alcoholic drinks is because "alcohol leadeth the mind astray and causeth
the weakening of the body".

Shoghi Effendi, in letters written on his behalf, states that this
prohibition includes not only the consumption of wine but of "everything
that deranges the mind", and he clarifies that the use of alcohol is
permitted only when it constitutes part of a medical treatment which is
implemented "under the advice of a competent and conscientious physician,
who may have to prescribe it for the cure of some special ailment".

145. turn your faces toward Him Whom God hath purposed, Who hath branched
from this Ancient Root #121

Baha'u'llah here alludes to 'Abdu'l-Baha as His Successor and calls upon
the believers to turn towards Him. In the Book of the Covenant, His Will
and Testament, Baha'u'llah discloses the intention of this verse. He
states: "The object of this sacred verse is none other except the Most
Mighty Branch." The "Most Mighty Branch" is one of the titles conferred by
Baha'u'llah on 'Abdu'l-Baha. (See also notes 66 and 184.)

146. In the Bayan it had been forbidden you to ask Us questions. #126

The Bab forbade His followers to ask questions of Him Whom God will make
manifest (Baha'u'llah), unless their questions were submitted in writing
and pertained to subjects worthy of His lofty station. See Selections from
the Writings of the Bab.

Baha'u'llah removes this prohibition of the Bab. He invites the believers
to ask such questions as they "need to ask", and He cautions them to
refrain from posing "idle questions" of the kind which preoccupied "the
men of former times".

147. The number of months in a year, appointed in the Book of God, is
nineteen. #127

The Baha'i year, in accordance with the Badi calendar, consists of
nineteen months of nineteen days each, with the addition of certain
intercalary days (four in an ordinary year and five in a leap year)
between the eighteenth and nineteenth months in order to adjust the
calendar to the solar year. The Bab named the months after certain
attributes of God. The Baha'i New Year, Naw-Ruz, is astronomically fixed,
coinciding with the March equinox (see note 26). For further details,
including the names of the days of the week and the months, see the
section on the Baha'i calendar in The Baha'i World, volume XVIII.

148. the first hath been adorned with this Name which overshadoweth the
whole of creation #127

In the Persian