Qur’án 76:5.
Pronounced Shams-oz-Zohá.
A forerunner of the Báb, and co-founder of the Shaykhí School. See glossary.
His daughter, at a later date, became the consort of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Cf. God Passes By, p. 130, and The Dawn-Breakers, p. 461.
“Gate of the Gate”, a title of Mullá Ḥusayn, the first to believe in the Báb. For an account of his sister, cf. The Dawn-Breakers, p. 383, note.
“Solace of the Eyes.”
Persian women of the day went heavily veiled in public.
Qur’án 7:7; 14:42; 21:48; 57:25, etc
Cf. Nabíl, The Dawn-Breakers, chapter XV.
The reference is to Muḥammad’s daughter, Fátimih, “the bright and fair of face, the Lady of Light.”