beginning
"A few, unaware of the power latent in human endeavor," was
translated by Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Baha'i Faith. Cf. The
World Order of Baha'u'llah, pp. 37-38.

42 Sasaniyan king who reigned 531-578 A.D.

43 i.e., the whole world.

44 Sa'di, The Gulistan, On the Conduct of Kings.

45 Qur'an 17:84.

46 The poet Sana'i.

47 Rumi, The Ma_th_navi, III, 4229-4231.

48 Qur'an 2:24.

49 Qur'an 8:64.

50 See Rumi, The Ma_th_navi, II, 185 and 189. Also the Hadi_th_: "God
created the creatures in darkness, then He sprinkled some of His
Light upon them. Those whom some of that Light reached took the
right way, while those whom it missed wandered from the straight
road." Cf. R. A. Nicholson's "The Ma_th_nawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi" in
the E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Series.

51 Qur'an 24:35.

52 Qur'an 2:58.

53 Qur'an 17:4 ff.

54 The King James Bible reads: "Ye have heard that it hath been said,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy." Scholars
object to this reading because it is contrary to the known Law as
set forth in Leviticus 19:18, Exodus 23:4-5, Proverbs 25:21, the
Talmud, etc.

55 Cf. 'Abdu'l-Baha, Some Answered Questions, ch. LXXXIV, and
Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 385. See also Galen on Jews and
Christians by Richard Walzer, Oxford University Press, 1949, p. 15.
The author states that Galen's summary here referred to is lost,
being preserved only in Arabic quotations.

56 From Qur'an 4:114; 2:207, etc

57 Qur'an 39:69.

58 The Persian text transliterates this author's name as "Draybar" and
titles his work The Progress of Peoples. The reference is apparently
to John William Draper, 1811-1882, celebrated chemist and
widely-translated historian. Detailed material on Muslim
contributions to the West, and on Gerbert (Pope Sylvester II)
appears in the second volume of the work cited. Of some of Europe's
systematically unacknowledged obligations to Islam the author
writes: "Injustice founded on religious rancour and national conceit
cannot be perpetuated for ever." (Vol. II, p. 42, Rev. ed.) The
Dictionary of American Biography states that Draper's father was a
Roman Catholic who assumed the name John Christopher Draper when
disowned by his family for becoming a M