A Traveler's Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the BábʻAbdu'l-Bahá
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A Traveler's Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
Babism; Bahai Faith
19 1852. Ḥin, according to the Abjad notation, equals 68. Cf. The
Dawn-Breakers: Nabíl’s Narrative of the Early Days of the Bahá’í
Revelation, trans. and ed. Shoghi Effendi (Wilmette, Ill.: Bahá’í
Publishing Trust, 1932), p. 18, note 1: In 1268 Bahá’u’lláh, chained
in the Black Pit of Ṭihrán, received the first intimations of His
Divine Mission, and that same year hinted of this in His odes.
20 Qur’án 27:90.
21 Throughout His Writings the “Oppressed One” refers to Bahá’u’lláh
Himself.
22 The ordinances of God.
23 Qur’án 55:3–4.
24 Qur’án 4:80.
25 Qur’án 6:17; 10:107.
26 Mírzá Yaḥyá’s title was Subh-i-Azal, the Morning of Eternity.
Bahá’u’lláh, in this connection, cites Amos 4:12–13, which says that
God “maketh the morning darkness.” Cf. Bahá’u’lláh, Epistle to the
Son of the Wolf (Wilmette, Ill.: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1953), p.
146. See Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By (Wilmette, Ill.: Bahá’í
Publishing Trust, 1974), p.114, for other titles of Mírzá Yaḥyá.
27 Cf. Qur’án 27:22.
28 Ṭihrán.
29 Qur’án 3:35; 22:19.
30 Qur’án 2:88; 62:6.
31 Qur’án 49:6.
32 Qur’án 5:64.
33 Qur’án 2:175.
34 Qur’án 6:164; 17:16; 35:19; 39:9; 53:39.
35 Qur’án 5:92.
36 Qur’án 2:254; 3:35; 22:14, 19
37 Qur’án 40:5.
38 Qur’án 15:11; 36:29
39 Qur’án 8:30.
40 Qur’án 6:35.
41 See John 11:49–50; Acts 4:6–10; 18:13–28; Acts 4:6–10.
42 Qur’án 2:257; 31:21
43 Mecca.
44 Ba_gh_dád.
45 Qur’án 57:15.
46 Adrianople.
47 Reference to the _Sh_áh of Persia.
48 1868.
49 England.
50 Qur’án 22:35.
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