The Mother-Book is referred to in Qur’án 43:4; Rodwell translates this as “the archetypal Book” and comments, “the Mother of the Book, i.e. the original of the Koran, preserved before God.” Sale says, “the preserved table; which is the original of all the scriptures in general.” To Bahá’ís the Mother Book, or Preserved Tablet, or Guarded Tablet, means the Word of God, the Manifestation of God in every age, or His Book.

The Súrih of Tawḥíd, called “The Unity,” is Súrih 112 of the Qur’án.

“Name” sometimes means the Prophet or Manifestation of God. On p. 58 we read, “Be thou not of them who called upon God by one of His names, but who, when He Who is the object of all names appeared, denied Him and turned aside from Him ...”

The Aqṣá Mosque is the Temple that is “most remote.” It is built on the site of Solomon’s Temple at Jerusalem.

On p. 73 there is a play upon words. The martyr cries out that he has kept both Bahá’u’lláh and the blood money; Bahá in Arabic means glory, in Persian value.

Balál, great, early believer in Muḥammad, was an Ethiopian slave. Cruelly tortured by the idolatrous