63.  The Ma_th_navi.

  64.  Qur’an 76:5.

  65.  Muhammad.

  66.  Qur’an 55:26, 27.

  67.  Qur’an 15:21.

  68.  Faridu’d-Din Attar (ca. 1150-1230 A.D.), the great Persian Sufi
      poet.

  69.  Hadi_th_, i.e. action or utterance traditionally attributed to the
      Prophet Muhammad or to one of the holy Imams.

  70.  The Ma_th_navi.

  71.  Pantheism, a Sufi doctrine derived from the formula:  “Only God
      exists; He is in all things, and all things are in Him.”

  72.  This refers to the three stages of Sufi life:  1. Shari’at, or
      Religious Laws; 2.  Tariqat, or the Path on which the mystic wayfarer
      journeys in search of the True One; this stage also includes
      anchoretism. 3.  Haqiqat, or the Truth which, to the Sufi, is the
      goal of the journey through all three stages.  Here Baha’u’llah
      teaches that, contrary to the belief of certain Sufis who in their
      search for the Truth consider themselves above all law, obedience to
      the Laws of Religion is essential.

  73.  Maqam-i-Mahmud.  Qur’an 17:81.

  74.  Qur’an 2:84.

  75.  Persian mystic poem.

  76.  “Peace.”  This word is used in concluding a thesis.

  77.  Arabian poem.

  78.  The five letters comprising this word in Persian are:  G, N, J, SH,
      K, that is, Gaf, Nun, Jim, Shin, Kaf.

  79.  This and the foregoing quotations are from the teachings of Islam.

  80.  This is a reference in the traditional Persian style to Baha’u’llah
      Himself.

  81.  Ma_th_navi of Rumi.

  82.  Sa’di, Muslihu’d-Din of Shiraz (ca. 1184-1291), famed author of
      the Gulistan and other poetical works.

  83.  Persian proverb describing a man who gives up easily.  As used here
      one connotation is that the Shay_kh_ might have considered his
      station as a mystic leader compromised by the fact of his being
      taught the new truth by Baha’u’llah.

  84.  Qur’an 41:30.

  85.  Qur’an 11:114; 42:14.

  86.  Sa’di.

  87.  Ibid.

  88.  Senna, capital of Persian Kurdistan.

  89.  This preamble to The Four Valleys is written in the finest Persian
      epistolary style.  The rules of classical letter writing in Persian
      require quotations from literary works, and assertions of abiding
      love for the one addressed, who is chided for having neglected the
      writer.

  90.  Hadi_th_.

  91.  The Ma_th_navi.  Here Rumi tells a story of four evil birds which,
      when put to death, changed into four birds of goodness.  The allegory
      refers to subduing evil qualities and replacing them with good.