[AJ] Literally, the 'Sea of All Knowledge'.
[AK] A well-known inn (caravanserai).
[AL] Islamic law specifies fifteen as the age of maturity.
[AM] The holy cities of `Íráq are: (1) Najaf and (2) Karbilá (both already mentioned), which have within them the shrines of the first and the third Imáms, respectively; (3) Káẓimayn, in the close vicinity of Baghdád, which harbours the shrines of Imám Músá al-Káẓim, the seventh Imám, and Imám Muḥammad al-Taqí, the ninth Imám; (4) Sámarrá, where the shrines of the tenth and the eleventh Imáms, `Alí an-Naqí and Ḥasan al-`Askarí, are situated.
[AN] Qur'án lxxvi, 21.
[AO] 'Siyyidu'sh-Shuhadá'' can be variously translated as the 'Head', the 'Chief', the 'Master' or 'Prince of the Martyrs'. It is applied to Imám Ḥusayn (the grandson of the Prophet Muḥammad) who was the third Imám.
[AP] Háshim was the great-grandfather of the Prophet Muḥammad.
[AQ] The daughter of the Prophet Muḥammad.
[AR] The Báb refers to Himself time and again in this Book as 'Qurratu'l-`Ayn'—the Solace of the Eyes.
[AS] 'Nuqṭiy-i-Úlá'—the Báb.