Siyyid Ismá‘íl of Zavárih.
This second Tablet of Bahá’u’lláh addressing ‘Álí Páshá was revealed in Persian shortly after Bahá’u’lláh’s arrival and confinement in ‘Akká.
For an account of this incident see God Passes By, p. 182.
A probable reference to the fire of Hocapaşa, which destroyed a large part of the city of Constantinople in 1865.
The Lawḥ-i-Fu’ád was addressed to Shaykh Káẓim-i-Samandar of Qazvín, one of the apostles of Bahá’u’lláh. Its subject, the former Ottoman statesman Fu’ád Páshá, died in France in 1869. The letter namesKáfand Ẓá refer to the K and Ẓ of Káẓim.
cf. Qur’án 38:3.
cf. Qur’án 13:13.
cf. Qur’án 40:32.
cf. Qur’án 38:12, 89:10.
“heart” translates fu’ád, the given name of the Ottoman minister.