taken place in
the "year sixty"--1844.

19 Baha'i writings emphasize that the "divinity attributed to so great
a Being and the complete incarnation of the names and attributes of
God in so exalted a Person should, under no circumstances, be
misconceived or misinterpreted ... that invisible yet rational God
... however much we extol the divinity of His Manifestations on
earth, can in no wise incarnate His infinite, His unknowable, His
incorruptible and all-embracing Reality in ... a mortal being." Cf.
Shoghi Effendi, The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah.

20 According to the abjad reckoning, the letters of "_sh_idad" total
309. 1892, the date of Baha'u'llah's ascension, was 1309 A.H.

_ 21 Gh_ariq. The letters composing this word total 1310, which Hijra
year began July 26, 1892.

22 Terms used by the Sufis.

23 Sidq, truth.

24 Qur'an 54:55.

25 This word has a number of meanings, including truthful, loyal and
just.

26 Ya _Sh_afi.

27 Qur'an 76:5.

28 Nabil of Qa'in was his title.

29 Qur'an 5:59.

30 The kran was 20 _sh_ahis, or almost 8 cents. Cf. Webster, op. cit.

31 Mirza Mihdi, the son of Baha'u'llah who, praying one evening on the
barracks roof, fell to his death. Cf. God Passes By, p. 188.

32 Cf. Qur'an 13:28; 2:99; 3:67.

33 Yazid (son of Mu'aviyyih), Ummayad Caliph by whose order the Imam
Husayn was martyred. Proverbial for cruelty. Cf. S. Haim, New
Persian-English Dictionary, s.v.

34 The rebellion of Mirza Yahya, who had been named provisional chief
of the Babi community. The Bab had never appointed a successor or
viceregent, instead referring His disciples to the imminent advent
of His Promised One. In the interim a virtual unknown was, for
security reasons, made the ostensible leader. Following His
declaration in 1863 as the Promised One of the Bab, Baha'u'llah
withdrew for a time, in Adrianople, to allow the exiles a free
choice as between Him and this unworthy half brother, whose crimes
and follies had threatened to destroy the infant Faith. Terrified at
being challenged to face Baha'u'llah in a public debate, Mirza Yahya
refused, and was completely discredited. As Baha'i history has
repeatedly demonstrated, this crisis too, however grievous, resulted
in still greater victories for the Fa