Karbilá
A city about 55 miles southwest of Baghdád on the Euphrates River.

Karím
Literally honorable.

Kawthar
Literally plentiful, abundant, sweet (potion). A river of Paradise from which all the others are said to flow. Part of its waters are led into a great lake on the shores of which the souls of the faithful rest when they have crossed the terrible bridge which is laid over the midst of Hell.

Khaybar
The name of a famous oasis, and of its principal settlement, near Medina, where signficant events in the ministry of Muḥammad took place.

Kúfih
A city that once lay on the west bank of the Euphrates River and has now entirely disappeared. It was an important Muslim seat of learning.

Kumayl
A devoted apostle of the Imám ‘Alí, the first of the Twelve Imáms of Shí‘íh Islám.

Letters of Unity
Apostles of the Prophet Muḥammad.

Leviathan
An unidentified aquatic monster; whale or serpent.

Manifestation
The nature of a prophet or the Manifestation of God is described in Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, pages 66 to 67: “…since there can be no tie or direct intercourse to bind the one true God with His creation, and no resemblance whatever can exist between the transient and the Eternal, the contingent and the Absolute, He hath ordained that in every age and dispensation a pure and stainless Soul be made manifest in the kingdoms of earth and heaven…. These Essences of Detachment, these resplendent Realities are the channels of God’s all-pervasive grace. Led by the light of unfailing guidance, and