Qur’án 40:5.

Qur’án 36:30.

Qur’án 8:30.

Qur’án 6:35.

cf. Matthew 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33.

John 14:28.

cf. John 14:16; 14:26; 15:26; 16:7.

See, for example, Qur’án 4:46; 5:13; 5:41; and 2:75, and the discussion in the Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 84 ff.

‘Alí Ibn Ḥusayn, known as “Zaynu’l-‘Ábidín”, the second of the Imám Ḥusayn’s sons, who became the fourth Imám.

The Kharijites, a faction opposed to both the Imáms and the Umayyad state.