s, and of prayer to Thy Kingdom of grandeur. Help me
to be selfless at the heavenly entrance of Thy gate, and aid me to be
detached from all things within Thy holy precincts. Lord! Give me to drink
from the chalice of selflessness; with its robe clothe me, and in its
ocean immerse me. Make me as dust in the pathway of Thy loved ones, and
grant that I may offer up my soul for the earth ennobled by the footsteps
of Thy chosen ones in Thy path, O Lord of Glory in the Highest.

With this prayer doth Thy servant call Thee, at dawntide and in the
night-season. Fulfil his heart's desire, O Lord! Illumine his heart,
gladden his bosom, kindle his light, that he may serve Thy Cause and Thy
servants.

Thou art the Bestower, the Pitiful, the Most Bountiful, the Gracious, the
Merciful, the Compassionate.

FOOTNOTES

1 Qur'an 60:13.

2 Matthew 22:14.

3 Qur'an 57:21.

4 Qur'an 17:81.

5 Qur'an 15:72.

6 Qur'an 39:68; Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 133.

7 Qur'an 74:8.

8 Qur'an 39:68.

9 Qur'an 79:6.

10 Qur'an 22:2.

11 Qur'an 34:39.

12 Qur'an 29:19.

13 Qur'an 79:34.

14 Qur'an 6:91; 52:12.

15 Napoleon III

16 Believed to be the angel appointed to sound the trumpet on the Day
of Resurrection to raise the dead at the bidding of the Lord.

17 Huququ'llah

18 Qur'an 6:103.

19 Qur'an 17:110.

20 John 14:11.

21 John 14:10.

22 Qur'an 6:91.

23 Written especially for Dr. Esslemont's immortal work Baha'u'llah and
the New Era.

24 John 6:51, 58.

25 cf. John 15:26; 16:12-13.

26 Regarding this Tablet Shoghi Effendi's secretary wrote on his
behalf, on 9 May 1938, '...this obviously refers to the Bab, as the
text shows clearly, and is in no way a reference to Swedenborg.'

27 Jesus

28 Cities in China celebrated for their musk-producing animals.

29 The earthquake of 1906

30 Of a Spiritual Assembly

31 The Baha'is of Najaf-Abad

32 Muhammad

_ 33 Sh_ahnaz, the name given to the recipient of this Tablet, is also
the name of a musical mode.

34 An article from Andrew Carnegie's book The Gospel of Wealth was
published in England in the Pall Mall Budget and called The Gospel
of Wealth, cf. Andrew Carnegie's Autobiography 255n.

35 Qur'an 36:36, and cf. 51:49.

36 Qur'an 25:55, 35:13, 55:19-25. See also Marriage P