Paragraph | Passage | Source |
| Súriy-i-Haykal | |
6–7 | “While engulfed in tribulations … of them that perceive.” | GPB 101–102 |
8 | “The day is approaching when God … the Self-Subsisting.” | WOB 109–110 |
34 | “Erelong shall God draw forth … how vehement is His might” | WOB 110 |
42 | “Beware lest ye shed the blood … if ye do but understand.” | ESW 25 |
44 | “Naught is seen in My temple … could be seen but God.” | WOB 109 |
47 | “the fertilizing winds … whether seen or unseen!” | WOB 169, PDC ¶112 |
50 | “The Holy Spirit Itself … of them that comprehend” | WOB 109 |
66 | “Within the treasury of Our Wisdom … the All-Wise.” | WOB 109 |
75 | “It is in Our power, should We wish it, to enable … future ages.” | WOB 107 |
88 | “Great is the blessedness … the Almighty, the All-Wise.” | PDC ¶271 |
89 | “O ye the dawning-places … and unto others.” | PDC ¶208 |
89 | “Ye are even as a spring … it fruits, will be corrupted.” | PDC ¶208 |
96 | “Had the Primal Point … with each other in My Days.” | WOB 138 |
| Pope Pius IX (Lawḥ-i-Páp) | |
102 | “O Pope! … the Almighty, the Unrestrained.” | PDC ¶71 |
102 | “He, verily, hath again come … hath been illumined.” | PDC ¶71 |
103 | “Dwellest thou in palaces … towards the Kingdom.” | PDC ¶71 |
105 | “Arise in the name of thy Lord … peoples of all faiths.” | PDC ¶71 |
106 | “Call thou to remembrance … away from His light.” | PDC ¶72 |
108 | “Consider those who opposed … disputed with Him.” | PDC ¶72 |
108 | “None save a very few … eventide and at dawn.” | PDC ¶72 |
109 | “Read ye the Evangel … concourse of learned men!” | PDC ¶256 |
111 | “The fragrances of the … fast hold of guidance.” | PDC ¶256 |
112 | “The Word which the Son … of the righteous!” | PDC ¶73 |
113 | “This is the day … Kingdom is fulfilled!” | PDC ¶73 |
114 | “My body longeth … from its transgressions.” | PDC ¶73 |
115 | “The people of the Qur’án … clouds wept over Us.” | PDC ¶247 |
116 | “And if they cast … the Gracious, the All-Powerful!” | WOB 108 |
118 | “O Supreme Pontiff … the book of creation.” | PDC ¶74 |
120 | “Should the inebriation … Revealer of all power.” | PDC ¶74 |
126 | “Verily, the day of ingathering … the All-Compelling.” | PDC ¶74 |
127 | “Say: O concourse of Christians … turn ye unto Him.” | PDC ¶261 |
127 | “The Beloved One … heedless of My Revelation” | PDC ¶261 |
128 | “O people of the Gospel! … everlasting life.” | PDC ¶261 |
129 | “We behold you … Direct yourselves towards Him.” | PDC ¶261 |
129 | “Verily, He said … quickeners of mankind.” | PDC ¶261 |
| Napoleon III (Lawḥ-i-Napulyún II) | |
131–5 | “O King of Paris! … near access to God to flow.” | ESW 46–49, GPB 207 |
136–9 | “Say: O concourse of monks … wrapt in a thick veil!” | ESW 49–52 |
140 | “More grievous … kingdoms of earth and heaven.” | ESW 52 |
141 | “Upon Our arrival … token of God’s grace.” | GPB 206 |
142–43 | “As My tribulations multiplied … poor and the desolate.” | ESW 52–53 |
143 | “Abandon thy palaces … them that turn unto Him.” | PDC ¶70 |
143 | “Shouldst thou desire … All-Knowing, the All-Wise.” | PDC ¶70 |
144 | “Arise thou … Lord of strength and of might.” | ESW 53 |
145 | “Adorn the body … peoples of the earth.” | ESW 53–54 |
146 | “Doth it behove you … shining and resplendent Seat.” | ESW 54 |
147 | “Shed not the blood … abode of the transgressors!” | ESW 54 |
148 | “God hath prescribed … influence his hearers.” | GWB CLVIII |
149 | “Deal not treacherously … the Most Generous.” | ESW 54–55 |
150–51 | “O people of Bahá … created of a sorry germ.” | ESW 55 |
152 | “Regard ye the world … such as create dissension.” | ESW 55–56 |
154 | “He Who is your Lord … among God’s blessed ones.” | GWB CVII |
156 | “Meditate on the world … this sublime Vision.” | ESW 56 |
| Czar Alexander II (Lawḥ-i-Malik-i-Rús) | |
158 | “O Czar of Russia … barter away this sublime station.” | PDC ¶75 |
159–60 | “Beware lest thy sovereignty … sword of the oppressor.” | PDC ¶75–76 |
162–3 | “Again I say … the Mighty, the Glorified.” | PDC ¶77–78 |
164 | “Some lamented … Evangel were adorned.” | PDC ¶78¶ |
170 | “Blessed be the king … the All-Powerful, the Almighty.” | PDC ¶78 |
| Queen Victoria (Lawḥ-i-Malikih) | |
171–3 | “O Queen in London … the Ruler, the All-Wise.” | PDC ¶79–81 |
173 | “And if any one of them … of the blissful.” | ESW 61–62 |
174–6 | “O ye the elected … all else naught but error.” | GWB CXX |
176–7 | “Each time that Most Mighty … what I say.” | ESW 63–64 |
178–82 | “O ye rulers … naught but manifest justice.” | GWB CXIX |
185 | “Turn thou unto God … heavens and of the earth.” | PDC ¶82 |
| Náṣiri’d-Dín Sháh (Lawḥ-i-Sulṭán) | |
192–95 | “O King! I was but a man … derived from the Name of God!” | PDC ¶97–99 |
217 | “A just king is the shadow … that hath surpassed the worlds.” | PDC ¶182 |
221 | “Would that the world-adorning wish … for Me or against Me.” | PDC ¶110 |
225 | “O ye that are foolish … the paths of perdition.” | PHW #24 as quoted in ESW 15 |
226 | “O ye seeming fair … immeasurable is the difference!” | PHW #25 as quoted in ESW 16 |
227 | “O essence of desire! … unto the hosts of holiness.” | PHW #28 |
228 | “O bondslave of the world! … returned whence it came.” | PHW #30 |
230 | “O King of the age! … a sufficient witness unto Me.” | PDC ¶100 |
233 | “The religious doctors … and unto them shall it return.” | KI 247–48 |
233 | “When the Standard of Truth … shall curse it.” | KI 238 |
234 | “Those doctors who have indeed drunk of the cup of renunciation” | GPB 143 |
242 | “Each nation hath plotted darkly … invalidate the truth.” | KI 5 |
242 | “No Messenger cometh unto them but they laugh Him to scorn.” | KI 5 |
244 | “But if their opposition be grievous … a ladder into heaven” | KI 109–10 |
249 | “O would that thou wouldst … knowledge of the Book.” | PDC ¶101 |
249 | “But for the repudiation … no God is there but He!” | PDC ¶101 |
258 | “By Him Who is the Truth! … lighteth earth and heaven.” | ESW 17 |
265 | “I have seen, O Sháh … nor ear heard.” | PDC ¶102 |
265–6 | “How numerous the tribulations … in the path of My Lord!” | PDC ¶102 |
267 | “According to what they say … metropolis of the owl” | GPB 186 |
268 | “By God! Though weariness … such as commune with Him.” | PDC ¶102 |
273 | “But for the tribulations … the Lord of the worlds.” | ESW 94 |
276 | “Thus have We built the Temple … Be and it is.” | PDC ¶113 |
| Súriy-i-Ra’ís | |
1 | “Hearken, O chief … the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.” | WOB 178 |
2 | “Thou hast, O Chief, committed that … manifest loss!” | WOB 178, GPB 174 |
5 | “The day is approaching … in sore distress.” | PDC 152 |
11 | “the loved ones of God … on the first night without food.” | GPB 179 |
12 | “The people surrounded the house … wept over Us” | GPB 179 |
12 | “We perceived that the weeping … such as ponder.” | GPB 179–180 |
13 | “unheard of in bygone centuries … the power of His might” | GPB 180 |
13 | “King and Beloved of Martyrs” | GPB 136–137 |
14 | “Say: This Youth hath departed … the power of truth” | GPB 181 |
18 | “Had Muḥammad … Thy law!” | WOB 105 |
| “Had Moses … Thy face!” | WOB 105–106 |
21 | “Ere long will God … the Almighty, the Beneficent” | PDC ¶185 |
| Lawḥ-i-Ra’ís | |
6 | “From the foundation of the world … nor heard of.” | GPB 187 |
7 | “Soon will He seize you … none to help or succour you.” | PDC ¶153 |
9 | “Several times calamities … the Pen of My command.” | PDC ¶153 |
25–26 | “There is a matter … may be made known unto you.” | PDC ¶111 |
| Lawḥ-i-Fu’ád | |
13 | “Soon will We dismiss … the All-Compelling.” | PDC ¶156 |
| Súriy-i-Mulúk | |
2 | “O kings of the earth! … the All-Powerful, the All-Wise.” | PDC ¶41 |
2–3 | “Fear God, O concourse … and be not of the heedless.” | PDC ¶41 |
4 | “My face hath come forth … could ye but know it.” | PDC ¶41 |
6 | “Arise, then, … may be revealed unto you.” | PDC ¶41 |
6 | “Beware lest ye hinder … can be quickened.” | PDC ¶41 |
7–14 | “Lay not aside the fear … the right course.” | PDC ¶42–46 |
15 | “O kings of Christendom! … the entire creation.” | PDC ¶64 |
20–23 | “Twenty years have passed … turn his face towards Thee.” | GWB CXVI |
24–30 | “Call Thou to remembrance … Himself a witness.” | GWB LXV |
36 | “Know ye that the world … all things hath testified.” | GWB LXV |
37–47 | “Fear God, ye inhabitants … the path of resignation.” | GWB LXVI |
53–54 | “The day is approaching … of the past or of the future.” | GWB LXVI |
58–72 | “Hearken, O King … abide and rule therein.” | GWB CXIV |
74 | “They expelled Us … on earth can compare” | GPB 161 |
74 | “the place which none entereth … authority of the sovereign” | GPB 161 |
75 | “Neither My family … that freezing weather.” | GPB 161 |
78–83 | “I swear by God, O King! … the Lord of all worlds!” | GWB CXIV |
84–107 | “Dost thou imagine … trust and confidence in their Lord.” | GWB CXIII |
108 | “O ye divines of the City! … than all your doings.” | PDC ¶224 |
109–111 | “Know ye, that had your leaders … turn upon their heels.” | PDC ¶224 |
111 | “Know ye that God will not … could ye but perceive it.” | PDC ¶224 |