, n106}
{KA: K157, n171, n172}
Silver,utensils, {KA: K46, 159, n72}Six Year Plan, {KA: vii}
see also Dowry
Sovereign, Sign of the, {KA: K157, n171}
Spot, in reference to,'Akká, {KA: K37, K81, K100, n63, n127}Standing,
Baghdád, {KA: K133, Q32, n154}
Constantinople, {KA: K89, n120}
Garden of Ridván, {KA: n107}
Qiblih, {KA: K6, n7, n8}
Shíráz, {KA: K133, Q32, n154}
to deliver talks, {KA: n168}State, matters of,
movements of Obligatory Prayer, see Prayer(s)
for recitation of Prayer for the Dead, see Prayer(s)
{KA: 91}Stewards, Chief,
see also House(s) of Justice
{KA: n183}Study of
see also Hands of the Cause
arts and sciences, {KA: K77, 160, n110}teaching His Faith, {ROB3: 331, 383}
Kitáb-i-Aqdas, {KA: viii, 7}
languages, {KA: K118, 161}
teachings, {KA: K149, K182}
see also Language(s), Interpretation of Sacred Text
tribute to the 'learned', {ROB4: 38}
Trustees
of the House of Justice see House(s) of JusticeUnanimity in decision-making, {KA: Q99, n52}
in inheritance law, see Inheritance
Trusted ones of the Merciful, {KA: 13, K30, 91, n51}
'We are with You at all times', {ROB3: 383}
Writings of The Báb quoted,{ROB3: 305-7}Writings of Shaykh Muhammad-Hasan, {KA: n178}
Relationship to Bayán, see Bayán
Next Manifestation of God, see Manifestation(s) of God
pride, {ROB3: 369-70}
prophecies,{ROB3: 398}saintly life and character, {ROB3: 356-7}
future Bahá'í sovereigns, {ROB3: 159}
standards set for Bahá'ís in Kitáb-i-Aqdas, {GPB: 214-215}
Statements by Shoghi Effendi,{ROB3: 274, 281-2, 286, 294, 400, 420}Tihrán, {GL: LVI}
summary of contents, significance of, {GPB: 213-216}
virtues, {ROB3: 356-7}
{ROB1: 102, 250, 279}Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude),
{ROB2: ch. 17, 373-82}
Mírzá Mihdíy-i-Gílání, addressed to {ROB2: 370, 381}
Lawh-i-Ahbáb (Tablet of the Friends),{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}Hájí Mírzá Siyyid Muhammad (uncle of The Báb), recipient of,
{KI: 184, 190}
{ROB1: 186n., Appendix IV}
{ROB2: 390, 438}
{ROB3: 255}
{ROB2: 69, 71}importance of, {ROB1: 153, 197}
Bahá'u'lláh addresses,{ROB1: 186-9; also 180, 189, 198n.}
{ROB4: 329}
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}written for a Muslim, {ROB1: 162}
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}
See also Certitude, Detachment, Spirit, Holy, Manifestations of God, Báb, The/Qá'im, True SeekerTablet of Ahmad (Tablet of Ahmad),{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}on human character, {ROB3: 259}
{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 His sufferings, {ROB3: 259}
on teaching, {ROB3: 259}
Lawh-i-Aqdas, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláhArabic,{GPB: 172}Persian, {GL: CLII, CLIII}
{ROB1: 66, 294}
{ROB2: ch. 5, 116, 119-20; quoted, 123, 126}
{ROB3: 257}
{ROB4: 141}
Ahmad-i-Yazdí, recipient of,{ROB2: 107-16}on steadfastness, {ROB4: 141}
{ROB3: 257}
{ROB2: ch. 6; quoted, 139, 143-4, 147-8, 150}
Hájí Mírzá Ahmad, recipient of, {ROB2: 137}
Lawh-i-Ard-i-Bá, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Lawh-i-Áyiy-i-Núr (Tablet of The Verse of Light),Lawh-i-Ayyúb, see Súriy-i-Sabralso 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-Bahá,{ROB2: 171, 179-80}Lawh-i-Bulbulu'l-Firáq (Tablet of the Nightingale of Bereavement), {ROB1: 244-5}
Khátún Ján, revealed in honour of,{ROB2: 171-80}
Hájí Asadu'lláh, father of, {DBNN: 281}
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}Lawh-i-Fu'ád,
Princess Shams-i-Jihán (entitled Fitnih), recipient of {ROB1: 128-9}
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}Lawh-i-Hikmat, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
{ROB2: 6-7, 16}
Lawh-i-Hirtík (Tablet of Hirtík), {ROB3: 29-30}
Lawh-i-Húríyyih (Tablet of the Maiden),{ROB1: 125}Lawh-i-Ittihád (Tablet of Unity),
{ROB3: 223}
{ROB4: 191-6}Lawh-i-Karmil, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
on power of unity, {ROB4: 194-5}
Muvását (Equality) is noblest quality of man, {ROB4: 195}
Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'ám (Tablet of All Food),{ROB1: 55-60 passim}Lawh-i-Malláhu'l-Quds (Tablet of The Holy Mariner),
Hájí Mírzá Kamálu'd-Dín, recipient of,{ROB1: 55-6, 60, 260n.}see also World/spiritual worlds of God
see also Gleanings/Tablet to Kamál
{GPB: 140, 147-8, 157}Lawh-i-Maqsúd, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
{ROB1: prologue, ch. 14}
{ROB2: 6}
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}Lawh-i-Qiná' (Tablet of the Veil), {ROB1: 334 and n.}
{ROB3: 226-30, 231; quoted, 228, 229}
Hájí Siyyid 'Alí-Akbar-i-Dahají, recipient of,{ROB2: 275}
{ROB3: 226-7}
Lawh-i-Ra'ís, see Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
Lawh-i-Ridván,Lawh-i-Rúh (Tablet of the Spirit),{ROB2: 181-8 passim, 260; major themes of, 181, 186, 187}Lawh-i-Ru'yá (Tablet of Vision),
see also Adrianople/Ridá Big, house of
{ROB3: 223-4}Lawh-i-Salmán, see Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
{ROB4: 417}
Lawh-i-Sayyáh, (Tablet of Sayyáh),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),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}Musíbát-i-Hurúfát-i-'Álíyát, see Hurúfát-i-'Állín
{ROB4: 232}
Nafahát-i-Quds, {ROB4: 159}
Nightingale and the Crow, The, {ROB2: 241-5}
Prayers and Meditations by Bahá'u'lláh,Qasídiy-i-'Izz-i-Varqá'íyyih, Qasídiy-i-Varqá'íyyih,{ROB1: 62-4, 84-5}Questions and Answers, see Kitáb-i-Aqdas
{ROB3: 206}
{ROB4: 390}
Rashh-i-'Amá (poem),{ROB1: 45-6, 51}Ridvánu'l-Iqrár, {ROB2: 397}
Bahá'u'lláh, on His Revelation, {ROB4: 406}
Sahífiy-i-Shattíyyih (Book of the River), {ROB1: 105-8}
Sáqí-Az-Ghayb-i-Baqá (poem),{ROB1: 64}Seven Valleys and The Four Valleys, The,
{ROB2: 141}
Seven Valleys, The,Shikkar-Shikan-Shavand,Four 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}1. Search, {ROB1: 96}
{SVFV: xii}
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}
{GPB: 122, 140}
{ROB1: 104}
Shaykh 'Abdu'r-Rahmán-i-Karkúkí, recipient of,{ROB1: 62, 104}
{SVFV: xiii}
{ROB1: 147-50}Subhána-Rabbíya'l-A'lá,
Siyyid Mírzá Husayn-i-Mutavallí, addressed to,{ROB1: 147, 149-50}
betrays Quddús to enemy, {DBNN: 384, 398}
{ROB1: 211-13}Subhánika-Yá-Hú or Lawh-i-Náqús (Tablet of the Bell), {ROB2: 18-19, 23-4}
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}
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}Súriy-i-Ayyúb, {DBNN: 477}
{ROB2: ch. 4; 65, 72-7, 84, 86-7}
Súriy-i-Bayán, {ROB2: 397}
Súriy-i-Ghusn (Tablet of the Branch),{ROB1: 135}Súriy-i-Hajj (Tablet of Pilgrimage),
{ROB2: ch. 18}
{GPB: 177}Súriy-i-Haykal, see To The Kings and Rulers
{KA: Q10, n54, n68}
{ROB1: 212}
I and II, {ROB2: 240}
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)
Súriy-i-Sabr (Tablet of Patience), also titled Lawh-i-Ayyúb (Tablet of Job),{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}see also Lawh-i-Fu'ád
{ROB2: 137, 411-13}
{ROB3: 99, 100n.}
see also Tablet to Hájí Muhammad Ismá'íl-i-Káshání (Dhabíh){ROB1: 141 and n., 263-73 passim}Tablet for 'Abdu'r-Rahím of Bushrú'íyyih,
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
{ROB3: 60-61}Tablet of Ahmad, see Lawh-i-Ahmad
'Abdu'r-Rahím of Bushrú'íyyih, {ROB3: 59-63}
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,Tablet to Badí',Bahá'u'lláh and The Báb,{PM: 310-313}see also Haifa/'Abdu'l-Bahá/Tablet of Visitation
{ROB1: 30, 206 and n.}
{ROB4: 419}
see also Tablet to Nabíl-i-A'zam/Mullá Muhammad i-Zarandí,Tablet to Hájí 'Abdu'l-Majíd,{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 Siyyid Javád-i-Karbilá'í,Tablet to Rada'r-Rúh,Tablet to Siyyid Mihdíy-i-Dahají, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Tablet to The Times,{ROB3: 195}Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas,
{ROB4: 348-50}
{KA: 9, 89}Tajallíyát, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
{ROB4: 33, 118, 167, 227-38}
Asl-i-Kullu'l-Khayr, (Words of Wisdom),{GPB: 383}Bishárát (Glad-Tidings)
quoted, {ROB2: 96}
,
Ishráqát (Splendours),{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}on monasticism, see Clergy
see also Kitáb-i-Aqdas
on unacceptable actions, {ROB4: 161}
quotes from His own, {ROB4: 162}
quoted, {ROB3: 353}
Kalimát-i-Firdawsíyyih (Words of Paradise),{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 TarázátHájí Jalíl-i-Khu'í, addressed to,
Hájí Muhammad-Ibráhím (Muballigh), see Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
{ROB4: 145-7, 149}on auxiliary language, {ROB4: 159-60}
{TOB: 106 and n., 117, 121, 122, 124, 131}
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}
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: 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}on fear of God, {ROB4: 28}
{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}met by Hájí Muhammad-i-Yazdí, see Muhammad-i-Yazdí, Hájí
reminiscences of Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB4: 4-5, 14-15}
reminiscences of Varqá and Rúhu'lláh, {ROB4: 60-3}
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 misdeeds of believers, {ROB4: 225}
quoted, {ROB3: 352-3}
Lawh-i-Aqdas (The Most Holy Tablet, Tablet to the Christians),{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}on worldly goods, {ROB3: 81}
{TOB: 89, 90, 220, 242}
{GPB: 209, 210, 216}Lawh-i-Ard-i-Bá (Tablet of the Land of Bá (Beirut)),
{ROB3: 11 and n.}
{ROB4: 117, 227-35, 352, 353}
addressed to church aristocracy, {ROB4: 229-30}
explanation of 'stars', {ROB4: 229}
{ROB4: 240-1}Lawh-i-Burhán (Tablet of the Proof),
see also BeirutLawh-i-Dunyá (Tablet of the World),{GPB: 200, 219, 232}
{ROB4: ch. 6, 425, 435}
Muhammad-Báqir, Shaykh of Isfahán ("Dhi'b" - Wolf), addressed to,{GPB: 201, 232}to divines, {ROB4: 97-9}
{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 enemies, {ROB4: 95}
Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom),{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}burning of books, {ROB4: 341}
{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}
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-Karmil (Tablet of Carmel),{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.}ancient Greek philosophers, {ROB4: 46}
{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}
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-Maqsúd (Tablet of Maqsúd),{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 ofBahá'u'lláh at,{GPB: 313}on prophecies concerning, {ROB4: 170-1}
see also Haifa/Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Bahá
{GPB: 194}Elijah, cave of,
{ROB3: 28, 30-31, 418}
{ROB4: 351, 332-7}
{GPB: 277}future site of Bahá'í institutions,
{ROB4: 351, 359}
{GPB: 316}Shoghi Effendi on
property on, {GPB: 346}
school to be on, {GPB: 307}
Mashriqu'l-Adhkár on, {ROB4: 352, 363}
see also Bahá'í Faith/World Administrative Centretransfer of remains of Purest Branch and Navváb to,Shrine of the Báb,{GPB: 348}see also Bahá'u'lláh/Mírzá Mihdí, Bahá'u'lláh/Navváb
{ROB3: 201-11, Appendix III}
{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}dome, {GPB: 411}
{ROB4: 358-9}
His troubles in building the Báb's Shrine, {GPB: 275}
Mausoleum on Mt. Carmel, {GPB: 194}
remains of The Báb,{GPB: 273, 275-278, 346}Pilgrimage to, {ROB4: 170-1}
{ROB4: 358-60}
'Abdu'l-Baháon interment of,Russian Consul,{ROB3: 432}places on Mt. Carmel, {GPB: 241, 273, 275, 276, 314}
{ROB4: 359}
has artist picture remains of Báb, {GPB: 54}transfer of,
ordered to investigate Bábí Movement, {GPB: 55}
views remains of the Báb, {GPB: 54}
Bahá'u'lláh on,see also Sháh-Muhammad-i-Manshádí, Hájí (Amínu'l-Bayán){ROB3: 424 ff.}to Mt. Carmel, {GPB: 54, 177, 241, 262, 273, 275, 276, 314}
orders bodies of Báb and Quddús brought to Tihrán,{DBNN: 519}
{GPB: 54, 273}
{ROB4: 299}
Shoghi Effendi, on, {ROB4: 360-1}
Lawh-i-Síyyid-i-Mihdíy-i-Dahají (Tablet to Siyyid Mihdíy-i-Dahají),Súriy-i-Vafá (Tablet to Vafá),Tajallíyát (Effulgences),
Tarázát (Ornaments),{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}Bahá'u'lláh meets with, {ROB4: 120}
writes tablets to, {ROB4: 122, 123, 125}
in 'Ishqábád, {ROB4: 119-23, 124}
twenty-seven Tablets, revealed for, {ROB4: 124-5}
Other Tablets,{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
Tablet in honour of Bahá'ísMisc. Topics,
Tablet to 'Alí Haydar
Tablet to Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí,see also Kalimát-i-FirdawsíyyihTablet 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, HájíAbode, pristine, {TOB: 268}
Adorer and Adored One, {TOB: 53}
Anguish, {TOB: 112}
Animosity,{TOB: 23, 44}Atmosphere, contamination of, {TOB: 69}
fire (Flame) of hatred, {TOB: 88, 132, 219}
'B' (letter), {TOB: 101 and n.}
Bahá, city of, {TOB: 120}
Bahá'u'lláh,hidden, {TOB: 143}Balínús, {TOB: 147-8}
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}
Breeze,{TOB: 13, 14, 16}Burning Fire, {TOB: 116}
of God, {TOB: 137, 177, 214}
City,{TOB: 4, 246, 260}Counsellor, Counselor. {TOB: 44, 134, 170}
of Bahá, {TOB: 120}
strong, {TOB: 259}
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}Dust, writhing in, {TOB: 112}
{TOB: 138}
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}Generation, this perverse, {TOB: 85}
dreams about, {TOB: 187-8}
Glory,{TOB: 155}Good, {TOB: 155, 169, 170}
pavilion of, {TOB: 112}
realm of, {TOB: 137, 181, 219}
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}Lion, {TOB: 197}
and darkness, {TOB: 138}
Mother Tablet, {TOB: 213}
Murád, Muhammad, {TOB: 16}
Murtus, {TOB: 150}
Mystery(ies),{TOB: 24, 142, 145}Prudence, {TOB: 85}
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}
Qualities,desirable, Bahá'u'lláh is Dayspring of,Questions and letters to Bahá'u'lláh, {TOB: 183, 196-7, 267}{TOB: 47}undesirable, see Backbiting, Corruption, Cursing, Dishonesty, Hypocrisy, Idleness, Imposture, Jealousy, Materialism, Pride, Selfishness, Slander
see also Bahá'í(s)
Rank, no glory in, {TOB: 68}
Rock, {TOB: 177, 208}
Samandar, son of, {TOB: 73}
Sign(s),{TOB: 239}Stones groaned, {TOB: 254}
Most Mighty, {TOB: 47, 209}
Straight Path,{KA: 15, K14, K112, K186}Tablet, {TOB: 79, 244, 247, 267}
{TOB: 35-6, 61, 101, 116, 121, 132, 168, 171, 205, 209, 248, 251}
Treasured Symbol, {TOB: 47, 50}
True One, {TOB: 11, 79, 117}
Turkey, Sultán of, {TOB: 210, 213}
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 justiceto kings and ecclesiastics, {GPB: 230}Great Peace, {TOB: 165}
to tyrants, {GPB: 224}
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}obedience to, {GL: 207, 229, 240, 241}
constitutional, {ROB4: 162}
Kingship,{KA: n194}Prophecies of future just ruler, {GL: 110, 111, 212}
plus republic (i.e. constitutional monarchy), {TOB: 28, 93}
received Bahá'í literature, {GPB: 384}
sovereign will arise to protect Bahá'ís,{GPB: 411}visited by Martha Root, {GPB: 387, 388, 389}
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}
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}to Kings of Christendom, see Súriy-i-Mulúk
{ROB3: 116-18, 133; quoted 116-17}
Bahá'u'lláh proclaims Himself as Lord of Lords, {ROB3: 116}
fate of, {GPB: 227}
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),Súriy-i-Haykal, or Súratu'l-Haykal (Súrih of the Temple),{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}see also Áqá Buzurg, of Khurásán (Badí')
{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}Bahá'u'lláh's declaration to, {GPB: 102}
{GPB: 62, 78, 104}
{ROB4: 124, 378, 379}
exiles Bahá'u'lláh from Persia, {GPB: 106}
fate of,{GPB: 225}fate of his son, {GPB: 232}
assassinated, {GPB: 296}
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
Súriy-i-Mulúk, (Súrih of the Kings), {GL: LXV, LXVI, CXIII, CXIV, CXVI, CXVIII}{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}Kitáb-i-Haykal, {SAQ: 33}
see also Bahá'u'lláh
"Maiden"appears to Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 101}on nature of God and His Manifestations, {ROB4: 133-5}
personified the Spirit of God, {GPB: 101, 121, 221}
Tablet to Czar Alexander II,{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 Napoleon III,Tablet to Queen Victoria {GL: CXIX, CXX},{ESW: 45-56, 124-5}
{GPB: 173, 207}
{KA: n118}
{TOB: 210}
I,{ROB2: 337, 368-9}II,
{ROB3: 109, 110}
{ROB4: 249, 434}
{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}see also Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
{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}result of attitude toward Bahá'u'lláh, {ESW: 51}
fall of, {KA: n118}
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}fate of, {GPB: 225}
{ROB4: 240, 241}
exiles Bahá'u'lláh to 'Akká, {GPB: 179, 195}
edict of Sultán meaningless, {ROB3: 18-19}
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}for Anniversary of Birth of the Báb, see Báb, The
see also Mankind
for Bahá'í women, {ROB4: 202-3}
for chief of Templers, {ROB4: 351}
for Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí,{ROB4: 323}for Hájí Mullá Mihdíy-i-'Atrí,
and Mullá Muhammad i-Zarandí (Nabíl-i-A'zam), {ROB4: 108}
{ROB4: 51}for Mírzá Hasan, {ROB4: 53}
Mihdíy-i-'Atrí, Hájí Mullá,{ROB1: 331}
{ROB4: 50-3}
'Abdu'l-Bahá on, {ROB4: 52-3}
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}Iqtidárát, A compilation of the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh. 1310 A.H. (A.D. 1892-3),
see also Lawh-i-Ahbáb
{ROB2: 30, 32, 84, 118, 401}Ishráqát, A compilation of the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, 1310 A.H. (A.D. 1892-3),
{ROB4: 68, 83, 246, 253, 278}{ROB3: 201, 230}message to Amínu's-Sultán
{ROB4: 141, 195}
on 'Akká,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}on creation, {ROB4: 42}
{ROB4: 7}
on detachment, {ROB4: 246-7}
on equality of men and women,{ROB4: 199-204}on forgiveness, {ROB4: 85-6}
see also 'Abdu'l-Bahá
on God 'the Incomparable', {ROB4: 199}
on Hands of the Cause,on His exile, {ROB3: 21, 419-20, 420-21}{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}Hájí 'Abu'l-Hasan-i-Amín,
see also Hands of the Cause of God
{ROB4: 116, 284, 290}Hájí Mírzá Muhammad-Taqí (Ibn-i-Abhar),
see also Hands of the Cause of God
{ROB4: 289, 305-7, 315-28}Hájí Mullá 'Alí-Akbar-i-Sháhmírzádí (Hájí Ákhúnd),
see also Hands of the Cause of God
{ROB4: 255, 287, 315-28}Mírzá 'Alí-Muhammad-i-Khurásání (Ibn-i-Asdaq),
see also Hands of the Cause of God
{ROB4: 254, 275, 277, 296, 302-4, 315-28}Mírzá 'Alí-Muhammad-i-Varqá,
see also Hands of the Cause of God
{ROB4: 17-18, 51, 64-72, 88-9}
Tablets for Varqá's children, {ROB4: 59}
see also Hands of the Cause of God
on House of The Báb, {ROB4: 429}
on Huqúq'u'lláh,{ROB4: 252-3, 256}on inner realities of prominent people, {ROB4: 286-7}
see also Bahá'í Faith
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}on Purest Branch,
of mankind, {ROB4: 157}
{ROB3: 210, 213}on religion, {ROB4: 155-6}
see also Bahá'u'lláh/Mírzá Mihdí
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 'Andalíb, {ROB4: 83-4}
to Hájí Muhammad 'Alíy-i-Afnán, {ROB4: 247}
to Hájí Áqá Muhammad-i-'Aláqih-band, {ROB4: 26, 218-9}
to Hájí Mullá 'Alíy-i-Kání,{ROB4: 297}to Indian believers, {ROB4: 181}
Hájí Mullá 'Alíy-i-Kání, {ROB3: 191}
to Karbilá'í Áqá Ján,{ROB4: 271}to Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl, {ROB4: 260}
Karbilá'í Áqá Ján, recipient of, {ROB4: 100, 348, 429}
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,to The King and Beloved of the Martyrs,to Umm-i-'Attár, {ROB2: 127}{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}Mírzá Muhammad-Husayn, 'Mahbúbu'sh-Shuhadá' (Beloved of the Martyrs),
{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}
{GPB: 200, 201}see also Ismá'íl, Mírzá
{ROB1: 103n., 259}
{ROB2: 204 and n., 205, 334}
{ROB4: illus. 78; 16, 58, 73-90, 91, 99-100, 101, 119, 368, 384, 434}
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}Ábádih,
{ROB4: 386, 435}
Nabíl gives acknowledgment in his account of upheaval of Zanján, {DBNN: 580}
{ROB1: 77 and n., 266}'Abbás, Mírzá (Qábil, of Ábádih), {ROB1: 77-8}
{ROB4: 314, 325-6, 385}
'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}'Abdu'l-Báqí, Siyyid,
{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}
BiographicalHis Qualities,and,Abu'l-Qásim, see Ridvánas a child and youth,
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
{ROB1: 9, 13, 100}Ascension of, see Haifa
{ROB2: 14, 389-91}
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'lláhhighlights of His life, {GPB: 240-243}
marriage,{ROB2: 205, 207}Navváb, mother of, see Bahá'u'lláh/Navváb
{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}Rádíyih, sister of, {ROB4: 15-16}
{ROB2: 202-5}
{ROB3: 254}
{ROB4: 73-4}
Mírzá Ibráhím, brother of, {DBNN: 208}
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
His ministry,{GPB: 235-320}in,
{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.}
'Akká, see 'Akkáincident related by, {DBNN: 616}
Baghdád, see Baghdád
Constantinople, see Constantinople
Garden of Ridván, see Ridván
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}Townshend's poem to, see Hands of the Cause of God
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
His Services to Bahá'u'lláh,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}His care for others,
refuses gifts and contributions, {GPB: 282}
{ROB3: 20, 70, 222, 252}His detachment, {ROB2: 40-1}
helps people receive justice, {ROB4: 3}
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}
{ROB1: 25, 159}His Station and Titles,
{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 Sufferings,{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,Centre of the Covenant, see Covenant{KA: 3, 13, K121, K174, 145, n1}'Abdu'l-Bahá Interpreter of Writings of,
{ROB1: 134-5}
{ROB3: 283, 374, 406}'Abdu'l-Bahá Vicegerent of, {GPB: 245}
Interpreter of Word of God, {KA: K174, n130, n184}
'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),reveals prayer for 'Abdu'l-Bahá, {GPB: 243}{GPB: 242}heir, {TOB: 221-2}
{ROB3: 20, 106, 209, 252, 268, 362, 411n., 437, 446}
He Whom God hath purposed, {KA: K121, n145}
Most Great Branch,{GPB: 239, 243}Most Mighty Branch,
{ROB3: 122, 207, 336, 371}
{TOB: 222}
{KA: n145}Mystery of God (Sirru'lláh)
{TOB: 221, 227}
statement about 'Abdu'l-Bahá by, {ROB3: 142-3}
Exemplar of Teachings, Exemplar of Faith of Bahá'u'lláh,{GPB: 242, 245}Father of the Poor,
{KA: 3}
{ROB1: 14, 100, 134}
{GPB: 269}infallibility of, see Infallibility
{ROB3: 252}
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 Writings,{GPB: 250}
Bahá'u'lláh foresees trials of 'Abdu'l-Bahá,{GPB: 250}enemies of, {GPB: 317-320}
"lightnings", "thunders", "earthquake", {GPB: 249}
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{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 WorksInterpretations by,
Bahá'í Prayers,index of prayers revealed by 'Abdu'l-BaháLawh-i-Hizár Baytí,
{ROB1: 127n.}Memorials of the Faithful
{ROB4: 146}
{KA: n183}Risáliy-i-Síyásíyyih (Treatise on Politics), {ROB4: 304}
{ROB4: 405-6}
Some Answered Questions,
{KA: n75, n86}Tablet of Purity (Lawh-i-Dukhán), {ROB3: 437-9}
{ROB3: 187, 191, 339}
{ROB4: 41, 45, 152}
Laura Dreyfus-Barney (Laura Clifford Barney), translates,{GPB: 260}
{ROB3: 187, 191}
Tablets of the Divine Plan,
{GPB: 255, 296, 305, 406}A Traveller's Narrative
{ROB4: 358}
a charter for teaching of Bahá'í Faith, {ROB4: 358}
Divine Plan of, {KA: 4}
Prayers for Teaching, see Prayer(s)
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 toÁqá Mírzá Áqá, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-DunyáTablets on
Central Organization for a Durable Peace (The Hague),{GPB: 308}Covenant-breakers, see Covenant-breakers
{ROB4: 304}
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
creation, {ROB4: 40, 41, 44-5}unaddressed, {ROB4: 325-6}
relationship of God to the Manifestations, {ROB4: 132}
trustworthiness, {ROB4: 26-7}
writes Tablets,{ROB4: 326}
daily writing of Tablets, {GPB: 267}
{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, Mírzáprophecies of,
Afnán-i-Kabír, see Afnáns
attributes,{ROB4: 198}The Báb
of God, {ROB4: 132}
interment, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-KarmilBahá'u'lláh, see Bahá'u'lláh
Shrine of, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Karmil
Christ, {ROB4: 152}
consultation,{ROB3: 51, 318}courage, {ROB3: 35}
{ROB4: 290}
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 andincarnation, {ROB4: 40}equality of men and women,
Manifestation, {SAQ: 205-07}
{KA: 7}faith, {ROB4: 217}
{ROB4: 203-4}
see also Unpublished or Untranslated Works, mutatis mutandis
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 Godhistorical records, {ROB4: 46}
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
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}Mashriqu'l-Adhkár,
marriage of Ibn-i-Abhar, see Hands of the Cause of God
{ROB3: 345}medicine, see Lawh-i-Tibb
of 'Ishqábád, {ROB4: 122}
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}prayer,
makes arrangements for pilgrims, {ROB4: 2}
permission for, sought from, {ROB4: 87}
and resting places of departed, see Prayer(s)/Departedregeneration of world, {ROB3: 312}
obligatory, see Prayer(s)
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}unity, {ROB4: 2-4}
guidance to teachers, {ROB4: 296}
sends teachers to India, {ROB4: 183, 184}
travel teachers during the ministry of, {ROB4: 276, 304, 310-11, 314}
wisdom, {ROB4: 322}
{GPB: 315, 316}promises divine assistance, {ROB3: 383}
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
sends message to Amínu's-Sultán, {ROB4: 187-8}
subject matter of His talks, {GPB: 281, 282}
{DBNN: 219, 221}'Abdu'l-Ghaffár-i-Isfahání,
{GPB: 182}'Abdu'l-Hamid Khán
{ROB1: 287-8}
{ROB2: 329, 402, 408, 411}
{ROB3: 12n., 36n.}
asks the Báb's forgiveness, {GPB: 13}'Abdu'l-Hamíd, Shaykh, {ROB1: 283}
son was healed by the Báb, {DBNN: 195, 197, 372}
'Abdu'l-Hamíd II, Sultán of Turkey,'Abdu'l-Husayn-i-Samandar, Mírzá, {ROB4: 395}
'Abdu'l-Husayn-i-Tihrání, Shaykh (also known as 'Iráqí),{ROB1: 142-7 passim, 225}'Abdu'l-Karím-i-Máhút Furúsh {ROB3: 92-4, 96-104, passim}
{ROB2: 332, 341-4}
stigmatized by Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB1: 148}
'Abdu'l-Karím-i-Qazvíní, Mullá, Mírzá Ahmad,{DBNN: 159, 162, 163, 168, 170, 176, 212, 227, 439}'Abdu'l-Kháliq-i-Yazdí, Mullá, {ROB2: 109-10}
{ROB1: 53-4, 330}
{ROB2: 247n.}
{ROB3: 424, 425}
{ROB4: 439}
'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}'Abdu'l-Qasím-i-Aláqih-Band-i-Isfáhání, {DBNN: 587}
{ROB4: 45-6}
'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}Abhá Kingdom, {ROB4: 34, 223}
{ROB3: 178}
'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}Abu'l-Fath-i-Shahristání, {TOB: 144 n.}
{ROB1: 205, 332}
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}Abu'l-Qásim, (servant of Mírzá Yahyá), {ROB1: 247}
{ROB3: 202}
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}Abu'l-Qásim-i-Hamadání (servant of Bahá'u'lláh), {ROB1: 62, 67}
{TOB: 65 and n.}
Abu'l-Qásim-i-Káshí,{ROB1: 252}Abu'l-Qásim-i-Názir, {ROB4: 395-6, 398}
{ROB4: 439}
Abu'l-Qásim-i-Sultán Ábádí, {ROB3: 20}
Acquiescence,{GL: 133, 290, 299}'Ád,
{PM: 11, 54}
{ROB4: 96, 425-6}Ádhirbáyján,
{TOB: 214}
{ROB2: 60, 147, 212}Adrianople, Edirne, 'Land of Mystery',
{ROB4: 84, 145-6, 186, 210, 435, 439}
Navváb Hamzih Mírzá, Governor of, {DBNN: 504}
Adversity, Tests, Trials,{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,Governor(s) of,{GPB: 159-162}in,
{ROB1: 17, 24, 37, 97, 102, 203, 246, 255}
{ROB2: 57, 61-2, 63, 152, 194, 291, 331}
{ROB3: 5, 26, 251}His Writings in,
{ROB4: 247, 393, 421}
His proclamation in,{GPB: 158, 170-177}Murádíyyih, quarter of,
{GPB: 158, 166}
{ROB2: 427}
houses occupied by Bahá'u'lláh in,{ROB2: 62}mosque of Sultán Salím, in, {ROB2: 62, 63, 293, 294, 428, 437}
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}
{GPB: 171-176}departure from, {ROB2: 356, 398, 401-11}
{ROB1: 102, 279-80}
see Lawh-i-Ridván
{ROB3: 251}
Khurshíd Páshá, {ROB2: 167, 296, 331, 391, 398, 401, 402, 404}
Afghanistan,{ROB4: 183}Africa, {ROB4: 233, 423}
see also Badakhshán, Balkh
Agah, Rahbar, {ROB4: 459}
Age
coming of see Human RaceAgnostic, {ROB3: 36, 326n.}
of maturity see Maturity, age of
old. elderly, {KA: K10, Q74, 146, n14, n25, n31}
of retirement, {KA: n56}
Agriculture,{ROB4: 341}Ahmad Effendi, {ROB4: 24}
{TOB: 90}
Ahmad-i-Ahsá'í, Shaykh, Shaykh-i-Ahsá'í, Shaykh Ahmad,Ahmad-i-Azghandí, Mírzá,{DBNN: 125, 127, 184, 504, 587}Ahmad-i-Káshání, Hájí Mírzá, {ROB2: 67, 118, 127, 137, 159}
{ROB1: 194}
{ROB3: 27-8}
his conversion to the Faith, {GPB: 12}
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,Al-Azhar, University of,{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/BahjíBahá'u'lláh exile to,
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}'Master of', see 'Abdu'l-Bahá
{ROB3: 66}
{ROB4: 1-6, 45}
{GPB: 179-222}Bahá'u'lláh in,
{ROB1: 17, 204, 286-9 passim}
{ROB3: 1, 11-16, 27-8, 114}
{ROB4: 6, 77, 242, 278, 351, 353}
{SAQ: 31, 32, 36n}
{ROB3: 16}climate, {ROB3: 21-2}
{ROB4: 105, 242-3}
arrival {ROB4: 351}
Barracks,{ROB3: 16-21, 23, 52-3, 56, 66, 179, 210, 216, 221, 243}difficulty entering, {ROB3: 54-7, 58, 60-61, 179, 225}
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}
donkey of, {ROB4: 105, 106, 336}
feasts held in honour of, {ROB4: 9-10}
Garden of Ridván, see Ridván
houses lived in,{ROB3: 221}inn of Siyyid Habíb, {ROB3: 250}
'Abbúd, house of,{ROB3: 24, 52, 69, 221, 238, 400-403, 410, 413}Bahjí, Mansion of,
{ROB4: 33, 106, 242}
'Abbúd, Christian merchant of 'Akká, residence of,{ROB3: 24, 238, 413}Bahá'u'lláh at, {ROB3: 400-403}
{ROB4: 248}
{KA: n8, n54}Khavvám, Mansúr, house of, {ROB3: 221}
{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}Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí describes events at, {ROB4: 106-8}
His Ascension,{GPB: 221-233}His Shrine, Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh, Most Holy Shrine,
{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{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}Qiblih (point of adoration), Most Holy Tomb, Holy Court,
{ROB4: 103}
{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}
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
Malik, house of, {ROB3: 221}
Mazra'ih, mansion of,{ROB1: 290-91}Rábi'ih, house of, {ROB3: 221}
{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}
'Údí Khammár, house of ,{ROB3: 29, 221-2, 224-6, 234, 253, 274, 275}
'Údí Khammár, merchant of 'Akká, residence of,{KA: 12}Kitáb-i-Aqdas revealed in,
{ROB4: 103-4, 108}
laws of World Order revealed in, see New World Order of Bahá'u'lláhsee also 'Akká/Bahjí
see also Kitáb-i-Aqdas
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}Muhammad-Hasan, Áqá, caretaker of Pilgrim House, {ROB3: 362}
{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}
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}leaves the prison-city, {ROB3: 416-18}
see also Unpublished or Untranslated Works
see also Unpublished or Untranslated Works
description of, {GPB: 185, 186}
history of, {GPB: 185}
Holy Family in,{ROB4: 106}inhabitants of,
Ásíyih Khánum (Navváb), resting-place in, see Bahá'u'lláh
Mírzá Mihdí (The Purest Branch), resting-place in, see Bahá'u'lláh
{ROB3: 12-13, 19, 21, 22-3, 69-72, 225, 235, 236-7, 238, 252, 400}its authorities and leaders,
Bahá'ís,{ROB1: 26, 27, 29, 35, 39, 204, 287-91 passim}Christian community, {ROB3: 22, 221, 225}
{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}
Covenant-breakers,{ROB1: 201, 315-19}Khalíl Ahmad 'Abdú, {ROB3: 12-13}
Azalís in,{ROB3: 56-7}
murder of three Azalís, {ROB3: 69, 224-5, 234-9, 242-3, 400, 407}
mourn death of Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 222}
Sálih Effendi, {ROB3: 70}
{ROB3: 11, 14, 17-19, 20, 52-3, 65-6, 69, 70-72, 235, 237-9, 242, 411-12 n., 416-18}Junaynih, Garden of ,
Clergy, Islám,{ROB1: 32}Jarráh,
{ROB3: 70}
Mahmúd-i-'Arrábí, Shaykh, see Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláhAhmad-i-, officer in the Turkish Army, {ROB3: 68-9}Governor of,
Amín-i-, Commander of the Guard, {ROB3: illus. 60; 69}
Khálid-i-, physician, {ROB3: 69}
{ROB4: 7, 336}Mufti of,
Ahmad Big Tawfíq,{ROB3: 24-5, 251-2, 410}Faydí Páshá, see Unpublished or Untranslated Works
directed to restore aqueduct, {GPB: 192}
respects Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 191}
{ROB3: 70-72, 238, 242}Mutasarrif, {ROB3: 17-19, 235, 237-8, 249-50}
{ROB4: 239}
Shaykh 'Alíy-i-Mírí,{ROB3: 70-71, 410-412, 413, 417}
{ROB4: 245}
officials governing, {TOB: 125, 127}
{ROB4: 30, 105, 244, 335}land gate, {ROB3: 57, 225}
Bahá'u'lláh in, {ROB4: 336}
Muslim Cemetery, {ROB3: 20}
Mosque of, {ROB3: 18, 66, 179}
pilgrims, pilgrimages to,{GPB: 198}prophecies and traditions concerning,
{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
{GPB: 183, 184}public bath, {ROB3: 19, 74-5}
{ROB1: 32n.}
{ROB3: 13, 14-16, 28, 65-6, 67, 68}
{ROB4: 387}
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}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}
Khán-i-Súq-i-Abiyad, {ROB1: 131}
water, in 'Akká, {ROB3: 22-5}
{ROB3: 435}Aleppo, {ROB4: 418}
{ROB4: 151, 265}
Alexander the Great, {ROB4: 46}
Alexandria, Egypt,'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}'Alí, Mullá (Mu'allim), {ROB3: 90}
{GPB: 28}
{ROB1: 327 and n., 328}
{ROB4: 437}
'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}'Alí-'Askar-i-Shál-Báf, Ustád, {ROB2: 103-4}
visits Báb in Tabríz when imprisoned, {DBNN: 239, 240}
'Alí-Khán, {ROB3: 196-8}
Ali-Kuli Khán,{ROB3: 105-6}'Alí-Naqíy-i-Níshápúrí, Mullá, {ROB2: 61}
{ROB4: 261, 265}
'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}Allenby, General,
{ROB3: 423-4}
extends sympathy at passing of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, {GPB: 312}Alpha and Omega, {SAQ: 219, 281}
instructed to protect 'Abdu'l-Bahá, {GPB: 306}
visits 'Abdu'l-Bahá, {GPB: 306}
Amanuensis,of The Báb,America,Mullá 'Abdu'l-Karím-i-Qazvíní, see 'Abdu'l-Karím-i-Qazvíní, Mulláof Bahá'u'lláh,
Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí, see Letters of the Living
Khádimu'lláh, see Áqá Ján, Mírzá (Khádimu'lláh)
Mírzá Mihdí (The Purest Branch), see Bahá'u'lláh/Mírzá MihdíAmír-Nizám-Taqí Khán, Mírzá, {DBNN: 332, 500, 504, 506, 526, 539, 547, 595}{ROB3: 155}
{ROB4: 233, 260-1, 262, 265, 285, 358}
Bahá'ís of,{ROB3: 345, 431, 432}Canada, {GPB: 336}
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}
foundation of Faith laid by May Bolles, see Maxwell, May Ellis Bollesconferred 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}United States of America,
establishment of Faith in, {GPB: 253, 256-262}
will lead all nations spiritually, {GPB: 254}
{ROB3: 82, 83-4, 106, 337}world mission of, {GPB: 305, 396, 397}
'Abdu'l-Bahá in,{GPB: 281-283, 287-292}Chase, Thornton, Thábit (Steadfast),
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}
Abdu'l-Bahá visits grave of, {GPB: 288, 292}Englewood, New Jersey, souvenir feast at, {GPB: 288}
first American believer, {GPB: 257, 267}
see also Disciples of 'Abdu'l-Bahá
first Bahá'í Convention, see Bahá'í Faith
government,Bahá'u'lláh addresses Presidents of, see Kitáb-i-AqdasKenosha, Wisconsin, Faith taught in, {GPB: 257}
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}
Mashriqu'l-Adhkár in, see Chicago
Muskegon, Michigan, endowment in, {GPB: 337}
New York City,{ROB3: 83-4}Philadelphia, introduction of Faith in, {GPB: 257}
called "City of the Covenant," {GPB: 288}
introduction of Faith in, {GPB: 257}
Pine Valley, Colorado, endowments in, {GPB: 337}
Schools,Colorado Springs, {GPB: 340, 341}states recognizing Bahá'í marriage, {GPB: 373, 374}
Geyserville,endowments in, {GPB: 337}Green Acre,
summer school established (1927), {GPB: 340}
'Abdu'l-Bahá visits, {GPB: 288}Louhelen, {GPB: 340}
endowments in, {GPB: 337}
first summer conference (1894), {GPB: 261}
summer school established (1929), {GPB: 340}
Turner, Robert C., Disciple of 'Abdu'l-Bahá,{GPB: 259}West Englewood, endowments in, {GPB: 337}
see also Disciples of 'Abdu'l-Bahá
Wilson House, Malden, Mass., {GPB: 337}
Amos,{ROB3: 15}Ámul,
{ROB4: 408}
prophecies of, {ESW: 145}
{ROB3: 68}Annas,
{ROB4: 148, 389, 435}
{GL: 83}Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh,
{TOB: 210}Apperson, Ann, niece of Mrs. Hearst, {GPB: 257}{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}6. Mírzá 'Alí-Muhammad-i-Varqá, see Hands of the Cause of God
{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}dialogues of, with clergy {ROB4: 262-9}
an example, {ROB4: 36}
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}on certitude, see Certitude
{ROB1: 329}
simple life of, {ROB4: 258-61}
teaching work of, {ROB4: 258-70}
travels of, {ROB4: 177, 258-70}
see also Unpublished or Untranslated Works
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}11. Hájí Mírzá Muhammad-Taqí (Ibn-i-Abhar)
{ROB4: 120, 122, 123, 394}
12. Mulla Muhammad (Nabíl-i-A'zam)
13. Shaykh Kázim-i-Samandar,{ROB1: 36}14. Mírzá Muhammad Mustafa, brave and vigilant custodian and bearer of the remains of the Báb
{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
15. Mírzá Husayn, of Isfahán, Áqá Husayn-i-Isfahání (Mishkín-Qalam),{ROB1: 26-8}16. Mírzá Hasan (Adíb)
{ROB2: 213, 328, 402, 408}
{ROB3: 223, 431}
{ROB4: 244, 333}
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)
Áqá Ján (Kaj Kuláh),{ROB2: 326, 397, 402}Áqá Ján Khán-i-Khamsih, {DBNN: 514}
{ROB3: 56, 178, 224-5, 235}
Áqá Ján, {GPB: 179, 181, 189}
Áqá Ján, Mírzá, Khádimu'lláh,Áqá Ján, Siyyid, {GPB: 200}{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}his important testimony, {ROB1: 42}
downfall of, {ROB4: 247}
'Revelation Writing ',{ROB1: 24-5, 35-6}Tablets dictated to, {TOB: 159}
{ROB3: 7}
{ROB4: 125, 334}
"the first to believe" in Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 115}
Áqá Khán, Mírzá (Qá'im Maqámí),{ROB4: illus. 224; 222-5}Áqá Khán, Mírzá, Persian Prime Minister, {ROB1: 10-11}
'Abdu'l-Bahá, Tablet to, {ROB4: 223-5, 400}
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,Áqáy-i-Káshání, Mírzá (Ismu'lláhu'l-Muníb),{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}
{ROB1: 283-7 passim}Arabia, Arab(s), Arab tribes,
{ROB2: 59, 65, 72-7 passim, 114}
{ROB3: 425}
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}Asadu'lláh, Siyyid, {ROB4: 191}
{ROB1: 249-52}
{ROB4: 439}
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}Ascetic, asceticism, Seclusion,
{ROB4: 14, 185-7, 222-3, 333}
in Tihrán, {ROB4: 186}
Prophecies of, {ROB4: 185-6}
{KA: 14, K36, 157, n61}Ashraf, Áqá Mírzá, (of Ábádih),
{ROB3: 281, 347}
{TOB: 71}
prohibited, {GPB: 214}
see also Detachment
{ROB4: 175-6, 384, 385-6, 435}Asia, {ROB4: 233, 394, 423}
{TOB: 79 and n.}
Ásíyih, {GPB: 347}
Assistance, Aid,to Cause of God, {KA: K84, K159}Association,
divine, {KA: K53, K74, K157, 164}
to king who will arise, {KA: K84}
of laws, {KA: K4}
see also Prayer(s)
with followers of all religions, {KA: K144, 159}Astrology,
between people of Bahá, {KA: n82, n95}
{SAQ: 245-47}Astronomy,
Sun of Reality rises from various signs of Zodiac, {SAQ: 76}
{KA: n147}'Atá'u'lláh, Saráj'u'l-Hukamá, Mírzá, {ROB4: illus. 327; 326-8, 459}
curvature of horizon, {SAQ: 187-88}
elements of universe are interconnected, {SAQ: 245-47}
in Qur'án, {SAQ: 23}
Atheist(s),{ROB3: 36, 326}Athím, {KI: 190}
God and, {ROB2: 313-14}
Atom(s),{GL: 16, 177, 192, 267, 300, 324, 325}Atonement, {ROB3: 211}
{TOB: 5, 76, 130, 176}
similar to greatest beings of universe, {SAQ: 182}
Attachment,to the next world, {ROB2: 36-9}Attributes, see God, attributes of God and/or Bahá'u'lláh
to the Kingdom of Names, {ROB2: 39-43}
to this world, {ROB3: 10, 48, 180, 193}
Australasia, {ROB4: 233}
Australia,
Austria,
{KA: 15, K85, n116}Authority,
Austrian officer witnesses persecution, {GPB: 65, 66}
emperor of, see Kitáb-i-Aqdas'Azím-i-Tafrishí, Áqá,{KA: 13-14}
of 'Abdu'l-Bahá,{KA: 3, 13, K121, K174, n66, n130, n145}of God, {KA: K93, K161, K162, K163, 94, 95, 99, 100, 101, Q83, Q100}
see also 'Abdu'l-Bahá
of Holy Text, {KA: 4-5, 13, K53, K99, Q10}
of House of Justice,{KA: 3, 4-5, 13, K42, 91, n95}of interpretation,
see also House(s) of Justice
{KA: n130}of Manifestation of God, {KA: 14, K7, K47, K53, K81, K82, K132, K143, K183, n75, n160}
see also Interpretation of Sacred Text
of Shoghi Effendi,{KA: 3, 13-14, n66, n130}those in, injunction not to contend with, {KA: K95, 161}
see also Guardianship; Shoghi Effendi
see also Infallibility{ROB3: 23-4}'Aziz Khan-i-Mukrí; Sardár-i-Kull, his meeting with Hujjat, {DBNN: 556}
{ROB4: 255}
'Azízu'lláh (son of Varqá), {ROB4: 55, 58, 59}
'Azízu'lláh-i-Jadhdháb, Mírzá,{ROB3: 168-73, 179}Azízu'lláh-i-Misbáh, Mírzá, {ROB2: 38-9, 44, 81, 191}
{ROB4: 398}
Báb, The (Siyyid 'Alí-Muhammad, {DBNN: Mírzá 'Alí Muhammad of Shíráz}),{DBNN: 27, 30, 52}Bábá, Hájí, {ROB3: 59}
{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,His Cause,and,'Abdu'l-Bahá,birth of, see Shírázstatements, onAlí Khán (warden of Máh-Kú) impressed with Báb's influence, {GPB: 19}laws of Báb and Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB3: 278, 281}
relation of Báb to Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB3: 306}
Bahá'u'lláh,{ROB2: 76, 119, 182, 242n., 305, 376-81}governor of Isfahán, guest of, {GPB: 15}
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}on
{PM: 308}
House of The Báb, see Shírázprayer for The Báb, {PM: 300}
transfer of the remains of The Báb, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Karmil
Writings of The Báb, {ROB4: 47-8, 373}
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}
King and Beloved of Martyrs, see Unpublished or Untranslated Works
Manúchihr Khán, the Mu'tamidu'd-Dawlih,{DBNN: 199, 203, 205, 211, 213, 214}Mírzá Yahyá,
The Báb's letter to, {DBNN: 199}
His prediction of the approaching death of Manúchihr Khán, {DBNN: 213}
visit of, to, {GPB: 14, 15}
{ROB2: 242n.,247}Muhammad Shah, letter from, see Persia/Kings
The Báb nominate Mírzá Yahyá as figurehead, {GPB: 28, 29}
see also Báb, The/His Tablets and Writings, Bahá'u'lláh/Mírzá Yahyá
Mu'tamid,foretells death of, {GPB: 16}Siyyid Yahyáy-i-Dárábí, addressed by, see Yahyáy-i-Dárábí
protected by, {GPB: 15}
Vahíd, interviews with, {GPB: 11, 12}
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}influence on people of Isfahán, {GPB: 14}
{GPB: 15}
His family,{ROB1: 153-9 passim, 198-201 passim, 206n., 249, 251}in,
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}reference to His mother and wife, {DBNN: 191}
{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}Fátimih Khánum-i-Afnán, {ROB1: 159}
{ROB4: 396, 398-9}
Hájí Mírzá Buzurg-i-Afnán, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Tarázát
Hájí Mírzá Habíb'u'lláh-i-Afnán,{ROB1: 155}Hájí Mírzá Mahmúd, {ROB1: 199}
{ROB3: 202}
{ROB4: 101, 332-6}
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}Hájí Mírzá Siyyid Hasan-'Alí (Afnán-i-Kabír, The Great Afnán), uncle of The Báb
{GPB: 11, 13}
{ROB1: 153, 154, 327, 329}
{ROB4: 429}
{ROB1: 156-7, 159}Hájí Mírzá Siyyid Muhammad, uncle of The Báb, see Kitáb-i-Íqán
{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 Muhammad-Taqíy-i-Afnán (Vakílu'd-Dawlih), son of, see Apostles of Bahá'u'lláhHájí Muhammad 'Alíy-i-Afnán, see Unpublished or Untranslated Works
Hájí Mírzá Muhammad 'Alí, son of,{ROB1: 198}
{ROB4: 120-2, 394}
Hájí Siyyid Mírzáy-i-Afnán,{ROB3: 101}Hájí Siyyid 'Alíy-i-Afnán, {ROB1: 41}
{ROB4: 107}
Mírzá 'Alí-Akbar, paternal cousin of The Báb,{ROB1: 251-252}Mírzá Muhsin-i-Afnán, {ROB4: 396}
{ROB4: 439}
establish trading company in Istanbul, {ROB4: 394-6}
in India, {ROB4: 178-81}
Tablet to,{GL: 92}take counsel on community affairs, {ROB4: 119n.}
prayer for protection of, {PM: 154}
see also Unpublished or Untranslated Works
Siyyid Muhammad-Ridá, father of, {DBNN: 14}
wife of,Khadíjih-Bagum,farewell to His relatives and departure from Shíráz, {DBNN: 198}{ROB1: 155, 206n.}Fátimih, second wife of, {ROB1: 249 and n.}
{ROB2: 382-7}
{ROB4: 329, 331, 404, 405, 429, 430}
marriage, {DBNN: 76}
see also 'Iráq, Genealogy Of The Báb
Búshihr, see Búshihrpersonal relics of,
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
{GPB: 347}popularity of, {GPB: 15}
portrait of, {GPB: 347}
Seals of, {ROB2: 147, 164}
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 Station and Titles,claim, public, {GPB: 21, 22}
Covenant of, see Covenant
Declaration of, see Shíráz
disciples of,{ROB3: 88}Dispensation of,
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
{KA: 8, n109, n172}laws of,
{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}name discarded, {GPB: 299}
Islám and Bábí Faith, {ROB2: 352}
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}
{ROB3: 227, 352}ministry, last three years, {GPB: 17, 18, 31}
{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
Prophecies concerning,all correspond to one another, {SAQ: 71}Purpose of His mission,
Bahá'u'lláh,{ESW: 141, 142, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 159, 162, 165, 167, 168, 171, 173, 175, 176, 177}date of advent, {SAQ: 41-43, 46, 54, 69-72}
{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}sufferings of Bahá'u'lláh foreshadowed, {KA: n1}
{KA: n189}
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}
{GL: 146, 245, 291, 292-294}Revelation of,
{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}inaugurates universal prophetic cycle, see cycle
{PM: 119, 128, 180}
{ROB1: 7-8, 217}
announces station of Bahá'u'lláh,{GPB: 98}begins Bahá'í Dispensation, {ROB4: 155}
{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
His joy at the gift and message from Bahá'u'lláh, {DBNN: 227}
identity with Bahá'u'lláh,{GL: 147, 244, 293}prepares the way for Bahá'u'lláh,
oneness with Bahá'u'lláh, {PM: 85, 119}
{ROB4: 81, 147, 408}proclaimed Bahá'u'lláh, {PM: 40, 85, 276, 285}
prepares disciples for the Promised One, {GPB: 28}
sends documents and seals to Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 51}
mission of, twofold, {GPB: 27, 328}
transmuting influence of, {KI: 234-35}
warnings of,{KA: n180}
to Bábís, {GPB: 29}
{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 Sufferings,{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}Prophet of Shíráz,
Point of the Bayán,{KA: K129, K140, n150, n159}Primal Point,
{ROB4: 206-7, 208}
{KA: Q8, Q29, Q32, Q100}
{PM: 84, 300}
{ROB3: 137}
{SAQ: 69}
{GPB: 56}Qá'im, Twelfth Imám, Hidden Imám,
Martyr Prophet of Shíráz, {GPB: 276}
{ESW: 112, 121, 163}Remembrance, {TOB: 13}
{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}persecution of followers of, {KI: 245}
{GPB: 58}
{SAQ: 39}
Abú-'Abdi'lláh, describes character of, {KI: 240}
prophecies concerning,in Arba'in, {KI: 242}promise to Shi'ahs, {GPB: 57}
in 'Aválim, {KI: 241, 243}
in Biháru'l-Anvár, {KI: 243, 254}
will excel all Prophets, {KI: 244}
Sáhibu'z-Zamán,
signs of, {GPB: 80}
sovereignty of, {KI: 106-07}
traditions about,{ROB1: 185, 194, 216, 267}word of, {TOB: 258}
Persians would slaughter Qá'im's followers, {KI: 247}
rising of, marks Day of Resurrection,{KI: 144}Tablet of Fátimih, {KI: 245}
see also Terms in Holy Writings
will reveal twenty-five remaining letters of knowledge,{KI: 243-44}
{ROB1: 216}
Return of,Elias (Elijah),through Whom all knowledge revealed, {PM: 84}{GPB: 58, 276}John the Baptist,
{SAQ: 39, 288}
John the Baptist was return of, {SAQ: 132-34, 288}
{ESW: 157, 158, 171}
{GPB: 58}
{ROB1: 169}
{SAQ: 91, 93-95}
see also Christ
transcendent power of,{KI: 234}
iron rod of, {SAQ: 70}
His Tablets and Writings,{PM: 40}
arrested in Shíráz,{GPB: 11, 13}assigned to Máh-Kú (prison), {GPB: 16}
and outbreak of the plague, {DBNN: 196}
release of, {DBNN: 197}
attacks upon, caused by Hájí Mírzá Áqásí, see Aqásí, Háji Mirza
aware of impending trials, {GPB: 14}
Banishment,{TOB: 65}bastinadoed, {GPB: 22}
for three years to Ádhirbáyján, {GPB: 17-34}
proves to be prophetic fulfilment, {GPB: 18}
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}sorrow at persecution of disciples, {GPB: 49}
{KI: 231-32}
woes, {GPB: 49-51}
{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 BábBayán,
{ESW: 152, 153, 154, 157, 158, 159, 162, 165, 171, 172, 174, 176}Dalá'il-i-Sab'ih (Seven Proofs), {GPB: 26}
{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}effect on defenders of Fort of Shaykh-Tabarsí, {GPB: 24}
Arabic and Persian, {KA: 252}
outline of contents of, {GPB: 23}
heaven of, {TOB: 245}'lawful is it', {TOB: 75}laws and teachings of,{GPB: 25}'Letters' of, {ROB1: 308}
{KA: 2, 8, K142, n109, n158}
{ROB3: 278}
abrogated by Bahá'u'lláh,{KA: 8}confirmed, amplified or modified by Bahá'u'lláh,
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'lláhmarriage with a non-believer {KA: K139, n158}
prohibition of asking questions, see Bahá'u'lláh
restrictions on travel, {KA: K131, n153}
{KA: 8}reason for severity, {KA: n109, n158}
burial,{KA: n11, n149, n151}burial ring, inscription on, {KA: K129}
see also Burial
calendar,{KA: n26, n139, n147-n148}carrying of arms, {KA: n173}
see also Calendar, Bahá'í, Holy Days
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}renewing furnishings of home, {KA: n166}
see also Qiblih
wearing of silk, see Clothes
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}'Point' of, {ROB1: 298, 307}
reference to journey of Báb to Mecca and Medina in, {DBNN: 130}
purpose of,{GL: 147, 149}quotations from, {KA: K135, K137, K139, n7, n48, n156, n157, n158, n179, n189}
{ROB1: 296}
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'
Kitáb-i-Asmá' (The Book of Names)
Qayyúmu'l-Asmá', Qayyúm-i-Asmá,{GL: 284}commentary on Súrih of Va'l-'Asr, see Qur'án
{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
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}manuscripts in hands of Mirza Yahyá, {GPB: 167}
to divines, {KI: 229}
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'í, Áqá Mullá, {ROB2: 99-l00}
Babel, {GL: 173}
Bábí(s), People Of The Bayán, Followers of the Bayán,Backbiting, Gossip, 'unseemly talk',{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',community{KA: K137-K143, K176-K180}call to, {GL: 102, 106}
{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
conduct of, {GL: 244, 273, 274, 293, 294}
declares His mission to,{ROB1: 261-2}focuses message on, {ROB4: 81}
{ROB4: 329}
on Bábí Faith (Dispensation of Bayán), {TOB: 182}
rebukes, {ROB4: 219-20}
Bábís were heedless of Revelation of, {ROB4: 81, 148}
disintegration of, {GPB: 89-91, 112-115}Hájí Mullá 'Alí-Akbar meets, see Hands of the Cause of God
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}
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}steadfastness of, {ROB4: 140-1}
{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
turn to Quddús, see Letters of the Living
use of force by,{ROB2: 258, 351-5}see also Báb, The, Bayán
{ROB4: 377-8}
allowed to defend themselves, {ROB4: 377-8}
Badakhshán, {ROB4: 183}
Badasht (Hamlet of), Conference of,Badí'u'lláh (son of Varqá), {ROB4: 59}
Badru'd-Dín-i/Al-Ghazzí, Shaykh{ROB3: 436}Baghdád,
{ROB4: 151}
Bahá'í Faith,{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}as "Abode of Peace," {KI: 22, 174}
at Garden of Ridván, see Ridván
Bahá'u'lláh in,{GL: 119}Bahá'í Community of, {ROB3: 54, 62, 64-5, 178}
{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}His House, Baghdád House, Bayt-i-A'zam (Most Great House)
{ROB1: 16, 165, 258-9}
Russian official accompanies Bahá'u'lláh to, {GPB: 108}
{GL: 111}immortalizes, {GPB: 110}
{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}Shrine, future,
seizure of, {GPB: 356-360}
{GL: 115}see also Súrihs of Hajj
pilgrimage to,{GPB: 177, 300}restoration of, {GPB: 307}
blessing of, {GL: 114}
Tablet of Visitation to, {GL: 111-114}
Station of, {GL: 112, 113, 114}
release and banishment to Baghdad, {DBNN: 650}
returns from Kurdistán,{GPB: 125-133}visitors to,
{ROB1: 25, 41, 63, 67-9 passim, 84, 96}
see also Kurdistán
{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}departs,
Muhammad-Ridá, {ROB3: 65}
pilgrims meet Bahá'u'lláh in, {ROB4: 51, 53, 74, 80, 88, 245-6, 301, 439}
{GPB: 147-149}
{ROB1: 16, 55, 57, 97, 203, 225-7, 243-4, 260-62, 281-2}
disciples mourn His departure, {GPB: 148}
events in, {ROB1: 142-7, 206-10, 219-20, 225-7, 228-9}
its authorities and leaders,Buzurg Khán, Mírzá, Persian consul-general in,Mírzá Yahyá's actions,{ROB1: 143, 146-7, 225, 226}Governors,
{ROB2: 323-4, 332, 333}
fate of, {GPB: 232}
{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}
{ROB1: 54-5, 247-54}see also 'Iráq
see also Yahyá, Mírzá
{ROB2: 20-1, 53, 98, 127, 186, 191, 262-5, 268, 286, 289, 320-1}Bahá'í(s), Believers, followers of Bahá'u'lláh, Loved Ones, People of God, Servants of God,
{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,Badí' Calendar, of the Bahá'í Dispensation,1. Apostolic (1844-1921),{GPB: xiii}2. Transitional (1921- ),
Heroic (1844-1921),{GPB: xiii, 46, 50, 55, 157, 158, 256}drawn to a close, {GPB: 309, 324}
{ROB3: 48, 325}
{ROB4: 119, 123, 182, 233, 366}
Bahá'ís in, {ROB3: 325}
ended, {GPB: 223, 256, 309}
Primitive (1844-1921), {GPB: xiii}
{GPB: xiii, 325}3. Golden (future),
Formative (1921- ),{GPB: xiii, xv, 26, 158, 252, 324, 329, 330, 388}Iron (1921- ), {GPB: xiii, 324}
{ROB3: 48, 285}
{ROB4: 182, 286, 367}
see also Shoghi Effendi
{GPB: 26, 60, 158, 324, 411}Century, first,
{ROB3: 125}
{ROB4: 366}
{GPB: 106, 223, 378, 379, 402}Periods,
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}
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}
Bahá'í{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),Day,{KA: 14, K16, 148, n27, n29, n147}Leap Year, {KA: n27, n147}
position in calendar, {KA: K16, n25, n27}
see also Prayer(s)
length of, {KA: n27, n62, n147}
of patience see Divorce
of waiting see Lost Property
period of, {KA: n26}Holy Days, Anniversaries, Festivals, Celebrations,
Sunrise
prayer at dawn,Morning,{KA: K33}time for Obligatory Prayer, see Prayer(s)
in the Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, {KA: K115, Q15, n142}
times for Fast, see Fasting
determining time, {KA: Q64}Noon, Midday,
recitation of verses,{KA: K149, Q68, n165}time for Obligatory Prayer, see Prayer(s)
see also Recitation of sacred Writings and verses
times of the Fast, see Fasting
time for Obligatory Prayer, see Prayer(s)Sunset, Sundown,
see also Recitation of sacred Writings and Verses
determining date of Naw-Rúz, {KA: Q35}Evening,
time for Obligatory Prayer, see Prayer(s)
times for Fast, see Fasting
prayer, {KA: K33}Night,
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
determining of time for prayer and fasting, {KA: K10}Clocks, Watches, {KA: K10, Q64, Q103, 147, n17}
recitation of Verses,{KA: K149, Q68, n165}times of the Fast, see Fasting
see also Recitation of sacred Writings and Verses
{KA: K110, K112, Q1-Q2, 156, n138, n139, n140}Months,
Naw-Rúz, (Bahá'í New Year), March 20/21,{KA: K16, K111, Q35, n26, n139, n147, 148}Ridván, Most Great Festival,
{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}Spring Equinox, Vernal Equinox,
Tihrán selected as the standard
{KA: n26, n147}timing of, {KA: Q35, n26, n147}
{SAQ: 73-74, 78, 145, 242}
see also Prayer(s)First day, April 20/21 2 hours before sunset (Standard Time), see RidvánDeclaration of the Báb, May 23/24 2 hours after sunset on preceding day, see Shíráz
Ninth day, April 28/29, see Ridván
Twelfth day, May 1/2, see Ridván
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}Day of the Covenant, November 25/26,
Birth of the Báb,{KA: Q2}Birth of Bahá'u'lláh,
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
{KA: Q2}during the Fast, {KA: Q36, n138}
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
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
{KA: n139}Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, November 27/28 1 a.m. (Standard Time), see Haifa
see also UHJ Message July 2014
two Most Great Festivals, {KA: K110, n138}
names,Nineteen Day Feast,{KA: K127, n139, n148}number of, in a year, {KA: K127, n27, n147}
'Alá', month of Fast,{KA: Q71, n25, n26, n27}Bahá,
see also Fasting
{KA: K111, K127}see also Covenant Library Bahá'í Dates Calendar
{ROB1: 116-117}
number of days in, {KA: n27, n147}
{ROB3: 281}North, South, extreme, {KA: K10, n17, n26}
Kitáb-i-Aqdas on,{GPB: 214, 342}Unity Feast
{KA: 14, K57, n82, Q48}
{ROB3: 352}
Consultation at, {KA: n82}
Meetings, Bahá'í, {KA: n19, n168}
Universal House of Justice to fill in details, {KA: n26, n138}
Week, {KA: n147}
Cause of God,Cemetery, {GPB: 369}
Center, Hazíratu'l-Quds,{GPB: 261}Civilization, {ROB4: 138, 233, 366, 413, 423}
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}
Courts, to be established, {GPB: 411}
Endowments, national and local,{GPB: 337-339}Literature,
{KA: K42, n66-n67}
Bahá'í Bulletin, {GPB: 260}schools,
Bahá'í News, {GPB: 260}
Bahá'í World, a biennial international record,{GPB: 382}banned in Persia, {GPB: 345}
{KA: n27, n139, n143, n147}
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}
site for on Mt. Carmel, {GPB: 307}
see also Persia{ESW: 62, 102-103, 104, 105, 114, 121, 134, 144, 147, 152, 153, 157, 158, 162}Institutions of,
{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}
opposition to,{ROB3: 50-51, 124, 310-21, 344, 379}
Administrative Order,{GPB: 268, 323-353, 411}attacks on, {GPB: 354-363}
{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
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,Head of see 'Abdu'l-Bahá, House(s) of Justice, Shoghi Effendi{KA: n125, n161, n169}Huqúq'u'lláh, Huqúqu'lláh, Right of God,
{ROB3: 79-80, 82}
{ROB4: 248, 253, 256, 259, 263}
International, {ROB4: 256}
see also Prayer(s){GPB: 214}see also Zakát
{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}Shoghi Effendi, statement on, {ROB4: 252}
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}statements on, {ROB3: 372}
estate of deceased, {KA: K28, Q9, Q69, Q80, n47}
exemptions, {KA: Q8, Q42, Q95}
Property, Real estate,{KA: Q8, Q42}Universal House Of Justice receives, {KA: n125}
real estate yielding no income, {KA: Q102}
Wealth, {KA: Q90}
see also Unpublished or Untranslated Works
Trustee(s) of Huqúq'u'lláh, Trustee(s) of Bahá'u'lláh,{ROB3: 57, 73ff., 91, 327}see also Lost property
{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
Holy Places see Holy Places and Historical Sites
House(s) of Justice, Seat of Justice, Baytu'l-Adl, "Rulers",{GPB: 218, 219, 331, 332}Ordained by Bahá'u'lláh in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, {KA: 3-4, 12-14, K30, K42, 145, n49, n66, n67}
{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}Assemblies, Spiritual,
{SAQ: 172, 172n, 173}
{GPB: 331, 332, 333, 336}membership
{ROB3: 51, 285, 316-21, 366}
'Abdu'l-Bahá, Statements on,{ROB4: 290}first in America, {GPB: 260}
establishes first elected Assembly of Tihrán, {ROB4: 290}
incorporated under United States government, {GPB: 335, 336}
Local Spiritual Assemblies, LSAs, Local Houses of Justice,{KA: 3-4, n183}National Spiritual Assemblies, NSAs, National Houses of Justice (Secondary),
{ROB4: 193-4, 275, 276, 290-1}
duties, powers, characteristics of,{GPB: 331, 332}instituted in Persia,
{KA: n51}
administers divorces, {KA: Q98, 152, n100}
financial assistance to the poor, {KA: K147, n56, n162}
inheritances from missing heirs, see Inheritance
{ROB4: 276}of Bahá'í Women, {ROB4: 312}
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}
{GPB: 332-336}ordained by Bahá'u'lláh, {KA: K30, n49}
{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}communications of, to governments and rulers, etc., {GPB: 343, 344}
became National Assembly, {GPB: 333}
committees, {GPB: 333, 334}
constitutions of,{GPB: 335-6}Convention,
Declaration of Trust, {GPB: 335}
annual, {GPB: 342}in eight countries, {GPB: 333}
delegates to, {GPB: 333}
first American,{GPB: 262, 276}
{ROB3: 431}
of Persia,{GPB: 333}
{ROB4: 314}
powers and duties of, {KA: n51, n100, n162}
see also Prayer(s)composition, men and women eligible, {KA: n80}ordained in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, see ordained by Bahá'u'lláh
number, {KA: n50}
referred to as Deputies, {KA: 13, K147, n56, n162}
referred to as Trustees, {KA: 91, Q50, Q98}
powers and duties,{KA: n51}term used non-specifically by Bahá'u'lláh, {KA: n42}
assures education of children,{KA: K48}charged with affairs of the people, {KA: 91}
{TOB: 90, 128}
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}
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}Boards of Counsellors, Counselors,
{ROB3: 153, 214-15}
{ROB4: illus. 364; 351-67}
Bahá'í International Archives,{GPB: 347}development of, {ROB4: 362-7}
{ROB1: 19, 159}
{ROB4: illus. 364; 248, 362}
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}
{ROB4: 276, 288-9}Constitution, {KA: n51}
Continental Board of Counsellors, Learned Ones in Bahá,{KA: n183}professional, {KA: n58}
Auxiliary Board,{KA: n183}
Members, {ROB4: 277}
Election method, {KA: 4, n49}
Establishment, {KA: K42, n66-n67}
Infallibility of, see Infallibility
International Bahá'í Council
Membership,
confined to men, {KA: n80}Powers and duties,
number, {KA: n50}
{KA: n51}Quoted, {ROB3: 283-4}
{ROB4: 162}
administers endowments, {KA: K42, n66-n67}
future legislation,
application of penalties for murder and arson, {KA: n86-n87}legislative functions defined, {KA: 6-7}
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}
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
Seat of Justice, {KA: K23}
see also Guardianship, Interpretation of Sacred Text
Teaching of, promotion of, propagation,{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}defence of, {ROB3: 89-90}
Tribulations assist Cause, {GL: 42, 72, 270, 333 }
upheavals, meaning of to growth of Faith, {GPB: 61}
enemies of,to be pitied, {ROB4: 93}eventual triumph of, victory of,
fate of,{GPB: 81-85, 317-320}those who rise up against, {ROB4: 318, 340}
{ROB2: 148-50}
{ROB2: 356, 415-16, 418}if denied, what else worthy, {TOB: 131}
{TOB: 57, 197-8, 222}
through aid of believers, {KA: K42, K94, K164, K178}
through aid of Laws, {KA: K4}
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, RussiaTeachings of,{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 Goddeeds, 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}exhortation to assist teachers, {KA: K117, 160}
to kings, {KA: K84}
to "learned," {KA: K173}
to religious leaders, {KA: K169}
see also Service
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}minority groups, {GPB: 380}
{ROB4: 237, 262-3}
Bahá'u'lláh counsels Bahá'ís on,{ROB4: 192}pre-requisites for,
Force, Violence, prohibited in teaching, {GL: 278, 303, 330}
Persuasion, {GL: 278, 279, 303, 329}
{ROB4: 48-9, 161-2, 237}Rúhu'lláh's method of, {ROB4: 58-60}
detachment important for success in, see Detachment
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}
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}women encouraged to teach, {ROB4: 202}
see also Children
words (utterances), importance of, {TOB: 57, 85, 172-3, 197}
see also Bahá'í(s), Prayer(s), Root, Martha
misc topics{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}
oncreation, see CreationPrinciples of,
living the life, {ROB4: 69, 83}
reconstruction of human society, {ROB4: 341}
worship, {ROB4: 36}
{GPB: 216-219, 281, 282}understanding of, {ROB4: 212-13}
{ROB4: 114, 146, 287, 320, 375-6, 423}
'Abdu'l-Bahá's "Twelve Points" {GPB: ix},1. Unfettered search after truth,forbidding contention and strife,{ROB4: 141-2, 197, 294}2. The oneness of mankind.
condition for, {GL: 264, 323, 326}
Independent investigation of truth,{TOB: 130, 157, 188, 236}see also True Seeker
'let him who wisheth turn...', {TOB: 211}
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.{ROB4: 375-82}revolve around principle of love and unity, {ROB4: 161, 190, 365, 388-9}
Strife, effect of, {GL: 9}
see also Bahá'u'lláh
unity of see Unity
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,Community,{ROB4: 362}World,
future seat of, {GPB: 315, 316}
{KA: n173, n183, n189, n194}
{ROB3: 124 and n., 126, 347}
see also New World Order of Bahá'u'lláh
of Most Great Name,conversion to, {ROB4: 184}{ROB1: 242, 281}World, {ROB1: 279}
{ROB3: 108, 109, 312, 400}
{ROB4: 172, 237, 239, 257, 361}
denial, {KA: K140, K167, K169, K170, K179, n171, n180}
direction of affairs of,{KA: n67, n183}dissimulation (recantation) forbidden in, see Dissimulation
see also 'Abdu'l-Bahá, House(s) of Justice, Shoghi Effendi
emancipation of, {GPB: 364-375}
features of,{ROB1: 129, 133, 137}former religions and, {GPB: 100}
{ROB3: 200}
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}independence of,
{ROB3: 192}
{GPB: 17, GPB: 365}its establishment, {ROB2: 20, 30, 92, 124-5, 251}
{ROB4: 184}
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}primacy of, {KA: K167}
{ROB4: 239}
progress of, {ROB3: 380}
protection of,{KA: n183}purpose of, {TOB: 123, 168, 220}
{ROB4: 278, 287, 290, 320, 321}
recognition of Bahá'í Faith,as state religion, {KA: n49}relationship to Faith of the Báb, {KA: 8, K129, K136, K139, K140, K179, K180}
by Office of Price Administration, {GPB: 374}
by United States government, {GPB: 373}
civil recognition, {GPB: 364-374}
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}shielded by Most Great Infallibility, see Infallibility
{ROB3: 83, 395-6}
attracts divine assistance, {KA: K38, K53, K74}
see also Assistance, Service
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}universal adoption of, {ROB4: 56}
{ROB2: 286}
see also Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Bishárát
universal faith needed, {TOB: 69}
Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Husayn-'Alí), Founder of the Bahá'i Faith,{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}
andBábís,Blessings of, {PM: 52, 54, 117, 183, 190, 195, 205, 274, 287, 296, 311}{ROB4: 379}Bahá'u'lláh,
become Bahá'ís, {GPB: 299, 300}
growth from Bábí community, {ROB2: 73-7, 179}
{ROB1: 109-10, 113, 203, 244}Hands of the Cause, see Hands of the Cause of God
{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}Bahá'u'lláh remembers, {TOB: 49, 246, 254, 261, 264}
{TOB: 148}
call to, {GL: 94, 96, 97, 148, 183, 288, 319, 325}
counsels to,{ROB4: 159-60, 192, 338-42}exhortations to, {ROB4: 173, 212-13, 237, 317, 375-7}
counselled to be wise, {ROB4: 322}
turn to 'Abdu'l-Bahá, {KA: K121, n145}
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}
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}
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}Companions of the Crimson Ark, see Terms in Holy Writings
development of, {ROB4: 289}
integration of, {ROB4: 291}
races represented, {GPB: 380}
Conduct and life,{GL: 7, 94, 240, 243, 271, 272, 275, 277, 278, 287, 296, 305, 307, 315, 316, 343}diversity of, {SAQ: 65}
{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}business dealings among, {ROB4: 26-7}
see Qualities
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}elections, {ROB3: 316-17, 319}
see also Education
enjoined, exhorted, {KA: 14-15, 159-161}
forbidden various acts, {KA: 157-158}
gatherings of,{ROB4: 316}goal of, {PM: 89, 102, 258, 267, 270}
festivals and Holy Days, {ROB3: 115, 223, 281}
intercede for enemies, {TOB: 91}
intermarriage of, {ROB4: 291}
loyalty to Government, {TOB: 22-3, 87}
love,among, {ROB4: 194, 317}misdeeds of,
of humanity, {GL: 7, 95, 250, 260, 288, 316, 334}
{ROB4: 225-6, 391}obey God's laws, {TOB: 50, 62, 71, 72, 93, 108, 130, 132, 196, 197, 267, 268}
see also Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Kalimát-i-Firdawsíyyih, Lawh-i-Hikmat
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, Wisdomschools built by, {ROB4: 122n.}
see also Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
shining examples, {TOB: 138}
spiritual character of, see Character
spiritual obligations of, duties,{KA: 145-162}spirituality of
{ROB3: 74, 285-6, 379}
daily,ablutions, see Prayer(s)enjoined to teach, {ROB4: 274}
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
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
brilliant, {TOB: 88}standards,
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}{ROB3: 125, 364-5}steadfastness of, {ROB4: 140-1}
of Bahá'u'lláh for, {ROB4: 82-3}
of detachment, see Detachment
trustworthiness, {TOB: 37-8, 122}
two kinds,{ROB2: 255-6}understanding of,
true, {ROB4: 161, 296}
teachings, {ROB4: 212-13}unity of,
the Testaments, {ROB4: 267}
{ROB1: 303}view of,
{ROB2: 87, 191, 193}
{ROB4: 190-6, 317, 365}
life, {ROB3: 296}virtues, {ROB3: 106}
world problems, {ROB3: 125-6}
well-being of, {ROB4: 289}
youth,{ROB3: 365}see also Deeds, Qualities
activities of, {GPB: 341, 342}
work of, {GPB: 341-342}
dissimulation of, see Dissimulation
in Heroic age, see Age(s)
of'Akká, see 'Akká'People of Bahá',
America, see America
Baghdád, see Baghdád
Cyprus, see Cyprus
India, see India
'Ishqábád, see 'Ishqábád
Mandalay, see Mandalay
Persia, see Persia
Darakhsh, see DarakhshRangoon, see Rangoon
Mashhad, see Mashhad
Qazvín, see Qazvín
Yazd, see Yazd
{GL: 16, 32, 35, 46, 94, 100, 111, 117, 118, 169, 170, 212, 278, 288, 289, 304, 305, 333}persecution of, tribulations of,
{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}leaves, {TOB: 254-5, 256}
{ROB3: 27}
{TOB: 138, 221}
duties, {KA: n183}
see also Hands of the Cause of God, Continental Board of Counsellors, Auxiliary Board, Rulers
may become people of Sun of Reality, {SAQ: 222}
mission unspeakably glorious, {GPB: 254}
prominent, {ROB4: 286}
{GPB: 178, 197-203, 296-299}pilgrims, {ROB3: 17, 55, 57, 67-8}
{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}reveal station of believers, {PM: 155}
by God, {TOB: 35, 62, 88, 96}
victorious, {TOB: 57, 247}scatter opposition, {TOB: 85}
unstoppable, {TOB: 44}
uprisings against, {ROB4: 123-4}
see also Martyrs
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}Teachers, Muballigh (Teacher-proclaimer),
{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}
{ROB1: 86, 107, 162, 203, 279, 283}Zillu's-Sultán offers to assist, see Mas'úd Mírzá
{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}preparation of, {GL: 210, 277, 334, 335, 339 }
and spiritual education of child, {KA: n40}
qualifications of, {TOB: 58}
success due to Word of God, {GL: 277}
station of, {KA: K117}
training,{GPB: 340}traveling, {GL: 334 }
for youth, {ROB4: 313}
institutes for women, {ROB4: 304}
visiting graves of, {ROB4: 165}
with understanding, {ROB4: 257, 275}
who ruin Cause, {TOB: 58} who depart from the Writings, {KA: K117, 160}
see also Bahá'í 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,His Person,Achievements of, {ROB4: 421-4}
andAbu'l-Qásim, see Ridvánand aqueduct, {ROB3: 24-5}
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 GodRúhu'lláh, see Rúhu'lláh
and gifts,{ROB4: 246-8}Ascension, see 'Akká
accepted gifts as token of grace to giver, {GL: 116, 201}
Birth of, see Tihrán
Companions of,{ROB1: 27, 40, 95, 96-7, 206-9, 218}describes Himself, {KA: n1, n160}
{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}
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}in Tihrán, see Tihrán
{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}Brothers of,
{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
{ROB1: 10, 11, 15, 16}Children of,
Mírzá Muhammad-Hasan, faithful half-brother of,{ROB1: 11, 16}Mírzá Muhammad-Qulí, faithful half-brother of,
Abú-Tálib Khan, Mírzá, brother-in-law of, {DBNN: 639}
Shahr-bánú, daughter of, {ROB4: 438-9}
{ROB1: 15-16, 284}Mírzá Músá, (Áqáy-i-Kalím, Jináb-i-Kalím), most faithful brother, and Apostle of Bahá'u'lláh,
{ROB2: 199, 332, 402}
{ROB4: 242}
{DBNN: 183, 255, 286, 288, 397, 432, 441, 582}Mírzá Ridá-Qulí, half-brother of,
{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}
{ROB1: 12}Mírzá Yahyá (Subh-i-Azal), half-brother, Breaker of the Covenant,
{ROB3: 218-19}
{ROB4: 438}
Maryam, cousin of Bahá'u'lláh, wife of, see Alwáh-i-Maryam
{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}and Bábís,
nominated Mírzá Yahyá, {KA: n190}
{ROB2: 165-6, 181-2, 226}and Bahá'u'lláh:
role of, {ROB4: 305}
see also Báb, Theannounces His mission to Mirza Yahyá,Azalís,{GPB: 166-167}assurance of forgiveness should he repent, {KA: K184, 163}
{KA: n190}
Bahá'u'lláh addresses,{ROB4: 220-1}Bahá'u'lláh's allusions to, {ROB1: 195-6, 218, 241-2, 244, 272}
in Kitáb-i-Aqdas, {ROB3: 373-4}
establishes ascendency over Mírzá Yahyá, {GPB: 168, 169}
division of possessions with Mirza Yahyá, {GPB: 167}
Mirza Yahyá's opposition to,{GPB: 163-165}refuses to meet with Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 168, 169}
{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}clandestine opposition of, {GPB: 117}
plots to kill Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 166}
Bahá'u'lláh poisoned by, {GPB: 165, 166}
directs campaign against Bahá'u'lláh, {GPB: 124, 125}
rebellion of, {GPB: 163, 164, 165, 168}
rebellion stimulates Faith, {GPB: 204}
separation from Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB2: 161-70}
stigmatized by Bahá'u'lláh as'Most Great Idol',{GPB: 170}'source of Perversion',
{ROB2: 298}
{ROB3: 109}
{GPB: 170}
{KA: K184, n190}
{ROB2: 298}
{KA: K164, n177, n190}Badrí-Ján, wife of, {ROB3: 23, 225, 235, 251}
{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 'Akkáin Constantinople, machinations of, see Constantinople
remnant of, {GPB: 246}
see also Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Unpublished or Untranslated Works
claims himself a Prophet, claim to Revelation,{GPB: 167}fate of, {GPB: 233}
{KA: n190, n192}
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
{ROB4: 5-6, 283}Cousins of,
Aghsán (Branches),{KA: 3, K42, K61, 161, n66, n67, n85}Bahá'íyyih Khánum (Varaqiy-i-'Ulyá, the Greatest Holy Leaf, {DBNN: Bahíyyih Khánum}), daughter of,
{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 ofMírzá Badí'u'lláh, son of, Breaker of the Covenant,
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}
{ROB1: 131-2}Mírzá Díyá'u'lláh, son of, Breaker of the Covenant,
{ROB3: 230}
{ROB4: 59, 377, 435}
{ROB1: 131-2}Mírzá Mihdí (The Purest Branch), son of,
{ROB4: 58}
{GPB: 188-189, 348}Mírzá Muhammad-'Alí, Greater Branch, son of, Arch-Breaker of Bahá'u'lláh's Covenant,
{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}resting-place, in 'Akká,
{ROB3: ch. 10, Appendix III}
{ROB3: 214-15, Appendix III}Shoghi Effendi on,
Nabí Sálih, cemetery of, {ROB3: 209}
{ROB3: 211, 214-15}see also Unpublished or Untranslated Works, Prayer(s)
transfer of remains of Purest Branch and Navváb to Mount Carmel, see Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-Karmil
{GPB: 246-249}Shoghi Effendi, great grandson of, see Shoghi Effendi
{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}
{GPB: 347, 350}Fúrúghíyyih Khánum, daughter of, Breaker of the Covenant,
{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}
{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
Havvá, {ROB1: 122, 124-5}Parents of,
Maryam, see Alwáh-i-Maryam
Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vazír, see Hurúfát-i-'Állín
see also Mírzá Hasan-i-Mázindarání
Khadíjih Khánum, mother ofSisters 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}
{ROB1: 49-51}Uncles of,
Khánum Buzurg (Sháh Sultán Khánum), Breaker of the Covenant,{ESW: 169-171}Sakínih Khánum (Tallán Khánum), faithful half-sister of Bahá'u'lláh, {ROB1: 50}
{ROB1: 50-51}
{ROB4: 438}
Sárih Khánum, faithful sister of Bahá'u'lláh,{GL: 109}
{ROB1: 49-50}
'Aziz, {DBNN: 113}Covenant-breakers,
see also Mullá Mírzá Zaynu'l-'Ábidín
{ROB4: 5-6, 283}
Mírzá Mahmúd, nephew of, {ROB1: 9, 10}
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 Cause,{ROB3: 133-5}
{ROB4: 134-6}
authority of, {TOB: 48, 75, 108, 131}
being of,inner, {TOB: 72}confirmations of, {ROB3: 193-4, 377}
outer, {TOB: 72}
contrast between inward and outward circumstances, {ROB3: 1, 4, 13-14, 26, 248}
Hisclaim,followers consumed by love for Him, {GPB: 136, 137}{ROB3: 239-40, 263}courage, {ESW: 85, 87}
proofs of, {SAQ: 36-43}
detachment,{ESW: 36, 37, 41, 44, 59}effect on people, effect of presence of,
{ROB4: 246-8, 255}
{ROB2: 7-13, 63, 66, 153, 195, 254, 277n.}false prophets supplicate His forgiveness, {GPB: 131}
{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}
human aspects, {ROB3: 2-3, 56, 349-50, 402-3, 414-17}
humour, {ROB4: 243-5, 256}
innate knowledge,{GL: 58 , 122, 131, 199}Justice of,
{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}theology, lack instruction in, {KA: K104}
{SAQ: 34}
'ulamá could not reply to epistle of, {SAQ: 33}
"unlettered One,"{GL: 98, 199}
{KA: K104}
unschooled, {ESW: 11, 129}
{GL: 175}leadership, {GPB: 67-70, 194, 195}
example, {GPB: 133}
life, {ROB3: 239}
love of nature, {ROB3: 414-16}
magnanimity, {ROB4: 241-8}
majesty,{ROB1: 148, 257-9, 282}power,
{ROB2: 8-10}
{ROB3: 1, 4, 12, 52, 58, 111, 116, 133, 156, 248ff., 397-8}
{GPB: 141}presence with martyrs, {ROB3: 193-6}
{ROB3: 1-2, 13, 60, 134, 141, 193, 195, 333, 377-9}
{SAQ: 35}
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}
love of, {ROB4: 190, 194, 211, 234, 275, 283-4}
perfection of, {SAQ: 150}
personal relics of,{GPB: 347}relationship to his followers, {ROB3: 201-2}
clothes of,{ROB4: 247, 248}portrait of, {GPB: 347}
slippers of, {ROB4: 248}
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}
tests of being close to, {ROB2: 7}
His Station,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}His Mission,
{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}command
to serve Cause, {GL: 14, 37, 43, 84, 92, 137, 184, 196, 246, 281, 296, 308, 310}
against sedition,demands high conduct of His followers, {GPB: 133}{GL: 335}against use of force,
{ROB2: 86-91, 188, 190}
{KA: n170, n173}to teach,
{ROB2: 86, 258n., 351}
{GPB: 376, 377}
{ROB2: 91-106, 238}
orders land to be purchased in 'Ishqábád, {ROB4: 120}
violence condemned by, {GPB: 134}
see also Kitáb-i-Aqdas{GL: 85, 100, 108, 115, 130, 212, 217, 228, 238, 256, 286, 299}His Revelation, Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh ,
{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}
{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}infallibility of, see Infallibility
{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}and the West, {ROB4: 232-3}
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}see also Báb, The
{ROB3: 306}
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}Call to humanity,
{ROB2: 214}
{PM: 36, 74, 97, 104, 106, 107, 188, 197, 200, 207, 268, 295, 302}canalized through the Administrative Order, {ROB4: 233}
{TOB: 61, 64, 78, 105, 122, 238, 241, 250, 261, 265}
Centre of the Cause, see Covenant
chalice,{TOB: 196}compared to an ocean, {GL: 326-327}
of loving-kindness, {TOB: 220}
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}distinguishing features of,
{ROB1: 216-18, 279, 309-14}
{ROB3: 147, 192, 211, 317, 373}
{ROB4: 155}
culmination of past revelations,{ROB3: 3-4, 119}Holy Dispensation, {TOB: 125}
Bahá'í Cycle,duration of 5000 centuries (500,000 years),Bahá'í Era,{GPB: 55, 100}
{ROB4: 209, 366, 424}
duration of at least 10 centuries (1,000 years),consummation of all Dispensations, {GL: 244, 340}{KA: 1, 12, 14, K37, 156, n62}
{ROB1: 309-11}
{ROB3: 154, 167}
most perfect expression of peoples of old, {TOB: 87}
{ROB4: 340, 365}divine origin of, {ROB3: 114, 196}
{TOB: 94}
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}Hádí should recognize, {TOB: 43}
{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}
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}moment of, {ROB3: 160, 171}
{TOB: 77}
Most Great Infallibility disclosed, see Infallibility
Most Great Revelation, {ROB4: 141}
nature of,{ROB1: 21}none can protest what befalls, {TOB: 212}
{ROB4: 129, 150, 388}
ocean, {TOB: 33, 196}
oneness of, {PM: 274}
power of,{PM: 126, 144, 170, 277, 295, 296, 304, 308}principle of progressive revelation, {KA: K98, K183, n89, n126, n180}
{TOB: 200}
proclamation of His Message,{KA: K75, K80, K103, K118, K132, K134, K143, K163, K168, n158}profusion and power of,
{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}
{GL: 93, 96, 136, 140, 141, 189, 190, 197, 219, 286, 292, 319, 328, 332}Prophecies concerning, see Promised One of All Ages
{ROB2: 34, 84-5, 192-3, 251-4, 269, 274, 286, 298-300, 348n.}
promotion by force forbidden, {GL: 278, 303, 330}
proofs of,{GL: 49, 105, 179, 220, 259}purpose of, objectives of,
{KA: K136, K165, K167, K183}
{ROB4: 262-3}
{TOB: 74}
{ESW: 24, 33, 34, 36, 39, 40, 45, 46, 88, 161, 163, 166}quotes from previously revealed Tablets, {ROB4: 372-4}
{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}
recognition of,{KA: n48}recognition of God comes only through, {ROB4: 139-40}
{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}
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}Springtime, {TOB: 86, 257}
{GL: 90, 99, 103, 108, 126}
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}veils to recognizing, {ROB4: 138}
{TOB: 89}
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}world depends on, {ROB4: 319}
Most Sublime, {TOB: 264}
of God, {TOB: 73, 91, 93-4, 123, 237, 242}
world immersed in ocean of, {ROB4: 70}
world-vivifying, {ROB3: 213}
zenith,{ROB2: 1}see also Rashh-i-'Amá, His effect on people, Bahá'í Faith, Bahá'u'lláh, His Tablets and Writings, Dispensation, Kitáb-i-Aqdas
{ROB4: 114}
institutions ordained by, {ROB3: 214-15}
ministry,{ROB3: 10, 14, 80, 84, 110, 137, 143, 234, 241, 273, 400}sends travel teachers, {ROB4: 275-6}
inauguration of, {GPB: 106-108}
first phase, {GPB: 109, 111}
forty-year ministry, {GPB: 183}
last phase of, {GPB: 183-185}
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 Sufferings,{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}alludes to His own station,
came from heaven of eternity, {TOB: 9}
unconcealed (unveiled), {TOB: 40, 96, 123}{ROB1: 119, 142, 194-6, 210, 213, 218, 245, 273, 307-8}authority of,
{ROB3: 305}
{GL: 55-56, 171, 176, 202}bears trust of God, {TOB: 12}
{PM: 286}
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}pre-eminent, {TOB: 259}
{TOB: 107}
Prophethood, proof of,{GL: 11, 49, 105, 179, 220, 259, 302}relationship to God,
{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}
accused of identifying Himself with God, {ROB4: 125-6, 406-7}relationship to other Manifestations,
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}
{ROB1: 64-6, 308-9}reveals God's glory, {TOB: 197}
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}Universal Manifestation,
see also Supreme{ROB4: 135}
{SAQ: 58}
source of grace and gifts, {TOB: 245}
sovereignty,{KA: K69, K82, K134, K167, n181}transcends past and future, {TOB: 74-5}
over hearts of men, {KA: 13, K83}
see also Bahá'u'lláh, His Titles and Names
His Tablets and Writings, Sacred Text, Words of Bahá'u'lláh,{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}as Joseph,
sacrifice of, for mankind, {GL: 88, 99, 101, 307, 315}
{KI: 212, 254}attempt on His life,
{ROB2: 179, 269}
{ROB4: 81}
true Joseph,{GPB: 23}
{KA: n1}
{KA: n190}banishment from Persia,
{ROB2: 107, 153-4}
{ROB3: 66-7}
{KA: n33}bastinadoed, {GPB: 68}
{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
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}marks of sword on Tree, {TOB: 209}
{ROB4: 241-2}
{TOB: 10, 41, 49, 104, 151, 259, 260}
condemned to life imprisonment, {ROB3: 4, 18-19}
see also 'Akká, Tihrán
martyrdom sought, {TOB: 14, 15}
Persecution, of Cause of God,{ROB3: 14, 27, 56-7, 166, 224-5, 234-7, 243, 251}possessions plundered in Mázindarán, {DBNN: 637}
{ROB4: 335}
{TOB: 15, 33}
adversaries, enemies,{GPB: 142, 143, 146, 150, 159, 160, 224-233}Attacks on Cause to be refuted, {GL: 329, 330}
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}Shaykh Muhammad-Báqir, of Isfahán ("Dhi'b" - Wolf),
{ROB4: 75-6, 79-80, 91, 96-7, 100, 297}
{TOB: 203, 214-16}
fate of, {GPB: 232}
see also Muhammad, Mír Siyyidsee Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh/Lawh-i-BurhánSiyyid Muhammad-i-Isfahání, Anti-Christ of Bahá'u'lláh's Revelation,
see also Epistle to the Son of the Wolf{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
fate of His opposers, {GPB: 231-233}
warning to opposers, {GPB: 251}
refuge, sole, {GL: 203}
rejection of, opposition to,{GL: 58, 246, 256, 273}restrictions relaxed on, {GPB: 195}
{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
source of His sorrow,{ESW: 22, 33}Tribulations,
{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}{ESW: 17, 29, 35, 53, 75, 85, 95, 123, 147}urges followers not to grieve for His sufferings, {ROB3: 26, 32}
{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}
victory assured,{ESW: 21}
protected, {TOB: 102}
{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: n1