Chapter 13: The Dawn-breakers
Opening quotation: Díván-i-Miṣbáḥ. `Azízu'lláh Miṣbáḥ (1876-1945), poet, educationalist, master of belles-lettres, was an eminent Bahá'í of Írán. A book of his prose: Munshi'át-i-Miṣbáḥ, reprinted many times, became a textbook, for use in schools.
[1] Shaykh Muḥammad Shibl and his son, Áqá Muḥammad-Muṣṭafá (then about ten years old); Shaykh Sulṭán-i-Karbilá'í; Siyyid Aḥmad-i-Yazdí, the father of Siyyid Ḥusayn (the amanuensis of the Báb); Shaykh Ṣaliḥ-i-Karímí and Mullá Ibráhím-i-Maḥallátí were of that number.
[2] Browne (ed.), A Traveller's Narrative, Vol. II, xliii.
[3] He was variously named as Mullá `Abdu'lláh, Mírzá Ṣálih, and Mírzá Ṭáhir, the Baker.
[4] `Abdu'l-Bahá, Memorials of the Faithful, p. 201.
[5] The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 215-16 (Brit.), p. 299 (U.S.).
[6] ibid., p. 253 (Brit.), p. 351 (U.S.).
[7] Nicolas, Seyyèd Ali Mohammed dit le Bâb, p. 296.