1 'Ulama, from the Arabic 'alima, to know, may be translated learned
men, scientists, religious authorities.
2 Cf. "Tablets of Baha'u'llah Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas", p.
26.
3 "The Challenge and Promise of Baha'i Scholarship", prepared by the
Research Department. As published in "The Baha'i World" (Haifa:
Baha'i World Centre, 1981), vol. XVII, pp. 195-196, this statement
was inadvertently attributed to the Universal House of Justice.