Footnotes

[2.]

Mírzá Yaḥyá.

Ustád Muḥammad-‘Alíy-i-Salmání. See God Passes By, pp. 166–168, for an account of the events referred to by Bahá’u’lláh in this and following paragraphs.

The Báb.

A small rock situated low in the eastern corner of the Kaaba.

Peter.

cf. Matthew 5:29; Mark 9:47.

The Crimean War (1853–1856).

The Sulṭán of Turkey.

cf. Qur’án 77:20; 32:8.

‘Akká.

Mecca.

The Súriy-i-Mulúk.

The Sulṭán of Turkey.

Muḥammad.

cf. Qur’án 17:78.

Ṭihrán.

Baghdád.

Mecca.

Adrianople.

Muḥammad Sháh.

Anís.

Adrianople.

Mírzá ‘Alí-Akbar-i-Naráqí.

‘Álí Páshá.

Sulṭán ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz.

The Báb.

Jesus.

Sulṭán ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz.

Adrianople.

The Báb.

Imám Ḥusayn.

The Muslims.

Náṣiri’d-Dín Sháh.

Baghdád.