Chapter 5

1 Baha'u'llah refers to the ancient Persian and Arabian story of Majnun and Layli, _The Seven Valleys and The Four Valleys_ (Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1991), page 6.

_ 2 Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah_ (Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1983), section LXI.

_ 3 ibid.,_ section XVI.

_ 4 Tablets of Baha'u'llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas_ (Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1988), page 27.

_ 5 Gleanings,_ section XVII.

6 Baha'u'llah, _Epistle to the Son of the Wolf_ (Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1988), page 133.

7 Baha'u'llah, _The Kitab-i-Iqan_ (Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1993), paragraph 216.

_ 8 ibid._

_ 9 ibid.,_ paragraph 104.

_ 10 ibid.,_ paragraph 106.

_ 11 Gleanings,_ section XXII.

_ 12 Prayers and Meditations by Baha'u'llah_ (Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1987), page 311.

_ 13 Gleanings,_ section XXVII.

_ 14 ibid.,_ section CIX.

_ 15 ibid.,_ section LXXXI.

16 Julian Huxley, cited by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, _The Phenomenon of Man_ (London: William Collins Sons &Co. Ltd., 1959), page 243. See also Julian Huxley, _Knowledge, Morality, and Destiny_ (New York: Harper &Brothers, 1957), page 13.

17 Shoghi Effendi, _The World Order of Baha'u'llah: Selected Letters_ (Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1991), page 35.

_ 18 Gleanings,_ section LXXVIII.

_ 19 ibid.,_ section CXXXII.

20 Baha'u'llah, _The Kitab-i-Aqdas: The Most Holy Book_ (Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1993), paragraph 182.

21 Baha'u'llah, _The Kitab-i-Iqan,_ paragraph 4.

_ 22 ibid.,_ paragraph 8.

_ 23 ibid.,_ paragraph 13.

_ 24 ibid.,_ paragraph 14.

25 St. Matthew 13.25, Authorized King James Version.

_ 26 ibid.,_ 13.29-30_._

27 Qur'an, surih 7, verse 33, Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation, third edition, (n.p.: 1938).

28 Baha'u'llah, _The Kitab-i-Aqdas,_ paragraph 99.

_ 29 The Summons of the Lord of Hosts: Tablets of Baha'u'llah_ (Haifa: Baha'i World Centre, 2002), paragraph 126.

30 Baha'u'llah, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, _The Advent of Divine Justice _(Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1990), page 79.

31 Isaiah 45.5.

32 Timothy 1.17.

33 Qur'an, surih 3, verse 73.

_ 34 ibid.,_ surih 2, verse 177.

35 St. Matthew 5.13.

_ 36 ibid.,_ 5.14.

37 Micah 6.8.

38 St. John 14.6.

39 Qur'an, surih 24, verse 35.

40 Genesis 17.7.

41 Bhagavad-Gita, chapter IV, Sir Edwin Arnold translation.

42 Deuteronomy 34.10.

43 St. John 5.45-47_._

44 Qur'an, surih 2, verse 136.

_ 45 The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Talks Delivered by 'Abdu'l-Baha during His Visit to the United States and Canada in 1912,_ revised edition (Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1995), page 326.

46 St. John 1.10.

_ 47 Gleanings,_ section CVI.

48 Abraham Lincoln, quoted in _Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States_ (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989).

49 Qur'an, surih 21, verse 104.

50 Baha'u'llah, _The Kitab-i-Aqdas,_ paragraph 5.

_ 51 The Summons of the Lord of Hosts,_ paragraph 174.

52 Shoghi Effendi, _The World Order of Baha'u'llah,_ page 204.

53 Baha'u'llah, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, _The World Order of Baha'u'llah,_ page 192.

_ 54 Gleanings,_ section CVI.

_ 55 Tablets of Baha'u'llah,_ page 129.

56 Baha'u'llah, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, _The World Order of Baha'u'llah,_ pages 202-203.

57 Baha'u'llah, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, _The Advent of Divine Justice,_ page 84.

_ 58 Gleanings,_ section CXXXII.

59 'Abdu'l-Baha, _The Secret of Divine Civilization_ (Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1990), page 96.

_ 60 Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Baha_ (Haifa: Baha'i World Centre, 1997), page 256.

61 Baha'u'llah, from a previously untranslated Tablet.

_ 62 Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha_ (Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1944), page 25.

63 Baha'u'llah, _The Kitab-i-Iqan,_ paragraph 213.

_ 64 Gleanings,_ section VII.

_ 65 The Summons of the Lord of Hosts,_ paragraph 126.

66 St. John 10.16.

67 Qur'an, surih 39, verse 69.

68 St. Matthew 6.10.

69 Qur'an, surih 85, verse 2.

70 Revelation 21.2.

_ 71 ibid.,_ 3.12.

72 Isaiah 2.2.

_ 73 ibid.,_ 3.15.

74 Daniel 12.9.

75 Isaiah 62.2.

76 Qur'an, surih 21, verse 104.

_ 77 Gleanings,_ section IV.

78 St. Luke 17.21.

79 St. Matthew 21.33.

_ 80 ibid.,_ 13.23_._

_ 81 ibid.,_ 7.17.

_ 82 Gleanings,_ section XCVI.

_ 83 ibid.,_ section CXX.