Notes

1

An early translation published in Corinne True, Notes Taken at Acca (Chicago: Bahá’í Publishing Society, 1907).
2

An early translation published in Corinne True, Notes Taken at Acca (Chicago: Bahá’í Publishing Society, 1907).
3

An early translation published in Corinne True, Notes Taken at Acca (Chicago: Bahá’í Publishing Society, 1907) and Star of the West, volume 4, number 18, page 305.
4

See Qur’án 2:185.
5

Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh, CLXXX.
6

An early translation published in Corinne True, Notes Taken at Acca (Chicago: Bahá’í Publishing Society, 1907).
7

An early translation published in Corinne True, Notes Taken at Acca (Chicago: Bahá’í Publishing Society, 1907).
8

The uncle and father-in-law of Ṭáhirih.
9

Mullá ‘Abdu’lláh; see The Dawn-Breakers, p. 276.
10

See God Passes By, p. 97.
11

That is, from Arabic into Persian.
12

In Arabic, only consonants and long vowels are written, and the word “Muḥammad” is therefore spelled with the letters M, Ḥ, M, and D.
13

See The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 17–18, and God Passes By, p. 97.
14

Qur’án 38:88.
15

The Islamic year 1269 began on 15 October 1852, the midpoint of Bahá’u’lláh’s four-month imprisonment in the Síyáh-Chál. It was in this prison that Bahá’u’lláh received His Prophetic Mission.
16

23 May 1844.
17

See The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 81–82.
18

See The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 162–69.
19

Matt. 27:11; Mark 15:2; Luke 23:3.
20

Cf. The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 648–49.

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