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Twelve Table Talks given by ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá in ‘Akká

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Notes

  • 1

    An early translation published in Corinne True, Notes Taken at Acca (Chicago: Bahá’í Publishing Society, 1907).

  • 2

    An early translation published in Corinne True, Notes Taken at Acca (Chicago: Bahá’í Publishing Society, 1907).

  • 3

    An early translation published in Corinne True, Notes Taken at Acca (Chicago: Bahá’í Publishing Society, 1907) and Star of the West, volume 4, number 18, page 305.

  • 4

    See Qur’án 2:185.

  • 5

    Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh, CLXXX.

  • 6

    An early translation published in Corinne True, Notes Taken at Acca (Chicago: Bahá’í Publishing Society, 1907).

  • 7

    An early translation published in Corinne True, Notes Taken at Acca (Chicago: Bahá’í Publishing Society, 1907).

  • 8

    The uncle and father-in-law of Ṭáhirih.

  • 9

    Mullá ‘Abdu’lláh; see The Dawn-Breakers, p. 276.

  • 10

    See God Passes By, p. 97.

  • 11

    That is, from Arabic into Persian.

  • 12

    In Arabic, only consonants and long vowels are written, and the word “Muḥammad” is therefore spelled with the letters M, Ḥ, M, and D.

  • 13

    See The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 17–18, and God Passes By, p. 97.

  • 14

    Qur’án 38:88.

  • 15

    The Islamic year 1269 began on 15 October 1852, the midpoint of Bahá’u’lláh’s four-month imprisonment in the Síyáh-Chál. It was in this prison that Bahá’u’lláh received His Prophetic Mission.

  • 16

    23 May 1844.

  • 17

    See The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 81–82.

  • 18

    See The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 162–69.

  • 19

    Matt. 27:11; Mark 15:2; Luke 23:3.

  • 20

    Cf. The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 648–49.

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