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.