Proclamation of Bahá’u’lláh

References

Abbreviations

Aq. Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Most Holy Book

ESW. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf (Bahá’í Publishing Trust, Wilmette; 1949).

Gl. Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh (Bahá’í Publishing Trust, Wilmette; 1963).

PDC. The Promised Day is Come, Shoghi Effendi (Bahá’í Publishing Trust, Wilmette; 1941).

SM. Súriy-i-Mulúk (Tablet to the Kings, quoted in various works).

QV. Tablet to Queen Victoria

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viii Part of the record by E. G. Browne, the orientalist, of the words addressed to him by Bahá’u’lláh on the occasion of Browne’s visit to Him in Bahjí in 1890. (See Browne, A Traveller’s Narrative, Introduction, p. xl, Cambridge University Press, 1891).

5 Aq. cited Gl. cv; the last paragraph of this passage beginning ‘We have asked nothing from you...’ is taken from the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and is cited in PDC. page 26.

7 The whole of this passage beginning ‘O Kings of the earth...’ is taken from the Súriy-i-Mulúk, the first paragraph being cited in PDC. 20/21, the next four paragraphs in Gl. cxviii and the last three paragraphs in Gl. cxvi. (‘Thy’ in the last para. refers to Bahá’u’lláh).

12 QV. cited Gl. cxix.

13 Cited Gl. cii.

17 Tablet to Napoleon III cited ESW. 46 et seq.

27 Tablet to Czar Alexander II cited PDC. 32.

33 Tablet to Queen Victoria cited PDC. 34. cf. pp. 12, 67.

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