Footnotes
Bahá’u’lláh refers to the ancient Persian and Arabian story of Majnún and Laylí, The Seven Valleys and The Four Valleys (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1991), page 6.
Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1983), section LXI.
ibid., section XVI.
Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1988), page 27.
Gleanings, section XVII.
Bahá’u’lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1988), page 133.
Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1993), paragraph 216.
ibid.
ibid., paragraph 104.
ibid., paragraph 106.
Gleanings, section XXII.
Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1987), page 311.
Gleanings, section XXVII.
ibid., section CIX.
ibid., section LXXXI.
Julian Huxley, cited by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (London: William Collins Sons &Co. Ltd., 1959), page 243. See also Julian Huxley, Knowledge, Morality, and Destiny (New York: Harper &Brothers, 1957), page 13.
Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh: Selected Letters (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1991), page 35.
Gleanings, section LXXVIII.
ibid., section CXXXII.
Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas: The Most Holy Book (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1993), paragraph 182.
Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán, paragraph 4.
ibid., paragraph 8.
ibid., paragraph 13.
ibid., paragraph 14.
St. Matthew 13.25, Authorized King James Version.
ibid., 13.29–30.
Qur’án, surih 7, verse 33, Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation, third edition, (n.p.: 1938).
Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraph 99.
The Summons of the Lord of Hosts: Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh (Haifa: Bahá’í World Centre, 2002), paragraph 126.
Bahá’u’lláh, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1990), page 79.
Isaiah 45.5.
Timothy 1.17.
Qur’án, surih 3, verse 73.
ibid., surih 2, verse 177.
St. Matthew 5.13.
ibid., 5.14.
Micah 6.8.
St. John 14.6.
Qur’án, surih 24, verse 35.
Genesis 17.7.
Bhagavad-Gita, chapter IV, Sir Edwin Arnold translation.
Deuteronomy 34.10.
St. John 5.45–47.
Qur’án, surih 2, verse 136.
The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Talks Delivered by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá during His Visit to the United States and Canada in 1912, revised edition (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1995), page 326.
St. John 1.10.
Gleanings, section CVI.
Abraham Lincoln, quoted in Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989).
Qur’án, surih 21, verse 104.
Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraph 5.
The Summons of the Lord of Hosts, paragraph 174.
Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, page 204.
Bahá’u’lláh, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, page 192.
Gleanings, section CVI.
Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh, page 129.
Bahá’u’lláh, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, pages 202–203.
Bahá’u’lláh, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice, page 84.
Gleanings, section CXXXII.
‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Secret of Divine Civilization (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1990), page 96.
Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (Haifa: Bahá’í World Centre, 1997), page 256.
Bahá’u’lláh, from a previously untranslated Tablet.
Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1944), page 25.
Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán, paragraph 213.
Gleanings, section VII.
The Summons of the Lord of Hosts, paragraph 126.
St. John 10.16.
Qur’án, surih 39, verse 69.
St. Matthew 6.10.
Qur’án, surih 85, verse 2.
Revelation 21.2.
ibid., 3.12.
Isaiah 2.2.
ibid., 3.15.
Daniel 12.9.
Isaiah 62.2.
Qur’án, surih 21, verse 104.
Gleanings, section IV.
St. Luke 17.21.
St. Matthew 21.33.
ibid., 13.23.
ibid., 7.17.
Gleanings, section XCVI.
ibid., section CXX.