The Great Announcement, p. 143, refers to Qur’án 78:1-2 and 38:67: a’n-Naba’u’l-‘Azím.

“He maketh the morning darkness,” (Amos 4:12-13) on p. 146, refers to the fact that Mírzá Yaḥyá, known as Ṣubḥ-i-Azal—the Morning of Eternity—denied the Manifestation and betrayed Him.

The statement “None knoweth the time ...” on p. 157 refutes the believers who claimed that the advent proclaimed by the Báb to be imminent, would take place only in 2,001, a date arrived at by totalling the numerical value of the letters composing the word Mustagháth, assigned by the Báb as the limit of time fixed for the coming of the promised Manifestation. Mustagháth, means “He Who is Invoked.”

The martyrdom of the Imám Ḥusayn at Karbilá is described by Gibbon in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Modern Library Edition, III, 125, 127. Dhi’l-Jawshan is Shimr, who killed Ḥusayn, son of ‘Alí and grandson of Muḥammad. (p. 158).

On p. 159, “Súrih of the Qur’án” refers to Súrih 109, “Unbelievers,” in which Muḥammad refuses to compromise with the idolatrous Meccans.

Siyyid Muḥammad, the Siyyid of Iṣfahán, is the Antichrist of the Bahá’í Revelation. It was he who misled Mírzá Yaḥyá, half-brother of Bahá’u’lláh. (Cf. God Passes By, p. 164, 189, etc.) This reference occurs on pages 164 and 168 of the present text.

The Mawlavís are an order of whirling dervishes, founded by Jaláli’d-Dín Rúmí, 1207-1273 a.d. For Khiḍr, a name which means green, see traditions