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.