Command and Creation (Amr va Khalq):
Translation of Index and Catalog of Contents

by Asadu'llah Fadil Mazandarani

Condensed version (summary):

Volume I

Chapter 1: Theology

Chapter 2: Worlds of Creation

Chapter 3: Regarding the Worlds of Souls and the Human World

Volume II

Chapter Four: Regarding the Divine Manifestations and religions, matters and affairs connected with them
Part 1: In explanation of the Holy, Divine Manifestations
Part 2: Regarding Religions
Part 3: How to solve the symbols of the holy religious scriptures and making beliefs agree with reason and the science of the modern age
Part 4: Regarding some of the prophecies of the religions about this Cause and others that are recorded in the scriptures
Part 5: On some of the events of this Cause mentioned in the scriptures
Part 6: On the proofs mentioned in the wondrous scriptures regarding the truth of this Cause, the status of the miracles
attributed to Bahá'u'lláh, His lack of training in school in the scholarship of the day, and His arising with a Cause and accepting tribulations

Volume III

Chapter Five: On the teachings about the health of the body, education, manners, morals and various matters related to them
Part 1: On preserving health, warding off disease, taking care not to fall prey to harmful habits
Part 2: On manners and morals
Part 3: On cleanliness
Part 4: Regarding knowledge and education
Part 5: In explanation of the minute specifics of the conditions and necessities of religion
Part 6: Explaining punishments in the scriptures

Volume IV

Chapter Six: Explanation of matters related to the new calendar, different acts of worship, marriage, divorce, inheritance, the rules of burial, financial matters, and others
Part 1: Explanation of the calendar, important days and their regulations
Part 2: On acts of worship
Part 3: Unlawful things, marriage, and divorce
Part 4: The laws regarding the dead, consisting of two principles
Part 5: Huquqallah
Part 6: Regarding other financial matters

Chapter Seven: Regarding a number of matters that have been explicitly abrogated and changed relative to previous religions

Chapter Eight: Regarding the roots and formation of this Cause and the world

Part 1: Bahá'u'lláh's explanations of prior manifestations, the center (of the covenant) after him, the establishment of consultative bodies, the House of Justice, and rulers
Part 2: Abdu'l-Bahá's explanations of the above mentioned matters, the center who is to be obeyed after him, the formation and duties of the spiritual assemblies and the House of Justice, and sacred melodies
Part 3: The Guardian's explanations of the administrative order of this Cause and the world

Chapter Nine: Prophecies of what's to come