Days of Remembrance
Notes
37.
The numerical value of the letters of the word Ḥín is 68. “After Ḥín” is thus an allusion to the year after a.h. 1268, which was 1269 (a.d. 1852–3), the year that marked the birth of the Bahá’í Revelation.
38.
The letters Ḥá’ and Bá’ spell the word ḥubb (love), while Há’ and Váv constitute the word Huva (He).
39.
These invocations come from a Tablet of the Báb addressed to Mullá Báqir-i-Tabrízí about Him Whom God shall make manifest.
41.
The Súriy-i-Aḥzán was revealed for Mírzá ‘Alíy-i-Sayyáḥ-i-Marághih’í.
Birth of the Báb
Selection 41
43.
This selection, with the exception of the invocation, was first published in Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas.
Birth of Bahá’u’lláh
Selection 42
45.
Jibt, Manát, and ‘Uzzá are the names of idols worshipped in the days of the pagan Arabs and mentioned in the Qur’án (4:51 and 53:19–20).
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