Footnotes

[1.]

Dedicatory Passage. From a Tablet addressed to the Greatest Holy Leaf, inscribed in the original Arabic on her Monument. (See The Bahá’í World, vol. V, p. 171)

From a Tablet addressed to the Greatest Holy Leaf. (See The Bahá’í World, vol. V, p. 171)

From an unpublished Tablet addressed to the Greatest Holy Leaf

From a Tablet addressed to the Greatest Holy Leaf. (See The Bahá’í World, vol. V, pp. 171–172)

From a Tablet addressed to the Greatest Holy Leaf. (See The Bahá’í World, vol. V, p. 172)

From a Tablet addressed to Munírih Khánum, the wife of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. (See The Bahá’í World, vol. V, p. 172)

From a Tablet addressed to Diya’íyyih Khánum, eldest daughter of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. (See The Bahá’í World, vol. V, p. 172)

Daughter of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.

From an unpublished Tablet addressed to the Greatest Holy Leaf

From an unpublished Tablet addressed to Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥasan-i-Khurásání

Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥasan-i-Khurásání (see H. M. Balyuzi, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, pp. 86, 124).

From an unpublished Tablet addressed to the Greatest Holy Leaf

Tiberias.

Jesus.

From an unpublished Tablet addressed to the Greatest Holy Leaf

From an unpublished Tablet addressed to Munírih Khánum

April 1922, announcement to the Bahá’ís in the west. (Translated from the Persian) (See Star of the West, vol. 13, pp. 81–82, and Bahá’í Administration, p. 25)

21 March 1932, to the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. (See The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, pp. 67–68)

Construction of the House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois.

15 July 1932, to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. (See Messages to America, p. 1)

15 July 1932, to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the British Isles

3 Kalímát 89 (15 July 1932 A.D.), to the Bahá’ís of the East. (Translated from the Persian)

The numerical value of the letters composing ‘Ḥin’ indicates 1268 A.H. or 1851–52 A.D.

Adrianople.

Akká.

17 July 1932, to the Bahá’ís of the West. (See Bahá’í Administration, 1974 edn., pp. 187–196)

18 July 1932, to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada

18 July 1932

1 August 1932, to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada

15 August 1932

23 August 1932

23 August 1932, to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Yonkers, N.Y.

25 August 1932

30 August 1932, to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Berkeley, California

30 August 1932, to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Racine, Wisconsin

1 September 1932, to the Bahá’ís of Washington, D.C.

1 September 1932, to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada

5 September 1932. (Translated from the Persian)

10 September 1932, to the Bahá’ís of Glendale, California

10 September 1932, to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada

10 September 1932

11 October 1932, to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Teaneck, New Jersey

27 October 1932, to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada

2 Masa’il 89 (13 December 1932 A.D.), to the Bahá’ís of Iran. (Translated from the Persian)

14 January 1933, to the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada

Included in Sections I and II.

21 April 1933, to the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. (See The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, pp. 81–82)

From the West, after the ascension of Bahá’u’lláh.

8 February 1934, to the Bahá’ís of the West. (See The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 98)

25 December 1938, to the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. (See The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 37)

5 December 1939, to the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada

25 December 1939, to the Bahá’ís of the East. (Translated from the Persian)

The remains of the Purest Branch and those of Navváb.

Munírih Khánum.

1944, God Passes By, p. 108

Bahá’u’lláh’s.

The Most Exalted Leaf.

1944, God Passes By, p. 347

27 November 1954, to the Bahá’ís of the World. (See Messages to the Bahá’í World, p. 74)

The International Archives Building.

15 August 1932

Members of the Holy Family.

Refers to the Annual Convention held in April 1932, at which the delegates and friends responded in an impressive manner to the need of the Fund associated with the name of the Greatest Holy Leaf, initiated in order to complete the exterior ornamentation of the House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois. Mrs Parsons spontaneously removed a valuable pearl necklace from her neck to assist in meeting the Fund’s goal. See Bahá’í News, No. 62, May 1932 for a report of that Convention.

23 August 1932

23 August 1932, to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Yonkers, N.Y.

25 August 1932

30 August 1932, to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Berkeley, California

30 August 1932, to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Racine, Wisconsin

30 August 1932

1 September 1932, to the Bahá’ís of Washington, D.C.

5 September 1932. (Translated from the Persian)

9 September 1932. (Translated from the Persian)

10 September 1932, to the Bahá’ís of Jacksonville, Florida

10 September 1932, to the Bahá’ís of Monroe, Washington

10 September 1932, to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada

15 September 1932. (Translated from the Persian)

15 September 1932, to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Shíráz. (Translated from the Persian)

15 September 1932, to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada

4 October 1932, to the Bahá’ís of Australia

4 October 1932, to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Phoenix, Arizona

6 October 1932

7 October 1932

8 October 1932, to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Adelaide, Australia

10 October 1932

11 October 1932, to the Bahá’ís of Teaneck, New Jersey

18 October 1932

29 October 1932

9 November 1932

30 November 1932

15 March 1933

29 May 1933, to the Bahá’ís of Bournemouth, England

6 March 1945. (Translated from the Persian)

See facsimile of original, facing page 157

12 Muharram 1307 A.H. (8 September 1889 A.D.)

14 Shavval 1310 A.H. (1 May 1893 A.D.)

Dhi’l-Qádih 1314 A.H. (3 April-2 May 1897 A.D.)

Elijah.

9 Muharram 1315 A.H. (10 June 1897 A.D.)

Dhi’l-Hijjih 1316 A.H. (12 April-11 May 1899 A.D.)

7 Muharram 1317 A.H. (18 May 1899 A.D.)

Dhi’l-Qádih 1318 A.H. (20 February-21 March 1901 A.D.)

Undated, postmarked 9 April 1901

Dhi’l-Qádih 1321 A.H. (19 January-17 February 1904 A.D.), to a believer in Ṭihrán

The Imám Ḥusayn.

Jamádiyu’th-Thání 1322 A.H. (13 August-10 September 1904 A.D.), to a Bahá’í family

Safar 1323 A.H. (7 April-5 May 1905 A.D.)

Dhi’l-Qádih 1323 A.H. (28 December 1905–26 January 1906 A.D.), to a believer in Yazd

Safar 1325 A.H. (16 March-13 April 1907 A.D.)

1 January 1921

Undated, to the President of the Bahá’í Women’s Society in Chicago

Undated

Elsewhere in this letter reference is made to one of the female relatives of the recipient.

28 November 1921, to the Executive Board of Bahá’í Temple Unity

14 December 1921 (date received), to the Executive Board of Bahá’í Temple Unity

Covenant-breakers.

22 December 1921 (date received), to the Executive Board of Bahá’í Temple Unity

17 January 1922 (date received), to the Executive Board of Bahá’í Temple Unity

Sha’bán 1340 A.H. (30 March-28 April 1922 A.D.), to the Servants of the Blessed Beauty and the dear friends of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. (See Star of the West, vol. 13, pp. 82–83)

See III, 1, page 21.

Feast of Ridván 1922 (21 April-2 May 1922 A.D.), to the friends in America. (See Star of the West, vol. 13, pp. 88)

1 May 1922 (date received), to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada

Ramadán 1340 A.H. (28 April-27 May 1922 A.D.), to a believer in Ṭihrán

Ramadán 1340 A.H. (28 April-27 May 1922 A.D.), to the Bahá’ís in Iran

Ramadán 1340 A.H. (28 April-27 May 1922 A.D.), to a believer in Tabríz

Ramadán 1340 A.H. (28 April-27 May 1922 A.D.), to a Bahá’í family in Tabríz

Ramadán 1340 A.H. (28 April-27 May 1922 A.D.), to a believer in Qazvín

Ramadán 1340 A.H. (28 April-27 May 1922 A.D.), to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Tabríz

The word camphor derives from Arabic kafur, as in Qur’án 76:5. Camphor has been used as a refreshing tonic in Eastern medicine.

cf. Qur’án 18:93: ‘Verily, Gog and Magog waste this land ...’ The rampart here described was of iron and molten brass, so that Gog and Magog could neither scale it nor dig under it.

Qur’án 14:29.

Qur’án 13:18.

The Book of My Covenant.

Qur’án 37:164.

cf.Matthew 18:8–9; Mark 9:43–7.

On p. 14 of ‘An Epistle to the Bahai World’ written by Mírzá Badí’u’lláh, translated by Dr Amínu’lláh Farid, and published by the Bahá’í Publishing Society in Chicago in 1907, there is the following passage concerning the falsification by Muḥammad-‘Alí of a Tablet in which Bahá’u’lláh relates the misdeeds of Mírzá Yaḥyá, to whom He refers as ‘My brother’. Mírzá Badí’u’lláh writes: ‘A few moments passed and I saw him [Muḥammad-‘Alí] take up the Tablet, erase “My brother” and replace it with “My Greatest Branch”. Having seen this, I immediately said: “This deed is a great sin and a breach of trust. If you show this Tablet, this servant will divulge the whole account, will point out the interpolation, and this will cause all the writings in your possession to be considered unreliable. Hereafter whatsoever of the writings traced by the Supreme Pen you may show me, I will not accept as authentic until I have carefully compared the manuscript with the original handwriting which is elsewhere preserved and have examined the same with a magnifying glass.”’

Qur’án 22:11.

Khusif.

Shavval 1340 A.H. (28 May-25 June 1922 A.D.), to the Bahá’ís in Khusif

Shavval 1340 A.H. (28 May-25 June 1922 A.D.)

Shavval 1340 A.H. (28 May-25 June 1922 A.D.), to a believer in Tabríz

Shavval 1340 A.H. (28 May-25 June 1922 A.D.), to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Ardikán

Shavval 1340 A.H. (28 May-25 June 1922 A.D.), to a believer in Karachi

Jesus.

26 Shavval 1340 A.H. (22 June 1922 A.D.), to a believer in Qazvín

Dhi’l-Qádih 1340 A.H. (26 June-25 July 1922 A.D.), to a believer in Míyánáj

Dhi’l-Qádih 1340 A.H. (26 June-25 July 1922 A.D.), to a believer in Shíráz

Dhi’l-Qádih 1340 A.H. (26 June-25 July 1922 A.D.), to the Bahá’ís in Khurásán

Dhi’l-Qádih 1340 A.H. (26 June-25 July 1922 A.D.), to the Friends of God

Dhi’l-Qádih 1340 A.H. (26 June-25 July 1922 A.D.), to a believer in Khurásán

12 Dhi’l-Qádih 1340 A.H. (7 July 1922 A.D.), to a believer in Tákúr, Núr

15 Dhi’l-Qádih 1340 A.H. (10 July 1922 A.D.), to the Bahá’ís of Ḥusayn-Ábád, Yazd

19 Dhi’l-Qádih 1340 A.H. (14 July 1922 A.D.), to the Bahá’ís of Míyánáj

The Báb.

22 Dhi’l-Qádih 1340 A.H. (17 July 1922 A.D.), to a believer in Ishqábád, Turkistán

20 July 1922, to the Bahá’ís in America

4 August 1922, to the Bahá’ís in the West

‘Abdu’l-Bahá.

15 Dhi’l-Hijjih 1340 A.H. (8 August 1922 A.D.), to a believer in Ṭihrán

9 August 1922

See Qur’án 12:93.

10 August 1922, to a believer in Alexandria, Egypt

20 Muharram 1341 A.H. (12 September 1922 A.D.)

22 Muharram 1341 A.H. (14 September 1922 A.D.), to a believer in Khurásán

22 Muharram 1341 A.H. (14 September 1922 A.D.), to the members of the Spiritual Assembly of Shísháván, a village in Ádhirbayján

24 Muharram 1341 A.H. (16 September 1922 A.D.), to the Bahá’ís of Gáv-Gán, a village near Tabríz

Qur’án 29:2.

1 Safar 1341 A.H. (23 September 1922 A.D.), to a believer in Ṭihrán

22 Safar 1341 A.H. (14 October 1922 A.D.), to a believer in Ṭihrán

2 Rabí’u’l-Avval 1341 A.H. (23 October 1922 A.D.)

2 Rabí’u’l-Avval 1341 A.H. (23 October 1922 A.D.), to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Ṭihrán

Muḥammad-‘Alí.

5 Rabí’u’l-Avval 1341 A.H. (26 October 1922 A.D.), to a believer in Iṣfáhán

5 Rabí’u’l-Avval 1341 A.H. (26 October 1922 A.D.), to the Maidservants of the Blessed Beauty in Sang-i-Sar

25 November 1922

Undated, to the friends in Yonkers, New York. (See Star of the West, vol. 13, p. 220, of November 1922)

2 December 1922, to a believer in Egypt

15 Rabí’u’th-Thání 1341 A.H. (5 December 1922 A.D.), to a believer in Ṭihrán

15 Rabí’u’th-Thání 1341 A.H. (5 December 1922 A.D.), to the members of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Ṭihrán

15 Rabí’u’th-Thání 1341 A.H. (5 December 1922 A.D.), to the members of the Chicago Temple Fund Committee in Ṭihrán

25 Rabí’u’th-Thání 1341 A.H. (15 December 1922 A.D.)

11 December 1922

23 July 1923

9 Safar 1342 A.H. (21 September 1923 A.D.), to the members of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Shíráz

4 Rabí’u’th-Thání 1342 A.H. (14 November 1923 A.D.), to a believer in Ṭihrán

28 November 1923, to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Yonkers, New York

3 December 1923

21 Sha’bán 1342 A.H. (28 March 1924 A.D.), to the members of the Spiritual Assemblies and all the Friends of God in the East

3 Shavval 1342 A.H. (8 May 1924 A.D.), to the Friends of God and the Maidservants of the Merciful

Bahá’u’lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 104.

cf. Matthew 10:16.

27 May 1924, to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Hamadán

‘Abdu’l-Ḥusayn Avárih (see Bahá’í Administration, Bahá’í Publishing Trust, Wilmette, pp. 137–139).

24 Shavval 1342 A.H. (29 May 1924 A.D.), to a believer in Ṭihrán

14 August 1924

28 June 1924

19 July 1924

18 August 1924

15 June 1925, to a Bahá’í couple in Stuttgart, Germany

8 October 1924

13 May 1928

12 March 1929

4 Jamádiyu’l-Avval 1348 A.H. (8 October 1929 A.D.), to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Ṭihrán

The Local Spiritual Assembly of Ṭihrán.

Undated, to the Maidservants of the Merciful in Ábádih

Undated