84 The remainder of the verse is: “Let us split the roof of Heaven and draw a new design.” 85 Qur’án 52:4. 86 Cf. Qur’án 13:28. 87 Qur’án 3:190. 88 Cf. Qur’án 39:68. 89 Qur’án 7:171. 90 Manqúl va ma’qúl: “desumed” versus “excogitated” knowledge. 91 Qur’án 3:190. 92 Bahá’u’lláh was accompanied by members of His family and twenty-six disciples. The convoy included a mounted guard of ten soldiers with their officer, a train of fifty mules, and seven pairs of howdahs, each pair surmounted by four parasols. The journey to Constantinople lasted from May 3, 1863 to August 16. Cf. God Passes By, p. 156. 93 Qur’án 26:119; 36:41. 94 Cf. Qur’án 5:59. 95 Qur’án 39:68–69: “And there shall be a blast on the trumpet, and all who are in the heavens and all who are in the earth shall swoon away, save those whom God shall vouchsafe to live. Then shall there be another blast on it, and lo! arising they shall gaze around them: and the earth shall shine with the light of her Lord...” 96 In _Sh_ay_kh_í terminology, the Fourth Support or Fourth Pillar was the perfect man or channel of grace, always to be sought. Ḥájí Muḥammad-Karím _Kh_án regarded himself as such. Cf. Bahá’u’lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude), p. 184, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, A Traveller’s Narrative, p. 4. 97 The promised Twelfth Imám. 98 Allámíy-i-Hillí, “the Very Erudite Doctor,” title of the famed _Sh_í’ih theologian, Jamálu’d-Dín Ḥasan ibn-i-Yúsúf ibn-i-‘Alí of Hilla (1250–1325 A.D.). 99 The Turkish _gh_urú_sh_ or piaster of the time was forty paras, the para one-ninth of a cent. These figures are approximate only. 100 Accent the first syllable: FÁ-teh-meh 101 Gibbon writes of the Imám Ḥusayn’s martyrdom and the fate of his Household, that “in a distant age and climate the tragic scene ... will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.” 102 The Sadratu’l-Muntahá, translated inter alia as the Sidrah Tree which marks the boundary, and the Lote-Tree of the extremity. Cf. Qur’án 53:14. It is said to stand at the loftiest point in Paradise, and to mark the place beyond which neither men nor angels can pass. In Bahá’í terminology it refers to the Manifestation of God. 103 This prayer was revealed by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá for the Consort of the King of Martyrs. 104 Qur’án 76:5. 105 Pronounced _Sh_ams-oz-Zohá. 106 A forerunner of the Báb, and co-founder of the _Sh_ay_kh_í School. See glossary. 107 His daughter, at a later date, became the consort of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Cf. God Passes By, p. 130, and The Dawn-Breakers, p. 461. 108 “Gate of the Gate”, a title of Mullá Ḥusayn, the first to believe in the Báb. For an account of his sister, cf. The Dawn-Breakers, p. 383, note. 109 “Solace of the Eyes.” 110 Persian women of the day went heavily veiled in public.