Wherever possible, translations made by Shoghi Effendi have been incorporated in the present volume. These passages account for approximately one third of the text. The committees and individuals appointed to prepare the translations faced the challenge of rendering the balance of the Text in a manner at once faithful to the meaning of the original and consistent with the exalted English style established by the Guardian for the translation of Bahá’u’lláh’s matchless utterance. In the translation of the Lawḥ-i-Sulṭán the translators benefited from consulting the earlier, pioneering translation of the English orientalist E. G. Browne as it appeared in ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s _A Traveller’s Narrative_, first published by Cambridge University Press in 1891. KEY TO PASSAGES TRANSLATED BY SHOGHI EFFENDI Abbreviation of Sources ESW Bahá’u’lláh. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf. Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1988. GPB Shoghi Effendi. God Passes By. Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1974. GWB Bahá’u’lláh. Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh. Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1976. KI Bahá’u’lláh. The Kitáb-i-Íqán. Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1994. HW Bahá’u’lláh. The Hidden Words. Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1994. (PHW are from the Persian Hidden Words.) PDC Shoghi Effendi. The Promised Day Is Come. Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, rev. ed., 1996. WOB Shoghi Effendi. The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh: Selected Letters. Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1991. PARAGRAPH PASSAGE SOURCE Súriy-i-Haykal