111 Qur’án 7:7; 14:42; 21:48; 57:25, etc 112 Cf. Nabíl, The Dawn-Breakers, chapter XV. 113 The reference is to Muḥammad’s daughter, Fátimih, “the bright and fair of face, the Lady of Light.” 114 Eldest son of the _Sh_áh and ruler over more than two-fifths of the kingdom. He ratified the death sentence. Soon after these events, he fell into disgrace. Cf. God Passes By, p. 200; 232. 115 The eighth Imám, poisoned by order of the Caliph Ma’múm, A.H. 203, after the Imám had been officially designated as the Caliph’s heir apparent. His shrine, with its golden dome, has been called the glory of the _Sh_í’ih world. “A part of My body is to be buried in _Kh_urásán”, the Prophet traditionally said. 116 Pronounced TÁ-heh-reh. 117 Cf. The Dawn-Breakers, p. 81, note 2, and p. 285, note 2. Certain lines, there translated by Shoghi Effendi, are incorporated here. 118 A forerunner of the Báb, and first of the two founders of the _Sh_ay_kh_í School. See glossary. 119 Qur’án 17:1; 30:56; 50:19; etc 120 The sixth Imám. 121 The “Ahsánu’l-Qisás,” the Báb’s commentary on the Súrih of Joseph, was called the Qur’án of the Bábís, and was translated from Arabic into Persian by Táhirih. Cf. God Passes By, p. 23. 122 Qur’án 3:54: “Then will we invoke and lay the malison of God on those that lie!” The ordeal was by imprecation. 123 Qur’án 21:48; 19:37, etc. In Islám the Bridge of Ṣiraṭ, sharp as a sword and finer than a hair, stretches across Hell to Heaven. 124 Cf. The Dawn-Breakers, p. 276. The murderer was not a Bábí, but a fervent admirer of the _Sh_ay_kh_í leaders, the Twin Luminous Lights. 125 Cf. The Dawn-Breakers, p. 278. 126 This refers to the doctrine that there are three ways to God: the Law (_sh_arí’at), the Path (taríqat), and the Truth (haqíqat). That is, the law of the orthodox, the path of the dervish, and the truth. Cf. R. A. Nicholson, Commentary on the Ma_th_naví of Rúmí, s.v. 127 The eighteenth Letter of the Living, martyred with unspeakable cruelty in the market place at Barfurú_sh_, when he was twenty-seven. Bahá’u’lláh conferred on him a station second only to that of the Báb Himself. Cf. The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 408–415. 128 Cf. Qur’án 74:8 and 6:73. Also Isaiah 27:13 and Zechariah 9:14. 129 Qur’án, Súrih 56.