Transliteration of Arabic and Fársí words/names

Islamic calendar months.. .

Arabic	Persian	Meaning	Days
Muḥarram	Muḥarram	Forbidden	30
Ṣafar	Ṣafar	Departure or void	29
Rabí‘u’l-Awwal	Rabí‘u’l-Avval	first month or beginning of spring	30
Rabí‘u’th-Thání	Rabí‘u’th-Thání	second/last spring	29
Jumádá al-Awwal	Jamádíyu’l-Avval	the first of parched land	30
Jumádá ath-Thání	Jamádíyu’th-Thání	the second/last of parched land	29
Rajab	Rajab	Respect, honour	30
Sha‘bán	Sha‘bán	scattered	29
Ramaḍán	Ramaḍán	burning heat	30
Shawwál	Shavvál	lift or carry, raised	29
Dhu’l-Qa‘da	Dhi’l-Qa‘dih	the one of truce/sitting	30
Dhu’l-Ḥijjih	Dhi’l-Ḥajjih	the one of pilgrimage or possessor of the pilgrimage	29^*

Letters of the Living.. .

1	Mullá Muḥammad-Ḥusayn-i-Bushrú’í, entitled Bábu’l-Báb	11	Mullá Jalíl-i-Urúmí
2	Mírzá Muḥammad Ḥasan-i-Bushrú’í, brother of Mullá Ḥusayn	12	Mullá Aḥmad-i-Ibdál-i-Marághi’í
3	Mírzá Muḥammad-Báqir-i-Bushrú’í, nephew of Mullá Ḥusayn	13	Mullá Báqir-i-Tabrízí
4	Mullá ‘Alíy-i-Basṭámí (first martyr of the Bábí Dispensation)	14	Mullá Yúsuf-i-Ardibílí
5	Mullá Khudá-Bakhsh-i-Qúchání, later known as Mullá ‘Alíy-i-Rází. His son Mashíyyatu’lláh later martyred in his youth.	15	Mírzá Hádíy-i-Qazvíní, son of Ḥájí Mírzá ‘Abdu’l-Vahháb & brother of Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alí
6	Mullá Ḥasan-i-Bajistání	16	Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alíy-i-Qazvíní brother-in-law of Ṭáhirih
7	Siyyid Ḥusayn-i-Yazdí known as Kátib (the Amanuensis)	17	Qurratu’l-‘Ayn Ṭáhirih (title of Umm-i-Salámih)
8	Mírzá Muḥammad Rawḍih-Khán-i-Yazdí	18	Hájí Mullá Muḥammad ‘Alíy-i-Bárfurúshí (Quddús)
9	Shaykh Sa‘íd-i-Hindí (the Indian)	19	Mírzá ‘Alí Muḥammad (The Báb)
10	Mullá Maḥmúd-i-Khu’í

Occultation & return of 12th Imám.. .

According to Shí’ih belief, the Minor Occultation (al-ghayba al-ṣughra or ghaybat-i-ṣughrá) began in ah 260/ad 872, with the “disappearance” of the twelfth Imám, as a child. During this period, the Hidden Imám was still accessible through four successive “Gates” or Abwáb (pl. of Báb). This period lasted sixty–nine years (ah 260/ad 872—ah 329/ad 939). The Major Occultation (al-ghayba al-kubrá or ghaybat-i-kubrá) began with the death of the “Fourth gate” and ends with the return of the twelfth Imám. During this time the twelfth Imám supposedly lived in one of two mysterious cities, Jábulqá and Jábulsá, and he “disappeared” at Sámarrá, on the Tigris. A Traveller’s Narrative, p. 98.