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.”