Footnotes

1.: Qur’án 60:13.
2.: Matthew 22:14.
3.: Qur’án 57:21.
4.: Qur’án 17:81.
5.: Qur’án 15:72.
6.: Qur’án 39:68; Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 133.
7.: Qur’án 74:8.
8.: Qur’án 39:68.
9.: Qur’án 79:6.
10.: Qur’án 22:2.
11.: Qur’án 34:39.
12.: Qur’án 29:19.
13.: Qur’án 79:34.
14.: Qur’án 6:91; 52:12.
15.: Napoleon III
16.: Believed to be the angel appointed to sound the trumpet on the Day of Resurrection to raise the dead at the bidding of the Lord.
17.: Ḥuqúqu’lláh
18.: Qur’án 6:103.
19.: Qur’án 17:110.
20.: John 14:11.
21.: John 14:10.
22.: Qur’án 6:91.
23.: Written especially for Dr. Esslemont’s immortal work Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era.
24.: John 6:51, 58.
25.: cf. John 15:26; 16:12–13.
26.: Regarding this Tablet Shoghi Effendi’s secretary wrote on his behalf, on 9 May 1938, ‘...this obviously refers to the Báb, as the text shows clearly, and is in no way a reference to Swedenborg.’
27.: Jesus
28.: Cities in China celebrated for their musk-producing animals.
29.: The earthquake of 1906
30.: Of a Spiritual Assembly
31.: The Bahá’ís of Najaf-Ábád
32.: Muḥammad
33.: Shahnáz, the name given to the recipient of this Tablet, is also the name of a musical mode.
34.: An article from Andrew Carnegie’s book The Gospel of Wealth was published in England in the Pall Mall Budget and called The Gospel of Wealth, cf. Andrew Carnegie’s Autobiography 255n.
35.: Qur’án 36:36, and cf. 51:49.
36.: Qur’án 25:55, 35:13, 55:19–25. See also Marriage Prayer revealed by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá beginning ‘He is God! O peerless Lord! In Thine almighty wisdom Thou hast enjoined marriage upon the peoples...’
37.: See Some Answered Questions, pp. 328–9 for ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s comments on the arc of descent and ascent.
38.: cf. Qur’án 37:60 (The Tree of Zaqqúm)
39.: cf. Qur’án 24:35.
40.: Genesis 1:26.
41.: A Bahá’í children’s class in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
42.: Qur’án 25:50.
43.: cf. John 3:5.
44.: cf. Qur’án 39:57.
45.: Possibly ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was referring to the Sikhs; the description appears to apply to them.
46.: Matthew 17:1–19; Mark 9:2–9; Luke 9:28–36.
47.: John 6:38.
48.: John 3:13.
49.: The Báb, cf. Some Answered Questions, chap. XIII.
50.: Germany
51.: cf. Qur’án 3:35; 2:254.
52.: cf. Qur’án 36:25.
53.: The Pacific
54.: Matthew 19:24; Mark 10:25.
55.: 30 September 1912
56.: at Bahjí
57.: Qur’án 24:39.
58.: John the Baptist
59.: Qur’án 36:29.
60.: Qur’án 20:12. Also referred to as the ‘Sacred Vale’
61.: cf. Qur’án 4:80.
62.: This letter was signed by four hundred and twenty-two believers in America, and sent on 4 July 1905.
63.: John 18:11.
64.: Qur’án 67:3.
65.: Qur’án 24:35.
66.: cf. Qur’án 28:29.
67.: Qur’án 76:5.
68.: Qur’án 26:31; 26:44; the reference is to Moses’ rod, and the enchanters.
69.: Qur’án 61:4.
70.: The Báb
71.: Qur’án 67:3.
72.: Qur’án 2:69.
73.: Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, LXXII.
74.: Qur’án 76:5.
75.: This is the first part of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s reply to a letter addressed to Him by the Executive Committee of the Central Organization for a Durable Peace. The Tablet, described by Shoghi Effendi in God Passes By as of ‘far reaching importance’, and dated December 17, 1919, was despatched to the Committee at The Hague by the hands of a special delegation.