1 Qur'an 3:190.

92 Baha'u'llah was accompanied by members of His family and twenty-six
disciples. The convoy included a mounted guard of ten soldiers with
their officer, a train of fifty mules, and seven pairs of howdahs,
each pair surmounted by four parasols. The journey to Constantinople
lasted from May 3, 1863 to August 16. Cf. God Passes By, p. 156.

93 Qur'an 26:119; 36:41.

94 Cf. Qur'an 5:59.

95 Qur'an 39:68-69: "And there shall be a blast on the trumpet, and all
who are in the heavens and all who are in the earth shall swoon
away, save those whom God shall vouchsafe to live. Then shall there
be another blast on it, and lo! arising they shall gaze around them:
and the earth shall shine with the light of her Lord..."

96 In _Sh_ay_kh_i terminology, the Fourth Support or Fourth Pillar was
the perfect man or channel of grace, always to be sought. Haji
Muhammad-Karim _Kh_an regarded himself as such. Cf. Baha'u'llah,
Kitab-i-Iqan (The Book of Certitude), p. 184, and 'Abdu'l-Baha, A
Traveller's Narrative, p. 4.

97 The promised Twelfth Imam.

98 Allamiy-i-Hilli, "the Very Erudite Doctor," title of the famed
_Sh_i'ih theologian, Jamalu'd-Din Hasan ibn-i-Yusuf ibn-i-'Ali of
Hilla (1250-1325 A.D.).

99 The Turkish _gh_uru_sh_ or piaster of the time was forty paras, the
para one-ninth of a cent. These figures are approximate only.

100 Accent the first syllable: FA-teh-meh

101 Gibbon writes of the Imam Husayn's martyrdom and the fate of his
Household, that "in a distant age and climate the tragic scene ...
will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader."

102 The Sadratu'l-Muntaha, translated inter alia as the Sidrah Tree
which marks the boundary, and the Lote-Tree of the extremity. Cf.
Qur'an 53:14. It is said to stand at the loftiest point in Paradise,
and to mark the place beyond which neither men nor angels can pass.
In Baha'i terminology it refers to the Manifestation of God.

103 This prayer was revealed by 'Abdu'l-Baha for the Consort of the King
of Martyrs.

104 Qur'an 76:5.

105 Pronounced _Sh_ams-oz-Zoha.

106 A forerunner of the Bab, and co-founder of the _Sh_ay_kh_i School.
See glossary.

107 His daughter, at a later date, became the consort of 'Abdu'l-Baha.
Cf. God Passes By, p. 130, and The Dawn-Breakers, p