REFERENCES

Full details of authors and titles are given in the Bibliography. Page numbers are given for both the American and British editions of Kitáb-i-Íqán and The Dawn-Breakers. See Notes and Acknowledgements, xiii-xiv, regarding translations from Persian texts and the numbering of verses in the Qur'án.

INTRODUCTION

1. Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, pp. 63-4 (Brit.), p. 98 (U.S.).

CHAPTER 1: THE BIRTH OF THE REVELATION

1. Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 22.

CHAPTER 2: BAHÁ'U'LLÁH IN EXILE

1. Blomfield, The Chosen Highway, p. 45.
2. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 118, for the words of Bahá'u'lláh.
3. Blomfield, The Chosen Highway, p. 40.
4. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 185.

CHAPTER 3: THE WORD OF GOD

1. Bahá'u'lláh, The Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 57.
2. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 171.
3. Bihjatu's-Sudúr, p. 247.
4. Bahá'u'lláh, 'Tablet of Visitation' and 'Long Obligatory Prayer', included in most Bahá'í Prayer Books.
5. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section lxxiv.
6. Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', included in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 107.
7. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section lxxxix.

8. Masábih-i-Hidáyat, vol. VI pp. 446-7.
9. Bahá'u'lláh, The Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 57.
10. 'Áhang-i-Badí', vol. XXIV, nos. 7-8.
11. Unpublished memoirs of Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí.
12. ibid.
13. Muhádirát, vol. 1, p. 453.
14. Asráru'l-Áthár, vol. 1, p. 33.
15. Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 30 (Brit.), p. 46 (U.S.).
16. Star of the West, vol. XIV, p. 114.

CHAPTER 4: THE FIRST EMANATIONS OF THE SUPREME PEN

1. Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 63 (Brit.), p. 98 (U.S.).
2. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, sections lxiii, lxiv, and lvi, for the words quoted in this sentence.
3. ibid., section lvi.
4. ibid., section lxiii.
5. ibid., section lv.
6. Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, pp. 169, 171.
7. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 109.

CHAPTER 5: THE EARLY TABLETS IN 'IRÁQ

1. Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 160 (Brit.), p. 251 (U.S.).
2. Qur'án, iii, 93 (according to the Arabic text numbering).
3. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 118.
4. Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', included in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 113.
5. ibid., p. 113.
6. A Muslim tradition cited by Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 43.
7. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 120, for the words quoted in this sentence.
8. Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 160 (Brit.), pp. 250-51 (U.S.).
9. Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 65, for this quotation.
10. ibid., p. 64, for this quotation.
11. Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', included in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 115.
12. Bahá'u'lláh, 'Tablet of Ahmad', included in most Bahá'í Prayer Books.

13. Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', included in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 106-7.
14. ibid., p. 107.
15. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 133.
16. ibid., p. 138.

CHAPTER 6: The Hidden Words

1. Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, introduction to the Arabic version.
2. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section cliii.
3. Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 28, for the words quoted.
4. Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, no. 53, from the Persian version.
5. ibid., the closing words of the Persian version.
6. ibid. The words quoted in this paragraph are taken (in this order} from the Arabic and Persian versions, as indicated: no. 1 Arabic, nos. 26 and 57 Persian, nos. 12, 14 and 32 Arabic, nos. 32, 74, 82, 81, 17, 64, 63, 53 and 76 Persian.
7. ibid., no. 13, Arabic version.
8. ibid., no. 19, Persian version.
9. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 238, for the words quoted in this sentence.
10. Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, no. 71, Persian version.
11. ibid., no. 79, Persian version.
12. ibid., prefatory words preceding nos. 20 and 48, Persian version.
13. ibid., no. 77, Persian version.
14. The interpretations given by 'Abdu'l-Bahá, and cited in these paragraphs, are taken from His Tablets as quoted in Asráru'l-Áthár, vol. v, pp. 36-40, and in Má'idiy-i-Ásamání, vol. II, p. 37.
15. Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', included in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 116, for the words quoted.

CHAPTER 7: SOME EARLY BELIEVERS

1. Masábih-i-Hidáyat, vol. 1, p. 216.
2. 'Bahá'í News and Reviews', a Journal of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Írán, no. 12, September 1948 The account was written by Habíb Taherzadeh.

3. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 143, for the words quoted.
4. Mullá Muhammad-Sádiq-i-Khurásání is described by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Memorials of the Faithful, pp. 5-8 and by Nabíl in The Dawn-Breakers (consult the index).
5. Masábih-i-Hidáyat, vol. I, pp. 446-9.

CHAPTER 8: The Seven Valleys

1. Bahá'u'lláh, The Seven Valleys, p. 5.
2. ibid., p. 7.
3. ibid., p. 11.
4. ibid., p. 15.
5. ibid., p. 12.
6. ibid., p. 18, for the quotations in this paragraph.
7. ibid., p. 29.
8. Blomfield, The Chosen Highway, p. 166.
9. Bahá'u'lláh, The Seven Valleys, p. 32.
10. ibid.
11. ibid., p. 41.
12. ibid., p. 36.
13. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, pp. 136-7.
14. Bahá'u'lláh, The Four Valleys (published with The Seven Valleys), pp. 54 and 57-8, for the words quoted in this paragraph.

CHAPTER 9: SOME OUTSTANDING TABLETS

1. Unpublished memoirs of Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí.
2. Bahá'u'lláh, Prayers and Meditations by Bahá'u'lláh, no. 184.
3. ibid., no. 88.
4. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section xxiv.
5. Balyuzi, 'Abdu'l-Bahá, p. 141.
6. Shoghi Effendi, 'The Unfoldment of World Civilization', included in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 168, for the lines quoted.
7. ibid., p. 169, for the lines quoted.
8. ibid.
9. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section lxxiv.
10. Star of the West, vol. XIV, p. 112.
11. Unpublished memoirs of Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí.

12. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, pp. 248-9, for the words quoted.
13. Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', included in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 134.
14. ibid., p. 135.
15. Nabíl-i-A'zam, The Dawn-Breakers, p. 367 (Brit.), pp. 496-8 (U.S.).
16. 'Bahá'í News and Reviews', a Journal of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Írán, no. 7, December 1947. This account was written by Habíb Taherzadeh and has been edited by the author.
17. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 142.
18. ibid., p. 144.
19. ibid.
20. ibid., p. 141, for the words quoted in this paragraph.
21. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section cxiii.
22. Qur'án, vi. 35 (according to the Arabic text numbering).
23. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section xlv.
24. Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, no. 51, Arabic version.
25. Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, pp. 52-3.
26. ibid., pp. 85-6.
27. Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 17 {Brit.), pp. 25-6 (U.S.).

CHAPTER 10: The Kitáb-i-Íqán

1. Khánidán-i-Afnán, pp. 25-6.
2. ibid., pp. 32-5.
3. ibid., pp. 42-3.
4. Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 161 (Brit.), p. 252 (U.S.).
5. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, pp. 138-9.
6. Daniel, xii. 9.
7. Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 3 (Brit.), p. 3 (U.S.).
8. ibid., p. 9 (Brit.), pp. 12-13 (U.S.).
9. ibid., pp. 10-11 (Brit.}, p. 15 (U.S.).
10. ibid., p. 105 (Brit.), p. 164 (U.S.).
11. ibid. This quotation is taken from pp. 15, 16-17 (Brit.) and from pp. 22, 24-5 and 26 (U.S.).
12. ibid. These extracts are taken from pp. 21, 19, 20 and 21 (Brit.) and from pp. 32, 29, 30 and 31 (U.S.).

13. ibid. These extracts are taken from pp. 22, 24, 25 and 27 (Brit.) and from pp. 33-4, 36. 37, 38 and 41 (U.S.).
14. ibid., pp. 40-1 (Brit.), p. 63 (U.S.).
15. ibid., p. 42 (Brit.), p. 65 (U.S.).
16. ibid.
17. ibid., p. 43 (Brit.), pp. 66-7 (U.S.).
18. ibid., p. 46 (Brit.), pp. 71-2 (U.S.).
19. ibid., p. 51 (Brit.), pp. 79-80 (U.S.).
20. ibid., p. 52 (Brit.), pp. 80-1 (U.S.).
21. ibid., pp. 52-3 (Brit.}, pp. 81-2 (U.S.).
22. ibid., pp. 44-5 {Brit.), pp. 68-9 (U.S.).
23. ibid., p. 32 (Brit.), p. 49 (U.S.).
24. ibid., pp. 33, 34 {Brit.}, pp. 50-1 and 52 (U.S.).
25. ibid., pp. 35, 36 (Brit.), pp. 53-4 and 55-6 (U.S.).
26. ibid., pp. 36-7 (Brit.), pp. 56-7 (U.S.).
27. ibid., pp. 63-4 (Brit.), pp. 98-9 (U.S.).
28. ibid., pp. 64-5 (Brit.), pp. 99-100 (U.S.).
29. ibid., pp. 66-7 (Brit.), p. 103 (U.S.).
30. ibid., pp. 97-9 (Brit.}, pp. 152-4 (U.S.).
31. ibid., p. 113 (Brit.), pp. 176-7 (U.S.).
32. ibid., p. 102 (Brit.}, p. 159 (U.S.).
33. ibid., pp. 114-15 (Brit.}, pp. 177-9 (U.S.).
34. ibid., pp. 69-70 (Brit.), pp. 106-8 (U.S.).
35. ibid., pp. 79-80 (Brit.), pp. 123-4 (U. S.).
36. ibid., pp. 85-6 {Brit.), pp. 132-3 (U.S.).
37. ibid., p. 73 (Brit.), pp. 112-13 (U.S.).
38. ibid., p. 74 (Brit.), p. 114 (U.S.).
39. ibid., pp. 76-7 (Brit.), pp. 118-19 (U.S.).
40. ibid., p. 92 (Brit.), pp. 143-4 (U.S.).
41. ibid., p. 120 (Brit.), pp. 187-8 (U.S.).
42. ibid., p. 135 (Brit.}, p. 211 (U.S.).
43. ibid., pp. 123-6 (Brit.), pp. 192-6 (U.S.).
44. ibid. These quotations are taken from pp. 129, 130, 131 (Brit.) and from pp. 202, 203 and 204-5 (U.S.).
45. ibid., pp. 127-8 (Brit.), pp. 199-200 (U.S.).
46. ibid., p. 138 (Brit.), pp. 216-17 (U.S.).
47. ibid., pp. 142-3 {Brit.), pp. 222-4 (U.S.).
48. ibid., p. 147 (Brit.), pp. 230-1 (U.S.).
49. ibid., p. 149 (Brit.), pp. 233-4 (U.S.).

50. ibid., pp. 149-50 (Brit.), pp. 234-5 (U.S.).
51. ibid., p. 59 (Brit.), p. 92 (U.S.).
52. ibid., pp. 112-13 (Brit.), pp. 175-6 (U.S.).
53. ibid., p. 159 (Brit.), pp. 249-50 (U.S.).
54. ibid., p. 159 (Brit.}, p.250 (U.S.).
55. ibid., p. 39 (Brit.), pp. 60-1 (U.S.).

CHAPTER 11: OTHER EARLY BELIEVERS

1. Khánidán-i-Afnán, pp. 111-12.
2. Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 17, for the words quoted.
3. Nabíl-i-A'zam, The Dawn-Breakers, from the Preface.
4. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 135.
5. ibid., p. 137, for the passage quoted.

CHAPTER 12: BAHÁ'U'LLÁH'S APPROACHING DECLARATION

1. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 360, for the passage quoted.
2. Townshend, Christ and Bahá'u'lláh, from chap. 8.
3. Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 155 (Brit.), p. 243 (U.S.).

CHAPTER 13: FRIENDS AND FOES

1. Masábih-i-Hidáyat, vol. 11, pp. 489-91.
2. ibid., pp. 504-6.

CHAPTER 14: Tablet of the Holy Mariner

1. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 147.
2. British Bahá'í Prayers. These words of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's are a preface to the Tablet.
3. ibid., pp. 51-7.
4. Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 64, for the words quoted.
5. Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', included in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 111, for the words quoted.

CHAPTER 15: MÍRZÁ YAHYÁ AND SIYYID MUHAMMAD-I-ISFAHÁNÍ

1. Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, pp. 176-7.
2. ibid., pp. 174-7.
3. ibid., pp. 167-8.

CHAPTER 16: THE DECLARATION OF BAHÁ'U'LLÁH IN THE GARDEN OF RIDVÁN

1. Risáliy-i-Ayyám-i-Tis'ih, p. 330.
2. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 149, for the lines quoted.
3. ibid., p. 154, for the words quoted.
4. Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 43 (Brit.}, p. 67 (U.S.).
5. Nabíl-i-A'zam, The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 471-2 (Brit.), pp. 643-5 (U.S.).
6. Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 156 (Brit.}, p. 245 (U.S.).
7. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section xiv.
8. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 153, for the passage quoted.
9. ibid., p. 154, for the words quoted.
10. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section xiv.
11. Bahá'u'lláh, Prayers and Meditations by Bahá'u'lláh, no. 178.
12. Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, section cxix.
13. ibid., section clxv.
14. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 155.

CHAPTER 17: THE JOURNEY TO CONSTANTINOPLE

1. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 156.
2. See 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Memorials of the Faithful, pp. 145-7.
3. ibid., pp. 77-9.
4. ibid., pp. 23-5.
5. ibid., pp. 57-9.
6. ibid., pp. 59-61.
7. ibid., pp. 94-5.
8. ibid., pp. 39-41.
9. ibid., pp. 36-8.
10. ibid., pp. 156-8, for an account of Mírzá Ja'far, including this quotation.
11. Unpublished memoirs of Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí.
12. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, pp. 157-8.

CHAPTER 18: 'HIM WHOM GOD SHALL MAKE MANIFEST'

1. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 57, for the words quoted, except for the first title which comes from the 'Tablet of Ahmad'.
2. ibid., p. 30, for the words quoted.

3. Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', included in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 101, for the passage quoted.
4. ibid., p. 100, for the passage quoted.
5. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 29, for the words quoted.
6. Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', included in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 101, for the passage quoted.
7. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, pp. 30-1, for the passage quoted.
8. ibid., p. 29, for the passage quoted.
9. ibid.
10. ibid.
11. ibid., for the five passages quoted.
12. ibid., for the words quoted.
13. ibid., pp. 29-30, for the words quoted.
14. Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', included in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 100, for the words quoted.
15. ibid., pp. 146-7, for the passage quoted.
16. ibid., p. 101, for the words quoted.
17. ibid., for the passage quoted.
18. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, pp. 93-9.
19. 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, chap. XLI.
20. Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', included in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 111, for the passage quoted.
21. Shoghi Effendi, 'The Unfoldment of World Civilization', included in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 202-3, for the passage quoted.
22. Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', included in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 103-4.
23. Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come, p. 6.
24. Shoghi Effendi, 'The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh', included in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 101.
25. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 283.

APPENDIX I; MÍRZÁ ÁQÁ JÁN

1. Dr. Yúnis Khán, Khátirát-i-Nuh-Sáliy-i-'Akká, pp. 89-90. For an account of the author's life see The Bahá'í World, vol. XII, pp. 679-81.
2. ibid., pp. 54-6.
3. ibid., pp. 84-5.

APPENDIX III: VAHÍD

1. Nabíl-i-A'zam, The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 122-3 (Brit.), pp. 170-1 (U.S.).
2. Hájí Muhammad-Táhir-i-Málmírí, Táríkh-i-Shuhadáy-i-Yazd, p. 5.
3. Nabíl-i-A'zam, The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 124-6 (Brit.), pp. 173-6 (U.S.).
4. ibid., p. 127 {Brit.), p. 177 (U.S.).

APPENDIX IV: HÁJÍ MÍRZÁ KARÍM KHÁN

1. Nabíl-i-A'zam, The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 29-30 (Brit.), pp. 39-40 (U.S.).
2. Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, pp. 120-1 (Brit.), pp. 188-9 (U.S.).
3. ibid., pp. 121-2 (Brit.), p. 190 (U.S.).